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SUMMARY:Explorations of Home: A Panel on the Latinx Diaspora in Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, December 3rd 6-8pm\, in-person\nSan Antonio Public Library\nLatino Collection & Resource Center\n600 Soledad St.\, San Antonio\, TX\nFree and open to the public \nThis event\, in partnership with the Library of America\, will feature a panel of diverse poets who represent the breadth of the Latinx diaspora. The panel will discuss the facets and multiplicities of home\, from ancestry and linguistics to shifting borders and generational wounds. \nFeatured authors are Jasminne Mendez\, ire’ne lara silva\, and Rod Carlos Rodriguez. They will read from their personal works and engage in a rich discussion with moderator Dr. Carmen Tafolla. Light refreshments will be served. \nPanelist Bios\nJasminne Mendez is a Dominican-American poet\, translator\, playwright\, audiobook narrator\, and award-winning author of several books\, including the Pura Belpre Honor Award-winning middle-grade novel in verse\, Aniana del Mar Jumps In (Dial). Her other books have received prizes from the Texas Institute of Letters\, the Writer’s League of Texas and the International Latino Book Awards. She is an MFA graduate of the creative writing program at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and a University of Houston alumni. She is the Program Director for the literary arts non-profit Tintero Projects and she lives and works in Houston\, TX. \nRod Carlos Rodriguez has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the UT–El Paso and is a Lecturer at UTSA’s Writing Program. He is an award-winning poet who has been writing for over 40 years. He has five books of poetry published including Cantos\, Incandescent (Finishing Line Press\, 2024)\, and A History of Echoes: Poems (Gival Press\, 2024). He 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\, 2014\, 2016\, and 2018. He was the poetry editor for Ocotillo Review\, a literary journal/periodical\, and he was the editor of the Texas Poetry Calendar 2023 (Kallisto Gaia Press). \nire’ne lara silva\, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate\, is the author of five poetry collections: furia\, Blood Sugar Canto\, CUICACALLI/House of Song\, FirstPoems\, and the eaters of flowers; two chapbooks\, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos; a comic book\,VENDAVAL; and a short story collection\, flesh to bone\, which won the Premio Aztlán. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant\, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant\, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award\, and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. Ire’ne received the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. Her second collection\, the light of your body\, will be published by Arte Publico Press in Fall 2025. \nModerator\nDr. Carmen Tafolla is the author of over 40 books and the 2015 State Poet Laureate of Texas. Her award-winning books include The Holy Tortilla and a Pot of Beans\, Rebozos\, Curandera\, and Sonnets to Human Beings. Her writing has been recognized by the National Association of Chicana & Chicano Studies for work that “gives voice to the peoples and cultures of this land\,” and her new novel-in-verse Warrior Girl was published by Penguin in 2023. \nThis program is presented as part of Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home\, a major public humanities initiative taking place across the nation in 2024 and 2025\, directed by Library of America and funded with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Emerson Collective.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/explorations-of-home-a-panel-on-the-latinx-diaspora-in-poetry/
LOCATION:San Antonio Public Library\, 600 Soledad\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78205
CATEGORIES:Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241207T100000
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SUMMARY:Get Inside Your Character’s Head: Effective Storytelling Across Genres with Daniel Peña
DESCRIPTION:Dec 7 & 8\, via Zoom\nSat: 10am-2:30pm CST\, (incl 30-minute lunch); Sun: 10am-1pm CST\nInstructor: Daniel Peña\nNonmember: $155; Member: $135; Student/Educator/Mil $75 \n  \n  \nAs the great Henry James once shared\, a story should never be just a story\, meaning it should rarely be just an anecdote. Rather\, it should show some true essence of the story’s character and explore fundamental shifts in that character’s psyche from the beginning of the story to the end.   \nIn this 2-day multi-genre generative workshop\, we will explore how to uncover a character’s fundamental truth and use it to shape a strong protagonist who creates persona-driven fiction\, poetry\, and non-fiction. We will also look at how to create shifts in character that make for exciting epiphanies and conclusions that land like lightning bolts on the page. Participants will also practice blending genres to create singular forms that best fit the story they are trying to tell. \nThis is a great crash course for those just getting their sea legs in storytelling concepts and the fundamentals of poetry alike. This course is open to beginning writers of all skill levels\, 18+.  \nIn this workshop\, students will: \n\nDraft new written works\nStrategies for creating character-driven writing\nExperiment with blending genres to create a more powerful story\n\n\nDaniel Peña is a Pushcart Prize-winning writer and Associate Professor at the University of North Texas\, where he teaches in the PhD Program in Creative Writing.  Peña worked as a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Scholar. A graduate of Cornell University and a former Picador Guest Professor in Leipzig\, Germany\, his writing has appeared in Ploughshares\, The Rumpus\, The Kenyon Review\, Texas Monthly\, NBC News\, and The New York Times Magazines. He’s currently a regular contributor to The Guardian and The Ploughshare 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/get-inside-your-characters-head/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241212T183000
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SUMMARY:Gemini Ink Holiday Open House
DESCRIPTION:Come Celebrate!\nDate: Thursday\, December 12th Time: 6:30-8pm CST\nLocation: Gemini Ink (In-Person) \nJoin us as we eat\, drink\, and merrily toast the closing of 2024 with our literary community of writers and friends. Drop by when you can\, leave when you need to. \n\nMusic by Excy. Excy Ceiba ili is a Cultural Educator and Musician-Activist from Honduras who employs indigenous instruments and languages in music creation. Instagram: @ceiba_ili\nOpen Mic: 7pm. Show up at 6:30 PM to sign up (12 slots available for 3-minute reads)\n\nStay long enough to have a little eggnog and comfort food. Wine\, non-alcoholic beverages\, and coffee will be served. We will provide the main fare\, but you are also invited to bring a store-bought or prepackaged food item to share. \nKeeping with our annual tradition\, we’ll have a table of books to trade and give away. Feel free to bring a book to share!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/holiday-open-house-2/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink\, 1111 Navarro St\, San Antonio\, TX\, 78205\, United States
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SUMMARY:Veterans' Writing Collective with Sarah Colby
DESCRIPTION:The Veterans’ Writing Collective (VWC) encourages the art of writing in a workshop environment where participants are offered honest\, positive\, and constructive peer-to-peer and mentor feedback. The workshop is open to all active-duty military\, veterans\, retirees\, and their immediate family members. Writers of all levels working in all genres are welcome. \nThe VWC meets monthly online via Zoom.\nIf you would like an invitation to this class\, send an email to veteranscollective@geminiink.org\n\nSarah Colby was born in northern New Mexico and raised in the Rocky Mountains. She is married to a retired Army Chaplain and is mother to a son in the Navy. Sarah has an MFA in Creative Writing from Sierra Nevada College and an exuberant interest in making the ordinary luminous. Her war-time experiences have motivated her to be a voice for the mostly untold stories of families and loved ones during these years of protracted conflict. She is currently working on a manuscript of poems about her experiences as a military family member.\n \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/veterans-writing-collective-2020-07-15-2021-11-17-2023-08-16-2023-12-20/2024-12-18/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Carmen Calatayud
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Wednesday\, Dec. 18th\, 2024 via Zoom for a conversation with Carmen Calatayud\, author of This Tangled Body. Moderated by Francisco Aragón.\nRSVP for Invite\nThis Tangled Body reads as surreal poetic memoir\, navigating family history\, war\, migration\, and the grit of relationships. Through lyrical language\, the poet searches for ways to rescue a body that knows pain\, addiction\, and generational trauma. Elegies\, love letters\, and concussions cross paths here\, along with planets and stars\, demonstrating that the potential to heal is possible when raw truth and grace are present. Calatayud’s willingness to face the land of the dead and cross all borders is on full display. As she invites us to “leave this continent and/light the path behind us on fire\,” her poetry insists we return to love and love hard. \nCarmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book This Tangled Body was published by FlowerSong Press\, in conjunction with Letras Latinas\, in 2024. Her first book In the Company of Spirits (Press 53) was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Calatayud is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. \n  \nFrancisco Aragón is the author of three books of poetry\, including After Rubén (2020)\, Glow of Our Sweat (2010)\, and Puerta de Sol (2005).  He’s also the editor of\, The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry (2007). His more than twenty anthology publications include Latino Poetry: The Library of America Anthology (2024); Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology (2022) and Why To These Rocks: 50 Years of Poems from the Community of Writers (2021). His poems and translations have appeared in numerous literary journals\, both print and online. A native of San Francisco\, CA\, he is the son of Nicaraguan immigrants. He is on the faculty of the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies\, where he teaches courses in Latinx poetry and creative writing\, and directs Letras Latinas\, their literary initiative. He has read his work widely\, including at universities\, bookstores\, art galleries\, and the Dodge Poetry Festival. For more information\, visit: http://franciscoaragon.net
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-carmen-calatayud/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20241230T183000
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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.\n \n  \n\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-2-2020-08-31-2020-09-28-2021-06-28-2022-05-30-2022-06-27-2022-07-25-2023-03-27-2023-12-25/2024-12-30/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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