by Admin | Dec 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
In addition to being 1455’s last Author Series event for 2021, this discussion is a culmination of sorts that fills me with both joy and pride. I first met Catherine at the Noepe Center at Martha’s Vineyard in 2016, when I was serving as writer in residence...
by Admin | Dec 7, 2021 | Author Series
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Jenna Blum, who will read from Woodrow on the Bench. Since she adopted him as a puppy fifteen years earlier, Jenna Blum and Woodrow have been inseparable. Known to many as “the George Clooney of dogs” for his good looks...
by Admin | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
(Excerpt from Issue No. 8’s Director’s Cut) Even for an optimist—and to run a literary non-profit while also writing poetry one has to be an optimist—it’s difficult to deny that all is far from well within the world of publishing. To be certain, most...
by Admin | Nov 30, 2021 | Author Series
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Chelsea B. DesAutels, who will read from A Dangerous Place. Early in her powerful, affecting debut, DesAutels writes: “I always mention gratitude because / people like that ending.” Unflinching in its candor, this is the...
by Admin | Nov 23, 2021 | Author Series
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Danielle Badra, who will read from Like We Still Speak. Conversation and memory are at the heart of Danielle Badra’s Like We Still Speak, winner of the 2021 Etel Adnan Poetry Prize. In her elegiac and formally inventive...