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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Read featuring Daniel Peña
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nNovember 16th\, 2022 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: We’re in conversation with Daniel Peña about his novel\, Bang. We’ll also have a discussion on the craft and business of writing.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Bang\n \nAn undocumented Mexican family living in South Texas is torn apart when a son inadvertently becomes involved with narcotraficantes in Daniel Peña’s debut novel that explores contemporary issues of immigration\, border life and international drug smuggling. \n\n\nWinner\, 2019 NACCS Tejas Foco Fiction Award\n\nIn the Margins’ 2019 Advocacy/Social Justice Award Finalist — Judges “NACCS & In the Margins” \n“Peña examines the symbiosis of the United States and Mexico and makes painfully clear the negative effects of international trade\, legal and illegal. This is a notable and compassionate novel.” — Reviewer “Publishers Weekly” \n“Peña provides a window into the struggles of immigrants on the border as well as the violent drug war fueling the migration. A piercing tale of lives broken by border violence.” — Reviewer “Kirkus Reviews” \n“Bang is such a timely novel that offers devastating insights into how communities adapt to severe shifts in culture and society.” — Reviewer “NBC Latino” \n“Daniel Peña’s debut novel reminds me of a bantamweight boxer. Lean and compact\, it is packed with energy\, ready to land blow after punch after jab on any reader who dares to underestimate it.” — Texas Observer \n“Peña uses his prodigious gift for detail to take us inside the horrors that befall this family as a result of the fateful flight that started as a dare between brothers. Bang is a grim yet gripping debut that hinges on the desperate hope of its characters.” — Austin American-Statesman \nAbout Daniel Peña \n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Assistant Professor. Formerly\, he was based out of the UNAM in Mexico City\, where he worked as 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\, andThe New York Times Magazine. 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/the-big-texas-read-featuring-daniel-pena/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Wendy Barker 80th Birthday Celebration & Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Gemini Ink and our San Antonio writing community for an unforgettable birthday bash in honor of award-winning poet\, dedicated educator\, and scholar Wendy Barker!  \nHelp us ring in Wendy’s 8th decade and celebrate the launch of her latest collection: Weave: New and Selected Poems by Wendy Barker (BkMk Press)\, at our downtown arts center\, where Wendy will read from her book and join her friend\, prior student\, and fellow poet Natalia Treviño for a Q&A. \nWendy’s latest book will be available for purchase onsite\, and the evening will culminate in a book signing\, reception\, light refreshments\, and even some birthday cake! \nHelp us celebrate this literary moment with one of San Antonio’s beloved writers!  \n\nWendy Barker’s Weave: New and Selected Poems\, is forthcoming in 2022 from BkMk Press. Her seventh full-length collection of poetry is Gloss\, published by Saint Julian Press in January 2020. Her collection One Blackbird at a Time was chosen for the John Ciardi Prize and was published by BkMk Press in 2015. Earlier books include her novel in prose poems\, Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years (runner-up for the Del Sol Prize and released by Del Sol Press in 2009); Poems from Paradise (WordTech\, 2005); Way of Whiteness (Wings Press\, 2000); Let the Ice Speak (Ithaca House\, 1991); and Winter Chickens (Corona Publishing Co.\, 1990).  \nRecipient of an NEA fellowship\, a Rockefeller residency fellowship in Bellagio\, as well as other awards in poetry\, including the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award (which she has received twice\, for Way of Whiteness in 2000 and for Between Frames in 2007) and the Mary Elinore Smith Poetry Prize from The American Scholar\, she has also been a Fulbright senior lecturer in Bulgaria. Her work has been translated into Hindi\, Chinese\, Japanese\, Russian\, and Bulgarian. Poet-in-Residence and the Pearl Lewinn Endowed Chair at the University of Texas at San Antonio\, where she has taught since 1982\, Wendy is married to the critic\, biographer\, and poet Steven G. Kellman.  \n\nBorn in Mexico\, Natalia Treviño is the author of VirginX (Finishing Line Press) and Lavando la Dirty Laundry (Mongrel Empire Press)\, which has been translated to Albanian and Macedonian and published in Macedonia (2021). Her work has won several awards\, including the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize\, the Literary Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio\, the Menada Literary Award from Macedonia and several others. Natalia is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio and the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She works as a Professor of English and as an affiliate Mexican American studies faculty member at Northwest Vista College. Her publications appear in Open Plaza\, Plume\, The Southern Poetry Anthology\, Bordersenses\, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review\, Sugar House Review\, The Taos Journal of Poetry and Art\, and several others. Her work also appears in several anthologies\, including Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out (Flowersong Press)\, and Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century (Cutthroat Press). \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/wendy-barker-book-launch/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Read featuring Tomas Q. Morín
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nDecember 14th\, 2022 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: We’re talking with Tomás Q. Morín about his memoir\, Let Me Count The Ways. We’ll also discuss the craft and business of writing. This session will be moderated by memoirist Suzanne Ohlmann\, author of Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Let Me Count the Ways\n \nGrowing up in a small town in South Texas in the eighties and nineties\, poverty\, machismo\, and drug addiction were everywhere for Tomás Q. Morín. He was around four or five years old when he first remembers his father cooking heroin\, and he recalls many times he and his mother accompanied his father while he was on the hunt for more\, Morín in the back seat keeping an eye out for unmarked cop cars\, just as his father taught him. It was on one of these drives that\, for the first time\, he blinked in a way that evolution hadn’t intended. \nLet Me Count the Ways is the memoir of a journey into obsessive-compulsive disorder\, a mechanism to survive a childhood filled with pain\, violence\, and unpredictability. Morín’s compulsions were a way to hold onto his love for his family in uncertain times until OCD became a prison he struggled for decades to escape. Tender\, unflinching\, and even funny\, this vivid portrait of South Texas life challenges our ideas about fatherhood\, drug abuse\, and mental illness. \n“Evocative\, lyrical\, and brave.”—Kirkus Reviews \n“Let Me Count the Waysis a strange and beautiful remembrance of loss\, pain\, betrayal\, and regeneration\, one that describes familial love in all its complexity and argues that even the most troubled among us are worthy of dignity.”—River Teeth \n“In this fearsome\, beautiful memoir\, Tomás Q. Morín takes us on ‘a journey exploring the limits of suffering and love.’ Those are the words he uses to praise a fellow poet\, but the story of his upbringing is just such a wild trip. The young Tomás constantly searches for the right words to say to his beloveds\, his abusers. And in Let Me Count the Ways\, every episode is a prose poem.”—Maxine Hong Kingston\, author of China Men and The Woman Warrior \n“Let Me Count the Ways is an origin poem wrapped in a travel essay\, rocking the full wings of fiction. This means it is a memoir\, a stunning memoir about the worn glory of counting up\, counting down\, and counting in. It is simply the layered work of a soulful magician welcoming us behind our own curtains. Genius.”—Kiese Laymon\, author of Heavy: An American Memoir \n\n\n\nTomás Q. Morín is on the faculty at Rice University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. He is the author of the poetry collections Machete\, Patient Zero\, and A Larger Country. He is the coeditor with Mari L’Esperance of the anthology Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, the Nation\, Slate\, Poetry\, Threepenny Review\, and Narrative. He is a National Endowment of the Arts fellow.\n\n\nSuzanne Ohlmann is a writer\, nurse\, and musician. Her first book\, Shadow Migration\, came out in March 2022. Her essays have been published by The Cleveland Review of Books\, Texas Monthly\, Intima: The Journal of Narrative Medicine\, and Longreads. She lives in San Antonio with her husband\, son\, and a throng of dogs and cats.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-read-featuring-tomas-q-morin/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Writing Vigil: Mourning Premature Queer Deaths and Anti-Queer Violence
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this Writing Vigil honoring the Queer & Trans lives we’ve lost due to violence against our community. This event provides a creative space for LGBTQ+ people to write about the impact of increasing violence targeting Queer & Trans lives.  \nPrinceso Santamaría will lead participants through visualization and movement exercises as strategies for soothing physiological distress and connecting to an inner sense of safety. Participants will respond to writing prompts coupled with healing-informed exercises as they write through challenging emotions.   \nThis event is for lgbtq+ community members to receive support for their grieving process through writing\, whether they are new or experienced writers. We appreciate our allies and ask that they help us honor the LGBTQ+ community’s need for an exclusive space to process Queer & Trans loss. \nParticipants are encouraged to bring a writing tool\, something to write on\, and a comfort item such as a soft sweater. Writing materials will also be available if needed. \nMust be registered to participate. Space is limited to 25 participants. Sign up at: bit.ly/writingvigil \n\nPrinceso Santamaría is a queer\, xicanx poet dedicated to documenting and uplifting queer peoples of color. They can be found dancing over dimly lit dance floors or reading about temporal-space travel. Their work has been hosted by El Comalito Collective\, Ofrenda Magazine\, the Gender Equity Resource Center at UC Berkeley\, California Youth Connection\, the Puente Program at Laney College\, the Ethnic Studies Department at Cal State Fullerton\, and foolsFURY SF Theatre. They are the Partner Classes Coordinator at Gemini Ink. \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/writing-vigil/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Read featuring Allison Hedge Coke
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n \nUp Next: 2022 National Book Award Finalist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke\, author of the book-length poem\, Look at This Blue. Acclaimed poet and memoirist Jan Beatty will moderate this session.\n\n\nAbout Look at This Blue\, Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award \nInterweaving elegy\, indictment\, and hope into a love letter to California\, Look at This Blue examines America’s genocidal past and present to warn of a future threatened by mass extinction and climate peril. \n\nTruths about what we have lost and have yet to lose permeate this book-length poem by American Book Award winner and Fulbright scholar Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. An assemblage of historical record and lyric fragments\, these poems form a taxonomy of threatened lives—human\, plant\, and animal—in a century marked by climate emergency.\n\nLook at This Blue insists upon a reckoning with and redress of America’s continuing violence toward Earth and its peoples\, as Hedge Coke’s cataloguing of loss crescendos into resistance. \nTake a workshop with Allison Hedge Coke: Musicality and the Long Poem\nSaturdays\, January 21\, 28 & February 4\, 10am-12pm\, CST\, offered via Zoom\nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels.\nInfo at: https://geminiink.org/events/musicality-and-the-long-poem/ \n\n\nAllison Adelle Hedge Coke was born in Texas and came of age and worked in fields\, factories\, and waters in North Carolina until disabilities precluded further manual labors. After field-worker retraining programs in California at nearly thirty she began earning college credits. \nShe is currently a 2022-2023 UCR Mellon Dean’s Professor in the UCR Center for Ideas and Society\, a Legacy Artist Fellow (California Arts Council) and a recent George Garrett Award recipient (AWP\, 2021). Other awards include a King-Chavez-Parks Award\, Fulbright to Montenegro\, First Jade Nurtured Sihui (China) Female International Foreign Poetry Award\, U.S. Library of Congress Witter Bynner fellowship\, and an American Book Award. \n\nHedge Coke’s authored books include The Year of the Rat\, Dog Road Woman\, Off-Season City Pipe\, Blood Run\, Burn\, Streaming\, Look at This Blue: an assemblage poem (book length\, 2022 National Book Award Finalist)\, as well as a memoir\, Rock Ghost\, Willow\, Deer (2014\, paperback)\, a play Icicles\, and 28 documentary film shorts. She has edited ten anthologies\, including Effigies III.\n\nShe is a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing and affiliated faculty for the UCR School of Medicine (narrative medicine)\, the newly proposed Department of Environment\, Sustainability\, and Health Equity (ESHE).\n\n\nJan Beatty’s sixth book\, The Body Wars\, was published in 2020 by the University of Pittsburgh Press. In the New York Times\, Naomi Shihab Nye said: Jan Beatty’s new poems in “The Body Wars” shimmer with luminous connection\, travel a big life and grand map of encounters. Beatty won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for her memoir\, American Bastard\, 2021. Other books include Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (Paterson Prize)\, The Switching/Yard\, Red Sugar\, Boneshaker\, Mad River (Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize). Beatty worked as a waitress\, an abortion counselor\, and in maximum security prisons. For many years\, she directed creative writing\, the Madwomen in the Attic workshops\, and the MFA program at Carlow University.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtr-allison-hedge-coke/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Musicality and the Long Poem with Allison Hedge Coke
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, January 21\, 28 &  February 4\, 10am-12pm\, CST\, offered via Zoom\nInstructor: Allison Hedge Coke\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75\nThis course is open to writers of all skill levels. \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Full. Email joshua@geminiink.org to add your name to the Wait List.\nMusic is a powerful force that moves us. It is also a treasure chest of tools that can breathe life and potency into poetry.     \nIn this workshop led by American Book Award winner Allison Hedge Coke\, we will study musical genres\, influences\, and elements that will develop our knowledge of structure and momentum and our musical ear so that we can infuse our lines with lyricism\, sound\, and rhythm from beginning to end.  We will explore how playing with cadence\, tone\, and sonic delivery creates memorable lines and infuses a long poem with dynamic movement. \nIn this class you will :  \n\nGain an understanding of how musical structures can be used in long poetry\nLearn to apply elements of sound to make lines pop\nPrepare for publication/production/performance with musicality as lead line and base structure.\n\nAllison Hedge Coke will be featured on The Big Texas Read on Wed\, Jan 18th. We’re talking with Hedge Coke about her book-length poem\, Look At This Blue\, Finalist for the 2022 National Book Award. RSVP https://bit.ly/3A0XejH\n\nAllison Adelle Hedge Coke was born in Texas and raised in North Carolina\, Canada\, and on the Great Plains. Of mixed heritage\, she is a poet\, writer\, and educator. Though she left school to work in the fields as a child\, she later took advantage of tuition-free community ed classes at North Carolina State University while a field worker. She left North Carolina\, escaping domestic violence as a young mother\, and enrolled in former field worker retraining on the West coast when leaving manual labor due to disability. She then studied script\, performance and sound/light/film tech at Estelle Harmon’s Actor’s Workshop\, earned an AFAW in creative writing on the old Institute for American Indian Arts campus in Santa Fe\, attended two Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Programs\, and earned an MFA from Vermont College (1995)\, where she stayed for post-grad work. \nShe is the author of the poetry chapbook Year of the Rat (1996); the full-length poetry collections Dog Road Woman (1997)\, Off-Season City Pipe (2005)\, Blood Run (2006 UK\, 2007 US)\, Streaming (2014)\, an illustrated (by Dustin Illetewahke Mater) special edition Burn (2017); and the memoir Rock\, Ghost\, Willow\, Deer (2004\, 2014). Streaming includes a full album recorded in the Rd Klā project period with Kelvyn Bell and Laura Ortman. One inclusion was selected by Motion Poems and Pixel Farms to be made into an animated film and several of the poems in Streaming also influenced the documentary project she directed\, Red Dust. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/musicality-and-the-long-poem/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Undressing the Secrets to Writing About the Erotic in Poetry with John Olivares Espinoza
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, February 4 & 11\, 10am-12pm\, CST\, hybrid (via Zoom and in-person)\nInstructor: John Olivares Espinoza\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75\n \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \n\nWould you like to have a sexy poem for that special someone by Valentine’s Day? Or maybe you’d like to gift it to yourself? \nThis course will focus on how to write poetry about love\, eroticism\, and sex without crossing into cheesy\, hackneyed\, and pornographic red zones. Through examination of poetry ranging from ancient Greece to the best contemporary pieces\, we will study techniques poets use to create erotic imagery with skill and taste—without leaving out the spice– and use these tools to generate an original poem. Participants will receive constructive critique on their poems focused on how to apply and reinforce the techniques studied to capture love\, desire\, heartbreak\, or sex in an exciting and fresh way.  \nThe takeaways from this course: \n\nExperience breaking apart poems in order to collect techniques\, strategies\, and moves to use in your own work\nA selection of writing prompts to continue your momentum after the course\nA fully developed poem by Valentine’s Day\n\nWho is this workshop for? \nThis workshop is designed for writers of all skill levels. Prose writers are welcome. Given the nature of the subject matter and language used\, we suggest this workshop for participants 18 years or older. \nGet to know John ahead of his class at his Writer’s Desk.\n\nJohn Olivares Espinoza has degrees in creative writing from the University of California\, Riverside (BA) and Arizona State University (MFA). His poetry collection\, The Date Fruit Elegies\, was a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry. Other honors include a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation\, a Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans\, and first prize in the Swan Scythe Press Chapbook Contest. John’s poetry has appeared in Air/Light Magazine\, Alta Journal\, American Poetry Review\, New Letters\, ZYZZYVA\, and various anthologies. Follow Espinoza on Twitter @JohnEspinoza\, and Instagram @thepoetjohnespinoza. \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/writing-the-erotic-in-poetry/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Diving into the Weird with Leticia Urieta
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, February 7\, 14\, 21\, 28 & March 7\, 14\, 2023\, 6:30pm-8:30pm CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Leticia Urieta\nNonmember: $150; Member: $130; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \nClass Full. Email joshua@geminiink.org to add your name to the Wait List. \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nAre you a storyteller? Have you ever considered how to push the boundaries of what storytelling could be? Ever wondered what blending genres of horror\, folktales and traditional stories\, as well as magical imaginings\, could mean for your work? In this generative writing workshop for adults 16+\, we will explore short stories\, poems and hybrid pieces that unlock the strange\, the magical\, the grotesque\, and the beautiful that we find in our everyday lives. You will have the opportunity to find the weird in the ordinary\, explore traditional stories and urban legends\, and reimagine realities. \nWho should take this class? Storytellers of all levels interested in poetry\, prose and genre-bending work who are eager to write about the weird. \nClass Participants will:\n \n\nDraft one or more new pieces based on sample readings\, class discussion\, and writing exercises.\nGain new insights into a diverse range of genres\, from horror to speculative imaginings\, to apply to their future writing.\nCome away with an expanded knowledge of contemporary genres.\nReceive feedback on your stories\, as well as suggestions on where to submit and share your work.\n\n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave\, a literary community serving students in the Austin area\, as well as the co-director of Barrio Writers Austin and Pflugerville\, a free creative writing program for youth. Leticia is also a freelance writer. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit\, and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster\, was published in 2018 by LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and is out now from FlowerSong Press.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/diving-into-the-weird-with-leticia-urieta/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Deadline to Apply: Teen Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Deadline to apply is Wednesday\, Feb 8!\nApply at bit.ly/MOSAICapp \nAttention High School Students! — Create an original work of visual art and write an original poem as you explore Ekphrastic Poetry for National Poetry Month. This special series of workshops are led by San Antonio’s Poet Laureate\, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, in partnership with Gemini Ink. Open to High School Students. The workshop takes place in the MOSAIC Studio. Free to apply! \nWorkshop Schedule: \n\nFridays: February 10 – March 10\, 5:30 – 8:30pm \n\n\nSaturdays: February 11 – March 11\, 11am – 2pm \n\n\nOpening celebration: Friday\, April 7\, 2023 at 7:00pm \n\nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st\, 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/deadline-to-apply-teen-ekphrastic/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aminah Parham":MAILTO:aminah@contemporarysa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230210T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230210T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Teen Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Deadline to apply is Wednesday\, Feb 8!\nApply at bit.ly/MOSAICapp \nAttention High School Students! — Create an original work of visual art and write an original poem as you explore Ekphrastic Poetry for National Poetry Month. This special series of workshops are led by San Antonio’s Poet Laureate\, Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, in partnership with Gemini Ink. Open to High School Students. The workshop takes place in the MOSAIC Studio. Free to apply! \nWorkshop Schedule: \n\nFridays: February 10 – March 10\, 5:30 – 8:30pm \n\n\nSaturdays: February 11 – March 11\, 11am – 2pm \n\n\nOpening celebration: Friday\, April 7\, 2023 at 7:00pm \n\nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st\, 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/ekphrastic-poetry-workshop-with-vocab/
LOCATION:Blue Star\, 116 Blue Star\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78204
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth
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ORGANIZER;CN="Aminah Parham":MAILTO:aminah@contemporarysa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230215T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230215T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Creating Fictional Characters with Personality and Presence with Johnnie Bernhard
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, February 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Johnnie Bernhard\nNonmember: $115; Member: $100; Student/Vet/Mil $75\n \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nWhat separates memorable characters from forgettable ones? What about a character that will make you invest in their journey or root for their downfall? \nIn this workshop\, we will discuss what grabs a reader’s attention and draws them to a character. Writers will develop authentic fictional characters with the building blocks of character development: physical description\, dialogue\, and action. But we won’t stop there! We will explore the history\, psychology\, weaknesses\, and motives that keep the reader hooked.   \nThe importance of the sensitive reader will be discussed as a means of reassuring appropriate cultural representation in character development. \nWriters will leave the workshop with the following: \n\nAn understanding of the building blocks of character development\nTechniques for fleshing out a memorable character\nSuggestions on practicing cultural sensitivity when crafting characters different from yourself\n\n\nAward-winning author Johnnie Bernhard has written four novels: A Good Girl (2017)\, How We Came to Be (2018)\, Sisters of the Undertow (2020)\, and Hannah and Ariela (2022). Early reviews are calling Hannah and Ariela her “best and bravest.” Johnnie’s novels focus on the family\, social issues\, and the human condition. She served as a 2020 TEDx speaker for the Fearless Women Series. A Good Girl (2017) was a finalist in literary fiction\, Kindle Book Awards. Her second novel\, How We Came to Be (2018)\, received the Summerlee Book Prize\, HM.  Her third novel\, Sisters of the Undertow (2020)\, was selected for discussion at the AWP  Conference\, the Pat Conroy Literary Center\, and the Southern Book Festival/Humanities Tennessee. Named “Best of the University Presses\, 100 Books” by the Association of University Presses\, it also received First Place in the Press Women of Texas Communications Contest. All her novels are in the permanent collection of the Texas Center for the Book.  Johnnie was a 2020 TEDx speaker for the Fearless Women Series. Read an interview with Johnnie Bernhard on Texas settings and universal themes. Follow Johnnie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JABernhard\nwww.johnniebernhardauthor.com \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/creating-fictional-characters-with-personality/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230215T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
CREATED:20230203T185326Z
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Vincent Cooper
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nFebruary 15th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Poet Vincent Cooper\, author of the poetry collection\, Zarzamora. This session will be moderated by Christopher “Rooster” Martinez\, an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Zarzamora \n“It’s time to celebrate the poet and buy this book\, it’s a new voice\, not one tied to timid convention or gimmicky stealth that results in poetry of cowardice— it tries to please no one\, vociferates its own claim to Chicano identity and culture and does so with exuberance\, even compassion and vulnerability—yes\, compas y vatos y locos\, get off it and go out and buy this book and pass it to other plebe\, it’s time to celebrate this poet\, unabashedly\, honor this book written in blood\, tears and laughter and pride\, and love\, adelante!!” Jimmy Santiago Baca – author of Working in the Dark: Reflections of a Poet of the Barrio. \nVincent Cooper is the author of Where the Reckless Ones Come to Die (Aztlan Libre Press)\, Zarzamora: Poetry of Survival (Jade Publishing)\, and Infidelis (forthcoming from Mouthfeel Press).  He is a Chicano Marine Corps Veteran and Macondista based in San Antonio\, Texas. Cooper’s poems have been seen in such fine publications as Huizache\, Riversedge\,  Dryland Lit\, and Somos En Escrito. He is currently at work on a hybrid genre book centering on his paternal heritage and how he came to be a Chicano named Cooper.\n\n\nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-vincent-cooper/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230223T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230223T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Get Back in Full Swing: Gemini Ink’s Literary Open House  
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, February 23rd at 6:30pm CST\, for our open house at Gemini Ink and get your writing back in full swing! \nWe are excited to introduce the dynamic roster of teaching artists working with us this year. Connect with some of San Antonio’s most talented writers as they share new work and discuss the classes they’ll be teaching. Featured writers include poet and award-winning memoirist Kendra Allen; award-winning poet and Sun Poets Society founder Rod Carlos Rodriguez; haiku champion\, storyteller\, and Taco-Poet of Texas\, Eddie Vega; and 2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate and Hip-Hop artist Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson. We can’t wait for our creative community to inspire you! \nThe night kicks off with our teaching artists reading their work and offering insights into their 2023 workshops\, followed by a bit of mix-and-mingling. Our evening then culminates in a community open mic.  \nWe want to hear your latest work! The list is capped at six readers. Arrive early to grab a spot. It all happens at Gemini Ink’s downtown writing arts center–1111 Navarro Street. Don’t leave without our spring calendar of classes and events\, chock full of events and offerings! \nWe bet after this\, you’ll be inspired to run home and write that new piece!  \n\nKendra Allen was born and raised in Dallas\, Tx. She loves laughing\, leaving\, and writing Make Love in My Car\, a music column for Southwest Review. Some of her other work can be found in\, or on\, The Paris Review\, High Times\, The Rumpus\, and more. She’s the author of the poetry collection The Collection Plate\, and the essay collection When You Learn the Alphabet\, which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Fruit Punch\, her memoir\, is out now.  \nRod Carlos Rodriguez has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso and has trained as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio Writing Program. He is also an award-winning poet who has been writing for over 40 years. He has three books of poetry published and is founder/chair of the Sun Poet’s Society\, South Texas’s longest-running weekly open-mic poetry reading (1995-2022). He was nominated for the San Antonio Poet Laureate in April 2012\, April 2014\, April 2016\, and April 2018. He was the poetry editor for Ocotillo Review (Kallisto Gaia Press)\, a literary journal/periodical and he was the editor of Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press). \nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards. \nEddie Vega is a poet\, spoken word artist\, storyteller\, and educator. His poetry has been displayed on VIA Buses and downtown San Antonio buildings. His first full-length poetry collection\, Chicharra Chorus (FlowerSong Press) was published in 2019\, and he is the 2021 recipient of the Literary Arts Grant from the Luminaria Artist Foundation. In 2022\, Vega won the Haiku Death Match at both the Southern Fried Poetry Slam and the NSFPS BlackBerry Peach Slam. His latest project is a collection of poems written by South Texas poets entitled Asina is How We Talk. Vega writes about food\, Tejano culture\, social justice\, and the intersections thereof. Known as the Taco-Poet of Texas\, he can be found nightly at an open mic\, slam\, or taqueria anywhere throughout South Texas. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/get-back-in-full-swing/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230308T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230308T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply: 3 Women Poets Talk to the Gods with Veronica Golos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesdays\, March 8\, 15 & 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\, CST\, via Zoom\nInstructor: Veronica Golos\nNonmember: $145; Member: $125; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n\n \nI absolutely loved the workshop with Veronica Golos. Even with a larger turnout\, she kept the community of the class intact. We had a great time reading deeply and sharing our own works. —Cathlin Noonan\, previous student of Reading Deeply\, Writing Deeply \nWhether a writer is talking directly to God or using religious reflection to try and make sense of humanity\, poetry is shrouded in spiritual mystery and is often used to explore both concrete and intangible concepts of a higher power. \nIn this three-week workshop\, we will study impactful poems from three women poets who invoke ideas of God or the gods. Louise Gluck’s book The Wild Iris enlists flowers from the garden of eden to help tell a story. Lucille Clifton’s “brothers” is an eight-poem conversation between an aged Lucifer and God. Natalia Toledo’s body of written work speaks to the Zapotec gods in three languages: Zapotec\, Spanish\, and English. \nClass readings and suggestions on how to write your own response poem to these poets (and these gods) will be shared prior to the workshop. \nParticipants will: \n\nStudy and analyze the work of 3 contemporary poets\nWrite poems that follow the selected poet’s structure and theme\nReceive on-the-spot feedback for written work\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVeronica Golos is the author of four poetry books: GIRL\, awarded the Naji Naaman Honor Prize\, 2019 (Beirut\, Lebanon); Rootwork\, winner of the Southwest Book Design Award in Poetry\, 2016; Vocabulary of Silence\, winner of the New Mexico Book Award\, translated into Arabic and Persian; and A Bell Buried Deep\, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize. Former co-editor of the Taos Journal of International Poetry & Art\, she is an instructor for SOMOS in Taos\, NM\, and Hugo House in Seattle\, WA. Plume Magazine recently featured her work-in-progress\, The Changing Same. Plume Poetry Feature: Veronica Golos. She lives in Taos\, New Mexico\, with her husband\, David Pérez.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/reading-deeply-writing-deeply-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230312
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink in Seattle for AWP!
DESCRIPTION:Dear Writers & Readers\, \nIf you’re in Seattle for AWP\, we’d love to see/meet you. We’ll be at bookfair table T419 with the lovely Mandy Lynn Lara and Alexandra van de Kamp\, and volunteers Laura Van Prooyen\, Chibbi Orduña\, Carmen Tafolla\, Jen Yáñez-Alaniz and others. We have wonderful staff and SA representation this year—because of the support of people like you! \nHere is the current list of authors and signing times: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate\nDay\nStart Time\nEnd Time\nAuthor\n\n\nMarch 9\nThursday\n1:00 PM\n3:00 PM\nKristine Esser Slentz\n\n\nMarch 9\nThursday\n3:00 PM\n5:00 PM\nEduardo Vega\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nLaura Van Prooyen\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nAlexandra van de Kamp\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nLucas Jacob\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nAnn Hudson\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n11:00 AM\n1:00 PM\nHari Alluri\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n1:00 PM\n3:00 PM\nWondra Chang\n\n\nMarch 10\nFriday\n3:00 PM\n5:00 PM\nEdward Vidaurre\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n10:00 AM\n11:00 AM\nCarmen Tafolla\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n12:00 PM\n1:00 PM\nChibbi Orduña\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n3:00 PM\n4:00 PM\nOctavio Quintanilla\n\n\nMarch 11\nSaturday\n3:30 PM\n4:30 PM\nJen Yáñez-Alaniz\n\n\n\nWe hope to see you soon! \nThe Gemini Ink team
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/gemini-ink-at-awp23/
LOCATION:Seattle Convention Center\, 705 Pike St\, Seattle\, Washington
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230311
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
CREATED:20230227T222930Z
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SUMMARY:Deadline to enter the Ekphrastic Poetry Contest Sponsored by 2023 National Poetry Month San Antonio
DESCRIPTION:San Antonio & South Texas Adult & Youth poets!\nPoets from San Antonio and South Texas are invited to enter the 2023 Ekphrastic Poetry Contest by writing poems inspired by selected artworks from five San Antonio arts institutions. There is no entry fee. \nWHAT IS AN EKPHRASTIC POEM? A poem written in response to an artwork. The poem should not simply describe the artwork; it should express how the art enlightens\, puzzles\, moves\, frightens you\, etc. Enter original poems inspired by the artworks below. \n2023 MUSEUM-SELECTED ARTWORKS\nTo see artworks\, click on the links below or visit the art institutions in person: \n\n\nThe Briscoe Western Art Museum: Jerry Jordan\, LISTEN TO THE DRUMS\, 2013\, Oil on Canvas. https://www.briscoemuseum.org/poetry/ \n\n\nThe McNay Art Museum: vanessa german\, BLACK GIRL WITH SNAKES\, 2020\, Assemblage. https://www.mcnayart.org/event/2023-national-poetry-month-ekphrastic-poetry-contest/ \n\n\nRuby City: Isaac Julien\, DREAMING RED\, 2009\, Light Box\, 48 x 50 x 5 in. edition 1/10  https://www.Rubycity.org/npmsa2023/ \n\n\nSan Antonio Museum of Art: ARMORIAL HANGING\, ca. 1771\, Viceroyalty of New Spain period. https://www.samuseum.org/events/event/2023-nation-poetry-month-ekphrastic-poetry-contest/?year=2023&month=3&day=10&hour=6&minute=0&second=0 \n\n\nThe Witte Museum: JOVITA IDAR LITTLE PANTRY CABINET. https://www.wittemuseum.org/media/ \n\n\n\nCONTEST GUIDELINES \n\nContest Deadline: March 10.  Only San Antonio & South Texas adult & youth poets are eligible.  \nSubmit up to two (2) poems (each no more than 15 lines plus title; spaces between lines count as lines—except space after title).\nAttach each poem as a PDF\, Word doc or docx in a separate email to EkphrasticPoetryContest1@gmail.com\nNo name or identifying info on the poems. No poems in the body of the email.\nEmails must include: Your Name\, City/State\, Contact Email Address. Youth must include age.\nEmail subject line must read: Ekphrastic Poetry (Adult or Youth) Contest – (Title of Artwork).\nContest Judges will select up to 3 poems per artwork. Only winners will be notified by email with further instructions. Winning poems will be published on the websites listed above throughout April.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/deadline-to-enter-the-ekphrastic-poetry-contest-2023/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230310T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230310T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Author Silviana Wood at the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
DESCRIPTION:  \n“It is a masterpiece!” “Silviana Wood is La Mera Mera.”\n-Denise Chávez\, author of Loving Pedro Infante \n“Highly recommended.”\n-Luis Alberto Urrea\, author of The Hummingbird’s Daughter \n“This is a story to be savored\, page by precious page.”\n-Demetria Martínez\, author of Mother Tongue \n“… One of the best debut novels of the past decade.”\n-Russ López\, Editor/LatineLit \nLearn more about La Quinta Soledad at  aztlanlibrepress.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/silviana-wood-at-the-guadalupe/
LOCATION:The Guadalupe Latino Bookstore\, 1300 Guadalupe St\, San Antonio\, Texas
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230315T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230315T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Leticia Urieta
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nJoin us for a free author talk & discussion with Leticia Urieta\, author of Las Criaturas. This session will be moderated by jo reyes-boitel\, a poet\, essayist\, and playwright.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Las Criaturas\, Leticia Urieta hones the conventions of folklore and mythology to center girls & women in a present context. Otherworldly and musical\, Las Criaturas positions the monstrous as a form of power and place of refuge\, firmly asking readers the pertinent questions: “Who creates the monsters? How do las criaturas that pervade our past\, present\, and future find justice?” Urieta has gifted us a daring and playful new work that points us in the right direction.\n–Reyes Ramirez\, author of The Book of Wanderers\n\n\n\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and a freelance writer. She graduated from Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Cleaver\, Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster was published by LibroMobile Press\, and her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, is out now from FlowerSong Press.\n\n\njo reyes-boitel is a poet\, essayist\, and playwright. jo is also a queer\, mixed-Latinx parent working in community. Somehow born in Minnesota\, their family calls Texas\, Florida\, Mexico\, and Cuba home. Recent and forthcoming publications include Huizache\, OyeDrum\, Scalawag Journal\, The Ice Colony\, Windward Review\, La Voz de Esperanza\, Chachalaca Review\, Borderlands\, The Americas Review\, and Your Impossible Voice. jo’s chapbook mouth (Neon Hemlock\, 2021) addressed the struggle of working through others’ views and dominant culture’s impact on the body and the self – toward liberation. Their first book\, Michael + Josephine\, a novel in verse (FlowerSong Press\, 2019)\, reimagined St. Michael the Archangel as a queer woman who begins a love relationship with Josephine\, a disaster relief worker.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-leticia-urieta/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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:20230319T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230319T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230309T215759Z
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SUMMARY:Deadline to apply to the 2023 Bexar County Arts Internship
DESCRIPTION:The intern will assist the Director of Programs in revamping Gemini Ink’s Autograph Series\, which presents writers of national and international stature—many of them recipients of major prizes such as the Pulitzer or National Book Award. This signature\, two-day series includes a ticketed luncheon and a free public evening performance\, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. The Gemini Ink intern will focus on strengthening the curricular components of this event so the author’s visit is even more impactful and engaging for San Antonio students and teachers.  \nThe intern will accomplish this by performing the following tasks:  \n\nDesigning a high school study guide template to be used for future Autograph Series while also creating one specifically for our 2024 featured author\, American poet and essayist Aimee Nezhukumatathil\, who will be discussing her New York Times bestselling collection of nature essays: World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks. \nCreating marketing and registration materials about the Autograph Series for educators and students. \nUpdating our current spreadsheet of high school contacts so we have the most up-to-date information on who to reach out to invite area high schools to this event. \nAssisting with the design of surveys to assess educators’ and students’ experience attending the Autograph Series. \nProviding support with general Gemini Ink program administrative duties\, including data entry\, material prep for summer writing workshops\, note-taking in meetings\, etc.\n\nWho can apply?  \n\nThe internship is open to currently enrolled undergraduate college students who are Bexar County residents attending a college or university in Bexar County or outside of the county\, as long as the student is a resident of Bexar County and able to show proof of the same.\n\nTo apply\, please provide the following items:  \n\nThe completed application \nA cover letter \nA resume\nTwo creative or academic writing samples\n\n**Please email your completed application to our Director of Programs Florinda Flores-Brown at fbrown@geminiink.org. Applications missing any of the above items will not be considered. **\nThe deadline to apply has been extended to Sunday\, March 19th by 5 pm CST\nThis is a 40/hour per week internship at a pay rate of $8.75/hour. The internship begins on Monday\, June 6th\, and ends on Friday\, August 11th. This is a hybrid internship (part in-person\, part remote). Some nights and weekends may be required.  \n\n  \nAbout the Autograph Series:  \nRecently featured authors have included world-renowned author Margaret Atwood\, 2016 National Book Award recipient poet Terrance Hayes\, beloved novelist and poet Sandra Cisneros\, and New York Times bestselling novelist Ben Fountain. The Autograph luncheon attracts over 250 guests and includes 100-140 sponsored high school students. Through this luncheon\, students experience up close the leading literary figures of our times and engage with the contemporary world of literature in exciting ways. \nFor more information about the Autograph Series\, please visit this page. For any questions about the internship\, please email Florinda Flores-Brown at fbrown@geminiink.org.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/deadline-to-apply-to-the-2023-bexar-county-arts-internship/
LOCATION:Texas
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SUMMARY:How to Get Yourself Out on Social Media for Busy Writers with Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson and Zach Jewell
DESCRIPTION:Thursdays\, March 23 & 30\, 6:30-8:45pm CST\, Hybrid: participants may attend in-person at Gemini Ink or online via Zoom\nInstructors: Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and Zach Jewell\nNonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n \n  \n\nAre you a busy writer seeking balance between a hectic writing life and building a network of social media supporters?\nWant to get to know your followers but just can’t find the time?\n\n2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson and social media expert Zach Jewell are teaming up to share insider secrets for creating engaging\, writing-related social media content that will keep your followers up-to-date and involved with you as a writer and human being. \nIn this two-part course\, we will discuss time-sensitive strategies for promoting yourself and your artistry on social media. We will brainstorm creative ideas to interact\, engage\, and share relatable content without overwhelming ourselves or losing time. Finally\, we will consider simple systems for managing the tedious challenge of social media and website upkeep. \nYou will leave the workshop with the following: \n\nIdeas on how to better manage social media interaction while leaving room to breathe\nA better understanding of a variety of social media platforms and their individual power\nTips on how to keep your followers engaged with you and your content\n\nClick the link to watch the video where Vocab & Zach Jewell explain the importance of social media as a tool to share your work: instagram.com/p/CpBxA3zqzNP/. \n\nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She’s the co-host of the consecutive award-winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She’s the winner of the 2019 People’s Choice Award\, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as the Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music\, published on Flower Song Press\, was released on Valentine’s Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st\, 2020\, Andrea became the first African American Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020\, she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards. \nZach Jewell has been a poet and percussionist and has been creating and promoting community events and programs for the arts for over 20 years. He’s managed marketing initiatives and social media accounts for Costco\, The YMCA\, and Amazon. He is currently wearing many hats as an entrepreneur running a nonprofit for men’s mental wellness\, creating programming\, marketing\, and social media platforms\, among many other things. He also has a self-published book of poetry on Amazon titled Nomad Psalms. \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/social-media-for-busy-writers/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230327T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230327T203000
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SUMMARY:Open Writer's Labs
DESCRIPTION:These peer-driven workshops\, held the last Monday of each month\, are free and open to writers of all levels and focus on poetry\, flash fiction\, and short creative non-fiction. \nRegister\n\nOnline Via Zoom\nFor the online workshop\, sign up the day before the class to ensure you receive the Zoom link. \nThis workshop is facilitated by Kevin Ramos. Originally from the northeast\, Kevin studied theater arts at Rutgers University and The University of Washington. He’s lived all over the country before making his home in San Antonio\, Texas. Kevin has written several novels and short stories. Most recently\, publishing a short memoir called Enough about addiction\, mothers\, and missing graves. And a novel\, Hayley’s Sense of Fire (DLG Publishing Partners)\, a modern re-telling of the classic fairy tale\, The Little Matchgirl. \n\nIn-Person at Gemini Ink\n \nJoin our in-person Open Writer’s Lab with Robert Allen at Gemini Ink’s office\, 1111 Navarro St.\, San Antonio\, TX 78205. \nRobert Allen has worked as a librarian and an electrical contractor for most of his life. Many moons ago\, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin\, where he studied poetry under David Wevill. Allen has been active in local writer’s groups and open mics\, including the Sun Poets Society. He’s been published in The Ocotillo Review\, the Texas Poetry Calendar\, Voices de la Luna\, di-verse-city\, the San Antonio Express-News\, and Poetry on the Move. In 2006\, he started attending Gemini Ink’s free Monday night writing classes and has attended regularly ever since. With more than a decade of attending writers’ groups\, classes\, and open mics\, he now co-facilitates Gemini Ink’s Open Writer’s Lab. \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/open-writers-lab-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27/2023-03-27/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230401T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230401T120000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:All Things Are Alive: Animating the Inanimate–Puppetry for Writers with Mobi Warren
DESCRIPTION:Dates/Times: Saturdays\, April 1\, 8\, 22\, and 29\, 10am – 12pm cst\nInstructor: Mobi Warren\nCost: Nonmember:  $165  Member:  $145  Student/Vet/Mil: $95\n*In person at Gemini Ink \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nAre you looking for a different way to tap into your creativity? Are you ready to experience the curiosity\, wonder\, and empathy that puppetry naturally inspires? \nUnder the guidance of puppeteer and poet Mobi Warren\, workshop participants will build a simple hand puppet from paper mâché and cloth\, and breathe life into the personality that emerges. The process may culminate in a poem\, a short prose piece\, or a monologue puppet script. Participants will be encouraged to sense the livingness in the materials used and to explore unexpected insights that emerge as the puppet acquires form. No puppetry experience is required to attend this workshop\, and writers of all levels are welcome.   \nStudents will leave this workshop with the following tools: \n\nA guide on creating a simple papier mache glove (hand) puppet\nTechniques for animating a puppet through voice\, character\, and story\nHow to use puppetry to uncover new poems or songs \nExploration of puppetry as a new point of entry into the creative writing process\n\n*Bring a journal to write in. Puppetry supplies will be provided for all participants.  \n*The cost of this workshop includes a $20 supply fee \n\nPuppeteer Mobi Warren is the author of the young adult novel The Bee Maker and a poetry collection\, Thread and Nectar. She is co-founder of the regional writers and artists collaborative\, Stone in Stream\, which advocates for environmental awareness and climate justice. Mobi serves on the Board of the National Capital Puppetry Guild.  An animist at heart\, she is enchanted by the livingness of all materials and is currently in thrall to the wild (and sometimes unruly) species known as puppets\, and how making and animating a puppet can help a writer engage more deeply with creative and empathetic energies. \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/puppetry-for-writers/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230413T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230413T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Words\, Wine and Wisdom: A Night of Stories with Leticia Urieta\, Rooster Martinez & Andrew Porter
DESCRIPTION:A Night of Stories with Leticia Urieta\, Rooster Martinez & Andrew Porter followed by a Community Open Mic\nThurs\, April 13\, 6:30-8pm\, In-Person\nPoetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\nFree & Open to the Public \nJoin us for a night of poetry and literary celebration as we partner with our friends at Poetic Republic Coffee Co. to create an inviting space for the writing community to share words\, wine\, and wisdom\, with a little latte or espresso on the side. \nGet ready to be inspired by the mesmerizing worlds of three writers\, each with their own ferocity of voice. The evening kicks off with Leticia Urieta reading from her hybrid collection of poems and short stories\, Las Criaturas (2021)\, which “tells the stories of untold women.” She’ll be joined by special guests C.L. “Rooster” Martinez and Andrew Porter\, who will share the gifts of their recent works. \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\nLeticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin\, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and the Regional Program Manager of Austin Bat Cave\, as well as the co-director of Barrio Writers Austin and Pflugerville\, a free creative writing program for youth. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets\, Lumina\, The Offing\, Kweli Journal\, Medium\, Electric Lit\, and others. Her chapbook\, The Monster\, was published in 2018 by LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection\, Las Criaturas\, was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and is out now from FlowerSong Press. \nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.  \nAndrew Porter is the acclaimed\, award-winning author of the story collections The Disappeared (Knopf 2023) and The Theory of Light and Matter (Vintage)\, and the novel In Between Days (Knopf). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, Ploughshares\, Narrative\, The Southern Review\, and on Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. He teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/words-wine-and-wisdom/
LOCATION:Poetic Republic Coffee Co.\, 2330 S. Presa St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, United States
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T130000
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SUMMARY:Literary Movements with Rod Carlos Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 15\, 9am-1pm CST\, in-person at Government Canyon (12861 Galm Road\, San Antonio\, Texas 78254)\nInstructor: Rod Carlos Rodriguez\nNonmember: $90; Member: $75; Student/Vet/Mil $60 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \n\n \nNature has inspired countless writers and artists and played a key role in many literary movements\, from Transcendentalism to SLAM poetry. As such\, this class will examine these movements and their nature-based connections so that we may draw upon them for our own creativity. \nFor additional inspiration\, we will be in nature’s classroom\, the great outdoors! We will share and write from the comfort of the Government Canyon Gallery\, which provides an enclosed classroom wrapped in windows and a gorgeous 360° view of the surrounding woods.  \nClass participants will use body movement as a source of creativity\, find their own corners of nature to sit in and write from\, and participate in small group work. Bring a bottle of water and a folding chair! Following the class\, participants are encouraged to stick around and explore the park on their own. \nAfter taking this class\, students will be able to: \n\nFuse the great outdoors into their own writing process.\nIdentify multiple American Literary Movements (both past and present)\, from  Transcendentalism and Surrealism to the Beat Generation\, and more.\nGather inspiration from an array of writers associated with these literary movements.\n\n*This class will be held in the Government Canyon Gallery. The event space is covered and still accessible in the event of rain.  \n\nRod Carlos Rodriguez has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso. He has trained as a guest lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio Writing Program. He is also an award-winning poet who has written for over 40 years. He has three books of poetry published and is the founder/chair of the Sun Poet’s Society\, South Texas’s longest-running weekly open-mic poetry reading (1995-2022). He was nominated for the San Antonio Poet Laureate in April 2012\, April 2014\, April 2016\, and April 2018. He was the poetry editor for Ocotillo Review (Kallisto Gaia Press)\, a literary journal/periodical\, and he was the editor of Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/literary-movements-with-rod-rodriguez/
LOCATION:Government Canyon\, 12861 Galm Road\, San Antonio\, 78254\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230415T170000
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SUMMARY:11th Annual San Antonio Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Florinda Flores-Brown\, Programs Director \nGemini Ink is thrilled to announce our presence at the upcoming San Antonio Book Festival on Saturday\, April 15th. Join us from 9am to 5pm at the Central Library and UTSA Southwest Campus in downtown San Antonio\, where we’ll be ready to engage with everyone who attends this exciting event! \nThe festival will be a splendid opportunity for literary enthusiasts to interact with prominent authors and poets and attend insightful panel discussions and book signings. This year’s author lineup features 100 notable local\, regional\, and national authors who will be participating in the festival and several related events. The lineup includes nationally renowned authors like Kiese Laymon\, Geraldine Brooks\, Stephen Graham Jones\, and Pulitzer Prize–winning Jane Smiley\, among many others. There will be something for everyone\, from young adult and children’s sessions to insightful talks on current events and politics. Follow the link to see the schedule: https://sabookfestival.org/schedule/ \nStop by our booth\, pick up one of our class schedules\, and discover more about our innovative projects\, captivating readings\, and upcoming events. Gemini Ink staff will be on hand to chat with you\, answer your questions\, and share insights about the writing arts in San Antonio. Come say hello! \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/11th-annual-san-antonio-book-festival/
LOCATION:UTSA Southwest Campus\, 300 Augusta St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230419T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230419T203000
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Steve Adams
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, April 19th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Steve Adams\, author of the novel Remember This. This session will be moderated by Ramona Reeves\, author of the prize-winning collection It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Book\nJohn Martin\, a talented graphic designer from Texas\, has left his alcoholic mother behind and is now employed as a word processor for a prestigious New York investment bank. In the midst of the personal computer revolution and AIDS epidemic\, John embarks on an affair with his supervisor Alena Marino\, an Italian immigrant. When his oldest sister arrives unexpectedly\, John is forced to confront his past and the complex relationships he has had with beautiful women. John must now come to terms with his damaged past as he embarks on his journey of understanding.\n\n\n\nSteve Adams’ creative nonfiction has won a Pushcart Prize\, been listed as “Notable” in Best American Essays\, and published in The Pinch\, The Millions\, and elsewhere. In fiction\, he’s won Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers\, and his stories have been anthologized and published in Glimmer Train\, The Missouri Review\, and elsewhere. He’s been a guest artist at UT\, a resident artist at Jentel\, and a scholar at the Norman Mailer Writers’ Colony\, and his plays have been produced in NYC. His debut novel\, Remember This\, was published in October 2022. He’s a writing coach and freelance editor in Memphis.\n\nRamona Reeves is a native of Mobile\, Alabama. Her linked short story collection It Falls Gently All Aroundand Other Stories won the 2022 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press last fall. She spent a decade in the Northeastern U.S.\, writing freelance articles\, proofreading for a men’s fashion weekly\, and performing production roles for Food & Wine\, Travel & Leisure\, and Esquire before moving into technical editing and writing. She eventually moved to Texas for several years before leaving to pursue her MFA in fiction. She has since returned and is nearing completion on a novel. Ramona has served as a board member for A Room of Her Own (AROHO)\, moderated and appeared on conference panels\, taught college-level writing courses\, and was an associate fiction editor for Kallisto Gaia Press. Her stories and essays have appeared in The Southampton Review\, Pembroke\, Bayou Magazine\, New South\, Superstition Review\, Texas Highways and other publications. She’s won the Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize\, been a resident at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, and is a Community of Writers alum.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-steve-adams/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230502T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Etymology of Our Artistic Practice with Diana Lizette Rodriguez
DESCRIPTION:Tuesdays\, May 2\, 9\, 16 & 23\, 6-8:30pm\, CST\, offered via Zoom\nInstructor: Diana Lizette Rodriguez\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Cancelled\nWhere does your artistic practice come from? How do artists in other disciplines approach their own artistic expression? And how does understanding the origin of our art and that of others open us to new creative possibilities?\nThis four-week workshop with Diana Lizette Rodriguez will help participants identify the roots of their art practice through writing and multimedia exercises. By closely examining creative texts\, film\, photography\, and performance material and reflecting on other artistic processes\, participants will fully envision or rethink their own. The workshop will also explore how ancestry\, family trees\, landscape\, and location can inform the root of artistic expression.  \nThe overall goal of these reflections\, writing prompts\, and multimedia assignments is to help writers deepen their own creativity and to open up the way they approach making art.  \nThis workshop is open to writers 16 and older of all skill levels. Spanish speakers and writers are also welcome! \nParticipants will leave this course with the following: \n\n An expanded viewpoint on how other mediums boost creative practice\n Acknowledgment of where your creative energy comes from\n New artistic foundations to create deeper work in your life\n\n\nDiana Lizette Rodriguez is an experimental artist who works with installation\, painting\, performance\, photography\, and the illuminating world of poetry. A Mexican-American artist from San Antonio\, Texas\, Rodriguez explores the fragmented decay the world portrays. Her work holds reminders of impermanence\, and she creates these reminders with disruption\, disorientation\, and unknown predictabilities. Rodriguez pushes to work with a conceptualized intention\, questions the reason for Art\, and finds concepts like the 4th Dimension to be an idea her path wants to follow. To dive into. Questions such as “If I go to the 4th Dimension\, would I be able to come back to the 1st?” arise\, and Rodriguez\, as an artist\, does not find the answer to such a question. She just creates.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/exploring-the-etymology-of-our-artistic-practice/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230506T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144337
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SUMMARY:Voices of San Anto Bilingual Storytelling Workshop with Marisela Barrera
DESCRIPTION:You have a story to tell\, and we want to help you tell it!\n\n\n\n\nJoin poet and storyteller Marisela Barrera for a free\, two-session workshop at the San Antonio Public Library. Craft a five to seven-minute story about a significant moment in your life and present it a public performance and celebration. Whether it’s that funny anecdote you share at parties\, an event that changed your life\, or a family story passed down for generations\, your story matters\, and we want to help you bring it to life. \nThis workshop is for adults 18+\, and no writing or performance experience is required. Native Spanish speakers and bilingual folks are highly encouraged to register. \n\n\nYou will leave the workshop with: \n\nA fully-formed story ready for performance\nAn understanding of story elements\nPerformance strategies for effective live storytelling\nExperience sharing a story with friends\, family\, and the community\n\n\n\n\n\nDates:\nWriting Sessions May 6 & 13\, 1-5pm \nFinal Celebration May 20\, 10:30am-12:30pm \n\n\n\n\nTo register\, email Sarah De La Rosa:\nsarah.delarosa@sanantonio.gov\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(If email link is not clickable\, cut and paste the email sarah.delarosa@sanantonio.gov into your email client.)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarisela Barrera is a Tejana writer and teatrista who writes short stories and turns them into transmedia performances. She spins and eats fire with Jump-Start Performance Co.\, teaches writing at Northwest Vista College\, and is a Resident Actor with the Public Theater of San Antonio. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/voices-of-san-anto-1/
LOCATION:Central Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:(Poetry) Slam 201 with C.L. “Rooster” Martinez
DESCRIPTION:Saturdays\, May 6\, 13\, 20 & 27\, 2-4pm\, in-person at Gemini Ink\nInstructor: C.L. “Rooster” Martinez\nNonmember: $125; Member: $105; Student/Vet/Mil $75 \n*EARN CPE’S\nSCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE. \nClass Cancelled\n\nImagine stepping up to the mic at a poetry slam with less than 3 minutes to captivate the audience.\nWhat will you say? How will you use your voice\, face\, and body language to take the audience on an emotional rollercoaster? \n\n(Poetry) Slam 201 is a generative and performance workshop focused on individual and collaborative writing for live competition. We will briefly examine the history and rules of the Slam Poetry genre\, write new and exciting work as individuals and teams\, use a critique session to delve deep into the poem’s intended message\, and focus on moving the written word from the page to the microphone. Participants will receive performance tips and feedback that will add emotional depth and impact to their spoken word delivery. \n(Poetry) Slam 201 is designed for most writers (17 years old and up) of any experience level.  \n*For those who took Slam 101\, this class will expand on the knowledge gained in the first class and is more generative and performance-focused. Please note (Poetry) Slam 101 is not a prerequisite\, as this class will briefly reintroduce the lessons of the former class. \nParticipants will leave this class with the following tools: \n\nKnowledge of Slam Poetry history & rules\nPractice writing individual and collaborative poems \nWriting and performance feedback for creating a powerful stage presentation\n\n\nChristopher “Rooster” Martinez is an educator and spoken word poet from San Antonio\, Texas. He earned a MA/MFA in Creative Writing\, Literature & Social Justice at Our Lady of the Lake University. He is the author of two poetry books: A Saint for Lost Things (Alabrava Press\, 2020) and As it is in Heaven (Kissing Dynamite Poetry Press\, 2020). For twelve years\, Rooster competed and won slams across the country and co-founded the literary nonprofit Write Art Out Inc.  \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-slam-201/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Andrew Porter
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\n\n\nWednesday\, May 17th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Andrew Porter\, author of the story collection\, The Disappeared.\nJoin us for The Big Texas Author Talk\, a free monthly lecture series that showcases Texas authors from different parts of the state\, including New York Times bestsellers and Latinx border authors. The series offers informative and entertaining conversations with storytellers who represent the diverse spirit of Texas. Past featured authors include Kathleen Kent\, Marisol Cortez\, Joe Lansdale\, and Carmen Tafolla\, among others. Join us virtually on the third Wednesday of every month at 7 pm CST. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK\n\n\n\nA collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives\, by the acclaimed\, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter \n\n\n“What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.” —Alix Ohlin\, author of We Want What We Want \n\n\n\nA husband and wife hear a mysterious bump in the night. A father mourns the closeness he has lost with his son. A friendship with a married couple turns into a dangerous codependency. With gorgeous sensitivity\, assurance\, and a propulsive sense of menace\, these stories center on disappearances\, both literal and figurative—lives and loves that are cut short\, the vanishing of one’s youthful self. From San Antonio to Austin\, from the clamor of a crowded restaurant to the cigarette at a lonely kitchen table\, Andrew Porter captures each of these relationships mid-flight\, every individual life punctuated by loss and beauty and need. The Disappeared reaffirms the undeniable artistry of a contemporary master of the form. \n\n\n\nANDREW PORTER is the author of the story collection The Theory of Light and Matter and the novel In Between Days. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, he has received a Pushcart Prize\, a James Michener/Copernicus Fellowship\, and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His work has appeared in One Story\, The Threepenny Review\, and Ploughshares\, and on public radio’s Selected Shorts. Currently\, he teaches fiction writing and directs the creative writing program at Trinity University in San Antonio\, Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-andrew-porter/
LOCATION:Texas
CATEGORIES:Event
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