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Poetry at the Library Series Presents Nathan McClain: Reimagining Inheritance, Leaving Our Children A Different Song

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In celebration of Black History Month, Amherst-based Nathan McClain comes to Concord to read and discuss Previously Owned that “reflects upon the American landscape, its pastoral and judicial and historical duplicity entwined with racial alienation and violence”, notes poet Diane Seuss. While poet John Murillo points out “McClain’s second volume shows us a writer who, like Robert Hayden before him, neither ignores nor is encumbered by his country’s complicated history. His topics range widely and the whole of the human landscape – physical, psychological – is his, and ours, for the roaming.” McClain teaches at Hampshire College and serves as poetry editor of Massachusetts Review.

Poetry at the Library is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Concord Free Public Library.

Author Talk: Author Talk: Liz Kinchen, author of Light in Bandaged Places

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Join author Liz Kinchen for a discussion of her book Light in Bandaged Places : Healing in the Wake of Young Betrayal.

When a lonely young girl meets a teacher twice her age, she is seduced into a web of deceit and secrecy; an experience that teaches her that sex in exchange for attention feels like love, even as it destroys her self-worth. Here, Liz Kinchen offers a detailed view of exactly how this abusive experience influenced her adult relationships, and how her eventual healing unfolded.

Liz Kinchen is a writer, meditation teacher, and Buddhist practitioner. With graduate degrees in computer science and counseling psychology, she worked in software development management for twenty-one years before moving into the non-profit sector for seventeen years as the executive director of a small organization working with underserved children and families in Honduras. Her passions are her family, meditation, teaching mindfulness, writing, talking with close friends, and walking in nature. She is a contributing author to the anthology Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis, published by She Writes Press in 2022. Liz lives in the greater Boston area with her husband of over thirty years. You can find her blog, and information about her teaching, at www.lizkinchen.com.

Liz will discuss themes such as family dynamics, marriage, parenting, the spiritual journey, healing, and empowerment.