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...
by Admin | Nov 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
What a joy –equal parts enlightening and inspiring– to welcome best-selling author and all around literary and lifestyle icon Sweta Vikram to the 1455 Author Series. Of course, this was not her first rodeo, having been a featured speaker at our third...
by Admin | Nov 11, 2021 | MT No. 8 Articles
FEATURED WRITER Laura Salvatore Summer in the city All June I watched the starlings bloody the roof with berries plucked from the nearby cherry tree. Lifting their beaks, smelling the metallic air, swallowing the gushing orbs whole. I think of sending...
by Admin | Nov 11, 2021 | MT No. 8 Articles
FEATURED WRITER Jonathan Memmert Forest tree falls (after Gary Snyder poem “Pine tree tops,” from his 1975 poetry book Turtle Island) Intermittent rain drops, random leaves rustle, turbulent storms seethe, erosive ground quakes, century tree uproots, age...