Diana Norma

author of the poetry & photography chapbooks Parallel Sparrows (Finishing Line Press) & Roses in the Snow (Imaginary Cottage Press) "My life has been the poem I would have writ/ but I could not both live and utter it." -Thoreau www.diananorma.com

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Serving as a Panelist for 2023 WNBA Award

I'm honored to be serving as a panelist for the 2023 WNBA AWARD!

I’m honored to announce that I will be serving as a panelist alongside other Boston based literary luminaries for the WNBA Award 2023. This award will be presented to GrubStreet founder Evie Bridburg on Friday June 2nd, 2023 at Porter Square Books located on 25 White Street, Cambridge, MA. The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. with a “networking hour.” The panelists will be discussing the importance…

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Featured Reader Favorite Poems by Agape Editions and YES Poetry

Featured Reader Favorite Poems by Agape Editions and YES Poetry

I am getting pumped to read alongside fabulous writers Jessica Walsh, Blake Z. Rong, and Stephanie Valente on Thursday, June 23 @ 8:30 p.m. This event requires registration, which you can do here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIqdOytqzsrGdygdTKEhhgyGgKjz1gS5ivB. Thank you to Fox Friazier-Foley of Agape Editions and Joanna C. Valente of Yes Poetry for the invitation! I will be reading…

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Center For Social Justice Fellowship Grant

Center For Social Justice Fellowship Grant

https://vcfa.edu/center-for-arts…/center-fellowships/ I am honored to accept the Center for Arts + Social Justice Fellowship at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, which will support my book of Romani poetry in translation. I am a first-generation American of Romani Hungarian heritage, and I am translating the work of Romani poets such as Alexandre Romanès, Magda Szécsi, and Bronislawa Wajs…

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Panelist: Exploring Romani Literature from Theory to Praxis, Critical Romani Studies

Panelist: Exploring Romani Literature from Theory to Praxis, Critical Romani Studies

Cover: Generational Trauma (2020). Image courtesy of Nicholas Alexander See Less I’m honored to announce that I’ll be a panelist for Central European University’s Critical Romani Studies journal, where two of my poems will be published in the forthcoming issue: Exploring Romani Literature from Theory to Praxis. It’s a public event, and all are welcome to come and learn about Romani literature.…

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CNF Piece "Walnuts, Dío" Published in Unlimited Literature about the magic of ritual gifting, traditions and gratitude.

CNF Piece “Walnuts, Dío” Published in Unlimited Literature about the magic of ritual gifting, traditions and gratitude.

Walnuts, Dió By Diana Norma Szokolyai Creative Nonfiction My grandmother, Mamuska, lives by the seasons. At the end of summer, she said over the phone that she would soon leave the River Körös, but that she would return in October, in time for the harvest. She harvests walnuts, dió. The walnut tree, diófa, that my grandfather, Papuska, planted. The source of the very dió stored in my pantry.…

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Teaching "Yoga Meets Writing" Classes at CWW Virtual Summer Writing Retreat July 11 & 18 & Surrealist Literary Salon Aug. 1 2020

Teaching “Yoga Meets Writing” Classes at CWW Virtual Summer Writing Retreat July 11 & 18 & Surrealist Literary Salon Aug. 1 2020

Hi Friends,

I’m pleased to announce I’ll be teaching three classes this summer at the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Virtual Summer Writing Retreat.  Check them out here. Below, you’ll also find information on some of the other classes. Pick and choose which you’d like to sign up for and register at www.cww.submittable.com

Join us for the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop’s Virtual Summer Writing Retreat…

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Benefit Reading for Black Visions Collective and Black Lives Matter June 26, 2020 8 p.m.

Benefit Reading for Black Visions Collective and Black Lives Matter June 26, 2020 8 p.m.

Friday, June 26, 2020 8-9 p.m.

Watch on Facebook Live

The CWW’s Reading for Black Visions Collectiveis in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. The readers featured this evening were part of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Summer in Granada Writing Retreat. Granada is known as a multicultural city, where Roma, Catholics, Jews, and Muslims have all been a part of creating a culture of…

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Fourth Fridays Literary Salon: CWW COVID-19 Benefit Reading

Fourth Fridays Literary Salon: CWW COVID-19 Benefit Reading

COVID-19 Benefit Reading

Friends, I’m proud to have put my heart into organizing this event and the Fourth Fridays Literary Salon Series…

As part of ChagallPAC’s Fourth Fridays Literary Salon Series, the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop presents a COVID-19 Benefit Reading on Facebook Live. On May 22nd at 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EDT.  We are excited to have this event featured and broadcast on Creative…

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Finalist for 2020 Hunger Mountain’s May Day Mountain Chapbook Series The road to publication is a long one. There are poems in here that I have been working on for years.

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Six Poetry Performances at CROSSING WATER FESTIVAL 9/10 - 9/15 2019

Six Poetry Performances at CROSSING WATER FESTIVAL 9/10 – 9/15 2019

      I’m thrilled to be a part of the Crossing Water Festival, an interdisciplinary arts festival in and around the Beverly/Salem Bridge. The arts festival features visual art, literary arts, music, dance, video projection art, & more.

  Tuesday, September 10th at 7 p.m   Improbable Poetry Tour

 Salem Side of Bridge on the pier of Remond Park, 1 Bridge Street, Salem Ma. 01970

The reading begins…

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Happy New Year 2019 -💖- the Cambridge Writers' Workshop

Happy New Year 2019 -💖- the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop

Happy New Year from my organization, The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. It’s been a wonderful 10 years!

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Reading at 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival

Reading at 2018 Brooklyn Book Festival

I will be reading with my organization, The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, during the annual Brooklyn Book Festival in Brooklyn, New York. The reading will be held on:

Saturday, September 15, 2018 at WORD Bookstore  126 Franklin St. Brooklyn, NY 11222) from 7 pm to 8:30 pm.

Come visit our reading to hear from ten amazing authors who will be sharing some of their latest work.

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Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Six

Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Six

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Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Five

Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Five

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Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Four

Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Four

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Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Three

Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Three

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Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Two

Summer in Paris 2018 Writing Retreat: Day Two

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