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Fair Weather Reading Series

w/Selah Saterstrom, Lisa Birman, and Elizabeth Frankie Rollins

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

Saturday, April 23, 2015
7pm (doors at 6:30)
lemonade and snacks served

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! We will hold readings once a month on Friday or Saturday nights and host occasional workshops taught by our readers at FLUXX up the block.

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.

Lisa Birman is the author of For That Return Passage—A Valentine for the United States of America , co-editor of the anthology  Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action , and has published several chapbooks of poetry, including deportation poems. Her work has appeared in Revolver, Floor Journal, Milk Poetry Magazine, Trickhouse, Poetry Project Newsletter, and not enough night. Lisa served as the Director of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics for twelve years, and continues to teach for the MFA in Creative Writing.  How To Walk Away is her first novel.

 

Elizabeth Frankie Rollins has published a collection of short fiction, The Sin Eater & Other Stories (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2013). Of this book, Publisher’s Weekly wrote, “Unsettling imagery and hauntingly beautiful language characterize these stories, as ephemeral and indefinable as dreams.” Also, she has work in The Fairy Tale ReviewSonora ReviewConjunctionsDrunken Boat, The New England Review,and Green Mountains Review, among others. In 2007, Rollins received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and in 2003, she won a Prose Fellowship from the New Jersey Arts Council. She teaches fiction and composition writing at Pima Community College.

 

Selah Saterstrom  is the author of the novels The Pink Institution, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and Slab, all published by Coffee House Press. She is also the author of Tiger Goes to the Dogs , a limited edition letterpress project published by Nor By Press. She is the director of the PhD program in creative writing at the University of Denver and teaches and lectures throughout the United States.

   
   

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