Loren Stell Book Launch

When:
April 29, 2018 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Cost:
Free

Join us in celebrating the launch of Loren Stell’s new poetry collection, Topknot Analysis. With readings from Loren and also David Meischen, who will read from his memoir in progress, Crossing the Nueces: Reflections on a Divided Life, as well as poems that resonate with the memoir. He will share excerpts from his Pushcart winning chapter, as well as from a chapter published in Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi, and Trans Men Who Came Out Later in Life.

Topknot Analysis represents the layered, complex—sometimes frighteningly beautiful, or beautifully frightening—conflicts between our inner and outer worlds. The person we were, are becoming, will be, reflected in discordant and melodic poems that both sooth and agitate. A book of poems you might find in the libraries of existentialist, Buddhist or Baptist seekers, lovers and preachers. 

Son of Texas, Loren Stell, in Austin for five years, reads poems about his life-long, ex-pat life on the East coast. Leaving Charlotte, North Carolina for Harlem was Loren’s first step in a Jack Kerouac-styled journey that led to post-graduate degrees in theology, psychology, film and poetry from Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. As a journalist and filmmaker, Loren chronicled events and people from the outside. After decades as a psychoanalyst, he’s viewed life from the inside out. Writing poems about our mysterious, labyrinthine world served as a compass and reverie.

David Meischen has been honored by a Pushcart Prize for his autobiographical essay, “How to Shoot at Someone Who Outdrew You,” originally published in The Gettysburg Review and available in Pushcart Prize XLII. Recipient of the 2017 Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story from the Texas Institute of Letters, Meischen has fiction, nonfiction, or poetry in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, The Evansville Review, Salamander, Southern Poetry Review, The Southern Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, and elsewhere. Co-founder and Managing Editor of Dos Gatos Press, he lives in Albuquerque, NM, with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.

2 thoughts on “Loren Stell Book Launch

  1. hello Loren and my deep congratulations on your book of poetry. I would love to have my copy autographed by you and maybe ” perhaps” go to an upcoming reading or book event to celebrate. If I recall you did have a Ct office where I might
    be able to see you ‘ in person’ with a copy.

    once a muse… Bridget de Socio

  2. Loren, send me your address please so I may respond to your Book! I like it! Ann Ulanov Po Box 1182 Woodbury Ct 06798

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