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Q&A with James Patterson
Thursday, April 11, 2024 11:00am
Dey House

The Writers' Workshop presents a Q&A with bestselling author, James Patterson

From https://www.jamespatterson.com/landing-page/about-james/

James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Tiger Woods, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. Patterson has...

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Ancient Exchanges presents Dan Beachy-Quick's The "All-Bell Cosmos" and the "Fundamental Eros"
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 5:30pm
Riverside Theatre

Dan Beachy-Quick is a poet, essayist, and translator whose work has been long-listed for the National Book Award in Poetry, and supported by the Monfort, Lannan, and Guggenheim Foundations. He teaches at Colorado State University, where he is a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar.

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Live from Prairie Lights | Dan Beachy-Quick
Monday, April 8, 2024 7:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

The Ancient Exchanges speaker series presents poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick, who will talk about his work.

Dan Beachy-Quick's translations from ancient Greek include the lyric collection Stone Garland and The Thinking Root, a collection of fragments of early philosophy (both from Milkweed Editions), as well as most recently Wind--Mountain--Oak: The Poems of Sappho (Tupelo Press, 2023). Of his approach to translation, Beachy-Quick writes, "There are depths within the denotative life of...

Mission Creek Festival | Cindy Juyoung Ok & Thea Brown
Saturday, April 6, 2024 2:00pm
Prairie Lights Books

The Mission Creek Festival Presents Cindy Juyoung Ok and Thea Brown, who will read from Ward Toward and Loner Forensics. This is a free event, all are welcome!

Cindy Juyoung Ok is the author of Yale Younger Poets Prize-winning Ward Toward, selected by Rae Armentrout. A MacDowell Fellow, Kenyon Review Fellow, and poetry editor at Guernica magazine, she is a former high school science teacher and now teaches creative writing at Kenyon College. Her poems are out now or soon in New England Review,...