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Edge 37: 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.

Stephen Harutunian, Nancy Powaga,
& Richard Tavenner

Wednesday September 14, 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:

Stephen Harutunian is a musician and writer from Boston, MA. He has taught writing at the University of Vermont and received his MFA in writing from Goddard College. His manuscript, A Stranger Comes to Town, explores why all of us lie, why most of us run, and why a good many of us love cowboys and the Rolling Stones. His most recent work can be found or is forthcoming in Pocketsmut Magazine, 52/250 Flash Fiction, and Shaking Lit. Stephen now lives in Tucson where he plans to begin work on a new project.

Nancy Powaga grew up in Minnetonka, Minnesota. In 2006, she graduated with degrees in English and German from the University of Notre Dame. She's
lived and worked in many beautiful places, including Innsbruck, Austria, Washington, DC, and Portland, Oregon. She now lives in Tucson, Arizona where she's just starting her second year in the University of Arizona's MFA program in Creative Writing. She writes fiction and will spend this year finishing up her first novel. She also teaches and is editor-in-chief of Sonora Review.

Richard Tavenner, poet and electrician, is well known for reciting his and other poets’ poetry to customers and to audiences large or small. Richard has presented the poetry of western painter Maynard Dixon for the Tucson Museum of Art in conjunction with their exhibition of Dixon’s Arizona work. For The Southern Arizona Transportation Museum Richard wrote and presented poems for a fundraiser and for Tucson’s annual celebration of the 1880 arrival of the train. The smaller audiences are in schoolrooms, nursing homes, sales counters of supply stores or job sites.  Mr. Tavenner ran the Tucson Poetry Festival’s Statewide High School Poetry Contest for fifteen years, gathering contributionsfrom local small business owners and growing the contestfrom a few local high schools to a statewide event. Richard begins his 41st year in Tucson with Brenda his wife of 37 years. Both their daughters are married, and they have one granddaughter.

Next Edge Reading will be held on Wednesday, October 19, 2011.

Past Edge Readings:

July 2011

June 2011

May 2011

April 2011

March 2011

February 2011

January 2011

November 2010

October 2010

September 2010

July 2010

June 2010

May 2010

April 2010

March 2010

February 2010

January 2010

 


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