Posts Tagged ‘Summer Literary Festival’
Mobi Warren, a local educator and master naturalist, leads monthly Haiku Hikes through the inspirational terrain at Government Canyon State Natural Area. As an environmental activist/poet, she has organized poetry readings at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center and at Luminaria 2010. Warren is also an experienced workshop facilitator who loves to weave observations of the natural world into everyday happenings.
Warren will teach the class, Dawn and Dusk: Crepuscular Writing, during Gemini Ink’s Summer Literary Festival. The class will take place July 18th-20th at Government Canyon State Natural Area and Gemini Ink. At the state park, class participants will hike at dawn and dusk, create journal entries about their experiences, and then, craft their journal entries into poems at Gemini Ink.
Gemini Ink intern Iris Ayala interviewed Warren about her upcoming class, the relationship between nature and art, her favorite poem about nature, and the current state of the environment.
Local college professor, San Antonio Current columnist and editor, and employee at the public library, Lyle Rosdahl manages to juggle each vocation and still find time to put pen to paper for his personal writing. Additionally, Rosdahl journals, communicates, and encourages other writers via his website. Incorporating both Oulipo, a literary technique that advocates constraints in writing, and flash fiction, Rosdahl continues to produce innovative and inspiring pieces for the writing community.
Rosdahl will conduct the class, Structural Biomimicry in Short Prose, during Gemini Ink’s Summer Literary Festival. The class will be held the week of July 12 through July 15. Class participants will examine some of nature’s processes and models and use those insights to create similar structures within their writing.
Gemini Ink intern Megan Peak interviewed Rosdahl and discussed his writing process, fascination with Oulipo, and what inspires him to write.
Gemini Ink’s summer faculty member Mobi Warren and Communications Director Jennifer Herrera were featured along with Sandra Cisneros in July’s SA ArtsBeat program. The episode spotlights literary arts in San Antonio, focusing on Gemini Ink’s upcoming Summer Literary Festival and Cisneros’s Macondo Foundation. To view the program, visit SAHearts.com or watch SA ArtsBeat three times a week on TVSA (cable channel 21); Mondays, 7 pm, Tuesdays, 10:30 am and Fridays, 4 pm.
