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    A LITERARY READING SERIES

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    Elizabeth Deanna Morris Lakes

    Book: Ashley Sugarnotch & the Wolf

    Publisher: Mason Jar Press

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    "The Wolf is trying everything he can to not be violent. So his form is incredibly structured. Because it’s a constraint - he’s putting a constraint on himself to try to not fall apart."

    Megan Alpert

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    Megan Alpert

    Book: The Animal at Your Side

    Publisher: Airlie Press

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    "This is a book of fairytales. They’re ways of explaining things that I have not been ready to explain in a plain, direct way."

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    Zak Salih

    Book: Let's Get Back to the Party

    Publisher: Algonquin Books

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    "For me, the beating heart of this novel, as unapologetically gay as it is, is about how people cope and fail to cope with the passing of time."

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    Courtney LeBlanc

    Book: Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart

    Publisher: Riot in Your Throat

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    ​"Don’t always assume a poem is 100% true. For me, almost every poem has some kernel of truth -- but you take that kernel and blow it up, and what comes of it is some version of the truth, but maybe not the whole truth."

    Jenn Koiter
    Jenn Koiter

    Book: So Much of Everything

    Publisher: Day Eight Books

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    "I feel like poets work well with constraints. Folks who are drawn to found poetry are gluttons for punishment."

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    Meg Eden

    Book: Drowning in the Floating World

    Publisher: Press 53

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    "Haunting is something that happens to all writers— we write, in part, because we’re haunted."

    Sean Felix

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    Sean Felix

    Book: Did You Even Know I Was Here?

    Publisher: Self-published

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    "The idea of traveling to Paris is special because it's a place where my literary idol, James Baldwin, went when this country was too much."

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    Leila Rafei

    Book: Spring: A Novel

    Publisher: Blackstone Publishing

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    "The path to publication is much longer and more complicated than you would expect. I thought that writing was the hard part..."

    Adam Schwartz

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    Adam Schwartz

    Book: The Rest of the World

    Publisher: Washington Writers' Publishing House

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    "What I’ve seen over the years is that people in struggling communities hang together and support one another in ways the local news never gives them credit for."

    Andrew Bertaina

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    Andrew Bertaina

    Book: One Person Away from You

    Publisher: University of Arkansas Press

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    Coming in May!

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