Edge 32: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
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. |
Maya Asher, Teresa Dawn Driver
&
Joni Wallace
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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:
Maya Asher has been on the board of Tucson Poetry Festival since 2008; she has also been an active participant, volunteer, and intern for TPF since 2006. She graduated with two Bachelors degrees in 2007, one in Special Education and Rehabilitation, and the other in Creative Writing, with an emphasis in Poetry from the University of Arizona. She graduated with her Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling in 2009 from the U of A. She has been on KXCI’s radio show “A Poets Moment.” She co-founded the Ocotillo Poetry Slam in 2006. She is currently working with Every Voice in Action Foundation, providing workshops for youth in classrooms and at or before Slam events.
Teresa Dawn Driver has been published locally in The Tucson Poet, The Laughing Dog, various Zines and Xeroxes, and in the collections Poetry Thugs, Smells Like Tigers, and Just Add Genius. Her work was included in the internet version of an anthology called Nickled and Dimed in the Southwest, a project of the Southwest Center for Economic Integrity, and self-published a chapbook called Gnaw On the Apple Core.Teresa was most honored and humbled to be allowed to compete in the 2005 National Poetry Slam as a “Storm Poet” and is incredibly proud of the fact that she did not come in last. Following that, she was on the first two teams that Tucson sent to the National Poetry Slam (2007, 2008) and has since realized that she cannot keep up with the kids, so she’s going to teach them.
Joni Wallace's full-length poetry collection Blinking Ephemeral Valentine was selected by Mary Jo Bang for the 2009 Levis Prize and is forthcoming from New York City’s Four Way Books. Her poems have been featured in such publications as Boston Review, Barrow Street, Blue Mesa Review, Conduit, Cutbank, Crazyhorse, Forklift, Ohio, Laurel Review, Connotations Press, No Tell Motel and Verse Daily. She is the author of a chapbook, Redshift, published by Kore Press in 2001. Joni has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, has twice been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and is the recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. She holds an MFA from the University of Montana and a B.A. and J.D. from the University of New Mexico. She currently teaches poetry in the Arizona and Colorado schools, community and detention centers. Joni is also a musician and co-founder of the Poets’ Studio.
Next Edge Reading will be held on April 13.
Past Edge Readings:
February 2011
January 2011
November 2010
October 2010
September 2010
July 2010
June 2010
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