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SUMMARY:Alison Luterman reads from her new collection of poems\, Hard List
 ening
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DESCRIPTION:Alison Luterman reads from her new volume of poetry\, Hard Lis
 tening (Wildhouse Publishing\, 2025).  Hard Listening focuses on women's 
 voices raised up in song\, poetry\, and activism. Spiritual teacher and wr
 iter Mirabai Starr has said\, “Alison Luterman is one of my favorite poe
 tic voices. The poems in this collection are luminous."\n\nDuring the pand
 emic\, Alison started taking voice lessons in order to sing with her music
 ian husband. She did not start out with a firm grasp of pitch or a great s
 ense of rhythm\, but had a lot of enthusiasm\, a wonderful teacher\, and a
  willingness to work hard. Learning to "speak music"—her husband's prima
 ry language—was the key that opened them up to an unexpected depth of in
 timacy.\n\nThe process of learning to sing reminded her of all the singers
  she had idolized from a young age. She began to listen to those women aga
 in\, this time with a better understanding of  their skills\, and she als
 o began to research  what  their real  lives  were like. It became cle
 ar to Alison that beyond the glamour lay a world of challenges and sometim
 es heartbreak that she had not fully reckoned  with  before.  The poems
  she wrote in homage to those great women singers form the core of Hard Li
 stening. As this investigation was going on\, the United  States fell to 
 fascism.  Alison wrote poems  that  reflected  these fraught  politic
 s  and  redefined  her  calling  as  a  poet. These poems strive to
  be in service to all of us who are fighting for democracy\, kindness\, de
 cency and justice.\n\nAlison Luterman's four books of poems prior to this 
 one are The Largest Possible Life\, See How  We Almost  Fly\; Desire  Z
 oo and In  the  Time of  Great Fires. She has published  poems in The 
 New York  Times Magazine\, The  Sun  Magazine\,  Prairie  Schooner\, 
 Nimrod\,  Rattle\,  The  Atlanta Review\, Main  Street  Rag\,  and m
 any  other  journals  and anthologies. Two of her poems are included in
  Billy Collins' Poetry 180 project at the Library of Congress.\n\nAlison l
 ives in Oakland where she has deep and lasting ties with the creative comm
 unity in the region. Read more about Alison and her work at this link: ali
 sonluterman.net\n\nLeslie Absher will join Alison in conversation. Leslie 
 is a journalist and a writer of true stories\, personal essays\, and memoi
 r\; this usually means disclosing things she's not “supposed to\," wheth
 er it’s about growing up with a CIA dad\, swimming with sharks in the Sa
 n Francisco Bay\, or facing cancer and how she chose to move with it inste
 ad of “fighting it.” She seeks to cultivate compassion and truth in al
 l her writing. \n\nLeslie's father joined the CIA before she was born\, an
 d shortly afterwards her family moved to Athens\, Greece\, just in time fo
 r a coup. She has spent years trying to learn what her Cold War father’s
  role was in that event. And though she left when she was still a child\, 
 Greece is a place she returns to often. She moved around frequently after 
 Athens until she landed in Boston for college. She received a master’s i
 n education from Harvard and taught G.E.D. to high school dropouts. After 
 years apart\, she reconnected with her college flame\, Susan\, a writer an
 d graphic novelist\, and moved to Oakland.
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