Becky Thompson & John Christopher Nelson

The STUNNING Becky Thompson and John Nelson reading and in conversation for Stone House. Both read their work, talk about how their lives have affected their writing, and make intriguing comments on the nature and role of art. These are two fine people! They deserve to be heard. Truly. Don’t miss them! March 12, 5PM PST/8PM EST.

Join us here: https://lrccd.zoom.us/j/9699294608

Becky Thompson, PhD, MFA, RYT-500
Webpage
New poetry book, To Speak in Salt, submitted for consideration for the Pulitzer Prize, winner of the Ex Ophidia Poetry Prize and finalist for the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. https://youtu.be/fbNx0eeW6VE
Featured poet, The Markaz Review, video https://themarkaz.org/poetry/
Recent poetry book: Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by and for Refugees
Recent book: Teaching with Tenderness
Keynote Talk at Denison University: Yoga and Social Change
“Working for Peace, Insisting on Justice” workshops in China
Survivors on the Yoga Mat
Facebook
Video | “Forgiveness” Yoga Dance
“The Lesvos Refugee Crisis: 5 Months In & Conditions are Worsening”
Escalating Humanitarian Crisis

John Christopher Nelson‘s youth was split between a defunct dairy farm on ninety-four acres of chaparral in East County San Diego and a silver-boom mining town in the central Nevada high desert. He has moved thirty-two times and currently lives with his partner and their cat, Proulx, in Seattle. He earned his BA in American Literature from UCLA and is a graduate of the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing. 

You can find him online here: https://www.johnchristophernelson.com/