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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Sasha West
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Aug 21st\, 2024 via Zoom for a conversation with poet Sasha West\, author of How to Abandon Ship\, Winner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction\, Texas Institute of Letters. Moderated by Jill Meyers.\nRSVP\nAbout How to Abandon Ship\n\nIn How to Abandon Ship\, Sasha West emerges like a modern Cassandra\, one who doesn’t simply tell us of what is to come\, but one who teaches us\, “To bite. To keen. To howl.” West is an oracle whose words pop\, hiss\, and blaze. This terrific book has left me changed.  –Tomás Q. Morín \nThe poems in Sasha West’s How to Abandon Ship describe the anguish and disorientation of existing on a planet put in jeopardy by our very existence. Here we encounter a poet who has “spent a life sharpening the blade of [her]/imagination” slicing through the layered voices of greed\, complicity\, and blind faith that have left us with a world in peril and the painful task of telling our children the truth about it. Embodying the voice of a modern-day Cassandra\, West reveals a fundamental truth of our time: how a warning can be a blessing\, but only if we’re willing to receive it.—Carrie Fountain \nHow to Abandon Ship is equal parts prophetic and apocalyptic\, and Sasha West doesn’t shy away from the exigencies of the world: its floods and fires and earthquakes\, its wars and disease and mass graves\, its politics and tragedies and technology where “software reminded us / to have memories.” “I love: my country: it can break me\,” writes West\, and these powerful poems limn the urgency of our present moment\, as well as the tenderness and terror of new motherhood when the speaker becomes “permeable to the world.” How to Abandon Ship is a haunting book of grief and warning\, but also one of caregiving and survival. West’s poems ultimately offer a blueprint for meeting disaster head-on—with fierce love\, acts of service\, and the power of imagination. – Erika Meitner \n\nABOUT SASHA WEST\n \n\nSasha West was born and raised in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. Her first book\, Failure and I Bury the Body\, won the National Poetry Series and the Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award. It was also selected as one of ten debut books by Victoria Chang for Poets & Writers. Her second book\, How to Abandon Ship\, was published by Four Way Books in March 2024. \nShe collaborates on multi-media\, eco-arts exhibitions with visual artist Hollis Hammonds as the collaborative Hammonds + West. Their collaborations have been featured at Texas A&M University’s Wright Gallery\, the Austin Public Library Central Gallery space\, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts\, the College of the Mainland\, ArtPrize2023 in Michigan\, and the Columbus College of Art and Design. Upcoming shows include Houston’s Art League and The Grace Museum in Abilene\, TX. \nHer work has been collected in the anthologies The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood\,Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency\, Still Life with Poem: 100 Natures Mortes in Verse\, Penned: Zoo Poems\, and others. Individual poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Ecotone\, The Georgia Review\, Agni\, American Poet\, Ninth Letter\, and elsewhere. \nHer awards include a Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, a Houston Arts Alliance grant\, Pushcart nominations\, and Inprint’s Verlaine Prize. She has served as lead editor for and\, later\, board president of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. \nShe is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University\, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Hudspeth Innovative Teaching Award. She lives in Austin\, TX\, with her husband and kid. \n\nABOUT JILL MEYERS \nJill Meyers is the editorial director of A Strange Object\, the Austin-based imprint of independent publisher Deep Vellum. Her acclaimed writers have received numerous awards and honors\, including the Whiting Award\, The Believer Book Award\, and the Discovery Award from the Writers’ League of Texas. Titles from A Strange Object have appeared on NPR’s Best Books of the Year list and have been selected as best debuts from Poets and Writers. Formerly\, Jill served as editor for the celebrated literary magazine American Short Fiction and worked on staff at Texas Monthly. Jill is the cofounder of Lit Crawl Austin\, a freewheeling literary showcase\, and she serves on the advisory board for the Texas Book Festival.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-sasha-west/
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SUMMARY:World on Fire: Writing About Crisis and Hope in the Natural World with Sasha West
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 10\, 10am-2:30pm CST (includes a 30-minute lunch)\, in person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: Sasha West\nNonmember: $130; Member: $110; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \nClass Postponed\nBurning forests. Drought. Melting ice caps. Islands of plastic waste. With mounting natural disasters\, our anxiety about the environment is increasing. So how do we process these feelings and use writing to spark conversation about this very pressing topic?  \nIn this one-day generative workshop\, we will use poetry as a self-reflective tool to explore the multitude of feelings we have about the current state of nature.  We can identify and voice how the climate crisis affects us while also exploring the idea that something better is possible.  \nIn this eco-poetry workshop\, we will practice paying attention\, seeing connections\, and embracing contradictions in nature. We will study poets writing about the environment in celebration\, mourning\, and resistance. These explorations will be used to fuel our imagination. Poems will be written in class and generative exercises will be provided so you can continue to reflect and write about your relationship to nature.  \nOpen to writers of all skill levels. \nBy the end of the class students will have:  \n\nThe first draft of a poem\nGenerative exercise to fuel your writing after class\nResources for sharing eco-poetry\n\n\nSasha West is the author of Failure and I Bury the Body\, which was awarded the National Poetry Series\, a Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award\, and a Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Fellowship. Her second book\, How to Abandon Ship\, was published in 2024 by Four Way Books. Her multimedia eco-arts exhibits with visual artist Hollis Hammonds have been exhibited at the Columbus College of Art and Design\, Texas A&M\, ArtPrize 2023 Michigan\, and elsewhere. She is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University\, where she founded and runs the Environmental Humanities program.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/writing-about-crisis/
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