Join The Georgia Review and UGA Press to celebrate recent books in our Georgia Review Books imprint. Brandon Som will read from his 2024 Pulitzer Prize–winning collection, Tripas, whose poems are built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in celebration of his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Siwar Masannat will read from cue, an ekphrastic collection that responds to artist Akram Zaatari’s excavation of studio portraits by Hashem El Madani, captured between the 1940s and 1970s in the Lebanese town of Saida. cue’s intertextual experiments and lyric poems pose questions about privacy and visibility, love and family, gender, and ecological agency. This reading will be part of the Asian American Literature Festival, a festival running in September with coordinated events happening across the world.

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Mark Clegg Crimson and Gold book discussion at Virginia Highlands Bookstore.

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Our inaugural literary festival planning is underway and we are very excited to bring writers and literary enthusiasts from all over the country to Asheville, North Carolina. September in the Blue Ridge Mountains is beautiful, and so we are especially excited to celebrate writers and literature in person this time of year. 

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