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Unlearning Racism

Unlearning Racism

Free – $20

Join authors Bill Wynne and John Strazzabosco for a guided discussion of racial biases and the harms they cause. Bill Wynne is a first-time author and greater Rochester-based white antiracist […]

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23 March 2023
Alicia Mountain: Four in Hand

Alicia Mountain: Four in Hand

Free

Comprised of four heroic crowns of sonnets, Alicia Mountain’s Four in Hand is both formal and experimental, ranging from lyric romantic and familial narratives to blank verses of reconfigured found […]

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03 April 2023
Margaret Ray: Good Grief, the Ground

Margaret Ray: Good Grief, the Ground

Free

Selected by Stephanie Burt as the winner of the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize, Good Grief, the Ground interrogates the everyday violences nonchalantly inflicted onto women through personal, political, and […]

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10 April 2023
Stephen Schottenfeld: This Room Is Made of Noise

Stephen Schottenfeld: This Room Is Made of Noise

Free – $20

In this quietly mesmerizing novel, no one, including the protagonist, is ever entirely sure of their motivations. Existing in the liminal spaces between altruism and greed, This Room Is Made […]

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15 April 2023
Jessica Q. Stark: Buffalo Girl

Jessica Q. Stark: Buffalo Girl

Free

Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, Buffalo Girl is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women’s bodies. Interspersed throughout this hybrid work are a […]

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17 April 2023
Ravi Mangla Fiction Workshop: The Sentence as an Event

Ravi Mangla Fiction Workshop: The Sentence as an Event

$40

What makes a powerful sentence? How do you write sentences that worm their way into the ear and propel the reader forward? In this workshop, we'll analyze the anatomy of […]

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19 April 2023
Mahtem Shiferraw: Nomenclatures of Invisibility

Mahtem Shiferraw: Nomenclatures of Invisibility

Free

Shiferraw calls us to carve out space for the multitudes of selves we carry when we migrate across boundaries of body, language, and land. With momentum, giving name to everything […]

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24 April 2023
Kristen Gentry: Mama Said

Kristen Gentry: Mama Said

Free – $20

The linked stories in Mama Said are set in Louisville, Kentucky, a city with a rich history steeped in tobacco, bourbon, and gambling, indulgences that can quickly become gripping and […]

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11 May 2023
Jeannine Hall Gailey: Flare, Corona

Jeannine Hall Gailey: Flare, Corona

Free

Against a constellation of solar weather events and an evolving pandemic, Flare, Corona paints a self-portrait of the ways in which we prevail and persevere through health adversities while facing […]

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15 May 2023
George Looney: The Visibility of Things Long Submerged

George Looney: The Visibility of Things Long Submerged

Free

Dripping with Southern gothic flavors, The Visibility of Things Long Submerged gazes at the holy and the obscene while plumbing gritty secrets of the human heart. With swamps, alligators, revival […]

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22 May 2023