SNS | 8-27-22
Featuring: Heidi Kasa & T.A. Niles
Theme: Opposites
Hosted By: Hollie Hardy
Saturday, August 27, 2022
6:00pm Pacific Time
(8:00pm Central time)
Online Event
Free Admission
When I was in college at SFSU studying creative writing, I took a class with the fabulous Nona Caspers. One day she started her lecture by holding up a potted plant she had brought for this purpose. "Write like this pink flower!" she commanded. Then she raised her other fist above her head, "Write like this rusty railroad spike!" I never forgot her lesson on "beauty and its opposite," how opposites can help us better understand truth.
This month at SNS, you are invited to explore the idea of opposites in your writing—day and night, hot and cold, love and indifference, acceptance and rejection, kindness vs malevolence, young vs old, virtue vs sin, truth and lies, red and blue, beauty and its opposite, or any other polarization of your choosing.
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Author Bios
Heidi Kasa writes weird fiction that sometimes gives people chills. She is also a poet, though lately her poems are more like political rants. Her work has been a finalist for a Black Lawrence Press award and shortlisted for a Fractured Lit award. Kasa’s fiction chapbook, Split, is due out from Monday Night Press in August 2022. She edits nonfiction and is learning how to take good care of native Texas flowers and plants.
Buy Split here: https://www.mondaynightpress.com/split/
Find more of Kasa's work here: www.heidikasa.com
T.A. Niles is
just a crude dude spillin'
in a world that's illin'
spinnin' turnin' so fast it's burnin'
trailin smoke so thick and noxious
it can choke the righteous
into coughing up the platitudes
of the multitudes....
He’s throwin’ down on Fear
like it stole sump’n
embracing Truth
like an imaginary lover
coaxing, cajoling
but never coercing
Authenticity
from Plasticity’s clutches…
Can ya feel im?
Do you care to?
If so, you can find more of his expressions on his
YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQuUXZENe-u4D0TZn1x01ew
And his blog: https://tapoetexpress.blogspot.com/
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