Arlington Poets Will Read Their Work

Several poets published by ArLiJo will be reading their work in the new Arlington, VA anthology on June 10, 2021 at 7 PM.

Mark your calendar! Big "Written in Arlington" reading coming up this Thursday, June 10, at Readings on the Pike, hosted by Hannah Grieco. Join Cristi Donoso, Robert L. Giron, Kori Johnson, Arlington Poet Laureate Holly Karapetkova, Gregory Luce, Sushmita Mazumdar, Lori Rottenberg, Naomi Thiers, and me to celebrate the poets and poems of Arlington, VA! Details on the event page. https://www.facebook.com/events/139782311403554?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22group%22%7D]%7D

Poetry Reading: "Written in Arlington: Poems of Arlington, Virginia"

Join us on June 10, 2021 at 7:00 PM for a Zoom written in Arlington at Readings on the Pike. June 10, 2021. With Cristi Donoso Best, Robert Giron, Kori Johnson, Holly Karapetkova, Gregory Luce, Sushmita Mazumdar, Lori Rottenberg, and Naomi Thiers, whose work appears in the anthology Written in Arlington. Hosted by Hannah Grieco.

For more information, see the Facebook Group page for this event.

Jordan Silversmith Featured in Chicago Review of Books

A Baker’s Dozen of Books for Mental Health Awareness Month

BY JEN ST. JUDE MAY 11, 2021

Jordan Silversmith, author of Redshift, Blueshift

“Hamlet’s dilemma could be restated. It is not enough to be, but to be well: the challenge is in knowing that both can be had, but only one comes as a matter of course in living, while the other must be sought. The solace that books provide is one way to get there: in the loneliest times, often, the only ones who will talk to us, and listen to us, are those long-dead voices in books. We can learn a way to be well through reading. It’s there, but it must be sought through the mire.”

About the book: When a prisoner in an unnamed labor camp finds his journal of memories taken from his cell, he sets out to console himself and perhaps reclaim his freedom by again writing down what he can remember from his past. As the prisoner writes and passes through the vivid world of a distant life, he is eventually confronted by a strange memory that, if true, questions the reliability of his memories and whether what he remembers was really his own life or, somehow, someone else’s.

Redshift, Blueshift By Jordan Silversmith Gival Press

Coming in October 2021