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SUMMARY:Immigration and Refugee Matters
DESCRIPTION:Advanced registration for this event is closed. However\, you may "walk-up" and register onsite.  \n\n\n	 \n	\n		\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n													Professor Diya Abdo\, a Palestinian woman whose grandmother once sought refuge in Jordan\, saw the need for a more inclusive approach to help refugees arriving in America. In 2015\, she started the Every Campus a Refuge program\, which has since spread to six other universities in the US\, providing free housing to refugees on campus\, language tutoring\, assistance with job searches\, and an army of volunteers\, many of whom are students in Guilford's ECAR minor. Photo taken April 5\, 2018.\n											\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n		\n	\n\n	\n	\n	\n\n	\n\n\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAs the world continues to displace people in astonishing numbers\, Abdo and Haqq bring the personal stories of individual lives effected by the continuing inhumane actions and responses to human suffering. With DIYA ABDO and ELISHEBA HAQQ. Hosted by DR. JOHN COX.  \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life \nDIYA ABDO is the first daughter and granddaughter of Palestinian refugees born in their country of displacement\, Jordan. A graduate of Yarmouk University\, she earned master’s and doctorate degrees from Drew University. She is a full professor in the English department of Guilford College\, where she founded the first chapter of Every Campus A Refuge (ECAR)\, which aims to host global refugees. Diya is the recipient of several national community engagement awards\, including the 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize for her work with ECAR. She lives in Greensboro\, NC\, with her partner\, daughters\, and cats. \nELISHEBA HAQQ was born in Chandigarh\, India\, but was brought up in Minnesota\, USA. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and currently teaches writing at Rutgers University. Her work has appeared in A Letter for my Mother\, Gateways\, She.knows.com\, and NJ Monthly. An RN by profession\, she has also been published in Creative Nursing and Journal of Nursing Education and Practice. \n\nDR. JOHN COX is a professor of Global Studies and History at UNC Charlotte\, where he directs the university’s genocide & human rights studies center. He has lectured and published widely on racism\, genocide\, human rights\, and resistance. \n  \n 
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/immigration-and-refugee-matters/
LOCATION:Greensboro History Museum\, 130 Summit Avenue\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction
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SUMMARY:The Truth about Disability: What We Don't Talk About
DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nAround 20% of Americans live with a disability\, but for many disability remains a taboo subject. Too often\, the complex experiences of the disabled are reduced to pity or inspiration. On this panel\, three disabled authors of poetry\, fiction\, and nonfiction discuss their work and what we don’t talk about when we talk about disability. With EMILY MALONEY\, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT\, and JT HILL. Hosted by JT HILL. \nYou may also be interested in:\n•  Sounding Bodies: Identity\, Injustice\, and the Voice\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n•  Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation \nEMILY MALONEY is the author of COST OF LIVING (Henry Holt\, 2022). Her work has appeared in Glamour\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, Best American Essays\, and the American Journal of Nursing\, among others. In addition to her work as an ER tech\, she has worked as a dog groomer\, horse trainer\, pastry chef\, general contractor\, tile setter\, and catalog model and sold her ceramics at art fairs. She has twice been awarded a MacDowell Fellowship and lives in Evanston\, Illinois. \nKAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nJT HILL Hill is the author of a memoir\, Blind Man’s Bluff\, coming July 2021 from W. W. Norton. His fiction debut\, Academy Gothic\, won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel. His essays have been listed as Notable in the 2019 and 2020 editions of Best American Essays\, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Writer’s Digest\, Story Quarterly\, and Hobart\, among others. He serves as fiction editor for the literary journal Monkeybicycle and contributing editor for Literary Hub\, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He lives in Greensboro\, North Carolina with his wife.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/the-truth-about-disability/
LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,LGBTQIA,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Whatever Wholeness Means: Poetry in an Age of Separation
DESCRIPTION:This event is SOLD OUT.\n\n\n	 \n	\n		\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n\n	\n\n	\n\n		\n		\n			\n															\n		\n\n	\n\n		\n	\n\n	\n	\n	\n\n	\n\n\n**THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT**\n*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nFrom three unique perspectives\, these poets offer witness\, vulnerability\, and fierce attention to the troubled and yet still exquisite times. With CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH\, KAY ULANDAY BARRETT\, and STUART DISCHELL. Hosted by MICHAEL GASPENY. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• A Conversation on Publishing for People of Color\n• Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life\n• Authors with Disabilities panel \n  \nCRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks\, Routes Home\, Finishing Line Press (2013) and Running Music\, Longleaf Press (2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku\, Senryu\, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including: Callaloo\, Nimrod\, Barrow Street\, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora\, African American Review\, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham\, NC with her husband and two sons where she teaches English Composition and Creative Writing. She is the Managing Editor of Backbone Press. \n KAY ULANDAY BARRETT is a poet\, essayist\, cultural strategist\, and A+ napper. They are the winner of the 2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry and a recipient of a 2020 James Baldwin Fellowship at MacDowell. Their second book\, More Than Organs (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2020) received a 2021 Stonewall Honor Book Award by the American Library Association and is a 2021 Lambda Literary Award Finalist. They have received fellowships from VONA Voices\, Monson Arts\, Macondo\, and The Lambda Literary Review. They have featured at The United Nations\, The Lincoln Center\, The Hemispheric Institute\, Symphony Space\, Brooklyn Museum\, Dodge Poetry\, The Poetry Foundation\, The School of the Arts Institute\, Manchester PRIDE\, Sesame Street\, & more. Their contributions are found in The New York Times\, Poetry Magazine\, Academy of American Poets\, Colorlines\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Advocate\, Al Jazeera\, NYLON\, Vogue\, The Rumpus\, The Lily\, VIDA Review\, and elsewhere. Currently\, they serve as a curator at The Asian American Writer’s Workshop. \nSTUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking)\, a National Poetry Series Selection\, Evenings & Avenues (Penguin)\, Dig Safe (Penguin)\, Backwards Days (Penguin)\, Standing on Z (Unicorn)\, Children with Enemies (Chicago)\, and the forthcoming The Lookout Man (Chicago). A recipient of awards from the NEA\, the North Carolina Arts Council\, the Ledig-Rowohlt Foundation. and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation\, he is the Class of 1952 Excellence Professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. \nMICHAEL GASPENY is the author of the novella in verse\, The Tyranny of Questions (Unicorn Press) and the chapbooks Re-Write Men and Vocation. He has won the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition and the O. Henry Festival Short Fiction Contest. His novel\, Postcard from the Delta\, is forthcoming from Livingston Press. For hospice service\, he has received The (North Carolina) Governor’s Award for Volunteer Excellence.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/whatever-wholeness-means/
LOCATION:Scuppernong Books\, 304 S Elm Street\, Greensboro\, NC\, 27401
CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing\, Racism\, and Asian American Life
DESCRIPTION:*All events are FREE\, but we do ask that you please register so that we can monitor attendance and venue capacity.* \nThree Asian-American authors use their work to discuss the rise in violence toward Asian-Americans while exploring the complex joys and responsibilities of writing and identity. With MICHAEL CROLEY\, H’RINA DeTROY\, and THIEN-KIM LAM. Hosted by SAYAKA MATSUOKA. \nYou may also be interested in:\n• Immigration and Refugee Matters\n• Afternoon Delight \nMICHAEL CROLEY is the author of Any Other Place: Stories\, winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Weatherford Award. He is also the co-editor (with Jack Shuler) of Midland: Reports from Flyover Country. His reporting\, stories\, and essays have appeared in Esquire\, The New York Times\, Bloomberg Businessweek\, VQR\, The Paris Review\, Kenyon Review\, LitHub\, Narrative\, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Ohio Arts Council\, the Kentucky Arts Council\, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. He teaches at Denison University and is on the visiting faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.\n \nH’RINA DeTROY is a Montagnard American writer based in Brooklyn. She was the recipient of the 2020 Cafe Royal Cultural Foundation Grant in Literature and a 2019 Emerging Writer Fellowship at Aspen Word in Memoir. Roxane Gay selected her essay entitled “The Vengeance of Elephants” for the 2017 Curt Johnson Prose Prize in Creative Nonfiction for December Magazine. She holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. She’s a teacher and working with the Montagnard Dega Association and the city of Greensboro\, she created the ground-breaking workshop\, “Apocalypse Never: Writing Our Origin Stories and Imaginative Futures as Montagnard Americans.” A contributing editor for DiaCRITICS\, she focuses amplifying Montagnard and other indigenous\, ethnic minority voices of Southeast Asian diasporas. \nTHIEN-KIM LAM writes stories about Vietnamese characters who smash stereotypes and find their happy endings. A recovering Type-Asian\, she guzzles cà phê sữa đá\, makes art\, and bakes her feelings to stay sane. Thien-Kim is also the founder of Bawdy Bookworms\, a subscription box that pairs sexy romances with erotic toys. She’s been featured on Jezebel\, NPR\, BBC America\, and Glamour. Her debut novel Happy Endings is now available\, and her forthcoming book will be released in 2022. \n  \nSAYAKA MATSUOKA is a freelance journalist and managing editor for Triad City Beat\, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Greensboro covering the Triad. She was born in NY but raised in Greensboro. She writes mostly for the paper these days\, about anything from cultural events and food to right-wing extremism and police brutality.
URL:https://greensborobound.com/event/borderlands-and-crossroads/
LOCATION:Stephen D. Hyers Theater\, Greensboro Cultural Center\, 200 N Davie Street\, GREENSBORO\, NC\, 27401\, United States
CATEGORIES:API Authors,IBPOC Authors,Literary Fiction,Memoir/Personal Essay,Non-Fiction,Romance,Short Stories
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