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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Read featuring Allison Hedge Coke
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \nUp Next: 2022 National Book Award Finalist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke\, author of the book-length poem\, Look at This Blue. Acclaimed poet and memoirist Jan Beatty will moderate this session.\n\n\nAbout Look at This Blue\, Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award \nInterweaving elegy\, indictment\, and hope into a love letter to California\, Look at This Blue examines America’s genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril. \n\nTruths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments\, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives—human\, plant\, and animal—in a century marked by climate emergency.\n\nLook at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America’s continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples\, as Hedge Coke’s cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance. \nTake a workshop with Allison Hedge Coke: Musicality and the Long Poem\nSaturdays\, January 21\, 28 & February 4\, 10am-12pm\, CST\, offered via Zoom\nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels.\nInfo at: https://geminiink.org/events/musicality-and-the-long-poem/ \n\n\nAllison Adelle Hedge Coke was born in Texas and came of age and worked in fields\, factories\, and waters in North Carolina until disabilities precluded further manual labors. After field-worker retraining programs in California at nearly thirty she began earning college credits. \nShe is currently a 2022-2023 UCR Mellon Dean’s Professor in the UCR Center for Ideas and Society\, a Legacy Artist Fellow (California Arts Council) and a recent George Garrett Award recipient (AWP\, 2021). Other awards include a King-Chavez-Parks Award\, Fulbright to Montenegro\, First Jade Nurtured Sihui (China) Female International Foreign Poetry Award\, U.S. Library of Congress Witter Bynner fellowship\, and an American Book Award. \n\nHedge Coke’s authored books include The Year of the Rat\, Dog Road Woman\, Off-Season City Pipe\, Blood Run\, Burn\, Streaming\, Look at This Blue: an assemblage poem (book length\, 2022 National Book Award Finalist)\, as well as a memoir\, Rock Ghost\, Willow\, Deer (2014\, paperback)\, a play Icicles\, and 28 documentary film shorts. She has edited ten anthologies\, including Effigies III.\n\nShe is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and affiliated faculty for the UCR School of Medicine (narrative medicine)\, the newly proposed Department of Environment\, Sustainability\, and Health Equity (ESHE).\n\n\nJan Beatty’s sixth book\, The Body Wars\, was published in 2020 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. In the New York Times\, Naomi Shihab Nye said: Jan Beatty’s new poems in “The Body Wars” shimmer with luminous connection\, travel a big life and grand map of encounters. Beatty won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for her memoir\, American Bastard\, 2021. Other books include Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (Paterson Prize)\, The Switching/Yard\, Red Sugar\, Boneshaker\, Mad River (Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize). Beatty worked as a waitress\, an abortion counselor\, and in maximum security prisons. For many years\, she directed creative writing\, the Madwomen in the Attic workshops\, and the MFA program at Carlow University.
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Read featuring Tomas Q. Morín
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nDecember 14th\, 2022 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: We’re talking with Tomás Q. Morín about his memoir\, Let Me Count The Ways. We’ll also discuss the craft and business of writing. This session will be moderated by memoirist Suzanne Ohlmann\, author of Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Let Me Count the Ways\n \nGrowing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and nineties\, poverty\, machismo\, and drug addiction were everywhere for Tomás Q. Morín. He was around four or five years old when he first remembers his father cooking heroin\, and he recalls many times he and his mother accompanied his father while he was on the hunt for more\, Morín in the back seat keeping an eye out for unmarked cop cars\, just as his father taught him. It was on one of these drives that\, for the first time\, he blinked in a way that evolution hadn’t intended. \nLet Me Count the Ways is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder\, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain\, violence\, and unpredictability. Morín’s compulsions were a way to hold onto his love for his family in uncertain times until OCD became a prison he struggled for decades to escape. Tender\, unflinching\, and even funny\, this vivid portrait of South Texas life challenges our ideas about fatherhood\, drug abuse\, and mental illness. \n“Evocative\, lyrical\, and brave.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Let Me Count the Waysis a strange and beautiful remembrance of loss\, pain\, betrayal\, and regeneration\, one that describes familial love in all its complexity and argues that even the most troubled among us are worthy of dignity.”—River Teeth \n“In this fearsome\, beautiful memoir\, Tomás Q. Morín takes us on ‘a journey exploring the limits of suffering and love.’ Those are the words he uses to praise a fellow poet\, but the story of his upbringing is just such a wild trip. The young Tomás constantly searches for the right words to say to his beloveds\, his abusers. And in Let Me Count the Ways\, every episode is a prose poem.”—Maxine Hong Kingston\, author of China Men and The Woman Warrior \n“Let Me Count the Ways is an origin poem wrapped in a travel essay\, rocking the full wings of fiction. This means it is a memoir\, a stunning memoir about the worn glory of counting up\, counting down\, and counting in. It is simply the layered work of a soulful magician welcoming us behind our own curtains. Genius.”—Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nTomás Q. Morín is on the faculty at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of the poetry collections Machete\, Patient Zero\, and A Larger Country. He is the coeditor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Nation\, Slate\, Poetry\, Threepenny Review\, and Narrative. He is a National Endowment of the Arts fellow.\n\n\nSuzanne Ohlmann is a writer\, nurse\, and musician. Her first book\, Shadow Migration\, came out in March 2022. Her essays have been published by The Cleveland Review of Books\, Texas Monthly\, Intima: The Journal of Narrative Medicine\, and Longreads. She lives in San Antonio with her husband\, son\, and a throng of dogs and cats.
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