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Edge 68: a Reading Series of Emerging and Younger Writers
w/Julie Hampton, Tyler Meier, & Joseph P. Wood

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, September 10
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

Julie Hampton grew up in Wisconsin and received her BA in English from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. From 1995 to 2000, she directed the Valley of the Sun YMCA Writer's Voice, organizing author readings, community writing workshops, and other literary programs. She's taught creative writing since 2000 and received her MFA in fiction and poetry from ASU in
2005. Her work has been published in Indiana Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Spork. Her visual and performance work has been included in the exhibitions You Still Draw Like a Girl, Dura Girls, and A Bitch in Time. She is currently at work on a memoir.

Tyler Meier received an MFA from the University of Washington, and his poetry and nonfiction have appeared in At Length, AGNI (online), Laurel Review, Bat City Review, jubilat, Washington Square, Thermos, Forklift, Ohio, and elsewhere. He is Executive Director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Joseph P. Wood is the author of four books and five chapbooks of poetry, which include YOU. (forthcoming, Etruscan Press, 2015) Broken Cage (Brooklyn Arts Press, Fall 2014; finalist for 2013 National Poetry Series), and Fold of the Map (Salmon Poetry, 2014). His work has appeared in Arts & Letters Daily, BOMB, Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Verse, among other journals. He is managing editor for Noemi Press and assistant professor of English at The University of Alabama-Birmingham.

 

 

 

Next Edge Reading will be held October 22.

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