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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Rudy Ruiz
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, January 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Rudy Ruiz and his novel\, VALLEY OF SHADOWS. Moderated by Guadalupe Garcia McCall.\n\nABOUT VALLEY OF SHADOWS\nWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’ Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction \nNew York Times Book Review Paperback Row Selection \n\n\n\n\nSolitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife\, his family\, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course\, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge\, hiding out on his ranch\, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town\, pushing its volatile mix of Anglo\, Mexican\, and Apache settlers to the brink of self-destruction\, he feels reluctantly compelled to confront both life\, and the much more likely possibility of death\, yet again. \nThrough luminous prose and soul-searching reflections\, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains. \nABOUT RUDY RUIZ\nRudy Ruiz is an American author\, advocate and social entrepreneur. The son and grandson of Mexican immigrants\, Rudy Ruiz was born in Brownsville\, Texas and raised along the US-Mexico border\, living in Matamoros\, Mexico for extensive periods of time. He did not speak English until he entered school at the age of five. Once in school\, he dreamt of becoming a writer\, an entrepreneur\, and a contributor to the wellbeing of immigrants and minorities\, as well as to positive relations between diverse cultures and nations. He earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at Harvard. Ruiz now resides in San Antonio with his wife\, Heather\, and their two children\, Paloma and Lorenzo.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE MODERATOR\n\n\n\n \nBorn in Piedras Negras\, Coahuila\, Mexico and raised in Eagle Pass\, Texas\, Guadalupe García McCall is the award-winning author of several young adult novels\, some short stories for adults\, and many children’s poems. Guadalupe has received the Prestigious Pura Belpre Award\, a Westchester Young Adult Fiction Award\, the Tomás Rivera Mexican-American Children’s Book Award\, and was a finalist for the William C. Morris Award and the Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy\, among many other accolades. Visit Guadalupe at her website: https://ggmccall.com/.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-rudy-ruiz/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Mag Gabbert
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, February 21st\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\n\nRSVP\nUp Next: Poet & Essayist Mag Gabbert and her poetry collection\, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS. This discussion will be moderated by poet Séamus Fey.\nABOUT SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\n\n“This bewitching debut delivers everything the title promises and more.” –Electric Literature \nIn SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry\, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery\, insistent\, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of her adolescence while charting new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy as an adult. Using dreamlike\, shimmering imagery\, she pieces together a fractured portrait of femininity—one that electrifies the confessional mode with its formal play and rich curiosity. Gabbert examines the origin of shame\, the role of inheritance\, and what counts as a myth\, asking\, “What’s the opposite of a man? / A woman? A wound? The devil’s image?”\n\n  \nABOUT MAG GABBERT\nMag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS (Mad Creek Books\, 2023)\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup\, which was selected by Kaveh Akbar as the winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award; and the chapbook Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books\, 2020). Her awards include a Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center\, a Pushcart Prize\, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop\, Idyllwild Arts\, and Poetry at Round Top. Mag’s work can also be found in The American Poetry Review\, The Paris Review Daily\, Copper Nickel\, Guernica\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. Mag has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech. She lives in Dallas\, Texas and teaches at Southern Methodist University. \nABOUT S.FEY\nS. Fey (they/he) is a Trans writer living in LA. Currently\, they are the poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine\, and co creative director at Rock Pocket Productions. Their debut poetry collection\, decompose\, is out with Not a Cult Media. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, The Sonora Review\, and others. They love to beat their friends at Mario Party. Find them online @sfeycreates.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-mag-gabbert/
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SUMMARY:Rev Up Your Writing in the New Year:  Gemini Ink’s Spring Open House  
DESCRIPTION:We’re excited to introduce our dynamic roster of teaching artists who can help you take your writing to the next level. \nCome connect with talented writers from San Antonio and beyond as they share new work and discuss the classes they’ll be teaching. We will hear from award-winning fiction writer and founder of Gemini Ink Nan Cuba\, poet and Zoeglossia Fellow Jonathan Fletcher\, and other instructors. We’ll also get a sneak peek at Typewriter Rodeo and their on-the-spot-generated poetry!   \nThe presentation will be followed by time to mix and mingle with fellow literature lovers and to enjoy light refreshments. Our evening will culminate with a community open mic. Bring your latest work and arrive early to grab a spot. The list is capped at 6 readers.  \nIt all happens at Gemini Ink’s downtown writing arts center at 1111 Navarro Street. Don’t leave without our spring calendar of classes and events! \n\nSean Petrie & Rebecca Bendheim are part of the nationally-renowned Typewriter Rodeo\, where they’ve written thousands of poems for strangers on the spot\, and do weekly radio poems for NPR. Both have MFAs in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, are writing teachers (Sean at UT\, Rebecca at Trinity Episcopal School)\, and authors. Sean’s books include Typewriter Rodeo\, the award-winning Pet Poems (also not just pets)\, and the Jett Ryder series for kids. Rebecca is represented by Patricia Nelson and has multiple books in the works. Join Sean and Rebecca for Poetry Flurry with Typewriter Rodeo! on March 30th\, and get ready for National Poetry Month in April. \nNan Cuba is the author of Body and Bread\, winner of the PEN Southwest Award in Fiction and the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award; it was listed as one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” in O\, Oprah’s Magazine and was a “Summer Books” choice from Huffington Post. As an investigator of the causes of extraordinary violence\, she is a featured journalist in the Netflix documentary\, The Confession Killer\, and another by Hulu\, Wild Crimes: Murder in Yosemite. She is founder and executive director emeritus of Gemini Ink\, a nonprofit writing arts center. Nan is teaching a 6-week class in fiction beginning on March 18: Fiction Never Lies: Turning Personal Experience into Emotional Truth. \nOriginally from San Antonio\, Texas\, Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Columbia University School of the Arts.  He has been published in The Adroit Journal\, Arts Alive San Antonio\, FlowerSong Press\, riverSedge\, and The Thing Itself. He has served as a Columbia Artist/Teacher for iHOPE\, a specialized school for students with traumatic brain injury\, as well as a poetry editor for Exchange\, Columbia’s literary magazine for incarcerated writers and artists. Currently\, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow. Jonathan is teaching a Poetry for Beginners in April; a 4-session workshop for newbie poets who are ready to learn more about the genre.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/spring-open-house/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Jason Stone
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Big Texas Author Talk page. RSVP for the link.\nWednesday\, March 20th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Jason Stone and his novel\, THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY. Moderated by Matt Walter.\nABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY\n\n\n\n\nBased on historical events that occurred in Comancheria\, the region of West Texas and New Mexico controlled by the Comanche in the 18th and 19th centuries\, THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY is a historical survival story\, interweaving the reminisces of aging plainsman Charles Goodnight in the late 1920s against the backdrop of Reconstruction Texas and the events set in motion when a Kiowa raiding party kills the wife and abducts the sons of his friend R.L. Terry. \nABOUT JASON STONE\n\nJason Stone grew up in West Texas and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the real story behind Friday Night Lights. \nABOUT MATT WALTER\n\n\n\nMatt Walter recently retired after 20 years as Curator of Collections at the Museum of the Big Bend\, located on the Sul Ross State University campus in Alpine\, Texas. He earned an MA in History from Sul Ross and taught there for 17 years. Before that\, Matt spent 20 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. Much of his time in the Service was spent in Galveston\, Texas\, but he did get to visit 19 countries\, courtesy of Uncle Sam\, during his career.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-jason-stone/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Poetry Flurry with Typewriter Rodeo!
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 30\, 2024 10am-12pm CST\, in person at Gemini Ink\nNonmember: $115; Member: $100; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE\n  \nCLASS FULL. To have your name added to the waitlist\, email joshua@geminiink.org. \nGet your creative juices flowing for National Poetry Month 2024 with Typewriter Rodeo!\nWhether you’re a poet or not\, this workshop has something for everyone\, including a room full of typewriters to play with. Clacking away on those keys with no way to correct your mistakes is freeing and just darn fun! \nIn this one-day\, fast-paced workshop\, you’ll write between 12 to 21 short poems in less than 2 hours. Yes\, really! And\, along the way\, discover a bit more about the creative voice that’s been waiting inside you\, patiently\, to peek out. Participants will respond to a wide range of highly creative prompts and generate new poetry. The techniques we’ll learn apply to crafting poetry\, stories\, and even non-fiction (you need a voice for that\, too). \nThis course is open to writers of all genres and skill levels\, 16+. \nStudents will leave this class with the following: \n\n12-21 new poems\n3 techniques to spark your writing at any point (hey there\, writer’s block)\ntypewriter experience (oh yeah)\n\n \n\nSean Petrie & Rebecca Bendheim are part of the nationally renowned Typewriter Rodeo\, where they’ve written thousands of poems for strangers on the spot\, and do weekly radio poems for NPR. Both have MFAs in Writing for Children from Vermont College of Fine Arts\, are writing teachers (Sean at UT\, Rebecca at Trinity Episcopal School)\, and authors. Sean’s books include Typewriter Rodeo\, the award-winning Pet Poems (also not just pets)\, and the Jett Ryder series for kids. Rebecca is represented by Patricia Nelson and has multiple books in the works. \n\nParking at Gemini Ink\nGemini Ink offers free parking along the back wall of our downtown offices. Please access this parking lot from Augusta St and first park in any of the 12 spots along the back wall. Only when these 12 spots are full do we ask that you park elsewhere in our lot. We now rent our offices from UTSA and are collaborating with them to create a secure and accessible parking lot for our community of writers and readers.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poetry-flurry-with-typewriter-rodeo/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Aimee Nezhukumatathil
DESCRIPTION:Autograph Series ticketed luncheon at the McNay Art Museum\nPURCHASE TICKETS AND SPONSORSHIPS AT EVENTBRITE.\nAimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of the New York Times best-selling illustrated collection of nature essays\, WORLD OF WONDERS: IN PRAISE OF FIREFLIES\, WHALE SHARKS\, & OTHER ASTONISHMENTS. She also wrote four previous poetry collections including OCEANIC. Her most recent chapbook is LACE & PYRITE\, a collaboration of epistolary garden poems with the poet Ross Gay. Honors include a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Pushcart Prize\, a Mississippi Arts Council grant\, and being named a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. She is poetry editor for SIERRA magazine\, the story-telling arm of The Sierra Club. She is professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and her forthcoming book of food essays is called BITE BY BITE (Ecco\, May 2024).  \n\nAutograph Series with Terrance Hayes\, with local high school students\, 2019. \nAutograph Series presents writers of national and international stature—many of them recipients of major prizes such as the Pulitzer or National Book Award—in free public performances followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Ours is one of the few such series in the nation offered to the public at no cost. A ticketed luncheon with the visiting writer partially supports the Autograph Series. Local businesses also sponsor tables for high school students\, cultivating a community of support and encouragement for the writing arts. \nPrevious Autograph writers include Margaret Atwood\, U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera\, Ha Jin\, Edward P. Jones\, Tim O’Brien\, Grace Paley\, Philip Levine\, Luis Alberto Urrea\, Terrance Hayes\, Ben Fountain\, among others.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/afternoon-with-aimee-nezhukumatathil/
LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-04-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, April 24th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Poet Cyrus Cassells and his collection\, Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?\nABOUT IS THERE ROOM FOR ANOTHER HORSE ON YOUR HORSE RANCH?\n \n\nRSVP\nCyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness\, celebrating eros — in his daring and prolific representation of lust\, yes\, but more broadly in his understanding of the erotic as an affirmation and preservation of life — through time and space. Beginning his latest collection with the piece “You Be the Dancer\,” he bids us return to sacred sites of nostalgia\, insisting on it “whether we’re feeling frisky\, / Empty-handed\, / Or still beguiled by inchoate dreams–.” Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? is the apotheosis of Cassells’s work to elevate the mundane and the bodily to the exalted\, his vigorous lyrics a routine ecstasy. Though our senses lay us bare to suffering\, they also create the possibilities for pleasure and connection\, the basis of — and rewards for — humanity. “My Only Bible\,” Cassells pledges\, “is this blood-red joy / Of breathing beside you\,” “The gospel of bougainvillea / At your boyhood gate” which perfumes “the soul’s endless\, luxuriant / Coming and becoming…” Gorgeous and wry in its portrayal of transformational romance and queer selfhood\, Cassells’s ninth book of poetry reads as an anthology of love letters to people and places across the world. Cassells revises an old premise: is it better to have loved than lost\, or is that love\, once bestowed\, is never lost? A champion of the flight real intimacy requires of us\, Cassells addresses a beloved\, “You’ve just died in my arms / But suddenly it seems we’re eternal\,” the joie de vivre and bravery of his perseverance made immortal through the poem’s titular declaration — “I Believe Icarus Was not Failing as He Fell.” If in these pages you see the crash\, the poet seems to say\, remember the flying\, too\, “the giddy Argonauts we were.” \nABOUT CYRUS CASSELLS \nCyrus Cassells was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas. Among his honors: a 2023 Civitella-Ranieri Foundation fellowship; a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship to administer his statewide Juneteenth poetry project; a 2019 Guggenheim fellowship; the National Poetry Series; a Lambda Literary Award; two NEA grants; a Pushcart Prize; and the William Carlos Williams Award. His 2018 volume\, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo\, was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award\, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas\, translated from the Catalan\, was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018 and 2019. To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, combining translations\, poetry\, and memoir in homage to Catalan Spain’s most revered 20th century writer\, was published in 2023. Cassells was nominated for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for his film and television reviews in The Washington Spectator. He teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University\, where he received a 2021 Presidential Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities and was named a 2023 University Distinguished Professor. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \n\n\nD E Zuccone is the author of a volume of poetry\, Vanishes\, with 3ATaos Press. He is currently completing No Provenance//Art-o-mata\, a manuscript of semi-ekphrastic poems surrounding works of art that don’t precisely exist. He has been a poetry reader in Houston\, Taos\, Los Angeles\, and a frequent\, grateful guest of Archway Gallery. He has published poetry in Ekphrastic Review\, Borderlands\, Water Stone\, International Review of Poetry\, Southern Indiana Review\, Schuylkill Review\, Hurricane Review\, Big River\, Apalachee Review\, Deep Water Literary Review\, & Garden Box. His poetry and fiction have been in anthologies from Round Top\, Taos Artists\, Words & Art\, Equinox\, Mutabilis Press\, and Big Poetry Review. He is an MFA graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently has an interview podcast\, Amicus Briefs for Public Poetry. Visit dezuccone.com.\n\n\nVisit the Big Texas Author Talk page.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:From Madness to Heaven: An Evening with Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\, followed by a Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\nJoin Gemini Ink on Friday\, May 10th\, for a night of prose and literary celebration as we partner with our friends at Poetic Republic Cafe to create an inviting space for the writing community to share words\, wine\, and wisdom\, with a little latte or espresso on the side. \nLet’s honor Asian-American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the compelling fiction of Gemini Wahhaj and Chaitali Sen\, who capture the human experience through the lens of immigration and political unrest and do so with power and elegance. Following the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. \n\nGemini Wahhaj is the author of the novel The Children of this Madness (7.13 Books\, Fall 2023) and the short-story collection Katy Family (Jackleg Press\, Spring 2025). \nChaitali Sen is the author of the novel The Pathless Sky (Europa Editions 2015) and the story collection A New Race of Men from Heaven (Sarabande Books 2023)\, chosen by Danielle Evans as the winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories and essays have been published by American Short Fiction\, Boulevard\, Catapult\, Colorado Review\, Ecotone\, Electric Literature\, LitHub\, Los Angeles Review of Books\, New England Review\, Shenandoah\, and many other publications. Born in India and raised in New York and Pennsylvania\, she currently lives in Austin\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/from-madness-to-heaven/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-05-15/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Glenn Blake
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, May 15th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Glenn Blake\, with moderator Cliff Hudder\, discussing The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\nRSVP\nAbout The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\n\n\nThe most complete collection of Glenn Blake’s luminous short fiction published to date.  “I was born in a land of bayous\, raised between rivers\,” Glenn Blake writes. “There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters\, and as you drive across\, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.”  These fourteen stories are set in the swamps\, bayous\, and sloughs of Southeast Texas\, a region that is subsiding—sinking inches every year. The characters who inhabit Blake’s haunting landscape—awash in their own worlds\, adrift in their own lives—struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. \nABOUT GLENN BLAKE \nGlenn Blake has taught in the English Department at Rice University\, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston\, and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Tyler.  He is the author of Drowned Moon\, Return Fire\, and The Old and the Lost. His novel\, Degüello\, is due in December. He has edited Gulf Coast\, The Hopkins Review\, and Boulevard. He is now serving as the Director of the University of Texas Press at Tyler. In 2000\, he was elected Chair of PEN Houston. In 2020\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \nABOUT CLIFF HUDDER \nCliff Hudder received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Houston in 1995\, and a PhD in American Literature from Texas A&M University in 2018. He has been an archaeological laborer\, a film and video editor\, a photographer\, an air compressor mechanic\, an electrical lineman\, and an educator. In addition to articles on regional and American literature\, his short stories have appeared in several journals\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Missouri Review. His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards\, the Peden Prize\, the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, and the Ruth Vande Kieft Prize from the Eudora Welty Society. His novella\, Splinterville\, won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award\, and his novel\, Pretty Enough for You\, was named a top-10 Texas favorite for 2015 by the Lone Star Literary Life website. His third book\, Sallowsfield\, will be released in November by Texas Review Press. He serves as the chair of Psychology and Sociology at Lone Star College-Montgomery in Conroe\, Texas. In 2017\, Cliff was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-glenn-blake/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-06-19/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240619T203000
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CREATED:20240422T182156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T185917Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Alex Temblador
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 19th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Alex Temblador\, moderated Daniel Peña\nRSVP\nAbout Writing an Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers \nA practical guide to help authors authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than their own.\n\nDo you have the tools to authentically write and edit a character whose identity is different than your own? It’s not a subject that’s generally taught in creative writing programs\, and there are so few craft books and online resources on the subject. Even if you can take a seminar\, class\, or workshop\, there’s nothing like having an easy-to-understand book on hand to provide guidance and insight every time you craft characters with historically marginalized identities.\n\n\nIn Writing an Identity Not Your Own\, award-winning author Alex Temblador discusses one of the most contentious topics in creative writing: crafting a character whose identity is historically marginalized. What is “identity\,” and how do unconscious biases and bias blocks impact and influence what we write? What is intersectionality? You’ll learn about identity terms\, stereotypes\, and tropes\, and receive genre-specific advice related to various identities to consider when writing different races and ethnicities\, sexual and romantic orientations\, gender identities\, disabilities\, nationalities\, and more. Through writing strategies\, exercises\, and literary excerpts\, writers will gain a clearer understanding on how misrepresentations and harmful portrayals can appear in storylines\, dialogue\, and characterization. Alex will guide writers from the brainstorming phase through the editing process so they can gain a full understanding of the complexities of writing other identities and why it’s important to get them right.\n\n\n\n\nAlex Temblador is the Mixed Latine award-winning author of Writing An Identity Not Your Own: A Guide for Creative Writers\, Secrets of the Casa Rosada and Half Outlaw. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Oklahoma and is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. Her work has appeared in PALABRITAS\, D Magazine\, and Colorado Review\, among others. Alex is the creator and moderator of LitTalk at Whose Books and the Executive Director of Write Here DFW\, the Dallas-Fort Worth literary calendar. In addition to teaching creative writing classes\, she is an award-winning travel\, arts\, and culture journalist whose work has appeared in Outside\, National Geographic\, Conde Nast Traveler\, Texas Monthly\, among others.\n\n\n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches in the PhD Program in Creative Writing.  Formerly\, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City where he worked as a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Guest Professor in Leipzig\, Germany\, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Rumpus\, the Kenyon Review\, Texas Monthly\, NBC News\, and The New York Times Magazine among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to The Guardian and the Ploughshares blog. His novel\, Bang\, is out now from Arte Publico Press. He lives in the beautiful Dallas-Fort Worth area.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-with-alex-temblador/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240627T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240627T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
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SUMMARY:Letters to James Baldwin: A Pride Month Reading & Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, June 27th\, to wrap up Pride Month 2024 with a timely and intimate literary discussion around the life and work of James Baldwin.  \nWe will celebrate the genius of Baldwin\, a black\, queer writer and civil rights activist\, and create a space for other writers to draw inspiration from and interact with his work.  This event will feature authors Georgie Lee\, Aminah Decé\, and Aaron Deutsch\, who will each share a piece of work written in response to Baldwin’s concepts and ideas. Come join the community conversation. Following the program\, we will have a community open mic. Light refreshments will be served. \nPlease visit our social media pages during the month of June. We’re sharing writing prompts and quotes from James Baldwin that mayinspire you to write something new for the open mic! \n \nInstagram: @sa_geminiink\nFacebook: @GeminiInk\nTwitter: @GeminiInk   \n\nAminah Decé is a Teaching Artist from Mississippi. She was trained at the World Combat Academy\, Institute of Martial Science\, and maintains degrees in The Humanities\, Fine Arts & Art History/Criticism from UTSA. She began her artistic journey as a slam poet in Killeen\, Texas. Aminah discredits concepts of race and supremacy through her art and empowers the public to do the same through art education. \n  \nAaron Deutsch received his MFA in poetry with distinction from Texas State University\, intending to acquire a lexicon to answer the wild\, mystical questions the world around him seemed to be asking. That journey led him to become a senior program manager with the United States Department of Defense\, where he works to build regional security across South America and the Middle East alongside international partners. To establish and maintain effective communication\, he uses poetics and linguistics to build shared goals across cultures. He loves teaching creative writing classes\, working on that ever-elusive first book\, and spoiling his Boston Terrier\, Hamlet.  \nGeorgie Lee (he/they) is an award-winning and internationally published poet from South Texas. By day\, Georgie is the healthcare form designer for all Baptist Health System hospitals in the San Antonio area. By night\, Georgie is heavily involved in the local performing arts scene. From acting in community theater productions to playing the clarinet in symphonic bands\, Georgie hopes to inspire others to explore the power of recovery through creative activity. Their work is centered around self-love\, grief\, overcoming addiction\, and queerness as a celebration.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/letters-to-james-baldwin/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240711T203000
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CREATED:20240530T194340Z
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Volunteer Summer Social
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in getting a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the writing life? Interested in helping our community craft their stories? \nThursday\, July 11\, 2024 6:30-8:30pm CST\, in-person at Gemini Ink \nFree and Open to Existing and Prospective Volunteers \nJoin us for a fun and informal Volunteer Summer Social. We’ll share light summer refreshments\, fun literary games\, and learn about volunteer opportunities\, including general office duties\, event support\, social and assisting teaching artists in the classroom.  \nHelp us teach the craft of writing to people of all skill levels so they can bring their stories to life! \n\nhttps://geminiink.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-Volunteer-Social-Video.mp4\nComplete this short volunteer survey for full details.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/volunteer-summer-social/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-07-17/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240717T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ramona Reeves
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 17th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Ramona Reeves\, moderated Cassandra Lane\nRSVP\nAbout It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories\nWinner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction\, Texas Institute of Letters\n\n\nHappiness and connection prove fickle in this debut collection of eleven linked stories introducing Babbie and Donnie. She is a thrice-divorced former call girl\, and he is a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes\, in-laws\, and coworkers\, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives\, a task easier said than done in Mobile\, Alabama\, which bears its own share of tainted history. Despite overwhelming challenges and the ever-looming specters of status\, race\, and class\, the characters in It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories strive for versions of the American dream through modern and often unconventional means. Told with humor and honesty\, these stories remind us not only about the fallibility of being human and the resistance of some to change but also about finding redemption in unlikely places. \nIn linked short stories taking place across time\, Reeves offers up two characters finding their own form of redemption. . . . Both humorous and deeply emotional\, this collection shines for its beautifully written characters.\n–Booklist \nThese surprising\, wonderfully funny stories glow with comic energy. The eleven pieces in It Falls Gently All Around serve as chapters in a deeply satisfying portrayal of characters facing the expiration dates on their old beliefs and their newly acquired convictions. Ramona Reeves has fully brought to life a cast of flawed\, breaking people with bravery and resilience to spare. The book is a triumph of wise and compassionate storytelling.\n–Kevin McIlvoy\, author of One Kind Favor \nIt Falls Gently All Around when a character believes ‘He could make out ghosts swimming in the darkness\, like another life he might have lived. . . .’ It is one of several instances in the book when a story suddenly coalesces\, and the reader is both surprised and moved\, and this particular example speaks to a clear ambition of the author—to capture the elusive human moments that we all experience but for which we need an artist to genuinely see. This is a splendid book by an important new writer.\n–Robert Boswell\, author of Mystery Ride\, The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards\, and Tumbledown \n\n\nRamona Reeves won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022 for her collection\,It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. She was a recent fellow at the San Ysidro Writers Residency and a 2024 judge for the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in Post Road\, The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, New South\, Bayou Magazine\, Texas Highways and others. She teaches a course for writers working on their first manuscripts and will be teaching at the Desert Nights\, Rising Stars Writers Conference later this year. She and her wife currently call Austin home. \n\n\n\n\nCassandra Lane is winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and author of We Are Bridges (Feminist Press)\, which NPR called “a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory.” Lane received her MFA from Antioch University LA. She formerly worked as a newspaper reporter\, high school English and journalism teacher\, college admissions advisor\, senior writer\, and community relations manager for the Dodgers. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times’s “Conception” series\, the L.A. Times\, the Times-Picayune\, the Atlanta Journal Constitution and multiple anthologies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of L.A. Parent magazine.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ramona-reeves/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240821T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240821T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260109T181538Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-08-21/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240821T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240821T203000
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CREATED:20240806T171835Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240819T183456Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Sasha West
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Aug 21st\, 2024 via Zoom for a conversation with poet Sasha West\, author of How to Abandon Ship\, Winner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction\, Texas Institute of Letters. Moderated by Jill Meyers.\nRSVP\nAbout How to Abandon Ship\n\nIn How to Abandon Ship\, Sasha West emerges like a modern Cassandra\, one who doesn’t simply tell us of what is to come\, but one who teaches us\, “To bite. To keen. To howl.” West is an oracle whose words pop\, hiss\, and blaze. This terrific book has left me changed.  –Tomás Q. Morín \nThe poems in Sasha West’s How to Abandon Ship describe the anguish and disorientation of existing on a planet put in jeopardy by our very existence. Here we encounter a poet who has “spent a life sharpening the blade of [her]/imagination” slicing through the layered voices of greed\, complicity\, and blind faith that have left us with a world in peril and the painful task of telling our children the truth about it. Embodying the voice of a modern-day Cassandra\, West reveals a fundamental truth of our time: how a warning can be a blessing\, but only if we’re willing to receive it.—Carrie Fountain \nHow to Abandon Ship is equal parts prophetic and apocalyptic\, and Sasha West doesn’t shy away from the exigencies of the world: its floods and fires and earthquakes\, its wars and disease and mass graves\, its politics and tragedies and technology where “software reminded us / to have memories.” “I love: my country: it can break me\,” writes West\, and these powerful poems limn the urgency of our present moment\, as well as the tenderness and terror of new motherhood when the speaker becomes “permeable to the world.” How to Abandon Ship is a haunting book of grief and warning\, but also one of caregiving and survival. West’s poems ultimately offer a blueprint for meeting disaster head-on—with fierce love\, acts of service\, and the power of imagination. – Erika Meitner \n\nABOUT SASHA WEST\n \n\nSasha West was born and raised in Santa Fe\, New Mexico. Her first book\, Failure and I Bury the Body\, won the National Poetry Series and the Texas Institute of Letters First Book of Poetry Award. It was also selected as one of ten debut books by Victoria Chang for Poets & Writers. Her second book\, How to Abandon Ship\, was published by Four Way Books in March 2024. \nShe collaborates on multi-media\, eco-arts exhibitions with visual artist Hollis Hammonds as the collaborative Hammonds + West. Their collaborations have been featured at Texas A&M University’s Wright Gallery\, the Austin Public Library Central Gallery space\, the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts\, the College of the Mainland\, ArtPrize2023 in Michigan\, and the Columbus College of Art and Design. Upcoming shows include Houston’s Art League and The Grace Museum in Abilene\, TX. \nHer work has been collected in the anthologies The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood\,Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency\, Still Life with Poem: 100 Natures Mortes in Verse\, Penned: Zoo Poems\, and others. Individual poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review\, Kenyon Review Online\, Ecotone\, The Georgia Review\, Agni\, American Poet\, Ninth Letter\, and elsewhere. \nHer awards include a Fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, a Houston Arts Alliance grant\, Pushcart nominations\, and Inprint’s Verlaine Prize. She has served as lead editor for and\, later\, board president of Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts. \nShe is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at St. Edward’s University\, where she received the Distinguished Teaching Award and the Hudspeth Innovative Teaching Award. She lives in Austin\, TX\, with her husband and kid. \n\nABOUT JILL MEYERS \nJill Meyers is the editorial director of A Strange Object\, the Austin-based imprint of independent publisher Deep Vellum. Her acclaimed writers have received numerous awards and honors\, including the Whiting Award\, The Believer Book Award\, and the Discovery Award from the Writers’ League of Texas. Titles from A Strange Object have appeared on NPR’s Best Books of the Year list and have been selected as best debuts from Poets and Writers. Formerly\, Jill served as editor for the celebrated literary magazine American Short Fiction and worked on staff at Texas Monthly. Jill is the cofounder of Lit Crawl Austin\, a freewheeling literary showcase\, and she serves on the advisory board for the Texas Book Festival.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-sasha-west/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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SUMMARY:LitMinds Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Lit Minds Book Club at Gemini Ink. We’re reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451.\nRegister\nNearly seventy years after its original publication\, Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 stands as a classic of world literature set in a bleak\, dystopian future. Today its message has grown more relevant than ever before. \nGuy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities\, the printed book\, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce\, returning each day to his bland life and wife\, Mildred\, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor\, Clarisse\, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television\, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known \n\n \nRay Bradbury was an American fantasy and horror author who rejected being categorized as a science fiction author\, claiming that his work was based on the fantastical and unreal. His best known novel is Fahrenheit 451\, a dystopian study of future American society in which critical thought is outlawed. He is also remembered for several other popular works\, including The Martian Chronicles and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury won the Pulitzer in 2007\, and is one of the most celebrated authors of the 21st century. — Biography.com
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-a-book-club/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240918T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240918T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T163755Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-09-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240918T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240918T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20240911T175012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240916T190916Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Ayokunle Falomo
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, Sep 18th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: AYOKUNLE FALOMO\, author of Autobiomythography of .\nAutobiomythography of sifts through Nigerian stories and mythologies\, both inherited and invented\, to explore the self\, family\, and nationhood. \nAYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian\, American\, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books\, 2024)\, AFRICANAMERICAN’T (FlowerSong Press\, 2022—finalist for Texas Institute of Letters’ Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Best Book of Poetry)\, two self-published collections and African\, American (New Delta Review\, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review’s 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center\, MacDowell\, and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program\, where he obtained his MFA in Creative Writing—Poetry\, his work has been anthologized and widely published. \nAutobiomythography of \n“Mythmaking serves to create a bridge between what the human mind can understand and what we yet have language for. Yet here in this visually lush and lyrically dexterous collection of poems\, Falomo offers his readers work that bends and reimagines the limits of language\, blends the Divine with the digital present\, contemporary music with the voices of the past while the speaker traverses the friction between their American & Nigerian heritage.”\n—I.S. Jones\, author of Spells of My Name \nSeptember 2024 \nISBN: 9781949944655
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-ayokunle-falomo/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240926T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20240812T205032Z
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SUMMARY:Eddie Vega & Friends & Community Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink on Thursday\, September 26th\, for a night of poetry and performance as we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month 2024 and honor our new San Antonio Poet Laureate Eddie Vega!  \nEddie is a poet\, educator\, open mic host\, and voice for the people\, who’s poetry focuses on the routine struggles and small beauties of life in South Texas. He will be accompanied by award- winning poet Violeta Garza and veteran educator and poet Jacinto Jesús Cardona. \nFollowing the featured reading\, we will host a community open mic. Bring your poems\, stories\, and thoughts to share (there will be a 3-minute limit for each reader). Open mic sign-up in person\, starting at 6pm. \n\nVioleta Garza is a non-binary Latinx poet and member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. Her work has been published in Acentos Review\, Boundless\, and riverSedge\, among others. \nJacinto Jesús Cardona is a San Antonio poet whose two poetry books\, PAN DULCE and AMAPOLASONG celebrate his growing up Tex Mex in Alice\, the Hub of South Texas. In 2016 New York Symphony Space selected his poem “Bato Con Khakis” to be performed as part of their literacy program. Among Cardona’s awards are a Gemini Ink Voz de San Antonio Poetry Award and his poetry is documented in Voices From Texas by San Antonio filmmaker Ray Santiesteban. Cardona teaches English at Incarnate Word High School. \nEddie Vega (the Taco-Poet of Texas) is a poet\, storyteller\, and educator. The author of Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press\, 2019) and Somos Nopales (FlowerSong Press\, 2024)\, his poetry also appears along the San Pedro Creek Cultural Park. He is the editor of Asina is How We Talk\, a collection of Tejano poetry. A Macondo Workshop Fellow\, Vega directs the Mouth Dakota Poetry Project\, a biweekly open mic. He currently serves as the 7th Poet Laureate of San Antonio.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/reading-and-open-mic/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20240928T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20240923T181115Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240923T181115Z
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SUMMARY:Our Word is Our Vote: A Poetry Pachanga
DESCRIPTION:Don’t Miss Our Word is Our Vote:\nA Poetry Pachanga this Saturday\, Sep 28!\nJoin the dynamic San Antonio poetry community for this special election year event\, encouraging voter registration and using our voice to create the change we want to see:\nSaturday\, Sep 28\, 5-9pm\nUTSA Main Campus\n1 UTSA Circle\, San Antonio\, TX 78249\nRichard Liu Auditorium\, Business Bldg\, 2.01.02 \nRegister to Vote! Free Event! Free Food!\nLive Music from Kitten Mitten\, Mexstep\, and Patsy Torres!\nAnd all the poets—Andi Garcia-Linn\, Alexandra Vandekamp\, Alex Z. Salinas\, Amalia Ortiz\, Anthony the Poet\, Carmen Calatayud\, Carmen Tafolla\, Chibbi Orduña\, Chris Carmona\, E.D. Watson\, Eddie Vega\, Eduardo C. Garza\, Edward Vidaurre\, Fernando E. Flores\, Frances Santos\, Gerard Robledo\, Gume Laurel III\, Jen Yanez-Alaniz\, Jim LaVilla-Havelin\, John Olivares Espinoza\, John Phillip Santos\, Jonathan Fletcher\, Joshua Robbins\, KB Brookins\, Lace Garcia\, Mandy Lynn Lara\, Matthew Tavares\, Myra Dumapais\, Natalia Treviño\, Nazli Siddiqui\, Octavio Quintanilla\, Rooster Martinez\, Sajhar Roshan\, Saúl Hernández\, Tony Diaz\, Violeta Garza\, Zach Sokoloski!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/our-word-is-our-vote/
LOCATION:UTSA\, 1 UTSA Circle\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78249
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241016T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241016T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T163755Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-10-16/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241016T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241016T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20240930T184518Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241008T180004Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Joshua Robbins
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Big Texas Author Talk on Wednesday\, Oct 16th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Joshua Robbins\, author of Eschatology in Crayon Wax\, moderated by George David Clark.\nRSVP\nJoshua Robbins’s highly anticipated and thought-provoking second book\, Eschatology in Crayon Wax\, evokes a sense of being torn between a fragile longing for transformation and a whirlwind of flawed divinity. Robbins firmly asserts\, “Paradise doesn’t care how you get there. Only that you try\,” and is met with divine contempt and a commandment to “shape ashes into ashes” because “besides\, I can’t tell you what on earth I’m doing.” In the world of these poems\, all one can do is survive the contradictions and cruel mysteries embedded in a contemporary life of empty homes\, RFID\, mall shooting bullet casings\, drone targets\, miscarriages\, divorce\, and suicide. These poems engage deeply with the theodicies of the Book of Job\, evangelicalism\, class theory\, and even the manic crises of Berryman’s “Dream Songs.” At times elegiac\, always fearlessly confessional\, and even tragicomic\, Robbins does not resist hope. With intelligence and style to spare\, Robbins displays a fierce concern for this world of things\, caught as we are between what is and what should be. \n\nJoshua Robbins was born in Berkeley\, California\, and grew up in the East Bay. After earning an MFA in Poetry at the University of Oregon and a PhD in English from the University of Tennessee\, he joined the English Department at the University of the Incarnate Word\, where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing. His primary teaching areas are poetry writing\, trauma writing\, and creative nonfiction. His first book\, Praise Nothing\, was published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2013 as part of the prestigious Miller Williams Series in Poetry. Eschatology in Crayon Wax was published in 2024 by Texas Review Press. His recognitions include\, the James Wright Poetry Award\, the New South Prize\, Best New Poets\, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in poetry from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, among others. He currently lives in San Antonio. Visit Joshua at http://www.joshuarobbins.net/ \n\nAbout the Moderator \nGeorge David Clark is the author of Reveille (Arkansas)\, winner of the Miller Williams Prize\, and Newly Not Eternal (LSU\, 2024). His work has received honors from the Association of Literary Scholars\, Critics\, and Writers (the Meringoff Prize in Poetry)\, Colgate University (the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship)\, Narrative Magazine (the 30 Below Prize)\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship)\, and Valparaiso University (the Lily Postdoctoral Fellowship)\, among others. David’s recent poems can be found in Agni\, The Believer\, The Georgia Review\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Southern Review\, Virginia Quarterly Review\, and elsewhere. Since 2011\, he has edited the journal\, 32 Poems. He teaches creative writing at Washington & Jefferson College and lives in Canonsburg\, PA.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-joshua-robbins/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241108T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241108T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20240815T191650Z
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SUMMARY:Razzmatazz & All That Jazz: An Evening in Celebration of Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets and Sponsor Levels\n\n\n\nCelebrating Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson at the McNay Art Museum Moroccan Courtyard and Leeper Auditorium\, Friday\, November 8th\, 6:30-9:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n2024 Award for Literary Excellence\nAndrea Vocab Sanderson \nHonorary Co-Chair\nDr. Eric Castillo\nAssociate Vice Chancellor of Arts\, Culture\, and Community Impact for the Alamo Colleges District \nModerator\nGlo Miles \nEmcee\nMolly Cox \n2024 Inkstravaganza Committee\nCary Clack\, Aminah Dece\, Barbara Felix\, Winifred Hodge\, Zach Jewell\, Andrea Lopez\, Gloria Miles\, Chibbi Orduña\, Aaronetta Pierce\, Gerard Robledo\, Andrea Rodriguez\, Zsaire Shaheid (Shai)\, Aissatou Sidime-Blanton\, Kirsten Thompson\, Maria Williams\, Bria Woods\, Alexandra van de Kamp \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center\, at the beautiful McNay Art Museum on Friday\, November 8th\, for an unforgettable\, festive evening celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, our 2024 Recipient of The Award for Literary Excellence. Enjoy our star-packed lineup (details coming soon!) and mingle with friends and fellow literary fans as we honor this brilliant poet\, multifaceted artist\, performer\, and community leader who is at the heart of the writing arts in our city. \nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a multifaceted artist in the worlds of music\, poetry\, spoken word performance\, and community artistic collaborations\, and to say she is a powerhouse poet and creative performer only scratches the surface of her talent! We couldn’t be more honored to spotlight her as the featured writer of our annual gala in support of the power of the writing arts in our city. Vocab is San Antonio Poet Laureate Emeritus 2020-2023. She facilitates workshops throughout the U.S. and is the author of She Tastes Like Music (Flower Song Press\, 2020). She is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and was voted Best Local Poet in 2023 and 2021 by The SA Current. Vocab has had the distinct honor of opening up for Dr. Cornell West\, Phylicia Rashad\, and Nikki Giovanni. Her albums and collaborative works can be streamed on all major music platforms. Learn more about her at her website andreavocabsanderson.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/razzmatazz-all-that-jazz/
LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241113T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241113T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20240815T190332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241004T185633Z
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SUMMARY:LitMinds: A Book Club at Gemini Ink
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Lit Minds Book Club. We’re reading Half of a Yellow Sun\, a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.\nRegister\nNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • From the award-winning\, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—a haunting story of love and war. • Recipient of the Women’s Prize for Fiction “Winner of Winners” award. \nWith effortless grace\, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu\, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo\, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal; Olanna\, the professor’s beautiful young mistress who has abandoned her life in Lagos for a dusty town and her lover’s charm; and Richard\, a shy young Englishman infatuated with Olanna’s willful twin sister Kainene. \nHalf of a Yellow Sun is a tremendously evocative novel of the promise\, hope\, and disappointment of the Biafran war. \n\n \nChimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born September 15\, 1977\, Enugu\, Nigeria) is a Nigerian writer whose second novel\, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)\, gained international acclaim for its depiction of the devastation caused by the Nigerian Civil War. Her novels\, short stories\, and nonfiction explore the intersections of identity. Learn more at www.chimamanda.com. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/litminds-a-book-club-2/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241120T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20191105T075945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T163803Z
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SUMMARY:Veterans Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veteran’s Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-11-20/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event,Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sarah Colby":MAILTO:veteranscollective@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241120T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183112
CREATED:20240815T153831Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T222137Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Anel Flores
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Nov 20th\, 2024\, via Zoom for a conversation with Anel Flores\, author of Cortinas de lluvia/Curtains of Rain. Moderated by Dr. Jackie Cuevas.\n\n\n\n\n\n(Zoom Readings Monthly @ 7pm CST)  \nRSVP for Zoom invite\n\n\nCurtains of Rain/Cortinas de Lluvia\, follows the story of Solitaria\, who escapes her small border town\, to arrive at the door of her gay tíos on a quest to queer traditions\, turn trauma into triumph\, and find home. Release date is May 2025 with Jaded Ibis Press.\n\n\nSolitaria Gaviota-Alaniz is a girl on the margins\, growing up in a border town while navigating the complexities of familial relationships\, environmental racism\, and a queer secret that threatens to cleave her from those she cherishes most. Eventually\, towing the line becomes untenable\, and after a traumatic exorcism\, Sol is forced to flee from everything she has ever known. \nFifteen years later\, Solitaria returns to confront the ghosts of homophobia haunting her past. Supported by a found familia of gay tios\, her nonbinary best friend Toni\, and a diverse community of panederas and drag queens in San Antonio\, Sol embarks on a search and rescue mission for her lost self. Soaked in vibrant landscapes of identity and resilience\, Curtains of Rain details one woman’s coming-of-age between cities\, between cultures\, and between budding loves. \n\nAnel I. Flores is a trans-Latina/x writer\, artist\, and activist whose work explores LGBTQIA+ experiences\, Latina/x literature\, and social issues. Anel’s literary contributions have been featured in numerous publications\, including Switchgrass Review and Sinister Wisdom. Their plays have been produced on stage\, and their visual art has been exhibited in galleries worldwide. Anel’s upcoming novel. \n\nDr. Jackie Cuevas is the author of Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique (Rutgers University Press\, 2018) and the poetry chapbook Otherhood\, USA (Tanto Tinto Press\, 2000). Cuevas teaches at UT Austin and is a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop\,
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-anel-flores/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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