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Upcoming Events
Jan. 6
Author Maximilian Werner
Public Reading
Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S. McClintock Dr.
Tempe

Jan. 28
An Evening with Visiting Canadian Fulbright
Rishma Dunlop
Public Reading, 7:30 p.m.
University Club
ASU Tempe Campus
Rishma Dunlop is an award winning Canadian poet, playwright, essayist, and translator. Her books of poetry are: White Album (2008), Metropolis, Reading Like a Girl, and The Body of My Garden. Her poems have appeared in anthologies and journals including Blackbird, Literary Review of Canada, CV2, Canadian Literature, Descant, Event, Grain, and The Comstock Review. She is a professor in the Faculty of Education and the Department of English at York University, Toronto, where she is Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program. She is founding editor of the international poetry journal Studio.
Feb. 3
Poet R. Dwayne Betts
Public Reading, 7 p.m.
Changing Hands Bookstore
6428 S. McClintock Dr.
Tempe
March 3
Novelist Francine Prose
Public Reading, 7 p.m.
Phoenix Art Museum
1625 N. Central Ave.
Phoenix
March 11
Poet Bob Hicok
Public Reading, 7:30 p.m.
Pima Auditorium (Room 230)
Memorial Union
ASU Tempe Campus
March 25
Author Charles D'Ambrosio
Public Reading, 7:30 p.m.
Pima Auditorium (Room 230)
Memorial Union
ASU Tempe Campus
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Happy Holidays from The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Wondering what to give a writer this holiday season (or what to give yourself)? The Piper Center for Creative Writing has some great ideas, just in the nick of time.
Take advantage of a special offer from Hayden's Ferry Review, or tie a ribbon around a Piper Writers Studio class. See below for complete details.
Here's to a joyous season from all of us.
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Piper Writers Studio Returns This Spring
The Piper Center for Creative Writing is pleased to announce the return of the popular Piper Writers Studio in February.
We are offering eight inspiring classes—from one-day to 8-week, in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. Resolving to establish a regular writing routine? See award-winning novelist (and personal trainer) Vyvyane Loh's online class (and all the rest) here.
The Piper Writers Studio offers classes and workshops for writers of all levels. Each course is led by an experienced writer and teacher. In-person courses take place at the Piper Writers House on the ASU Tempe Campus. Online courses are a convenient way to take advantage of the Piper Writers Studio from anywhere in the world.
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A Very Merry Offer from Hayden's Ferry Review
If you're looking for a literary gift for your loved ones, we're offering a special buy-one, get-one offer. That means you can get two year-long subscriptions (For two friends! For you and a friend! For your mom and your hairdresser! For anyone at all!) for only $14. That's four issues for $14!
Email us at HFR@asu.edu to purchase.
We hope you enjoy this beautiful poem by Emily Carr from our new issue, a reminder of the power of our actions during this season and all seasons.
[nor can love be proven except by act]
i beg of you: listen
one lives, as if by accident
want & not wanting,
to turn. who like the saint
by practice more
than anything else is faithful
to presence. the memory,
for example, survives but waves
goodbye vanished
is vanishing into these black
lines. nobody’s isotope.
nobody’s encore. nobody’s
trapdoor. spawn of unless
believe of almost
as in slantwise,
askew we’re destined you said
it nevertheless struggle
on, merge, make sense
tend to the near at hand
like the expensive
delicate ship, sailing on
or the rose shorn from its stem,
that does not know a tragedy
has occurred. love, the leaves die
but still the tree
is there, breathing.
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Piper Online Book Club

January Selection
A Question of Freedom
by R. Dwayne Betts
A coming-of-age story from award-winning poet R. Dwayne Betts, with the unique twist that it takes place in prison. Utterly alone—and with the growing realization that he really is not going home any time soon—the author confronts profound questions about violence, freedom, crime, race, and the justice system. Above all, A Question of Freedom is about a quest for identity—one that guarantees his survival in a hostile environment and that incorporates an understanding of how his own past led to the moment of his crime.
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