Fair Weather Reading Series

w/Teresa Carmody & TC Tolbert

Saturday, March 19
5pm (doors at 4:30)
Please not the change of time!
lemonade and snacks served

Curator: Kristen E. Nelson
Location: outdoor courtyard
Description: This series celebrates LGBTQ writers, female writers, writers of color, emerging writers, and other underrepresented groups. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Sometimes there will be music. Sometimes there will be dancing. Sometimes there will be video. Sometimes there will be swimming. Sometimes there will be surprises. Sometimes there will be raffles. Sometimes there will be fancy food. Sometimes there will be fancy drinks. Sometimes it will rain and you should bring an umbrella. Sometimes it will be chilly and you should bring a blanket. It is called the Fair Weather Reading Series for all of these reasons and more.

Teresa Carmody is the author of Maison Femme: A Fiction(Bon Aire Projects, 2015), Requiem (Les Figues, 2005). She is also the author of I Can Feel (Insert Press, 2012),  Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008), and the chapbook Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne (Woodland Editions, 2009). Other work has appeared in such publications as Juked, Bombay Gin, Mandorla, Fold Appropriate Tex, American Book Review, emohippus greeting cards 1-4, and Drunken Boat. She has been an artist-in-residence at the Millay Colony, and is currently pursuing a PhD in English/Creating Writing at the University of Denver.

TC Tolbert is a genderqueer, feminist poet and teacher committed to social justice. S/he believes in working across communities—building bridges wherever possible. Tolbert earned his MFA in Poetry from the University of Arizona and teaches in the low residency MFA program at OSU-Cascades and teaches composition and transgender literature at University of Arizona. Awarded the Arizona Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Award in 2012 and a residency at Byrdcliffe, s/he has three chapbooks: spirare (Belladonna, 2012), territories of folding (Kore Press, 2011), and I:Not He:Not I (Pitymilk Press, 2014). Tolbert’s first full-length collection, Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press, 2014), was a three-time finalist for the Sawtooth Poetry Prize. Dawn Lundy Martin wrote,“Gephyromania teaches us that to unmake a body, language, and thereby a world is as meaningful (perhaps more so) than building—and that unmaking is, oxymoronically, a form of creation. This collection presses hard and urgently against the throat of mainstream western notions of what it means to inhabit a gendered body.” Tolbert lives in Tucson.