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Edge 53: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/Katherine Larson, Sarah de Leeuw, & Eric Magrane
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
Melissa Buckheit's BioA 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.
Wednesday, April 17
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:
Katherine Larson’s Radial Symmetry (Yale University Press, 2011) was selected by Louise Glück as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Larson’s work has appeared in AGNI, Boulevard, The Kenyon Review, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry and Poetry Northwest, among other publications. She is the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, a Kate Tufts Discovery Award and the Levis Reading Prize. In addition to writing, she has worked as a molecular biologist and field ecologist. She lives in Arizona with her husband and daughter.
Sarah de Leeuw, a creative writer and geographer, is a two-time recipient of a CBC Literary Prize in Creative Non-Fiction (2008, 2009) and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and a PhD in Cultural-Historical Geography from Queen’s University. She is the author of two books of essays (Unmarked: Landscapes Along Highway 16, NeWest Press 2004, and Front Lines: Portraits of Caregivers in Northern British Columbia, Creekstone Press 2011) and the book of poetry (in the long poem tradition) Geographies of a Lover (NeWest 2012).
Eric Magrane has been an Artist in Residence in three U.S. National Parks and is currently Poet in Residence at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. He is the founding editor of Spiral Orb, an experiment in permaculture poetics, and is pursuing a PhD in Geography at the University of Arizona, where he works on the intersections of art, science, and environment for the UA’s Institute of the Environment. His book Shadow Lift will be published by JackLeg Press in 2014.
photo by Wendy Burk
Sarah de Leeuw and Eric Magrane will be teaching "Denaturalizing Nature Poetry & The Geography of Ecopoetics: A Workshop on Thinking and Doing"at Casa Libre on April 20 more info...
Next Edge Reading will be held May 15
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