Upcoming & Recent Events

• • • • • “Gathering, Incantation,” Poetry reading. Stonecoast MFA Winter Residency. https://video.maine.edu/media/Day+8+-+Faculty+Reading/1_obt7jx14 “Teaching Poetry in Precarious Settings.”
        • Seminar. Stonecoast MFA Winter Residency. https://video.maine.edu/media/Day+8+-+Guest+Seminar+-+Becky+Thompson/1_ty8ymhfe
        • Book Launch for To Speak in Salt, Brookline Booksmith, November 17th, 7:00. Brookline, Massachusetts. Register Here.  This event will also be livestreamed on the Brookline Booksmith You Tube channel. Here is that link our store YouTube channel.
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              • Book reading and signing forTo Speak in Salt. Vassar College October 27th, 6:00. Poughkeepsie, New York.
              • Soul Forte poetry workshop and discussion for To Speak in Salt, November 20th, 11:00-12:30
                https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9694949341?pwd=bEhCSXBuZ0owYlpIcFd5a1UwWXlndz09
                Meeting ID: 969 494 9341
                Passcode: WuNH9U
              • Stonecoast Alumni Reading series. December 5th. On line. Details to be announced.

      Past Events

      • • • Making Mirrors was chosen as a featured book by the National Women’s Studies Association. The panelists include Angela Davis, Ashwini Tambe, and Maytha AlHassen. San Francisco, California.
          • Poetry Night: Jehan Bseiso – Making Mirrors, Hosted by NVIC – Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo
          • Activists at Simmons University create historic zine and announce a chapter of SOAR: Students Organizing Against Racism. September, 2019. Check out the beautiful zine: SOAR zine
          • Gulf of Maine Books “Hummus and Poetry” night tour has been in Vassar, DC (Bus Boys), California Institute, Denison and Maine
          • Poetry Reading from Making Mirrors: Writing/Righting by Refugees, 2018– Wednesday, February 20th, 7pm Visit the website or download the PDF
          • On campus at Denison: Beck Lecture and poetry reading, MAKING MIRRORS: RIGHTING/WRITING BY AND FOR REFUGEES. Monday, March 4, 2019, 4:30pm. Barney-Davis Board Room. More information
          • Book celebration for Teaching with Tenderness. Baltimore Hilton Hotel, Maryland, November 17th. I’m excited. See More
          • Thompson, B. (2018, March). “Embodied pedagogies: Feminist contemplative practices and social justice.” Panel. Contemplative Practices for 21st Century Higher Education Conference. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Read More.