When Things Happen to People: Memoir Readings

Adam David Miller and S. Elise Peeples, married writers, read from their very different works, both of which document the “things” that happened to them and how those “things” came to shape their lives.

Adam is a poet and memoirist who has written about his experiences as a black man in the pre-civil rights South and in California from the 1950s to the 1990s.

Elise, a nonfiction writer and novelist, will read from her memoir about her encounter with breast cancer and mastectomy, a journey on which she lived life as a found poem, holding in whatever ways possible, an attitude of receptivity and openness to guidance from seen and unseen, held always by community.

Please bring a snack or drink to share.