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SUMMARY:Conversations with Authors - Christine Montross\, M.D. (Virtual Event)
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, August 16th • 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT \nChristine Montross\, M.D. \nin conversation with Susannah Calahan \n\nConversations with Authors is our free virtual event series! Join us every Saturday and Sunday at 7:00pm ET/4:00pm PT for a new chat with a different author. \n  \nDr. Christine Montross’ important new work\, Waiting for an Echo\, reveals the psychological toll of incarceration and examines how we disproportionately punish people of color\, people who are poor\, and people who are mentally ill. \nA 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction\, Christine is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a practicing inpatient psychiatrist and performs forensic psychiatric examinations. She completed medical school and residency training at Brown University\, where she received the Isaac Ray Award in Psychiatry and the Martin B. Keller Outstanding Brown Psychiatry Resident Award. \nHer first book\, Body of Work\, was named an Editors’ Choice by The New York Times and one of The Washington Post’s best nonfiction books of 2007. Her second book\, Falling Into the Fire\, was named a New Yorker Book to Watch Out For. She has also written for many national publications including The New York Times\, The New England Journal of Medicine\, The Washington Post Book World\, Good Housekeeping\, and O\, The Oprah Magazine. She has been named a 2017-2018 Faculty Fellow at the Cogut Center for the Humanities\, a 2010 MacColl Johnson Fellow in Poetry\, and the winner of the 2009 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Emerging Indiana Authors Award. She has also had several poems published in literary journals\, and her manuscript Embouchure was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. \nSusannah Cahalan is the award-winning\, New York Times bestselling author of Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness\, a memoir about her struggle with a rare autoimmune disease of the brain. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. \n 
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SUMMARY:Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Sign up for the 10-slot virtual open mic by filling out this form:\nhttps://forms.gle/ewznSNDq86xmJ5NA7 \nA monthly Latinx poetry reading series y open mic that happens every third Thursday (unless otherwise noted) in Nomadic Press’ Zoom account. Decolonized beats provided by the one-and-only L7. Hosted by el Pocho Poeta Josiahluis Alderete. \nThis month’s features are Susana Praver-Perez and Alan Chazaro \nFREE AND ALL WELCOME! \nShowing up is one amazing form of support that we really appreciate. Another is financial. Money = energy to us\, and donating sends one signal (of many) that you would like our work to continue. If enjoy spaces like this and can swing it in these tight times\, please consider supporting us via: \n1) the Cash App to $NomadicPress OR https://cash.app/$NomadicPress; \nOR 2) donating through the website at www.nomadicpress.org/donate \nWe have a short goal for the evening of $150. \nZoom Joining Info \nTopic: Virtual Speaking Axolotl Reading and Open Mic\nTime: Jul 16\, 2020 08:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) \nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83949657341 \nMeeting ID: 839 4965 7341\nOne tap mobile\n+16699006833\,\,83949657341# US (San Jose)\n+13462487799\,\,83949657341# US (Houston) \nDial by your location\n+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n+1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n+1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\n+1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n+1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\nMeeting ID: 839 4965 7341\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kR4pRkYhk \nFeature bios \nSusana Praver-Perez \nBy day she works as a Physician Assistant and Associate Medical Director at La Clínica de la Raza in Oakland\, California. By night she reads at poetry events across the Western hemisphere from San Francisco to San Juan. By nature\, she’s a storyteller\, relating that which she bears witness through her poetic lens. Susana studied poetry at Naropa Institute\, UC Berkeley’s Poetry for the People and Berkeley City College from which she holds a Certificate in Creative Writing. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in multiple publications and anthologies including The Acentos Review\, La Respuesta\, Poets Reading the News\, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, Civil Liberties Untied\, and Art Against Hate among others. Her first book of poetry\, “Hurricane\, Love Affairs and Other Disasters” is in the works. \nAlan Chazaro \nAlan Chazaro is the author of This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (Black Lawrence Press\, 2019) and the forthcoming Piñata Theory (Black Lawrence Press\, 2020). He is a graduate of June Jordan’s Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley and a Lawrence Ferlinghetti Fellow at the University of San Francisco’s MFA program. He is currently a creative writing adjunct professor in the Bay Area\, and writes basketball stories as a founding editor at HeadFake.
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