Odds, Ends, and Exile: Essays in Focus

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Date and time

Thu, Oct 1 · 1:30 p.m.Ends 3:00 p.m.EDT — local Kingston time

Location

Kingston WritersFest221 Queen Street, KingstonKingston

About this event

The personal essay possesses an incredible, elastic range, serving as a vital tool to inform, delight, and profoundly change minds. Award-winning writers Richard Kelly Kemick and Jamaluddin Aram explore this dynamic form on the KWF stage. Kemick discusses Decadence, his "accidental memoir" praised by Publishers Weekly as a "weird and rewarding ride." Filmmaker Jamaluddin Aram presents The Blood of Things, an exquisite debut collection on writing, exile, and the fall of Kabul. Richard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet, journalist, and fiction writer. He is the author of the essay collection, Decadence. Richard is also the author of Hello, Horse, I Am Herod (available on audiobook), the poetry collection Caribou Run, and the stage play Amor De Cosmos: A Delusional Musical. His limited series podcast, Natural Life, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin, who is

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