SNS | 02-25-23
Featuring: Ali Lanzetta & Truong Tran
Theme: Light Switch
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday February 25, 2023
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for spring. As I write this, I’m hiding out with family, hours from home, where a frozen tree came crashing, snapping the power line to our house. Across town, thousands more trees lay in icy ruins as Austonians huddle in the dark. Waiting for the lights to switch back on.
This month at SNS we’re leaning into the light. Bring me your sunshine! There are so many ways to think about a light switch, from the beginning of the universe, to the changing of the seasons where light slides newly through trees, the times of day that simmer and glow in transition, a wisp of sun settling in eyelashes, your childhood flashlight under the covers, the antique lamp’s snap into brightness, the way light teases the tips of waves, the first windows to blink awake on a hillside, captured fireflies in a jar, the spark of new love, the poet’s epiphany. Let there be light!
Want to work on the prompt together? Join me the week before SNS (on Saturday, February 18) for the first ever Saturday Night Special Write-In! Details/ sign up here.
Feel free to interpret the prompt any way you choose or to ignore it entirely. Sign up below to share your poems, stories, songs, dances, or short comedy sketches at this month's open mic.
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Author Bios
Ali Lanzetta is a writer, educator, artist, musician, and bookseller who lives between trees, sleeps under a blanket of books, and has a soft spot for giraffes, whose hearts are over two feet long. Her poetry and prose have appeared in Verse, Switchback, Eleven Eleven, Flock, Panapoly, Gertrude, and elsewhere. Her debut book, marmalade, a collection of prose poetry and flash narrative nonfiction, is scheduled for release in March 2023 from Spuyten Duyvil Press. ali studied creative writing and teaching on the enchanted electric hilltops of San Francisco, but eventually set sail from the city to live, love, and practice the literary arts in a Vermont valley filled with birds. You can find out more about ali and her work at alilanzetta.com.
Preorder her book here: https://www.spuytenduyvil.net/marmalade.html
Truong Tran is a Vietnamese-American poet, visual artist, and teacher. He is an author of eight collections of poetry, most recently, Book of the Other (Kaya Press, 2021), as well as an artist book, and a children's book. As a visual artist Tran is best known for mixed media pieces and light installations. His work is in private collections, and has been featured in solo gallery shows as well as museum exhibitions across the Bay Area. As a teacher, Truong Tran has over twenty years experience as a professor of Creative Writing to both graduates and undergraduates, and has mentored thousands in the community.
truong-tran.com