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Inlandia Author Event

Women’s Work: Poetry Reading

In partnership with the Inlandia Institute, the library presents reading, discussion and book signing with five nationally recognized and inspired female poets from the Inland Empire. The reading will feature Gayle Brandeis, author of Self Storage, The Book of Dead Birds, and Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write, and winner of the Bellwether Prize for Fiction; Ruth Nolan, author of Wild Wash Road and contributing poet to Inlandia, and associate professor of English at College of the Desert; S. Alaska Whelan, author of Between Worlds and the upcoming Versed, to be published in 2008 by Petroglyph Books; Cati Porter, editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and author of small fruit songs, to be published spring 2008 by Pudding House Publications, and Where We Dwell, forthcoming summer 2008 from Mayapple Press; and Chrystine Julian, author of Sensual Spirit, a collection of her poems. Each of the poets will read and discuss recent works focusing on empowered femininity, and they will welcome questions and insights from the audience. Nolan and Brandeis are both contributors to the literary anthology, Inlandia. The Inlandia Institute is a literary center at the Riverside Public Library in Partnership with Heyday Books, seeking to bring focus to the richness of the literary enterprise that has existed in this region for ages. The library’s Cultural Arts Program is proud to be a part of this vision, working to bring noted and emerging authors and artists who create the foundation and the future of our regional voice.