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SUMMARY:Reading of BLESSINGS AND DISASTERS by Alexis Okeowo\, 6:30 p.m. at Thank You Books
DESCRIPTION:Thank You Books presents author Alexis Okeowo\, reading from her new book\, Blessings and Disasters\, Thursday 6:30 p.m. \n5502B Crestwood Blvd\, Birmingham\, AL 35212 \n6:30PM CT – Event \nContact: Kristen Iskandrian\, kristen@thankyoubookshop.com \nEvent linked here.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/reading-of-blessings-and-disasters-by-alexis-okeowo-630-p-m-at-thank-you-books/
LOCATION:Thank You Books\, 5502 Crestwood Blvd Unit B\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35212\, United States
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SUMMARY:Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel present GLASS CABIN
DESCRIPTION:Join Thank You Books for an afternoon with husband-and-wife authors and UAB professors Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel\, and to celebrate their fascinating new book of poetry. \n“GLASS CABIN chronicles the thirteen years Tina and James spent building their home out of second-hand tin\, tornado-snapped power poles\, and church glass on a waterless ridge in rural Alabama. Their alternating voices support one another like parts of their cabin—every board needs its nail\, every window needs its frame. These poems explore the work it takes to measure cuts for stairs\, to haul water—one ton at a time—up the side of the mountain\, and to write. It is also a meditation on hope\, on frustration\, and their place in the wilder parts of the world.” \nThe event is free but registration is encouraged:  please register here \nJames and Tina Mozelle Braziel are a husband-and-wife writing team. They have received fellowships from Hot Springs National Park and Alabama State Council on the Arts. James’s book\, This Ditch-Walking Love\, winner of the Tartt Fiction Award\, tells the stories of people living on Alabama’s Cumberland Plateau. His novels Birmingham\, 35 Miles (Bantam) and Snakeskin Road (Bantam) are about the survivors of an environmental disaster in the future South. James\, an associate professor\, teaches creative writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Tina Mozelle Braziel is the author of Known by Salt (Anhinga)\, winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry\, and Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly). Her work has appeared in POETRY and other journals. Tina directs the Ada Long Creative Writing Workshop for high school students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. James and Tina live and write in a glass cabin that they are building by hand on Hydrangea Ridge.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/tina-mozelle-braziel-and-james-braziel-present-glass-cabin/
LOCATION:Thank You Books\, 5502 Crestwood Blvd Unit B\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35212\, United States
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SUMMARY:Poetry Night! A celebration of THE SOUTHERN POETRY ANTHOLOGY\, VOLUME X
DESCRIPTION:Such a special night for poetry! And on a Leap Year! \nThis series from Texas A & M University Press highlights different regions and their poets: “Alabama is among the most naturally dynamic states in the nation\, its ecosystems ranging from Appalachian mountains\, through rolling Piedmont\, to the vast Gulf Shore. \nIn this tenth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology\, the editors have achieved a remarkable task; they have revealed another wide variegation that makes Alabama so dynamic: poets in the Yellowhammer State with both established and new voices. They have elucidated the impressive and exciting diversity of poets who consider or have considered Alabama home.” \nWe’re so thrilled to celebrate this anthology with readings from various local contributors. Join us! \nTAYLOR BYAS (she/her) is a Black Chicago native currently living in Cincinnati\, Ohio\, where she is an Associate Editor for Cincinnati Review and an Assistant Features Editor for The Rumpus. She is the 1st place winner of the 2020 Poetry Super Highway\, the 2020 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contests\, and the 2021 Adrienne Rich Poetry Prize. She is the author of the chapbooks Bloodwarm and Shutter\, and her debut full-length I Done Clicked My Heels three Times is out from Soft Skull Press. She is represented by Rena Rossner of the Deborah Harris Agency. \nADAM VINES is a professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Alabama at Birmingham\, where he edits Birmingham Poetry Review. He is the author of five collections of poetry\, the latest\, Lures (LSU Press\, 2022). He has published poems in The Southern Review\, Kenyon Review\, and Poetry\, among other journals. \n 
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/poetry-night-a-celebration-of-the-southern-poetry-anthology-volume-x/
LOCATION:Thank You Bookshop\, 5502 Crestwood Blvd.\, Unit B\, Birmingham\, AL\, 35212\, United States
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