Events
Controlled Conversations at The Book Loft of German Village, Columbus, OH
Wed, Jan 15, 2025. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm.
631 S. 3rd St., Columbus, OH 43206
Details: https://www.bookloft.com/event/book-loft-presents-karol-lagodzki-darren-c-demaree
In conversation with the award-winning writer, educator, and editor, Darren C. Demaree.
The Book Loft is a gigantic maze of books with something for everyone. Let's get together and talk about fiction and poetry, and how we can take inspiration from either.
About my conversation partner, Darren C. Demaree:
Darren C. Demaree grew up in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Miami University, and Kent State University. He is the author of seventeen poetry collections, most recently “the luxury”, (January 2023, Glass Lyre Press). He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system, and living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
Controlled Conversations and Craft by Ananda Lima at The Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago, IL
Sat, Jan 25, 2025. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm.
5751 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637
Details: https://www.semcoop.com/event/karol-lagodzki-controlled-conversations-ananda-lima-craft
The Seminary Co-op is a Southside Chicago institution. I am excited about being part of this two-author event with Ananda Lima and her acclaimed short story collection, Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil.
About Ananda Lima:
Ananda Lima is a poet, fiction writer, and translator, the author of Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil (Tor Books,2024) and Mother/land (Black Lawrence Press, 2021), winner of the Hudson Prize. Her work has appeared in four chapbooks, including Amblyopia (Bull City Press), as well as publications such as The American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, Electric Literature, Poets.org, and elsewhere. She was awarded the inaugural WIP Fellowship by Latinx-in-Publishing, sponsored by Macmillan Publishers. She has served as a mentor at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Immigrant Artist Program, and is currently a Contributing Editor at Poets & Writers and Program Curator at StoryStudio, Chicago. She has an MA in Linguistics from UCLA and an MFA in Creative Writing in Fiction from Rutgers University, Newark. Craft, her fiction debut, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and has received starred reviews from Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal. The New York Times Review of Books describes it as “a remarkable debut that announces the arrival of a towering talent in speculative fiction.” Originally from Brazil, she lives in Chicago.
Controlled Conversations at Head House Books, Philadelphia, PA
Mon, May 5, 2025. 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm. (rescheduled from Feb 13, 2025)
619 S. 2nd St., Philadelphia, PA 19147.
In conversation with Tricia Coscia, a writer and human rights activist.
Straddling the historic Philadelphia communities of Society Hill and Queen Village, Head House Books was founded in 2005 on the belief that no community is complete without the inspiration and exchange of ideas that only a locally-owned, independent bookstore can provide. Named Best Bookstore by both Philadelphia Magazine and Philadelphia Style.
About my conversation partner, Tricia Coscia:
Tricia Crawford Coscia's poems have appeared in A&U: America's AIDS Magazine, the anthology Literature from the First Twenty Years of A&U (Black Lawrence Press), Connecticut River Review, Many Colored Brooms, Parting Gifts (March Street Press), the 2018 anthology, 50/50: Poems & Translations by Women Over 50 (Quills Edge Press), and Peregrine Journal. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from Bluegrass Writers Studio in 2018. Tricia was named a finalist in poetry in the 2019 Disquiet International Literary Contest and was a runner-up for 2017 Bucks County, Pennsylvania Poet Laureate. She writes with concern for social and environmental justice, inspired by years of work in supporting humanitarian causes, and currently works for Witness to Innocence, a program that supports and empowers death-row exonerees in their advocacy to end the death penalty.
Controlled Conversations at The Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore, MD
Tue, May 6, 2025. 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm. On the patio.
5928 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD 21209.
https://www.theivybookshop.com/
Details forthcoming.