BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200605T180000 DTSTAMP:20240328T055340 CREATED:20200529T041300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200529T041300Z UID:249615-1591376400-1591380000@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:Solitude Social Club: A Bookish Happy Hour with Major Jackson & Ed Pavlić DESCRIPTION:Solitude Social Club is Hugo House’s offering to readers and writers seeking connection during the social quarantine. \n\nEach week we’ll bring a guest writer to share a drink and discuss how they’re finding happiness through art and literature in these distancing times. After the conversation\, we’ll break out into smaller groups and get to know one another.  \nRSVP at the “Tickets” link to join the Zoom conversation\, or find us streaming on Facebook Live.  \nAll events happen at 5 p.m. PST / 8 p.m. EST.  \n\nAbout the Speakers\n\n \nMajor Jackson is the author of five books of poetry\, including The Absurd Man (2020)\, Roll Deep (2015)\, Holding Company (2010)\, Hoops (2006)\, and Leaving Saturn (2002)\, which won the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems. His edited volumes include: Best American Poetry 2019\, Renga for Obama\, and Library of America’s Countee Cullen: Collected Poems. A recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown\, Guggenheim Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University\, Major Jackson has been awarded a Pushcart Prize\, a Whiting Writers’ Award\, and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. \n\nEd Pavlic’s eleventh book is Let It Be Broke (Four Way Books\, 2020). Another Kind of Madness: A Novel (Milkweed Editions) appeared in paperback in 2020. His next book is Outward in Larger Terms: Adrienne Rich’s Expanding Solitudes\, A Radical Geography (University of Minnesota Press\, 2021). He is distinguished research professor of English\, African American studies and creative writing at the University of Georgia. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/solitude-social-club-a-bookish-happy-hour-with-major-jackson-ed-pavlic/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR