About
Suites
Programs
Donate
Contact
 

HomeNews Photos Guestbook Email

 

Past Programs | Directions to Casa Libre

Edge 51: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/Raja Lewis, Grace Polleys, & Joel Smith

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.

Wednesday, February 20
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:

Raja Lewis is from Kansas and grew up in the western United States. She spent her early childhood in Phoenix, began writing poetry and dreaming of women in West Texas, discovered alcohol at age 15 after moving to Missouri, discovered sobriety and studied Phys Ed in New Jersey, nourished her poetry in Illinois, lost her heart in Laguna Beach, California, and currently resides in Tucson, Arizona. She is interested in sports and poetry. Writing is an everyday practice and she loves it more than anything. She has a BA in physical education and health from Trenton State College and studied poetry at Southern Illinois University with Rodney Jones and Lucia Perillo before earning an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Arizona in 1999.

Grace Polleys completed her BA in Creative Writing and Voice at The University of Denver. Her poetry has appeared in the Foothills Visual and Textual Magazine. Her poems have been compiled into art songs by written by Diana Zhou, a Denver based composer, and she has performed them at the Lamont School of Music. Aside from poetry, Grace’s interests include playing steel drums, classical piano, as well as exploring other forms of percussion.
 

Joel Smith lives in Tucson where he edits fiction for Spork Press. He received an MFA from the University of Arizona, and his work has appeared in Wigleaf. After three years of steady collaboration with illustrator Ryan Winet, Joel's graphic novel, The Parish, is finally done, like dundun.

 

 

 

 

 

Next Edge Reading will be held March 27, 2013.

Past Edge Readings:

Jan 2012

Nov 2012

Oct 2012

Sept 2012

July 2012

June 2012

May 2012

Apr 2012

Mar 2012

Feb 2012

Jan 2012


Return to Top of Page

   
   


Document located at http://www.casalibre.org
Website maintained by casakeepers@casalibre.org
© 2005 Casa Libre en la Solana