Two sister-poets, one from Chicago and one from California, perform together and offer workshops online and in person. Each has won awards–Gay, from Poets & Patrons and the Illinois State Poetry Society; Anara, from the California State Poetry Society, and a John Crowe Ransom prize. They both have had poems nominated for Pushcart Prizes. As “Sibling Revelry,” they bring laughter to pathos, empathy to childhood memories, sweetness to sorrow… A video of an hourlong zoom presentation they gave to the Hyde Park Historical Society is available here.
Join them online for generative writing workshops. Past workshops have included topics on: Companions & Sidekicks; Objects & Keepsakes; Places & Spaces; Thresholds & Doorways; Tricksters & Fools; Beginnings & Endings. Workshops are 90 minutes long and cost $20. Questions? Contact info@newwindpublishing.com.
Gay Guard-Chamberlin’s Red Thread Through a Rusty Needle explores the natural world and the collapse of eco-systems, mothers and daughters, aging, the inner life of words, and the secret lives of ordinary objects. Anara Guard’s Hand on My Heart plumbs the depths of memory and imagination, regrets, childbirth and parenting, floods and heat waves, the flight of owls, and certain love. Her second book, Kansas, Reimagined, creates personas that give voice to familiar characters found in The Wizard of Oz, as well as to other entities found on the prairie.
Find upcoming Sibling Revelry events here.
