When:
April 1, 2018 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
2018-04-01T15:00:00-04:00
2018-04-01T17:00:00-04:00
Where:
Monore County Public Library room 1C
Cost:
Free

First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic
Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

NEW location: SOMA Coffeehouse 322 E. Kirkwood Ave.
(Kirkwood and Grant, under Laughing Planet)

Featured readers: Abegunde, Alisa Alering, and Wendy Teller

Come early to signup for Open Mic!

MARIA E. HAMILTON ABEGUNDE is a Memory Keeper, poet, ancestral priest in the Yoruba Orisa tradition, doula, and a Reiki Master. Her research and creative work respectfully approach the Earth and human bodies as sites of memory, and always with the understanding that memory never dies, is subversive, and can be recovered to transform transgenerational trauma and pain into peace and power.

She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, including Wishful Thinking about the 2001 disappearance of Tionda and Diamond Bradley in Chicago. Anthologized poems are included in Gathering Ground, Beyond the Frontier: African American Poetry for the 21st Century, and Catch the Fire.

Excerpts of her memory work, The Ariran’s Last Life, have been published in Best African American Fiction and The Kenyon Review. Co-edited works include Jane’s Stories III with Glenda Bailey-Mershon with whom she and others co-founded Jane’s Stories Press.

ALISA ALERING was hatched in a secret hollow in the Appalachian Mountains of Pennsylvania, where she ran around barefoot and talked to the trees. She now lives in southern Indiana, where she is the editor of Science Node, a magazine that explores the intersection of science and technology. Her short fiction has been featured on several podcasts, including Podcastle, Drabblecast, and most recently, Cast of Wonders.

WENDY TELLER writes fiction, memoir, and history. Her stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Naperville Sun. Her story, Dusting the Towels, received the Richard Eastman Prose Award. Wendy’s historical novel, Becoming Mia, which takes place in the 1960s in Cambridge Massachusetts and Berkeley California, is due out any day now. She and her husband live on a cliff in the woods of Bloomington.

First Sunday Prose Reading & Open Mic
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