This May to October, Campfire Stories returns to the Modern!
Join us around the fires in the Modern courtyard every second Sunday to experience this intimate storytelling event.
Sunday, July 14 Featured Artists:
Rebecca Evans [Book Launch], Tessy Ward, David Guiotto
Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans writes the difficult, the heart-full, the guidebooks for survivors. Her work has appeared in Narratively, The Rumpus, Brevity, and more. She’s earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe. She’s authored a full-length poetry collection, Tangled by Blood (Moon Tide Press, 2023), and has a second poetry book, Safe Handling, forthcoming (Moon Tide Press, 2024). She shares space with four Newfoundlands and her sons in a tiny Idaho town.
Essays:
https://therumpus.net/2024/02/27/voices-on-addiction-learning-to-steal/
https://www.narratively.com/p/how-i-learned-to-write-the-hard-stuff
https://brevity.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/ai-rebutter/
Poems:
https://www.passengersjournal.com/volume-4-issue-2-poetry/#evans
https://therumpus.net/2019/04/23/enough-it-takes-a-woman/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RToRCrbIosg
website: https://rebeccaevanswriter.com/
IG: @rebeccawrites33
Tessy Ward
Tessy Ward is the author of *My Head Can Feel the Vibrating of a Full Heartbeat Through a Chest That Is Neither Hollow Nor Dark*, a chapbook from Press 254. She was a Sutherland Fellow in poetry at Illinois State University. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Requited, Rougarou, Touch The Donkey, and Connecticut River Review, among others.
David Guiotto
David Guiotto is the author of the geographic poetry collections Sawtooth Country (Limberlost Press) and Holocene Trail Guide to the Boise Front (Wolf Peach Press). His prose pieces have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, CyclingTips, 3 Syllables, Instant City, The Cabin, and Street
