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Edge: 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 careers as myself, emerging, published in journals or with a chapbook, but without a major book, still growing but full of passion, new ideas, and an edge. But there has been little opportunity for this; in fact I have often felt disappointed in the lack, that such an otherwise open community might often be so circumscribed in its 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.

Anna Fulford, Charlie Jensen, & Nadine Lockhart
Thursday, June 19, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5

Come to the fifth reading of Edge: A Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers. Edge is a new 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:

Anna Fulford was raised in the Pacific Northwest because her parents read a lot of Ken Kesey novels. If Anna were a detective, she would investigate cause and effect of the human literary imagination on processes of identity formation and decision making. Now she lives in Tucson because she read The Bean Trees and Pigs in Heaven. Also, she received her MFA from The University of Arizona. Anna's work has recently appeared in FENCE and online in Little Red Leaves Issue 2 and Coconut 11. Her chapbook "for The Workhouse, All" is forthcoming from Dos Press.

Charlie Jensen is the assistant director for the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. He holds an MFA in poetry from ASU and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management. He is the author of three chapbooks, including Living Things, which won the 2006 Frank O’Hara chapbook award, and The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon. He was a recipient of a 2007 Artist’s Project Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. His poetry has appeared in Bloom, Columbia Poetry Review, Copper Nickel, The Journal, New England Review, spork, and West Branch. He is the founding editor of the online poetry magazine LOCUSPOINT, which explores creative work on a city-by-city basis.

Nadine Lockhart is completing an MFA at ASU this coming fall and graduated with an MA in English from the same university ten years prior. She is an assistant editor for Merge: An Independent Journal of Convergent Ideas, an associate poetry editor for Hayden's Ferry Review, a founding member of the Copper Star Poetry Series in central Phoenix, and reads with the Black Cat Sunday Poets in New Mexico. Her most recent poetic adventures include three writing residency awards within 9 months.

 

 

Next Edge Reading will be held on July 17 with readers including Wendy Burk and Aimee Norton.

Past Edge Readings:

May 2008

April 2008

March 2008

February 2008


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