Edge 64: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/ Allyson Boggess, Ian Ellasante, & Ashley Tsosie-Mahieu
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
Melissa Buckheit's Bio |
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. |
Wednesday, April 16
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5
Come 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:
Allyson Boggess holds an MFA in poetry from Arizona State University and was one of the 2013 winners of the City of Phoenix Streetscape Poetry Project. She recently read her ekphrastic poetry at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art as a part of an ongoing art and poetry series. Her poems have been published by PANK Magazine and The Collagist. She currently teaches writing at Arizona State University and the Harvard Extension School.
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Ian Ellasante is a transgender poet and artist of African and Choctaw descent. Ian developed and recently taught the workshops “Writing the Threshold: Poetry in Transitional Spaces” at Casa Libre and “Queering Liminality: The Uncommon Beauty and Creative Potential of Middle Spaces” at the 2013 Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium. He received the Native Writer Award in Poetry at the 2011 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference and has had poems published in Currency, Evening Will Come, Trickhouse, Jupiter 88, and The Feminist Wire. Originally from Memphis, Ian has made Tucson his home since 2007.
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Ashley Tsosie-Mahieu is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. She is Honágháahnii born for biligáana. Her maternal grandfather is Ashiihi and her paternal grandfather is biligáana. Ashley is a Ph.D. Student in the American Indian Studies Program with a focus in American Indian Education, a teaching assistant for American Indian Studies, and a research assistant for the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology.
Next Edge Reading will be held May 21.
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