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Hang With CMLE: Upcoming Member Events!

CMLE provides opportunities for members of the library world to connect and get together in-person. This month we have several more opportunities and want you to know that you are invited!

These events all link to our page on Meetup.com where you can RSVP. And of course, email us with any questions: admin(at)gmail(dot)com.

Tuesday, March 10th: Susan Steinberg 2020 McNeely Creative Writer in Residence at St. Ben’s. The public reading starts at 7pm in Upper Gorecki and we can sit together for the author presentation. More info and RSVP here.

Wednesday, March 11th: Book Group Discussion (new location!) We will be meeting at La Casita in Waite Park at 5:30pm. We gather for dinner and everyone shares a book they are reading or have enjoyed. It’s really fun to hear the variety and recommendations and a great way to get to know people.
More info and RSVP here.

Tuesday, March 17th: Crafters gather to chat and work on projects! Join us from 6pm – 8pm in the Array room at the St. Cloud Public Library. Whether you are a hard-core, life-long crafter, or if you just got started last week in trying to figure out how to thread a needle, you are welcome here.
More info and RSVP here.

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Upcoming Literary Events at St. Ben’s in Feb. and March

CMLE members, we would love to have you join us in February and March to attend some author events at the College of St. Benedict! RSVP at the bottom of this post and let us know if you can join us! 😊

From the St. Ben’s website:

In February:
“Sally Wen Mao is the is the 2019-2020 Sister Mariella Gable Award recipient for her work Oculus and will be in residence February 2, 2020 through February 5, 2020. Her reading will take place on February 4th in Upper Gorecki at 7:00 PM. “

In March:
“Susan Steinberg’s first novel Machine will be published by Graywolf in August 2019. She is also author of the story collections Spectacle (Graywolf), Hydroplane (FC2), and The End of Free Love (FC2). Public Reading: March 10 in Upper Gorecki at 7:00PM.”                      

More info available on the St. Ben’s Literary Arts website.

RSVP to attend with CMLE and let us know if you can attend in February or March or both!                                      

Books

“Slavery’s Reach” Author Event Nov. 6 at SCSU

This FREE author event is Wednesday, Nov. 6th from 7:30pm – 9pm at the Miller Center Auditorium at SCSU. The author is an SCSU professor and this book sounds like an informative piece of Minnesota’s history.

From the MN Historical Society website:
“St. Cloud State University Professor Christopher P. Lehman shares his new book, Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders and the North Star State that examines how a set of mutually beneficial relationships between southern slaveholders and Minnesotans kept the men and women whose labor generated the wealth enslaved.

From the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and their wealth into the free territory and free state of Minnesota, enriching the area’s communities and residents. Dozens of southern slaveholders and people raised in slaveholding families purchased land and backed Minnesota businesses. Slaveholders’ wealth was invested in some of the state’s most significant institutions and provided a financial foundation for several towns and counties. And the money generated by Minnesota investments flowed both ways, supporting some of the South’s largest plantations.

Through careful research in obscure records, censuses, newspapers, and archival collections, Christopher Lehman has brought to light this hidden history of northern complicity in building slaveholder wealth.”

Find more information about the book here, including reviews, author interviews, and purchase information.

Programs

Author Event Next Week, Please RSVP

If you’d like to meet us at this event, please RSVP below!

Next Tuesday, Sept. 17th author Chris Abani will give a reading at the Gorecki Family Center at the College of St. Ben’s at 7pm.

From the St. Ben’s website: Chris Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism, art, ethics, and our shared political responsibility. He is a bestselling novelist and poet PEN Freedom-to-Write winner. Check out Abani’s work here.

This event is free but you do need tickets. Find them at the St. Ben’s website and let us know below if you’d like to meet up beforehand or at the event:

CMLE, General, Programs

Come see Joyce Carol Oates with CMLE!

CMLE members, we are so excited about this event! We hope you can join us on Tuesday, Feb. 19th at 7pm to attend “An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates” at St. Ben’s!

We’re getting together a group of members to attend the event together because library people at an author event is a guaranteed great time!

In fact, we even have THREE EXTRA TICKETS to give to the first three members that RSVP! We’ll be sitting together and are looking forward to a great evening. (RSVP at the bottom of this post).

Get more information and purchase your own tickets from the St. Ben’s website:

“Joyce Carol Oates is the author of multiple best-selling novels and critically-acclaimed collections of short fiction, as well as essays, plays, poetry, and a memoir.  Writing in The Nation, critic Henry Louis Gates Jr. said, “A future archeologist equipped only with her oeuvre could easily piece together the whole of postwar America.”

She is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.  In 2010, President Obama awarded her the National Humanities Medal.”

We hope you can join us at this event! RSVP below:

Interested in a free ticket?