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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T010309 CREATED:20220227T214409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220228T165333Z UID:114-1649187000-1649192400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: M. Soledad Caballero DESCRIPTION:Join the Notebooks Collective for a reading and conversation with poet Soledad Caballero. She will read from her new book\, I Was A Bell\, winner of the 2019 Benjamin Saltman poetry prize. We will discuss memory\, displacement\, and language. \n\n\n\nBuy Soledad’s book here \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this collection\, Caballero imagines how memory frames and reshapes the present\, how memory illuminates and limits the stories of ourselves\, and how\, despite the passage of time\, primal moments in the past are the ghosts and echoes of our present. These poems interweave an early childhood lived in another country and in another language with experiences of immigration and family histories in the United States. They create connections between a child’s naïve perspective of dictatorship and an adult perspective informed by bodily illness and political knowledge. Ultimately\, Caballero traces a lineage of memory\, exploring how present moments unearth the past that ripples through them. This collection does not reconcile the past and the present. Instead\, these poems remind us that how we ask questions about ourselves\, our histories\, and our bodies is what creates our identities\, our traumas\, and our future hopes and possibilities. From Red Hen Press\n\n\n\nAbout M. Soledad Caballero\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nM. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English and co-chair of the WGSS Program at Allegheny College. She is a Macondo and a CantoMundo fellow\, has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes\, was winner of the 2019 Joy Harjo poetry contest by Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and the 2020 SWWIM’s SWWIM-For-the-Fun-of-It contest. Her poems have appeared in the Missouri Review\, the Iron Horse Literary Review\, the Crab Orchard Review\, and other venues. Her collection\, I Was a Bell\, won the 2019 Benjamin Saltman poetry prize\, Red Hen Press 2021. She is an avid tv watcher and a terrible birder. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-m-soledad-caballero/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/I-WAS-A-BELL-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220301T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220301T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T010309 CREATED:20220210T172150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T155702Z UID:76-1646163000-1646168400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Please join The Notebooks Collective in welcoming Dr. Randall Horton for the launch of his new memoir\, Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays. Dr. Horton will do a brief reading followed by a conversation with host Ashley Johnson and guests Gary Lyles and Mark Johnson. Q&A to follow. \n\n\n\nReserve your tickets now to receive a special offer to purchase Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDead Weight: A Memoir in Essays\n\n\n\nDead Weight: A Memoir in Essays chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who\, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison\, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the only tenured professor in the United States with seven felony convictions. Dr. Horton’s visceral essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one’s life for the better\, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates. \n\n\n\nAbout Dr. Randall Horton\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRandall Horton is the author of a previous memoir and several books of poetry\, including Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems (TriQuarterly Books\, 2013) and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. In 2019 he served as poet-in-residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington\, DC\, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. The recipient of numerous awards\, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award\, the Bea González Poetry\, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\, and a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation\, he currently sits on the Advisory Board of PEN America’s PEN Prison Writing Program. He is a professor of English at the University of New Haven. \n\n\n\nAbout Host Ashley Johnson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Johnson’s essays have appeared in Sleet\, Glassworks\, and Iron City Magazine. Her essay Sing was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. She is currently working on a hybrid-memoir that examines the residual effects of mass incarceration on the Black family structure. Ashley holds her MFA from the Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College\, MA in Education from UMUC\, and BS in Criminal Justice from Marymount University. Ashley currently resides in Silver Spring\, Maryland with her husband and their two sons. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/dead-weight-a-memoir-in-essays-book-launch/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Dead-Weight.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T010309 CREATED:20220210T170245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T172343Z UID:72-1645128000-1645131600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:February 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 Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/february-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FEB-WriteTogether.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T163000 DTSTAMP:20260504T010309 CREATED:20220131T051534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T022611Z UID:31-1644764400-1644769800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:February Write-In 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 a monthly write-in. The goal is generative. The process is communal. \n\n\n\nOnce a month\, we’ll meet (via Zoom)\, for 60-90 minutes. And we’ll write. Prompts will be provided and can be used or not. There will be time to share\, should you choose to or not. \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/february-write-in/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/tnc-2022-feb-write-in-e1644459957753.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR