1455 & VA Festival of the Book: Writing In Your Life, Day by Day
It remains an honor for 1455 to partner with and support the Virginia Festival of the Book (which officially kicks off today: check out the complete schedule of events here). Here’s the pre-event blurb: Ron Hogan (Our Endless and Proper Work) and Lisa Tener (The...
Movable Type Issue No. 10: Poems from Like We Still Speak by Danielle Badra
Danielle Badra Poems from Like We Still Speak Station Grandmother helped me realize we are meant to be carriers of light, not bearers of darkness. Who mourned Lebanon and innocence the smell of thyme and sesame slow roasting in the oven. The smile on my face...
Movable Type Issue No. 10: Power
DIRECTOR’S CUT It’s true that the theme for this issue was chosen many months ago and power, like death or love, or time or money, will always be a concept deeply relevant and inextricable from our daily consciousness (yesterday, one hundred years from now). It...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH KRIS O’SHEE, AUTHOR OF ‘OUR LAST BLUE MOON’
As I mentioned during last night’s conversation with this month’s featured author Kris O’Shee, I came to her memoir Our Last Blue Moon with my own backstory: I am a proud alum of George Mason University, and 1455 is delighted to partner with the Alan...
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