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Bullets Into Bells
Join The Telling Room March 6th at Portland Public Library's Rines Auditorium for a remarkable book event to discuss the role of writers in responding to social issues. Bullets into Bells is a powerful call to end gun violence in America. With a foreward by Gabrielle Giffords and an introduction from Colum McCann, the anthology is comprised of poems by celebrated poets including Billy Collins, Patricia Smith, Natalie Diaz, Richard Blanco, Ocean Vuong, Mark Doty, Rita Dove, Yusef Komunyakaa and others.
Each poem is followed by a response from a gun violence prevention activist, political figure, survivor, or concerned individual, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams; survivors of the Columbine, Sandy Hook, Charleston Emmanuel AME, and Virginia Tech shootings; Samaria Rice, mother of Tamir; and others.
The anthology was recently named a New & Noteworthy title by the New York Times, and has received glowing reviews and features in the Washington Post, PBS News Hour, LitHub, Connecticut Magazine, Poets & Writers, The Millions, Powells.com, Ploughshares, Shelf Awareness, and elsewhere. The release event at the Boston Public Library has been broadcast multiple times by C-SPAN, and it is available for free streaming on the C-SPAN website.
On March 6th, The Telling Room will host anthology editor and poet Brian Clements, anthology contributors Richard Blanco and Judi Richardson, and a few TR student writers for a discussion about how to respond to social injustice through writing.
Brian Clements is the author, most recently, of A Book of Common Rituals. He lives in Newtown, CT, where his wife, a teacher, survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
Richard Blanco is one of the most beloved and influential poets and storytellers writing today. As a historic presidential inaugural poet, public speaker, teacher and memoirist, he continues to travel the world, inviting audiences to reconnect to the heart of the human experience and all of its beautiful diversity.
Judi Richardson is the founder of Remembering Darien. Judi lost her 25-year old daughter, Darien, to murder in Portland in 2010. Judi continues to seek justice, and has said, In Maine, we still have a criminal justice system, not a victims justice system.
Tickets are free!
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LocationPortland Public Library Rines Auditorium (View)
5 Monument Square
Portland, ME 04101
United States
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