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PO Box 541, La Grande, OR 97850
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ACE Writing Project with Megan Alpert
February 17, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join us for an online reading with poet Megan Alpert.
Megan is a poet and journalist whose 2020 poetry collection, The Animal at Your Side, won The Airlie Prize and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Quarterly West, Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, and many others. As a journalist, she has reported for The Atlantic, Smithsonian, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy.
“The Animal at Your Side spans worlds – Eastern Europe, China, Ecuador, folktale, and myth – all of these worlds equally sinister and haunting. In poems where we feel “the whirr-click of war beginning . . .” the poet learns that the best way to survive is to become “the same color as rocks, water, / anything I walked past, / see-through.” This is Megan Alpert’s gift to us – radical empathy – so we can shape-shift through these worlds as she has. This is a collection I’ll read time and again, and I know I will grow with each reading.” – Shaindel Beers, author of Secure Your Own Mask
The event will conclude with a community open mic. The moderator will take sign-ups beginning at 6:45 PM on a first-come basis (limit 10 readers each with a 5-minute reading limit).
Virtual: Live via Zoom. The link is below.
Dates: Every 3rd Wednesday
Facilitators: Nancy Knowles & Amelia Ettinger
Cost: Free Admission
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Registration cancellations & transfers must be made through Art Center East at (541) 624-2800 48 hours or more before the class start time. We cannot issue refunds or transfers for cancellations received after the 48-hour cutoff. Exceptions will be considered for medical or family emergencies. ACE will honor a refund, minus a $10 administration fee when the cancellation is made 48 hours or more before class start date. When a class is canceled due to low enrollment, we will issue a refund for all registration fees. ACE will contact you in the event of a cancellation. Face coverings will be required in accordance with statewide regulations current at the time.
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