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Authors please send your events, readings, and gigs information to Jackie Steelman at XclusivlyU@aol.com
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Saturday, March 23, noon-1 p.m. Mountain Gateway Museum, Old Fort, NC. Free to the public. Julia will be signing copies of her newest books, All We Have Loved (FLP) and When Time Was Suspended (Redhawk Publications).
https://www.mgmnc.org/news/events/meet-author-julia-nunnally-duncan
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Elizabeth Schmermund event:
I will be having a reading at Hofstra University for my chapbook Alexander the Great on March 27. Here’s the link for the announcement: https://www.hofstra.edu/gwgr/Spring 2024
20th Annual Great Writers, Great Readings SeriesThe following events take place at the Guthart Cultural Center Theater, first floor, Axinn Library, South Campus.
Free and open to the public. Call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 for more information.
We are pleased to welcome the community, including family members, local schoolchildren, alumni and friends, to athletic and cultural events on campus. All events are free and open to the public. Please register in advance at events.hofstra.edu.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 4:30 P.M.
Elizabeth Schmermund
Schmermund is a poet, essayist, and professor. Her work has appeared in The Independent, Mantis, and Gyroscope Review, among other venues. Her first poetry chapbook, Alexander the Great, is published by Finishing Line Press. She lives in New York with her family and is currently an assistant professor of English at SUNY Old Westbury.
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Tricia Knoll Poetry Reading including Unknown Daughter:I will be reading on April 3, 2024 as part of Poetry Month:Voices of Women PoetsApril 3, 7pm at the Kellogg – Hubbard Library, 135 Main Streetin Montpelier, Vermont.Cindy Ellen Hill is a writer, musician and obsessed gardener in Middlebury, Vermont. She has written extensively for Vermont Woman, Vermont Outdoors, VTDigger, and magazines, winning NENPA awards. She is the author of two sonnet chapbooks, Wild Earth (Antrim Press 2021) andElegy for the Trees(Kelsay Books 2022), and has had poems published in Vermont Magazine, Vermont Life, Measure, The Lyric, and on National Public Radio.Tricia Knoll is the author of nine books of poetry.How I Learned To Be Whitereceived the 2018 Human Relations Indie Book Award for Motivational Poetry. She is a Contributing Editor to Verse Virtual. Her new chapbookThe Unknown Daughterreleases from Finishing Line Press on March 1st.Wild Apples, poems about downsizing and moving 3,003 miles from Oregon to Vermont comes out from Fernwood Press in February 2024.Samantha Kolber is a poet, publisher, and mother in Montpelier, Vermont. She is the author of the award-winning chapbook Birth of a Daughter (Kelsay Books 2020) and has had poems published in Rattle, Hunger Mountain, and other journals and anthologies. She is the owner and publisher of Rootstock Publishing, a small, curated hybrid & traditional press publishing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction books by authors from Vermont and beyond.Tricia KnollThe Unknown Daughter (a chapbook – part autobiographical, part fantasy fiction and part feminist history) is on a sale now from Finishing Line Press for March delivery! Description and details also at my website.And a sneak preview for the cover of my other new book, Wild Apples from Fernwood Press to be released in February, 2024. .Website: triciaknoll.com____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I have an interview coming up on Wednesday, January 31 on our local radio station. (Info below) I will also be doing a reading at our local bookstore on Saturday, March 30thand will send promotional material once it is sent out by the bookstore. Thank you.Gallery Bookshop’s Poetry Showcase
Saturday March 30th 6pm
at Gallery Bookshop
THREE AMAZING POETS. ONE GREAT EVENING.
featuring:
Elizabeth Kirkpatrick-Vrenios | Concerto for an Empty Frame: Music for Survival
Mike J. Edwards | Phaedra and To Drink From a Marble Fountain
windflower | Age Brings Them Back to Me
Each of our poets will give a 10-minute presentation,
followed by Q&A for the whole panel.
See you there!
Event date:Saturday, March 30, 2024 – 6:00pm to 7:00pmhttps://www.gallerybookshop.com/event/gallery-bookshops-poetry-showcase________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Quiet Tree & Words From Walls sites:Below are 3 Author Days where I will sell my 2 FLP poetry chapbooks: Quiet Tree & Words From Walls.
- Sat Jan 20, 2024, 12pm – 4pm
Book Exchange
2720 N Mall Dr. #200, Lynnhaven, Virginia Beach, VA 23452________________________________________________________________
- Sat Feb 3, 2024, 12pm – 4pm
Book Exchange
116 E. Little Creek Rd, Norfolk, VA 23505________________________________________________________________
- Sat April 11, 2024, from 12pm – 4pm
Turn The Page Bookstore5707 Richmond Road, Suite 40Williamsburg, VA 23188__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
John J. Trause events:Dear Family and Friends,
Please come to this exciting event held at the Madison Community Arts Center, the launch of author and arts organizer Paul Rabinowitz’s new book Grand Street Revisited (Finishing Line Press, 2023). Paul graciously and generously requested that I, John J. Trause, and some other poets present our own work during the event.
Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 6 p. m.
10 Kings Road
Madison, New Jersey 07940
(862) 812-2036
https://www.madisonartsnj.org/mcac/
For more information, please go to
https://www.paulrabinowitz.com/
Please see below for more of my upcoming creative events (updated).
Love & Peace,
JOHN
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Coming Soon
Please remember to mark your calendars for all poetry features and events by John J. Trause in 2024:
- Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 6 p. m. presenting poetry in Paul Rabinowitz’s book launch (https://www.paulrabinowitz.com/) for Grand Street Revisited (Finishing Line Press, 2023) at Madison Community Arts Center, 10 Kings Road, Madison, New Jersey 07940. 862-812-2036. https://www.madisonartsnj.org/mcac/.
- Saturday, February 17, 2024 at 4 p. m. featuring in the last reading for the great weather for MEDIA anthology (A Shape Produced by a Curve, 2023) on Zoom. Details to follow.
- Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 7:30 p. m. in Marilyn Monroe Anthology I Wanna Be Loved by You ((Milk and Cake Press, 2022) Reading for Harvard Club of Westchester on Zoom. Details to follow.
- Saturday, March 23, 2024 from 1:30 to 4:30 p. m. at Silver Tongued Devil Reunion at Tompkins Square Library (NYPL), 331 E 10th Street, New York, New York 10009. (212) 228-4747. https://www.nypl.org/locations/tompkins-square
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I will be on 101.1 FM WSGS, Hazard, KY Wednesday, 2/7/2024 from 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm to promote my Saturday Feb 17 book signing at Read Spotted Newt Bookstore, 221 Memorial Drive, Hazard, KY 41701On Friday Feb 16 from 6:00 – 7:15 I will be doing a book fair and signing copies of God Hires Gardeners as part of the Spirits of Pikeville Past at the Appalachian Center for the Arts, 218 Second Street, Pikeville, KY 41501On Saturday Feb 17 from 12:15 to 1:45 PM I will be doing a book fair and signing copies of God Hires Gardeners in Hazard at the Read Spotted Newt Bookstore, 221 Memorial Drive, Hazard, KY 41701On Saturday Feb 17th from 6:00 to 7:15 will be doing a book fair and signing copies of God Hires Gardeners as part of the Spirits of Pikeville Past at the Appalachian Center for the Arts in Pikeville, KY 218 Second Street, Pikeville, KY 41501The world premiere of my commissioned play Fiddlesticks and Dynamite will be produced at the Appalachian Center for the Arts on Friday Feb 16, 2024 at 7:30 pm. Admission to that play–and the others to be produced on that same bill– is FREE. For more information about tickets visit https://theapparts.org/events to get free tickets. The following afternoon a public reading of a new play by me, Wait! This Can’t Last will be given from 4:00- 5:30 pm. No tickets or reservations required. That evening three more new plays in the Spirits of Pikeville Past will be performed–but NOT Fiddlesticks and Dynamite. The last event I will be involved in will be the Book Fair from 6:30 to 7:15 pm at which time I will be selling and autographing copies of God Hires Gardeners.
- February 17, 2024 at Read Spotted Newt Bookstore in Hazard Kentucky from 12:15 to 1:45 pm.
- I will be reading at Cafe Luigart on Sunday April 21, 2024
- I will be signing copies of God Hires Gardeners at Transylvania University on Saturday April 27 from 1:30 to 2:30 at Transylvania.
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