AQLF is proud to partner with the Decatur Book Festival in presenting these exciting events. The festival runs Labor Day Weekend from September 3-5. Check out the DBF website for directions, full schedules and other great events. http://www.decaturbookfestival.com/.
An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS
David Groff
Decatur Conference Center Stage
(Ballroom B) Saturday, 10:00 am - 10:45 am
From Reinaldo Arenas, Tory Dent, and James Merrill to Paul Monette, Essex Hemphill, and Joe Brainard, Persistent Voices memorializes these poets and many others by presenting their work—often dealing with AIDS but also about other enduring topics—in the context of an unending epidemic that has profoundly affected our literature.
Local poets Franklin Abbott, Megan Volpert, Theresa Davis, Cleo Creech and Collin Kelley read from an anthology of noted poets lost to AIDS along with editor David Groff.
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The First Risk
Saturday, 11:15 at Decatur Conference Cntr Stage (Ballroom A)
Charles Jensen is the author of three chapbooks, including Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O’Hara Chapbook Award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon (New Michigan Press, 2007). His first full-length collection, The First Risk, was published in 2009 by Lethe Press and was a 2010 Lambda Literary Award finalist.
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Rakesh Satyal
Blue Boy
Saturday, 3:00 at Decatur Conference Cntr Auditorium
As an only son, Kiran has obligations — to excel in his studies, to honor the deities, to find a nice Indian girl, and, above all, to make his mother and father proud — standard stuff for a boy of his background. Kiran's not-so-well-kept secrets don't endear him to any group. Playing with dolls; taking the annual talent show way too seriously...the very things that make Kiran who he is also make him the star of his own personal freak show...
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Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing
Sunday, 2:30 Decatur Conference Cntr Stage (Ballroom A)
Rigoberto Gonazalez is the author of eight books and the editor of Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing. The recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, winner of the American Book Award, and The Poetry Center Book Award, he writes a Latino book column for the El Paso Times of Texas.
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