Join us for the “Works of Resistance, Resilience” Reading Series!
Fridays at 7 pm ET:
- November 20: Video • Participants & reading links
- December 4: Video • Participants & reading links
- January 15: Video • Participants & reading links
- January 29: Video • Participants & reading links
- February 5: Video • Participants & reading links
“Works of Resistance, Resilience” is comprised of poetry, fiction, nonfiction and visual art by 83 writers and artists. The issue has five theme-related sections that explore what it means to live in America at this time of profound reckoning? What does resistance look like? Can resistance contain love, power and empathy? In this age of collective anxiety, the writers and artists from around the world attempt to answer what it means to live and survive during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. The Works of Resistance, Resilience reading series will rekindle our desire to learn and thrive and to discover what is needed to change our relationship to the earth and to each other.
We invite you to come to these readings/artist talks/sharings, and catch glimpses of resistance and resilience in hard times. 75 minutes, including time for Q+A.
The Readings Series and the “Works of Resistance, Resilience” issue of About Place Journal are edited and organized by Jacqueline Johnson, with assistant editors Ifeona H. Fulani and Vida James.
Friday, February 5, 7pm ET
This Much; A Patch of Blue (poems)
This, the mountain.; Senescence (poems)
what being here means; shelters & masks, ruin & protect (poems)
Damned; Another Juneteenth (poems)
Trigger Warning Or Genocide is Worse Than Racism; I come from… (poems)
One Hundred Thousand Names; In the Shadows of Nuremberg (poems)
Marine Mammal Dreaming (essay)
Reading TBD
the difficult miracle of black magic in america or one more reason to listen to nina simone; what matters if not breath (poems)
Friday, January 29, 7pm ET
Johnna the Baptist (prose)
Me and Him, We Together (poem)
Young Plum Tree (poem)
The Cobbler Has No Shoes (poem)
Daphne Becoming (prose)
Touchings (poem)
Alina Calenderia (poem)
Where’s Your Tree? / Eco-Mediations & Memories of Dirt (prose)
What I Read in the Rising Tides (poem)
American Melting (poem)
After the Whales (poem)
I envy you (poem)
Friday, January 15, 7pm ET
Reveille and Prescription (poems)
Birthday (prose)
Poem for My Night Nurse (poem)
if i am made of bone (poem)
Current of Events (poem)
The Yucca Moth (poem)
In Memory of the First Peoples, Neglected Again (Brazil 2020) (poem)
Bar on 52nd (poem)
Window (poem)
Welcome Back to the Real World (photograph)
dream elevator: one & Treading Water (poems)
Ballad for the Bird Children of Bequaa & All the women in your dreams look like me (poems)
Friday, December 4, 7pm ET
Little Girls (prose)
The Mott Haven Garden Club (poetry)
My Mother Ignores the Severity of Covid-19 (poetry)
Most Things Look Beautiful (visual art)
We’re Going to Save Us (poetry)
During quarantine, I embrace myself as a long-hauler, (poetry)
Siboney (fiction)
In The Beginning (art quilt)
Mary Wilson: Quiet, Diamond, Green (essay)
Birth Of A Nation (poetry)
Friday, November 20, 7pm ET
Optional reading, American History 201, the year 20— (assuming we don’t ruin it all) (poetry)
The Way We Rely on Each Other (prose)
All those ancient egyptians were right (poetry)
Regeneration (prose)
we’ve been here before (The 1619 Project) (poetry)
Ashland (poetry)
Memorial for George Floyd in Black and White (poetry, photography by Karen Elias)
History’s Eye is Bloodshot (prose)
These Days, Mississippi (poetry)
the Coloring (poetry)