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Edge 74: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/Xander Felton, Ben Rutherfurd, & Matthew Schmidt

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, March 25
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


Xander Felton has been writing ever since he moved to Tucson in 1990. Instead of writing plain definitions of the week's vocabulary words, Xander wrote an entire short story using the words in context, impressing his 4th grade teacher. Xander studied British Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona where he claims he was sorely misunderstood by the other students and the staff. They gave him his degree anyway and Xander has been writing with reckless abandon ever since. Currently, Xander writes under the nom de plume of Xanto P. Jones and posts his serialization of a Flash Gordonesque sci-fi adventure “Meanwhile in Space...” at xantojones.wordpress.com. Right now, he is working on the first “Meanwhile in Space...” novel and hopes to self publish. If you should see him, tell him he's doing a great job. While it's dangerous to indulge him in his fantasies, it helps keep him going!


Ben Rutherfurd grew up in Sonoma County, California, and received his MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona in 2013. He currently teaches English in Tucson.

 

 



Originally from Iowa City, Iowa, Matthew Schmidt hopes to graduate with a MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona in May. He is the UA Graduate Associate in the Undergraduate English Office and teaches Introduction to Poetry Writing. Recent work has been published in Down in the Dirt, The Missing Slate and Small Po[r]tions. He has called Casa Libre home the past two years.

 

 

 

Next Edge Reading will be held April 22.

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