Second in our reading series, we will be featuring two local writers in conversation:
Arisa White & Katherine Ferrier
Tuesday October 29.
Doors and bar at 6pm
Author conversation + q&a 7-8pm
Drinks and mingling 8-10pm
Print will be set up at this event selling the authors books.
Author of Who’s Your Daddy (Augury Books 2021). Arisa White is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Colby College. She is the author of Who’s Your Daddy, co-editor of Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart, and co-author of Biddy Mason Speaks Up, the second book in the Fighting for Justice Series for young readers. Her poetry is widely published, and her collections have been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Lambda Literary Award, and have won the Per Diem Poetry Prize, Maine Literary Award, Nautilus Book Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and Golden Crown Literary Award. As the creator of the Beautiful Things Project, Arisa curates poetic collaborations that are rooted in Black queer women’s ways of knowing. She is a Cave Canem fellow and serves on the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance Community Advisory Board. Currently in development with composer Jessica Jones, Arisa is working on Post Pardon: The Opera. arisawhite.com
Katherine Ferrier is a queer poet, dancer, textile artist,
teacher, and community organizer based in Rockland, Maine. Her work has been featured in Uppercase Magazine, The Knot, Contact Quarterly, and several poetry anthologies, including A Dangerous New World: Maine Voices on the Climate Crisis, and a self-published collection of photographs and poems called Thread Says Stay. Katherine is a founding member of The Architects, an improvisation ensemble whose collaborative performance history spans over 30 years, with whom she continues to teach and perform. Since 2019, she has been a core member of the (stillness) collective, a place-based interdisciplinary collaborative creating work along waterways in Midcoast Maine. Katherine directs the Medomak Fiberarts Retreat in Washington, ME, a nationally recognized gathering of fiber artists from around the world, where she teaches improvisational patchwork, slow stitching, wet felting, and writing for makers. She has recently shown her textile work and performance at The Ice House Gallery, The Buoy Gallery, Speedwell Projects, Cove Street Arts, and SPACE Gallery. She teaches and performs throughout the US and abroad and believes in patchwork as the radical practice of being patient, saying yes, and making space for everyone at the table. katherineferrier.net