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Ad Astra Presents: Crystal Boson + Janice Lee

Sunday, September 15, 2019

7 PM – 8:30 PM

Sunrise Project

1501 Learnard Ave. Ste. E,

Lawrence, Kansas 66044

Crystal Boson writes short, dense poems that lay bare the complicated geographies of the United States and the lives of the Black, queer, and marginalized bodies that dwell within its boundaries. She currently writes about, and resides in the midwest. She is a Cave Canem and Callaloo fellow, and was awarded the Langston Hughes Creative Writing Award in 2014. She has work published in Blueshift Journal, Pank, Parcel, among other locations. Most recently her work: the bitter map was selected as the winner of the 2017 Honeysuckle Press Chapbook Contest by Saeed Jones.

Janice Lee is the author of 3 books of fiction: KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), and 2 books of creative nonfiction: Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015) and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She writes about interspecies communication, plants & personhood, the filmic long take, slowness, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, inherited trauma, and the concept of han in Korean culture, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Contributing Editor at Fanzine, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She currently lives in Portland, OR where she is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University.

+ A community open mic featuring new writing from Janice’s generative workshop Co-Dependencies Writing Workshop w/ Janice Lee earlier in the day.

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma

Sunday, September 15, 2019

3:00PM – 4:30PM

Lawrence Public Library

Instructor: Janice Lee

“What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” – William James

How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate each other, or, how do we learn to be affected? How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief?

We will explore the articulation of personal experience, identity, and trauma (both lived & inherited) and look at the relationship of personal history & identity with aesthetics & narrative. We will explore how the presence of unresolved corporeal history and the impossibility of articulation or expression leads to new encounters in language and narrative via various aesthetic writing practices. We will also explore notions of personhood and interspecies communication through exercises in seeing, writing, breathing, and sensing.

There will be writing prompts, guided meditations, intuition exercises, shamanic practices, divination, mapping, unbinding wounds & trauma, and communing with plant & animal beings.

Free and open to the public.

Location: Meeting Room B

Bring a notebook/paper, something to write with, and a rock or stone of your choosing.

More info at Lawrence Public Library

Memory Space: Inherited Trauma & the Failure of Language
How does writing open up space for processing trauma or grief? We will explore the articulation of experience and trauma (lived and inherited), looking at how personal history and identity relate to aesthetics and narrative. We’ll investigate personhood and interspecies communication through exercises in seeing, writing, breathing, and sensing. We’ll study how history and accuracy intersect in creative work, how the limits and failures of language allow us to reach beyond traditional narrative structures, and how memories of trauma are constructed, reconstructed, and might be disruptive to identity and narrative. The workshop will include writing prompts, guided meditations, shamanic practices, mapping, communing with plant and animal beings, and open discussion. Please bring a rock or stone with you.

More Details at Hugo House Website

Term: Summer 2019

Start Date: 08/17/2019

Days of the Week: Saturday

Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm

General Price: $90.00  

Thurs Aug 15, 7 pm

Free

Hugo House

1634 11th Ave, Seattle

WA 98122

“Join us for a reading and conversation on place, memory, and possibility with lyric essayists Chelsea Biondolillo and Janice Lee. Chelsea Biondolillo is the author of two prose chapbooks, Ologies and #Lovesong, both from Etchings Press, UIndy. Her first full-length essay collection, The Skinned Bird, is forthcoming from Kernpunkt Press in June 2019. Janice Lee is a writer, editor, publisher, and professor interested in interspecies communication, the apocalypse, the Korean concept of han, inherited trauma, and personhood. She is the author of The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) and cofounder of The Accomplices.  “

Mon July 29, 7:30 pm

Powell’s City of Books

1005 W Burnside, Portland, OR 97205

More Info

Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda reads from The Grave on the Wall, a lyrical portrait and tribute to his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda. Shimoda will be joined in conversation by Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn’t Blue.

2019 ASLE Conference / Paradise on Fire

June 26-30, 2019 / University of California, Davis

ASLE 2019 Conference Details & Program

Plant Poetics: Healing Modalities

Stream: Plant and Food Studies

Chair: Megan Kaminski, University of Kansas

● Numberless Collective Bodies / Amanda Ackerman, Independent

● Vegetal Poetics: Proliferating from Loss / Megan Kaminski, University of Kansas

● Phytoconscious Love / Sonnet L’Abbé, Vancouver Island University

● Co-Dependencies & Becoming: The Languages of Personhood / Janice Lee, Portland State University

● All Plants Are Medicinal Plants: Learning through Looking / James Thomas Stevens, Institute of American Indian Arts

7PM-9PM Friday, May 31, 2019

Mother Foucault’s Bookshop

523 SE Morrison St

Portland, Oregon 97214

Facebook Event Page

Come to the shop on Friday, May 31 at 7 pm to celebrate the launch of This Will Destroy You, a new novel by Pedram Navab. With special guest Janice Lee.

Pedram Navab is a neurologist and a Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine who currently resides in Los Angeles. Educated at Brown and Stanford, he holds both a graduate degree in English/Modern Culture and Media and a JD. His debut novel, Without Anesthesia, was published in 2015 (Jaded Ibis). In his spare time, he acts and makes short films.

Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take, slowness, interspecies communication, the apocalypse, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, Contributing Editor at Fanzine, and Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC. She is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University and can be found online at: http://janicel.com

Early Praise for This Will Destroy You:

”A riveting story that is at once shattering and wildly engaging.” — Lisa Lutz, New York Times Bestselling author of The Passenger

”This Will Destroy You is as delicate and sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel, precisely opening up visceral layers of a haunting psychoanalytic fable.” — Rosalind Galt, author of Queer Cinema in the World

”This Will Destroy You is both nightmare and ‘daymare’ — a glinting hypodermic shot into the reader’s heart and mind.” — Debra Di Blasi, author ofToday Is The Day That Will Matter

”No other contemporary novel has made the object of desire this accessible, this reflective.” — Jorge Armnenteros, author of The Roar of the River

“This Will Destroy You is an immense and devastating work.” — Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn’t Blue

“A gripping book that satisfies the cravings of the mind and the soul.” — Nicole Rizzuto, author of Insurgent Testimonies

AN ARMFUL OF WORDS A POETIC CELEBRATION OF THE BELMONT H MART

 

Write to Publish

A one-day conference connecting writers to the publishing industry

Saturday, April 27th, 2019, 9 am – 6 pm

Smith Memorial Student Union

1825 SW Broadway

Portland, OR 97201

Event Info

Panel 6 – Be Aware of Your Surroundings: Conscious Editing and Writing

Description: Sometimes our words have meanings that we never intend for them. Being a conscious writer or editor can help you be more mindful of the way your words may be perceived by readers. This panel will outline the importance of being aware of your writing when developing potentially difficult scenes or characters and how to use language effectively. It’s a great practice in empathizing with the reader—a skill all writers should have in their toolkit.

Speakers: Jessie Carver, Freelance Editor & Writer; Sarah Heilman, Editor at Ex Libris Editing; Jessica Mehta, owner of MehtaFor and Poetry Editor at Bending Genres Literary Review, Exclamat!on, and Airlie Presst; Janice Lee, Writer, Editor, & Publisher

Location: SMSU 238

5PM-8PM Saturday, April 20

Corporeal Writing

510 SW 3rd Ave.

Portland, Oregon 97204

Facebook Event

Please come witness Corporeal Writing participants read along with me and Lidia Yuknavitch at Corporeal Center on Sat, 4/20 from 5-8pm. You can find us at 510 SW 3rd Ave Suite 101, in the old Postal building just across the Morison bridge and in the same bldg as Killler Burger. We don’t call our comrades students because that top down jam just isn’t how we roll.

Just so you know, no one will be turned away for inability to pay at the door, but we are asking you to consider

$5 or so, so we can keep offering a space for anyone to write for free on Tues-Fri, 12-6pm.

Love .:LOOP:.

Domi

Our phenomenal readers/performers are:

Dot Hearn

Pamela K. Santos

Annie Gudger

Jewels

Bethann Cartino

Janice Lee

Katie Guinn

Kelsey Taylor

Zaji Cox

Lidia Yuknavitch