CavanKerry Press will be at the AWP Bookfair from Wednesday, March 6th through Saturday March 9th.
Stop by tables V1 & V2 and say hello to Publisher Joan Cusack Handler, Associate Publisher Teresa Carson and various CavanKerry Press authors.
Below is a full list of events that CKP and/or CKP writers are participating in throughout conference.
Thursday, March 7
10:00am
Autumn House Books table
Book Signing: Dawn Potter
Dawn Potter will be signing her new anthology, A Poet’s Sourcebook: Writings about Poetry, from the Ancient World to the Present. The book features writings by CKP authors Teresa Carson, Dawn Potter, Jack Wiler and Baron Wormser.
3:00pm-4:15pm
Reading: From Here, From Away: Maine’s Young Poets
Christian Barter will be reading
3:00pm-4:15pm
Panel: The Art Of Healing: Writing Illness from Both Side of the Curtain
How may writing about illness help us develop a more humanistic approach to medicine? Patient and physician come together to read and discuss excerpts from their personal reflections on illness, health, and the practice of medicine. Panelists discuss the growing interest in literature and writing as a means of restoring the healings arts to the contemporary practice of medicine.
Judi Hannan (Motherhood Exaggerated) joins Ron Grant, Fenton Johnson, Danielle Ofri, Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
Friday, March 8
11:30am-1:30pm
CavanKerry Press Table (V1, V2)
Book Signing: Joan Cusack Handler
Confessions of Joan the Tall
1:30pm-2:45pm
Panel: Options of the I: The Post-Memoir Memoir.
AGNI marks its 40th birthday with an exploration of personal writing in the age of the complexified I. Panelists will consider issues of obliquity, fragmentation, collage, and counterpoint, truth-telling, personae, tonal ventriloquism, and other approaches that conduce to projecting new configurations of the contemplative and narrative self. Moderated by Sven Birkerts.
Nin Andrews (Southern Comfort) joins Alex Lemon, Lia Purpura, Brian Christian.
1:30pm-3:30pm
CavanKerry Press Table (V1, V2)
Book Signing: Judi Hannan
Motherhood Exaggerated
3:30pm-5:30pm
CavanKerry Press Table (V1, V2)
Book Signing: Kevin Carey
The One Fifteen to Penn Station
Saturday, March 9
10:00am-11:30am
CavanKerry Press Table (V1, V2)
Book Signing: Wanda Praisner
Where the Dead Are
Noon-1:15pm
CavanKerry Press: The Lives Brought to Life Reading.
Alice Hoffman Bookfair Stage, Exhibit Hall D, Level 2
Paola Corso (The Laundress Catches Her Breath), Joan Cusack Handler (Confessions of Joan the Tall), and Wanda Praisner (Where the Dead Are) will read from their recently published books, plus Nin Andrews will read selections from The Waiting Room Reader II: Words to Keep You Company.
2:00pm-4:00pm
CavanKerry Press Table (V1, V2)
Book Signing: Paola Corso
The Laundress Catches Her Breath
3:00pm-4:15pm
Kundiman Reading
Alice Hoffman Bookfair Stage, Exhibit Hall D
Joseph O. Legaspi (Imago) joins Cathy Linh Che, Matthew Olzmann, Brynn Saito and Sharon Suzuki-Martinez)
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