We recently returned from the always inspiring annual gathering of Imagining America, a consortium of scholars, artists, and activists working for a more equitable world. This year's conference culminated with the inauguration of Dr. Adam Bush as the President of College Unbound, an innovative, degree-granting institution that Adam cofounded for adults who face significant barriers to attending college. Our congratulations to Adam, who has long been a super booster for community-engaged learning, Imagining America, and New Village Press! | |
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David Cortright in Albany, NY
November 11, 7–8:30 PM ET
David Cortright, author of A Peaceful Superpower, will be giving a talk on "Why Nuclear Disarmament is More Urgent Than Ever" for the annual fundraiser of the Peace History Society. His lecture will be followed by a Q&A session. Cortright is currently serving as University Lecturer and Fellow of the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University.
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Albany
Event info HERE
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Daniel O'Connell at UC Davis
December 1, 3–5 PM PST
Join Daniel O'Connell and Scott Peters, coauthors of In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight against Industrial Agribusiness in California, for a book discussion at UC Davis. The discussion will center around the history of radical social science research and how it can support agrarian justice. It will be hosted by the Community Development Graduate Group / Human Ecology and the Center for Regional Change. Venue: Hunt Hall 142, UC Davis.
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New Village Press at Howard Zinn Book Fair – San Francisco
December 3, 10 AM–6 PM PT
New Village Press is looking forward to exhibiting at the Howard Zinn Book Fair. Authors Daniel O’Connell, Janaki Anagha, Laura Roberto, and Louise Dunlap will be presenting and have their respective books featured. The free public event will be in-person, with an “Against Amnesia” theme.
1125 Valencia St
San Francisco, CA 94110
Event info HERE
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Margaret Randall Birthday Celebration
December 6, 6:00 pm MT
New Village is thrilled to announce the planned celebration of poet and writer Margaret Randall’s 87th birthday at Collected Works Bookstore and Coffeehouse! Margaret has authored or translated nearly twice as many books as she is years old, including four books with New Village Press. She will be reading at this event from her most recent one, Luck!
202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501
Event info HERE
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Recent Releases and Reviews! | | |
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The Art Fuse reviews
That's A Pretty Thing To Call It
“Prisons are built to separate the incarcerated from the rest of the community, to silence their voices. Jails are an essential part of a system built to make them disappear. Works like That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It expose the cruelty and absurdity of that intention.”
Reviewer Bill Littlefield considers the complex moral and emotional conflicts that occur for those teaching in carceral institutions in his review of That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions, edited by Leigh Sugar.
Read the full review HERE
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LEIGH SUGAR is a Michigan-born writer, teacher, and dancer, who has facilitated creative writing workshops through the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) and co-edited PCAP’s annual Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing. She has also taught writing at the Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, the Poetry Foundation, the Justice Arts Coalition, and beyond. Her writing appears in Poetry Magazine, Split This Rock, jubilat, Honey Literary, and elsewhere.
As a disabled and chronically ill person, Leigh Sugar is committed to working towards greater justice for all. She is donating all her royalties from this anthology to Dances for Solidarity, a project that brings arts to people incarcerated in solitary confinement.
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New York Journal of Books reviews Margaret Randall’s book, Luck
"Every essay, whether one agrees or not with the views expressed, is a pleasure to read and always thought-provoking," notes Jane Haile in her review of Luck, a personal collection of topics ranging from violence and death to feminism and identity. Haile contemplates the topics and themes that Randall covers and the appeal they hold for different groups of people and concludes there is an essay for everyone.
Read the full review HERE
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Luck
Margaret Randall
MARGARET RANDALL’s most keen essays to date will prompt readers to rethink topics of death, lies, memory, language, landscape, poetry, anger, sex, food, war, pandemics, violence, feminism, imagination, power, identity, and of course luck.
This singular book is complemented by drawings of artist BARBARA BYERS.
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That Said Podcast by Michael Zeldin
Muriel Fox, a feminist, cofounder of NOW, and author of the forthcoming memoir The Women’s Revolution, was Michael Zeldin’s special guest discussing NOW’s key role in the second wave women’s movement.
Listen HERE
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Feminist Formations Journal review of Inherited Silence
Activist Gwen Kirk reviews Louse Dunlap’s provocative Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind in the Feminist Formations Journal and is compelled by Dunlap to contemplate her own privileged frame.
“Dunlap invites and challenges white people to transform oppressive structures and our ways of being in the world. She urges us to commit to the discomfort of real change and to use our privilege to further social justice and ecological sustainability.”
Read the full review HERE
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Underground West Gallery
Norlin Library
1720 Pleasant St, Boulder, CO 80309
Exhibit and program info HERE
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Waging Peace at University of Colorado Boulder
Thru December 15th
The powerful exhibit and concurrent programming for Waging Peace in Vietnam is now running at the University of Colorado Boulder. The exhibit, curated by Ron Carver, depicts the important, but largely unknown, role of U.S. active duty military and returning veterans in opposing the American war in Vietnam. Ron Carver also coedited the book of the same name, Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers and Veterans Who Opposed the War, based on the exhibit.
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Veteran and poet Doug Rawlings interviewed by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges and poet Doug Rawlings discuss the American war in Vietnam and the experiences that made Rawlings become a peace activist. Rawlings cites Waging Peace in Vietnam, an exhibit and book that shows how GIs and veterans came together to create a movement in opposition to the unjust war.
Listen to the interview HERE
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Americans Who Tell the Truth
Artist, activist, and author Robert Shetterly has painted over 260 portraits of Americans Who Tell the Truth. These exquisite paintings of inspiring activists are exhibited in dozens of communities—see current shows below.
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Thru December 8
BALE, South Royalton, Vermont
More exhibit info HERE
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Thru December 29
Thomas College Lunder School of Education, Waterville, Maine
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