Come celebrate the launch of Lucia LoTempio's first full-length collection: Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books)!
About this Event
Over the moon to celebrate the launch of local poet Lucia LoTempio's first full-length collection, Hot with the Bad Things, from Alice James Books! She'll be joined by Stephanie Cawley, Lauren Russell, and Suzannah Russ Spaar for a reading. Pre-order your copy of Lucia's book and register in advance, then make yourself a fun beverage and join us for an evening of wonderful poetry. Head to our Bookshop site's list titled "Recent and Upcoming Events (Pre-order!)" to order all these writers' books. You can also check out other curated lists and picks on our main site page, or use the search bar in the upper center-right to look for any book. (Using the book's ISBN usually works best.)
This event will be hosted on Zoom. You'll receive the link to the Zoom meeting the day of the event via email. Free registration/ticket sales will end at 6:30pm EDT on 5/14. Please email events@whitewhalebookstore.com if you miss this cut-off and need a ticket.
About Hot with the Bad Things:
These poems take a closer look at violence against women, both physical and psychological. Follow the intersection of fear, identity, and the malleability of the speaker's own experiences of violence enacted on her by men, particularly a past partner. Imagistic and evocative, the poems ask how are we conditioned into living with violence, and how do we move forward?
About the authors:
Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books 2020). You can find her poems in Passages North, The Journal, TYPO, Quarterly West, as part of the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series, and elsewhere. With Suzannah Russ Spaar, she co-authored the chapbook Undone in Scarlet. Lucia has taught creative writing and composition for the University of Pittsburgh, developing courses that focus on the writing and reading of poetry. She teaches poetry writing courses for Pittsburgh Center for Arts and Media, and has mentored for The Adroit Journal Summer Writing Program. Lucia lives and writes in Pittsburgh.
Stephanie Cawley is a poet from southern New Jersey. She is the author of My Heart But Not My Heart, winner of the Slope Book Prize chosen by Solmaz Sharif, and the chapbook A Wilderness from Gazing Grain Press. Her poems and other writing appear in DIAGRAM, The Fanzine, TYPO, The Boston Review, and West Branch, among other places. Her next book Animal Mineral will be out from YesYes Books in 2022.
Lauren Russell is the author of What’s Hanging on the Hush and Descent. She has received fellowships from the NEA and the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, and her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry, among others. She is assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Suzannah Russ Spaar is a poet from Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her MFA from the University of Pittsburgh and is the co-author with Lucia LoTempio of the chapbook, Undone in Scarlet. Currently, she teaches middle school girls.