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Mark your calendar: New Dominion Bookshop announces winter event schedule

Crystal Graham

new dominion bookshop charlottesville New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville has released its winter events schedule which includes several acclaimed poets, an author of young adult novels and more.

All events are open to the public.

G. Dierdorff: Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter – in Conversation with Erika Howsare
January 24, 7-8 p.m.

Dierdorff will read from her debut poetry collection. A conversation with Howsare will follow.

Rain, Wind, Thunder, Fire, Daughter is a collection of poems about leaving religion and coming of age in a world of accelerating climate apocalypses and environmental loss. A love song to the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a dramatic portrait of a daughter struggling to find her place in her family and a philosophical exploration of the limits of language and belief, this collection demands the necessity of both pleasure and grief as responses to a world on fire.

Kristen-Paige Madonia and Rebecca Kauffman
January 25, 4-5 p.m.

Madonia will read from her recent work, and Rebecca Kauffman will read from her new novel, I’ll Come to You. This event will be co-sponsored by WriterHouse. Madonia is the author of two young adult novels, Invisible Fault Lines and Fingerprints of You. An excerpt of her current work-in-progress was recently featured in Boulevard Magazine and nominated for the upcoming Pushcart Prize series.

Kauffman is the author of Another Place You’ve Never Been, which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; The Gunners, which received the Premio Tribùk dei Librai; The House on Fripp IslandChorus; and most recently, I’ll Come to You.

Bianca Rae Messinger: pleasureis amiracle
February 1, 7-8 p.m.

Messinger will read from her new book, pleasureis amiracle. The poems invoke the lyric and refuse it, moving between time and sound—words re-connect and re-cohere, resisting separation and challenging readers to feel their way to meaning. Perception becomes a many-limbed entanglement from which the reader is never let go. An experiment in form as much as content, it asks what can be cured by music, what is trans about desire, and how can one allow the body to feel what the mind sees, or vice versa.

Kelsey Johnson: Into the Unknown
February 22, 4-5 p.m.

Johnson will speak about her new book, Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos.

Brian Teare and Aditi Machado
February 28, 7-8 p.m.

Teare will read from his recent poetry, and Machado will read from her new poetry collection, Material Witness.

Teare is the author of seven critically acclaimed books, including Doomstead Days, winner of the Four Quartets Prize. His most recent publications are a pair of book-length ekphrastic projects exploring queer abstraction, chronic illness, and collage.

Machado is a poet, translator and essayist. Her books include the poetry collections Material Witness (2024); Emporium, winner of the James Laughlin Award (2020); and Some Beheadings, winner of The Believer Poetry Award (2017), all from Nightboat. She serves as an advisory poetry editor for The Paris Review and teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

About New Dominion Bookshop


New Dominion Bookshop is located on the Downtown Mall at 404 E. Main St. in Charlottesville.

For more information, visit ndbookshop.com.


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Crystal Graham

Crystal Graham

Crystal Abbe Graham is the regional editor of Augusta Free Press. A 1999 graduate of Virginia Tech, she has worked for 25 years as a reporter and editor for several Virginia publications, written a book, and garnered more than a dozen Virginia Press Association awards for writing and graphic design. She was the co-host of "Viewpoints," a weekly TV news show, and co-host of Virginia Tonight, a nightly TV news show on PBS. Her work on "Virginia Tonight" earned her a national Telly award for excellence in television.