Interviews
This week Gemini Ink features poet Trey Moore who is currently working on two projects for the Writers in Communities program (WIC). Moore facilitates “Writing in the Light,” a 12-week poetry workshop at Safe Haven Homeless Shelter that will result in a chapbook in April. He’s also facilitating two creative writing workshops on Gothic literature in two Harlandale middle schools; Terrell Wells and Kingsborough. The work produced in these workshops will culminate in an online anthology.
Gemini Ink profiles Writers in Communities faculty member Jacinto Jesús Cardona, a 33-year veteran of the Texas public school system who has won many awards for teaching creative writing, including the Imagineer Award and the Trinity Prize for Teaching Excellence. In addition to publishing poetry in various journals and anthologies, Cardona is the author of Pan Dulce (Chili Verde Press, 1998), a book of poems. He has also been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities visiting scholar grants to Harvard University, Boston University, and the Newberry Library in Chicago.
Gemini Ink Communications director Jennifer Herrera caught Cardona in a “zany” mood while discussing his book of poetry and his writing process.
Edna Campos-Gravenhorst has authored six books, three of which pertain to historical research: Historical H
ome Research in the City of St. Louis (self-published, 2003), Benton Park West (Arcadia Publishing, 2005), and Southwest Garden (Arcadia Publishing, 2008). Edna was born in Freer, TX and now resides in San Antonio after living 13 years in the Midwest. She became interested in historical research while looking to buy a historic house in St. Louis with her husband Ted, realizing that realtors and home owners could only tell them that the house had been built a century ago. Edna has now researched 300 historic structures in St. Louis.
Edna will conduct a class on Historical Home Research in Nonfiction Writing that will take place on two consecutive Saturdays, Jan. 30 and Feb 6. In the class, participants will learn, where to go, what to look for and how to use research to write nonfiction books and articles. Then, participants will learn where and how to submit articles for publication.
Gemini Ink University Without Walls director Leslie Plant and intern Angelia Potter spoke with Edna Campos-Gravenhorst about her upcoming class.
Miriam Lerner’s two-hour documentary The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox examines poetry in American Sign Language (ASL), and the movement that began in the 1980s and 1990s at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at Rochester Institute of Technology. It tells the story of how ASL poetry was born, as it explores the nature of poetry and expression. The documentary premieres Saturday, Nov. 14 at the Palace Theatre in Seguin as part of the Fifth Cinema for Everyone Showcase.
Gemini Ink intern Laura Kraus and WIC director Anisa Onofre talked with Miriam Lerner about ASL poetry and her film, The Heart of the Hydrogen Jukebox.
