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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Chapbook Spotlight with Chris Bullard\, Hermond Palmer\, Connie Scott\, and Virginia Watts
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: New Chapbook Spotlight with Chris Bullard\, Hermond Palmer\, Connie Scott\, and Virginia Watts\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84308329737?pwd=RjJUdCtJVXRySjlvMHdXakJRRzVmUT09 \nMeeting ID: 843 0832 9737 – Passcode: 678146 \n[su_divider top=”no” style=”dotted” size=”2″] \n  \nChris Bullard\, author of Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife \nChris Bullard is a native Floridian who lives in Philadelphia\, PA. He received his B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.F.A. from Wilkes University. His work has appeared in recent issues of Leveler\, Muse/A Journal\, The Woven Tale\, Nimrod\, American Journal of Poetry\, and The Offbeat. Grey Book Press published his chapbook\, “Continued\,” in May of 2020. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nHermond Palmer\, author of Aquarian Love Poems \nHermond Palmer is a poet\, author\, and songwriter who has performed his work at spoken-word venues in and around Harlem\, Philadelphia\, and Washington D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s College of Arts & Sciences and the Wharton Graduate School of Business. He has published three books of poetry; Echoes from the Quiet that I Keep\, Words to Fill the Light in You\, and What the Ancestors Told Me and I Decided to Listen. \n  \n  \n \n  \nConnie Wasem Scott\, author of Predictable as Fire \nConnie Wasem Scott makes her home among the pine trees and maples in Spokane\, WA\, where she teaches writing and literature at Spokane Falls Community College and spends as much time as she can enjoying the outdoors with her Aussie-American husband. Her first full collection\, I Come to Know Thirst\, was recently accepted for publication by Finishing Line Press (publishing date TBA). Her most recent poems have appeared in American Poetry Journal\, The Shore\, Cirque\, Streetlight\, Wild Roof\, and Citron Review. \n  \n  \n \n  \nVirginia Watts\, author of The Werewolves of Elk Creek \nVirginia Watts is the author of poetry and stories found in Illuminations\, The Florida Review\, CRAFT\, Sunspot Literary Journal\, Sky Island Journal\, Permafrost Magazine\, Bacopa Literary Review\, Streetlight Magazine among others. Winner of the 2019 Florida Review Meek Award in nonfiction and nominee for Best of the Net Nonfiction 2019 and 2020\, she has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic\, edited by Elayne Clift
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic\, edited by Elayne Clift\nwith Michael Bosworth\, Elayne Clift\, Marion Deutsche Cohen\, Barbara Crooker\, Charlotte Friedman\, Jim Kates\, Burt Rashbaum\, Irene Sherlock\, Miriam Weinstein\, and Daniel Williams. \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/84532069956?pwd=c2VzQWMrWnN6a3oxR3ZvaVVEWS93UT09 \nMeeting ID: 845 3206 9956 – Passcode: 704102 \n[su_divider top=”no” style=”dotted” size=”2″] \nIt is more than a year since Covid-19 invaded our countries and our bodies\, causing us to long for the touch of loved ones\, to fight anxiety and despair\, and to adjust to the stunning effects of prolonged isolation. We watched as the numbers of deaths mounted and agreed that it was the worst health crisis we’d experienced in a hundred years. What we longed for were stories about people lost to the insidious virus\, and those left behind. We wanted stories of survival\, coping\, finding our way to the future. In making much of the mundane\, 53 poets share 70 poems in the anthology A 21st Century Plague: Poetry from a Pandemic. The poems\, by diverse and award-winning writers\, capture and share the collective Covid. They reveal that we were brave in our contemplative journey. This anthology adds to the tradition of sharing stories in well-chosen words that move and enlighten us. \n  \nMichael Bosworth recently returned to writing poetry and creative nonfiction after a 45-year hiatus. He is on the board of the Brattleboro Commons newspaper in Vermont and an active member of WriteAction in Brattleboro. \n  \n  \nElayne Clift is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work appears in numerous publications and anthologies internationally. Her travel memoir Around the World in 50 Years: Travel Tales of a Not So Innocent Abroad was published in 2019. This is her 4th anthology. \n  \nMarion Deutsche Cohen is the author of 32 collections of poetry and memoir. Her prose and poetry collections include Not Erma Bombeck: Diary of a Feminist 70s Mother\, and The Discontinuity at the Waistline: My #MeToo Poems. She teaches Mathematics in Literature at Drexel University. \n  \n  \nBarbara Crooker is a poetry editor for Italian-Americana\, author of twelve chapbooks and nine poetry books\, including Some Glad Morning\, published in 2019 by the University of Pittsburgh Poetry Press. Her awards include the WB Yeats Society of New York Award. \n  \n  \nCharlotte Friedman teaches Narrative Medicine at Barnard College. Her poetry has been published in Connecticut River Review\, Intima\, and elsewhere. Her book The Girl Pages was published by Hyperion. \n  \n  \n  \nJim Kates is a poet and literary translator. He lives in New Hampshire. \n  \n  \n  \nBurt Rashbaum has published in literary and poetry journals\, including Contemporary Literary Horizon in Bucharest. His latest book is Of the Carousel (2019). His work has been anthologized and his books include A Century of Love\, Becoming an American\, and Tears for My Mother. \n  \n  \n  \nIrene Sherlock is a marriage and family therapist. His poems\, essays\, and short stories have been published in various literary magazines. Finishing Line Press published Equinox\, a poetry chapbook. \n  \n  \n  \n \nMiriam Weinstein has published poetry in several anthologies including Reflections on Home: The Heart of All That Is and Broken Atoms in Our Hands. Her chapbook Twenty Ways of Looking was published in 2017. \n  \n  \n  \n \nDaniel Williams has been widely anthologized. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in poetry and several of his poems are in the time capsules at Yosemite.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Poetry Reading: "Free Speech:  And Why You Should Give a Damn" by Jonathan Zimmerman\, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Poetry Reading: “Free Speech: And Why You Should Give a Damn” by Jonathan Zimmerman\, Signe Wilkinson (Illustrator)\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/87881707311?pwd=S0pHK2tnUkp4SzlmajNmV2hCUkFMQT09 \nMeeting ID: 878 8170 7311 – Passcode: 322627 \n[su_button url=”https://cityoflightpublishing.com/product/free-speech-and-why-you-should-give-a-damn-2/” target=”blank” background=”#7681c8″ size=”4″ center=”yes”]Purchase This Title[/su_button] \n[su_divider top=”no” style=”dotted” size=”2″] \n \nIn America\, we like to think we live in a land of liberty\, where everyone can say whatever they want. Throughout our history\, however\, we have also been quick to censor people who offend or frighten us. We talk a good game about freedom of speech\, then we turn around and deny it to others. In this brief but bracing book\, historian Jonathan Zimmerman and Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson tell the story of free speech in America: who established it\, who has denounced it\, and who has risen to its defense. They also make the case for why we should care about it today when free speech is once again under attack. Across the political spectrum\, Americans have demanded the suppression of ideas and images that allegedly threaten our nation. But the biggest danger to America comes not from speech but from censorship\, which prevents us from freely governing ourselves. Free speech allows us to criticize our leaders. It lets us consume the art\, film\, and literature we prefer. And\, perhaps most importantly\, it allows minorities to challenge the oppression they suffer. While any of us are censored\, none of us are free. \nJonathan Zimmerman is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. A former Peace Corps volunteer\, he is the author of Campus Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know and seven other books. He is also a frequent op-ed contributor to The New York Times\, the Washington Post\, and other national newspapers and magazines. Zimmerman received the 2019 Open Inquiry Leadership Award from Heterodox Academy\, which promotes viewpoint diversity in higher education. \nSigne Wilkinson was the first female to receive the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning in 1992. \n 
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