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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Lisa Allen & Melissa Fite Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Two poets who have crossed paths in readings and at conferences and have found that they are writing about something that shows up differently for each of them — maternal estrangement. This conversation will cover how our work evolves as we age and how writing such a viscerally personal experience can also be universal.  \n\n\n\nLisa writes: “We both write about maternal estrangement–and though our lived experiences are different\, that burning desire of what brings us to the page feels very familiar.” And Melissa adds\, “…so many of them poems now in [Lisa’s] beautiful book\, spoke to a subject I was only just starting to write about\, a subject that feels like it’s all I write about now: maternal estrangement. When Lisa asked if I would pair with her for this conversation\, I couldn’t say yes quickly enough. We have so much to say. “ \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Allen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Allen (she/her) is the author of It’s What I’ve Got Left (Lily Poetry Press). Her work can be found in Pinch\, December Magazine\, Anti-Heroin Chic\, Bear Review and MER\, among others. She has received multiple Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominations and was a 2022 Best of the Net finalist for her poem “Prolapse: Etymology\,” published by South 85 Journal. Lisa holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and an MFA in Poetry\, both from the Solstice Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University\, where she was a Michael Steinberg fellow. With Poet Rebecca Connors\, she co-founded and co-directs the online creative space The Notebooks Collective. \n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Kelly Sime Photography \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMelissa Fite Johnson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa Fite Johnson is the author of three full-length collections\, most recently Midlife Abecedarian (Riot in Your Throat\, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares\, Pleiades\, HAD\, Whale Road Review\, SWWIM\, and elsewhere. Melissa\, a high school English teacher\, is a poetry editor for The Weight\, a journal for high school students\, and Porcupine Lit\, a journal for and by teachers. She and her husband live with their dogs in Lawrence\, KS\, where she co-hosts the Volta reading series at the Replay Lounge.
URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-lisa-allen-melissa-fite-johnson/
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Gabrielle Calvocoressi & Sasha Waters
DESCRIPTION:Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Sasha Waters: A Handsome Life\n\n\n\nIn this conversation poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi and filmmaker Sasha Waters will discuss Sasha’s American Masters documentary about Mary Oliver (forthcoming Spring 2026) as a means of entering into the good deep work of figuring what one might mean by “a handsome life”: a phrase that Oliver coined and that seems as profound and good a way to live as any. We’ll talk poems and process\, story and mystery. More than anything it will be a chance to think about the vessel of making and the friends (living and dead) that we make along the way. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nGabrielle Calvocoressi\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGabrielle Calvocoressi is the author of The Last Time I Saw Amelia Earhart\, Apocalyptic Swing (a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize)\, and Rocket Fantastic\, winner of the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry. Calvocoressi is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including a Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship from Stanford University; a Rona Jaffe Woman Writer’s Award; a Lannan Foundation residency in Marfa\, TX; the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review; and a residency from the Civitella di Ranieri Foundation\, among others. Calvocoressi’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in numerous magazines and journals including The Baffler\, The New York Times\, POETRY\, Boston Review\, Kenyon Review\, Tin House\, and The New Yorker. Calvocoressi is an Editor at Large at Los Angeles Review of Books\, and Poetry Editor at Southern Cultures. Works in progress include a non-fiction book entitled\, The Year I Didn’t Kill Myself and a novel\, The Alderman of the Graveyard. Calvocoressi was the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow at the Harvard-Radcliffe Institute for 2022 – 2023. Calvocoressi teaches at UNC Chapel Hill and lives in Old East Durham\, NC\, where joy\, compassion\, and social justice are at the center of their personal and poetic practice. Their new collection of poetry\, The New Economy\, is a finalist for the 2025 National Book Award in Poetry. \n\n\n\nSasha Waters\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Water‘s latest film\, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World\, is the first documentary portrait of the beloved American poet. The film shares never-before-seen personal photos\, notebooks and correspondence from her archive\, as well as readings by Helena Bonham Carter\, Steve Buscemi\, Stephen Colbert\, Lucy Dacus\, Josh Hamilton\, John Waters\, Jesse Welles\, and Oprah Winfrey\, and interviews with former U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón\, writer and MacArthur Fellow Jason Reynolds\, Mary’s old friend Maria Shriver\, and many more. Saved by the Beauty of the World can be seen at film festivals and on the PBS series American Masters in 2026. \n\n\n\nShe has received support from the Catapult Film Fund\, Field of Vision\, the Film/Video Studio at the Wexner\, the Denver Film Society\, the NEA\, the NEH\, the Jerome Foundation\, and more. Her first film Whipped – a portrait of three dominatrixes in 1990s NYC – was funded in part by Sub Pop Records\, selected for the first-ever Sundance Producers conference\, and aired nationally on the Sundance Channel. Her next film\, Razing Appalachia\, was the first-ever feature documentary about the devastations wrought by mountaintop strip mining and aired nationally on Independent Lens. She has been a Fellow in residence at MacDowell\, Yaddo\, Millay Arts\, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; was awarded a 2019-20 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship\, and was the 2016 recipient of the Helen Hill Award from the Orphan Film Symposium. \n\n\n\nA professor of Film and Art Foundation at VCUarts in Richmond\, Sasha is included in Edited By: Women Film Editors\, a survey of women who “invented\, developed\, fine-tuned and revolutionized the art of film editing\,” and in the FemEx Film Archive\, an ongoing collective archive of interviews with feminist experimental filmmakers.
URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-gabrielle-calvocoressi-sasha-waters/
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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  
URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-katherine-d-oldmixon-garza-octavio-quintanilla/
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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. We hope to raise $1000 for abortion access — please help us reach our goal! \n\n\n\n\nDonate Now\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite
URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/a-notebooks-reading-for-abortion-access/
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