This Sunday, Writers Resist gather in Boston’s South End, and throughout the nation, to reclaim democracy
BOSTON,
MA
– Authors Laura Grattan, Julie Lekstrom Himes, and Margaret Zamos-Monteith will
be featured readers at a Writers Resist event being held at Boston Sculptors
Gallery in Boston’s South End on Sunday January 15th at 2 pm.
The reading,
titled WHERE THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN, has been organized in conjunction with
artist Claudia Olds Goldie’s solo exhibition SKIN DEEP, and in coordination
with more than 90 Writers Resist events taking place concurrently across the
nation. The Gallery is located at 486 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA 02118
Community
partners co-sponsoring the Writers Resist Boston South End event
include Pen & Anvil Press, Clarion magazine, Pusteblume journal of
translation, The New England Review of Books, Burn magazine, Ibbetson
Street Press, The Battersea Review, the feminist literary collective
Whisper and the Roar, Červená Barva Press, Oddball Magazine, spoKe
magazine, Dire Literary Series, and JP Lime, a hip-hop collective.
One
sponsoring partner, Červená Barva Press, is operated by Gloria Mindock,
Poet Laureate of Somerville; Executive Director of the Read America
Read project; and author most recently of the collection Whiteness of
Bone (Glass Lyre Press, 2016). She explains her reasons for supporting
Writers Resist South End Boston:
“I am proud to speak up in literary protest with others throughout
the country in protest for our democracy and for justice. Our freedom of
expression is in danger of being silenced. We must protect our rights of having
a free press, free religion, and freedom of the right to assemble. The Writers
Resist movement will not be quiet. I will not be quiet.”
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ABOUT WRITERS RESIST. Across the country
and internationally, nearly a hundred locally-organized Writers Resist events
to “reclaim democracy” will be happening on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, 01/15/17,
featuring hundreds of prominent literary voices. Sites include New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Austin, Portland,
Omaha, Seattle, London, Zurich, and Hong Kong.
Writers Resist is a national network of writers driven to #WriteOurDemocracy
by defending the ideals of a free, just and compassionate democratic society.
It was
launched after the recent US election by poet Erin Belieu, an alumnus of Boston
University’s graduate creative writing program and founder of VIDA: Women In
Literary Arts. Belieu hopes that this day of massively coordinated readings and
rallies will be “a first step in focusing public attention on the ideals of a
free, just and compassionate society.”
The organizers of the South End Boston
event share Belieu’s goal that in order for us to move forward and heal from
the recent election, we must focus as artists and writers on the ideals of
democracy and social justice for all.
In support of this mission, we invite you to gather with us in celebration of
the importance of literature and the arts to a strong, thriving democracy.
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Writers Resist information:
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South End event contacts:
Event webpage:
penandanvil.com/writers-resist
#writeourdemocracy
