Edge 25: 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. |
Margaret Regan, Elizabeth Frankie Rollins, and Spring Ulmer
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
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:
photo: Jay Rochlin
Margaret Regan is the author of The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands (Beacon Press, 2010). A longtime journalist in Tucson, she has a bachelor's degree in French from the University of Pennsylvania. She studied French at the Sorbonne in Paris and Spanish in a tiny school in Antigua, Guatemala. After working as a French editor for TV Guide magazine and as a children's book editor at McGraw-Hill, she turned to journalism. Her work has been published in the Washington Post, Newsday, Black + White, Photovision, Focus, and many regional and local publications. The art critic at the Tucson Weekly since 1990, she has won many awards for her arts criticism, her border reporting, and her stories on the Irish immigrant experience. The Death of Josseline is her first book.
Elizabeth Frankie Rollins has published work in Conjunctions, Green Mountains Review, The New England Review, Trickhouse, Tarpaulin Sky, The Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of The Sin Eater, Corvid Press, 2004. She received a 2003 NJ Prose Fellowship, and a Special Mention in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches writing at Pima Community College, and will be teaching an Intro to Fiction Workshop at the Poetry Center starting in September. Her website is: www.madamekaramazov.com
Spring Ulmer holds a MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona and a MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Iowa. She’s worked as a photo-journalist, a journalist, a teacher of photography and writing to migrant, homeless, and incarcerated youth, an ESL instructor, and a horse hand. Her honors include grants for photography and writing from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and the Andrea Frank Foundation, as well as residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and the University of Iowa’s Museum of Art. Ulmer’s book of poetry, Benjamin’s Spectacles, was selected by Sonia Sanchez for Kore Press’s 2007 First Book Award. A collection of Ulmer’s essays, The Age of Virtual Reproduction, was published by Essay Press in 2009. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at John Jay College and Fordham University.
Next Edge Reading will be held on Wednesday, July 14, 2010.
Past Edge Readings:
May 2010
April 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
November 2009
October 2009
September 2009
July 2009
June 2009
May 2009
April 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
July 2008
June 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
