I will be reading on Friday, October 14th at 7 pm at Antigone Bookstore in Tucson. I'm reading with Meikil Berry as part of the Other Voices Women's Reading Series. Come and check us out.
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Reading at Antigone Books
I will be reading on Friday, October 14th at 7 pm at Antigone Bookstore in Tucson. I'm reading with Meikil Berry as part of the Other Voices Women's Reading Series. Come and check us out.
It's National Poetry Month!
I'll be reading this Thursday at Chandler-Gilbert Community College with Jimmy Berlin and Jacquelyne Kibler as part of the college's celebration of National Poetry Month. Come if you can. Pecos campus, 7:00 p.m. Let's celebrate the word!
Arizona Writers for Justice
On Monday, January 17th, I will join a group of writers to read poems, essays and stories that speak to the true legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. There is a range of writers and styles involved and the readings promise to be funny, inspired, and just plain good. The writers are:Venita Blackburn
Myrlin Hepworth
Ryan Holden
Michelle J. Martinez
Rae Paris
Fernando Perez
Annette Sexton-Ruiz
Renee Simms
Please come out and support the reading. It's free, and it starts at 7 pm at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe.
Upcoming Readings + Lectures
On Wednesday, February 3 at 2:00 p.m., Dwayne Betts will do a craft talk at ASU's Piper Writers House. That evening, at 7:00 p.m., he has a reading at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe.
On Thursday, February 4 at 6:00 p.m., Jewell Parker Rhodes presents a lecture at ASU's downtown campus titled "Racism, African Vampires and the Legend of New Orleans' Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau".
Next Tuesday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m., Junot Diaz reads at Chandler-Gilbert Community College in the Performing Arts Center.
Happenings + Events
Friday, December 4 at 5:30 p.m.: Arizona Latino Arts & Culture Consortium celebrate the opening of Latino arts new home in downtown Phoenix, 147 E. Adams, Phoenix 85004. Several artists will be present including writer Stella Pope Duarte who will read.
Friday, December 4 at 6:00 p.m.: Photography opening at Conspire, 901 N. 5th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85016. Photographer Aaron Abbott unveils his new photography book, "Phonebook," that examines those dinosaurs of technology, pay phones. Abbott photographed every payphone between 16th and 24th streets and Thomas and Van Buren in Phoenix. He says, "the resulting photographs explore the cultural aesthetics of these areas while pursuing a visual simplicity."
Friday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m.: Black Pearl Poetry series featuring poet Mighty Mike McGee at The Original Fair Trade Cafe in Phoenix.
Saturday, December 5 at 7:00 p.m.: Reception for Poetics of Light Photogrpahy Exhibition at Etherton Gallery in Tucson, 135 S. 6th Avenue. Featured photogrpahers include Kate Breakey, Masao Yamamoto, James Hajicek and Carol Panaro-Smith. The show runs through February 27, 2010.
Saturday and Sunday, December 5 and 6, 11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.: a.ware holiday sale at 534 W. Coronado in South Phoenix. Find holiday gifts all handmade, all made by local Arizona artists.
Light Rail Readings + Caitlin Horrocks
Yay for success!! Caitlin Horrocks (shown above), who graduated from Arizona State's MFA program in 2007, has her first book coming out on Sarabande Press in 2011. It's entitled This Is Not Your City and the stories in the collection have appeared in the Paris Review, Tin House, The PEN/O Henry Prize Stories 2009 and elsewhere. Caitlin is super talented, funny, humble, smart...I could go on. She is definitely a writer to watch.
Caitlin will be reading on Wednesday, November 4 at the Piper House at ASU in Tempe, Arizona. The reading starts at 7:45 p.m.
Books that I've spied on the light rail:
Bram Stoker's Dracula (it's the Halloween season after all)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
Readings, Performances and Stuff
Saw people reading these books recently on the light rail:
At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Carmelo by Sandra Cisneros
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (okay, that's me)
And here are a few events coming up in the Phoenix and Tucson area:
October 7: Mark Anthony Neal and Celine Parrenas Shimizu will speak about gender, race and justice from 12:30-2:30 in the Carson Ballroom, Old Main at ASU
October 8: Leslie Marmon Silko reads at the Heard Museum, Phoenix, at 7 p.m.
October 14: Kimiko Hahn reads in ASU's Memorial Union, Room 241A at 7:30 p.m., Tempe
October 15-18: "A Tribute to Donny Hathaway" a play based on poems by Ed Pavlice and performed by Black Poet Ventures at Playhouse on the Park in Phoenix.
October 16: Sherman Alexie reads at Heard Museum in Phoenix, 6 p.m.
October 16: "Fall into Poetry" reading featuring Gina Franco, Andrea Gibson, and Brian Turner at 2020 E. 4th St. in Tucson, 6 p.m.
AZ Readings + A Lit Mag on Motherhood
On October 8, novelist Leslie Marmon Silko will read from her forthcoming memoir, Turquoise Ledge. Reading begins at 7:00 p.m. at the Heard Museum in Phoenix,
On October 9, poet Naomi Shihab Nye will present a lecture, "Our Shared Humanity: Place Making and Sustainability," at 7:30 p.m., Tempe Mission Palms Hotel. FREE.
On October 14, poet Kimiko Hahn reads at 7:30 p.m. in the Recital Hall at ASU's School of Music.
And a friend sent me info on Brain, Child, a literary magazine about motherhood which publishes fiction, essays and reviews. It looks like a smart read.
From the website:
“Work from Brain, Child won a Pushcart Prize in 2003 and was listed under "Notable Essays" in Best American Essays 2002. Brain, Child is distributed in independent bookstores, Barnes & Noble superstores, Borders, and select grocery stores around the U.S. and Canada. Circulation stands at 36,000, with subscribers from every state and as far away as Sweden, Egypt, and Hong Kong. The Washington Post says "A good read is what Brain, Child is all about."
Past contributors include Barbara Kingsolver, Jane Smiley, Barbara Ehrenreich, Antonya Nelson.
Events + Happenings
Arizona State University YAWP 2009 presents, "That Different Yield: A Reading by the Young Adult Writing Project," Wednesday, June 24, 7:00 p.m. at Changing Hands Bookstore. Sponsored by the ASU Deptartment of English, the Young Adult Writing Project is a summer writing program based on a creative journaling approach for students in grades 8-12.
For more information about YAWP go here
Congratulations to Indigo Moor who won the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. His winning poetry collection, Through the Stonecutter's Window will be published by Northwestern University Press.
For more information about YAWP go here
Congratulations to Indigo Moor who won the 2009 Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize. His winning poetry collection, Through the Stonecutter's Window will be published by Northwestern University Press.
The Dangerous Shirt + Book Fair
The Leimert Park Book Fair takes place this Saturday, June 6, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Leimert Park Village in south Los Angeles. The event will feature readings by noted authors including poet Al Young and speculative fiction writer Tananarive Due. There's a tribute to Octavia Butler scheduled and a sampling of food prepared by healthful cookbook author and chef Bryant Terry. For more information go here. (photo of drum circle at Leimert Park shown above).
And next Wednesday, June 10, in Tempe AZ, poet Alberto Rios will read at Changing Hands Bookstore. He'll be reading from his new poetry collection, The Dangerous Shirt (Copper Canyon Press 2009).
Workshops and Readings
"Writing Across Cultures": Fifteen Cave Canem alum read on Friday, May 1 at 6 p.m. at Adelphi University Manhattan Center in New York.
"All That's Gone: A Katrina Elegy" - a presentation of poems and photographs responding to Hurricane Katrina followed by a discussion by artists and project participants who relocated from Louisiana to Arizona. Monday, May 4, 7-8:30 p.m. at Tempe Public Library in Arizona.
"Writing the Coming of Age Story": A workshop led by Tayari Jones at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown June 14-19. Scholarships are available.
Adam Bradley is reading from his book, "The Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop" at Changing Hands Book Store in Tempe, AZ on May 18th at 7 p.m.
"All That's Gone: A Katrina Elegy" - a presentation of poems and photographs responding to Hurricane Katrina followed by a discussion by artists and project participants who relocated from Louisiana to Arizona. Monday, May 4, 7-8:30 p.m. at Tempe Public Library in Arizona.
"Writing the Coming of Age Story": A workshop led by Tayari Jones at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown June 14-19. Scholarships are available.
Adam Bradley is reading from his book, "The Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop" at Changing Hands Book Store in Tempe, AZ on May 18th at 7 p.m.
Happenings. Links.
A few upcoming events in Phoenix...
* This Wednesday, April 8 @ 7 PM, the Poetry in April Series continues at the Tempe Center for the Arts. The authors are Elizabyth Hiscox and Douglas Jones. Their bios can be read here. Tempe Center for the Arts really is a beautiful building. A photo of the exterior of the Lakeside Room, where the readings take place, is here.
* I’m glad to see that The Black Theater Troupe’s still performing "Revenge of a King," its hip-hop version of Hamlet. On Thursday, April 23 @ 7:30 p.m., it will perform at Playhouse in the Park on Central Ave. in Phoenix. The next day, April 24 from 8:15 a.m. to noon there will be performances and panel discussions about "shaking up Shakespeare" at the Lyceum Theater at ASU. Panelists include actor Harry Lennix and ASU professor Ayanna Thompson.
And finally this....
New York Times critic, A.O. Scott wrote a piece about the necessity and resurgence of the short story titled "In Praise of the American Short Story." I’m not sure that I was convinced though I’d like to think people love short stories the way that I do.
* This Wednesday, April 8 @ 7 PM, the Poetry in April Series continues at the Tempe Center for the Arts. The authors are Elizabyth Hiscox and Douglas Jones. Their bios can be read here. Tempe Center for the Arts really is a beautiful building. A photo of the exterior of the Lakeside Room, where the readings take place, is here.
* I’m glad to see that The Black Theater Troupe’s still performing "Revenge of a King," its hip-hop version of Hamlet. On Thursday, April 23 @ 7:30 p.m., it will perform at Playhouse in the Park on Central Ave. in Phoenix. The next day, April 24 from 8:15 a.m. to noon there will be performances and panel discussions about "shaking up Shakespeare" at the Lyceum Theater at ASU. Panelists include actor Harry Lennix and ASU professor Ayanna Thompson.
And finally this....
New York Times critic, A.O. Scott wrote a piece about the necessity and resurgence of the short story titled "In Praise of the American Short Story." I’m not sure that I was convinced though I’d like to think people love short stories the way that I do.
Aracelis Girmay @ Tempe Poetry in April
I was happy to see that Aracelis Girmay will be in Tempe next Wednesday, April 1 at 7pm as part of the Tempe Poetry in April reading series. Girmay is the author of a book of poetry, Teeth, that's beautiful in every way. She is also the author of a children's book, Changing, Changing that's based on Ovid's tales of metamorphoses. Aracelis is the real deal. Don't miss her reading if you're in town.
Barnes & Noble Bookfair
If you have time, come to the Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Chandler Fashion Center next Tuesday, February 17th. I'll be reading my work and talking about writing outreach. For more information and a poster of the Bookfair events click here. Hope to see you there!
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