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Edge 23: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
A note from the curator: I have often wanted to listen to authors who are in the same place in their career as myself--emerging, published in journals, with a chapbook and/or a first full-length book, still growing but full of passion, new ideas, and an edge. But there is often infrequent opportunity for this; in fact, I have often felt disappointed in the lack, that such an open community might often be circumscribed in its literary programming. Additionally, featuring emerging writers engages other young as well as established writers, to support, frequent and attend Casa Libre and other writing events. This cycle creates the foundation for a writing community which self-generates, remains true, open, and allows many voices the opportunity for visibility and being heard. I want Tucson to be an artistic community which includes and features many voices and peoples. Literature is the province of communication, but also reflectivity, the reflection and representation of all our narratives and of new narratives and ideas, voices which are challenging and also challenge us.
Douglas S. Jones, Movement Salon, and Cara Benson
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5Come to Edge: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers. Edge is a series of local and national writers and cross-genre artists, emphasizing diversity of narrative, identity and literary source. Its purpose is to create community, visibility and voice for emerging and younger writers. Broadsheets of the authors' work will accompany each reading. Books and journals will be available for purchase and signing by the authors. Refreshments will be available after the reading.
Readers:
Douglas S. Jones earned his M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Arizona State University, where he was the 2005 Theresa A. Wilhoit Fellow chosen by C.D. Wright. In 2007 he served as Poet-in-Residence for St. Chad’s College at the University of Durham, England. His poems have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Blackbird, The Clackamas Literary Review, and others. His chapbook, No Turning East, is forthcoming from Pudding House Press.
Movement Salon is group of movement artists, writers, and a musician who practice and perform the art of improvisation. Our only parameters are time and space. We make the rest up, all of it. We work to create instantaneous and ephemeral compositions that explore the relationships between movement, sound, and text; bodies and space; choice and responsibility; and self and others. We practice the “four-fold way:” show up, pay attention, tell the truth, and don’t be attached to results. Movement Salon's core members include Vicki Brown, Lisa Bowden, Greg Colburn, Kimi Eisele, Jennifer Hoefle, Katie Rutterer, and TC Tolbert. www.movementsalon.wordpress.com
Cara Benson
Cara Benson's book of interconnected prose poems, (made), has just been published with BookThug, and Protean Parade, a book-length meditation on historical, biological and cosmological evolution, is forthcoming later this year. She is teaches poetry in a NY State Prison and is a member of Black Radish Books, an international poet-publisher collective which attempts to make all decisions by bumpy consensus. Benson's "Quantum Chaos and Poems: A Manifest(o)ation" won the 2008 bpNichol Award. She edited the interdisciplinary book Predictions for Chain Links and edits the online text and image journal Sous Rature.
Next Edge Reading will be held on Wednesday, May 12, 2010.
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