Escape to Northern Virginia’s wine country for a new event series presented by 1455 and Kalero Vineyard, showcasing local and international storytellers as they present their work and share insight into the creative process, inspiration, and the person behind the pages.
 
1455 is proud to partner with Kalero Vineyard, in Purcellville, VA, to celebrate storytelling, coupled with amazing wines. Our first event is May 21, 2022, 2-3pm, featuring a reading of The Blackened Blues. Sean Murphy will read from his collection, which explores the lives and creative impulses that inspired so many great artists of the modern world.
 

FIRST EVENT DETAILS:

 

Wine & Words: Featuring The Blackened Blues

May 21, 2022 – 2-3pm
 
ADMISSION IS FREE

ABOUT THE BLACKENED BLUES

Acclaimed author and music critic Sean Murphy’s new poetry collection is a searing and timely take on American culture that finds perspective on the present by interrogating our past. The Blackened Blues offers a powerful glimpse into the human psyche, exploring the minds of artists and visionaries, addicts and trauma survivors, searching (as we all are) for “some way to live.” We leave this book with a heavy dose of truth, but also of the kind of beauty that makes such truth bearable. Learn more and find out where to buy the book at seanmurphy.net/the-blackened-blues

ABOUT SEAN MURPHY

Sean Murphy has been publishing fiction, poetry, reviews (of music, movie, book, food), and essays on the technology industry for more than twenty years. He has appeared on NPR’s All Things Considered and been quoted in USA Today, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Forbes, and AdAge. A long-time columnist for PopMatters, his work has also appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, The Good Men Project, Memoir Magazine, and others. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize two times, once for short fiction and once for poetry. His poems have been widely anthologized, including the collections Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era, This Is What America Looks Like, Lo-Fi Poetry Series: Poet Sounds, and Written in Arlington: Poems for Arlington, VA. Previous publications include the memoir Please Talk about Me When I’m Gone, the novel Not to Mention a Nice Life, and the non-fiction collections Murphy’s Law, Volumes One and Two. Learn more at seanmurphy.net

ABOUT KALERO VINEYARD

Kalero Vineyard is a beautiful 130-acre farm nestled on Short Hill Mountain in Western Loudoun County. The property was bought in 2015 with the ambitious intention of starting a vineyard, making wine and opening a tasting room for the public to enjoy. The farm was home to an old barn that still had great bones, but had been neglected for ages. The former owners, the Potts Family, shared that a cornerstone on the barn has the year 1834 carved into it with the initials of their ancestors – AC (Andrew Copeland) and JP (John Price). This barn managed to survive the infamous burning raids of Loudoun County during the Civil War. Learn more at kalerovineyard.com

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