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Chapbook Prizewinner

Head for the Hills f. Debbie Hall & Shawn Aveningo Sanders – Nov 24

November 19, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

Poster Designed by Dale Champlin

Head for the Hills
Hosted by Sherri Levine

Featuring Debbie Hall & Shawn Aveningo- Sanders

Tues, November 24, 2020
at 7 pm

via Zoom

To Join Zoom Meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85954776254?pwd=ZjUrMlBybWNPUXJielBMSHpyaUdoUT09

Meeting ID: 859 5477 6254
Passcode: 616315

About the Readers:

Shawn Aveningo-Sanders is the author of What She Was Wearing, an inspirational book of poetry/prose that reveals her #metoo secret—from survival to empowerment. Shawn’s poetry has appeared in, Amsterdam Quarterly, CALYX, American Journal of Poetry and Poets Reading the News, and many other literary journals. She’s co-founder of The Poetry Box® press, as well as managing editor for The Poeming Pigeon.

Debbie Hall is a psychologist, photographer and writer who lives in southern California. She is thrilled that her chapbook, Falling Into The River, won third place in the 2019 Poetry Box Chapbook Prize. She feels incredibly fortunate to have had the time and means to launch a second career as a poet after retiring from psychological practice. Debbie completed her MFA in 2017 at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.

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Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: Chapbook Prizewinner, Debbie Hall, Falling Into the River, Reading, Shawn Aveningo Sanders, What She Was Wearing

Book Launch for “Notes from a Caregiver” – March 1

February 27, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

Front Cover of Notes from a Caregiver

Westchester Buddhist Center
to host Meg Lindsay
reading from her new chapbook

Sun, March 1, 2020
at 2:45 pm

Eileen Fisher Headquarters
2 Bridge Street
Irvington, NY 10533

About the Book:

Inspired by the doctor and poet, William Carlos Williams, who wrote poetry on his prescription pad when on house calls, the poems in Notes from a Caregiver originated in waiting rooms and doctors’ offices when Meg Lindsay’s husband collapsed with multiple myeloma, a cancer, causing bone fractures. Lindsay writes of her personal journey as a caregiver, not clichés and ‘feel good’ sayings, which can be isolating and make one feel inadequate. Instead, she uses poetry to reveal authentic emotions, often odd and unpredictable, ranging from compassion to despair to anger and even to humor.

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Click HERE for more information.

Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: Chapbook Prizewinner, Lauren Tivey, Reading

Book Launch for “Moroccan Holiday” – Jan 28

December 18, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment


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

Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: Chapbook Prizewinner, Lauren Tivey, Reading

Book Signing for “Moroccan Holiday” – Jan 25

December 15, 2019 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment


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.

~~~~~

“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

Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: Chapbook Prizewinner, Lauren Tivey, Reading

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