Archive for January, 2012
Corey Marks and Farid Matuk
Corey Marks and Farid Matuk
When: December 4th, 2010
Where: Paperbacks Plus
WordSpace is proud to have this reading sponsored by our favorite neighborhood must-meet-up-regularly-at Eateries, Ricardo Avila’s Mextopia, with the freshest delicious Mexican food, gorgeous ambience and most welcoming owners and staff. Recently voted Best New Restaurant by the Dallas Observer, Mextopia is located at 2104 Greenville. Join us there after the reading! Special Thanks to Ricardo Avila and his partner, Michelle Andrie.
Corey Marks teaches at the University of North Texas and serves, with Bruce Bond, as Poetry Editor of American Literary Review. He is winner the Natalie Ornish prize, Texas Institiute for Letters, the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review. a National Poetry Series winner for his book, Renunciation and a National Endowment for the Arts recipient.
Read Corey Marks in Three Penny Review
Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and the chapbooks Is it the King? (Effing Press, 2006), and Riverside, forthcoming from Longhouse Press. His poems have appeared most recently in 6X6, Barrelhouse,The Boston Review,Big Bridge, Cannibal, and Mandorla among others. His essays and reviews have appeared in Sentence, Cross-Cultural Poetics, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Matuk has published translations from Spanish in Kadar Koli,Bombay Gin, Translation Review, and Harvard Review. Currently he serves as poetry editor for FENCE Magazine. The reciplient of Ford and Fulbright Fellowships, Matuk holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. He lives in Dallas with the poet Susan Briante.
Hosted by Karen X
Fluid Imagery
Fluid Imagery
When: December 3rd, 2010
Where: The Boiler Room
Fluid Imagery is a poet, orator, songstress, edifier, spoken word artist mother and realist. It is her belief that words can be used to heal, hurt, soothe, relate, edify and uplift. She uses the gifts that she has been blessed with to bring an awareness of issues that all people face. She believes that life and death lies in the power of the tongue and that you have to speak good things into existence. She also believes that if you dont know the past, it can haunt your present and distort your future. Her style of poetry blends song with prose to tell stories of injustice, love, pain, desires, and life. It has been branded transparent poetry as she often puts a face to the pain people go through but dare not mention. She writes snippets of her life in every piece that is penned. It is her desire to be a blessing to others through poetry, prose and psalms. Fluid Imagery… I speak……… therefore.. .I AM!!!.
Hosted by Rock Baby and Alexandra Marie
Dallas Slam Featured Reader
Michael Guinn, Bob Whoopeecat and RockBaby @ Deep Ellum Market
Michael Guinn, Bob Whoopeecat and RockBaby @ Deep Ellum Market
When: November 20th, 2010
Where: Elm St and Indiana
Wordspace is proud to partner with Brandon Castillo and Deep Ellum Market to present a tour de force of area Slam! These much Distinguished Ambassadors of our award winning Slam communities will be on stage behind Cafe Brazil from 2-3. The Festival begins at 8 in the morning and runs till 5 with vendors, food and entertainment.
Michael Guinn is co-founder Fort Worth Slams, poet, youth empowerment specialist and motivational speaker.
He holds a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Arlington and worked for six years in Fort Worth as an investigator for the state’s Child Protective Services agency. He has participated in the Zawadi Writers, an ad hoc African-American group that performed and held writing workshops in prisons, inner-city community centers and women’s shelters, and as part of after-school programs. For more on FW Slam and Michael, visit his website www.mikeguinn.com.
www.myspace.com/mikeguinn1 (Music Page)
Bob Whoopeecat is a zen motorcyclist, culinary arts chef, slam master, member and organizer of the Southwest Shootout Regional Poetry Slam Competition.
RockBaby aka Roderick Goudy has appeared twice on HBO’s Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam and has won several local, regional and national performance poetry competitions. He organizes the Dallas Poetry Slam and coaches a team that competes nationally. He teaches creative writing for after-school programs in DISD, RISD and Desoto ISD. He also is an active member on the African American Impact Committee and serves on the WordSpace Program Committee.
LGB
LGB
When: November 19th, 2010
Where: Its A Grind
LGB is a spokenword artist that was born and raised in New Orleans. He burst on the open mic scene in the year 2000 performing at one of New Orleans most historic open mic venues, Ebony Square. As other venues opened up in the New Olreans area such as True Brew Cafe, Rhythmn City and The Hard Rock Cafe, LGB routinely performed at different locations around the city. His hardcore gritty street style with a mixture of comedy and clever metaphors quickly made LGB a household name. He went on to win several talent shows and open mic competitions with in the same year.
In 2001, 2002 and 2003, he was a member of the first ever New Orleans National Slam Team which competed in Seattle, Minnesota, Memphis and Chicago. In 2003, he was ranked 34th in the Nation and helped the slam team rank in the top 10 at the National Poetry Slam. LGB a.k.a. Beezy also was given the nickname Ghetto Poet for his raw, hold no punches, street style poetry.
In 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, he relocated to Dallas Tx. After getting situated in the Dallas area, he graced a few open mic spots before a two year lay off. Beezy then re-emerged on the open mic scene in the summer of 2008 performing at Sankofa’s Arts Cafe, Brooklyn’s Jazz Cafe and many other venues in the Dallas area. Since his return he has won several slams and talent competitions quietly making a name for his self in the DFW. LGB is currently working on his 4th poetry/spokenword cd after recently releasing his 3rd album titled Poetic Thoughts of LGB. He has shared the stage with many of poetry’s powerhouses such as Sunni Patterson and Talaam Acey just to name a few.
Hosted by Rock Baby and Alexandra Marie
Chuck Taylor and Hedwig Gorski
Chuck Taylor and Hedwig Gorski
When: November 12th, 2010
Where: Members Only Salon
Chuck Taylor‘s two most recent books are poetry–Heterosexual: A Love Story (Panther Creek) and Li-Po Laughing at the Lonely Moon (Pecan Grove). Taylor has also published novels and collections of short stories. For the last twenty-one years he has taught at Texas A&M University, serving a term as Coordinator of Creative Writing. Before that he was a bit of a wanderer, and taught creative writing at the Universities of Texas at El Paso, Tyler, and Austin. He worked in the Texas Writers-in-the-Schools Programs in San Antonio, Victoria, and Beaumont. He also worked at Paperbacks Plus in San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas, and ran a creative writing workshop out of the old Lakewood Paperbacks Plus. He has worked for environmentalist causes with Earth First! and the Sierra Club. As a writer he’s open to any subject if it inspires him, but he often writes about working people and about fatherhood. Currently he is working on a memoir about the time he lived in a tent along Barton Creek near Austin to avoid working jobs for pay. During that time he worked one day and lived on forty dollars a week. Since 1973, despite periods of poverty and instability, Taylor has operatedSlough Press. On his press he published the first book by former Dallas writer Sheryl St. Germain, and Pat Littledog’s book set in Dallas, Afoot in a Field of Men, later republished by Atlantic Monthly. Currently one of his former students has a book on a New York Times Bestseller List.
Read Chuck Taylor in Criterion
Hedwig Gorski is an American poet, scholar, and artist who received awards for media works in poetry and drama. She coined the term “performance poetry” in early 1980 to describe her poems written only for oral performance and recorded performance poems with composed music. The best collected during live radio broadcasts were re-mastered and released on a CD Send in the Clown (2009). She published three books of poetry and released many audio collections including a collector’s edition chapbook with vinyl record titled Polish Gypsy with Ghost. Intoxication: Heathcliff on Powell Street (Slough Press) 2007, 2009, is a memoir/archive about her 1978 experimental verse theater in Austin. Her BFA degree from NSCAD, a world famous radical art school in Nova Scotia, is in painting. Her doctorate in creative writing is from University of Louisiana. She received a Louisiana Artist’s Fellowship (2002), and a Fulbright to lecture in Poland (2003). Some of her poems have been translated into Polish and published in Okolica. Excerpts from her 1978 neo-verse drama Booby, Mama! appear in Karawane (2009), and the transcript of a television interview with Robert Creeley is in JAST, a Turkish journal. She appeared at the Jozi Spoken Word Festival 2009 in Johannesburg, South Africa, for the U. S. State Dept. A podcast (2009) of audio for “Mexico Solo” is out on IndieFeed. A micro book titled Poetique (2010) features the performance poem text of audio featured on Send in the Clown.
“Teenager in Nova Scotia” a Performance Video by Hedwig Gorski
Jolee Davis, Amy Weaver, iChats: Josh Lewis/LA and Thomas Peters/Boulder
Jolee Davis, Amy Weaver, iChats: Josh Lewis/LA and Thomas Peters/Boulder
When: November 10th, 2010
Where: Kessler X+ Art Gallery
Jolee Davis–Creator/Editor of Death List Five magazine (voice of the lunatic fringe). An art and literary magazine based in Dallas. Has hosted and been featured in numerous venues. She also has a rebellious hairdo. Her latest chapbook, “self righteous c**t”, is a love child of Iceberg Slim and Oprah.
Read Jolee Davis
Video of Jolee’s reading @ The Kessler
Amy Weaver…Infamous in the Dallas poetry scene. 8 teams, 3 NPS final stages, and 2001 Dallas Slam Team champion in Seattle. Amy is currently working on a new book of poetry and her first novel, “Casket Girls” (historical fiction based on the mythology and violent denizens of New Orleans).
She has a fondness for bourbon and has been known to hump a few legs.
Josh Lewis is a designer/animator/illustrator/photographer/musician, and writer living in Los Angeles, former co-host of Bill’s Records Open Mic Readings in Dallas.
Thomas Peters is the charismatic poet/owner of Boulder’s legendary Beat Book Shop, host of the longest continuous Open Mic and Reading Series in Boulder, a special Friend of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and Naropa University graduate. With the Beat Book Shop, Tom, has created an open door to the arts, music and film communities. He is the author of 100 Missed Train Stations (Farfalla Press).
Hosted by Karen X
Kessler X+ Art Gallery
Lost Art Open Mic @ Deep Ellum Open Market
Lost Art Open Mic @ Deep Ellum Open Market
When: October 30th, 2010
Where: Deep Ellum
WordSpace is proud to partner with Deep Ellum Open Market and the Better Block Project in sponsoring literary events. Deep Ellum Open Market, Directed by Brandon Castillo, is the 2010 winner of a Dallas Observer’s Best of Dallas award. Located on the corner of Elm St. and Malcom X Blvd, with over 40 vendors and live music, beginning at 8am in the morning. Look for the stage behind Cafe Brazil from 3-5 to listen or participate in the Lost Art Open Mic Project.
Karen X and Josh Lewis started Open Mic at Bill’s Records in 2002, and it ran till ’05 with various notable hosts, including Jolee Davis and Joey Cloudy. In 2010 it was recreated by OGs from 2002, Alex Pogosov and Peter Orozco in Bill’s new location at 1317 South Lamar with a larger and more diversified crowd of participants and audience.
Lost Art Open Mic is currently hosted by Alex P (Knife Six Productions), with Peter Orozco(PAO Productions) running audio/video/photography and promotion by writer Lilly Penhall (InterStellar Graphics) every Sunday evening.
Bill Wisener has been a legendary Proprietor, Host and special Friend, at his store, Bill’s Records to artists for over 30 years, welcoming everyone equally as family–from you and me to Radiohead, NIN, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper, Erika Badu, and so many others; with ongoing songwriter showcases,and past and present open mic projects, including WordSpace sponsored readings. Bill’s Records is the subject of Jeffrey Liles documentary, The Last Record Store.
For more information about and a visual mock up of the Better Block Project of Deep Ellum, visit www.deepellummarket.com
(Lost Art Open Mic Photos of Da’rrell Cloudy, Alex Pogosov, Desmene Statum and Chris Zimmerly by Lilly Penhall and Alex Pogosov.)
WORDSPACE STUDENT MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Tim’m T. West at UTD
When: October 21st, 2010
Where: University of Texas at Dallas
WORDSPACE STUDENT MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
University of Texas at Dallas
OCTOBER 21 and OCTOBER 22
WordSpace is proud to participate in Tim’m West’s UTD appearance in cooperation with the Fahari Arts Institute Arts and AIDS Residency.
We will be on hand to offer $5 student discounts memberships and drawings for gift memberships at Mr. West’s Underground Poetry Circus performance at The Pub, Oct. 21 9pm and Mr. West’s Master Class, Oct. 22 at the University Theater.
All Events are Free and Open to the Public.
Tim’m T. West is a poet, emcee, scholar and the author of three books “Red Dirt Revival”, “BARE”, and “Flirting”. A graduate of Duke, The New School, and Stanford universities, he is also co-founder of the now defunct rap group DDC. Tim’m followed their success with three solo projects, “Songs from Red Dirt”, “Blakkboy Blue(s)”, and the 2009 release ”In Security: The Golden Error”. He also created and hosted the “Front Porch” Spoken Word/Soul/Hip Hop showcase in DC, Oakland, Chicago, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and various U.S. Colleges and Universities. Tim’m also appeared in Byron Hurt’s ”Beyond Beats and Rhymes”, Alex Hinton’s “Pick Up the Mic”, and is featured Mario Van Peebles documentary “Bring your “A” Game”. Though Tim’m currently resides in Houston, TX where he is Program Coordinator at The FUSION Center of St. Hope Foundation, he has also been a Visiting Lecturer in Ethnic Studies at Humboldt State University in Northern California. He recently accepted a position as an Adjunct Professor in Philosophy at Houston Community College. Find more about Tim’m’s work at www.reddirt.biz
The interactive master class is a kaleidoscope of personal narrative, activism, and Hip-Hop Dance. Video, lecture, and audience participation will be (re)mix and scratch in this exploration of sexuality, race, and Hip-Hip Culture.
OCT 21st
TIME 4:00pm-5:15pm
EVENT Roots of Hip-Hop Dance lecture/Demo
VENUE University of Texas at Dallas
LOCATION JO 1.216
ADDRESS 800 W. Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75083
PHONE 214.883.2111
TIME 5:30-6:45
EVENT “Body as Text” Talk
VENUE University of Texas at Dallas
LOCATION GC1.208B
ADDRESS 800 W. Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75083
PHONE 214.883.2111
TIME 9:00pm-12:00am
EVENT Featured Poet/Underground Poetry Circus
VENUE University of Texas at Dallas
LOCATION The Pub
ADDRESS 800 W. Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75083
PHONE 214.883.2111
OCT 22nd
TIME 5:00pm-7:00pm
EVENT “Keeping it Real: Hip-Hop has gone Gay” Master Class
VENUE University of Texas at Dallas
LOCATION University Theatre
ADDRESS 800 W. Campbell Rd, Richardson, TX 75083
PHONE 214.883.2111
Special Event at UTD
Rosalyn Story, Will Clarke, Roderick “RockBaby” Goudy, William Virgil Davis
Rosalyn Story, Will Clarke, Roderick “RockBaby” Goudy, William Virgil Davis
When: October 19th, 2010
Where: Northwood University
WordSpace is proud to present William Virgil Davis in the Northwood University Literary Festival. Mr. Davis will be reading at 11 am in the Chapel. Other offerings of the Literary festival will be at 7 pm.
Rosalyn Story is a Dallas resident who has published both fiction and nonfiction, including “And So I Sing: African American Divas of Opera and Concert” (Warner), which was adapted for the PBS program “Aida’s Brothers and Sisters: A History of Blacks in Opera.” Story is also a long-time violinist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. Her first novel, “More Than You Know” (Agate Publishing), earned critical acclaim, and her new novel, “Wading Home” (Agate Publishing) is set in post-Katrina Louisiana.
Rock Baby has appeared twice on HBO’s Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam and has won several local, regional and national performance poetry competitions. He is viewed as a natural performer who also does comedy and theater. He organizes the Dallas Poetry Slam that host local performance poetry competition and coaches a team that competes nationally. He teaches creative writing for after school programs in DISD, RISD and Desoto ISD. He also is an active member on the African American Impact Committee (AAIC).” and curates the WordSpace/Dallas Slam Featured Reader Series.
Will Clarke is an American novelist who is the author of Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles: A Spy Novel (sort of) and The Worthy: A Ghost’s Story.
A native of Shreveport, Louisiana, Clarke originally self-published both books via the Internet and independent books stores like Book Soup in Los Angeles, BookPeople in Austin, and Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. Clarke’s books eventually became underground hits in the early part of the 2000s. He later republished the books in hardback with Simon & Schuster and sold the movie rights to Hollywood. Both books have been selected as The New York Times Editors’ Choice while Clarke was named the “Hot Pop Prophet” by Rolling Stone magazine in 2006. He is also the author of the controversial essay, ”How to Kill A Boy That Nobody Likes” which was published in the Free Press Anthology, When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School.
Will Clarke is known for using the supernatural (a psychic dot-com millionaire and the ghost of a dead frat boy) to trick the cynical eye into seeing the madness of the mundane.
William Virgil Davis has published poems in many magazines. His books of poetry are: One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award; The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize; and Winter Light. He has also published short stories and several books of literary criticism. He is an English Professor at Baylor University. His latest collection recently won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Poetry Collection.
Curated and Hosted by Dr. Martha Heimberg
Victory
Victory
When: October: 15th 2010
Where: Its A Grind
Victory is a performance poet, writer, singer, artist, graphic designer, stupid romantic, mother, daughter, daydream believer, introvert with severe social anxiety (and yet possessed by a masochistic urge to make a spectacle of herself).
She has been performing poetry on stage and competing in poetry slams since 2001 and has been on several slam teams that have gone to compete in the National Poetry Slam, including the 2004 Dallas Slam Poetry team that took 3rd place nationally.
She currently is the editor, head writer, photographer and oversees layout for two north Texas community newspapers (names withheld to protect the innocent).
Victory is available to perform at birthday parties, bar mitzvahs, Quinceañeras, funerals and office Christmas parties. Probably not the best choice for a wedding. These have been unlucky so far.
Fans, potential employers, former boyfriends, stalkers and other interested parties can contact her at coffeepup@gmail.com. She dares ya.
Hosted by Rock Baby and Alexandra Marie
Dallas Slam Featured Reader
