BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:638@tucsontimeline.info SUMMARY:Julie Swarstad Johnson & Cameron Quan Joint Book Launch DTSTAMP:20261109T160939Z DTSTART:20270123T220000Z DTEND:20270124T000000Z DESCRIPTION:Save the date: January 23\, 2027 is the double book launch of R epair Attempts 🧶\nand The Night Season 🌕!\n\nGrab a drink\, pick up your c opy of the books\, get them signed\, and hear Julie\nand Cameron read from their new collections. Free and open to all!\n\nThe Night Season [https:/ /www.unmpress.com/9780826370532/the-night-season/]:\nRooted in the tension between science and wonder\, The Night Season probes\nphenomena we are aw are of but will never fully grasp: the workings of the cosmos\nthat we see only eons after their actual occurrence\, deep time rendered through\nart ifacts left by people before us\, shifts and accretions that occur beneath the\nearth’s surface that we sometimes feel but never truly witness. A cr own of\nsonnets and several ghazals nestle among epistolary forms and free verse in this\ncollection that gracefully intertwines research and prosod y to explore the\nuniverse the way only a poet can.\n\nJulie Swarstad John son is the author of the poetry collection Pennsylvania\nFurnace and two p oetry chapbooks\, Orchard Light and Jumping the Pit\, as well as\na coedit or of the anthology Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. She\nl ives in Tucson\, where she works as an archivist and librarian for the\nUn iversity of Arizona Poetry Center.\n\nRepair Attempts\n[https://nupress.no rthwestern.edu/9798899481079/repair-attempts/]: The titular\n“repair attem pts” describes the words and actions people use to heal broken\nconnection s and de-escalate conflict. In his debut collection\, Cameron Quan\ntransf orms this concept into a powerful lens for examining moral responsibility\ nin contemporary America. Quan’s Repair Attempts navigates Asian American\ nidentity\, American exceptionalism\, patriarchal violence\, grief\, and t he nature\nof apologies. The speakers grapple with transgression and heali ng from\nunexpected angles\, asking what kind of repair is possible in a w orld marred by\natrocities. These poems dance across landscapes—from an im agined American\nholiday of atonement to the pope’s apology to Indigenous peoples\, from a mother\npreparing to flee domestic violence to an unsettl ing childhood game boys play\nwith butterflies. A chorus of repair attempt s that toggle between the personal\nand political\, this collection invite s us into difficult territory where\nfailure\, wrongdoing\, and shame requ ire a collective reckoning and a collective\neffort to be better.\n\nCamer on Quan is a multidisciplinary writer from Tucson\, AZ. He is the author\n of Repair Attempts (forthcoming from Northwestern University Press\, 2027) and\nthe chapbook Apology Engine (Gold Line Press\, 2022)\, winner of the Gold Line\nPress 2020 Chapbook Contest. He works at the University of Ari zona Press and\nserves on the poetry committee of the Tucson Festival of B ooks.\n\n URL:https://tucsontimeline.info/event/julie-swarstad-johnson-and-cameron-qu an-joint-book-launch LOCATION:Slow Body Beer - 831 E 17th St\, Tucson\, Arizona STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:book launch,new books,poetry,reading X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Save the date: January 23, 2027 is the doub le book launch of Repair Attempts 🧶 and The Night Season 🌕!

Grab a drink, pick up your copy of the books, get them signed, and hear Julie and Cameron read from their new collections. Free and open to all!

The Night Season: Rooted in the tension between science and wonder, < em>The Night Season probes phenomena we are aware of but will never f ully grasp: the workings of the cosmos that we see only eons after their a ctual occurrence, deep time rendered through artifacts left by people befo re us, shifts and accretions that occur beneath the earth’s surface that w e sometimes feel but never truly witness. A crown of sonnets and several g hazals nestle among epistolary forms and free verse in this collection tha t gracefully intertwines research and prosody to explore the universe the way only a poet can.

Julie Swarstad Johnson is the author of the poe try collection Pennsylvania Furnace and two poetry chapbooks, Orchard Light and Jumping the Pit, as well as a coeditor of the anthology Beyond Earth’s Edge: The Poetry of Spaceflight. Sh e lives in Tucson, where she works as an archivist and librarian for the U niversity of Arizona Poetry Center.

Repa ir Attempts: The titular “repa ir attempts” describes the words and actions people use to heal broken con nections and de-escalate conflict. In his debut collection, Cameron Quan t ransforms this concept into a powerful lens for examining moral responsibi lity in contemporary America. Quan’s Repair Attempts navigates Asian Ameri can identity, American exceptionalism, patriarchal violence, grief, and th e nature of apologies. The speakers grapple with transgression and healing from unexpected angles, asking what kind of repair is possible in a world marred by atrocities. These poems dance across landscapes—from an imagine d American holiday of atonement to the pope’s apology to Indigenous people s, from a mother preparing to flee domestic violence to an unsettling chil dhood game boys play with butterflies. A chorus of repair attempts that to ggle between the personal and political, this collection invites us into d ifficult territory where failure, wrongdoing, and shame require a collecti ve reckoning and a collective effort to be better.

Cameron Quan  ;is a multidisciplinary writer from Tucson, AZ. He is the author of < em>Repair Attempts (forthcoming from Northwestern University Pre ss, 2027) and the chapbook Apology Engine (Gold Line Pr ess, 2022), winner of the Gold Line Press 2020 Chapbook Contest. He works at the University of Arizona Press and serves on the poetry committee of t he Tucson Festival of Books.

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