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January 2022
Tyler Barton: Eternal Night at the Nature Museum
Virtual Event Tyler Barton will be in conversation with Kevin Wilson. Loss and rediscovery occupy the heart of this adventurous debut collection. The characters in Eternal Night at the Nature Museum find refuge in strange, repurposed spaces: a middle-aged addict emcees a demolition derby, which transforms into a hostel, then a cult; a church congregates in an abandoned Hardee's; octogenarians escape their nursing home; unsupervised children sell knives to the neighborhood. In twenty vivid, rowdy, buoyant stories--ranging from one-page flashes…
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Read & Write With Dante Micheaux
Prose Rhythm in Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass Thursday, February 24, 2022 | 6 - 7:30 pm: Craft Talk with Dante Micheaux Tuesday, March 1, 2022 | 6 - 7:30 pm: Workshopping Session, facilitated by Alison Meyers The Whitmanian corpus, large and ever-growing, will never be as large as Whitman himself—whom we remember for his 1855 publication of Leaves of Grass (among other things), which marked the beginning of an American poetic project. The endeavor sought to and succeeded in…
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