BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Notebooks Collective - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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: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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250302T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250302T150000 DTSTAMP:20260504T062913 CREATED:20241212T181133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T174514Z UID:1212-1740920400-1740927600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Writing Persona: When a Mask Is All We Can Bear DESCRIPTION:Explore persona poems with poet Jessica Cuello. \n\n\n\nA generative course that will look attentively at poems by Ai\, Lucie Brock-Broido\, and Patricia Smith among others. We’ll explore ways to enter persona and deepen the imaginative possibilities of writing outside ourselves. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Jessica Cuello\n\n\n\nJessica Cuello’s most recent book is Yours\, Creature (JackLeg Press\, 2023). Her book Liar\, selected by Dorianne Laux for The 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize\, was honored with The Eugene Nassar Prize\, The CNY Book Award\, a finalist nod for The Housatonic Book Award\, and a longlist mention for The Julie Suk Award. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works\, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press\, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2022 Nina Riggs Poetry Prize\, two CNY Book Awards\, The 2016 Washington Prize\, The New Letters Poetry Prize\, a Saltonstall Fellowship\, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. In addition\, Cuello has published three chapbooks: My Father’s Bargain (2015)\, By Fire (2013)\, and Curie (2011). In 2014 she was awarded The Decker Award from Hollins University for outstanding secondary teaching. She is poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/writing-persona-when-a-mask-is-all-we-can-bear/ CATEGORIES:Workshop/Class ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/writing-persona.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250313T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T062913 CREATED:20241209T202839Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T174044Z UID:1190-1741896000-1741899600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Community Hour DESCRIPTION:Calling all writers\, artists\, readers\, musicians\, and organizers! Join us for our second community hour in which will come together to share project ideas\, recommendations\, and ways to support each other going forward. The event will be facilitated and we’ll make use of breakout rooms and the chat feature! \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/march-community-hour/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/march-community.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250318T210000 DTSTAMP:20260504T062913 CREATED:20241209T202237Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T174730Z UID:1159-1742326200-1742331600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Cynthia Marie Hoffman & Sarah Kain Gutowski DESCRIPTION:Poets Cynthia Marie Hoffman and Sarah Kain Gutowski will read from their collected works\, with an emphasis on their newest respective collections\, both of which are cohesively themed (Cynthia’s is a memoir in prose poems\, Sarah’s is a fabulist narrative in poems).Sarah and Cynthia first met more than 20 years ago in London\, where they were both active in the open mic scene. In this In Conversation event they’ll talk about both creativity and process: the structures of their respective collections as book-length “projects\,” how their own journeys with OCD/anxiety have impacted their work; form and the relationship of form to writing in other genres (specifically how their recent collections opened the door for prose)\, and the benefits of joining forces this past year on book tour and book promotions.  \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nAbout Cynthia\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCynthia Marie Hoffman is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Exploding Head\, an OCD memoir in prose poems. Essays in TIME\, The Sun\, Lit Hub\, and elsewhere. Poems in Electric Literature\, The Believer\, The Indianapolis Review\, and elsewhere. Cynthia lives in Madison\, WI.  www.cynthiamariehoffman.com. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Sarah\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Kain Gutowski is the author of The Familiar\, a fabulist narrative-in-poems about female existential crisis\, and Fabulous Beast: Poems. Her poetry has appeared in various print and online journals\, including The Threepenny Review\, Painted Bride Quarterly\, and The Southern Review. With interdisciplinary artist Meredith Starr\, she is co-creator of Every Second Feels Like Theft\, a conversation in cyanotypes and poetry\, and It’s All Too Much\, a limited-edition audio project. A member of the National Book Critics Circle\, her criticism has been published by Colorado Review\, Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women\, and New York Journal of Books. http://www.sarahkaingutowski.com. 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