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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ramona Reeves
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Ramona Reeves\, moderated Cassandra Lane\nRSVP\nAbout It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories\nWinner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction\, Texas Institute of Letters\n\n\nHappiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl\, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes\, in-laws\, and coworkers\, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives\, a task easier said than done in Mobile\, Alabama\, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status\, race\, and class\, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for versions of the American dream through modern and often unconventional means. Told with humor and honesty\, these stories remind us not only about the fallibility of being human and the resistance of some to change but also about finding redemption in unlikely places. \nIn linked short stories taking place across time\, Reeves offers up two characters finding their own form of redemption. . . . Both humorous and deeply emotional\, this collection shines for its beautifully written characters.\n–Booklist \nThese surprising\, wonderfully funny stories glow with comic energy. The eleven pieces in It Falls Gently All Around serve as chapters in a deeply satisfying portrayal of characters facing the expiration dates on their old beliefs and their newly acquired convictions. Ramona Reeves has fully brought to life a cast of flawed\, breaking people with bravery and resilience to spare. The book is a triumph of wise and compassionate storytelling.\n–Kevin McIlvoy\, author of One Kind Favor \nIt Falls Gently All Around when a character believes ‘He could make out ghosts swimming in the darkness\, like another life he might have lived. . . .’ It is one of several instances in the book when a story suddenly coalesces\, and the reader is both surprised and moved\, and this particular example speaks to a clear ambition of the author—to capture the elusive human moments that we all experience but for which we need an artist to genuinely see. This is a splendid book by an important new writer.\n–Robert Boswell\, author of Mystery Ride\, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards\, and Tumbledown \n\n\nRamona Reeves won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022 for her collection\,It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. She was a recent fellow at the San Ysidro Writers Residency and a 2024 judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Post Road\, The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, New South\, Bayou Magazine\, Texas Highways and others. She teaches a course for writers working on their first manuscripts and will be teaching at the Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Writers Conference later this year. She and her wife currently call Austin home. \n\n\n\n\nCassandra Lane is winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and author of We Are Bridges (Feminist Press)\, which NPR called “a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory.” Lane received her MFA from Antioch University LA. She formerly worked as a newspaper reporter\, high school English and journalism teacher\, college admissions advisor\, senior writer\, and community relations manager for the Dodgers. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times’s “Conception” series\, the L.A. Times\, the Times-Picayune\, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and multiple anthologies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of L.A. Parent magazine.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ramona-reeves/
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Thomas H. McNeely
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nRSVP to join us for our Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, September 20th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Thomas H. McNeely’s story collection\, Pictures of the Shark. Stephanie Reents is the moderator.\n\n\n\n2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction\n2023 Houston Chronicle Notable Book\n2023 Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read\n\n\n\n\n\n“An emotionally taut and often haunting collection.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[An] always compelling novel in short stories.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“[A] powerful family portrait … heartbreaking authenticity.”\n—Booklist \n“A tightly written and often emotionally gripping collection.”\n—Lone Star Literary Life \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sudden snowfall in Houston reveals family secrets. A trip to Universal Studios to snap a picture of the shark from Jaws becomes a battle of wills between father and son. A midnight séance and the ghost of Janis Joplin conjure the mysteries of sex. A young boy’s pilgrimage to see Elvis Presley becomes a moment of transformation. A young woman discovers the responsibilities of talent and freedom. \n\nPictures of the Shark\, by award-winning Houston writer Thomas H. McNeely\, moves from its protagonist Buddy Turner’s surreal world of childhood into the wider arenas of sex\, addiction\, art\, and ambition. Appearing in the country’s finest literary journals\, including Ploughshares\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, Epoch\, and Crazyhorse\, shortlisted for the O. Henry Award\, Best American Short Stories\, and Pushcart Prize collections\, the stories in Pictures of the Shark are gems that refract their characters’ complex relationships.\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston. \n\nStephanie Reents received a BA from Amherst College\, a second BA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and an MFA from University of Arizona. She is the author of The Kissing List\, a collection of connected stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review\, and I Meant to Kill Ye\, a bibliomemoir that is an account of her journey into the strange voice at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice been awarded an O. Henry prize for her short fiction. Her novel I Loved to Run is under contract at Penguin Random House.
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring  Jehanne Dubrow
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, July 19\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Jehanne Dubrow’s Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Taste: \nTaste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses\, which we often take for granted. Structured as a series of “small bites\,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world\, how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting. \nThrough flavorful explorations of the sweet\, the sour\, the salty\, the bitter\, and umami\, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste. In a series of short\, interdisciplinary essays\, she blends personal experience with analysis of poetry\, fiction\, music\, and the visual arts\, as well as religious and philosophical texts. Dubrow considers the science of taste and how taste transforms from a physical sensation into a metaphor for discernment. \nTaste is organized not so much as a linear dinner served in courses but as a meal consisting of meze\, small plates of intensely flavored discourse. \n\n\n\n\nJehanne Dubrow is the author of nine books of poems\, including most recently\, Wild Kingdom (LSU Press\, 2021)\, and two books of creative nonfiction\, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press\, 2019)\, and Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022). Her third book of nonfiction\, Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press in 2023. Her previous poetry collections are Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, Dots & Dashes\, The Arranged Marriage\, Red Army Red\, Stateside\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post. She has co-edited two anthologies\, The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse.  \nJehanne’s poems have appeared in POETRY\, Poetry Northwest\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, Southern Review\, American Life in Poetry\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Slowdown\, The Academy of American Poets\, as well as on Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and in numerous other venues. Recent essays have appeared in The New England Review\, Colorado Review\, The Common\, The Seneca Review\, Image\, and West Branch. She is the founding editor of the national literary journal\, Cherry Tree. \nJehanne earned a B.A. in the “Great Books” from St. John’s College\, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland\, an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  \nJehanne’s writing moves between traditional forms\, free verse\, prose poetry\, lyric essay\, autotheory\, and personal essay. In Stateside and Dots & Dashes (and in her current manuscript-in-progress\, Civilians)\, she examines her experiences as a military spouse and explores the tradition of war literature. In books like The Arranged Marriage\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post\, she writes about the Holocaust\, American Jewish identity\, intergenerational trauma\, and the challenges of representing violence on the page. Her collections\, Wild Kingdom\, Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, and Red Army Red\, consider the intersection of power\, cruelty\, and authoritarianism. Jehanne is also passionate about the five senses; she has written about the art and science of perfume in throughsmoke: an essay in notes and about our sense of taste in Taste: A Book of Small Bites. And\, in her forthcoming Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, she looks at the act of looking itself. \nJehanne has been a recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal\, the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Book Award\, the Diode Editions Book Contest\, the Editors’ Prize in Prose from Bat City Review\, the Firecracker Award in Prose from CLMP\, an Individual Artist’s Award from the Maryland State Arts Council\, the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry\, the Poetry by the Sea Book Award\, the Towson University Prize for Literature\,  a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and a Howard Nemerov Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. \nThe daughter of American diplomats\, Jehanne was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia\, Zaire\, Poland\, Belgium\, Austria\, and the United States. She lives with her two Bedlington Terriers and with her husband who recently retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy. Jehanne is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
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SUMMARY:Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply: 3 Women Poets Talk to the Gods with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, March 8\, 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n\n \nI absolutely loved the workshop with Veronica Golos. Even with a larger turnout\, she kept the community of the class intact. We had a great time reading deeply and sharing our own works. —Cathlin Noonan\, previous student of Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply \nWhether a writer is talking directly to God or using religious reflection to try and make sense of humanity\, poetry is shrouded in spiritual mystery and is often used to explore both concrete and intangible concepts of a higher power. \nIn this three-week workshop\, we will study impactful poems from three women poets who invoke ideas of God or the gods. Louise Gluck’s book The Wild Iris enlists flowers from the garden of eden to help tell a story. Lucille Clifton’s “brothers” is an eight-poem conversation between an aged Lucifer and God. Natalia Toledo’s body of written work speaks to the Zapotec gods in three languages: Zapotec\, Spanish\, and English. \nClass readings and suggestions on how to write your own response poem to these poets (and these gods) will be shared prior to the workshop. \nParticipants will: \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 3 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize\, 2019 (Beirut\, Lebanon); Rootwork\, winner of the Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry\, 2016; Vocabulary of Silence\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award\, translated into Arabic and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former co-editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art\, she is an instructor for SOMOS in Taos\, NM\, and Hugo House in Seattle\, WA. Plume Magazine recently featured her work-in-progress\, The Changing Same. Plume Poetry Feature: Veronica Golos. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
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