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Please join us authors Jennifer Militello and Christine Kalafus discuss and read from their new books:"The Pact" and "Flood: A Memoir"
on September 13th at 2 PM
ABOUT PACT
In her newest collection, award-winning poet and memoirist Jennifer Militello confronts obsession, intimacy, and abuse. Through love poems inspired by such disparate spaces as a British art museum and the reptile house of a local zoo, poems comparing a romantic affair to the religious cult at Jonestown and a mother’s role to a Congolese power figure bristling with nails, The Pact offers an indictment against affection and a portent against zeal. This book places pleasure alongside pain, even as it delivers Militello’s trademark talent for innovation and ritualization of the strange.
Jennifer Militello is the author of the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Award, and five collections of poetry including, most recently, The Pact. Militello's work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Best New Poets, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry.
ABOUT FLOOD: A MEMOIR
Christine is pregnant with twins and reeling from her husband’s affair when her right breast engages in a mutiny. Delivering identical boys and a tumor on the same day, she believes the worst is over. Until the natural spring under her house — what the neighborhood kids call The Witch House — begins to rise. Desperate for solid ground, Christine’s desire for wisdom sweeps everything in its path—her parents’ memories of the historic flood of 1955 that devastated Connecticut’s upper and lower Housatonic River Valley, the impossible expectations of modern motherhood, and a chilling brush with medical gaslighting —reminding us that when the stakes include certain death, they cannot get any higher.
Christine Kalafus’s essays and poems have been published by The Culture We Deserve, Longreads, The New Guard, and The Connecticut Literary Anthology, among others. Previously a seamstress for the interior design industry, Christine’s sewing appeared in Vogue and is on permanent display at The Mount, home of 19th and 20th century writer and designer Edith Wharton. Christine’s award-winning writing–a synthesis of this cross-discipline in aesthetics–explores the complexities of home. She lives in Pomfret, Connecticut. FLOOD is her first book.
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