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Edge 46: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/Elizabeth Brown, Sarah Kortemeier, and Lawrence Lenhart

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, July 18
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:

Elizabeth Brown has written essays and poetry for The Christian Science Monitor, and Welcome Home magazine, among others. She has taught writing at the University of Arizona Eller School of Business, and she is
currently working on new poetry and fiction, after having taken a hiatus from writing while rearing and sending four children (one of whom is a poet) off into the world.

Sarah Kortemeier is a poet, musician, and educator. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona, where she served as poetry editor for the UA's graduate-student-run journal, Sonora Review. Her work has appeared in Ploughshares, Folio, and the online journals Sliver of Stone, and Spiral Orb, and she has been a finalist in the Tennessee Williams Festival and Gulf Coast Poetry Contests. Sarah has spent a significant portion of her professional career overseas, in Germany and Japan, and her writing frequently queries the idea of "foreignness," the ways in which language shapes identity, and the ways in which we experience history through travel. Sarah currently serves as a library assistant and teaching artist at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Lawrence Lenhart is an MFA candidate in fiction at the University of Arizona. He is from Pittsburgh, but has spent recent summers in coastal Delaware as an ocean lifeguard. His stories are published in Hot Metal Bridge, Collision Magazine, Three Rivers Review, and other places. He is currently working on a novel about Bangladesh, climate change, Islamophobia, expatriation, and what Salman Rushdie calls “imaginary homelands.”

 

 

Next Edge Reading will be held September 19, 2012

Past Edge Readings:

June 2012

May 2012

Apr 2012

Mar 2012

Feb 2012

Jan 2012

Nov 2011

Oct 2011

Sept 2011

July 2011

June 2011

May 2011

April 2011

March 2011

February 2011

January 2011

 

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