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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza & Octavio Quintanilla
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to bring together two poets and artists from Texas\, Katherine D. Oldmixon Garza and Octavio Quintanilla. Octavio’s Book of Wounded Sparrows and Katherine’s Life Afterlife / A Book of the Hours have shared themes of grief\, loss\, and mourning. Katherine writes about the two books as singing together\, or rather\, “By sing\, I might mean keen\, not as a wild wailing but sometimes as a wild ceremony\, sometimes as a ceremony in the wild.” We can then add an additional dimension: their multiple languages and modalities used to produce their work. Octavio adds\, “I am interested to see how our work converges and diverges in terms of how we write grief\, joy\, closure.” \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine Durham Oldmixon Garza\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine Durham Oldmixon Garza\,Ph.D.\, M.F.A.\, is the author of Life Afterlife / A Book of the Hours (3: A Taos Press\, 2024) and the chapbook Water Signs (Finishing Lines Press\, 2009). She directs the Poetry at Round Top Festival held annually in Round Top\, Texas. Now professor emerita at Huston-Tillotson University where she taught literature and creative writing and chaired the English department\, Katherine is a full-time writer\, ecological gardener\, and visual artist at home in Austin\, TX. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOctavio Quintanilla\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOctavio Quintanilla is the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections\, If I Go Missing (Slough Press\, 2014) and The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press\, 2024)\, which was longlisted for the National Book Award\, a finalist for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award\, and a 2026 Finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Most recently\, he published Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours\, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets and winner of the Burdine C. Johnson Award for Best Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letter (University of Arizona Press\, 2025). \n\n\n\nOctavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival\, VersoFrontera\, publisher of Alabrava Press\, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio\, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University and was recently inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. IG: @writeroctavioquintanilla  
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Keith S. Wilson & Callie Siskel
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to host Keith S. Wilson & Callie Siskel in conversation about their recent books: Keith’s Games for Children and Callie’s Two Minds. Books that center absence and reimaginings.  \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nKeith S. Wilson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKeith S. Wilson is a poet\, game designer\, and multimedia artist living in Chicago. He is an Affrilachian Poet and a Cave Canem fellow. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship\, an Elizabeth George Foundation Grant\, and an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award\, Keith has received both a Kenyon Review Fellowship and a Stegner Fellowship. Additionally\, he has received fellowships or grants from Bread Loaf\, Tin House\, the MacDowell Colony\, Vermont Studio Center\, UCross\, the Millay Colony\, and James Merrill House\, among others. Wilson was a Gregory Djanikian Scholar\, and his poetry has won the Rumi Prize and been anthologized in Best New Poets and Best of the Net. His book\, Fieldnotes on Ordinary Love (Copper Canyon)\, was recognized by the New York Times as a best new book of poetry. His second book\, Games for Children (Milkweed Editions) was a winner of the National Poetry Series. \n\n\n\nCallie Siskel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCallie Siskel is the author of Two Minds (W. W. Norton\, 2024)\, and Arctic Revival\, selected by Elizabeth Alexander for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her poetry appears in The Paris Review\, The Atlantic\, and the New York Review of Books. She lives in Los Angeles\, where she is a Dornsife Fellow in General Education at the University of Southern California and a poetry editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books.
URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-keith-s-wilson-callie-siskel/
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SUMMARY:A Notebooks Reading for Abortion Access
DESCRIPTION:In Honor & Memory of Jennifer Martelli\n\n\n\nOn June 24\, on the 4-year anniversary of the Supreme Court Dobbs v Jackson decision\, we will gather to honor late poet Jennifer Martelli in a reading to support abortion access. Jennifer was a fierce advocate for women’s rights and in particular\, the right to have an abortion. It feels like it’s even more important today\, on this anniversary\, when the State decided that women no longer had bodily autonomy\, to come together to stand in our anger\, our determination\, and our will to keep fighting for rights for everyone. \n\n\n\nThe Supreme Court’s decision to all but remove access to abortions and other medical care puts people in preventable life-or-death situations. The Eastern Mass Abortion Fund\, operating in the state that Jennifer called home\, makes abortion accessible to anyone who needs one. And since the Dobbs decision\, the need for the Fund’s services have quadrupled. \n\n\n\nThe reading is free to attend. All are invited to celebrate Jenn and her life. We only ask that if you are able\, you make a contribution to the Eastern Massachusetts Abortion Fund. \n\n\n\n(donation & registration page coming soon)
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