Review: My Tranquil War by Anis Shivani

I reviewed Anis Shivani's collection of poems, My Tranquil War, for the PANK blog. Go and look!

Reading tonight!

I'm reading with colleagues Susan Kushner Resnick, Michael Stewart, and Robert Ward, on the Brown University campus (Wilson 102, on the main green -- if you walk in from Brown St./Waterman St, it's on the left). The reading's at 6:30 pm. Please come!

Review: Rise in the Fall by Ana Božičević

I reviewed Rise in the Fall by Ana Božičević for the Small Press Book Review.

You should check out the other reviews there as well, and the other books reviewed there.

I didn't say this in the review so I'll say it here: I bought this book at AWP and then sat down on one of those half-hassock, half-planter things in the lobby and read it all the way through. I thought about what I would probably have to destroy and was still reluctant to destroy. Thanks, Ana, for writing this book.

Divination in Providence: Jori Ketten, Hollis Mickey and Kate Schapira at AS220 Project Space

 Hollis Mickey and I are doing a collaborative event with Jori Ketten's Wayfinding show at the AS220 Project Space!

IT IS LIKE THE END, OR PERHAPS THE BEGINNING 

an event featuring images and text from 

Wayfinding: New Letterpress prints (and some tiny books)

TUESDAY APRIL 23

5-7PM

AS220 Project Space
93 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI 02903

 
You can hold small prints from the show in your hands while contemplating the future and past. With Jori Ketten's Wayfinding prints as a starting point, I'll write your sacred texts and Hollis Mickey will explores what you hold for your future. Tent by Ariele Affigne, map (maybe) by Walker Mettling. 

This is free, fun, and potentially formative. Please come and discover.

Mary Cappello: Archaeology of the Actual

For all nonfictional Providencians and nearby dwellers: Mary Cappello is teaching a one-day creative nonfiction studio called Archaeology of the Actual on Saturday, April 27th. You can learn more about it here, but the most important things about it are:

- "In this studio, we’ll explore the object world and its evocations. We’ll send plumb lines down into the literal places where we live, and we’ll warm-up memory by way of sound and touch."
- You'll get to work with a very good nonfiction writer who is also a very good teacher, alive to nuance, endlessly enthused and fascinated, patient and insistent.
- You'll also get to work with other committed and excited writers in an intensive setting.
- It costs $65, which you might actually be able to afford.

Date: Saturday, April 27, 10:30am-2pm (with a brief break for lunch)
Location: 186 Carpenter Street
Click here to learn more and register.

Bother the State Department about the Keystone XL Pipeline

The State Department has opened comments on their report on the Keystone XL Pipeline, so you can now let them know that you think it's terrible, which it is.

350.org has made it really easy: they have a list of talking points you can choose from (mainly dealing with the increase in greenhouse gases if the fuel thus extracted is burned; immediate increase in environmental destruction and water pollution, and the short-term and limited quality of any jobs that the project brings to the area), and/or you can just type a message of your own. This is another "can't hurt, might help, doesn't take very long" move. Highly recommended. I did it two days ago.

Click here to send the State Department your comment opposing the Keystone XL Pipeline.

James McShane adapts "Negative Emotions"

If you like the stories of Lydia Davis, the comics of James McShane, or anything at all that is good in the world, you'll enjoy this graphic adaptation of Davis's short story "Negative Emotions".