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Saturday, November 18, 2023 @ 7:00 pm EST - 8:00 pm EST

Meeting Location:
  • Hybrid
The Muse Writers Center
2200 Colonial Avenue, #3
Norfolk, VA 23517 United States

Shannon Curtin Book Launch and Q&A

Join The Muse Writers Center for a reading by Shannon Curtin from her new poetry collection, Things Hard And Lovely. After the reading, there will be a Q&A and book signing. This event will be held in person at The Muse and copies of the book will be available for purchase. See the Muse’s current Covid-19 policies. For those who are not able to attend in person, there will be a live stream of the event on the Muse Facebook page or you can register to join on Zoom.

 

“Tender, evocative, and unafraid.”

-Kate Baer, 3x New York Times bestselling author of What Kind Of Woman, I Hope This Finds You Well, & And Yet.

 

“Things Hard and Lovely maps a raw, unguarded place between tough cynicism and vapid optimism, where mothers must live. This collection is a beautiful testimony to desperate love and steadfast fear, a fragile history of a woman’s fragmented but unbreakable heart. While mothering moments are familiar, Curtin’s fresh angles kept on showing me something unexpected. So even when I was saying “yes, yes, it is that way,” I was turning her new metaphors in my mind.”

-Lydia Netzer, author of the New York Times Notable Book, SHINE SHINE SHINE.

 

About the Author: 

Shannon J. Curtin is a poet, essayist, and humor writer residing in Suffolk, Virginia. Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Reader’s Digest, Scary Mommy, Button Poetry, AARP, and other outlets. Her first chapbook, File Cabinet Heart, was the 2014 winner of the ELJ Publications Mini-Collection Competition. Her second chapbook, Motherland, was published by Anchor & Plume Press in 2015. She holds an MBA, competitive shooting records, and her liquor. She would probably like you. You can find more of her writing at http://www.shannonjcurtin.com and follow her on Twitter @shannonjcurtin.

 

Please note: This class or event is hybrid. Some attendees will be in-person and some will attend online. There may be a limited number of in-person seats available. If you are participating online (using Zoom or a similar live platform), students or attendees should have a stable internet connection. Class participants: you should have a computer or device with a webcam and microphone; and your Zoom link will be automatically sent to you after you register. Check your spam box if you don't see it.

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