Events in February 2017
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February 2, 2017(1 event)
7:00 pm: ARTS WALK: POETRY! AT THE LIBRARY7:00 pm: ARTS WALK: POETRY! AT THE LIBRARY – Each month this winter and spring we will explore the range of poerty that exists in the Inland Empire, fromo the Beat tradition to the Indian diaspora, form desert to ecology to spoken word, and more, leading up to National Poetry Month in April.
Each reading will be followed by a brief open mic, so bring a poem to share and be in the spotlight too! Sign ups begin at 6:45 pm.
About the readers:
Nan Friedley is a retired specail education teacher originally from Indiana. Her poerty has been published in the 2013 Inlandia Anthology and Three by PushPen Press. Her collection of poetry, Short Bus Ride, was published in 2015.
Carlos Cortes is a professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent book is Fourth Quarter, a collection of poetry. He is also author of an autobiography, Rose Hill: An Intermarriage Before Its Time. He also travels the country performing his one person autobiographical play, A Conversation with Alana: One Boy's Mulitcultural Rite of Passage, while he co-wrote the book and lyrics for the musical, We Are Not Alone: Thomas Rivera--A Musical Narrative, which premiered in 2011.
Books will be available for signing and purchase. Light refreshents will also be served.
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February 9, 2017(1 event)
7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM7:00 pm: CONVERSATIONS AT THE CULVER WITH JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM – On Thursday February 9, 2017 from 7:00pm- 8:30pm, join the Inlandia Institute for Conversations at the Culver featuring a reading and conversation with author Jill Alexander Essbaum on her new book, Hausfrau.
The Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts is located at 3834 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501.
For readers of The Girl on the Train and The Woman Upstairs comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.
Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss husband, Bruno--a banker--and their three young children in a postcard-perfect suburb of Zurich. Though she leads a comfortable, well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even her.
But Anna can't easily extract herself from these affairs. When she wants to end them, she finds it's difficult. Tensions escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no going back.
Intimate, intense, and written with the precision of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum's debut novel is unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves and how we lose ourselves and the sometimes disastrous choices we find ourselves.
Jill Alexander Essbaum is the author of several collections of poetry and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, as well as its sister anthology, The Best American Erotic Poems, 1800-Present. She is the winner of the Bakeless Poetry Prize and recipient of two NEA literature fellowships. A member of the core faculty at the University of California, Riverside's Palm Desert Low-Residency MFA program, she lives and writes in Austin, Texas.
Praise for Hausfrau
"Elegant...There is much to admire in Essbaum's intricately constructed, meticulously composed novel, including its virtuosic intercutting of past and present."--Chicago Tribune
"A powerful, lyrical novel...Hausfrau boasts taut pacing and melodrama, but also a fully realized heroine as love-hateable as Emma Bovary."--The Huffington Post
"Imagine Tom Perrotta's American nowheresvilles swapped out for a tidy Zurich suburb, sprinkled liberally with sharp riffs on Swiss-German grammar and European hypocrisy."--New York
Books will be available for signing and purchase. Light refreshments will also be served.
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March 2, 2017(1 event)
7:00 pm: ARTS WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS: POETRY! AT THE LIBRARY7:00 pm: ARTS WALK FOR BOOK LOVERS: POETRY! AT THE LIBRARY – This winter and spring, the Inlandia Institute will be hosting "Poetry! At the Library". Join us on March 2 from 7 pm - 8:30 pm at the Riverside Public Library downtown, upstairs, Ruth Nolan and Allyson Jeffredo. Each month through June we will be exploring the range of poetry that exists in the Inland Empire, from the Beat tradition to the Indian diaspora, from desert to ecology to spoken word, and more. Readings to be followed by a brief open mic, so bring a poem to share and be in the spotlight too! Sign ups begin at 6:45 pm. The Riverside Public Library is located at 3581 Mission Inn Avenue in the heart of downtown Riverside.
Ruth Nolan is professor of English and creative writing at College of the Desert. Her debut poetry chapbook, Ruby Mountain, was published in November, 2016 by Finishing Line Press. Her poetry has most recently been published in the Pen USA/Rattling Wall anthology Only the Light Can Do That and in Angels Flight Literary West. Her short story "Palimpsest" was published in the L.A. Fiction Anthology (Red Hen Press 2016) and won an Honorable Mention award in Sequestrum's 2016 Editor's Reprint award.. Allyson Jeffredo is a writer of Southern California. Her work can be found in The Fem, Cider Press Review, Slipstream Press and others. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from California State University San Bernardino and currently teaches writing to elementary and college students of the Inland Empire. This event is free and open to the public. |
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March 4, 2017(1 event)
10:00 am: LADY & THE BLUES ART EXHIBIT10:00 am: LADY & THE BLUES ART EXHIBIT – If you missed the Lady & The Blues: Art & Poetry from African American Woman event, artist Linda J. Phelps Young's artwork will continue to be on display for a limited time at the Garcia Center for the Arts. The Garcia Center is located at 536 W. 11th Street in San Bernardino. About the artist, Linda J Phelps Young: Ms. Young is a California native, born in Riverside CA. She worked for 6 years as an Art Instructor with the Riverside Arts Council in conjunction RUSD after school program the Hearts and Prime Time program. Her series of paintings, titled "Our Ladies of Blues" was created in 2007. The series commemorates Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Josephine Baker, Ethel Waters and Ella Fitzgerald. Painting is Linda's passion and she considers herself to be a colorist. Her vision is to make art filled with creative possibilities and hope to bring joy to those who view it. This event is free and open to the public. |