Arisa White. (Photo by Nye Lyn Tho)
The Rockland Public Library presents Arisa White, Thursday, May 20, at 6:30 p.m., over Zoom. This event, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council as part of their “World in Your Library” series, is free and open to all.
Learn about the seven-year writing journey that started during White’s “Jesus Year,” when her mother asked, “Do you want to write your father in Guyana?” Unsure what to say, White began penning epistolary poems addressed to her father. The poems and prose became documents of her daily life, citations from books, quotations from artists and cultural thinkers, song lyrics, and reflections on White’s spiritual condition. Feeling that this question of fatherhood wasn’t something she wanted to tackle alone, she hosted a call for submissions and community epistolary workshops for participants to write personal letters to distance, absent, or dead fathers, and patriarchal figures. The common themes of abandonment insp
OSWEGO â âLemony Snicketâ author Daniel Handler, April Sinclair (one of Oprahâs â25 Living Legendsâ) and luminary poet Arisa White will share their knowledge and insights in conversation, hosted by and for SUNY Oswegoâs community but also made open to the public because of their level of popularity.
The virtual chat featuring these Subnivean Awards judges, followed by finalists reading their work, will mark the first-ever literary competition showcase for the collegeâs student-run literary publication, at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 22.
After the three celebrity authors chat, the audience will hear the work of Subnivean Awards finalists â poets Chaun Ballard, Joan Kwon Glass, Canaan Morse and Emma Wynn; fiction writers Nicole Lynn Cohen, Jared Green, Angie Kang and Kyle Rea.
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With National Poetry Month in April, the late winter is a busy time for Maine poets.
Colby College assistant professor Arisa White has a new memoir, “Who’s Your Daddy,” written as a collection of poems, about her trip to the South American country Guyana and the exploration of her relationship with her estranged father. Portland poet laureate Linda Aldrich writes about love, longing and bends in the road of richly lived life in her collection, “Ballast.” Later this spring, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, executive director of the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, will issue a book of poems about his brother, who died last year, called “Deke Dangle Dive,” a reference to their shared loved of hockey.
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