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Edge 33: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
Melissa Buckheit's BioA 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.
Tung-Hui Hu, Liza Porter,
& TC Tolbert
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Suggested Donation: $5Come 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.
***Tung-Hui Hu will be teaching a writing workshop called Poetry Lost and Found on Thursday April 14, 6:00-8:30 p.m.***
Readers:
Tung-Hui Hu is the author of three books of poems: The Book of Motion (2003), Mine (2007), and Greenhouses, Lighthouses, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. His next book-in-progress works with newspaper articles from the 1920s and 1930s. Described as a “contained surreal style that deftly shapes a philosophical argument” (Los Angeles Times), his writing has appeared in The New Republic, Ploughshares, Gastronomica, and Martha Stewart Living Radio. Hu teaches film and creative writing at the University of Michigan, where he is Assistant Professor of English.
Liza Porter’s work has been published in literary magazines and in What Wildness is this: Women Write About the Southwest (University of Texas Press: Austin, 2007), and Poets on Prozac (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008). Porter received the 2009 Mary Ann Campau Memorial Poetry Fellowship from the University of Arizona Poetry Center. She is currently taking a semester off from her pursuit for a journalism degree.
TC Tolbert, a genderqueer feminist poet committed to social justice, is assistant director of Casa Libre en la Solana in Tucson and is an adjunct instructor at the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. During the summers, he leads wilderness trips for Outward Bound. Tolbert's poetry includes a just-published chapbook, Territories of Folding (Kore Press).
Next Edge Reading will be held on May 11.
Past Edge Readings:
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