Edge 35: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
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. |
Jesús Ángel García & Taylor Johnson
Monday, June 20, 2011
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:
Jesús Ángel García is the author of badbadbad, a transmedia novel (coming in late May on New Pulp Press) about sex, God, rock ‘n’ roll and the social web. A writer, musician and filmmaker based in San Francisco, García has published fiction in Monkeybicycle, 3:AM Magazine, HTML Giant and other literary venues. His non-fiction has appeared in SFWeekly, The Faster Times, Vol. 1 Brooklyn and Electric Literature’s The Outlet, where he is a frequent contributor. A national tour of literary, music and multimedia art venues is in the works for the summer of 2011. badbadbad is García's first novel.
Taylor Johnson earned an MFA in Poetry at the University of Arizona in 2007. In 2001, she graduated from the George Washington University with a BA in English and a minor in Creative Writing. She was a Lannan Fellow in 2000. She currently teaches English at Desert View High School in Tucson, AZ. She also serves as Senior Fellow with the Southern Arizona Writing Project, where she facilitates the professional development of teachers who are also writers during the Invitational Summer Institute. Taylor is President of Ocotillo Literary Endeavors Board, which runs the Tucson Poetry Festival and the Ocotillo and Youth Poetry Slams. She is the proud mother of a six-year old emerging artist named Margot Aurora. Taylor has been a writer ever since she could type on her mother’s old electric typewriter, which was about 25 years ago. Her first publishing credit was at the age of nine—it was a short poem in Highlights for Children, the magazine you read while waiting in the dentist’s office. It will not be the last. Currently most of her work is self-published: you can find it on her blog at www.taylormjohnson.com. She writes poetry, stories, letters, essays, and even the occasional novel. She enjoys reading her work aloud and in her next life plans to be a singer-songwriter.
Next Edge Reading will be held on July 20.
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April 2011
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