This River will be out soon! Printing and shipping is in process, and I expect books by early December. If you have pre-ordered, you'll have your books well before the December holidays.
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Readings and Events so far:
January 10, 2015, Saturday–11-1 PM.Book signing at Paperbacks Plus, Siler City, Pat Dawson.
January 21, 7 PM (Wed), Reading at Regulator Bookshop (Durham) with Jaki S. Green, recently inducted into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
January 23, 6 PM (Fri), Conversation with Jackie Helvey on the Wacqueline Stern show, WCOM, Carrboro-Chapel Hill Community radio. A link will be available afterwards from Judy.
January 27, 7 PM, (Tues), Reading at South Regional Library (Durham)
March 11, Wed. 7 PM Chatham Community Library, Pittsboro, with Jaki S. Green.
March 24, Tues, Goldsboro. Reading and Publishing Workshop. Details to be announced.
April 9, Thurs, 7 PM. Reading at Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, with a second poet. Open poetry reading follows.
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This River and other recent Hogan titles (Beaver Soul, Farm Fresh and Fatal, and Killer Frost) are available at The Joyful Jewel (Pittsboro), Circle City Books (Pittsboro), Paperbacks Plus (Siler City), as well as at all the venues for the reading of This River.
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This River: An Epic Love Poem, is also available from the publisher www.wildembers.com and
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Someone recently sent me this wonderful quote from Ursula LeGuin: This River fulfills this goal from my perspective. Judy Hogan
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Ursula Le Guin, accepting the Medal for Distinguished
Contribution to American Letters last night at the national book
awards....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk
“I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. I’ve had a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. … The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et9Nf-rsALk
“I think hard times are coming, when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies, to other ways of being. And even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom: poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. Right now, I think we need writers who know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. The profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings. … Power can be resisted and changed by human beings; resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. I’ve had a long career and a good one, in good company, and here, at the end of it, I really don’t want to watch American literature get sold down the river. … The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom.”
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