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Genevieve and Ward Orsinger funds creative writing workshops for elders in our community!

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:00:53 +0000

Gemini Ink and the Writers in Communities program is grateful to learn that the Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation has granted us funding to facilitate two summer creative writing workshops for elders at the Elvira Cisneros Senior Center. We’re excited to hear and share their stories!

Read more about the Orsinger Foundation by clicking the image link.

Writers in Communities faculty member brings well-versed background to current project

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:38:41 +0000

Dr. Ben Olguin has written refereed articles in journals, anthologies, editorial review publications, and more, as well as the co-translated Cantos de Adolescencia/Songs of Youth by Américo Paredes and My Weapon is My Pen: raúlrsalinas’ Selected Writings from the Jail Machine (1963-1974). Dr. Olguin currently works with Writers in Communities and Wood Middle School.

Dr. Olguin’s most recent publication is La Pinta: Chicana/o Prisoner Literature, Culture, and Politics (University of Texas Press, 2010). He has several projects under review including the poetry collection Red Leather Gloves, which won First Runner Up 2007 Kent State University Wick Poetry Center Manuscript Prize; Finalist, 2007 & 2008 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Manuscript Prize; Finalist, 2008 May Swenson Poetry Manuscript Award; Semi-Finalist, 2008 Elixir Press Poetry Awards; Semi-Finalist, 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Ben Olguin received his B.A. with honors from the University of Houston, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. He is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

For more information on Dr. Olguin’s publications, visit his University of Texas at San Antonio home page.

An interview and reading with Trey Moore

admin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:56:10 +0000

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.

Moore received a B.A. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and is a fourth-generation carpenter. He has traveled extensively (Alaska, Malaysia, Thailand, and Laos) and teaches poetry in public schools and juvenile detention centers in San Antonio, Texas. He has been published and reviewed in various national and international journals. A Texas native and arts activist, his work has appeared in the Texas Observer and a number of anthologies including: Is This Forever or What? and Between Heaven and Texas. Moore has a new book release, Some Will Play the Cello, which was recently published by Pecan Grove Press. Moore was kind enough to talk with Gemini Ink’s WIC director Anisa Onofre last week about the process of writing poetry.

“In My Mind Was Planted a Seed” Reading

Anisa Onofre — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:36:10 +0000

The summer poetry workshop, held at the 386th drug court of the Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department, wrapped up in November with a reading at Gemini Ink. Poet Victoria Zapata-Klein facilitated the workshop. Click on the image link to read the article at mysanantonio.com