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. |
Molly Cooney, Eric Magrane, and Erin Wilcox
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5
Come to the seventh reading of 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:
Molly Cooney is finishing her first book-length work, Mapping Memory, a memoir about solo-leading five teenage girls on a whitewater canoeing expedition in the Canadian Arctic. Excerpts have appeared in The Gettysburg Review and The North Dakota Quarterly. Other personal essays and poetry focus on managing life with a seizure disorder and exploring queer issues. A collection of poetry entitled, “my girlfriend keeps a detailed log of dead birds” earned the University of Arizona Poetry Center Manuscript Award in 2005. Molly received her MFA from the University of Arizona. She is currently writing full time when she's not paddling in the Pacific Ocean or hiking the Osa Peninsula jungle with her partner Anne.
Eric Magrane's creative work draws upon his experience of wild places and interest in the elemental qualities of light, water, air, and time. He is a professional hiking guide and has taught poetry and writing as well as environmental education. Along with collaborative poet Wendy Burk, he has been an Artist in Residence in three national parks. He has received grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Tucson Pima Arts Council, and has published poetry in journals such as Terrain.org, you are here: the journal of creative geography, and The Café Review. He often sandblasts poems into glass and mirror (his permanent piece "only mountains" is at Casa Libre). In Tucson, you can also currently see some of his mirror-poems at Bohemia. His website is www.ericmagrane.com.
Erin Wilcox earned her MFA in creative writing and literary arts at the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2007. She moved to Tucson a year ago to be with her husand, and although she prefers to see the sun and live in a place where only one season is difficult, she dreamed all last summer about cool air rising off deep-blue glaciers. Her work has been published in TEXT: The Journal of Writing and Writing Courses, and Veil: A Journal of Darker Musings, produced by Subsynchronous Press. She has read pieces of creative nonfiction on NPR-broadcast "AK Radio," and on KXCI's "Broad Perspectives,"
a show for local women's voices produced by Quynn Finn. Erin is a freelance editor by trade, and coordinator for the Arizona chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association. She also runs the Wednesday Night Salons at Casa Libre, where local artists meet to discuss their work in a casual setting
Next Edge Reading will be held in November.
Past Edge Readings:
September 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
