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Edge 20: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
Curator: Melissa Buckheit
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.
Heather Nagami, Will Pewitt, and Pacer Stacktrane
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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:
Heather Nagami
Heather Nagami is the author of the collection of poetry *Hostile*(Chax Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared in *Shifter, Antennae, Rattle*, and *Xcp (Cross-Cultural Poetics)*. She teaches writing at Pima Community College and creates books and other handmade crafts for her small business, Mochi Head Arts.
Will Pewitt
Will Pewitt is a writer, musician and teacher from Austin, Texas. His fiction has been published in several journals including Syntax, Pindeldyboz, Avery, The Claremont Review, and Word Riot. He received the Foundation Award for Fiction from the MFA Program at the University of Arizona, where he teaches composition. His current work-in-progress is Clear Skin, a novel that investigates the aftermath of Hurricane Ike which ravaged Galveston in 2008. With a biblical subtext, the book investigates the disparate topics of pornography, sports, small-town gossip, as well as the sacrifices involved in child-rearing.
Pacer Stacktrane
Pacer Stacktrane is a performance moniker for Christopher Todd Stevens, musician, poet, and visual/recording artist. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana and raised in a rural farming community about an hour outside of Indy (Mooresville, IN), Christopher grew up kin to salt of the earth, friend to lovers of harmony and nature, running wild through the amber waves of grain. After briefly attending college, he took to the open road traveling east and west, north and south for several years, lighting where he found comraderie, performing when invited, working, listening and writing along the way to earn the stories, songs and friendships of souls calling America their home. Among the places visited in his travels, Tucson and the surrounding desert became the place to return to when needing to be near true friends, creative hotbeds, and the mystic Sonoran desert. The endless sound present in all of life moves Christopher to create reflections of this truth in songs rooted in traditonal Delta blues, Soul, spirituals and Americana. His songs are inspired by the persevering soul, longing to realize and express itself through unfettered sport of creation, for love itself, in all endeavor becomes the ultimate purpose and reward for living.
Next Edge Reading will be held on Wednesday, February 17, 2010.
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