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Fair Weather Reading Series

w/Samiya Bashir & Jennifer Casale

Photo Credit: "Young woman with umbrella, Louisiana, 1937" by Dorothea Lange. Here's a short documentary of her work.

Saturday, December 19
7pm (doors at 6:30)
lemonade and snacks served

Samiya Bashir will be teaching a writing workshop in the afternoon of December 19. more info

Curator: Kristen E. Nelson
Location: outdoor courtyard
Description:
This series celebrates LGBTQ writers, female writers, writers of color, emerging writers, and other underrepresented groups. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Sometimes there will be music. Sometimes there will be dancing. Sometimes there will be video. Sometimes there will be swimming. Sometimes there will be surprises. Sometimes there will be raffles. Sometimes there will be fancy food. Sometimes there will be fancy drinks. Sometimes it will rain and you should bring an umbrella. Sometimes it will be chilly and you should bring a blanket. It is called the Fair Weather Reading Series for all of these reasons and more.

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 LoreMichigan 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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