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March 5, 2023(1 event)
1:00 pm: Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer1:00 pm: Between Worlds: A Conversation with Stephanie Barbé Hammer – Conversations 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). |
March 6, 2023
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March 7, 2023(1 event)
7:00 pm: "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham7:00 pm: "Creating a Poetry Routine” with John Brantingham – John 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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