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First Friday Book Talk & Reading with Shanan Ballam
Author of "First Poems After the Stroke"
Date: Friday, September 6, 2025 Time: 12 pm CENTRAL TIME Format: ZOOM Registration required
"Every year, about 800,000 Americans have strokes. But it seems that, unlike Shanan Ballam, few people found poetry in it."
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Shanan Ballam survived a massive stroke in January 2022 which left her without speech and without the use of the entire right side of her body. She never quit writing poetry, though, and she was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Utah Original Writing Contest for her entry First Poems After the Stroke in October of 2022. Her poetry has recently appeared in Sugar House Review, Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature, Kaleidoscope, and The Quarter(ly).
Her chapbook entitled “first poems after the stroke” was published by Finishing Line Press in May 2024.
First Friday Book Talk & Reading with Terese Svoboda
Author of "The Long Swim" (Winner of the Juniper Prize) and the speculative novel "Roxy and Coco" Date: Friday, October 4, 2024 Time: 12 pm CENTRAL TIME Format: Zoom Registration required
“Call it amped-up in medias res, and take a moment to find your bearings. You have been gleefully tossed into the deep end.”
—New York Times
Terese Svoboda is an American poet, novelist, memoirist, short story writer, librettist, translator, biographer, critic and videomaker.
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