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1455 AUTHOR SERIES: Danielle Badra
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...
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH SWETA VIKRAM, AUTHOR OF ‘A PIECE OF PEACE’
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 annual Summer...
Movable Type Issue No. 8: Flash & Poetry
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 industries (particularly ones driven and...
Sean Murphy Reads from The Blackened Blues at Shenandoah University
1455 PRESENTS: A CONVERSATION WITH DAVID M. DRUCKER, AUTHOR OF ‘IN TRUMP’S SHADOW’
It was a pleasure to speak again with David Drucker, who joined us in July for 1455's 3rd annual Summer Fest for the discussion "The Art of Political Storytelling" (alongside Salena Zito). When David and I last spoke, he was frantically meeting deadlines for the book...
1455 & The Potter’s House Present: A Poetry Reading Accompanied by Song
The Potter’s House is thrilled to partner with 1455 Literary Arts for a special reading with Sean Murphy, who will read from his new collection The Blackened Blues, accompanied by singer and actor Ayana (Reed) Ogunsunlade. The Blackened Blues, which Dr. Cornel West...
1455 & PBF PRESENT: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH L. Renée
Tuesday night featured the first of what I anticipate to be a vibrant, ongoing collaboration: it's my pleasure and honor, as the Executive Director of 1455, to partner with the amazing Peter Bullough Foundation, located in Winchester VA, to present programming. Our...
1455 PRESENTS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH E. ETHELBERT MILLER, AUTHOR OF ‘WHEN YOUR WIFE HAS TOMMY JOHN SURGERY’
It's always a thrill to take the stage (field?) with the great E. Ethelbert Miller, and it's been 1455's privilege and honor to do so many times in recent years (see him in action during this year's Summer Fest, last year's Summer Fest, and our first festival, in...
1455 AUTHOR SERIES: DAVID DRUCKER
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with David Drucker, who will read from In Trump's Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP. With Trump's four years in the White House now in the rearview, an unprecedented period in American political history is...
1455 PRESENTS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH SEAN MURPHY, AUTHOR OF ‘THE BLACKENED BLUES
My thanks to poet, photographer, arts advocate, and dear friend Justen Ahren for putting me in the hot seat, for a change, and talking about my new collection THE BLACKENED BLUES. Aside from my role of founder and Executive Director of a non-profit organization that...
1455 PRESENTS: A READING & CONVERSATION WITH DAX-DEVLON ROSS, AUTHOR OF ‘LETTERS TO MY WHITE MALE FRIENDS’
The privilege of supremacy is silence. White superiority is ingrained in the unspoken ideology and institutional prerogatives that guide our lives. There are any number of quotes that might encapsulate the message of Dax-Devlon Ross's Letters To My White Male Friends....
1455 AUTHOR SERIES: CATHERINE PRENDERGAST
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Catherine Prendergast, who will read from The Gilded Edge. In The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America (Dutton, On-sale October 5, 2021), Dr. Catherine Prendergast achieves the...
1455 AUTHOR SERIES: SWETA VIKRAM
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Sweta Vikram, who will read from A Piece of Peace. A Piece of Peace is an autobiographical account of one woman’s unique struggle with near-fatal disease. In 2018, Sweta had already earned acclaim from having written a...
1455 SUMMER FESTIVAL 2021: EVENT RECAP
1455’s Third Annual Literary Festival concluded in celebratory fashion, having increased its registration numbers from last year’s event. Once again offering free, online programming, the festival that ran from July 15 – 17 delivered a variety of content, from...
1455 AUTHOR SERIES: SEAN MURPHY
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Sean Murphy, who will read from his new collection The Blackened Blues. The Blackened Blues, which Dr. Cornel West has called “a powerful and beautiful collection of poems,” is a searing and timely take on American culture...
1455 AUTHOR SERIES: DAX-DEVLON ROSS
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with Dax-Devlon Ross, who will read from his latest title Letters to My White Male Friends. In Letters to My White Male Friends, Dax-Devlon Ross speaks directly to the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly...
1455 AUTHOR SERIES: E. ETHELBERT MILLER
1455’s Author Series continues virtually with E. Ethelbert Miller, who will read from his latest collection When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery. When Your Wife Has Tommy John Surgery and Other Baseball Stories is Miller's second book of baseball poems. Here he...
1455 STORYTELLER OF THE YEAR LISA LING: RECAP
The Storyteller of the Year Award Recognizes Outstanding Narrative Skill, and Stories Relevant to Current Events at Multi-day Festival Featuring 200+ Authors, Poets, and Creatives Discussing the Art of Storytelling RECAP FROM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SEAN MURPHY My...
1455 Teen Poetry Contest Winners & Their Poems
Grand Prize ($5,000 Award): “At a Wake, I Confront” by Yvanna Vien Tica Second Prize: “Elegy for Our Pseudohistories” by Yejin Suh Third Prize: “Letters from Pennsylvania to Washington: for Ellie Chu” by Stella Lei Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order)...
1455’S 3RD ANNUAL TEEN POETRY CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
We are pleased to announce the winners of the Third Annual 1455 Teen Poetry Contest. The theme for this year’s contest is Finding Community During Crisis, and the guidelines requested the poems to reflect on or react to the contemporary sociopolitical and cultural...