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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240407T150000
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240405T190000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240316T141500
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SUMMARY:Writing Light in these Dark Times
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a lively hour-and-a-quarter combined reading and workshop when local poet and craft teacher\, Barbara Regenspan\, author of The Chessmaster’s Daughter\, (2022 Cayuga Lake Books) shares her strategies for “Writing Light in Dark Times.” After a brief reading from her new chapbook-in-progress\, Barbara will lead a voluntary free-write inspired by poets’ recognition of the emotional tension evoked by our desire to experience joy in the ordinary oddities of everyday life without marginalizing the horrors of contemporary global social and environmental devastation. Participants will be invited to read aloud their drafts if they choose to do so.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/writing-light-in-these-dark-times/
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:20240223T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240223T170000
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SUMMARY:Study in Hysteria with Kathleen Collins
DESCRIPTION:Join Kathleen Collins for an in-person reading of her debut novel\, Study in Hysteria. \nIn the middle of 1974\, Flora is privileged and middle-aged in a liberation-hued America\, and feels both compelled by and left out of the women’s movement. She finds it difficult to activate her limited supply of empathy as she contends with a clandestine and unlikely friendship\, a worrisome health scare\, a domineering and philandering psychiatrist husband or her own distant daughter. \nFlora’s secret foray into psychotherapy does nothing to halt the sense that there is a better life for her somewhere else\, in some parallel existence. Through the continuum of psychological diagnoses\, she is lost in the murky place between contentment and discontentment\, normal and abnormal. \nIs her state of mind a clinical\, diagnosable condition\, or common malaise? Perhaps she’ll find out if she stops resisting to share herself with those who love her. \nKathleen Collins is a librarian at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Her work has appeared in such outlets as the Journal of Popular Film & Television\, Critical Studies in Television\, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly\, and Camera Obscura: Feminism\, Culture\, and Media Studies. She produces and co-hosts a podcast called Indoor Voices. Study in Hysteria is her first novel.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/study-in-hysteria-with-kathleen-collins/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
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SUMMARY:Live Dead: The Grateful Dead\, Live Recordings\, and Ideology of Liveness
DESCRIPTION:Join John Brackett and Liz Field for a conversation on how live recordings have shaped the history and mythology of the Grateful Dead for more than fifty years. \nThe Grateful Dead were one of the most successful live acts of the rock era. Performing more than 2\,300 shows between 1965 and 1995\, the Grateful Dead’s reputation as a live band was—and continues to be—sustained by thousands of live concert recordings from every era of the group’s long and colorful career. In Live Dead\, musicologist John Brackett examines how live recordings—from the group’s official releases to fan-produced tapes\, bootlegs to “Betty Boards\,” and Dick’s Picks to From the Vault—have shaped the general history and popular mythology of the Grateful Dead for more than fifty years. Drawing on a diverse array of materials and documents contained in the Grateful Dead Archive\, Live Dead details how live recordings became meaningful among the band and their fans not only as sonic souvenirs of past musical performances but also as expressions of assorted ideals\, including notions of “liveness\,” authenticity\, and the power of recorded sound. \nJohn Brackett is an Ithaca College alum\, musicologist\, and writer. He lives in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/live-dead-the-grateful-dead-live-recordings-and-ideology-of-liveness/
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:20240215T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
CREATED:20240130T200944Z
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - Sister Outsider
DESCRIPTION:Join Nancy K. Bereano\, founding editor of Firebrand Books and an early publisher of Audre Lorde’s prose\, for a discussion on Lorde’s impact as one of the most influential lesbian-feminist thinkers and writers. \nBook club picks are 10% off at Buffalo Street Books both in store and online. \nIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches\, Lorde takes on sexism\, racism\, ageism\, homophobia\, and class\, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive\, unflinching\, and lyrical\, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-sister-outsider/
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:20240204T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240204T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
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SUMMARY:Here\, Where Death Delights
DESCRIPTION:Join Mary Jumbelic and Joshua Jumbles for a conversation about Jumbelic’s new memoir\, Here\, Where Death Delights. \nMary Jumbelic\, M.D.\, is a board-certified forensic pathologist who performed thousands of autopsies during her 25-year career. She received awards for her work from the National Transportation Safety Board and the New York State Senate and has been recognized as a trailblazer by the National Organization of Women. In retirement\, she has published many nonfiction stories\, accounts of her life both in and out of the morgue. This is her first book. She lives with her husband in Central New York. She speaks for the dead. They speak for her. \nMary Jumbelic has been obsessed with death since the demise of her father when she was 13. The why and how of his mortality plagued her. While viewing an autopsy at the age of 15\, she discovered a science that explained the process. For 25 years\, she analyzed corpses and explained to families what had happened to their loved ones\, something that hadn’t been done for her. This daily confrontation challenged her to re-live her own loss. Dr. Jumbelic developed a way to honor people’s lives by speaking for them in courts\, classrooms\, and interviews. How did she finally integrate death into her own life so filled with hope? This is her journey.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/here-where-death-delights/
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:20240123T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240123T183000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
CREATED:20240112T040551Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240112T040551Z
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SUMMARY:Black Women Taught Us
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJenn M. Jackson–abolitionist\, organizer\, writer\, and professor–will be at Buffalo Street Books with local leaders Shacoya Kidwell and Dr. Nia Nunn to discuss their new book\, Black Women Taught Us. \nAbout the Author \nJenn M. Jackson (they/them) is a genderflux androgynous Black woman\, a lesbian\, an abolitionist\, a lover of all Black people\, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science.\nJackson’s primary research is in Black Politics with a focus on racial threat and trauma\, gender and sexuality\, political behavior\, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies\, Women’s and Gender Studies\, and LGBT Studies. They are a Senior Research Associate at The Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University\, as well. \nAbout the Book \nThis is my offering. My love letter to them\, and to us. \nJenn M. Jackson\, PhD\, has been known to bring historical acuity to some of the most controversial topics in America today. Now\, in their first book\, Jackson applies their critical analysis to the questions that have long energized their work: Why has Black women’s freedom fighting been so overlooked throughout history\, and what has our society lost because of our refusal to engage with our forestrugglers’ lessons? \nA love letter to those who have been minimized and forgotten\, this collection repositions Black women’s intellectual and political work at the center of today’s liberation movements. \nAcross eleven original essays that explore the legacy of Black women writers and leaders–from Harriet Jacobs and Ida B. Wells to the Combahee River Collective and Audre Lorde–Jackson sets the record straight about Black women’s longtime movement organizing\, theorizing\, and coalition building in the name of racial\, gender\, and sexual justice in the United States and abroad. These essays show\, in both critical and deeply personal terms\, how Black women have been at the center of modern liberation movements despite the erasure and misrecognition of their efforts. Jackson illustrates how Black women have frequently done the work of liberation at great risk to their lives and livelihoods. \nFor a new generation of movement organizers and co-strugglers\, Black Women Taught Us serves as a reminder that Black women were the first ones to teach us how to fight racism\, how to name that fight\, and how to imagine a more just world for everyone.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/black-women-taught-us/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
CATEGORIES:Featured
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SUMMARY:Orchid Trilogy Book Signing with Carol Van Den Hende
DESCRIPTION:Carol Van Den Hende\, award-winning author of the Goodbye\, Orchid series\, will be at Buffalo Street Books signing copies of her trilogy. Come meet Carol\, ask questions about her work\, and get your books signed! \nCopies of the Goodbye\, Orchid series are available to order at Buffalo Street Books.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/orchid-trilogy-book-signing-with-carol-van-den-hende/
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:20240118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club - Babel
DESCRIPTION:Join Deedi Brown at Buffalo Street Books for conversation about R.F. Kuang’s Babel\, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions\, colonial resistance\, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire. \nBook club books are 10% off. \nAbout the Book \n1828. Robin Swift\, orphaned by cholera in Canton\, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There\, he trains for years in Latin\, Ancient Greek\, and Chinese\, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation–also known as Babel. Babel is the world’s center for translation and\, more importantly\, magic. Silver working–the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars–has made the British unparalleled in power\, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin\, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power\, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain\, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress\, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society\, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium\, Robin must decide… \nCan powerful institutions be changed from within\, or does revolution always require violence? \nAbout the Author \nRebecca F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy\, Babel: An Arcane History\, Yellowface\, and Katabasis (forthcoming). Her work has won the Nebula\, Locus\, Crawford\, and British Book Awards. She has been named to the 2023 Time100 Next list and the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2024. A Marshall Scholar\, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale\, where she studies Sinophone literature and Asian American literature.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-babel/
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:20240109T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240109T150000
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SUMMARY:Unshrinking - Kate Manne in conversation with Adrienne Bitar
DESCRIPTION:Join Kate Manne and Adrienne Bitar as they discuss Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia. \nFor as long as she can remember\, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day\, the day she became a professor\, the day her daughter was born. She’s been bullied and belittled for her size\, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher\, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not. \nBlending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature\, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades\, implicit bias has waned in every category\, from race to sexual orientation\, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person’s attractiveness\, fortitude\, and intellect\, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps\, medical neglect\, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket\, restricting our freedom\, our movement\, our potential. \nIn this urgent call to action\, Manne proposes a new politics of “body reflexivity”—a radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia\, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead\, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us\, and remake the world to accommodate people of every size. \nKate Manne is an associate professor of philosophy at Cornell University\, where she’s been teaching since 2013. Before that\, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Manne did her graduate work in philosophy at MIT and is the author of two previous books\, Down Girl and Entitled.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/unshrinking-kate-manne-in-conversation-with-adrienne-bitar/
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:20240106T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240106T123000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
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SUMMARY:The Editor is In with Leslie Daniels
DESCRIPTION:Writers! Is your forward motion stalled? Novel in the closet? Poems under the bed? Memoir in your mind? Despair in your creative heart? Bring your questions and issues to this open session with writer\, editor\, and literary agency veteran Leslie Daniels. Get answers and solutions. Leave with momentum and maybe a surprising next step. \nThis event is co-hosted by Story House Ithaca and Buffalo Street Books. All writing conundrums and issues welcomed\, from process to product\, practice to publishing\, for current or future projects. \nClick here to purchase your tickets and see what other events they have going on. \nLeslie Daniels is the author of the novel Cleaning Nabokov’s House. She was the fiction editor for Green Mountains Review and guest edited the Louisville Review. Her stories and essays have been published in multiple literary reviews. \nLeslie has taught at writers’ conferences and graduate writing programs. At the Community of Writers Conference last summer\, she led the legendary Gill Dennis “Finding the Story” workshop. \nWe are expecting this to become a bi-monthly offering\, recurring on the first Saturday of alternate months. Stay tuned for news of future sessions.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/the-editor-is-in-with-leslie-daniels/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231118T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
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SUMMARY:Best American Essays 2023 with Jillian Barnet
DESCRIPTION:The Best American Essays is a yearly anthology of the very best essays published in the United States during the prior year. The guest editor for 2023\, Vivian Gorick\, renowned essayist and celebrated feminist writer\, has chosen twenty essays out of thousands that represent the best examples of the form. Among them is an essay by local author\, Jillian Barnet. The Best American Essays anthology will be released in November. Jillian will read from her essay\, “Any Kind of Leaving\,” at Buffalo Street Books on November 18 at 1:00 p.m. This essay was one of the first selected by Gornick to appear in the anthology. Robert Atwan\, editor of the Best American series wrote\, “I loved reading it.” \nJillian Barnet’s poems and essays have appeared in North American Review\, New Letters\, Nimrod\, Image\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, is a Pushcart Prize nominee\, and the author of the poetry chapbook\, Falling Bodies. Having taught writing and literature at Pennsylvania State University and Chatham University\, she now lives on a tiny farm in the Finger Lakes where she is at work on a memoir.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/best-american-essays-2023-with-jillian-barnet/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231111T150000
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SUMMARY:Launch Party - Thriving Futures: A Liberation Coloring Book with Reflections\, Practices and Poems
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the publication of Elan Shapiro’s Thriving Futures: A Liberation Coloring Book with Poems\, Reflections\, and Practices at this interactive\, challenging\, and fun event. Refreshments included. This event will feature an overview and a short poetry reading from the book. Participants will then choose an image printed out from the book\, to reflect upon and/or color in\, with a partner. The images and words playfully integrate the worlds of personal and collective liberation. \nElan Shapiro is a local activist\, artist\, community educator/facilitator\, and mindfulness practitioner\, who co-founded Sustainable Tompkins\, the Building Bridges network\, and TC SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice). He supports beloved community and earth connection as keys to transforming the current planetary crisis into a society where ALL can thrive.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/launch-party-thriving-futures-a-liberation-coloring-book-with-reflections-practices-and-poems/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231105T150000
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SUMMARY:Salamanders in Winter - Reading and Q&A with Joanna Green
DESCRIPTION:Join Joanna Green at Buffalo Street Books for the launch of her debut collection of poems\, “Salamanders in Winter”\, just published by Cayuga Lake Books. Her work explores the conundrum of living life fully in the midst of societal collapse. Before turning to writing and music upon retirement\, Green was a pioneer in the field of sustainable agriculture at Cornell University\, fighting against the continuing industrialization of farming and the impoverishment of rural communities. In 2010 she founded the non-profit Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming\, one of the nation’s first farmer training programs to confront the deep racial inequities embedded in our agriculture and food systems. She now sings and plays vibes and violin in two local jazz bands\, and writes regularly as a member of the Cascadilla Writers Group. \nThis event is free and open to the public. Book signing and reception to follow the reading.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/salamanders-in-winter-reading-and-qa-with-joanna-green/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231104T173000
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SUMMARY:Catharine\, Queen of the Tumbling Waters - Reading and Q&A with Cynthia G. Neale
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia G. Neale\, author of historical novels\, cookbooks\, essays\, and screenplays\, will be at Buffalo Street Books to read from her latest novel\, Catherine\, Queen of the Tumbling Waters. Join us for an evening of historical literature and tasty treats! \n“I’m not like your white women who lose their tongues and wits in a house full of men.” \nSo says Catharine Montour to her white captive during the Indian depredations of the 1750s. Catharine Montour\, a métis\, born during Pennsylvania’s Long Peace\, is nurtured by her grandmother\, the celebrated Madame Montour\, an interpreter for the British colonies. Her uncle\, Andrew Montour\, is also an interpreter and sits on the Council of the Iroquois. The Montours are an unconventional\, yet highly regarded family who host diverse and fascinating assemblies of fur traders\, missionaries\, Indians\, and colonial leaders in their home. \nAs the Long Peace ends and the French and Indian War\, and eventually the American Revolution occur\, Catharine\, desiring only to live quietly by a waterfall in New York\, becomes a fearless\, determined\, and passionate leader who demands loyalty to peace in her village and for all. And then in 1779 when General John Sullivan leads the campaign to destroy all Iroquois villages\, Queen Catharine\, heroically guides her people to Fort Niagara. \nToday as American exceptionalism prevails against the recognition of indigenous peoples\, Catharine’s relevant and fact-based story spans two wars and enlightens and makes visible the unwritten truths of early American history.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/catharine-queen-of-the-tumbling-waters-reading-and-qa-with-cynthia-g-neale/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231101T130000
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SUMMARY:House of Caravans with Shilpi Suneja
DESCRIPTION:Kick off the month of November with a reading and Q&A with Shilpi Suneja from her debut novel\, House of Caravans. Suneja will be in conversation with Natasha Raheja\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. \nThis book is a marvelous debut novel exploring the fractures caused by the Partition of India\, as well as the legacy and contemporary parallels of sectarian violence around the world. \nLahore\, British India. 1943. As World War rages\, resentment of colonial rule grows\, and with it acts of rebellion. Animated by idealistic dreams of an independent India\, Chhote Nanu agrees to plant a bomb intended for the British superintendent of police. Some four years later\, following a torturous imprisonment\, Chhote flees the city as it descends into violence. Carrying the young son of his murdered wife through scenes of unspeakable bloodshed\, he encounters his brother\, Barre Nanu\, the two of them caught between a vanishing past in the new nation of Pakistan and a profoundly uncertain future in India. \nKanpur\, India. 2002. Following the death of his grandfather\, Barre Nanu\, Karan Khatri returns from New York to join his sister in their childhood home\, which has been transformed by the embittered Chhote Nanu into a hostel for Hindu pilgrims. When their mother arrives from Delhi\, Karan and Ila learn that their fathers were two different men—one Hindu\, one Muslim—relationships with both of whom were doomed by familial bias and prejudice\, the siblings resolve to reconnect\, and to understand the painful twist and turns in the family’s story. \nMoving back and forth from the tumultuous years surrounding Partition to the era of renewed global sectarianism following 9/11\, this extraordinary historical novel\, “Tolstoyan in its scope” (Ha Jin)\, portrays a family and nations divided by the living legacy of colonialism. Richly evocative and timely\, House of Caravans will endure in the ways only the best literature does.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/house-of-caravans-with-shilpi-suneja/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231028T150000
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SUMMARY:Nightbitch: Rachel Yoder in conversation with Melanie Conroy-Goldman
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nRachel Yoder will be at BSB to discuss her fantastical novel\, Nightbitch. \nOne day\, the mother was a mother\, but then one night\, she was quite suddenly something else… \nAn ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son\, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later\, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler’s demands\, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror\, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband\, who travels for work five days a week\, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms. \nAs the mother’s symptoms intensify\, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak\, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library\, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible\, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography\, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem. \nAn outrageously original novel of ideas about art\, power\, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale\, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want. \nAbout the Author \nRachel Yoder is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process. She holds M.F.A’s from the University of Arizona (fiction) and the University of Iowa (nonfiction)\, where she was an Iowa Arts Fellow. Her stories and essays have been published in literary journals such as The Kenyon Review and The Missouri Review\, as well as national outlets such as The New York Times\, The Sun\, and Lit Hub. She lives in Iowa City with her husband and son.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/nightbitch-rachel-yoder-in-conversation-with-melanie-conroy-goldman/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231022T160000
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SUMMARY:Vicious is my Middle Name: Reading and Q&A with Kevin Dunn
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin Kevin Dunn at BSB to hear him read from his novel\, Vicious is my Middle Name. \nVicious is My Middle Name is an inspiring YA/Middle Grade novel of female self-empowerment and environmental engagement informed by DIY punk activism. Winner of the Whippoorwill Award for Rural Young Adult and Middle Grade readers and finalist for the NEIA Book Award\, the Foreword Indie Book of the Year Award in juvenile literature\, and the Eric Hoffer Award in the Middle Grade category. \nAbout the Author \nKevin C. Dunn is a Professor at Hobart & William Smith Colleges in Geneva\, NY. He is author and editor of almost a dozen academic books on topics ranging from African politics\, international relations\, and global punk culture. He is also a novelist\, a musician\, and a documentary film-maker. He’s a community activist and cultural producer. Ultimately\, he is a lifelong contributor and defender of DIY punk culture. He can be reached at DUNN at HWS dot EDU.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/vicious-is-my-middle-name-reading-and-qa-with-kevin-dunn/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231019T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
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SUMMARY:Reading Widely Book Club: Now Is Not the Time to Panic
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin Chris Holmes at Buffalo Street Books and discuss Kevin Wilson’s latest novel\, Now Is Not the Time to Panic. This staff favorite is a hilarious read that’s a perfect addition to any book self. \nAbout the Book \nSixteen-year-old Frankie Budge–aspiring writer\, indifferent student\, offbeat loner–is determined to make it through yet another summer in Coalfield\, Tennessee\, when she meets Zeke\, a talented artist who has just moved into his grandmother’s house and who is as awkward as Frankie is. Romantic and creative sparks begin to fly\, and when the two jointly make an unsigned poster\, shot through with an enigmatic phrase\, it becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. When the posters begin appearing everywhere\, people wonder who is behind them and start to panic. The rumors won’t stop\, and soon the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread far beyond the town. Twenty years later\, Frances Eleanor Budge gets a call that threatens to upend her carefully built life: a journalist named Mazzy Brower is writing a story about the Coalfield Panic of 1996. Might Frances know something about that? \nAbout the Author \nKevin Wilson is the author of two collections\, Tunneling to the Center of the Earth (Ecco/Harper Perennial\, 2009)\, which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award\, and Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine (Ecco\, 2018)\, and three novels\, The Family Fang (Ecco\, 2011)\, Perfect Little World (Ecco\, 2017) and Nothing to See Here (Ecco\, 2019)\, a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection. His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares\, Southern Review\, One Story\, A Public Space\, and elsewhere\, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021\, as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, Yaddo\, and the KHN Center for the Arts. He lives in Sewanee\, Tennessee\, with his wife\, the poet Leigh Anne Couch\, and his sons\, Griff and Patch\, where he is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Sewanee: The University of the South.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/reading-widely-book-club-now-is-not-the-time-to-panic/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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ORGANIZER;CN="Buffalo Street Books":MAILTO:lisa@buffalostreetbooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231014T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T134536
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SUMMARY:Dharma Talk: Reading and Q&A with John Brehm
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nJoin award-winning poet and Cornell MFA alum John Brehm for a reading from his new book of poems\, Dharma Talk. In addition to three previous books of poems\, Brehm is the editor of the bestselling anthology\, The Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy\, and the author of a book of essays\, The Dharma of Poetry: How Poems Can Deepen Your Spiritual Practice and Open You to Joy. The reading will be followed by a brief Q&A. \nA new volume of original poetry from the bestselling creator of Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy. \nIn Dharma Talk\, award-winning poet John Brehm explores the perennial themes of aging\, compassion\, emptiness\, nonseparation\, and more. At once poignant and humorous\, Brehm’s gentle\, wry poems remind us that the personal and the universal are not different—and point us to the Dharma of everyday life. \nAbout the Author \nJohn Brehm was born and raised in Lincoln\, Nebraska and educated at the University of Nebraska and Cornell University. He is the author of three full-length books of poetry\, Sea of Faith\, Help Is on the Way\, and No Day at the Beach\, all from the University of Wisconsin Press\, and a chapbook\, The Way Water Moves\, from Flume Press. His collection of essays\, The Dharma of Poetry\, was recently released by Wisdom Publications and is a companion to his acclaimed anthology\, The Poetry of Impermanence\, Mindfulness\, and Joy\, also from Wisdom Publications. His poems have appeared in Poetry\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Sun\, The Southern Review\, Plume\, Gulf Coast\, The Missouri Review\, New Ohio Review\, The Writer’s Almanac\, Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, The Best American Poetry\, The Norton Introduction to Literature\, and many other journals and anthologies. \nJohn teaches for Mountain Writers Series in Portland\, Oregon\, and for The Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver\, Colorado. He offers a monthly Poetry as Spiritual Practice gathering and with his wife\, Alice Boyd\, leads mindfulness retreats that incorporate Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons\, guided meditations\, and mindful poetry discussions. He lives in Portland\, Oregon.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/dharma-talk-reading-and-qa-with-john-brehm/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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SUMMARY:How to Have Anti Racist Conversations with Roxy Manning and Martha Lasley
DESCRIPTION:About the Event \nRoxy Manning will be at Buffalo Street Books with Martha Lasley to discuss and read from her book\, How to Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy and it’s companion text\, The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook. \nAbout the Author \nRoxy Manning\, PhD is a clinical psychologist and certified Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC) trainer. She brings decades of service experience to her work interrupting explicitly and implicitly oppressive attitudes and cultural norms. Dr. Manning has worked\, consulted\, and provided training across the US with businesses\, nonprofits\, and government organizations wanting to move towards equitable and diverse workplace cultures\, as well as internationally in over 10 countries with individuals and groups committed to social change. She also works as a psychologist in San Francisco serving the homeless and disenfranchised mentally ill population. \nShe is the author of How to Have Antiracist Conversations: Embracing Our Full Humanity to Challenge White Supremacy and the co-author with Sarah Peyton of the companion text\, The Antiracist Heart: A Self-Compassion and Activism Handbook.
URL:https://www.downtownithaca.com/event/how-to-have-anti-racist-conversations-with-roxy-manning-and-martha-lasley/
LOCATION:Buffalo Street Books\, 215 N. Cayuga St.\, Ithaca
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