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Edge 61: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/D. Phillip Clifford, Melissa Goodrich, & Sara Sams

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, January 22
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:

D. Phillip Clifford received his MFA from the University of Arizona and has completed a manuscript entitled Myth of Scarcity which deals with the intimate dynamics of family, culture, sexuality and religion. He is the recipient of the Hattie Locket Award for Poetry, the University of Arizona Foundation Award for Poetry and was nominated for an Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Award. He has had poems published in Persona, Underground Voices and Calalloo Magazines. He currently teaching writing at Pima Community College.

Melissa Goodrich received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Arizona. Her fiction appears or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, Phoebe, PANK, >killauthor, and The Kenyon Review Online, and her poetry has received the Academy of American Poets Prize, the University of Arizona Foundation Award, and the Juliet Gibson Memorial Award. Her first poetry chapbook is published by 4th and Verse, If You What.

Sara Sams is a poet, translator, and editor from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. While she writes about Appalachian lore and the local legends of her hometown—the Manhattan Project’s “Secret City”—she found she needed to travel far from home in order to better explore her own region’s history. She has taught English in Granada, Spain, and creative writing at the National University of Singapore, and currently teaches composition for ESL learners at Arizona State University. Her poems and translations have been featured in/are forthcoming in Blackbird, Hinchas de Poesía, ...And Love... from Jacar Press, and The Drunken Boat. She has previously served as a contributing editor for both Hayden's Ferry Review and Parnassus: Poetry in Review. Sara lives in Phoenix and swears by the Welcome Diner.

Next Edge Reading will be held February 19.

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