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October 24, 2023

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Jon Hansen, Publisher

Should You Feel Embarrassed for Reading Kids Books?

Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change.
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September 16, 2015

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Jon Hansen, Publisher

Ben Olguin’s new Red Leather Gloves book trailer

Poet Ben Olguin has a new book trailer out about his prize winning poetry book, RED LEATHER GLOVES (Hansen Publishing Group, 2014). RED LEATHER GLOVES is a collection of poems that takes us from the mean streets of the Houston’s barrios and dockside boxing stables into a dilapidated boxing arena deceptively named the Olympiad where…
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September 9, 2015

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Jon Hansen, Publisher

BEN OLGUIN guest at Narrar una Historica

Tuesday, September 15, 6-8pm, Ben Olguin will be a featured guest at Narrar una Historica at San Antonio’s Central Library auditorium, 600 Soledad, San Antonio, TX 78205. Ben Olguin, Ph.D. a former boxer, poet, author, and professor of Chicana/a Literature at UTSA will present his testimonial poetry, bearing witness to the ongoing struggles of Latinos…
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August 27, 2015

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Jon Hansen, Publisher

James Franco’s “Straight James / Gay James”

Hansen Publishing Group is publishing actor James Franco’s chapbook of poems entitled Straight James / Gay James in late fall 2015. The collection of poems will be published as a trade paperback (ISBN 978-1-60182-262-8) and as an ebook (978-1-60182-263-5). James Franco’s chapbook of poems explores the different personas he uses in his writing, art, acting,…
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May 18, 2015

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Jon Hansen, Publisher

John DiLeo hosts GLBT Film Weekend

Film historian John DiLeo hosted a film weekend at the Upper Delaware GLBT Center in Milford, PA on May 16-17. John DiLeo did a medley of films clips from SCREEN SAVERS, SCREEN SAVERS II, and TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND COMPANY. Besides presenting the clips, John DiLeo hosted a Q&A on classic movies, did a book signing…
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May 7, 2015

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Jon Hansen, Publisher

Karen Kondazian participates in “Staging the Unstageable: The Esthetics of Dramatizing Atrocity”

Karen Kondazian participated in “Staging the Unstageable: The Esthetics of Dramatizing Atrocity” an event featuring three plays and a discussion panel to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. The event took place on the evening of April 28 at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City, CA. The event was organized by the…
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April 27, 2015

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Jon Hansen, Publisher

David Kaplan and the Eudora Welty Biennial

David Kaplan just shared with me some photographs from the Eudora Welty Biennial exhibits at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. There are four exhibits: “Ruins of Windsor,” “Seawight Sculptures,” “Clarence John Laughlin Photographs,” and “The Pediment Sculptures.” David Kaplan is curator of the Eudora Welty Biennial which runs for twelve weeks, April…
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