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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.

Marvin Gladney, Annie Guthrie, and Josh Rathkamp
Tuesday, March 25
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5

Come to the second 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. Wine and lights drinks will be available after the reading.

Readers:

Dr. Marvin Gladney is a Chicago-born artist and scholar.  A writer and artist of unique range, his writing has been published in the South African journal Social Dynamics and African-American Review, and he has exhibited work at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art and The Soap Factory (Minneapolis, MN).  His production credits include collaborations with Slug (of Atmosphere), All Natural, Mr. Greenweedz, and Dug Infinite.  A graduate of Chicago State University and the University of Denver, he currently teaches in the Writing Program at the University of Arizona.

Annie Guthrie is a writer and jeweler living in Tucson. She is co-owner of the Jewel Smithery and also works at the U of A Poetry Center. She is currently working on a novel and on her third
manuscript, "The Novel Social." She eats and fights in Italian.

 

Josh Rathkamp’s first book of poems Some Nights No Cars At All was published by Ausable Press. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals, including Indiana Review, Meridian, Passages North, Puerto Del Sol, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Verse Daily, and The Drunken Boat. Rathkamp has received awards from the Arizona Commission for the Arts, has been named the Arizona representative for the National Arts and Letters Society and a Virginia G. Piper writing fellow. He is currently the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Mesa Community College.

 

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