“What I enjoy most about [Wren’s] music has to do with retelling the story that we have this amazing friendship with nature, and that most people in our culture are hungry to experience this feeling of belonging through music or other forms of art.”
– Brian, Listener
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WRITING ILLNESS LANDSCAPES & INHERITANCES
June 23 at 6:30 PST on Zoom
What new perspectives on illness can art offer in a time of collapsing human, environmental, and cultural health? Join us on Zoom for a cozy night of poetry, memoir, and discussion featuring three writers’ expansive takes on bodily inheritances and recovery.
Two years ago, I (Laura) received an incredible grant from 4culture to fund the writing and development of my first poetry manuscript. I have spent the period since in the fulfilling, grueling, euphoric, and ever-challenging process of putting together this collection… and it nears completion!
However, bringing a book into the world for the public is no small task, so while the book release celebration will be for another day (or year, or decade), I’m so excited to be hosting this event to showcase some early tidbits of the collection, alongside Margarita Cruz and Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm, two writers at similar stages of creation on manuscripts exploring bodies, earth, and inheritance.
I hope you’ll join us!
Zoom ID: 878 3417 6938
PW: recovery
This project was supported, in part, by a grant from 4Culture.
Margarita Cruz received her MFA in Creative Writing from Northern Arizona University. She serves as President of the Northern Arizona Book Festival, contributor for the Arizona Daily Sun and is a part time educator. When she’s not reading, writing, or building community, she is often out hiking in the high desert she has found a home in. She currently hosts a weekly open mic for writers, Poet Brews. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2022, she can be found or is forthcoming in Rattle, Ploughshares, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day among other spaces. Explore her work at ShortEndings.com.
Laura Adrienne Brady is a writer, educator, and singer-songwriter (known as Wren). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Poet Lore, Brevity, EcoTheo Review, and elsewhere. Laura’s latest project Pink Stone is an album of original folk songs and an illustrated companion book set in Washington’s Methow Valley. A graduate of Northern Arizona University’s MFA program in Creative Writing, she currently teaches writing at universities around Arizona and hosts community classes under trees and online. Explore her multidisciplinary work at LauraAdrienneBrady.com.
Kaeley Pruitt-Hamm is a writer, musician, and community organizer. Founder of KPH & The Canary Collective, a people power indie folk project, she uses music as a storytelling and community organizing tool, particularly to highlight the need for action for climate and healthcare justice through multimedia projects and events. She has released three albums of original music and organized events such as “#BedFest 2017,” a virtual music and arts festival for bedridden artists and the “Sick Womxn and Queers Shows.” She is currently adapting her music for a PNW orchestra and finishing a book. Explore her work at CanaryCollective.org.
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Pink Stone
Songs & Writings from Moose Lodge
A multi-media exploration of nature, health, and intimacy set amongst the wild rivers and forests of Washington’s Methow Valley, traditional home of the Methow People.
“She begins high in the mountains, nestled in the heart of seven rugged peaks. Against the towering crags and plunging valleys, she is a small presence, great-great-great granddaughter to the glaciers that once crept their way through stone, clearing her way to the sea.”
