A discussion about women artists and write rs on self-perception and self-imposed expectations on aging\, creativity\ , and power.
\nIn Old Enough\, twenty-one women artists and writers write about the experience of aging. Gay\, straight\, unmarried\, partnered\, widowed\, Black\, white\, Latinx\, retired\, and working\, th ese women are not squeamish about the challenges of growing older\, includ ing ageism\, health concerns\, and loss. And they are frank about how rece ived notions of female aging can be restrictive and diminishing. But in ly rical\, sometimes wry\, often inspiring essays they explore what growing o lder can offer: self-knowledge\, insight\, and acceptance. Striking portra its by award-winning photographer Carolyn Sherer\, who is also a contribut or to the volume\, accompany each essay.
\nAt the heart of this coll ection is the bold championing of creative practice. Some contributors loo k back to their girlhood to recall their first powerful connections to art \, while others show how they have refreshed their commitment to maintaini ng a practice. However\, all are still driven to create and to investigate \, to stay committed to the processes that work while finding new ways to stay creatively alive. \;Old Enough \;aims to honor the l imitless variety\, depth\, and scope of being &ldquo\;old enough&rdquo\; a nd will resonate with readers who want to understand and find purpose\, me aning\, and comradery in their creative journey.
\nBooks will be available for sale and signing from Bookmiser. \;
\nRegistration is recommended.
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Jay Lamar is co-editor with Jeanie Thompson of The Remembered Gate: Me moirs by Alabama Writers (2003). Her essay &ldquo\;Secrets&rdquo\; wa s included in a special edition of Southern Humanities Review\, and she is a contributor to Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nat ion (2010)\, one of several titles in the Pebble Hill Imprint series she established while serving as director of Auburn University&rsquo\;s Ce nter for the Arts and Humanities. Lamar has written and edited for scholar ly\, professional\, and public-interest publications for almost thirty yea rs. She was founding director of the Alabama Book Festival and first direc tor of the Alabama Center for the Book. She served as executive director o f the Alabama Bicentennial Commission\, 2014&ndash\;2020. \;
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\nJacquel ine Allen Trimble is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fe llow\, a Cave Canem Fellow\, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Lite rary Fellow. American Happiness\, her debut poetry collection\, w on the Balcones Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in various anthologies and journals including Poetry Magazine\, The Offing\, The Louisville Review\, The Rumpus\, and Poet Lore. She is a professor of E nglish and chairs the Department of Languages and Literatures at Alabama S tate University.
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Jeanie Thompson is the author of \;The Seasons Bear Us\, White for Harvest: New and Selected Poems\, Witness\, Litany fo r a Vanishing Landscape\, How to Enter the River\, \;and \;Lotus a nd Psalm. Her poems have been published in \;Whatever Remembe rs Us\, High Horse\, Working the Dirt\, \;and \;The Best of Crazyhorse\, among others. She teaches at Spalding University&rsqu o\;s brief-residency MFA in Writing program and is the founding executive director of the Alabama Writers&rsquo\; Forum\, a statewide literary arts service organization. She was also the founding executive Director of Blac k Warrior Review literary journal. Jeanie&rsquo\;s awards include two lite rary fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and a fellowsh ip from the Louisiana Arts and Humanities Council. \;
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