Author Talk: Poetry with Megan E. Freeman

Join us for a special author talk with Colorado Book Award Winner Megan E. Freeman. An intimate evening filled with poetry, literary dialogue, and book signing. This program will be held in our new exhibit celebrating The Boulder Dushanbe Teahouse's 25th anniversary. Light refreshments will be available for purchase. 

Bio: 

Megan E. Freeman attended an elementary school where poets visited her classroom every week to teach poetry, and she has been a writer ever since. Her debut middle-grade novel, "ALONE", won the Colorado Book Award, the High Plains Book Award, is an NCTE Notable Verse Novel and a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, and is included on over a dozen "best of" and state reading lists. Megan is also a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet and the author of the poetry chapbook, "Lessons on Sleeping Alone." An award-winning teacher with decades of classroom experience, Megan is nationally recognized for her work leading workshops and speaking to audiences across the country. Megan used to live in northeast Los Angeles, central Ohio, northern Norway, and on Caribbean cruise ships. Now she lives in northern Colorado.

Books: 

"Lessons on Sleeping Alone" a poetry chapbook

Lessons on Sleeping Alone is a beautiful, vibrant saga of a woman caught between the perfection of mythology and the loneliness of one-night business-meeting hotels...a fulfilling sequence of poems exploring the sensual awareness of the individual trying to find "self" amidst the promise of "kitsch and kinship." It is filled with stark, sometimes shocking imagery that goes direct to the soul where, as Megan writes, "metaphor is fact and symbols are simply accessories we hang around our throats."  I recommend it.  

                    -- Jared Smith, Poetry Editor of Turtle Island Quarterly

"ALONE" a novel in verse

The novel is gripping and the plot fast-paced...This is a tense, engrossing survival story on par with classics such as Hatchet."  (Booklist) Perfect for fans of Hatchet and the I Survived series, this harrowing middle grade debut novel-in-verse from a Pushcart Prize–nominated poet tells the story of a young girl who wakes up one day to find herself utterly alone in her small Colorado town.

Winner of the Colorado Book Award, the High Plains Book Award, an NCTE Notable Verse Novel, a Goodreads Choice Award Finalist, and named on multiple Best of 2021 book lists, ALONE is a "Hatchet for a new age." (Kirkus)