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Laura Maylene Walter In the first part of this series, I mentioned my virtual launch party for Body of Stars, which included a guest visit from The Poetry Psychic Project along with custom cocktail recipes. (I drank a Celestial Shimmer complete with luster dust, a recipe concocted by mixologist Gibson Oakely, who’d made cocktails for an earlier Kenyon Review virtual event.) It was the best I could think to do to replicate, in a virtual environment, the in-person launch I might have hosted if the pandemic never happened. As I detailed in my March/April 2021 Poets & Writers essay, “Revising the Dream: Publishing a Debut Novel in an Uncertain World,” once ....
Laura Maylene Walter May 10, 2021 Years ago, when I dreamed of publishing a novel, I never expected to celebrate the launch of my debut while talking into a screen at my writing desk as the live video projected into the homes of family and friends across the country. I also never would have guessed that I’d sip a custom cocktail in a light-up glass while introducing The Poetry Psychic Project as a special guest for the evening. But this is the age of pandemics and Zoom, a time when authors are encouraged to get creative with their virtual book launches, so that’s exactly what happened and it wasn’t half bad, all things considered. ....
Say “labor” and “Akron” and the likely response will be “rubber.” That’s as it should be, but in “Labor in Akron, 1825-1945” the historian John Tully reaches back far earlier, even as far back as the founding of the city. The laborers who dug the Ohio & Erie Canal, mostly Irish immigrants seeking opportunity after a famine and cholera epidemic, were paid a pittance and vulnerable to rattlesnakes and diseases like malaria. There were a few unorganized strikes, but conditions did not improve. Other early labor activities included the forming of a carpenters’ union in 1837 and a factory workers’ strike in 1845. Akron was important in women’s rights, with early suffrage efforts and the momentous 1851 “Ain’t I A Woman” speech by Sojourner Truth. ....