Topaz Winters - So, Stranger - Poetry and Jazz Tour

6 Folsom Road,Center Ossipee NH 03814

24 August, 2022

Description

Sap House Meadery is honored to host writer and poet Topaz Winters for an evening of poetry, stories and a bit of jazz with accompanying musician, Stefan Hopwood. Topaz is touring promoting her new book "So, Stranger", winner of the Button Poetry Short Form Contest. Space is extremely limited and tickets are required. Doors open at 5:30 PM for a "Mead & Mingle" with an opportunity to explore the Meadery, sample award-winning meads and mingle with other guests. Dinner will be available at 6:00 PM in the Pub and selections from our regular menu as well as specials, themed to Topaz's Singaporean-American heritage will be served. Show is 7:00 to 8:00 PM with a meet and greet immediately following. Guest's will have the opportunity to purchase Topaz's new book "So, Stranger" as well as other works and merchandise. Topaz Winters is the Singaporean-American author of three poetry collections (most recently So, Stranger, Button Poetry, 2022). She is the founder & editor-in-chief of the independent publishing house & literary journal Half Mystic. Her peer-reviewed scholarly work is published in the Journal of Homosexuality. Her creative work is published in diode, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, The Puritan, & Hobart, & has been featured by The Straits Times, American Banker, the National University of Singapore, the Boston Poetry Slam, the Center for Fiction, & the Academy of American Poets. Topaz is 22 years old & studies Creative Writing, Italian, & Visual Art at Princeton University. You can find more of her work at topazwinters.com. Topaz Winters’ So, Stranger is gorgeous. It’s a book filled with heart and possibility toward the future, while questioning the past and the present. The speaker navigates the knots of an immigrant family, love, pain, American ignorance, and existentialism. Every poem brims with the possibility of language and skillful and surprising aphorism, such as: ‘Make no mistake: this is not/a story about fear, it is a story about what happens when we/grow tired of/being afraid” and “I’m beginning to understand why, even in/sleep, all hospital parking lots remain full of hope.’ I find myself nodding in recognition, but new recognition with each surprising line. Winters is the real thing–spilling with talent. I look forward to all she will make and do in the future. — Victoria Chang, author of Obit