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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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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:20230210T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230210T203000
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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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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:20230207T183000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230204T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230204T120000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230121T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230121T120000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230118T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20230118T203000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20221217T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20221217T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20221214T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20221214T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T183443
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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: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 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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