February 2022
Winter Greetings!
The short month of February holds many things: Valentine’s Day amour, winter snow and ice shivers, longer days of light thrills, and a three-day weekend for those of us in the US.
Our big news is MicroLit Almanac opens for submissions on February 1. We’re eager to read your work, so send it our way. Would you like editorial feedback? We provide a one-paragraph review of your work with comments about flash essentials. ($5)
(We’re capping submissions at 100 entries for our launch month.)
Join us for Mix & Meet on Tuesday, February 8 at 5 PM EST, 2 PM PST. This month we’re offering a special and we invite you to bring a writing friend with you. The Bring a Friend registration fee is $40 (split with a friend or give them an early Valentine’s Day gift), and to register for one is $25.
Join us on Tuesday, February 22nd at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) for a BBE InConversation event featuring Amy Butcher and Brendan Jones. Amy will read from her new memoir, Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America, and Brendan will read from his latest novel, Whispering Alaska. Together they will consider Alaska as a site of self-discovery and inspiration. We welcome questions from the audience!
Birch Bark Editing and Arthur Gold's translators have decided, because of extreme weather, to postpone the Arthur Gold reading, There the Rock Glistens: 14 Poems (A Period of Sickness), until Saturday, February 26, 2022. We are disappointed but are already looking forward to joining you all on the 26th at 2 pm (US EDT), 8 pm (France) for a bilingual reading of Arthur Gold’s poems. Our readers are:
poet David Ferry
poet/translator Emmanuel Merle
translator and moderator Caroline Talpe
Our friends in France will be joining us for this reading, and we’d like to thank Éditions Encre & lumière for the opportunity to host this event.
Stay tuned for more InConversation events with Erica Plouffe Lazure, June Gervais, Sam Kolawole, and a group of zooming poets gathered by Lauren Davis.
So join us this month. We’ll help you toss off the feeling that February is one very long Tuesday.
Cat & Max