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The Poeming Pigeon: Cosmos – Book Launch – Feb 22

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The Poeming Pigeon: Cosmos Book Launch Poster

Saturday, Feb 22, 2020
2:00-4:00 pm

The Poeming Pigeon:
“Cosmos”
Book Launch

at

Milwaukie Poetry Series
The New Ledding Library
10660 SE 21st Avenue
Milwaukie, Oregon 97222

Featured readers include:
Pattie Palmer-Baker • Trina Gaynon • Colette Tennant • Liz Nakazawa • Casey Bush • Dale Champlin • Melody Leming-Wilson • Douglas Spangle • Marilyn Johnston • Brittney Corrigan • Judith Arcana • Joann Renee Boswell • Brad G. Garber • Jessica Parker • Devon Balwit • Linda Ferguson • Delia Garigan • Rebecca Smolen • Doug Stone • Linda (LAW) Fraser • Deborah Bachels Schmidt • Shawn Aveningo Sanders

Everyone welcome to attend and share the love.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.

Book Launch for “Moroccan Holiday” – Jan 28

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Flagler College to host Lauren Tivey’s Book Launch

Tues, Jan 28, 2020
at 6:30 pm

Flagler College
Crisp Ellert Art Museum
48 Sevilla Street
St. Augustine, Florida

A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winner – First Place, 2019

Moroccan Holiday is a poetic series following a married couple—an American woman, and her Scottish husband—on an extended vacation in Morocco. As the husband suffers an extreme alcoholic relapse, the couple confronts longstanding issues of disease, abuse, and painful family memories, against the rich backdrop of an unfamiliar culture.

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“Lauren Tivey embarks on a trip to Morocco, a foreign landscape of exciting people, smells, and destinations, with her alcoholic husband. She carries with her a dread of what she may face with her husband’s disease in a Muslim country. In beautifully-executed and moving poetic forms, she takes the reader with her through the landscapes of Ramadan and his alcoholism, family histories with drunkenness and rehab, and her moments of stillness when she is alone with mint tea and her journal. We feel how hard it is to stuff love, fear, and compassion in a suitcase just to unpack again in a new port of call.”

~ Tricia Knoll, Contest Judge, 2019
author of How I Learned to Be White and Broadfork Farm

Book Signing for “Moroccan Holiday” – Jan 25

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Anastasia Books to host Lauren Tivey’s Book Signing

Sat, Jan 25, 2020
at 4-6 pm

Anastasia Books
76A Marco Avenue,
St. Augustine, Florida

A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winner – First Place, 2019

Moroccan Holiday is a poetic series following a married couple—an American woman, and her Scottish husband—on an extended vacation in Morocco. As the husband suffers an extreme alcoholic relapse, the couple confronts longstanding issues of disease, abuse, and painful family memories, against the rich backdrop of an unfamiliar culture.

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“Lauren Tivey embarks on a trip to Morocco, a foreign landscape of exciting people, smells, and destinations, with her alcoholic husband. She carries with her a dread of what she may face with her husband’s disease in a Muslim country. In beautifully-executed and moving poetic forms, she takes the reader with her through the landscapes of Ramadan and his alcoholism, family histories with drunkenness and rehab, and her moments of stillness when she is alone with mint tea and her journal. We feel how hard it is to stuff love, fear, and compassion in a suitcase just to unpack again in a new port of call.”

~ Tricia Knoll, Contest Judge, 2019
author of How I Learned to Be White and Broadfork Farm

Book Launch for “What She Was Wearing” – Jan 8

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Annie Bloom’s to host Shawn Aveningo Sanders’ Book Launch

Wed, Jan 8, 2020
at 7:00 pm

Annie Bloom’s Bookstore
7834 SW Capitol Hwy
Portland, OR 97219
503-246-0053

The #metoo story that took over 30 years to reveal.

Inspired by the countless number of women who are bravely opening up to share their truth, Shawn adds her voice to the fight against the oppressive, misogynic times we live in. It’s time to stop blaming the victim and to stop asking what she was wearing!  For Shawn, writing through the pain and sharing these poems has proven to be cathartic and even epiphanic at times. It is her hope this work can help women of all ages face and cope with their own traumas, while letting them know they can indeed heal and go on to enjoy loving, trusting relationships.

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“Dedicated “to those who have suffered in silence,” this book is a testimony to Shawn Aveningo Sanders’ courage. For thirty years, she kept a secret that verged on unraveling her, a secret so devastating she once attempted suicide. But here she transcends the traps of shame and self-reproach to confront—in a sequence of poems and epistolary prose—the four men who, as college fraternity brothers, raped her. Forced into silence for too long, women all over this world are now speaking out, saying #MeToo. What She Was Wearing is Sanders’ brave voice joining this transforming chorus.”

—Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita

Book Signing for “Most Beautiful”

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Michigan State University to host Elizabeth S.E. McBride, Dr. Mary Anna Kruch, and Joyce Benvenuto

Friday, Nov 15, 2019
at 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Michigan State University
Bessey Hall
East Lansing, Michigan

The reading will celebrate a few of the National Writing Project’s “Red Cedar Writing Project” Alumni for a combined reading from Dr. Mary Anna Kruch, Joyce Benvenuto, and Elizabeth S.E. McBride, reading from their newly released books, “We Draw Breath from the Same Sky,” “Road to Duncan,” and “Most Beautiful,” respectively, followed by an Open Mic.

Melanie, Maggie and Martin @ Annie Bloom’s

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Annie Bloom’s welcomes local poets Margaret Chula, Melanie Green, and Carolyn Martin

Thurs, Nov 14, 2019
at 7:00 pm
Annie Bloom’s

7834 SW Capitol Hwy
(Multnomah Village)
Portland, OR 97219
503-246-0053

 

The poems in Melanie Green‘s A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm (The Poetry Box) are an invitation to slow down, to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Green’s poetry explores the connection with the numinous—as well as speaking to the difficulty of living with a chronic illness.  https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/long-wide-stretch-of-calm

In Shadow Man (The Poetry Box), Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957, the day her mother packed their five children—all under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years, Margaret comes to accept the differences between a mother who wants China cups with saucers and a father who’s content with a Budweiser. Through writing about these awkward, often heartbreaking, interactions with her estranged father, she discovers that there’s more than one truth and that each of us must find our own.  https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/shadow-man

From the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin’s fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades (Unsolicited Press), takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships. A lover of all things poetic, Martin has created an eclectic collection for readers who have a penchant for words and who are open to believing in everything and nothing. Carolyn will also be sharing poems from her 2nd poetry collection, The Way A Woman Knows (The Poetry Box). https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/the-way-a-woman-knows

 

Free to Attend. All are welcome to share the love of poetry by these phenomenal women.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.

Lunch & Learn with Jeanne Julian

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Pamlico Writers Group presents Lunch & Learn with Author, Jeanne Julian

Jeanne Julian will read from her latest book, Like the O in Hope, and discuss her writing process.

Thursday, Oct 3, 2019
at 12:30 p.m.

China Bay Buffet
2871 US-17 (BUS)
Chocowinity, NC

Join Pamlico Writers Group for an opportunity to learn from Poet Jeanne Julian. A North Carolina poet, Jeanne will share readings with us and discuss her writing process. This informal setting provides a unique opportunity to ask questions and really engage with our featured author. Lunch (dutch treat) begins at 12:30, with Jeanne’s presentation and discussion beginning at 1pm. No registration required.

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.

Book Signing for “The Dichotomy Between Light & Dark”

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Room 12 Lounge
to host
Michael B. Carroll, Jr.

Saturday, Sept 28, 2019
at 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Room 12 Lounge
1200 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA

These poems speak to struggle stemming from both the internal and the external—a collection deeply rooted in the human experience, life philosophies, identity politics, faith, shame, pride, trials, and triumph. The common thread throughout is identity and asks: Who are we? Why are we made to sometimes feel “sub-human?” How does this feeling impact our overall wellness from a physical, emotional, social, and spiritual point-of-view? And most importantly, how do we strive to see the light in people and in ourselves, despite such turmoil—this dichotomy between light and dark.

 

Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore.