Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.Īs the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Live with Alice Quinn, Carol Muske Dukes, Tommy Orange, Rex Wilder & Ron Koertge present “Together in a Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic”įind details at Vroman’s or Red Hen Press. Jessica sent us “My Wishing Flower Looks Like…” and to check it out, click the link: Wilson at, all are invited to participate in the #DecemberPoetr圜hallenge. Cheers to you receiving a solid dose of love and laughter during this holiday season and to a significantly better 2021. We hope that you and yours are healthy and safe, and continue to be so. The 10-minute interludes include pre-recorded mini interviews and “in conversation” segments poetry readings from traditional LitFest locations as well as from unusual places and literary, sci fi, and Locavore Lit LA readings. Panel discussions run the range of social justice, cultural equity, race relations, and author activists inclusivity in graphic novels, writing the SoCal experience, writing complicated families, speculative fiction, true crime, podcasting and 2020, Middle Grade authors, the “new unionism,” publishing and publishers, and foodie LA. Just show up!Ĭheck out the 2021 LitFest Pasadena program and schedule HERE The event producer Light Bringer Project’s YouTube channel, LitFest Pasadena 2021 programming will be accessible for viewing at these locations: LitFest Pasadena will livestream (12) 50-minute panel discussionsĪs well as 10-minute interludes between each panel with pre-recorded readings and short films. On Saturday and Sunday, May 15-16, noon to 6:00 p.m.,
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