Tonight I'm in conversation with Charlie Jane Anders
Tonight: In conversation with Charlie Jane Anders
I think you’re supposed to advertise these things a few days before (oops), but tonight at 7 pm at the Lake Forest Park Third Place Books I will be absolutely grilling Charlie Jane Anders about her latest novel, Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Likely topics include messy trans women, queer trauma, and 18th century English literature. Hope you come out!
You can get tickets here (it’s free but seating is limited).
September 5th: TRANSplants Reading Series featuring Rivka Clifton
Mark your calendars! The monthly reading series will be September 5th at 5 pm. A short open mic, time to catch up and yap, and featured guest Rivka Clifton.
Rivka Clifton is the author of the chapbooks MOT and AGAPE (Osmanthus Press). Her work appears in Pleiades, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review, The Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. She is an avid record collector and curator of curiosities.
About Muzzle. . .
In her debut full collection of poetry, Rivka Clifton, a curator of curiosities, challenges us to consider language as a form of violence. Challenges us to understand what violence can be: memory, both lived and re-lived. Rivka draws on her personal journey with these powerful landscapes, which are part incantation, part exorcism. The poems in Muzzle contemplate the relationship between speech and violence and how translating the experience of grief and loss into language can itself be a form of violence-through one's initial experience and living memory. How can everyday speech be violent, how can small violences be a means of communication-these are the questions posed to us by Muzzle. As we traverse the poems in this collection, we are invited to consider our own lives, our own relationship with memory, grief, loss, love, and, yes, violence.