Aplomb: Trauma Survival Poetry Reading
August 13, 2023 from 3-5PM
Trauma Survival Poetry Reading
Join in a poetry reading event that will feature published poets working in the theme of trauma survival. Some of the poets will be available to sign copies of their published works. Attending this event also provides an opportunity to view trauma survivor portraits and poems currently on display in the Aplomb gallery.
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Poets Reading Include:
Lisa Breger
Lisa Breger is an educator, writer, and award-winning poet. She was the Director of the Undergraduate Writing Program and Assistant Professor of English at Pine Manor College for many years. However, after a life-changing illness, she left academia and currently teaches poetry, spiritual journaling, and leads mindfulness and writing retreats at Roots and Wings Yoga and Healing Arts in Natick, MA. and teaches poetry online at St. Mary’s Monastery in Rock Island, IL. She received the Thomas Merton Award for Poetry of the Sacred in 2020 and was a runner up for the Ruth Stone Poetry Prize in 2015. Currently her poems appear in Presence, Parabola, Hunger Mountain, and the Lavender Review.
Candace R. Curran
Candace R. Curran lives in Shelburne Falls, MA, and is the author of Playing in Wrecks, and a co-author of Bone Cages (with John Hodgen, Doug Anderson, and others), both published by Haley’s Press. Her poems have been published in Meat For Tea, Silkworm, RAWNerVZ , and elsewhere; and anthologized in Writing the Land, Honoring Nature, WTL: Northeast, Poet’s Seat Poetry Silver Anniversary, Compass Roads, and Poems in the Time of Covid. She has won the Poets Seat Contest twice. Candace has organized and participated in word and image collaborations including Four On The Floor, Three On a Tree, INTERFACE I- I0, and Exploded View. She has also served children and adults for many years in both public and school libraries. Candace is partnered with a librarian, and books are an important part of their world.
Nubia DuVall Wilson
Nubia DuVall Wilson is an entrepreneur, writer, TV/film producer and advocate for survivors of sexual abuse. Nubia is the president and founder of Cielo Consulting, a boutique public relations and marketing agency that specializes in People, Places and Products, launched in 2015. As of the end of 2020, she is the co-founder and partner of TV/film development company Starfury Productions. A master communicator, Nubia is a published author and journalist who contributes content about mental health to various outlets, including as a SWAAY Voice on SWAAY.com and on her personal site nubiaduvall.com. Her book The Survivors Club is available for purchase here with 20% going to charity.
Paula Salome Gomes Lopes
Paula Salome Gomes Lopes (she/her/hers), known professionally as PSG Lopes, is an author, artist, and sole proprietor of The Moonlit Goddess Publishing LLC. Ms. Lopes is a Portuguese American self-published author of four poetry anthologies, two novellas, three children’s books, a short story anthology, and an art book. Ms. Lopes is also an accomplished photographer, digital artist/illustrator, podcaster, screenplay writer, and singer/songwriter. Her varied accomplishments have been featured in local newspapers both in English and Portuguese. She’s won several contests celebrating her work in writing and photography and has read her poetry at a spoken word event with other celebrated New Jersey poets. Being neurodivergent herself, she is an outspoken advocate of mental health awareness, fights against ageism and sexism, and supports the body positivity movement. Ms. Lopes is an alumna of the eCornell Bank of America Women’s Entrepreneurship Program and Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center’s Milestone Circles Program for female entrepreneurs. See more here.
Janet MacFadyen
In addition to State of Grass, her new collection forthcoming from Salmon Poetry, Janet MacFadyen is the author of five poetry books, including a photo-poetry collaboration Adrift in the House of Rocks (New Feral Press 2019), Waiting to Be Born (Dos Madres 2017), and her Slate Roof chapbook, In the Provincelands (2012). Recent and forthcoming work can be found in The Blue Nib, CALYX, Crannóg, Honoring Nature (anthology), Naugatuck River Review, Migrations (anthology), Q/A Poetry, Scientific American, SGEM World Science blog, Soul-Lit, and Sweet. She has held a 7-month fellowship at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, a residency at Cill Rialiag, and is the managing editor of Slate Roof Press. She lives in Franklin County, MA.
Aleka Artemis Munroe
Aleka Artemis Munroe is the creator of Compasspoints: Clearing the Chaos in Our Cages, and an upcoming allegorical tale of mindfulness in photography and poetry. She is an artist who created Botanical Pounded Art where she practices the belief that difference between a flower and a weed is a judgement. All are nature, as we are. Aleka explores alternative perspectives for the difficulties in life in her art forms.
Cindy Snow
Cindy Snow’s writing has appeared in the Massachusetts Review, Peace Review, Worcester Review, Crannóg, and elsewhere. Slate Roof Press published her chapbook, Small Ceremonies, in 2016. Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart and has won the Poet’s Seat Poetry Contest. Cindy’s poems earned honorable mentions in the Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry 2017, and the 2016 Patricia Dobler Award. In Amsterdam, at the 2017 conference The Changing Nature of Art and Science, Cindy read from her manuscript on the 17th Century naturalist and botanical artist, Maria Sibylla Merian. Cindy has been a writing fellow at Cill Rialaig, Ireland, a Platte Clove Artist in Residence, and the recipient of a Vermont Studio Center Writing Residency. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Cindy coordinates peer tutors and teaches at Greenfield Community College. She lives in Shelburne Falls, MA, with her family.
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