Join writers CMarie Fuhrman, Toni Jensen, and Jane Wong as they celebrate and interrogate their individuality and identity against the backdrop of history, expectations, and reality.
Their poetry and prose challenge reader’s expectations and examine the impact of race and culture on their lives and writing. Jensen explores gun violence, land, and the lives of Indigenous women in her memoir-in-essays, Carry. Wong wrestles with Chinese immigrant life in the US and explores her own identity in both her poetry collection and her forthcoming memoir Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City, and Furhman, the 2021-2023 Idaho Writer in Residence and author of Camped Beneath the Dam, meditates on land and body while bearing witness to the challenges faced by underrepresented voices. Fuhrman, Jensen, and Wong will each give a reading of their own work and discuss how their backgrounds and identities influence and inform their writing. The work of these writers is all celebrated in Nonwhite and Woman: 131 Micro Essays on Being in the World, an anthology which “. . . celebrates how women of color live and thrive in the world, and how they make their lives their own.” The anthology (along with all authors' books) will be available for purchase at the event via Auntie's Bookstore.
AGE GROUP: | All Ages | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Learning & Lectures | Book & Film Discussions | Arts & Culture |
Mon, Sep 09 | 9:00AM to 7:00PM |
Tue, Sep 10 | 9:00AM to 7:00PM |
Wed, Sep 11 | 9:00AM to 7:00PM |
Thu, Sep 12 | 9:00AM to 7:00PM |
Fri, Sep 13 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
Sat, Sep 14 | 10:00AM to 5:00PM |
Sun, Sep 15 | 12:00PM to 4:00PM |
COMPUTERS & TECHNOLOGY
66 public computer stations
MEETING & STUDY ROOMS
300 person capacity nxʷyxʷyetkʷ Hall (pronounced: inn-whi-whi-ettk, a Salish word meaning Life in the Water)
256 capacity combined event space on the 1st floor
34 person capacity maker studio
2 conference rooms
2 reservable co-working spaces in the Business Lab
5 study rooms
Media Studios – production studio, recording studio, and video studio
SERVICES
Friends of the Library used book store
New Leaf Café
Business Lab with Bloomberg Terminal & Coworking Space
Computer Lab (Faxing, copying, scanning, printing)
Inland Northwest Special Collections
KYRS Radio
Shimmer (public art) by John Rogers
River Rumpus Children’s Playspace
Serenity Room