Archive for January, 2012
Dallas Slams – Featured Reader
Shug
When: December 4th, 2009
Where: Cafe Madrid
Poetry saved Shug from selling out and losing herself in all-white private schools and, later, in A&M University. So now she is searching to see if poetry hid her in the schools to hide her from Big Brother in order that she may come out of exile and revolutionize herself and the rest of us.
Member Salon
Member Salon
When: December 3, 2009
Ronald Davison is a native of Dallas. A multi-media talent whose work spans poetry, painting and music, Davison is the author of Quiet Evolution (Introspect Books). Two new CDs called Circles and Quiet Evolution II are forthcoming soon.
Frederick Turner is an internationally known poet, lecturer, and scholar, and Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. A graduate of Oxford University, his books, plays, poems, and essays are too numerous to list but can be found at frederickturnerpoet.com. He was recently interviewed on the Discovery Channel’s science documentary, “Understanding Beauty.”
Hosted by Board Member Sarah Riehm
“An Intimate Evening with Dancing Tongue”
“An Intimate Evening with Dancing Tongue”
When: November 14, 2009
Where: Paperbacks Plus
The multi-media performance poetry troupe Dancing Tongue, the creators of the recent Literary Cabaret
series at the Undermain Theatre (with its cutting edge mixture of spoken word, music, performance, movement and video)
will present a causal evening of entertainment in the intimate confines of the upstairs lounge of Paperbacks Plus.
Join Tim Cloward, Lisa Huffaker, Fran Carris, Richard Allen & Kim Corbet for a thought-provoking experience that will once again demonstrate that literature is, indeed, a lively art.
Dallas Slams- Featured Reader
John “Survivor” Blake
When: November 13, 2009
Where: Cafe Madrid
John “Survivor” Blake’s nickname is no idle moniker. He has truly survived hellish circumstances and gone on to make work that, in the words of Carlos Andres Gomez, pulls “the reader or listener into the heart of his raw, fragmented truth of unshakeable power. He understands the incredible responsibility of being an artist, as much as anyone I have ever known.”
From Here Through Eternity
From Here Through Eternity
When: November 1, 2009
Where: Paperbacks Plus
Hosted by Christopher Soden, founder of Dallas Poets Community
Part ritual/part reading, this evening honors the legacies of great writers and artists who have transformed and influenced our work. Bring an object that reminds you of or is somehow connected to your favorite dead author to add to the ceremonial El Dia de Los Muertos tabla.
Northwood Literary Festival
Northwood Literary Festival
When: October 20, 2009
Where: Northwood University
Wordspace proudly co-sponsors this dynamic gathering of poets and fiction writers that takes place on the campus of Northwood University every fall. The event is held in Lambert Commons on Northwood’s 400 acre campus, located 25 minutes from downtown Dallas, just off Highway 67 south — the Joe Pool Lake exit. For a map, visit
Festival Chair is Martha Heimberg, Professor of English at Northwood and also Board Secretary for Wordspace.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and has been editor of the Southwest Review since 1984. His latest book, a collection of meditations on happiness, is Seven Pleasures (FSG). He lives in Dallas, Texas.
Rock Baby, a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., is a natural per- former beginning with his television debut presentation on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. His charismatic performances tap into the emotions of audiences. His honors and titles include Dallas Poetry Team Slam Master, Grand Slam Spoken Word City Champion 2003, and HBO Def Poet in 2003 and 2005.
Susan Briante is the author of the book, Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007). Briante’s poetry, essays and translations have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Damn the Caesars, Fascicle, Bombay Gin and The Believer. Briante is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Djerassi Foundation, among others. From 1992-1997, she lived in Mexico City where she worked for the magazines Artes de Me?xico and Mandorla. Briante is an assistant professor of aesthetic studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Farid Matuk is a Peruvian-born translator, essayist and poet. He is the author of Is it the King? (Effing Press). Recent poems appear in Big Bridge, Barrelhouse, Typesetter, and The Boston Review. Translations from Spanish have appeared or are forth- coming in Bombay Gin and Translation Review. Matuk’s essays and reviews have appeared most recently in Cross Cultural Poetics, Sentence Magazine, and the Poetry Project Newsletter.
Dallas Slams- Featured Reader
Al Houston
When: Friday October 2, 2009
Where: Cafe Madrid
Since 2002 A. J. Houston has been a member of the Fort Worth Slam Team. Performing at Slam venues and Slam contests all over the nation.His chapbooks include Anchored In Prose, Counting Petals, Just Flow, Sunday Shoes, Refrigerate After Opening,
What If Words Mattered, and Let There Be Pens. He can also be seen on the DVDs That’s What Poets Do (AJ Houston Live),
Battle of Da Flows (What’s Love Got To Do With It), Battle of Da Flows (Twas The Slam Before Christmas),
Texas Poets @ Nationals, and Street Poets Volume One. You can find him online at http://njalphabets.org
