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SUMMARY:Olivia Gatwood\, Life of the Party: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop welcomes Olivia Gatwood for a reading and signing of her new poetry collection\, Life of the Party. A thrilling new voice in contemporary feminist poetry weaves together her own coming of age with an investigation into our culture’s romanticization of violence against women. In precise\, searing language—at times blistering and riotous\, at times soulful and exuberant—she explores the boundary between what is real and what is imagined in a life saturated with fear. \n“Gatwood writes about the women who were forgotten and the men who got off too easy with an effortlessness and empathy and anger that yanked every emotion on the spectrum out of me. Imagine\, we get to live in the age of Olivia Gatwood. Goddamn.” —Jamie Loftus\, writer and comedian\, Boss Whom Is Girl and The Bechdel Cast \n“Life of the Party is an electrifying collection of poems about the agonies and ecstasies of being a young woman.” —Leigh Stein\, author of Land of Enchantment \n“Olivia Gatwood is a revolution of woman\, a flurry of insight harnessing the language of self-assessment and acceptance. Her poems invite a contemporary understanding of sexuality and the feminine form\, feminism and inclusion\, intersection and advocacy. Her metaphors and images are both breath and being. This book is an offering to the silenced\, for firepower and reflection. A haystack of hallelujahs resides in these pages.” —Mahogany Browne\, author of Black Girl Magic \nOlivia Gatwood has received national recognition for her poetry\, writing workshops\, and work as an educator in sexual assault prevention and recovery. She is the author of the poetry chapbook New American Best Friend\, and her poems have appeared in such publications as Muzzle magazine\, Winter Tangerine\, Poetry City\, Tinderbox Poetry Journal\, and The Missouri Review. As a finalist at Brave New Voices\, Women of the World Poetry Slam\, and the National Poetry Slam\, Gatwood has been featured on HBO\, HuffPost\, MTV\, VH1\, and the BBC\, among other media outlets. She is a full-time touring artist\, and has performed at more than two hundred schools and universities worldwide.
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LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Ave\, Santa Cruz \, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton
DESCRIPTION:September 27: Kathleen McClung & Grace Marie Grafton\nKathleen McClung’s books include The Typists Play Monopoly (Kelsay Books\, 2018)\, which Indigo Moor called\, “a wondrous example of how to loop a mesmerizing arc through a body of work\,” and Almost the Rowboat (Finishing Line Press\, 2013)\, which Jean Hegland called an “excellent collection” that “offers many succinct glimpses of deeply lived lives.” Her poems appear in Southwest Review\, Mezzo Cammin\, Naugatuck River Review\, The MacGuffin\, Ekphrasis\, cahoodaloodaling\, Forgotten Women\, Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California\, and elsewhere. She has been the winner of the Rita Dove\, Morton Marr\, and Maria W. Faust poetry prizes\, and a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. She is Associate Director and sonnet judge for the Soul-Making Keats literary competition\, and she teaches at Skyline College and The Writing Salon in San Francisco. In 2018-19 she is a writer-in-residence at Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. www.kathleenmcclung.com \nGrace Marie Grafton’s newest book\, Lens(Unsolicited Press\, 2019)\, features poems inspired by the art of California. She has published six additional collections\, including Jester\, (Hip Pocket Press\, 2013)\, Whimsy\, Reticence\, and Laud: Unruly Sonnets (Poetic Matrix Press\, 2012)\, and Other Clues (RAW ArT PRESS\, 2010). Her poems have won first prize in the Soul Making Keats contest (PEN women\, San Francisco)\, as well as awards from the Bellingham Review and The National Women’s Book Association\, and have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has taught with California Poets in the Schools\, earning twelve California Arts Council grants for her teaching programs. Recent poems appear in basalt\, Sin Fronteras\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Canary\, Nostos\, Ambush\, Peacock Journal\, and Mezzo Cammin. \nThe reading will begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. A limited open reading\, and a short interview with the featured readers will be included. This is a free event.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/kathleen-mcclung-grace-marie-grafton/
LOCATION:St. Alban’s Episcopal Church\, 1501 Washington Avenue\, Albany\, CA\, 94706
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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