Events in March 2023
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- Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer, Collage and Poetry with Richard Allen May III
Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
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March 5, 2023Conversations at the Culver
Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer
Location: Downtown Riverside
1:30-3:00 PM
Doors open at 1:00 PM
Free and open to the public.
The veil between the real and the surreal is thin wherever Hammer’s writing goes. Where do her ideas come from? How does publishing a book change her relationship with it? Why magical realism? In conversation with Cati Porter, Stephanie Barbé Hammer will share her secret alchemy for making magically real books.
The world of Stephanie Barbe Hammer’s writing is inhabited by the ghosts of Houdini and David Foster Wallace and Eva Gabor, magical talking tattoos, the trees of the Pacific Northwest, and swimming and puppets, among other things. The veil between the real and the surreal is thin wherever Hammer’s writing goes. Where do her ideas come from? How does publishing a book change her relationship with it? Why the fascination with magical realism? In conversation with Cati Porter, Stephanie will share her secret alchemy for making magically real books.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a seven time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and is the author of two poetry collections (How Formal? City Slicker: Encounters with the Outside), two novels (The Puppet Turners of Narrow Interior; Pretend Plumber), a novelette (Rescue Plan), and a how to write magical realism craft book (Delicious Strangeness).
Collage and Poetry with Richard Allen May IIICollage and Poetry with Richard Allen May III
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March 5, 2023First Sundays at RAM: “Collage and Poetry” with Richard Allen May III
In person at Riverside Art Museum
3425 Mission Inn Blvd
Riverside, CA 92501
1:00-3:30 PM
This workshop is free and open to the public, but registration is required: https://tinyurl.com/CollageTechniquesRAM
First Sundays are free at Riverside Art Museum! Stop by the museum and tour the exhibits – then join us upstairs for making some original art of your own. Artist and educator Richard Allen May III will guide you through a series of collage techniques designed to open up your artistic flow. Participants will then craft a free verse poem inspired by their art. This is an art and poetry workshop won’t want to miss.
Richard Allen May III comes with a wealth of knowledge about the AfriCOBRA Movement, having written the forward to AfriCOBRA: Experimental Art Toward a School of Thought, published by Duke University, 2020. He is a staff writer at Artillery magazine and his work has been displayed in art galleries throughout the Inland Empire, as well as exhibits throughout the United States. May has taught courses in community colleges, universities, and prisons and will discuss his artwork in the context of community. https://richardmayart.com/
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- "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
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March 7, 2023John Brantingham Boot Camp
“Creating a Poetry Routine”
Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023
7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom
$100, four weekly meetings
Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.
This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.
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- "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
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March 14, 2023John Brantingham Boot Camp
“Creating a Poetry Routine”
Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023
7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom
$100, four weekly meetings
Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.
This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.
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- "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
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March 21, 2023John Brantingham Boot Camp
“Creating a Poetry Routine”
Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023
7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom
$100, four weekly meetings
Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.
This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.
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- An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
An Evening with Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
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March 23, 2023An Evening with Author Hong-My Basrai and Behind the Red Curtain
Riverside Civil Rights Institute
3933 Mission Inn Avenue
Riverside, CA 92501
6:00-7:30 PM
Free and open to the public. All are welcome.
Join Inlandia at the Civil Rights Institute for an evening with Hong-My Basrai, author of Behind the Red Curtain, a Memoir. Learn Hong-My’s story of living in fallen Saigon under communism, and how she and her family survived following the end of the Vietnam War.
Books will be available for sale and signing. Refreshments will be served.
Born and raised in Saigon, Vietnam, Hong-My Basrai (née Lê Thị) is fluent in Vietnamese and French. From a very young age, Hong-My has demonstrated a propensity for literature and love of languages. Transplanted at age twenty-two to Southern California, she picked up English and improvised upon the borrowed language to make it her own. She holds a Chemical Engineering degree and some degrees of self-taught English.
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- "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
"Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham
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March 28, 2023John Brantingham Boot Camp
“Creating a Poetry Routine”
Tuesdays, March 7, 14, 21, 28, 2023
7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom
$100, four weekly meetings
Register today at https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites.
This boot camp will teach you how to develop a regular writing routine that will get you to write and keep you writing. Students will learn how to develop prompts, generate ideas, and revise work on their own. There will be emphasis both on creating work now and learning how to continue working even while you are busy. Students will also be given the tools to find magazines for their poetry and publishers for their poetry collection. (Meets weekly.)
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY.