Join us Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 7 p.m. Eastern (4 p.m. Pacific) for a reading and conversation with Elaine Fletcher Chapman, author of Reservoir, Christi Harris, artist, and Tracy Rice Weber, author of Tools & Ornaments. This will be an eye-opening conversation about designing a book cover, and art and poetry!
Elaine Fletcher Chapman (formerly Elaine Walters McFerron) is the author of two volume of poems, Reservoir and Hunger for Salt published by Saint Julian Press and a letterpress chapbook, Double Solitude published by Green River Press. She worked on staff at The Bennington Writing Seminars, Bennington College for 18 years. She founded The Writer’s Studio where she teaches poetry, nonfiction and ongoing classes: On Keeping a Journal and Yoga Nidra & Sacred Writing© and Yoga Nidra Meditation. For the last 40 years she has worked as a therapist in private practice. She is a Certified iRest Yoga Nidra teacher. Her poems have been published in Hoot, Cloudbank, Poetry Pacific, 8 Poems, Rabid Oak, The Tishman Review, The EcoTheo Review, The Cortland Review, Connotation, The Sun, Calyx, Poet Lore, 5AM, Salamander, and others. She was guest blogger on The Best American Poetry Blog and The Solstice Literary Magazine blog. Find trailers for books and poetry videos on her website: www.elainefletcherchapman.com She can be found on Instagram @elaine.fletcherchapman
Christi Harris earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Missouri State in Springfield, Missouri. The year following graduation, she pursued her M.F.A. in Painting and Printmaking at the Rhode Island School of Design, in Providence, Rhode Island. Her major series of works have always focused on issues of domesticity, feminism, and consumer culture. She has explored traditional painting as well as fibers and embroidery. Her work has an underlying reliance on technical skill and formal elements of art, but is intended to communicate a broader message. Her recent artwork has explored memory, and the role of women within the prescribed societal structures of the culture and family. She is an Associate Professor of Studio Art within the department of Fine Art and Art History at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. She teaches foundation and advanced studio courses in painting and drawing.
Tracy Rice Weber, author of Tools & Ornaments (St. Julian Press) has been playing to an audience–real and imagined–since she was a young child. A graduate of Longwood College, she taught Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing for thirty-five years before putting down her colored chalk and returning to her own work. In 2021 Tracy graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Old DominionUniversity in Norfolk, VA. Because students are her life force, she returned to ODU to teach Introduction to Literature and Intro to Creative Writing. She currently teaches First & Second-Year Writing Seminars at Christopher Newport University in Newport News. Her first collection, All That Keeps Me, was published in 2021 by Finishing Line Press.
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