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Liza Achilles for “Two Novembers: A Memoir of Love ‘n’ Sex in Sonnets”

July 1, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free

Upon suffering a computer overuse injury and seeking treatment, Liza Achilles fell in love with her physical therapist. As her arms healed, she began writing Shakespearean sonnets addressed to him. Between November 2016 and November 2017, she continued writing poems to chronicle the true story of her ever-changing love life, often putting a humorous spin on her daily struggles of the heart. Two Novembers is a sonnet sequence that carries the beauty and drama of an ancient poetic style into the twenty-first century.

Liza Achilles has contributed poetry and nonfiction to Beltway Poetry Quarterly, The Headlight Review, Tofu Ink Arts Press, Brief Wilderness, The Big Windows Review, Burrow, Exacting Clam, the Washington Independent Review of Books, the Silent Book Club blog, and independent blogs. Her blog at lizaachilles.com is about the literary world, present and past, literary fiction and nonfiction and poetry. She lives in the Washington, DC, area.

Mary A. Dempsey is a writer, editor and author of Finding Love After Loss: A Relationship Roadmap for Widows. She began her career in journalism as a wire service reporter and subsequently worked as an editor at newspapers and magazines in the United States and Latin America. She is a foreign film lover and a ravenous reader of fiction.

 

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https://bookshop.org/a/88548/9781957372112

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  • Date: July 1, 2024
  • Time:
    7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
  • Cost: Free
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