Melissa Coss Aquino, J. Michael Martinez, Emily Perez, and Marissa Tirado reading and in conversation in celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Drawing inspiration from A Book of Surrealist Games by Alastair Brotchie, we will dive deep into the silly and the surreal to wake up our poems. Like the surrealists, we will explore generative techniques including question-and-answer, centos, and palindromes, and we will experiment with automatic writing inspired by music. With out-of-the-box approaches, we will break out of our usual habits and re-learn why play is an essential ingredient of creation.
Register at https://lighthousewriters.org/workshops
The physical, emotional, and mental work of caretaking provides a unique lens on the world. Subjects like nature, racism, romance, and illness take on new complexity when one must also consider a dependent. Writers will use their various caretaking roles, past and present, to raise the stakes of a poem. This is a generative workshop taught by Emily Pérez.
Amber Adams Becoming Ribbons, Jenny Molberg The Court of No Record, and Emily Pérez What Flies Want Reading and Conversation at COUNTERPATH Gallery.
Emily Pérez reads from What Flies Want and Jodie Hollander reads from Nocturne.
The CU Denver Creative Writing Program is proud to announce the return of the Jake Adam York Memorial Reading on Tuesday, April 4th at 6pm in Tivoli 640 (Zenith), in the Tivoli Student Union on the Auraria Campus.
Our reader will be the award-winning Colorado poet Emily Pérez. The reading is free and open to everyone. A Q & A and book signing will follow.
The Jake Adam York Memorial Reading is held each spring and features a poet or prose writer whose work, like Jake’s, engages with history and/or issues of social importance.
The reading is sponsored by the CU Denver English Department, the CU Denver Creative Writing Program, and Copper Nickel.
Join readers Carrie Fountain, Faylita Hicks, Amanda Johnston, Emmy Pérez and Sasha West
Celebrate THE LONG DEVOTION with Faylita Hicks, Raina León, Jasminne Mendez, Yesenia Montilla, and Sasha West!
Free registration here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reading-conversation-nancy-reddy-emily-perez-registration-489935208397
Register for this free Zoom event here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvc--rpjMoGNHUDIizEl9qbiC0gv2-RJE-…
Both writing and caregiving require time, energy, and attention. The work of caregiving has often produced what writer Melissa Stephenson calls “confetti time”–fractured moments, rather than the long stretches we sometimes think are necessary for deep creative work. Do writing and caregiving have to be competition, or are there ways that the two can inspire and feed one another? In this generative open genre workshop featuring the essays and poems of contributors to the anthology The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, participants will be introduced to several strategies that can help sustain a writing practice while also parenting or doing other caregiving work. We’ll read a selection of poems and essays that engage different aspects of the relationship between writing and caregiving, and we’ll have to discuss how these challenges surface in our own writing lives. Participants will be offered a prompt and time to write. The workshop will include time for participants to share their drafts, compare experiences, and brainstorm directions for future writing. This workshop is open to anyone with an interest; participants need not identify as parents or caregivers.
Register at:
https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/confetti-time-caregiving-zoom?session=5541
Emily Perez reads with John Elizabeth Stintzi. Common Sense Reading Series in Kansas City, MO
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Emily Pérez reads from WHAT FLIES WANT at Carter Auditorium.
Emily Pérez reads from WHAT FLIES WANT (winner of the IOWA PRIZE) and Nicky Beer reads from REAL PHONIES AND GENUINE FAKES
Emily Pérez reads from WHAT FLIES WANT, winner of the IOWA PRIZE and Craig Beaven reads from TEACHING THE BABY TO SAY I LOVE YOU, winner of the ANHINGA PRIZE
Emily Pérez reads from WHAT FLIES WANT, winner of the IOWA PRIZE and Craig Beaven reads from TEACHING THE BABY TO SAY I LOVE YOU, winner of the ANHINGA PRIZE
Sherine Gilmour, Eugenia Leigh, Lynn Melnick, Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy celebrate THE LONG DEVOTION at WORD Bookstore in Brooklyn.
Emily Pérez and Jodie Hollander read at BookBar Denver.
Emily Pérez reads online from What Flies Want as part of the Stockbridge Library Virtual Poetry Readings series.
Enjoy pancakes, coffee, and poetry! A reading from WHAT FLIES WANT.
Carolina Ebeid, Wayne Miller, and Emily Pérez at COUNTERPATH for the launch of WHAT FLIES WANT
Join us for a virtual reading with White Whale! Long Devotion contributors Zeina Hashem Beck, Joy Katz, and Emily Mohn-Slate, will read their work from the anthology + more! Times listed here are Mountain Time; event starts at 7 PM EST.
For the link to this free event, go to whitewhalebookstore.com/events
Julie Carr, Carolina Ebeid, and Ali Stine read selections from The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood, plus from their other work, at Denver’s BookBar.
Writing Motherhood Beyond the Domestic, a 3 hour course offered at The Lighthouse Denver.
Host Lara Ehrlich interviews Nancy and Emily about The Long Devotion and their lives as mothers and writesrs.
Register online https://writershouse.camden.rutgers.edu/events/cooper-street-workshop-writing-through-the-confetti-time-of-caregiving/
A reading by Chelsea Dingman, Raina León, Sun Yung Shin, and Hope Wabuke, hosted by Ruben Quesada and Mercy St. Readings. Free tickets on Eventbrite.
A Reading Featuring Joy Ladin, Kwoya Fagin Maples, and Jasminne Mendez from 12:30 - 1:30 PM Mountain Time
Followed by a Generative Workshop from 1:30 - 2:30 PM Mountain Time
This is a HYBRID event! The times listed on this website are Mountain Time. Times on the flyer are for the in-person event at Stockton University.
Click here to attend via ZOOM Password: 686603 for more information, info@murphywriting.com
A reading and workshop to celebrate the forthcoming anthology, The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood. Featuring Angela Narcisso Torres, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, and Kendra DeColo. Event Registration
