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Edge 73: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/David Martínez, TC Tolbert, & Ocean Vuong
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.
Wednesday, February 18
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.
Readers
David Martínez is an associate professor of American Indian Studies at Arizona State University. He is also the author of Dakota Philosopher: Charles Eastman and American Indian Thought (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2009) and Editor of The American Indian Intellectual Tradition: An Anthology of Writings from 1772 to 1972 (Cornell University Press, 2011). He has also published a number of articles and essays in a variety of venues, such as: American Indian Quarterly, Red Ink Magazine, Yellow Medicine Review, and The European Review of Native American Studies. In addition, he serves as a public speaker, scholar, consultant, and the occasional documentary interview subject. Most recently, David participated in a documentary titled Carlos Montezuma, Changing Is Not Vanishing, which is about the early 20th century Ft. McDowell Yavapai Activist-Intellectual. The program is produced by the Big Ten and debuts on Illinois television on November 3, 2014.
TC Tolbert is a genderqueer, feminist poet and teacher. Assistant Director of Casa Libre en la Solana, instructor at University of Arizona and Pima Community College, and wilderness instructor at Outward Bound, s/he is the author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014) and chapbooks spirare (Belladonna*, 2012), and territories of folding (Kore Press, 2011). TC is co-editor, along with Tim Trace Peterson, of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). www.tctolbert.com
Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky With Exit Wounds, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2016. A 2014 Ruth Lilly fellow, he has received honors from Kundiman, Poets House, The Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Italy), The Elizabeth George Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and a 2014 Pushcart Prize. His poems appear in or are forthcoming in Poetry, The Nation, Boston Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Guernica, TriQuarterly The New Yorker, and American Poetry Review, which awarded him the 2012 Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. He lives in Queens, NY. (www.oceanvuong.com)
Ocean Vuong will be offering a lecture and writing workshop entitled Quiet as Creative Force: dismantling the language of writer's block and the materiality of compositionat Casa Libre on February 18
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Next Edge Reading will be held March 25.
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