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SUMMARY:Writing Into Difficulty: A Workshop with Catharina Coenen and Chad Frame
DESCRIPTION:Join acclaimed authors & instructors Catharina & Chad for a free writing workshop at H&H Books! Registration strongly recommended.\n\n\nSometimes\, the relationships and stories we most need to write about will resist letting themselves be put into words. We start to write and fail\, or we stare at a blank page—not because we have too little to say\, but maybe because our hearts are too full and no words seem like they could be enough. Experimenting with formal constraints to our writing can provide a container that holds what needs to be said\, so that it can pour itself onto the page. \nIn this workshop\, we will explore form in poetry and prose to invite difficult relationships to the page. Beginning from a short discussion of a piece of their own work that helped them to write into family relationships\, authors Chad Frame and Catharina Coenen will guide writers to experiment with form in prose and poetry to create space for needed words. \nJoin Chad and Catharina at H&H Books on Sunday\, August 9 from 1-3 PM for this workshop. Registration is free and highly recommended\, due to the size of our lower level. If attendance exceeds the available space\, workshop registrants will be prioritized. \nAbout the Authors & Instructors:\nChad Frame is the author of Little Black Book\, nominated for the Lambda Literary Award\, and Smoking Shelter\, winner of the Moonstone Chapbook Contest. He is the Director of the Montgomery County Poet Laureate Program\, a Poet Laureate Emeritus of Montgomery County\, PA\, a founding member of the No River Twice poetry/improv performance troupe\, and the founder of the Caesura Poetry Festival. His work appears in Rattle\, Strange Horizons\, Pedestal\, Barrelhouse\, Rust+Moth\, on iTunes from the Library of Congress\, and is archived on the moon with The Lunar Codex. Chad has taught poetry and prose workshops at Rosemont College\, Arcadia University\, In the Company of Laureates\, the Caesura Poetry Festival\, the Philadelphia Writers’ Conference\, Main Line School Nights\, the Arts & Cultural Council of Bucks County\, and many more venues. \nCatharina Coenen came to the United States from Germany as a Fulbright Scholar to attend graduate school. She teaches biology and writing at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania. Her essays have appeared in The Threepenny Review\, The American Scholar\, The Christian Science Monitor\, Best of the Net\, and other literary magazines. Catharina is the recipient of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing\, the Flash Nonfiction Prize awarded by The Forge\, the Appalachian Review’s Denny Plattner Creative Nonfiction Prize\, a Creative Nonfiction Foundation Science-as-Story Fellowship\, and Residencies at Hedgebrook and at Millay Arts. Her essay collection\, Unexploded Ordnance\, is a 2026 Foreword Indies Winner and long-listed for the PEN/Jean Stein Award. It explores how the experiences of her mother\, grandmother\, and aunt during the bombings of World War II in Germany shaped her life and reverberate in the present.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/writing-into-difficulty-a-workshop-with-catharina-coenen-and-chad-frame/
LOCATION:The Head & The Hand Books\, 2230 Frankford Avenue\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:H&H Books Presents: Joseph Osmundson / SPAWNING SEASON
DESCRIPTION:Join us Wednesday\, July 8 at 6 PM to hear biologist & author Joseph Osmundson discuss his intimate new memoir\, Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood.\nPhilly-based author Joseph Earl Thomas and translator Carina del Valle Schorske will join Joseph in conversation. A Q&A and book signing will follow their discussion. Copies of Spawning Season will be available for purchase at the event.\nRegistration is pay-what-you-want and highly recommended. (Registration helps us plan the arrangement of our space and know how many books to order!)\nQuestions? Email events@theheadandthehand.com\, and follow @theheadandthehand on Instagram for events\, book clubs\, updates\, and more.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/hh-books-presents-joseph-osmundson-spawning-season/
LOCATION:the head and the hand\, 2230 Frankford Ave\, Philadelphia\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Adults,Arts & Culture,Community Events,LGBTQIA+
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SUMMARY:The Translingual Remix: A Practical Literary Translation Workshop
DESCRIPTION:An in-person workshop with Transversal\, co-sponsored by Blue Stoop and The Head & The Hand. \nTranslating literature into another language builds bridges and amplifies voices through shared stories. It’s also a challenging but highly rewarding creative practice that draws on skills like knowledge of multiple languages and cultures\, close reading and research\, and problem solving. In this workshop\, Emily Hunsberger (Mount Airy-based literary translator and member of Transversal\, Philadelphia’s literary translation collective) will help pull back the curtain on different approaches to the translation process\, guide participants through a practical exercise with literary texts\, facilitate an affirming conversation to reflect on the experience\, and suggest next steps for developing a personal translation practice. \nThis workshop is designed for folks with 1) an interest in creative writing and translation and 2) proficiency in English and at least one other language. No experience in literary translation is required\, and texts for the translation exercise will be provided by the facilitator. Participants will have the option to translate a text into English or into their other language(s). \nSpace is limited. All ticket proceeds benefit Blue Stoop and The Head & The Hand.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-translingual-remix-a-practical-literary-translation-workshop/
LOCATION:H&H Books\, 2230 Frankford Ave\, Philadelphia\, NY\, 19125\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:After After After: Poetry Talk and Workshop with Sara Mae
DESCRIPTION:Poet Sara Mae will elucidate their writing process for their new chapbook\, Phantasmagossip. Sara Mae will lead participants in a discussion of the poems that inspire them to write and share from their own work. Centered primarily around visual poetry\, this is a workshop appropriate for writers of all levels. Bring a notebook and invite a friend! Light refreshments offered by the writer! \nRegistration on Eventbrite is required. There are two ticketing tiers\, one tier pay-what-you-can and one tier that includes a copy of Phantasmagossip. Copies of Phantasmagossip will be for sale at H&H Books\, too. (Note: This event will be held in H&H Books’ basement workshop\, which has stairs and is not ADA-accessible.) \nAbout the author: Sara Mae is a genderqueer writer raised on the Chesapeake Bay. They are a 2023 Big Ears Music Festival Artist Scholar\, a 2022 Tinhouse Summer Workshops Attendee\, a 2022 Open Mouth Attendee\, and a 2021 Sewanee Writer’s Conference Scholar. Their work appears in or is forthcoming from the Georgia Review\, POETRY\, The Offing\, and elsewhere. Their first chapbook\, Priestess of Tankinis\, is out via Game Over Books. Their second chapbook\, Phantasmagossip\, won the Vinyl45 chapbook competition and is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2025. They write shimmery rock music as The Noisy. They received their MFA from UT Knoxville\, and currently live in Philly. You can find them on Instagram @veryverynoisy. \nAbout the book: Phantasmagossip by Sara Mae is a packed funeral. The poems mourn shouting over one another to tell a story\, squeezing hands of strangers and loved ones\, picking at the many homemade mac n cheeses. The game of the Exquisite Corpse\, usually played by many\, is used here as a way into polyvocality\, intimacy\, and remembrance. Here\, the poems infuse formal tradition with discomfort\, adapt the shapes of literary and queer ancestors\, speculate fleeting worlds of gender as the speaker sees theirs through and alongside best friends. Phantasmagossip does not romanticize death\, but instead grapples with the stakes of gendered violence and the simultaneous desire for pleasure\, dissecting accusations of dangerousness levied against women\, fems\, genderqueer speakers. The speakers seek acceptance of their own queer desires\, alongside the grief that being looked at and desired is not always the same as being seen.
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LOCATION:the head and the hand\, 2230 Frankford Ave\, Philadelphia\, 19125\, United States
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SUMMARY:Girl Scout Story Time with Ms. AJ and Athena!
DESCRIPTION:Ms. AJ will lead us in story and song throughout the year–along with some special guests–as we explore a new theme each month. Expect percussive instruments to share and play provided by our friends at Unless Kids\, a couple of great reads\, and a song circle\, in our gender-inclusive space where all identities are encouraged to thrive. \nOn April 27\, we’re having a Girl Scout story time. This is a unique & fun opportunity for girls and families to learn more about Girl Scouts! All ages and genders are welcome to this story time and encouraged to participate\, though the intended audience is 4-to-6-year-olds. \nAthena\, our friend from the Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania\, will joins Ms. AJ and read Maybe: A Story about the Endless Potential in All of Us. She’ll lead little ones in a song and craft—all while gathered around a pretend campfire! \nDuring story time\, we will be accepting pre-loved toys from attendees to give to our pals at Unless Kids\, who kindly provided our instruments. \nRegister on Eventbrite!\nAdrienne Barnett (aka Ms. AJ) is a child educator and musical theatre advocate who began her teaching career in 2007. Come share her passion for all things musical and literary at H&H! \nAthena Varvarezis is a Community Engagement Specialist at Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania focusing on Northeast Philadelphia. As a lifelong Girl Scout\, she is excited to answer questions and help families join the organization. For any questions regarding Girl Scouts\, she can be reached at avarvarezis@gsep.org.
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LOCATION:the head and the hand\, 2230 Frankford Ave\, Philadelphia\, 19125\, United States
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