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Events in November 2021

  • - Book Launch and Celebration for "Remyth" by Adam D. Martinez at RAM
    Book Launch and Celebration for "Remyth" by Adam D. Martinez at RAM

    Book Launch and Celebration for "Remyth" by Adam D. Martinez at RAM


    November 13, 2021

    Riverside Art Museum

    3425 Mission Inn Ave, Riverside, CA 92501

    Masks AND Proof of Vaccination required.

    Free and open to the public, but an RSVP is required.

    To RSVP, visit: https://tinyurl.com/RemythLaunch

    Join Inlandia Institute at Riverside Art Museum on Saturday, November 13, from 11:00 AM-1:00 PM, as we celebrate the launch of Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prize-winner Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual by Adam D. Martinez.

    Remyth is a baptism and an exorcism. It's Hip-Hop and Punk. It's high art meeting low art at the church altar. It's a Works Cited page meeting with a ruthless remix culture unwilling to claim ownership and more than willing to take what it needs to make meaning.

    Remyth is a concept that is indebted to remix culture and self-preservation. The spirit of this book is a ritual in form and content, aiming to make sense of a life filled with social media, distrust, anxiety, depression, pop culture, and longing for the feelings that relics of the past can create. This collection of poetry joins various poetic styles (such as prose, rhizomes, futurist, and free verse) to highlight the psychic and corporeal effects of being a multicultural 20-something navigating identity post-heartbreak and in the nascent stages of coming to terms with childhood traumas.

    The poetry reading and book launch are free and open to the public, but registration is required. To RSVP visit https://tinyurl.com/RemythLaunch

    To order Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual, please visit Inlandia Books at: https://inlandia-institute.square.site/shop/Preorders/10.

    Adam Daniel Martinez first scraped his knee playing in his hometown of San Bernardino, California. Since then, as a first-generation Chicano college student, he has earned a dual MA/MFA in English and Creative Writing at Chapman University. Adam has written and performed music in the Inland Empire for over 15 years, most notably under the moniker Faimkills. He is the co-founder of Pour Vida, a digital literary zine. Currently, Adam enjoys sharing his love for words with his students as an English professor at Chaffey College. He lives in Redlands, California with his wife and two cats, Virginia and Percival.

  • - 2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event
    2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event

    2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event


    November 21, 2021

    Sunday, November 21, 2021 (1:00-3:00 PM)

    2020 Writing From Inlandia VIRTUAL Event

    Free and open to the public, but registration is required. To attend, please register at: https://tinyurl.com/2020WFI

    If you are a 2020 WFI anthology contributor and would like to participate, please contact: programs@inlandiainstitute.org.

    Join Inlandia Institute for a special online reading of selected works from 2020 Writing from Inlandia! This yearly anthology has been published since 2011 and is an Inlandia tradition, with contributors from sixteen of Inlandia’s creative writing workshops in the 2020 edition. Packed with over 300 pages of stories, poems, and essays, 2020 Writing from Inlandia explores the experience of being alive through memoir, food writing, reflections on the COVID pandemic, and more. Participants will read their work aloud in reflection of the myriad challenges – and rewards – of being human. Don’t miss it!

    In memory of Candace Shields, Morris Mendoza, and CelenaDiana Bumpus.

    To order your copy of 2020 Writing From Inlandia, visit https://inlandia-institute.square.site

    All 2020 Inlandia workshops were supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council, a state agency. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov. Learn more about the California Arts Council at www.arts.ca.gov.