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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading and Book Launch at UUFR!
DESCRIPTION:Please join us as UUFR member Alison Hurwitz reads from her new
  poetry collection\, Undersight! There will be a Q&amp\;A after the readin
 g\, and a reception to follow.\n\nAlison Hurwitz has lived with inattentiv
 e attention deficit disorder all of her life\, but was never diagnosed. As
  a girl\, she was a daydreamer\, easily distracted by question and detail.
  Though she found it extremely difficult to focus on things in which she h
 ad little interest\, words always drew her in deeply\, embracing\, reassur
 ing\, and inspiring her creativity. As she grew older\, she found ways to 
 cope with her attention differences\, but it was never easy\, and she carr
 ied an invisible burden of shame through many years of her adult life. Aft
 er both of her young sons were diagnosed with ADHD\, she began to understa
 nd that this condition was\, in large part\, genetic. There was nothing 
 “wrong” with her brain\, and theirs. They just experienced the world a
  bit differently. It became her mission to help her children understand\, 
 work with\, and celebrate their unique ways of being without bearing the t
 win burdens of self-criticism and shame.\n\nExperiencing life with a neuro
 diverse mind and heightened empathy/sensory sensitivity presents both real
  challenges and unique rewards. Instead of focusing on ADHD as seen from t
 he outside\, Hurwitz delves beneath the surface. Through free verse\, sonn
 et\, golden shovel\, pantoum\, sestina\, haibun and burning haibun\, she e
 xplores such subjects as time blindness\, sensory overload\, flow state\, 
 fidgeting and deep focus. Through her work\, she hopes to provide a sense 
 of kinship and acknowledgment for the many people whose special brains sha
 pe their ways of encountering life. Poetry’s particular flexibility and 
 freedom of association make it an especially rich medium for exploration o
 f this kind\, carrying its own Undersight.\n\nAlison Hurwitz (she/her)\, i
 s a former cellist and dancer who finds music in language. Nominated multi
 ple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net\, Alison hosts t
 he monthly online reading\, Well-Versed Words. Her work was acknowledged a
 s a finalist for RockPaperPoem’s 2025 Poetry Award. When not writing\, A
 lison officiates weddings and celebrations of life\, takes long walks in t
 he North Carolina woods with her husband\, sons\, and dog\, and dances in 
 her kitchen.
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