Happenings in July
Hello and happy July! While we continue to watch the world unfold in infuriating and unsettling ways, we’re grateful for the reprieve that poetry—indeed, all good writing—brings. We’ve thought about how to reach out to you lately, especially via social media. It seems wrong, somehow, to promote events and books and writers when so many harrowing events are in the news. But we also know that joy is a form of protest and that now, more than ever, the world needs poets and poetry. So onward we go! We’re so glad you’re with us.
If you missed June’s In Conversation event with Marcia Karp and George Kalogeris, we’ll have the recording up on our YouTube channel soon. We hope you’ll take the time to listen in on their reading and conversation. It was a lovely confluence of friendship, respect for each other’s work, and the importance of language in our everyday lives.
Marcia and George’s books are available for purchase here. We hope you’ll support these authors by purchasing their books!
July Write-Together
Please join us at our next community gathering — the July Write-Together. We will meet, say hello and set intentions, and then get to work! Set aside some time for your work — join us! If you can’t make it on the 16th, we’ll have a second July Write-Together on July 27th.
In Conversation: Jessica Cuello & Jan Beatty
Poets Jessica Cuello and Jan Beatty will join The Notebooks Collective on July 21, at 7:30 PM EST to read and discuss their work. Jessica’s most recent collection, Liar, was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and was published in 2021. Jan’s seventh book, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award, 2021. Her new chapbook, Skydog, was released in May, 2022, by Lefty Blondie Press. Purchase their books here.
The Sealey Challenge: A Mid-August Jump-Start
We are thinking about our reading lists for The Sealey Challenge! We’re also excited to offer a class that will help you take a much-deserved deep breathe mid-August to both reflect on the challenge itself and help you develop strategies to jump-start your own writing, using what you’ve read during the challenge as inspiration.
Work with Us!
We are interested in hearing from you! Do you have a suggestion for an event or workshop or class? Please pitch us your ideas. We are scheduling for Fall 2022 right now and would love to hear what you. And as always, if there is programming you would like to see, we love suggestions.