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SUMMARY:For a Girl Becoming with Joy Harjo
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special family-friendly reading of For a Girl Becoming with Joy Harjo\, featuring illustrator Adriana Garcia and guest poets Laurie Ann Guerrero and Xelena González. \nThis free community event celebrates poetry and storytelling. Hosted at the Las Palmas Branch Library. All are welcome.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/for-a-girl-becoming-with-joy-harjo/
LOCATION:Las Palmas Branch Library\, 515 Castroville Rd\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78237
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Rosemary Catacalos: On the Life and Work of an American Master
DESCRIPTION:Gemini Ink\, URBAN-15\, and the University of Houston / Unsung Masters are proud to present a book launch event in celebration of Rosemary Catacalos: On the Life and Work of an American Master\, the 17th volume of the Unsung Masters Series.\nJoin us to honor Rosemary’s life and legacy with an afternoon of readings by contributors to the book\, including Naomi Shiab Nye\, ire’ne lara silva\, and Jim LaVilla-Havelin. Books will be available for purchase\, and refreshments will be served. \nJoin us:\nSunday July 20th\, 2-4pm CST\nURBAN-15 Studios 2500 S. Presa\nLearn more at urban15.org
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/rosemary-catacalos-an-american-master/
LOCATION:Urban-15\, 2500 S. Presa\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78212
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SUMMARY:Three Poets Laureate Speak: An Evening Celebrating the Power of Poetry
DESCRIPTION:The Little Carver Civic Center \n226 N Hackberry St\, San Antonio\, TX 78202 \nPlease see parking information (link to map) \n“This production is not a presentation of the Carver Community Cultural Center or the Carver Development Board.” \nRSVP\nAttendees who RSVP’d by April 15th will be guaranteed entry until 6:45 PM on April 24th. After that\, entry will be available on a first-come\, first-served basis until capacity is reached. \nDon’t miss an unforgettable night showcasing three powerful women poets! \nCelebrate National Poetry Month with a reading\, discussion\, and book signing with 2020-23 San Antonio Poet Laureate Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, 2024 Texas Poet Laureate Amanda Johnston\, and 2012-2014 U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey. \n  \n\nThese three distinguished Black women poets will discuss the contributions of African-American writers today and their roles as advocates who use poetry to uplift their communities.  Each of these literary leaders will discuss their own poetic journeys and represent their respective roles as the 2020-2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate\, the 2024 Texas Poet Laureate\, and\, in the case of Ms. Trethewey\, the 2012-2014 U.S. Poet Laureate and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner in Poetry. Slam champion and current Houston Poet Laureate\, Aris Kian Brown\, will bring her own magic to the night as our featured moderator. This event will highlight the unique role poetry can play in helping us ignite our creative voice. \nEach of these poets breaks new ground and asks difficult questions through their work; questions that encourage empathy and resilience\, while not shying away from the realities of being Black women writers in contemporary America. Join us for this intellectually engaging evening celebrating poetry and the transformative and joyful ways poetry impacts our communities. \nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\nPanelists\nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a dynamic poet\, singer\, and spoken word artist from San Antonio\, Texas. Known for her powerful performances and lyrical prowess\, Sanderson has been a driving force in the local arts community\, advocating for the power of words to inspire and heal. She served as the Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2020-2023)\, using her platform to uplift marginalized voices and foster creativity across the city. In 2021\, she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship for her legacy project\, The Echo Project\, which was featured on KLRN. Vocab’s debut book\, She Lives In Music\, was published by Flower Song Press (2020)\, and her albums are available for streaming on all music platforms. Her second collection of poems\, The Seasoned Woman\, is forthcoming from Gnashing Teeth Press. Her work\, which blends poetry with music and activism\, resonates deeply with audiences\, addressing themes of social justice\, love\, and resilience. \nAmanda Johnston\, 2024 Texas Poet Laureate\, is an acclaimed poet\, educator\, and advocate for social justice. She is the author of Another Way to Say Enter (Argus House Press 2017)\, and her poetry has been widely recognized for its emotional depth and unflinching exploration of identity\, race\, and gender. Johnston is the founder of Torch Literary Arts\, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting the work of Black women and girls in literature. Named one of Blavity’s “13 Black Poets You Should Know\,” Amanda’s work has been featured on Bill Moyers\, the Poetry Society of America’s series “In Their Own Words\,” The Moth Radio Hour\, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. Her work has also appeared in numerous online and print publications\, among them Callaloo\, Poetry Magazine\, Puerto del Sol\, Muzzle\, and the anthologies Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry and Women of Resistance: Poems for a New Feminism. With a passion for empowering others\, she has taught creative writing in various settings and is a Cave Canem fellow. Johnston’s work continues to influence and inspire new and established voices in the literary world. \nNatasha Trethewey is a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14)\, who is celebrated for her profound exploration of history\, memory\, and identity. Born in Gulfport\, Mississippi\, Trethewey’s work often delves into the complexities of the American South\, weaving together personal and collective histories. She is the author of several acclaimed collections\, including Native Guard\, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2007. Having also served as the Poet Laureate of the State of Mississippi (2012-2016)\, she is the author of the New York Times bestseller Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir (2020); and a book of nonfiction\, Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast (2010). Trethewey’s lyrical and evocative poetry has earned her numerous accolades and a reputation as one of the most important voices in contemporary American literature. Her writing offers a powerful meditation on the intersection of race\, trauma\, and resilience. \nModerator\nAris Kian Brown is a Houston enthusiast and student of abolition. She ranked #2 in the 2023 Womxn of the World Poetry Slam and #1 at the 2024 Southern Fried Poetry Slam with her team Smoke Slam. Her poems are published with Button Poetry\, West Branch\, Obsidian Lit and elsewhere. She received her MFA from the University of Houston and currently serves as the 2023-2025 Houston Poet Laureate.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/three-poets-laureate-speak/
LOCATION:The Little Carver Theater\, 226 N Hackberry St\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78202
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SUMMARY:Poets & Coffee with Alexandra van de Kamp
DESCRIPTION:Join Gemini Ink’s Executive Artistic Director\, Alexandra van de Kamp\, for an informal craft conversation about what’s happening right now in the world of poetry. \nWe’ll make the coffee. You bring a friend and enjoy a seat in the company of your peers.  \nAlexandra will share some of the poems she’s been reading and discuss a selection of contemporary poets she believes are lighting up the page and stage. Then\, we’d love to hear from you about the poems you’ve been reading and why poetry matters. \nYou’ll benefit from a welcoming poetic community and leave with a bundle of new poems to explore and generative prompts to fuel future writing.  \n\n​​Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center. Her third book of poems\, Ricochet Script\, was published by Next Page Press in 2022. ​​Her previous full-length collections include: Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks\, including A Liquid Bird Inside the Night (Red Glass Books 2015) and Dear Jean Seberg (2011)\, which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide\, such as The Cincinnati Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Texas Observer\, and Denver Quarterly.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/poets-coffee-with-alexandra-van-de-kamp/
LOCATION:Gemini Ink
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Razzmatazz & All That Jazz: An Evening in Celebration of Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson
DESCRIPTION:Purchase Tickets and Sponsor Levels\n\n\n\nCelebrating Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson at the McNay Art Museum Moroccan Courtyard and Leeper Auditorium\, Friday\, November 8th\, 6:30-9:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n2024 Award for Literary Excellence\nAndrea Vocab Sanderson \nHonorary Co-Chair\nDr. Eric Castillo\nAssociate Vice Chancellor of Arts\, Culture\, and Community Impact for the Alamo Colleges District \nModerator\nGlo Miles \nEmcee\nMolly Cox \n2024 Inkstravaganza Committee\nCary Clack\, Aminah Dece\, Barbara Felix\, Winifred Hodge\, Zach Jewell\, Andrea Lopez\, Gloria Miles\, Chibbi Orduña\, Aaronetta Pierce\, Gerard Robledo\, Andrea Rodriguez\, Zsaire Shaheid (Shai)\, Aissatou Sidime-Blanton\, Kirsten Thompson\, Maria Williams\, Bria Woods\, Alexandra van de Kamp \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin Gemini Ink\, San Antonio’s Writing Arts Center\, at the beautiful McNay Art Museum on Friday\, November 8th\, for an unforgettable\, festive evening celebrating the extraordinary achievements of Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson\, our 2024 Recipient of The Award for Literary Excellence. Enjoy our star-packed lineup (details coming soon!) and mingle with friends and fellow literary fans as we honor this brilliant poet\, multifaceted artist\, performer\, and community leader who is at the heart of the writing arts in our city. \nAndrea “Vocab” Sanderson is a multifaceted artist in the worlds of music\, poetry\, spoken word performance\, and community artistic collaborations\, and to say she is a powerhouse poet and creative performer only scratches the surface of her talent! We couldn’t be more honored to spotlight her as the featured writer of our annual gala in support of the power of the writing arts in our city. Vocab is San Antonio Poet Laureate Emeritus 2020-2023. She facilitates workshops throughout the U.S. and is the author of She Tastes Like Music (Flower Song Press\, 2020). She is an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow and was voted Best Local Poet in 2023 and 2021 by The SA Current. Vocab has had the distinct honor of opening up for Dr. Cornell West\, Phylicia Rashad\, and Nikki Giovanni. Her albums and collaborative works can be streamed on all major music platforms. Learn more about her at her website andreavocabsanderson.com.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/razzmatazz-all-that-jazz/
LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:Our Word is Our Vote: A Poetry Pachanga
DESCRIPTION:Don’t Miss Our Word is Our Vote:\nA Poetry Pachanga this Saturday\, Sep 28!\nJoin the dynamic San Antonio poetry community for this special election year event\, encouraging voter registration and using our voice to create the change we want to see:\nSaturday\, Sep 28\, 5-9pm\nUTSA Main Campus\n1 UTSA Circle\, San Antonio\, TX 78249\nRichard Liu Auditorium\, Business Bldg\, 2.01.02 \nRegister to Vote! Free Event! Free Food!\nLive Music from Kitten Mitten\, Mexstep\, and Patsy Torres!\nAnd all the poets—Andi Garcia-Linn\, Alexandra Vandekamp\, Alex Z. Salinas\, Amalia Ortiz\, Anthony the Poet\, Carmen Calatayud\, Carmen Tafolla\, Chibbi Orduña\, Chris Carmona\, E.D. Watson\, Eddie Vega\, Eduardo C. Garza\, Edward Vidaurre\, Fernando E. Flores\, Frances Santos\, Gerard Robledo\, Gume Laurel III\, Jen Yanez-Alaniz\, Jim LaVilla-Havelin\, John Olivares Espinoza\, John Phillip Santos\, Jonathan Fletcher\, Joshua Robbins\, KB Brookins\, Lace Garcia\, Mandy Lynn Lara\, Matthew Tavares\, Myra Dumapais\, Natalia Treviño\, Nazli Siddiqui\, Octavio Quintanilla\, Rooster Martinez\, Sajhar Roshan\, Saúl Hernández\, Tony Diaz\, Violeta Garza\, Zach Sokoloski!
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/our-word-is-our-vote/
LOCATION:UTSA\, 1 UTSA Circle\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78249
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Glenn Blake
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, May 15th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Glenn Blake\, with moderator Cliff Hudder\, discussing The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\nRSVP\nAbout The Old and the Lost: Collected Stories\n\n\nThe most complete collection of Glenn Blake’s luminous short fiction published to date.  “I was born in a land of bayous\, raised between rivers\,” Glenn Blake writes. “There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters\, and as you drive across\, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.”  These fourteen stories are set in the swamps\, bayous\, and sloughs of Southeast Texas\, a region that is subsiding—sinking inches every year. The characters who inhabit Blake’s haunting landscape—awash in their own worlds\, adrift in their own lives—struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. \nABOUT GLENN BLAKE \nGlenn Blake has taught in the English Department at Rice University\, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston\, and the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Tyler.  He is the author of Drowned Moon\, Return Fire\, and The Old and the Lost. His novel\, Degüello\, is due in December. He has edited Gulf Coast\, The Hopkins Review\, and Boulevard. He is now serving as the Director of the University of Texas Press at Tyler. In 2000\, he was elected Chair of PEN Houston. In 2020\, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. \nABOUT CLIFF HUDDER \nCliff Hudder received an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Houston in 1995\, and a PhD in American Literature from Texas A&M University in 2018. He has been an archaeological laborer\, a film and video editor\, a photographer\, an air compressor mechanic\, an electrical lineman\, and an educator. In addition to articles on regional and American literature\, his short stories have appeared in several journals\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, The Kenyon Review\, and The Missouri Review. His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards\, the Peden Prize\, the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters\, and the Ruth Vande Kieft Prize from the Eudora Welty Society. His novella\, Splinterville\, won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award\, and his novel\, Pretty Enough for You\, was named a top-10 Texas favorite for 2015 by the Lone Star Literary Life website. His third book\, Sallowsfield\, will be released in November by Texas Review Press. He serves as the chair of Psychology and Sociology at Lone Star College-Montgomery in Conroe\, Texas. In 2017\, Cliff was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-glenn-blake/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Cyrus Cassells
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, April 24th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Poet Cyrus Cassells and his collection\, Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?\nABOUT IS THERE ROOM FOR ANOTHER HORSE ON YOUR HORSE RANCH?\n \n\nRSVP\nCyrus Cassells has perfected a poetics of merciful vitality and tenderness\, celebrating eros — in his daring and prolific representation of lust\, yes\, but more broadly in his understanding of the erotic as an affirmation and preservation of life — through time and space. Beginning his latest collection with the piece “You Be the Dancer\,” he bids us return to sacred sites of nostalgia\, insisting on it “whether we’re feeling frisky\, / Empty-handed\, / Or still beguiled by inchoate dreams–.” Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch? is the apotheosis of Cassells’s work to elevate the mundane and the bodily to the exalted\, his vigorous lyrics a routine ecstasy. Though our senses lay us bare to suffering\, they also create the possibilities for pleasure and connection\, the basis of — and rewards for — humanity. “My Only Bible\,” Cassells pledges\, “is this blood-red joy / Of breathing beside you\,” “The gospel of bougainvillea / At your boyhood gate” which perfumes “the soul’s endless\, luxuriant / Coming and becoming…” Gorgeous and wry in its portrayal of transformational romance and queer selfhood\, Cassells’s ninth book of poetry reads as an anthology of love letters to people and places across the world. Cassells revises an old premise: is it better to have loved than lost\, or is that love\, once bestowed\, is never lost? A champion of the flight real intimacy requires of us\, Cassells addresses a beloved\, “You’ve just died in my arms / But suddenly it seems we’re eternal\,” the joie de vivre and bravery of his perseverance made immortal through the poem’s titular declaration — “I Believe Icarus Was not Failing as He Fell.” If in these pages you see the crash\, the poet seems to say\, remember the flying\, too\, “the giddy Argonauts we were.” \nABOUT CYRUS CASSELLS \nCyrus Cassells was the 2021 Poet Laureate of Texas. Among his honors: a 2023 Civitella-Ranieri Foundation fellowship; a 2022 Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship to administer his statewide Juneteenth poetry project; a 2019 Guggenheim fellowship; the National Poetry Series; a Lambda Literary Award; two NEA grants; a Pushcart Prize; and the William Carlos Williams Award. His 2018 volume\, The Gospel according to Wild Indigo\, was a finalist for the NAACP Image Award\, the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award\, and the Balcones Poetry Prize. Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas\, translated from the Catalan\, was awarded the Texas Institute of Letters’ Soeurette Diehl Fraser Award for Best Translated Book of 2018 and 2019. To The Cypress Again and Again: Tribute to Salvador Espriu\, combining translations\, poetry\, and memoir in homage to Catalan Spain’s most revered 20th century writer\, was published in 2023. Cassells was nominated for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Criticism for his film and television reviews in The Washington Spectator. He teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University\, where he received a 2021 Presidential Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities and was named a 2023 University Distinguished Professor. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \n\n\nD E Zuccone is the author of a volume of poetry\, Vanishes\, with 3ATaos Press. He is currently completing No Provenance//Art-o-mata\, a manuscript of semi-ekphrastic poems surrounding works of art that don’t precisely exist. He has been a poetry reader in Houston\, Taos\, Los Angeles\, and a frequent\, grateful guest of Archway Gallery. He has published poetry in Ekphrastic Review\, Borderlands\, Water Stone\, International Review of Poetry\, Southern Indiana Review\, Schuylkill Review\, Hurricane Review\, Big River\, Apalachee Review\, Deep Water Literary Review\, & Garden Box. His poetry and fiction have been in anthologies from Round Top\, Taos Artists\, Words & Art\, Equinox\, Mutabilis Press\, and Big Poetry Review. He is an MFA graduate of Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently has an interview podcast\, Amicus Briefs for Public Poetry. Visit dezuccone.com.\n\n\nVisit the Big Texas Author Talk page.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-cyrus-cassells/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Event
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SUMMARY:Free Autograph Reading with bestselling author Aimee Nezhukumatathil
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to join Gemini Ink and bestselling author Aimee Nezhukumatathil at a free public reading and book signing on Thursday\, April 11th\, at 7pm\, at the San Antonio Botanical Garden\, with nature writer and journalist\, Monika Maeckle\, facilitating an author conversation. This event is part of our Autograph Series. Please RSVP at https://bit.ly/AimeeN \nA candid\, vivid witness to our contemporary world\, Aimee Nezhukumatathil has garnered some of the most prestigious literary awards\, including a poetry fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry. Author of the best-selling World of Wonders\, she also has written five poetry collections\, including Oceanic (2018)\, Lucky Fish\, (2011)\, and At the Drive-In Volcano\, (2007). In 2021\, she became the first-ever poetry editor for Sierra magazine. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing in the University of Mississippi’s MFA program and her forthcoming book of food essays is called Bite By Bite (Ecco\, May 2024).
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/free-autograph-reading-with-bestselling-author-aimee-nezhukumatathil/
LOCATION:San Antonio Botanical Garden\, 555 Funston Place\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Jason Stone
DESCRIPTION:Visit the Big Texas Author Talk page. RSVP for the link.\nWednesday\, March 20th\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Jason Stone and his novel\, THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY. Moderated by Matt Walter.\nABOUT THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY\n\n\n\n\nBased on historical events that occurred in Comancheria\, the region of West Texas and New Mexico controlled by the Comanche in the 18th and 19th centuries\, THE BEAUTY OF THE DAYS GONE BY is a historical survival story\, interweaving the reminisces of aging plainsman Charles Goodnight in the late 1920s against the backdrop of Reconstruction Texas and the events set in motion when a Kiowa raiding party kills the wife and abducts the sons of his friend R.L. Terry. \nABOUT JASON STONE\n\nJason Stone grew up in West Texas and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He lives in Austin. He is currently working on a non-fiction book about the real story behind Friday Night Lights. \nABOUT MATT WALTER\n\n\n\nMatt Walter recently retired after 20 years as Curator of Collections at the Museum of the Big Bend\, located on the Sul Ross State University campus in Alpine\, Texas. He earned an MA in History from Sul Ross and taught there for 17 years. Before that\, Matt spent 20 years in the U.S. Coast Guard. Much of his time in the Service was spent in Galveston\, Texas\, but he did get to visit 19 countries\, courtesy of Uncle Sam\, during his career.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-jason-stone/
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Mag Gabbert
DESCRIPTION:A Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink\nWednesday\, February 21st\, 2024 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\n\nRSVP\nUp Next: Poet & Essayist Mag Gabbert and her poetry collection\, SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS. This discussion will be moderated by poet Séamus Fey.\nABOUT SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\n\n“This bewitching debut delivers everything the title promises and more.” –Electric Literature \nIn SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry\, Mag Gabbert redefines the bestiary in fiery\, insistent\, and resistant terms. These poems recast the traumas of her adolescence while charting new paths toward linguistic and bodily autonomy as an adult. Using dreamlike\, shimmering imagery\, she pieces together a fractured portrait of femininity—one that electrifies the confessional mode with its formal play and rich curiosity. Gabbert examines the origin of shame\, the role of inheritance\, and what counts as a myth\, asking\, “What’s the opposite of a man? / A woman? A wound? The devil’s image?”\n\n  \nABOUT MAG GABBERT\nMag Gabbert is the author of SEX DEPRESSION ANIMALS (Mad Creek Books\, 2023)\, which was selected by Kathy Fagan as the winner of the 2021 Charles B. Wheeler Prize in Poetry; the chapbook The Breakup\, which was selected by Kaveh Akbar as the winner of the 2022 Baltic Writing Residencies Chapbook Award; and the chapbook Minml Poems (Cooper Dillon Books\, 2020). Her awards include a Discovery Award from 92NY’s Unterberg Poetry Center\, a Pushcart Prize\, and fellowships from the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop\, Idyllwild Arts\, and Poetry at Round Top. Mag’s work can also be found in The American Poetry Review\, The Paris Review Daily\, Copper Nickel\, Guernica\, Poetry Daily\, and elsewhere. Mag has an MFA from UC Riverside and a PhD from Texas Tech. She lives in Dallas\, Texas and teaches at Southern Methodist University. \nABOUT S.FEY\nS. Fey (they/he) is a Trans writer living in LA. Currently\, they are the poetry editor at Hooligan Magazine\, and co creative director at Rock Pocket Productions. Their debut poetry collection\, decompose\, is out with Not a Cult Media. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review\, Poet Lore\, The Sonora Review\, and others. They love to beat their friends at Mario Party. Find them online @sfeycreates.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-mag-gabbert/
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SUMMARY:Inkstravaganza 2023 honoring Jenny Browne
DESCRIPTION:SOLD OUT\n“Fellow Travelers: Celebrating the Poetic Journeys of Jenny Browne”\n\n\n\n\nCelebrating Jenny Browne at the McNay Art Museum Moroccan Courtyard and Leeper Auditorium\, Friday\, November 10th\, 6:30-9:30 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward for Literary Excellence\nJenny Browne \nHonorary Co-Chairs\nDr. Vanessa B. Beasley\, Trinity University’s 20th President\n& Naomi Shihab Nye \nModerator\nDr. Rachel Pearson \nEmcee\nMolly Cox \n2023 Inkstravaganza Committee\nWendy Atwell\, Amie Charney\, Eileen Curtright\, Joey Fauerso\, Meaghan Ritchey\, Claudia Stokes\, Burgin Streetman\, Alexandra van de Kamp\, and Laura Van Prooyen \n\n\n\n\n\nDon’t miss Gemini Ink’s  23rd Inkstravaganza in celebration of the writing arts by joining us on November 10th in honoring Jenny Browne\, as we celebrate her remarkable accomplishments as a groundbreaking poet\, gifted educator\, and community voice for the transformative impact of literature in our lives. \n\n\nJenny Browne is the author of four collections: Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems (2019)\, Dear Stranger (2014)\, The Second Reason (2007)\, and At Once (2003). A prolific poet and dynamic literary citizen at home and abroad\, she served concurrent terms as City of San Antonio Poet Laureate (2016-18) and Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2017) and\, in 2020\, was Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queens University\, in Belfast\, Northern Ireland. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. She has been an integral part of the Trinity University faculty for 15 years\, having joined the Department of English in 2007\, where she currently teaches courses in creative writing and environmental studies\, as well as co-directs Women and Gender Studies. In 2004\, she received a prestigious three-year James Michener Fellowship from the University of Texas in Austin\, where she received her MFA in Poetry. \nJenny Browne learned to walk on the grounds of Fort Sam Houston. After moving with her family to Maine and the Midwest\, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1993. She continued her travels and lived in Alaska\, West Africa\, El Salvador and the South of France. These formative experiences with other cultures and landscapes shaped her commitment to literature as a means of opening minds\, cultivating imagination\, and creating empathy for people and places beyond one’s own skyline. \nFor most of her adult life\, Browne has brought communities together to strengthen literacy and celebrate literary arts. From 1998-2004 she worked in local schools\, libraries\, and community centers with support from the Texas Commission on the Arts\, the City’s UrbanSmarts Program\, ARTSSanAntonio\, and Gemini Ink. She created and designed a K-12 curriculum integrating writing\, environmental education\, and the poetics of place that was piloted in Gulf Coast schools. From 2000-2003\, she founded and directed the Good Samaritan Center’s Literary Arts Program on San Antonio’s Westside. \nOver the years\, Browne’s work has created platforms and opportunities for people to engage in writing and to explore ideas and identities across cultures\, economic backgrounds\, and ages. She continues to build local\, regional\, and global partnerships and worked with Borderland Collective to create Narratives of Resettlement\, a two-year-long creative collaboration with refugee families. \nIn 2012\, Browne traveled with the U.S. Department of State and the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program on two cultural diplomacy tours\, teaching poetry in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya and the U.S. Embassy in Sierra Leone. She also completed a semester-long sabbatical in the Atacama Desert of Chile\, and Oaxaca\, Mexico\, and continues to return to Belfast\, Northern Ireland. \nWhen she is not teaching or traveling\, Browne writes in a hundred-year-old house in the historic La Vaca neighborhood where she lives with her husband\, photographer Scott Martin\, and their daughters Lyda and Harriet. \n\nAbout our Teaching Artist of the Year\, Joyous Windrider Jimenez!\nJoyous Windrider Jiménez\, a Gemini Ink teaching artist since 2016\, is a poet\, teatrista\, mixed-media visual artist\, and video creator. She melds performance and visual elements to articulate her healing journey and emotional literacy. Since 2009\, she’s showcased her work both in San Antonio and online\, with a recent publication in Puro Chicanx: Writers of the 21st Century by Cutthroat\, A Journal Of The Arts and The Black Earth Institute.  \nAs a teaching artist since 2012\, she has worked with notable organizations such as SAY Sí\, Gemini Ink\, the Magik Theatre\, San Antonio Wolf Trap\, the McNay Art Museum\, the San Antonio Museum of Art\, and Blue Star Contemporary’s MOSAIC program for youth. Her teaching experience spans diverse demographics\, from preschoolers to retired adults\, and includes cancer survivors\, incarcerated youth\, mental health warriors\, title I students\, and foster care children. Her students have achieved recognition through public exhibitions\, performances\, publication\, and awards\, including Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards. \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/inkstravaganza-2023/
LOCATION:McNay Art Museum\, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave.\, San Antonio\, TX\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Place of Poetry: An Evening on Eco-Writing with Jenny Browne and Camille T. Dungy
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a FREE reading at Trinity University!\nOctober 19\, 2023\, 7-8:30pm\nTrinity University\, Margarite B. Parker Chapel\, Free and Open to the Public\nDirections to the Margarite B. Parker Chapel at Trinity \nJoin us on Thursday\, October 19th\, for an evening with Gemini Ink 2023 Recipient of the Award for Literary Excellence Jenny Browne\, and award-winning poet\, essayist\, and editor Camille T. Dungy. These two contemporary poets at the top of their craft will discuss how their place-based writing addresses the increasingly complicated relationships humans have to the environment\, whether manmade or wild.  \nThis discussion will examine the role of the literary arts in addressing an ever-changing environment. How do we use writing to bring attention to our planet’s ecological crisis while exploring the intricate connection between humans and nature? How do we deepen our relationship to the earth and celebrate the wonder of the natural world? Don’t miss an opportunity to spend time with two thought-provoking literary voices!  \nThe evening will include an audience Q&A and a book signing and reception following the author talk. The event takes place in the Margarite B. Parker Chapel at Trinity University. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Trinity University’s Humanities Collective. \n\nCamille T. Dungy is the author of four collections of poetry\, most recently Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan UP\, 2017)\, winner of the Colorado Book Award. She is also the author of the essay collections Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden (Simon & Schuster\, 2023) and Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race\, Motherhood and History (W.W. Norton\, 2017)\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Dungy has also edited anthologies including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing\, Rhyme\, Resound\, Syncopate\, Alliterate\, and Just Plain Sound Great. A 2019 Guggenheim Fellow\, her honors include NEA Fellowships in poetry (2003) and prose (2018)\, an American Book Award\, two NAACP Image Award nominations\, and two Hurston/Wright Legacy Award nominations. Dungy’s poems have been published in Best American Poetry\, The 100 Best African American Poems\, the Pushcart Anthology\, Best American Travel Writing\, and over thirty other anthologies. She is University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University. \nJenny Browne is the author of four collections: Fellow Travelers: New and Selected Poems (2019)\, Dear Stranger (2014)\, The Second Reason (2007)\, and At Once (2003). She earned her MFA from the James Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin. She served concurrent terms as City of San Antonio Poet Laureate (2016-18) and Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2018) and in 2020 was Distinguished Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre\, Queens University\, in Belfast\, Northern Ireland. Other awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry and the Cecil Hemley Award from the Poetry Society of America. In the introduction to Browne’s New and Selected Poems\, Naomi Shihab Nye praised Browne’s vivid depictions of place and the strangeness of both life and language\, “Her exuberant poems\, rich with definite cadences\, deep curiosities\, and multi-layered textures\, voices\, and personalities\, feel like wake-up calls. As if they say\, Here is this life I find myself in\, which fascinates and confounds me. Have we paid enough attention lately?” Browne teaches at Trinity University in San Antonio.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-place-of-poetry/
LOCATION:Trinity University\, 1 Trinity Pl\, San Antonio\, Texas\, 78212
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Thomas H. McNeely
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nRSVP to join us for our Free Monthly Online Lecture Series from WritingWorkshops.com & Gemini Ink \nWednesday\, September 20th\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Thomas H. McNeely’s story collection\, Pictures of the Shark. Stephanie Reents is the moderator.\n\n\n\n2023 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards Finalist in Literary Fiction\n2023 Houston Chronicle Notable Book\n2023 Massachusetts Book Award Must-Read\n\n\n\n\n\n“An emotionally taut and often haunting collection.”\n—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) \n“[An] always compelling novel in short stories.”\n—Foreword Reviews \n“[A] powerful family portrait … heartbreaking authenticity.”\n—Booklist \n“A tightly written and often emotionally gripping collection.”\n—Lone Star Literary Life \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA sudden snowfall in Houston reveals family secrets. A trip to Universal Studios to snap a picture of the shark from Jaws becomes a battle of wills between father and son. A midnight séance and the ghost of Janis Joplin conjure the mysteries of sex. A young boy’s pilgrimage to see Elvis Presley becomes a moment of transformation. A young woman discovers the responsibilities of talent and freedom. \n\nPictures of the Shark\, by award-winning Houston writer Thomas H. McNeely\, moves from its protagonist Buddy Turner’s surreal world of childhood into the wider arenas of sex\, addiction\, art\, and ambition. Appearing in the country’s finest literary journals\, including Ploughshares\, The Virginia Quarterly Review\, Epoch\, and Crazyhorse\, shortlisted for the O. Henry Award\, Best American Short Stories\, and Pushcart Prize collections\, the stories in Pictures of the Shark are gems that refract their characters’ complex relationships.\n\n\nAn East Side Houston native\, THOMAS H. McNEELY has published short stories and non-fiction in The Atlantic\, Texas Monthly\, Ploughshares\, and many other magazines and anthologies\, including Best American Mystery Stories and Algonquin Books’ Best of the South. His stories have been short-listed for the Pushcart Prize\, Best American Short Stories and O. Henry Award anthologies. He has received National Endowment for the Arts\, Wallace Stegner\, and MacDowell Colony fellowships for his fiction. His first book\, Ghost Horse\, won the Gival Press Novel Award and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize in Writing. He currently teaches in the Stanford Online Writing Studio and at Emerson College\, Boston. \n\nStephanie Reents received a BA from Amherst College\, a second BA from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar\, and an MFA from University of Arizona. She is the author of The Kissing List\, a collection of connected stories that was an Editors’ Choice in The New York Times Book Review\, and I Meant to Kill Ye\, a bibliomemoir that is an account of her journey into the strange voice at the heart of Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian. She has twice been awarded an O. Henry prize for her short fiction. Her novel I Loved to Run is under contract at Penguin Random House.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-thomas-h-mcneely/
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring  Jehanne Dubrow
DESCRIPTION:RSVP\nWednesday\, July 19\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Jehanne Dubrow’s Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Taste: \nTaste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses\, which we often take for granted. Structured as a series of “small bites\,” the book considers the ways that we ingest the world\, how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting. \nThrough flavorful explorations of the sweet\, the sour\, the salty\, the bitter\, and umami\, Jehanne Dubrow reflects on the nature of taste. In a series of short\, interdisciplinary essays\, she blends personal experience with analysis of poetry\, fiction\, music\, and the visual arts\, as well as religious and philosophical texts. Dubrow considers the science of taste and how taste transforms from a physical sensation into a metaphor for discernment. \nTaste is organized not so much as a linear dinner served in courses but as a meal consisting of meze\, small plates of intensely flavored discourse. \n\n\n\n\nJehanne Dubrow is the author of nine books of poems\, including most recently\, Wild Kingdom (LSU Press\, 2021)\, and two books of creative nonfiction\, throughsmoke: an essay in notes (New Rivers Press\, 2019)\, and Taste: A Book of Small Bites (Columbia University Press\, 2022). Her third book of nonfiction\, Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, is forthcoming from University of New Mexico Press in 2023. Her previous poetry collections are Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, Dots & Dashes\, The Arranged Marriage\, Red Army Red\, Stateside\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post. She has co-edited two anthologies\, The Book of Scented Things: 100 Contemporary Poems about Perfume and Still Life with Poem: Contemporary Natures Mortes in Verse.  \nJehanne’s poems have appeared in POETRY\, Poetry Northwest\, Ploughshares\, Prairie Schooner\, Southern Review\, American Life in Poetry\, The New York Times Magazine\, The Slowdown\, The Academy of American Poets\, as well as on Poetry Daily\, Verse Daily\, and in numerous other venues. Recent essays have appeared in The New England Review\, Colorado Review\, The Common\, The Seneca Review\, Image\, and West Branch. She is the founding editor of the national literary journal\, Cherry Tree. \nJehanne earned a B.A. in the “Great Books” from St. John’s College\, an MFA in poetry from the University of Maryland\, an MFA in creative nonfiction from the Vermont College of Fine Arts\, and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  \nJehanne’s writing moves between traditional forms\, free verse\, prose poetry\, lyric essay\, autotheory\, and personal essay. In Stateside and Dots & Dashes (and in her current manuscript-in-progress\, Civilians)\, she examines her experiences as a military spouse and explores the tradition of war literature. In books like The Arranged Marriage\, From the Fever-World\, and The Hardship Post\, she writes about the Holocaust\, American Jewish identity\, intergenerational trauma\, and the challenges of representing violence on the page. Her collections\, Wild Kingdom\, Simple Machines\, American Samizdat\, and Red Army Red\, consider the intersection of power\, cruelty\, and authoritarianism. Jehanne is also passionate about the five senses; she has written about the art and science of perfume in throughsmoke: an essay in notes and about our sense of taste in Taste: A Book of Small Bites. And\, in her forthcoming Exhibitions: Essays on Art & Atrocity\, she looks at the act of looking itself. \nJehanne has been a recipient of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America\, the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry from Beloit Poetry Journal\, the Crab Orchard Series Open Competition Book Award\, the Diode Editions Book Contest\, the Editors’ Prize in Prose from Bat City Review\, the Firecracker Award in Prose from CLMP\, an Individual Artist’s Award from the Maryland State Arts Council\, the Mississippi Review Prize in Poetry\, the Poetry by the Sea Book Award\, the Towson University Prize for Literature\,  a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship and a Howard Nemerov Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and a Sosland Foundation Fellowship from the Jack\, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. \nThe daughter of American diplomats\, Jehanne was born in Italy and grew up in Yugoslavia\, Zaire\, Poland\, Belgium\, Austria\, and the United States. She lives with her two Bedlington Terriers and with her husband who recently retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy. Jehanne is a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of North Texas.
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/tbtat-jehanne-dubrow/
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SUMMARY:The Big Texas Author Talk featuring Richard Z. Santos
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 21\, 2023 via Zoom @ 7PM CST\nUp Next: Richard Z. Santos\, author of the novel\, Trust Me.\nModerated by Daniel Peña.\n\nRSVP\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPraise for ​Trust Me \nOne of the Most Anticipated Books of the Year for The Millions and Crime Reads. \nCrime Reads (One of March’s Best): “… the author’s knowledge of Santa Fe and its quirky denizens shines throughout the book. Highly recommended!” \nKirkus Reviews: “A compulsively readable debut by a Texas writer who knows his New Mexico.“ \nThe Texas Observer: “[Trust Me] has enough speed and twists to make you feel like you’re flying on the edges of the Sandia mountains… “ \nCharles O’Connell is riding an epic losing streak. Having worked in politics since college\, he is used to losing races\, but he never imagined that his most recent candidate would end up in jail and that he would also need an attorney. His euphoria at not joining his boss in prison is short-lived—no one will hire him now\, his credit cards are maxed out and his marriage is on the rocks. \nAn unexpected offer to work in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, doing public relations for a firm building the city’s new airport feels like an opportunity to start fresh and make connections with powerful people out west. But when the construction crew unearths a skeleton\, Charles’ fresh start turns into another disaster. Soon\, a group of Apache claims the site holds Geronimo’s secret grave. \nCharles quickly realizes everyone has an agenda—and numerous dark secrets threaten to erupt. Gabriel Luna\, one of the laborers present when the skeleton is unearthed\, is willing to do just about anything to reconnect with his teenage son. Cody Branch\, an ambitious\, powerful millionaire\, plans to leverage the deal to enrich himself. And there’s his wife\, Olivia Branch\, who has a surprising connection to Charles’ past and desperately needs his help. \nSurrounded by deception on all fronts\, including his own lies to himself and his wife\, Charles falls into a whirlwind of fraud\, betrayal and double crosses. This riveting novel barrels through the New Mexican landscape in an exploration of innocence and guilt\, power and wealth\, and the search for love and happiness. \nExcerpts featured in Criminal Element and Lone Star Literary.  \n\n\n\nRichard Z. Santos is a writer and high school teacher living in Austin. His debut novel\, Trust Me\, was released by Arte Público Press in 2020. He is a Board Member of the National Book Critics Circle and served as a non-fiction judge for the 2019 Kirkus Prize. ​He is also an Associate Editor for American Short Fiction. Click on the “My Work” page for links to many essays\, stories\, poems\, reviews\, and profiles. Before becoming a writer and teacher\, Richard lived in Washington\, DC and worked for some of the nation’s top campaigns\, political consulting firms\, and labor unions. Richard has an MFA from Texas State University and has taught at Texas State\, Georgetown University\, and The University of the District of Columbia. He is currently seeking representation for his second novel: Every Family Is A Conspiracy Theory.\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\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\, and The New York Times Magazine among other venues. He’s currently a regular contributor to The Guardian and the Ploughshares blog. His novel\, Bang\, is out now from Arte Publico Press. He lives in the beautiful Dallas-Fort Worth area.\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUPCOMING 2023 AUTHORS AND TITLES \nJuly Jehanne Dubrow–Taste: A Book of Small Bites  \nAugust Ruben Degollado–The Family Izquierdo \nSeptember Thomas McNeely–Pictures of the Shark  \nOctober Katie Guttierrez–TBA \nNovember Carmen Tafolla–Girl Warrior (Sept 2023 – Penguin)  \nDecember TBA \n 
URL:https://geminiink.org/events/the-big-texas-author-talk-featuring-richard-z-santos/
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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/
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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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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/
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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
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