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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.
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra van de Kamp":MAILTO:avandekamp@geminiink.org
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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 
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ORGANIZER;CN="Mandy Lynn Lara":MAILTO:mllara@geminiink.org
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