BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Notebooks Collective - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Notebooks Collective X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Notebooks Collective REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240409T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20240308T002433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T145111Z UID:687-1712689200-1712696400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Finding the Poem in Family Stories DESCRIPTION:Family stories can help create the path into a greater understanding of our individual and collective history. Often\, they document a relationship to place\, and create windows into the past for both current and future generations. In this generative workshop\, poet and teacher Pauletta Hansel will help participants to choose stories to mine for their personal and cultural significance\, and to craft them in such a way that they are not (or not only) a chronological telling\, but have emotional and symbolic resonance for both writer and reader. We will consider several examples of poems that use story to do this work\, and each participant will have the opportunity to create and share a first draft of their own. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Pauletta Hansel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPauletta Hansel’s ten poetry collections include Will There Also Be Singing? (Shadelandhouse Modern Press\, 2024); Heartbreak Tree (Madville Publications\, 2022)\, which won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2023 North American Book Award; and Palindrome (Dos Madres Press\, 2017) winner of Berea College’s Weatherford Award in Poetry.  Her writing has been featured in Oxford American\, Rattle\, Appalachian Journal\, Still: The Journal\, Verse Daily and Poetry Daily\, among others. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first poet laureate\, and the 2022 Writer in Residence for the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/finding-the-poem-in-family-stories/ CATEGORIES:Workshop/Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Finding-Family-Stories.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T103000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240330T123000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20240305T161534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240308T145716Z UID:663-1711794600-1711801800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Developing Your Poetry Manuscript DESCRIPTION:There are as many ways to organize a collection of poems as there are poets who write them. And yet there are strategies and principles that can be useful across these differences. “If you have a book of twenty-four poems\, the book itself should be the twenty-fifth\,” Robert Frost has been quoted as saying. \n\n\n\nUsing this statement as a guide\, Pauletta will offer various approaches she and other poets have used to create that cohesive whole\, including the writing of poetic sequences. She will also provide resources for further study on the matter. There will be plenty of time for questions and discussion\, so come ready to talk about your struggles and successes in developing your own manuscript. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nAbout Pauletta\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPauletta Hansel’s ten poetry collections include Will There Also Be Singing? (Shadelandhouse Modern Press\, 2024); Heartbreak Tree (Madville Publications\, 2022)\, which won the Poetry Society of Virginia’s 2023 North American Book Award; and Palindrome (Dos Madres Press\, 2017) winner of Berea College’s Weatherford Award in Poetry.  Her writing has been featured in Oxford American\, Rattle\, Appalachian Journal\, Still: The Journal\, Verse Daily and Poetry Daily\, among others. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first poet laureate\, and the 2022 Writer in Residence for the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. \n\n\n\nWatch our In Conversation: Sara Moore Wagner & Pauletta Hansel here. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/developing-your-poetry-manuscript/ CATEGORIES:Workshop/Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Poetry-Manuscript.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230725T151442Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T195643Z UID:568-1706036400-1706043600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Organic & Inorganic Forms - Poem & Lyric Essay DESCRIPTION:We’re used to the idea of a poem or essay being inspired by something in the world. But what if the world inspires through shape instead of content–the shape of a tree\, the functionality of a knife\, or the structure of a familiar document? We’ll look at examples of poems that work with organic and inorganic shapes as form and inspiration\, we’ll try a couple of quick exercises to help participants see and work with organic and inorganic forms\, and we’ll leave with a reading and prompt list for further exploration and study. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Jessica Johnson\n\n\n\nJessica E. Johnson writes poetry and nonfiction. She’s the author of the book-length poem Metabolics and the chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other\, and is a contributor to the anthology Cascadia Field Guide: Art\, Ecology\, Poetry. Her poems\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review\, Tin House\, The New Republic\, Poetry Northwest\, River Teeth\, DIAGRAM\, Annulet Poetics\, The Southeast Review\, and Sixth Finch. She teaches at Portland Community College and co-hosts the Constellation Reading Series at Tin House. \n\n\n\nAuthor photo: Becca Blevins URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/organic-inorganic-forms-poem-lyric-essay/ CATEGORIES:Workshop/Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/inorganic-organic.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231114T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20231028T200129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T200729Z UID:640-1699988400-1699995600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Radical Re-Visioning as a Hero's Journey DESCRIPTION:In folklore\, women have been placed into stories which\, often\, are meant to define appropriate (and inappropriate) behavior. Folklore forms a collective and cultural heritage handed down from birth. Women are\, traditionally\, not the heroes\, and are often erased as the creators. In this course\, we’ll explore the ways in which these stories oppress\, like the marriage plot which\, as Julia Phillips writes in The Baby on the Fire Escape\, “makes no provision for the creative self\,” by examining the folklore cycle of several familiar stories\, looking at the origins\, and then feminist revisions spanning from Anne Sexton to Patricia Smith and beyond. I will also explain how fairy tale and myth work in my debut collection\, Swan Wife\, which is structured according to Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey\, and is made up of many myth and fairy tale fracturings. I will ask you to not simply revise a tale\, but to do the heroic act of breaking the story apart and inserting the self\, thereby breathing something new into a tired tale. Not only will we be taking back the narratives\, but it is also my hope that we utterly break them apart so that they and we\, as HD wrote\, will be “born again or break utterly.” \n\n\n\nMore practically\, in this generative course\, students should come prepared with their favorite fairy tale or myth\, one which they relate to closely (or one which repels!). We will journey through at least one familiar tale together and write at least two poems. In sharing and discussing something old\, we will find new truths about ourselves and history. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Sara Moore Wagner\n\n\n\nSara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize-winning full length books of poetry\, Lady Wing Shot\, winner of the 2022 Blue Lynx Prize (forthcoming in 2024)\, Swan Wife (2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize\, published in 2022)\, and Hillbilly Madonna (2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize\, published in 2022)\, and the author of two chapbooks\, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks\, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient\, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist\, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies including Gulf Coast\, Sixth Finch\, Waxwing\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, and The Cincinnati Review\, among others. Find her at www.saramoorewagner.com URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/radical-re-visioning-as-a-heros-journey/ CATEGORIES:Workshop/Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Radical-Re-Vision.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231107T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230823T122027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231028T195754Z UID:620-1699385400-1699390800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Michael Kleber-Diggs & Danusha Laméris DESCRIPTION:Poets and essayists Michael Kleber-Diggs and Danusha Laméris will read from their collected works and discuss the writing life. Learn more about these poets in the bios below. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nAbout Michael Kleber-Diggs\n\n\n\n\nMichael Kleber-Diggs (KLEE-burr digs) (he / him / his) is currently writing a memoir about his complicated history with lap swimming called My Weight in Water (forthcoming with Spiegel & Grau). He is a 2023-2025 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in Literature\, a poet\, essayist\, literary critic\, and arts educator. His debut poetry collection\, Worldly Things (Milkweed Editions 2021)\, won the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize\, the 2022 Hefner Heitz Kansas Book Award in Poetry\, the 2022 Balcones Poetry Prize\, and was a finalist for the 2022 Minnesota Book Award. Michael’s essay\, “There Was a Tremendous Softness\,” appears in A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars\, edited by Erin Sharkey (Milkweed Editions\, 2023). His poems and essays appear in numerous journals and anthologies. Michael is married to Karen Kleber-Diggs\, a tropical horticulturist and orchid specialist. They are proud of their daughter who recently graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in Dance Performance with a Concentration in Composition.Photo credit: Ayanna Muata \n\n\n\n\nAbout Danusha Laméris\n\n\n\n\nDanusha Laméris\, a poet and essayist\, was raised in Northern California\, born to a Dutch father and Barbadian mother. Her first book\, The Moons of August (2014)\, was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Milt Kessler Book Award. Some of her work has been published in: The Best American Poetry\, The New York Times\, Orion\, The American Poetry Review\, The Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, Poetry\, and Prairie Schooner. Her second book\, Bonfire Opera\, (University of Pittsburgh Press\, Pitt Poetry Series)\, was a finalist for the 2021 Paterson Poetry Award and recipient of the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. She was the 2018-2020 Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, California\, and is currently on the faculty of Pacific University’s low residency MFA program. Her third book\, Blade by Blade\, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-michael-kleber-diggs-danusha-lameris/ CATEGORIES:Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Michael-Danusha-FB.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231011T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230804T131449Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230823T121957Z UID:601-1697052600-1697058000@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: JP Perrine & Jen Shin DESCRIPTION:Poets JP Perrine and Jen Shin will read from their collected works and discuss the writing life. Learn more about these poets in the bios below. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nAbout JP Perrine\n\n\n\n\nJennifer (JP) Perrine is the author of four books of poetry: Again; The Body Is No Machine; In the Human Zoo; and No Confession\, No Mass. Their recent poems and essays appear in Cincinnati Review\, Pleiades\, Nimrod\, New Letters\, Poetry Northwest\, Orion Magazine\, The Maine Review\, and Cascadia Field Guide: Art\, Ecology\, and Poetry. A 2022 Oregon Humanities Community Storytelling Fellow and a 2022–23 Independent Publishing Resource Center Artist-in-Residence\, Perrine lives in Portland\, Oregon\, where they cohost the Incite: Queer Writers Read series\, teach writing\, and guide nature-based mindfulness experiences. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nAbout Jen Shin\n\n\n\n\nJen Shin is a Korean American writer and mental health advocate with more than a decade in recovery from alcoholism and bulimia. She is currently at work on Disappearing Acts\, a coming-of-age addiction memoir which examines how we return to our true selves after reality and illusion become one. She is a 2023 Periplus Fellow and has received support from Anaphora Arts\, Fishtrap\, and Stove Works. In 2021\, she published Have You Received Previous Psychotherapy or Counseling? through zines + things and her essays can be found in The Rumpus\, Memoir Magazine\, Oregon Humanities\, and elsewhere. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-jp-perrine-jen-shin/ CATEGORIES:Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/JP-Jen-FB.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230919T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230724T160149Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T182031Z UID:557-1695150000-1695157200@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Extraordinary Writing from Ordinary Life DESCRIPTION:Extraordinary experience isn’t required to write extraordinary literary work. In this class we’ll talk about ways poets and writers make the familiar strange. We’ll try out a range of exercises that work toward defamiliarizing mundane objects\, settings\, and routines to make precise and powerful work from the stuff of everyday life and leave with a reading and prompt list for further exploration and study. This is a cross-genre workshop\, but might be most appealing to students interested in poetry\, lyric nonfiction\, experimental fiction\, or hybrid and cross-genre work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Jessica Johnson\n\n\n\nJessica E. Johnson writes poetry and nonfiction. She’s the author of the book-length poem Metabolics and the chapbook In Absolutes We Seek Each Other\, and is a contributor to the anthology Cascadia Field Guide: Art\, Ecology\, Poetry. Her poems\, essays\, and reviews have appeared in The Paris Review\, Tin House\, The New Republic\, Poetry Northwest\, River Teeth\, DIAGRAM\, Annulet Poetics\, The Southeast Review\, and Sixth Finch. She teaches at Portland Community College and co-hosts the Constellation Reading Series at Tin House. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/extraordinary-writing-from-ordinary-life/ CATEGORIES:Workshop/Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/jessica-johnson9-19.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230912T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230801T122056Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230911T122013Z UID:577-1694547000-1694552400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Tricia Bogle & Shu Tu DESCRIPTION:Poet Tricia Bogle and Artist Shu Tu will discuss their current ekphrastic exhibit\, In a Garden of Small Dreams: Art + Poetry in Conversation\, at the Hamilton Grange branch of the New York Public Library. Learn more about this poet and artist in the bios below. Free \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Shu Tu\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShu Tu has earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Parsons School of Design and studied fashion accessories at the Cordwainers\, London College of Fashion. For over 25 years\, she held positions as a creative director and leader in the advertising and beauty industries. In recent years\, she has expanded her work as an artist. This journey has enabled her to produce deeply personal work that communicates her story through multiple mediums\, including traditional and digital art\, floral arrangement\, ceramics\, and metalsmithing. \n\n\n\nShu is currently residing in Upper Manhattan. You might often spot her in the company of her children\, Ander and Percy\, engaging in the silliest conversations and sharing the wildest laughter. \n\n\n\nwww.shutucreative.com | hello@shucreative.com | IG @beingshu2 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Tricia Bogle\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTricia Bogle (Trish) has called NYC home since 1991. She holds a BA in Creative Writing & Philosophy from Loyola Baltimore\, and an MA and PhD (in Political Theory and Philosophy) from Fordham University. For over two decades\, she taught advanced courses in Writing\, Philosophy\, Bioethics\, Political Science\, and Great Books at various institutions\, including Montclair State University\, Stevens Institute of Technology\, Fordham University\, and the Johns Hopkins University CTY program. \n\n\n\nIn recent years she has expanded her work as a poet\, exploring many of the same themes through poetry that engaged her for decades as an academic philosopher. Trish currently lives and writes in Washington Heights\, and can often be spotted in Highbridge Park\, watching the sunrise over the Bronx while sipping café con leche and reading translations of Basho out loud to the trees. \n\n\n\nboglepoetry@gmail.com | IG & Twitter @boglepoetry URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-tricia-bogle-shu-tu/ CATEGORIES:Readings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Trish-Bogle-Shu-Tu-FB.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230815T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230815T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230615T021832Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230810T001725Z UID:547-1692127800-1692133200@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Mark Turcotte & Suzanne Frank DESCRIPTION:Poets Mark Turcotte and Suzanne Frank will read from their collected works and discuss the importance of friendship and community in the writing life. Learn more about these poets in the bios below. Bonus: Each poet has graciously offered to gift one signed copy of their book to an attendee! Anyone who asks/chats a question during the Q&A segment of the program will be eligible to be randomly selected to receive either a signed copy of Exploding Chippewas by Mark Turcotte or Double Vision: Reflections on the Coastal Forest and the City We Love by Suzanne Frank and Angela Just. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Mark Turcotte\n\n\n\n\nWriter Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Band Anishinaabe) is author of four collections\, including The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas. His poetry and prose have appeared in TriQuarterly\,POETRY\, Kenyon Review\, Ploughshares\, The Missouri Review and other journals\, and is included in the first Norton Anthology of Native Nations poetry. He has been the recipient of awards from the Lannan Foundation and the Wisconsin Arts Board. He lives in Chicago where he is Distinguished Writer-In-Residence in the English Department at DePaul University. \n\n\n\n\nAbout Suzanne Frank\n\n\n\n\nSuzanne Frank has been writing and reading her poetry in Chicago for over 30 years. She has been a Chicago Poetry Slam team finalist\, a two-time Puchcart Prize nominee\, and her work has been published in many poetry journals and anthologies\, including Sow’s Ear\, Another Chicago Magazine\, Stray Bullets\, Power Lines\, Appleseeds Anthology of Americana Poetry\, Birds Thumb\,HAMMERS Magazine\, and Arts Alive: A Literary Review. \n\n\n\nShe has featured in poetry venues across the city\, from the infamous Green Mill Lounge to Printers Row Book Fair to the Guild Literary Complex where she directed and performed in the Women in Verse poetry cabaret.She completed\, with writer Angela Just\, a residency at Shotpouch Cabin in the Oregon Coast Range\, granted by Oregon State University’s Center for Ideas\, Nature and the Written Word\, which resulted in the publication of their chapbook of poems\, prose and photographs\, Double Vision (2019). Most recently\, her collection of travel poems\, All On the Same Blue Planet\, was featured in Nowhere Magazine. Currently\, Suzanne is finalizing a poetry collection\, Woundwood\, that gives voice to women whose lives were hijacked in the 1960s when flower children and free love collided with puritanical laws\, unreliable birth control and backstreet abortions. \n\n\n\nShe has been writing with the Egg Money Poetry Collective for over 15 years. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-mark-turcotte-suzanne-frank/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/eventbrite-header-aug.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230719T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230719T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230615T010030Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T010840Z UID:538-1689795000-1689800400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Sun Yung Shin & Chaun Webster DESCRIPTION:Join us July 19 for an In Conversation featuring poets Sun Yung Shin & Chaun Webster. They will talk about writing\, Minneapolis\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Sun Yung Shin\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin (she/they) is a Korean-born poet\, freelance writer\, librettist\, community educator\, and speaker. She is the award-winning author of poetry collections The Wet Hex; Unbearable Splendor (poetry/essays); Rough\, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black. She is the editor of A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota and What We Hunger For: Refugee and Immigrant Stories about Food and Family; and co-editor of Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. She is the author of Cooper’s Lesson\, a bilingual Korean/English picture book\, and is a co-author of the picture book Where We Come From. Forthcoming publications include Revolutions are Made of Love\, a picture book about Detroit-based philosophers and movement activists Grace Lee Boggs and James Boggs\, and other projects. She lives in Minneapolis with her family. More at sunyungshin.com \n\n\n\nAbout Chaun Webster\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChaun Webster (he/him) is a poet and graphic designer living in Minneapolis whose work is attempting to put pressure on the spatial and temporal limitations of writing\, of the english language\, as a way to demonstrate its incapacity for describing blackness outside of a regime of death and dying. Webster’s debut book\, Gentry!fication: or the scene of the crime\, was published by Noemi Press in 2018\, and received the 2019 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Webster’s work has appeared in Obsidian\, The Rumpus\, Here Poetry Journal\, Ploughshares and Mn Artists\, and his second collection Wail Song: wading in the water at the end of the world\, was published by Black Ocean in April 2023. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-sun-yung-shin-chaun-webster/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/eventbrite-header-july.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230508T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230508T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230415T182727Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230416T205806Z UID:516-1683574200-1683579600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Pauletta Hansel & Sara Wagner with Ellen Austin-Li DESCRIPTION:Poets Pauletta Hansel & Sara Wagner discuss their work with fellow poet Ellen Austin-Li. Learn more about these poets in their bios below. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Pauletta Hansel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPauletta Hansel’s nine poetry collections include Heartbreak Tree\, winner of the 2023 Poetry Society of Virginia’s North American Book Award\, and Palindrome\, winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for Appalachian poetry. She was 2022 Writer-in-Residence for The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate. Her writing has been featured in Oxford American\, Rattle\, Appalachian Review\, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel\, American Life in Poetry\, and Poetry Daily\, among others. \n\n\n\npaulettahansel.wordpress.com\n\n\n\nAbout Sara Wagner\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize-winning full length books of poetry\, Lady Wing Shot\, winner of the 2022 Blue Lynx Prize (forthcoming in 2024)\, Swan Wife (2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize\, published in 2022)\, and Hillbilly Madonna (2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize\, published in 2022)\, and the author of two chapbooks\, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks\, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient\, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist\, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies including Gulf Coast\, Sixth Finch\, Waxwing\, Beloit Poetry Journal\, and The Cincinnati Review\, among others. Find her at www.saramoorewagner.com \n\n\n\nAbout Ellen Austin-Li\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Austin-Li’s work has appeared in Artemis\, Thimble Literary Magazine\, The Maine Review\, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices\, Lily Poetry Review\, Rust + Moth\, and other places. Finishing Line Press published her two chapbooks—Firefly (2019) and Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic (2021). She’s a Best of the Net nominee. A Martin B. Bernstein Fellowship recipient\, she earned an MFA in Poetry at the Solstice Low-Residency Program. Ellen co-founded the monthly reading series\, “Poetry Night at Sitwell’s\,” in Cincinnati\, where she lives with her husband in a newly empty nest. You can find more of her work at www.ellenaustinli.me. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-pauletta-hansel-sara-wagner-with-ellen-austin-li/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/May-8.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230416T163000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20230324T224640Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230328T161056Z UID:503-1681657200-1681662600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Mark Jednaszewski and May-Lan Tan DESCRIPTION:Authors Mark Jednaszewski & May-Lan Tan will talk about the process\, editing\, writerly friendships\, art\, and sundubu-jjigae. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Mark\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Jednaszewski studied marine engineering at Kings Point and lives in Philadelphia. His work has recently appeared in Juked and HAD. He is the author of the fiction chapbook\, Scales of the Ouroboros (The Cupboard Pamphlet\, 2021). Find him on Twitter or Instagram – @ninjaneerski \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout May-Lan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMay-Lan Tan is the author of the short story collection Things to Make and Break (Sceptre; Coffee House Press/Emily Books) and the chapbook Girly (Future Tense). She is a recipient of the 2021 Berlin Senate grant for non-German literature. Her fiction has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story\, the Atlas Review\, the Reader\, and Areté. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-mark-jednaszewski-and-may-lan-tan/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/mark-may-lan-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230110T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20221223T204546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221229T012450Z UID:458-1673379000-1673384400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: jason b. crawford\, Nicholas Goodly\, & Malcolm Tariq DESCRIPTION:Poets jason b. crawford\, Nicholas Goodly\, & Malcolm Tariq join the Notebooks Collective for a conversation about poetry\, the body\, the South\, and more. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout jason\n\n\n\njason b. Crawford (They/Them) is a writer born in Washington DC\, raised in Lansing\, MI. Their debut Full-Length Year of the Unicorn Kidz is out from Sundress Publications. crawford holds a Bachelor of Science in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and is the co-founder of The Knight’s Library Magazine. They are the winner of the Courtney Valentine Prize for Outstanding Work by a Millennial Artist\, Vella Chapbook Contest\, Variant Lit Chapbook Contest\, and the 2021 OutWrite chapbook contest winner in poetry. crawford was a finalist for the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid 2021 Poetry Contest. Their work can be found in Split Lip Magazine\, Glass Poetry\, Four Way Review\, Voicemail poems\, FreezeRay Poetry\, HAD\, among others. They are a current poetry MFA candidate at The New School.  \n\n\n\nAbout Nicholas\n\n\n\nNicholas Goodly is the author of Black Swim (Copper Canyon\, 2022). They are a team member of the performing arts platform Fly on a Wall and assistant poetry editor for The Southeast Review. Nicholas was a finalist for the 2020 Jake Adam York Prize\, runner-up for the 2019 Cave Canem Poetry Prize\, and recipient of the 2017 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship\, among other awards. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Boston Review\, BOMB\, The Poetry Project\, Lambda Literary\, Narrative Magazine\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\nAbout Malcolm\n\n\n\nMalcolm Tariq is a poet and playwright from Savannah\, Georgia. He is the author of Heed the Hollow (Graywolf\, 2020)\, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and the 2020 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry\, and Extended Play (Gertrude Press\, 2017). He was a 2016-2017 playwriting apprentice at Horizon Theatre Company and a 2020-2021 resident playwright with Liberation Theatre Company. A graduate of Emory University\, Malcolm holds a PhD in English from the University of Michigan. He lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, and he is the senior manager of editorial projects for Prison and Justice Writing at PEN America. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-jason-b-crawford-nicholas-goodly-malcolm-tariq/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/jan-10-2023.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221206T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20221023T224413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221023T230954Z UID:431-1670355000-1670360400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Claire Schwartz & Sarah Ghazal Ali DESCRIPTION:Poets Claire Schwartz and Sarah Ghazal Ali will join the Notebooks Collective for an evening of conversation about their writing and the work of poetry. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Claire\n\n\n\nPhotograph by Beowulf Sheehan.\n\n\n\nClaire Schwartz is the author of Civil Service (Graywolf Press\, 2022) and the culture editor of Jewish Currents. Her writing has appeared in Granta\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, The Nation\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. Claire is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Poetry and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Sarah\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Ghazal Ali is the author of Theophanies\, selected as the Editors’ Choice for the 2022 Alice James Award\, and forthcoming with Alice James Books in January 2024. A 2022 Djanikian Scholar\, her poems appear in POETRY\, American Poetry Review\, Pleiades\, the Rumpus\, and elsewhere. She is a Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University and poetry editor for West Branch. Find her at sarahgali.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Civil Service\n\n\n\nIn this astonishing debut\, Claire Schwartz stages the impossibility of articulating freedom in a nation of prisons. Civil Service probes the razor-thin borders between ally and accomplice\, surveillance and witness\, carcerality and care—the lines we draw to believe ourselves good.—Graywolf Press URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-claire-schwartz-sarah-ghazal-ali/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/eventbrite-claire-and-sarah.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221113T193000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220831T155742Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T160237Z UID:372-1668362400-1668367800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Kathleen Aguero & Jennifer Martelli DESCRIPTION:Poets Kathleen Aguero & Jennifer Martelli read from their new books.\n\n\n\nKathleen Aguero’s World Happiness Index derives its title and impetus from an annual report in which surveys from people around the world comprise rankings of each country’s happiness. With its reflective poems and self-portraits\, the book grapples with themes of identity and other personal themes\, as well as more communal aspects that speak to our interconnected world. These poems bring readers to the intersections of personal and political and so much more. \n\n\n\nThe Queen of Queens: In this tenacious collection of poems by Jennifer Martelli\, the drugs\, pop music\, rocket crash\, and Martelli’s queens–from Geraldine Ferraro to Madonna\, Nancy Pelosi to Molly Ringwald–embody the struggle with and resistance against gender oppression\, political sexism\, and ongoing threats to reproductive rights\, while reminding us of the power of one strong woman. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kathleen Aguero\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKathleen Aguero’s (she/her) latest book of poetry is World Happiness Index from Tiger Bark Press. She has published several other collections of poetry: After That\, Daughter Of\, The Real Weather\, Thirsty Day\, and Investigations: The Mystery of the Girl Sleuth. She is co-editor of three collections of multicultural literature: A Gift of Tongues\, An Ear to the Ground\, and Daily Fare. Recipient of a Massachusetts Fellowship in Poetry and a fellowship to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Kathleen also was awarded a writing grant from the Elgin/Cox Trust. She has taught at the Writers’ Center at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York\, the NY State Young Writers’ Program at Skidmore\, as well as in the Poets in the Schools Programs of New Hampshire and Massachusetts. In 2004\, she held the position of Visiting Research Associate at the Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center in Waltham\, Massachusetts. In addition to teaching in the Solstice low residency MFA program\, Kathleen teaches for “Changing Lives Through Literature\,” an alternative sentencing program based on the power of books to change lives through reading and group discussion. She is a consulting editor in poetry for The Kenyon Review. \n\n\n\nAbout Jennifer Martelli\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Martelli (she\, her\, hers) is the author of The Queen of Queens (Bordighera Press) and My Tarantella (Bordighera Press)\, awarded an Honorable Mention from the Italian-American Studies Association\, selected as a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book\, and named as a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award. She is also the author of the chapbooks In the Year of Ferraro from Nixes Mate Press and After Bird\, winner of the Grey Book Press open reading. Her work has appeared in The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day\, Poetry\, The Tahoma Literary Review\, The Sycamore Review\, Cream City Review\, Verse Daily\, Iron Horse Review (winner of the Photo Finish contest)\, and elsewhere. Jennifer Martelli has twice received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for her poetry. She is co-poetry editor for Mom Egg Review. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-kathleen-aguero-jennifer-martelli/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/kathi-jenn.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221109T203000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20221026T013033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221026T013040Z UID:454-1668022200-1668025800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:November Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Bring your work in progress\, your notebooks\, and yourself for an hour of writing together. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/november-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/November-Write.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221018T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220831T151848Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T152040Z UID:360-1666121400-1666126800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Amy Hoffman & Meg Kearney DESCRIPTION:Amy Hoffman’s new book Dot & Ralfie is about a lesbian couple facing the physical\, emotional\, and relationship challenges of aging. \n\n\n\n“Amy Hoffman creates unforgettable characters\, and her scintillating wit keeps things lively even in the face of the decline that awaits us all” writes Alison Bechdel\, author of The Secret to Superhuman Strength. \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation between Amy and poet Meg Kearney. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Amy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA writer\, editor\, and community activist\, Amy Hoffman is the author of the novels Dot & Ralfie and The Off Season\, and three memoirs—Lies About My Family; An Army of Ex-Lovers: My Life at the Gay Community News; and Hospital Time. An Army of Ex-Lovers was short-listed for a Lambda Book Award\, and both An Army of Ex-Lovers and Hospital Time were short-listed for the New York Publishing Triangle Judy Grahn Award. Hospital Time was also a New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age selection and has been adopted in college and university courses. It is the subject of chapters in several works of literary criticism. \n\n\n\nAbout Meg\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn spring 2021\, The Word Works Press published Meg Kearney’s All Morning the Crows\, winner of the 2020 Washington Prize for poetry\, which made Small Press Distribution’s poetry bestseller list April through September\, 2021\, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and was awarded the Silver Medal in Foreword Review’s Indies Book Award for Poetry. Meg is also author of An Unkindness of Ravens and Home By Now\, winner of the PEN New England L.L. Winship Award; a heroic crown\, The Ice Storm\, published as a chapbook in 2020; and three verse novels for teens. Her award-winning picture book\, Trouper\, is illustrated by E.B. Lewis. Meg’s poetry has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s “A Writer’s Almanac” and Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” series\, and included in the 2017 Best American Poetry anthology (Natasha Tretheway\, guest editor). A native New Yorker\, she lives in New Hampshire and is founding director of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program at Lasell University in Massachusetts. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-amy-hoffman-meg-kearney/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Amy-Meg.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221011T203000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220831T170209Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T170213Z UID:383-1665516600-1665520200@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:October Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/october-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Oct-Write-Together.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220516T151354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T145732Z UID:200-1663702200-1663707600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Anne-Marie Oomen & Patricia Ann McNair DESCRIPTION:Join us for the virtual book launch of Anne-Marie Oomen’s new book\, As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. Published by University of Georgia Press\, this book was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Anne-Marie will be in conversation with Patricia Ann McNair. \n\n\n\nThis event will be a celebration of Anne-Marie’s newest memoir\, but it will also be a conversation between working creatives who have written their way through life and all its iterations. We are certain you don’t want to miss it! \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie Oomen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie Oomen’s forthcoming books are AWP’s winner of the Sue William Silverman nonfiction prize for As Long as I Know You (University of Georgia Press)\, and The Long Road (Cornerstone Press). She edited ELEMENTAL: A Collection of Michigan Nonfiction\, is author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid\, (co-authored with Linda Nemec Foster)\, Pulling Down the Barn\, House of Fields (all  Michigan Notable Books)\,  American Map: Essays\,  Uncoded Woman (poetry)\, and Love\, Sex and 4-H (Next Generation Indie Award for Memoir). She has written seven plays\, including the award-winning Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern.  She is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University (MA) and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Visit her at www.anne-marieoomen.com \n\n\n\nPatricia Ann McNair (she/her/hers)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatricia Ann McNair’s short story collection\, Responsible Adults\, was named a Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Press Awards; The Temple of Air (stories) was named Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year; her collection of essays\, And These Are the Good Times\, was a Montaigne Medal Finalist for Most Thought-Provoking Book of the Year. McNair is an Associate Professor Emerita of Columbia College Chicago. She lives in Tucson\, Arizona. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-anne-marie-oomen/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Eventbrite-Header-AMO.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T203000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220819T192558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T160341Z UID:357-1663270200-1663273800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:September Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/september-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sept-Write-Together.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220816T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220816T203000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220706T000718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220706T000824Z UID:330-1660678200-1660681800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:The Sealey Challenge: A Mid-Month Jump-Start DESCRIPTION:The Sealey Challenge\, started by poet Nicole Sealey\, challenges readers to read one collection of poetry every day through the month of August. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you’re anything like us\, you’ve started this challenge before\, fully convinced that you would finish the month without missing a day. But\, like us\, you may have hit a wall mid-month (or so)\, not just with finishing a collection every day\, but with honoring your own creative space when you’re spending so much time reading the work of others. \n\n\n\nThat’s what this offering is all about: join us in mid-August to reflect on what you’ve read so far and to cull writing prompts and other insights from the collections you’re reading. We’ll spend part of our time together sharing our experiences of The Sealey Challenge (favorite collections\, tips for completing\, etc)\, then move into provided ideas for writing prompts. The instructor will bring prompts and other aides\, but we’ll also open up discussion so we can all learn from each other.  URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/the-sealey-challenge-a-mid-month-jump-start/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sealey-challenge-class.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T203000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220603T152909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T151237Z UID:275-1658950200-1658953800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:July 27 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/july-27-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-27-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220525T153846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220719T172345Z UID:235-1658431800-1658437200@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Jessica Cuello & Jan Beatty DESCRIPTION:Join us for an In Conversation with poets Jessica Cuello & Jan Beatty. Jessica will read from her new book\, Liar\, and Jan will be reading from her book The Body Wars and a conversation will ensue about writing\, community\, and more! \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nJessica Cuello\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Cuello’s Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and her manuscript Yours\, Creature is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in spring of 2023. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works\, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press\, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2017 CNY Book Award\, The 2016 Washington Prize\, The New Letters Poetry Prize\, a Saltonstall Fellowship\, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Beatty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Beatty’s seventh book\, American Bastard\, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award\, 2021. A new chapbook\, Skydog\, was released in May\, 2022 by Lefty Blondie Press. The University of Pittsburgh Press published The Body Wars in Fall\, 2020\, and in the New York Times\, Naomi Shihab Nye said: Jan Beatty’s new poems in “The Body Wars” shimmer with luminous connection\, travel a big life and grand map of encounters. Other books include Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (2018 Paterson Prize)\, named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019; The Switching/Yard\, Red Sugar\, Boneshaker\, and Mad River\, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Beatty worked as a waitress\, an abortion counselor\, and in maximum security prisons. For fifteen years\, she directed creative writing at Carlow University where she ran the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.  URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/conversation-jessica-cuello-jan-beatty/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Eventbrite-Header_JessJan.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220716T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220716T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220603T152752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T150554Z UID:271-1657987200-1657990800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:July 16 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/july-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-16-2022-400-PM-ET.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220628T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220628T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220525T153219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220621T201709Z UID:228-1656444600-1656450000@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Marcia Karp & George Kalogeris DESCRIPTION:Join the Notebooks Collective for an In Conversation with poets Marcia Karp & George Kalogeris. These two poets have known each other and each other’s work for 25 years. They will read from their new books\, talk translation\, and other aspects of the writing life. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\n\nMarcia Karp\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcia Karp’s book\, If By Song\, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. She has published poems and translations in journals and anthologies in England and America\, including The Times Literary Supplement; Harvard Review; The Guardian; Partisan Review; The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton); and Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets\, British and American\, Oxford 2004-2009 (Waywiser). She taught literary and editorial matters at Boston University after earning graduate degrees there. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Kalogeris\n\n\n\nPortrait of George Kalogeris.\n\n\n\nGeorge Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos\, (Louisiana State University\, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU)\, a book of paired poems in translation\, Dialogos (Antilever\, 2012)\, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus\, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer\, 2006). His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason\, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser\, 2010). He teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/conversation-marcia-karp-george-kalogeris/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/EventBrightMarciaGeorge.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T203000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220516T143705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T145538Z UID:194-1655839800-1655843400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:June 21 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/june-21-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/eventbrite.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220611T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220611T170000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220504T194955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T143301Z UID:185-1654963200-1654966800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:June 11 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/june-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/June-Write-Together.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T163000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220425T013126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220506T144745Z UID:162-1653231600-1653237000@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Allison Adair & Eileen Cleary DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of conversation\, curiosity\, and community. Poets Allison Adair and Eileen Cleary will read from their new books\, and chat with each other about the making of poetry. Get unique insights on craft and revision and all things creative. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Allison Adair\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison Adair’s first collection\, The Clearing\, was selected by Henri Cole as winner of Milkweed’s Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review\, Arts & Letters\, Best American Poetry\, Kenyon Review Online\, and ZYZZYVA; and her work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize\, the Florida Review Editors’ Award\, the Orlando Prize\, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant\, and first place in the Fineline Competition from Mid-American Review. Originally from central Pennsylvania\, Allison teaches at Boston College and Grub Street. \n\n\n\nAbout Eileen Cleary\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEileen Cleary is the author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press\, 2019)\, which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate\, 2021). In addition\, she co-edited the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus\, the featured text at the 2021 Michigan State University Filmetry Festival. Her poem “The Way We Fled” was recently anthologized in Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poetry (Grayson Books\, 2022.) URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-allison-adair-eileen-cleary/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EventbriteAllisonEileen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T203000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220409T161939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T190715Z UID:157-1652211000-1652214600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:May Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/may-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/May-Write-Together.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T032827 CREATED:20220314T190323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T233039Z UID:130-1650742200-1650747600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Three Poets DESCRIPTION:José Angel Araguz\, Quintin Collins\, and Daniel B. Summerhill\n\n\n\n\n\nA reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of their new books. \n\n\n\n\nRotura (Black Lawrence Press)\n\n\n\nClaim Tickets for Stolen People (Ohio State University Press)\n\n\n\nMausoleum of Flowers (CavanKerry Press)\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Readers\n\n\n\nJosé Angel Araguz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosé Angel Araguz\, Ph.D. is the author of Rotura (Black Lawrence Press\, 2022). His poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Poetry International\, The Acentos Review\, and Oxidant | Engine among other places. He is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander and is also a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. He blogs and reviews books at The Friday Influence. \n\n\n\nTwitter: @JoseAraguz Instagram: @poetryamano Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jose.araguz \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuintin Collins\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuintin Collins (he/him) is a writer\, editor\, and Solstice MFA Program assistant director. He is the author of The Dandelion Speaks of Survival (Cherry Castle Publishing\, 2021) and Claim Tickets for Stolen People (The Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books\, 2022)\, selected by Marcus Jackson as winner of The Journal‘s 2020 Charles B. Wheeler Prize. Quintin’s other awards and accolades include a Pushcart Prize and the 2019 Atlantis Award from the Poet’s Billow\, as well as Best of the Net nominations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel B. Summerhill\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel B. Summerhill is Assistant Professor of Poetry/Social Action and Composition Studies at California State University – Monterey Bay. He has performed in over thirty states\, the UK\, and was invited by the U.S. Embassy to guest lecture and perform in South Africa. Daniel has earned a Sharon Olds fellowship as well as a fellowship from the Watering Hole. His poetry has appeared in Columbia Journal\, Rust & Moth\, Button Poetry\, Anti-Heroin Chic\, The Hellebore\, and others. His work has earned him two Pushcart nominations as well as a Best of the Net nomination. His debut collection is Divine\, Divine\, Divine published by Oakland-based Nomadic Press. His sophomore collection\, Mausoleum of Flowers was published by CavanKerry Press in April 2022. Summerhill holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Solstice Low-Residency MFA. Daniel is the inaugural poet Laureate of Monterey County. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-three-poets/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/EventBrightTemplate-JQD.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR