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SUMMARY:MN Book Award Series: "Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces" with Michelle Filkins
DESCRIPTION:MN Book Award Series: Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces with Michelle Filkins\, joined by Sha Cage\, Maureen Aiken\, Leslie Adrienne Miller\, Suzanne Nielsen and Patricia Cumbie. \nThursday\, May 15\, 7:00 p.m.\nEast Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul\, MN  55106 \nFREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED \nThe East Side Freedom Library is fortunate to have on our board of directors editor\, librarian and writer Michelle Filkins. Join us for a conversation on the collection recognized as a Minnesota Book Award finalist\, Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces. Michelle will be on hand along with some of the contributors to the collection. \nLocker Room Talk\, gives us insight into the epic and ordinary moments that happen when women are together. Subverting the traditional idea of “locker room talk\,” this collection illuminates the conversations women share with family\, friends\, and strangers\, whether at the sinks of a nightclub ladies’ room\, on a bus heading to the Women’s March\, or in the kitchen of an elder relative. Cumulatively\, they reveal the myriad ways women care for themselves\, each other\, their communities\, and our world. \nMichelle Filkins is a founding editor of Spout Press and a contributing author to The Evolution of Human Cooperation and Community Development (Lexington Books\, 2021) and Creating a Transformational Community: The Fundamentals of Stewardship Activities (Lexington Books\, 2017). She is a Little Free Library steward and one of the Daunte Wright Memorial caretakers. Currently she is a professor and reference and instruction librarian at Metro State University in Saint Paul. \nSha Cage is a renaissance artist who writes\, directs and acts in theater and film.  She has been called a change-maker and one of the leading artists of her generation. Sha is one of the premier actors\, artists and culture makers in the Twin Cities whose work has been recognized globally. \nMaureen Aitken’s short-story collection\, The Patron Saint of Lost Girls (SEMO Press)\, won the Nilsen Prize\, the top Foreword Review INDIE Prize (General Fiction\, Gold Winner)\, and ranked in the Kirkus Best Indie Books of 2019.  She is a Minnesota Book Award finalist and a Pushcart Prize nominee. \nLeslie Adrienne Miller’s collections of poetry include Y\, The Resurrection Trade\, and Eat Quite Everything You See from Graywolf Press\, and Yesterday Had a Man In It\, Ungodliness and Staying Up For Love from Carnegie Mellon University Press. \nPatricia Cumbie’s short stories and essays have been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Her writing has been supported by The Loft Literary Center’s Fiction Mentor Series\, a nSASE/Jerome Fellowship\, a Loft Career Initiative Grant\, and a Minnesota State Arts Board fellowship. \nSuzanne Nielsen (she/her) is a lifelong resident of St. Paul\, Minnesota. She is an East Sider who teaches writing at Metropolitan State University. Her latest poetry collection\, Face Up\, was published in March 2022. \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE FOR THE CAUSE OF SOLIDARITY! \nREGISTRATION REQUESTED \nBook sales from
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SUMMARY:MN Book Award Series: Under Turbulent Skies - a reading and reflection by Kao Kalia Yang
DESCRIPTION:MN Book Award Series: Under Turbulent Skies – a reading and reflection by Kao Kalia Yang \nThursday\, May 22\, 2025\, 7:00 p.m.\nEast Side Freedom Library\, 1105 Greenbrier Street\, Saint Paul\, MN 55106 \nREGISTRATION IS REQUESTED \nOn April 22nd of this year\, Kao Kalia Yang accomplished something no other person has in the history of the Minnesota Book Awards. She took home three top honors in one year! We are stunned but not surprised. We have long been honored to have her as a friend and frequent presenter at the East Side Freedom Library and again welcome her as we celebrate. This recognition is apt for the rich voice and astute consciousness she has shared over the years\, geographies and important dialogs. \nKalia won the prize for: \n\nChildren’s Literature: The Rock in My Throat by Kao Kalia Yang; illustrated by Jiemei Lin (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group)\nMiddle Grade Literature: The Diamond Explorer by Kao Kalia Yang (Dutton Books for Young Readers/Penguin Random House)\nMemoir & Creative Nonfiction: Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother’s Life by Kao Kalia Yang (Atria Books/Simon & Schuster)\n\nIn addition\, Kalia is part of this year’s Book Awards winner in the Anthology category\, a book co-edited by ESLF board member Michelle Filkins\, Locker Room Talk: Women in Private Spaces.  \nWhere the Rivers Part\n“There are moments of poignant beauty. There are also humiliations. Tswb is small and brown; her English is not good. In America\, she is eas­ily overlooked. In this exceptional book\, Yang shows what a mistake it is to underestimate her: ‘I wanted to claim the legacy of the woman I come from\, the women who had to define for themselves what it meant to live in a world where luck was not on your side.’ She has done so with deep feeling and grace.” —BookPage (starred review) \nThe Diamond Explorer\nAward winning author Kao Kalia Yang stuns with middle-grade debut about a Hmong American boy’s struggle to find a place\nfor himself in America and in the world of his ancestors.\n“Yang has crafted a layered\, profoundly moving musing on grief\, connection (and lack thereof)\, and identity…a true gem.” –Kirkus Reviews\, STARRED REVIEW; “[A] richly wrought tale about a boy coming into his own.” –Publishers Weekly \nThe Rock in My Throat\nHaving seen the poor treatment her parents received when making their best efforts at speaking English\, she no longer speaks at school. Kalia feels as though a rock has become lodged in her throat\, and it grows heavier each day. Although the narrative is somber\, it is also infused with moments of beauty\, love\, and hope.–Lerner Publishing \nKao Kalia Yang is a Hmong-American writer. She is the author of the adult memoirs The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir\, The Song Poet\, and Somewhere in the Unknown World. Yang is also the author of the children’s books A Map Into the World\, The Shared Room\, The Most Beautiful Thing\, and Yang Warriors. Yang is a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow\, and her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the Chautauqua Prize\, the PEN USA literary awards\, the Dayton’s Literary Peace Prize\, the American Library Association\, Kirkus Best Books of the Year\, the Heartland Bookseller’s Award\, and garnered seven Minnesota Book Awards. The East Side Freedom Library is housed in the building of her childhood public library. Kao Kalia Yang lives in Minnesota with her family\, and teaches and speaks across the nation. \nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \nREGISTRATION IS REQUESTED \n 
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