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SUMMARY:Celebration of Saara Myrene Raappana
DESCRIPTION:The Notebooks Collective invites you to an evening of poetry and remembrance hosted by Eric Doise\, husband of late poet Saara Myrene Raappana. Eric will be joined by Lauren K. Carlson and Halley Cotton\, all of whom will read from Saara’s collected work\, Chamber After Chamber\, which was awarded the Juniper Prize for Poetry. Saara was also the author of the chapbooks A Story of America Goes Walking (Shechem Press) and Milk Tooth\, Levee\, Fever (Dancing Girl Press). \n\n\n\nA gifted poet and teacher\, Saara left a legacy of not only powerful and award-winning poetry\, but also as an educator\, mental health pioneer and animal lover. Her great warmth\, intelligence and kindness was evident to all who knew her and will be celebrated in this one-of-a-kind reading. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and all are welcome; we also invite you purchase her book. Please use the code CHAMBER at checkout to receive a 30% discount. A donor has offered to contribute $10 for every book purchased at a reading to her scholarship fund. If you already have her book\, we also invite you to make a gift in her honor by donating to her scholarship fund. \n\n\n\nThis event is virtual. RSVP to receive the Zoom link. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Readers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLauren K. Carlson is the author of the chapbook Animals I Have Killed (Comstock Review Chapbook Prize 2018). Her work has recently appeared in Crab Creek Review\, Salamander Magazine\, Terrain\, The Windhover and Waxwing. In 2021 she won the Levis Stipend from Friends of Writers for her full-length collection Steelhead (forthcoming 2025). Lauren currently serves as editor for Tinderbox Poetry Journal and holds an MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHalley Cotton is the managing editor of the Birmingham Poetry Review\, contributing editor for NELLE\, and production manager for both publications. Her work has appeared in places such as The Greensboro Review\, Poetry South\, and Smokelong Quarterly\, among others. Cotton teaches in the English department at UAB. When she’s not busy kayaking or finding four-leaf clovers\, she’s studying folklore and writing/reading poetry. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Doise is an associate professor of English at Southwest Minnesota State University. His work has appeared in The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma and journals including South Central Review\, Extrapolation\, and Film Criticism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Saara\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn and raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan\, Saara Myrene Raappana served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in southern China before moving to Southwest Minnesota. Her newest book\, Chamber After Chamber\, won the 2023 Juniper Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. She also wrote the chapbooks A Story of America Goes Walking (in collaboration with artist Rebekah Wilkins-Pepiton\, Shechem Press\, 2016) and Milk Tooth\, Levee\, Fever (Dancing Girl Press\, 2015). Her poem “Letter To My Teenaged Self: You Are a House\, You Are a Hammer\, You’re the Momentum of the Nail” was selected as a Best of the Net Winner by Kazim Ali. She received grants and scholarships from the Minnesota State Arts Board\, the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
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