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URL:https://thelavacenter.org/events/writers-read-2-2024-09-11/
SUMMARY:Writers Read ft Michael Favala Goldman\, Rebecca Hart Olander\, and
  Michael Shandler
DESCRIPTION:Writers Read is a monthly opportunity for an audience to come a
 nd listen to local writers in an intimate environment. Each second Wednesd
 ay of the month\, three writers read from their work followed by time for 
 the audience to join with the writers for a talkback. These discussions ha
 ve been eye opening\, touching\, and inspiring. Audiences have left the ve
 nue ready to write.\n\nThis series is facilitated by Lindy Whiton\, a memb
 er of LAVA\, and pulls from several different communities of writers throu
 ghout the local area. We are extremely lucky to draw from an abundance of 
 talent. The year’s calendar does bring in a few outside writers who agre
 ed to travel. Watch this event for future readers.\n\n$5 suggested donatio
 n ($1 Card to Culture)\n\nAward-winning poet Michael Favala Goldman is als
 o a jazz clarinetist and translator of seventeen books of Danish literatur
 e. He lives in Northampton\, MA\, where he has been running bi-monthly poe
 try critique groups since 2018. https://michaelfavalagoldman.com/\n\nRebec
 ca Hart Olander’s poetry and collaborative visual and written work has a
 ppeared in print\, online\, and in multiple anthologies. A winner of the W
 omen's National Book Association Poetry Award\, her books include Dressing
  the Wounds (dancing girl press\, 2019) and Uncertain Acrobats (CavanKerry
  Press\, 2021)\, named an Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist and a M
 ust-Read selection by the Massachusetts Center for the Book. Rebecca is a 
 writing teacher and the editor/director of Perugia Press.\n\nAuthor\, life
  coach\, and organization development consultant\, Michael Shandler’s bo
 yhood in a dysfunctional family during the apartheid era in South Africa p
 rovided powerful grist for his transformational personal journey as told i
 n his award-winning memoir\, Karma and Kismet — A Spiritual Quest Across
  Continents\, Cultures\, and Consciousness.
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