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SUMMARY:Rumination As Route
DESCRIPTION:Crafting Non-linear Personal Narratives with Poet José Angel Araguz \n\n\n\nTraditional storytelling often follows a linear path\, moving steadily from beginning to end. But what happens when we embrace digression\, repetition\, and reflection as essential tools of narrative? In this generative\, discussion-based class\, we will explore how rumination can shape and propel personal narratives\, creating compelling essays that mirror the rhythms of thought itself. Through short readings\, interactive exercises\, and guided writing prompts\, participants will experiment with ways to craft essays that spiral\, double back\, and expand outward—discovering meaning through movement rather than destination. \n\n\n\nThis class is ideal for writers at all levels interested in exploring experimental forms of nonfiction\, deepening their engagement with voice\, and crafting essays that follow the mind’s natural wanderings. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nAbout José Angel Araguz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosé Angel Araguz\, Ph.D. (he/him/él) is the author most recently of the lyric memoir Ruin & Want (Sundress Publications) as well as the poetry collections Rotura (Black Lawrence Press) and La esperanza espera (Valparaiso Ediciones). 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 at Lasell University. He blogs and reviews books at The Influence.
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Jennifer Funk & Megan Pinto
DESCRIPTION:Two poets interested in affairs of the heart and the abiding loneliness at the center of the human experience. Two poets who overlapped at Warren Wilson’s MFA program yet who have different styles of writing. \n\n\n\nExpect them to talk about maintaining a creative practice alongside life’s many competing demands (both in school and after it)\, what a first book changes and does not change\, and the importance of literary/poetry friendships. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Jennifer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCalifornia born but in possession of a New England disposition\, Jennifer Funk is always trying to prove her sunniness is not a joke nor her attachment to doing things the hard way a performance. She is a graduate of Bennington College and of Warren Wilson’s MFA Program for Writers\, and she has received support from the Bread Loaf’s Writers’ Conference as well as The Frost Place. Her work has been spotted in many of those “something something Review\,” and her debut collection of poetry\, Fantasy of Loving the Fantasy\, was published by Bull City Press in June 2023. Jennifer works as a School Adjustment Counselor in Concord\, MA\, and she lives with her husband in what had been her grandparent’s house. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Megan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan Pinto is the author of Saints of Little Faith\, her debut collection\, just out from Four Way Books. Her poems can be found in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Poets.org\, Ploughshares\, The Slowdown podcast and elsewhere. She has won the Anne Halley Prize from the Massachusetts Review and an Amy Award from Poets & Writers\, as well as scholarships and fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference and Storyknife. Megan lives in Brooklyn and holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College.
URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-jennifer-funk-megan-pinto/
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SUMMARY:Book Celebration: Incidental Pollen by Ellen Austin-Li
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a celebration of the launch of Incidental Pollen\, the debut full-length collection from Ellen Austin-Li. She will be joined by her friend and mentor\, poet Pauletta Hansel. Expect some poems and some conversation around the making of this beautiful new collection. \n\n\n\nINCIDENTAL POLLENRUNNER-UP FOR THE 2023 ARTHUR SMITH POETRY PRIZE\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIncidental pollen refers to pollen that collects on bees as they forage for nectar—like the cumulative life experiences we cannot help but carry. The hive serves as a thematic thread in this collection that explores the space between past and present\, shame and redemption\, grief and resilience. Poetic forms lend meaning—like the villanelle that captures the grief-driven magical thinking of the speaker. Are recurring red fox sightings visitations from her deceased father and nephew? Trauma and loss appear in these tonally rich and imagistic poems\, but the arc ultimately centers on the search for belonging\, the attempt to recreate home. \n\n\n\n\n\n  Get Tickets\n  Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n  \n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nAbout Ellen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Austin-Li’s first full-length collection\, Incidental Pollen—a 2023 Trio Award finalist\, a 2024 Wisconsin Poetry Series semi-finalist\, and runner-up for the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize—is forthcoming from Madville Publishing. Finishing Line Press published her two chapbooks\, Firefly (2019) and Lockdown: Scenes From Early in the Pandemic (2021). Her work appears in Artemis\, Thimble Literary\, The Maine Review\, Salamander\, Lily Poetry Review\, Rust & Moth\, and many other places. She’s a Best of the Net nominee and holds an MFA in poetry from the Solstice Low-Residency Program. Ellen co-founded the monthly reading series\, “Poetry Night at Sitwell’s\,” in Cincinnati\, where she lives. \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.
URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/book-celebration-incidental-pollen-by-ellen-austin-li/
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