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SUMMARY:Ghosts of Glencoe - Book Reading with Chuck Schwerin
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nGhosts of Glencoe is a riveting multi-generational adventure of self-discovery. The novel spans a mere four months\, set at a unique junior boarding school\, and played out in the rugged Adirondack mountains of New York. \nThis is a Hero’s Journey for two flawed protagonists\, one fifteen\, the other sixty-three. Both struggle to be accountable to themselves and to those who love them\, for their hubris\, betrayals\, for the shadows they created and still carry. In their tortuous path to absolution\, both discover one is never too young to teach\, nor too old to learn. \nIn the fall of 2002\, dramatic events engulf three ninth graders (not the best of friends)\, their passionate Scottish headmaster\, and an unlikely pair of escapees from a nearby prison. The inevitable collision of these forces demonstrates that age and experience have no monopoly on bravery or vulnerability. Only after superficial differences are peeled away can the teens summon the strength to find common ground to confront their frailties under the most trying conditions—lost in the snowy mountains with rescuers urgently trying to find them and the convicts desperately plotting to eliminate them. \nGhosts of Glencoe is a page-turning adventure\, set in wilderness that is as much a factor as the characters themselves. The story entertains\, educates\, and illustrates how the mountaineering mantra—Fellowship of the Rope—embodies the imperative that if we don’t hang together\, we will surely hang alone. \nAbout the Author \nChuck Schwerin is a serial entrepreneur\, having co-founded several medical device and biotech startups\, holds three patents on geographic information technology\, and taught entrepreneurship at Binghamton University. As a committed environmentalist\, Chuck’s volunteer work reflects those passions. Through his editorship\, he transformed Adirondack PEEKS magazine for the Adirondack 46ers and produced a quarterly online newsletter for the Edward L. Rose Land Conservancy. \nHe is also on the Advisory Board of the World Trails Network-Hub for the Americas that supports field schools and an expedition program\, promoting trail conservation\, sustainability\, and stewardship. His passion for mountains is not only reflected as a central theme in The Ghosts of Glencoe\, but has been the impetus for climbing trips on his own\, as well as guiding children\, to mountain ranges in many parts of the world.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ghosts-of-glencoe-book-reading-with-chuck-schwerin/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:https://www.buffalostreetbooks.com/event/crossing-line-finding-america-borderlands
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nIt was family separation and “kids in cages” that drove Sarah Towle to the U.S. southern border. On discovering the many-headed hydra that is the U.S. immigration system–and the heroic determination of those caught under its knee–she could never look away again. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands charts Sarah’s journey from outrage to activism to abolition as she exposes\, layer by “broken” layer\, the global deterrence to detention to deportation complex that is failing everyone–save the profiteers and demagogues who benefit from it. \nDeftly weaving together oral storytelling\, history\, and memoir\, Sarah illustrates how the U.S. has led the retreat from post-WWII commitments to protecting human rights. Yet within the web of normalized cruelty\, she finds hope and inspiration in the extraordinary acts of ordinary people who prove\, every day\, there is a better way. By amplifying their voices and celebrating their efforts\, Sarah reveals that we can welcome with dignity those most in need of safety and compassion. In unmasking the real root causes of the so-called “crisis” in human migration\, she urges us to act before we travel much farther down our current course–one which history will not soon forgive\, or forget. \nAbout the Author \nSarah Towle is an educator\, researcher\, and writer; a human rights defender\, nature lover\, and vocalist. She resides in an ephemeral borderlands\, buffeted and buoyed by a diversity of languages\, cultures\, landscapes\, and creeds. She has taught English language literacy\, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution skills\, and the writing craft for three decades across four continents in myriad classroom contexts\, including under the trees in refugee settings. \nAn award-winning children’s author\, Sarah has earned accolades for her interactive tales for educational tourism. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands is her debut full-length book.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/https-www-buffalostreetbooks-com-event-crossing-line-finding-america-borderlands/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Sleep Like Death with Kalynn Bayron
DESCRIPTION:About the Book \nPrincess Eve was raised with one purpose: to destroy the Knight. Far too many of subjects of Queen’s Bridge have been devastated by this evil sorcerer’s trickery. Eve’s own unique magic–the ability to conjure weapons from nature–makes her a worthy adversary. \nAs she approaches her seventeenth birthday\, Eve is ready to battle. But her mother\, Queen Regina\, has been acting bizarrely\, talking to a strange mirror alone every night. Then a young man claiming to be the Knight’s messenger appears and shares a shocking truth about Eve’s past. Unsure of who to trust\, Eve must find the courage to do what she’s always done: fight. But will it be enough to save her family and her queendom? \nAbout the Author \nKalynn Bayron is the New York Times and Indie bestselling author of the YA fantasy novels Cinderella Is Dead and This Poison Heart. Her latest works include the YA horror novel You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight and the middle grade paranormal adventure The Vanquishers. She is a CILIP Carnegie Medal Nominee\, a Bram Stoker Award nominee\, a LOCUS Award finalist\, and the recipient of the 2022 Randall Kenan Award for Black LGBTQ fiction. She is a classically trained vocalist and musical theater enthusiast. When she’s not writing you can find her watching scary movies and spending time with her family.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/sleep-like-death-with-kalynn-bayron/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join historian Jeff Iovannone for a conversation about The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions\, a novel about queer communal living in the heart of Ithaca\, NY. \nBook club books are 10% off when purchased in store and online at Buffalo Street Books. \nAbout the Book \nThe Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry Mitchell with lush illustrations by Ned Asta\, published by Calamus Press in 1977. Part-fable\, part-manifesto\, the book takes place in Ramrod\, an empire in decline\, and introduces us to the communities of the faggots\, the women\, the queens\, the queer men\, and the women who love women who are surviving the ways and world of men. Cherished by many over the four decades since its publication\, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions offers a trenchant critique of capitalism\, assimilation\, and patriarchy that is deeply relevant today. This new edition will feature essays from performance artist Morgan Bassichis\, who adapted the book to music with TM Davy in 2017 for a performance at the New Museum\, and activist filmmaker Tourmaline.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Liberated to the Bone: Book Talk with Susan Raffo
DESCRIPTION:Susan Raffo is the author of Liberated to the Bone\, part of adrienne maree brown’s Emergent Strategy Series from AK Press. She is also currently spending a year walking from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and will be in Ithaca as part of that walk. This event is going to be a mix of conversation and practice\, all of it sitting around the question guiding her walk: what does it mean to live on this land in a good way – together. This is not an idealistic question\, but a deeply practical one embedded with 500+ years of colonial and racial violence and so much resistance\, reclamation and remembering. This question holds in its heart the fact of genocide\, of climate destruction\, and of increasing surveillance technologies that depend on eugenic profiling to determine who fits and who doesn’t and also the fact that within a week of closing down capitalism in light of COVID\, wolves were spotted walking through Minnesota cities. Raffo’s work is grounded in healing justice and her work in Minneapolis has included being part of healing justice and abolition strategies.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/liberated-to-the-bone-book-talk-with-susan-raffo/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Queer Salon: Pride Edition
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Pride Month at your favorite co-op indie bookstore with Queer Salon\, our bi-monthly open mic event. Bring your writing and a few friends\, and enjoy treats from Oracle Chocolates and Finger Lakes Cider House. \n$5 suggested donation. Leave donations and sign up to read on our Eventbrite.\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/queer-salon-pride-edition-tickets-908392946757
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queer-salon-pride-edition/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240605T200000
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SUMMARY:We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters\, Angels & Other Creatures
DESCRIPTION:Join NYT bestselling author\, Kalynn Bayron and debut anthologist\, Rob Costello in conversation with NYT bestselling author Amber Smith about their new YA anthology WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters\, Angels & Other Creatures. They’ll discuss their mutual love of horror fiction and short stories\, and why monsters are such empowering avatars for young queer readers!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/we-mostly-come-out-at-night-15-queer-tales-of-monsters-angels-other-creatures/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Reproductive Rights Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a reproductive rights showcase on Saturday\, June 1\, from 4 – 5:30 at Buffalo Street Books. This teen-led event will combine poetry and music while raising awareness about reproductive justice. In addition\, there will be art and concessions you can purchase to support the cause\, though the event itself is free. Buffalo Street Books will also have a collection of books related to reproductive justice for to peruse and purchase.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reproductive-rights-showcase/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:The Eighth Moon: A Memoir of Belonging and Rebellion
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Kabat and Adrian Shrink will be in conversation discussing this poignant memoir about the world around us. \n“The Eighth Moon moves with time-skipping logic\, ‘where the yet is always now\,’ and where life is not a march of progress\, but rather a circadian unfurling\, dying back\, going underground\, and coming up again\, slightly different. Kabat is both a stylist and a temporal magician. She cultivates a perspective that is as ethical as it is aesthetic because it provides a way of understanding ourselves not as main characters\, but as dynamic collaborators with all that has happened\, is happening\, and will happen.” – Adrian Shirk\, author of Heaven Is a Place on Earth \nAbout the Book \n“1845. The sky is blue\, yet all is brown. I picture the scene from overhead: a silvered steel of violence\, blood\, beer\, whiskey\, and mutton. High\, skidding clouds skip with excitement\, eager to see what unfolds below. They cheer on the scene where men in dresses march.” \nA rebellion\, guns\, and murder. When Jennifer Kabat moves to the Catskills in 2005\, she has no idea it was the site of the Anti-Rent War\, an early episode of American rural populism. Prompted to leave London following a mysterious illness that seems to be caused by life in the city itself\, she finds in these ancient mountains—at once the northernmost part of Appalachia and a longtime refuge for New Yorkers—a place “where the land itself holds time.” \nShe forges friendships with her new neighbors and explores the countryside on logging roads and rutted lanes\, finding meadows dotted with milkweed in bloom\, saffron salamanders\, a blood moon rising over Munsee\, Oneida\, and Mohawk land. As the Great Recession sets in and a housing crisis looms\, she supports herself with freelance work and adjunct teaching\, slowly learning of the 1840s uprising\, when poor tenant farmers fought to redistribute their landlords’ vast estates. In the farmers’ socialist dreams\, she discovers connections to her parents’ collectivist values\, as well as to our current moment. Threaded with historical documents\, the natural world\, and the work of writers like Adrienne Rich and Elizabeth Hardwick\, Kabat weaves a capacious memoir\, where the past comes alive in the present. \nRich with unexpected correspondences and discoveries\, this visionary and deeply compassionate debut gives us a new way of seeing and being in place—one in which everything is intertwined and all at once.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-eighth-moon-a-memoir-of-belonging-and-rebellion/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240525T120000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: The Will 2 Live Children's Sheet Music
DESCRIPTION:Buffalo Street Books is thrilled to welcome local author Moalt D. Love El for a special book signing event featuring “The Will 2 Live Children’s Sheet Music”! \nAbout the Book: \nDive into a world of melody and rhythm with “The Will 2 Live Children’s Sheet Music”! This vibrant collection is designed to ignite the musical spark in young learners\, featuring a diverse range of compositions tailored specifically for children. From catchy tunes that encourage movement and dance to soothing melodies perfect for bedtime\, each piece is crafted to engage young listeners and inspire budding musicians. With easy-to-follow notation and playful illustrations\, this book promises to be an essential resource for music teachers\, parents\, and young learners alike\, fostering a lifelong love of music and creativity. \nMeet the author\, and get your copy of “The Will 2 Live Children’s Sheet Music” signed! Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity to celebrate the joy of music and support a local author. \nMark your calendars and join us for an unforgettable musical experience!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-signing-the-will-2-live-childrens-sheet-music/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240523T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: A Myth in Reverse
DESCRIPTION:Join Daphne Solá for the launch of her poetry book A Myth in Reverse. \nAbout the Author \nSolá aside from writing poetry is a printmaker and owned an art gallery. She has been a participant in the Murphy Poetry Workshop\, at Stockton University\, NJ\, in their Florida meetings\, and in Barcelona. She has been a reader at these meetings and in Library Events in Ithaca\, Trumansburg Lansing and Skaneateles\, NY. She has studied poetry and book-making at Wells College Summer Book Arts Institute and produced artist-books as well as several examples of her chapbooks. Her work has been published in The Healing Muse\, Poetry of the Ithaca Times\, in Vol.5\, 6\, of The Finger Lakes Anthology\, in Bluff and Vine and Avocet. A volume of her poetry is now available\, A MYTH IN REVERSE\, published by Kelsay Books. Solá has visited Japan many times and in1983 attended a Papermakers Conference in Kyoto. An exhibit of her paperwork was presented in Nara in 2000. Her prints and paper artwork have been shown in New York\, Copenhagen\, Kyoto\, and Lima\, Peru. When asked about the moves from one art form to another\, she says\, “It’s really all the same thing.”
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-a-myth-in-reverse/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240518T160000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - ODAR Book One: Jido
DESCRIPTION:Denice Peter Karamardian grew up in Ithaca\, New York\, thinking she was Syrian – part of the small Syrian community that co-mingled with Greek\, Italian\, and other 20th century immigrant communities that helped to build the little city from the turn of the 20th century. Although both of her paternal grandparents came from Syria and spoke in Syrian\, she was only half right. At the age of 12\, she learned that her grandfather was actually Armenian and certain mysteries and stories emerged upon his death. Denice spent a lifetime searching for answers and details. \nThe result is a trilogy\, presented as historic fiction but based entirely upon the true story of the Karamardian family across continents\, wars\, and generations. The series is called Odar\, which means “other” in Armenian; sometimes it can mean “stranger” or “foreigner”. The author tracks a parallel narration of her own coming of age as it relates to the discoveries she makes in her search for identity. \nAbout the Book \nHovsep Karamardian is on the precipice of adulthood. Finishing his education\, he awaits a life in the family business that seems to him like a prison. On an errand to market\, an unexpected confrontation forever changes him. After living a life surrounded by family and friends in Kessab\, he is abruptly forced to travel with his brother to start again in the Americas. \nHovsep is odar or other in this new world. Relying on nothing but his own intrepid nature and ability to adapt\, he finds work\, love\, and friendships that will last a lifetime. \nThus begins a story that will span generations and trace the unfolding of improbably linked fates. Denice Peter Karamardian’s Jido explores the honoring of family\, memory\, and legacy even in the midst of new beginnings and evolving identities. \nAbout the Author \nDenice Peter Karamardian owns and operates a regional publication for Finger Lakes wine visitors and is at work on several books. She is retired from a rich tapestry of overlapping careers that spanned over forty plus years and included instructing voice\, host/producer of radio concert broadcast series\, fifty years of music and theater performance\, columnist and reviewer. She currently lives in her hometown of Ithaca\, New York (where she operated a bed and breakfast for two decades) near/with her family.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-launch-odar-book-one-jido/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240516T170000
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - The Golem of Brooklyn
DESCRIPTION:For this month’s Reading Widely Book Club\, Buffalo Street Books’ Events Coordinator Nora will be leading conversation alongside Khiya Connolly-Sisk on Adam Mansbach’s most recent novel\, The Golem of Brooklyn. \nBook club titles are 10% off when purchased in-store and online. \nAbout the Book \nIn Ashkenazi Jewish folklore\, a golem is a humanoid being created out of mud or clay and animated through secret prayers. Its sole purpose is to defend the Jewish people against the immediate threat of violence. It is always a rabbi who makes a golem\, and always in a time of crisis. But Len Bronstein is no rabbi–he’s a Brooklyn art teacher who steals a large quantity of clay from his school\, gets extremely stoned\, and manages to bring his creation to life despite knowing little about Judaism and even less about golems. Unable to communicate with his nine-foot-six\, four hundred-pound\, Yiddish-speaking guest\, Len enlists a bodega clerk and ex-Hasid named Miri Apfelbaum to translate. Eventually\, The Golem learns English by binging Curb Your Enthusiasm after ingesting a massive amount of LSD and reveals that he is a creature with an ancestral memory; he recalls every previous iteration of himself\, making The Golem a repository of Jewish history and trauma. He demands to know what crisis has prompted his re-creation\, and whom must he destroy. When Miri shows him a video of white nationalists marching and chanting “Jews will not replace us\,” the answer becomes clear. \nAbout the Author \nAdam Mansbach is a novelist\, screenwriter\, cultural critic and humorist. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F*** to Sleep\, which has been translated into forty languages\, named Time Magazine’s 2011 “Thing of the Year\,” and sold over two million copies worldwide. The 2014 sequel\, “You Have to F****** Eat\,” is also a New York Times bestseller. \nMansbach is the recipient of a Reed Award\, a Webby Award\, and a Gold Pollie from the American Association of Political Consultants for his 2012 campaign video “Wake The F*** Up\,” starring Samuel L. Jackson. He was the 2009-11 New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University\, a 2012 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Fellow\, and a 2013 Berkeley Repertory Theatre Writing Fellow. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, New York Times Book Review\, Esquire\, The Believer\, The Guardian\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Boston Globe\, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered\, The Moth Storytelling Hour\, and This American Life. Mansbach lives in Berkeley\, California\, and is a frequent lecturer on college campuses.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-the-golem-of-brooklyn/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240511T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240426T132320Z
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SUMMARY:Beltane Market
DESCRIPTION:Our Maker’s Market is back! Join us for a full day of browsing products made by local artists and celebrate springtime with our BSB community.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/beltane-market/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240508T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240426T130320Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240501T181010Z
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SUMMARY:Bye Bye Tiberias Screening at Cinemapolis
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nBuffalo Street Books and Cinemapolis are partnering for another film screening and book sale double feature. Get some popcorn\, check out some books\, and enjoy the screening of Bye Bye Tiberius. \nAbout the Film \nIn her early twenties\, Hiam Abbass left her native Palestinian village to follow her dream of becoming an actress in Europe\, leaving behind her mother\, grandmother\, and seven sisters. Thirty years later\, her filmmaker daughter Lina returns with her to the village and questions for the first time her mother’s bold choices\, her chosen exile and the way the women in their family influenced both their lives. Set between past and present\, Bye Bye Tiberias pieces together images of today\, family footage from the nineties and historical archives to portray four generations of daring Palestinian women who keep their story and legacy alive through the strength of their bonds\, despite exile\, dispossession\, and heartbreak.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/bye-bye-tiberias-screening-at-cinemapolis/
LOCATION:Cinemapolis\, 120 W Green St\, Ithaca\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240504T153000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240426T132006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T132006Z
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SUMMARY:Blood City Rollers
DESCRIPTION:Join V Park Anderson (she/they)\, the creator/writer of debut horror/comedy graphic novel series BLOOD CITY ROLLERS\, and their Alternate Universe (AU) City Podcast co-host Rey Noble (they/he) as they discuss collaborative storytelling\, the graphic novel creation process\, roller derby\, and teamwork as world-saving praxis. Bonus: get your book signed\, win a signed hardcover copy\, and/or learn more about local derby! \nAbout the Book \nAfter ice skater and Olympic hopeful Mina wipes out at her biggest competition\, she gets recruited by a squad of vampires who need a human player to complete their Paranormal Roller Derby team. \nAbout the Author and Illustrator \nVeronica Park (VP) Anderson (she/they) is a neurodivergent\, queer\, feminist millennial writer with a resume that Victor Frankenstein would disown for being “a bit much.” V’s previous job titles include: award-winning community theater actor\, professional lecturer on cruise ships\, indie film producer\, literary agent\, and creative project manager; however\, “writer” is the title that always fits. V plays competitive flat track roller derby as “Scarlet Five” #55 and prefers the pivot role\, aka “surprise jamming.” Born in Alaska and raised in Oregon\, she currently lives with her partner in Upstate NY and has two cats named Skeletor and Bo-Catan. \nTatiana Hill (she/her) is a Black and Latina illustrator by day and roller skater by night. Her art journey began alongside her love for anime in the early 2000s and culminated with a BA in Animation. Receiving awards for Best Art Direction\, she would later apply her skill set in color and design to illustration. Born in Los Angeles and a member of the roller skate community there\, Tatiana enjoys participating in a space that celebrates diversity\, identity\, and found family. She illustrated The Roller World Tarot deck and Blood City Rollers\, her debut graphic novel as an illustrator.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/blood-city-rollers/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240329T203515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T203515Z
UID:10003760-1714309200-1714323600@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Learn how to design\, print\, and bind zines for your DIY publishing toolkit. Students will be introduced to bookbinding that is ideal for zines and explore ways to write and illustrate their own content. Next\, students will learn how to layout and design their zine and inkjet print 15 copies of their project. Participants will have options to display or sell copies at the Ithaca Book & Zine Fair. Materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring any art making supplies they want to use. \nThis class will be facilitated by Adam Bryant and Laura Rowley\, who are both local book artists. Adam Bryant earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Center for the Book in 2021. At UICB\, his areas of study were bookbinding\, book history\, letterpress printing and papermaking. Since 2022\, he has worked as a Senior Conservation Technician in the Cornell University Library Conservation Lab. Laura Rowley earned her MFA from the University of Alabama in 2014. Laura operates Illuminated Press\, a micro press that publishes handmade books. She is also a Library Assistant at the Odessa Library bringing programs to all ages. \nPurchase your tickets here!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/zine-making-workshop/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240427T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240329T203203Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T203203Z
UID:10003759-1714215600-1714240800@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Indie Bookstore Day at Buffalo Street Books
DESCRIPTION:Independent Bookstore Day is a one-day national party that takes place at indie bookstores across the country on the last Saturday in April. This year\, we have a handful of things going on from specific Indie Bookstore Day merch\, to freebies\, to special events going on!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/indie-bookstore-day-at-buffalo-street-books/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240420T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240329T203131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240329T203131Z
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SUMMARY:Reading: Grace Period with Elisabeth Nonas
DESCRIPTION:Join Elisabeth Nonas for a reading from her new novel Grace Period. \nAbout the Book: \nJust as 70-year-old writing professor Hannah Greene walks into her retirement party\, she’s called to the ER because Grace\, her wife of 25 years\, has been in what turns out to be a fatal car accident. This was definitely not part of the plan the two had for their lives\, especially since Grace was ten years younger than Hannah. The plan had been for Hannah to join her art history professor wife on a sabbatical trip to Europe. Grace would do research\, and Hannah would figure out what she wanted to do in her retirement. How does an independent\, feisty lesbian adjust to both her suddenly widowed and newly retired life? How can she survive the loss of the spouse who statistically should have survived her? Grace Period tackles these questions head-on in an intimate\, witty portrayal of a woman grappling with the new and unexpected turn her life has taken. It is a tale of love\, loss\, and survival. \nAbout the Author: \nElisabeth Nonas\, the author of three published novels\, has written several screenplays as well as short stories\, magazine articles\, and essays. She coauthored with Simon LeVay the nonfiction City of Friends: A Portrait of the Gay and Lesbian Community in America. The author taught screenwriting and writing for emerging media at Ithaca College for twenty-five years. Nonas’s three novels focused on how lesbians form community and create family. Given that her first book appeared forty years ago when she was in her mid-30s\, she clearly has different concerns now as she ages and her life continues to unfold. These were what sparked “Grace Period.”Originally from New York City\, she lives in Ithaca\, NY\, with her spouse\, founding publisher and editor of Firebrand Books\, Nancy K. Bereano.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-grace-period-with-elisabeth-nonas/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240419T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240329T203723Z
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SUMMARY:Board Game Night
DESCRIPTION:Bring your friends down to BSB for board game night! We have a wide selection of games we sell in store from Catan to Concept. Here’s your chance to test out our games and browse our selection after hours! \nLeave your donations here!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/board-game-night/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240401T051312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240401T051312Z
UID:10003762-1713288600-1713295800@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Book Tour: Palestine\, Israel\, and the U.S. Empire
DESCRIPTION:A sharp analysis of the struggle for Palestine gets an update following the events of October 7\, 2023. \nPalestine\, Israel\, and U.S. Empire is an essential book for the current moment. Taking a firm anti-Zionist perspective on the history of Palestine and Israel\, it traces the movements of resistance from British colonialism to the fight back in Gaza and the West Bank today. \nFrom the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement\, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for US interests\, to present day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution—this narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. Here is a necessary contribution to the heroic efforts of the Palestinian people to achieve justice in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds. This book contains a complete index and a timeline of developments in the history of Palestine.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/book-tour-palestine-israel-and-the-u-s-empire/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240414T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
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SUMMARY:Broken Words with Keyturah Moore
DESCRIPTION:Keyturah Moore will hold a reading and discussion from her chapbook “Broken Words” at Buffalo Street Books. This will be a time to sit down and discuss with the author the story behind “Broken words” and how she used her journey of dealing with depression to find a creative outlet to cope.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/broken-words-with-keyturah-moore/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
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SUMMARY:Green Card Soldier with Sofya Aptekar
DESCRIPTION:Sofya Aptekar is joining us at BSB to read from her memoir Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat \nAbout the Book: \nWhile the popular image of the US military is one of citizen soldiers protecting their country\, the reality is that nearly 5 percent of all first-time military recruits are noncitizens. Their reasons for enlisting are myriad\, but many are motivated by the hope of gaining citizenship in return for their service. In Green Card Soldier\, Sofya Aptekar talks to more than seventy noncitizen soldiers from twenty-three countries\, including some who were displaced by conflict after the US military entered their homeland. She identifies a disturbing pattern: the US military’s intervention in foreign countries drives migration\, which in turn supplies the military with a cheap and desperate labor pool—thereby perpetuating the cycle. \nAs Aptekar discovers\, serving in the US military is no guarantee against deportation\, and yet the promise of citizenship and the threat of deportation are the carrot and stick used to discipline noncitizen soldiers. Viewed at various times as security threats and members of a model minority\, immigrant soldiers sometimes face intense discrimination from their native-born colleagues and superiors. Their stories—stitched through with colonial legacies\, white supremacy\, exploitation\, and patriarchy—show how the tensions between deservingness and suspicion shape their enlistment\, service\, and identities. Giving voice to this little-heard group of immigrants\, Green Card Soldier shines a cold light on the complex workings of US empire\, globalized militarism\, and citizenship. \nAbout the Author: \nSofya Aptekar is Associate Professor of Urban Studies at the City University of New York School of Labor and Urban Studies. She is the author of The Road to Citizenship: What Naturalization Means for Immigrants and the United States.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/green-card-soldier-with-sofya-aptekar/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240328T141334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T141334Z
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SUMMARY:Drag Story Hour
DESCRIPTION:Parents and kiddos\, our queens are back for Drag Story Hour! Sit in our beautiful butterfly room and enjoy a reading from two of Ithaca’s very best storytellers.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/drag-story-hour/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240406T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240328T143316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240328T143316Z
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SUMMARY:Turning Back to Ourselves: A Women's Guide to Healing Self-Abandonment and Loving Who We Are
DESCRIPTION:Join Ithaca local Dalya Tamir for the launch of her new book. \nAbout the Book: \nTurning Back to Ourselves explores the pain of self-abandonment\, the mind states of self-judgment\, self-doubt\, and even self-hatred that women too often find themselves experiencing. Drawing on Buddhist practices of mindfulness\, compassion\, and lovingkindness\, and on her experience as a psychotherapist\, Dalya Tamir offers a path for women to turn back and embrace themselves with kindness and love. Through teachings\, stories\, and reflections\, the reader is guided to reconnect with her own innate wisdom\, creativity\, and aliveness\, opening her heart to herself and in growing circles to all living beings. Even though the book was written for women it offers a path for people of all gender identities that have experienced self-abandonment and wish to find their way back to their wise and compassionate self. \nAbout the Author: \nDalya Tamir’s path of transformation began in the small village of Bodh Gaya\, India\, in 1983\, where she participated in a ten-day day silent meditation retreat. Since then\, many years of meditation practice and study of Buddhist teachings taught her about the potential we all have to liberate our hearts from suffering. Her training in social work exposed her to teachings about systems of oppression and ways large systems affect the individual. This understanding strengthened her commitment to social justice\, especially in the areas of women’s liberation and peace building. Dalya has been facilitating meditation circles for women in Ithaca NY and in Israel since 2002. During a two-year sabbatical in Israel\, she led meditation and dialogue groups for Israeli Jews and Palestinians. She has worked as a psychotherapist in community mental health settings as well as in private practice since 2014. In her work she integrates Buddhist practices with experiential methods of psychotherapy. She lives in Ithaca\, NY with her husband and daughters.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/turning-back-to-ourselves-a-womens-guide-to-healing-self-abandonment-and-loving-who-we-are/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240327T205412Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Salon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for another rendition of our bi-monthly queer open mic night! Bring a few friends and your poetry\, prose\, stand up\, grocery lists\, little random writings from your notes app\, or any other piece of writing!
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/queer-salon/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240327T205332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240327T205332Z
UID:10003745-1712322000-1712325600@www.downtownithaca.com
SUMMARY:Read Aloud with Dr. Esch and Friends
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate spring with BSB board member Susan Eschbach for a read aloud and pop-up poetry event on April 5th.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/read-aloud-with-dr-esch-and-friends/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240324T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240324T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240302T023503Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T023503Z
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SUMMARY:Picasso's Lovers: a reading with Jeanne Mackin
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a reading from Jeanne Mackin’s new novel\, Picasso’s Lovers. \nThe women of Picasso’s life are elusive\, existing in the shadow of his fame – until\, in the 1950’s\, aspiring journalist Alana Olsen determines to bring one into the light. Unsure of what to expect but bent on uncovering what really lies beneath the canvas\, Alana steps into Sara Murphy’s well-guarded home to discover a past complicated by secrets and intrigue. \n“A complex\, absorbing portrait.” – People Magazine \nJeanne Mackin is the author of eight historical novels; the most recent is Picasso’s Lovers. Other subjects for her fiction have included Eleanor of Aquitaine\, Marie Antoinette\, and Maggie Fox\, the founder of American spiritualism. Jeanne was the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the American Antiquarian Society. Her advocacy-based journalism received awards from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education in Washington\, D.C. She has taught creative writing and mentored non-traditional students. Her novels has been translated into eight languages. She is a long-time resident of Ithaca\, New York.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/picassos-lovers-a-reading-with-jeanne-mackin/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240322T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240302T023619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T023619Z
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SUMMARY:Finishing Line Press Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:We love small presses and hope you do too! Join us for a reading featuring Finishing Line Press poets Roger Hecht\, Wren Tuatha\, and Jillian Barnet! \nFeatured Poets: \nRoger W. Hecht is an Associate Professor of English at SUNY\, Oneonta\, where he has taught American Literature and Creative Writing since 2004. He is author of a collection of poems\, Talking Pictures (Cervena Barva Press) and a chapbook\, Lunch at the Table of Opposites (Red Dancefloor Press). His poems have appearedin Denver Quarterly\, Diagram\, Sheila-na-gig\, Puerto del Sol\, Bracken\, and many other journals. When he’s not teaching and writing\, he plays drums in a blues band in Ithaca\, NY\, where he lives with his wife\, daughters\, and myriad animals they call pets. \nWren Tuatha is founding editor of the literary journal\, Califragile. Her poetry has appeared in The Cafe Review\, Canary\, Peacock Journal\, Coachella Review\, Baltimore Review\, Pirene’s Fountain\, Loch Raven Review\, Clover\, Lavender Review and elsewhere. She was previously Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Community and co-founded Baltimore’s Sunday Salon. Wren studied education at University of Louisville\, and film and poetry at Towson University\, where she minored in Gay and Lesbian Studies. She received grants from Towson University’s Women’s Center and Office of Diversity to perform her slam play\, This Is How She Steps on Snakes\, and other productions. She won a Young Authors Award for Poetry. Wren and her partner\, author/activist C.T. Lawrence Butler\, herd skeptical goats on a mountain in California. \nJillian Barnet’s poetry has appeared in North American Review\, Nimrod\, Image\, California Quarterly and many other literary journals and anthologies. Her work was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Bellingham Review. Jillian received her MFA from Vermont College in 2003. Links to some of her work and a blog can be found on her website at www.jillianbarnetwrites.com.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/finishing-line-press-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T054648
CREATED:20240302T023531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240302T023531Z
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SUMMARY:Ember Days with Mary Gilliland
DESCRIPTION:Poetry lovers of Ithaca\, come join us for the launch of Mary Gilliland’s new poetry collection\, Ember Days. \nWoolf’s pen runs dry\, Tesla holes up\, Lincoln emerges in yet another bardo\, and the rest of us tunnel through Wednesday’s jammed boulevards\, Friday’s cash worthless\, Saturday’s prodigal feet. The poems of Ember Days feature soldiers under duress\, models transformed to artists\, descendants of forced immigrants\, survivors of hurricanes\, witnesses for peace—stepping up to our world’s disasters\, leveling with its possibilities\, interrogating faith\, justice\, militarism\, madness\, and the perception and affection of intimate relationships. \nMary Gilliland’s award-winning collections are The Devil’s Fools (2022)\, which won the Codhill Press Pauline Uchmanowicz Poetry Award\, and The Ruined Walled Castle Garden (2020)\, with poems anthologized most recently in Rumors Secrets & Lies: Poems on Pregnancy\, Abortion & Choice; Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands; and Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in Contemporary Poetry and Prose. She is a recipient of the Stanley Kunitz Fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center\, a Cornell University Council on the Arts Faculty Grant\, and the 2023 International Literary Seminars Kenya/Fence 1st Prize in Poetry. Look for “In the pool of the sea’s shoulder\,” forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. Mary is a poet\, ecologist\, and occasional essayist in New York’s Finger Lakes Region.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/ember-days-with-mary-gilliland/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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