 | | Where | Online |
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| Address | Registration required.
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| Audience | Adults |
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| Language | English |
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| Summary | The Ballard Branch welcomes the 393rd meeting of the It's About Time Writers' Reading Series, featuring author readings and open mics. Registration required. |
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| Description | This month’s online presentation welcomes Donna James, Paula Friedman, and Joan Rudd.
Donna James has spent thirty-nine years meeting individuals and couples in the intimate confines of her psychotherapy consulting room. After long years of academic writing, she returned to poetry, her first literary love. Donna’s poetry gives literary voice to the stories of idiocy, affliction, spasms of hope, and resilience that are peculiar to the human psyche. Her work has been published in numerous online and print journals.
Her visual art form is ikebana, Japanese flower arrangement. Dating back to the 7th century, it’s a meditative practice akin to the Japanese tea ceremony. She’s attracted to its ephemeral nature and how it teaches her to prune and simplify line and mass, great skills to apply to the writing of poems.
Paula Friedman is an Oregon author and editor whose fiction has received Pushcart nominations as well as awards and honors from New Millennium Writing, Oregon State Poetry Association, Soapstone, and others. Friedman's new collection, "Of Elegant Time: 22 Stories", is "Damn well written. These sharp stories pierce one's heart," says Helen Chuckrow, author of "Interpreting the Bible with Chutzpah". Ursula K. Le Guin called Friedman's first novel, "The Rescuer's Path", "exciting, physically vivid, and romantic"; Friedman's second novel, "The Change Chronicles", was termed "beautifully crafted personal and political coming-of-age story" by Mei-Mei Ellerman, Resident Scholar, Brandeis University Women's Research Center, and "A triumph, a book to share and discuss" by Wesley Hogan, director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University.
Joan Rudd writes about both coasts: a childhood among post WWII refugees in Manhattan, and then leaving her family for college, marriage, a commune, and art school in Portland, Oregon.
About the event
Ability to use Zoom on your own computer or phone is required for this program.
This reading will be recorded for podcast and will also be available for future viewing on the It's About Time Writers' Reading Series YouTube channel. |
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