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Events in November 2022

  • - “Writing About Culture: Appropriate or Appropriation?”
    “Writing About Culture: Appropriate or Appropriation?”

    “Writing About Culture: Appropriate or Appropriation?”


    November 3, 2022

    Thursday, November 3, 2022

    6:30-8:00 PM, doors open at 6:00

    Riverside Main Library Community Room

    3900 Mission Inn Avenue, Riverside, CA 92501

    Free and open to the public.

     

    When is it okay to write about a culture that is not your own? Can it be done, or should you avoid it entirely? Why? Hear from leading voices on multiculturalism and literature, and learn how to avoid pitfalls to write with sensitivity and respect.

    Moderated by Minerva Canto. Panelists will include Carlos Cortés, Yi Shun Lai, Terria Smith, James Coats, and Ellen Estilai.

    A pre-panel lineup of writers will read and share their work beginning at 6:30. Booksellers will be on hand to share, sell, and sign their books beginning at 6:00 PM.

  • - Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at Back to the Grind
    Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at Back to the Grind

    Allison Adelle Hedge Coke at Back to the Grind


    November 27, 2022

    Home for the holiday? Inlandia is pleased to announce a poetry event that will warm your post-Thanksgiving Sunday afternoon. Join us at Back to the Grind for a special reading by National Book Award Finalist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Bring a friend and get cozy with a cup of something delicious. Allison will be reading from her recent poetry collection, Look at This Blue. You’ll be glad you came.

    Books will be available for sale and signing.

    “Both ode and elegy for our natural and man-made environments, Allison Hedge Coke’s Look at This Blue speaks of California’s inevitable loss, its ‘temporal melt,’ ‘its ‘death-wish façade.’ Hedge Coke calligraphies this tragedy and mythos with such poignancy that you will be riveted until the collection’s very last line. Look at This Blue is not only timely; it is necessary.” — Lynne Thompson, Los Angeles Poet Laureate