Edge 27: 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. |
Jefferson Carter, Michael Gessner,
& Kathleen Winter
Wednesday, September 15, 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:
Jefferson Carter has lived in Tucson since 1954. He graduated from Catalina High School in 1961, received a B.A. in English Literature from Pomona College in 1965, and earned a PhD. in English Literature from the University of Arizona in 1972. In 1978, he was hired as a full-time instructor at Pima Community College, the Downtown Campus. In 1988, he became Writing Department Chair and coordinator of creative writing classes. He retired from Pima College in 2008. Currently, he is a passionate volunteer for Sky Island Alliance, a local environmental organization.Over the years, Jefferson has been a well-respected figure on the Tucson poetry scene. He’s performed in Lamplight readings, the Cushing Street Poetry Series, and POG, anexperimental poetry group he’s a member of. In 2007,Jefferson was a featured poet at the Tucson Poetry Festival, participating on a panel discussion and giving a workshop and a public reading. He also was a featured reader at the first Tucson Festival of Books in 2009. Jefferson’s work has appeared in Carolina Quarterly, Shenandoah, Cutthroat, and Barrow Street. In 1991, he won a Pima/Tucson Arts Council Fellowship. His fourth chapbook, Tough Love, won the Riverstone Poetry Press award. Sentimental Blue, his seventh chapbook (Chax Press, Tucson), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Chax Press published the chapbook, My Kind of Animal, in 2010.
Michael Gessner's poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and selected as finalists for Discovery/The Nation, and the Pablo Neruda Award. Beast Book, his second book of poetry, is forthcoming in Fall 2010. His first full-length collection was Artificial Life, and he has authored three previous chapbooks, Earthly Bodies, Surfaces, and Letters. His work has been featured in American Letters & Commentary, American Literary Review, The Journal of The American Medical Association, Oxford Magazine, and others. He has read at University College Dublin, and the American-Irish Historical Society (NYC.) His work has been called "Striking,"(David Barber, The Atlantic,) and "Structurally ingenious," (Jonathan Galassi, Farrar, Straus & Giroux.) He lives in Tucson.
Kathleen Winter’s poems have appeared in The New Republic,Field, Verse Daily, 32 Poems, The Cincinnati Review, and Tin House. She received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, Prague Summer Program, and the Virginia G. Piper Center. In 2010 her work was selected by the City of Phoenix for its 7th Avenue Streetscape Public Art Project. Kathleen is an MFA student at Arizona State, where she also teaches composition and co-edits poetry for Hayden’s Ferry Review.
Next Edge Reading will be held on October 20.
Past Edge Readings:
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
