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#MeToo

Maggie & Shawn @ Broadway Books – POSTPONED

February 27, 2020 by The Poetry Box Leave a Comment

Event Poster: Shawn & Maggie at Broadway Books

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this event has been postponed. Stay tuned for the rescheduled date this summer. 

Broadway Books to host Margaret Chula and Shawn Aveningo Sanders

Wed, Mar 25, 2020
at 7:00 pm

Broadway Books
1714 NE Broadway
Portland, OR 97232

Cover-Front-Shadow Man-webA poignant portrayal of love and forgiveness.

In Shadow Man, 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.

 

Cover-WhatSheWasWearingThe #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.

Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: #MeToo, Broadway Books, Father-Daughter, Margaret Chula, Reading, Shawn Aveningo Sanders

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

December 8, 2019 by The Poetry Box 2 Comments


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

Filed Under: past events, Readings & Events Tagged With: #MeToo, Annie Bloom's, Reading, Shawn Aveningo Sanders

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