Join Mason Exhibitions and the Alan Cheuse International Writers Center on November 15, 6-8pm at Mason Exhibitions Arlington for a book launch of two authors, Megan Doney's Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir and Amanda Newell, I Will Pass Even to Acheron.
This event is in collaboration with Faces and Figures: Identity Through Printmaking Between South Africa and DC. Themes of the exhibition respond to violence, reconciliation, and the spirit of Ubuntu (I am because we are).
Mason Exhibitions Arlington is located at 3601 Fairfax Drive, Arlington VA, across the street from the Virginia Square Metro station, and paid street parking is available.
Please email Alissa Maru with questions/concerns (mailto: amaru@gmu.edu)
Free and Open to the Public
About the Books
Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir
After surviving a school shooting, English professor Megan Doney was traumatized and adrift. Rather than hardening her heart and life, she wrote Unarmed: An American Educator's Memoir. An insightful response to American gun violence and illusions of public and private safety, this memoir is about how to live with an open heart, alive to luck, learning, and love.
I Will Pass Even to Acheron
Amanda Newell’s collection was inspired by her former student, a Marine who nearly died in Afghanistan after the M-ATV he was driving was struck by a command-controlled improvised explosive device. She began writing these poems while he was hospitalized at Walter Reed recovering from a partial leg amputation, “not even the worst,” Newell writes, “of what he refuses to call/his combat injuries.” Her poems witness survival in the aftermath of trauma, but they also contemplate the speaker’s own complicity in the broader cultural narrative that perpetuates war and war-making.