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Fair Weather Reading Seriesw/Samiya Bashir & Jennifer Casale
Saturday, December 19
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Samiya Bashir’s books of poetry, Gospel and Where the Apple Falls, and anthologies, Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art and Best Black Women’s Erotica 2, exist. Maybe you’ve read her poems in Poetry, World Literature Today, Poet Lore, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Callaloo or online somewhere like The Rumpus, HOAX, Eleven Eleven, The Normal School, or Cascadia Review. Maybe you haven’t. Sometimes her poems are made of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously made text. Sometimes light. New poems are forthcoming here and there. A Michigan native, she now lives in Portland, Oregon, with a magic cat who shares her obsession with trees, and blackbirds, and occasionally crashes the poetry classes she teaches at Reed College.
Jennifer Casale recently moved back to Tucson after seven years away from the desert. During those years, she lived in an old farmhouse just a few miles from downtown Nashville, ran her own general store, and worked as a wardrobe stylist. In 2013, she began work on the manuscript she is currently editing, a non-fiction book (Pants on Fire). It is a story of shocking betrayal, and the extreme measures she took to transform the trauma into something much more beautiful and useful. Jennifer graduated from Vanderbilt University with a BA in Creative Writing in 2004 & an MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona in 2008.
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