The following is excerpted from Rebecca Sacks debut novel, City of a Thousand Gates
, about present-day Israel and Palestine. Sacks has been awarded fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Juniper Summer Writing Institute and the Mellon-Sawyer Documenting War Seminar Series. She worked for several years at Vanity Fair before moving to Israel, and her dispatches from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem have been published in journals such as the Paris Review Daily.
He knows the bus is pulling into the Central Station because it slows to ascend a ramp. The closer he gets, the calmer he gets. None of this is intuitive. He’s never terrified when he should be terrified. The first time Hamid came inside without papers, he was stupid about it, and so of course got tear canisters shot at him. This was before he had the job with Segev. Before he knew how it worked the early-morning rides down south to spots where you can slip through, the waiting cars before it was all a routine. He
Jericho Brown and Danez Smith in Conversation with Tracy K. Smith
Join 22nd U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, as she discusses poetry, survival and our pandemic reality with renowned poets Jericho Brown and Danez Smith.
This highlighted Wintersession event will feature poetry readings by Jericho Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry; and award-winning poet, performer, and current Princeton Arts Fellow Danez Smith. Professor Smith will moderate a conversation on art, America, and the feelings and determinations arising from this complicated moment. An interactive audience Q&A will conclude the evening.
Tracy K. Smith is Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the author of four award-winning poetry collections, including Life on Mars, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 2012. She served two terms as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
Zeyn Joukhadar in Conversation with Liz Harmer The Media Line Staff
Author Zeyn Joukhadar, in conversation with Liz Harmer, will read from his new book and answer questions from the audience.
We are thrilled to have Zeyn join us at Cellar Door for a virtual conversation about his new novel
The Thirty Names of Night from many time zones away!
Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of the novels
The Map of Salt and Stars, which won the 2018 Middle East Book Award and was translated into 20 languages, and
The Thirty Names of Night. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the anthology KINK (coming Feb 2021), Salon, The Paris Review, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Joukhadar has received fellowships from the Montalvo Arts Center, the Arab American National Museum, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Camargo Foundation, and the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
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Biography
Dr. Beth Weatherby became the 22nd chancellor of the University of Montana Western on January 15, 2015. She and her husband, Steve Kramer, moved to Dillon from Marshall, Minnesota, where they were both faculty members at Southwest Minnesota State University.
After ten years as the director of SMSU’s Creative Writing Program, Dr. Weatherby served there as Dean of Arts, Letters & Sciences for five years and then as Provost and Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs for eight years.
While at SMSU, she founded the New Works Faculty Forum, the Women’s Studies Program, and Connect, a networking organization for professional women in southwest Minnesota. She served on the advisory council of SMSU’s American Indian and Dakota Studies program, and on the boards of the Minnesota Agricultural and Rural Leadership Program, United Way, and the Southwest/West Central Higher Education Organization for Telecommunications and Technology.