Casa Libre Class Registration Form | Past Programs | Directions to Casa Libre

The Dictionary Project Presents

Friday, April 19
7 p.m
$5 suggested donation (to benefit Casa Libre)

Please join us for our third the dictionary project presents!, a
reading brought to you by the literary site, the dictionary project
(http://dictionaryprojectblog.com/).

Join us for a serendipitous night of loving on words: their origins,
sounds, and meanings. Itinerary for the night includes featured
readers who will have written new pieces for the reading, interactive
on-the-spot bibliomancy, and creative participation from the
audience.

Come help us find the words!

Featured Readers

Ian Ellasante is a transgender poet and artist of African, Choctaw, and European descent. Originally from Memphis, Ian studied Creative Writing and Sociology at the University of Memphis before moving to Tucson in 2007. He is currently completing his MA in American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona and finalizing a creative thesis consisting of his poetry and an expository introduction titled “Bridges Between Me: Liminality, Authenticity, and Re/integration in American Indian Literature.” Ian received the Native Writer Award in Poetry at the 2011 Taos Summer Writers’ Conference and has recently published poems in Currency and Evening Will Come.

Hannah Ensor is from Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has poems in Bat City Review, Cutbank, and dislocate, as well as online at Evening Will Come, Spork Press, and Network Awesome. She will finish her MFA in poetry at the University of Arizona this May.

Teré Fowler-Chapman is an artist whose medium is black ink. Her creative works possess fluidity that allows her work to bend into multiple genres. She has empowered her audiences by sharing her truths through spoken word. Her work has been featured on the national radio show KXCI. She has been featured at venues ranging from Davis Monthan Air Force Base to events such as Tucson’s All Souls Procession, a gathering for the community to celebrate and honor those they have lost. She has also made appearances at evenings like Take Back the Night, a night dedicated to empower those who have been victims of sexual violence. As well as facilitated innovative writing workshops that create awareness to the importance of healing through expression for youth, and in turn has provided young adults safe spaces to express themselves. Teré Fowler-Chapman currently resides in Tucson where she hosts a community open poetry reading called “Words on the Avenue” at Café Passé. A open reading designed to provide a platform and safe space for the Tucson community to share their bravery through poetry.

Kindall Gray received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona in 2010. Her fiction has appeared in One Story and other journals. She lives in Tucson, where she teaches English at the UA and acts as assistant fiction editor at the literary journal Cutthroat.

TC Tolbert is a genderqueer, feminist poet and teacher committed to social justice. TC is Assistant Director of Casa Libre en la Solana, adjunct instructor at University of Arizona and Pima Community College, and wilderness instructor at Outward Bound. Co-editor, along with Tim Trace Peterson, of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, March 2013), TC has two chapbooks: spirare (Belladonna* 2012) and territories of folding (Kore Press 2011). His work won the Arizona Statewide Poetry Competition in 2010 and his first full-length collection, Gephyromania, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. TC writes monthly lyric essays on the trans body, intimacy, architecture, and public space for The Feminist Wire and s/he recently curated a trans and queer issue of Evening Will Come for the Volta. TC is a regular curator for Trickhouse, an online cross-genre arts journal and s/he is the creator of Made for Flight, a youth empowerment project that utilizes creative writing and kite building to commemorate murdered transgender people and to dismantle homophobia and transphobia.