{"id":8513,"date":"2022-06-10T07:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T13:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2022-06-10T13:27:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T19:27:02","slug":"finally-our-first-in-person-launch-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2022\/06\/10\/finally-our-first-in-person-launch-in-edmonton\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally! Our First In-Person Launch in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night was Gavin Bradley&#8217;s launch of <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1030-9781772126013-separation-anxiety\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1030-9781772126013-separation-anxiety\" target=\"_blank\">Separation Anxiety<\/a><\/em>, hosted by <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/glassbookshop.com\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/glassbookshop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Glass Bookshop<\/a> at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latitude53.org\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.latitude53.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Latitude 53<\/a> in Edmonton. This was the first launch that Press staff could attend and marked the first gathering in well over two years. We were fortunate to have fabulous weather, which meant time on the patio with craft beers and snacks before and after the reading. It was a great way to get back into the swing of in-person launches, with an excellent turn-out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We would be remiss if we didn&#8217;t give kudos to our poets in British Columbia, who were <strong>first <\/strong>out the gate with in-person events this spring: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyholmes.ca\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nancyholmes.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nancy Holmes<\/a> with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1031-9781772126020-arborophobia\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1031-9781772126020-arborophobia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arborophobia<\/a><\/em> and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/michellepoirierbrown.ca\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/michellepoirierbrown.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Poirier Brown<\/a> with <em><a href=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1032-9781772126037-you-might-be-sorry-you-read-this\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/1032-9781772126037-you-might-be-sorry-you-read-this\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You Might Be Sorry You Read This<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let the parties roll!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"358\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/LaunchPhotos_jun22-1-1024x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/LaunchPhotos_jun22-1-1024x358.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/LaunchPhotos_jun22-1-450x158.jpg 450w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/LaunchPhotos_jun22-1-150x53.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/LaunchPhotos_jun22-1-768x269.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/LaunchPhotos_jun22-1-1536x538.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2022\/06\/LaunchPhotos_jun22-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was Gavin Bradley&#8217;s launch of Separation Anxiety, hosted by Glass Bookshop at Latitude 53 in Edmonton. This was the first launch that Press staff could attend and marked the first gathering in well over two years. We were fortunate to have fabulous weather, which meant time on the patio with craft beers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,12,153,60,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-light-hearted","category-news","category-thank-yous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8517,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions\/8517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}