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Earth Day Student Reading
When: Saturday, April 25, noon-5
Where: Fair Park
Hosted by: Scott Davison
Booker T. Washington hosts an annual student reading in a cool new venue.
Chris Merlick @ Mighty Fine Arts
Who: Chris Merlick
What: Artspeak
When: April 18, 9pm
Where: Mighty Fine Arts, 409A North Tyler Street (Oak Cliff)
Master Class with Vievee Francis
What: Master Class with Vievee Francis
When: Saturday, April 24, 6:00PM – 8:00
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis St.
Fee: $40
WordSpace is proud to offer a master class with Vievee Francis on April 24th in conjunction with his Dallas performance April 23th @ SDCC. Click here for the show and read on for information on how to submit.
We invite you to submit three poems for consideration for our workshop. We will pass along the best manuscripts for consideration to Vievee Francis; she will choose which ones to discuss in class. Space is limited. Manuscripts sent in earlier will be given priority for consideration. Follow the link below to submit.
Vievee Francis is the author of Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), which won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for a second collection, and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University, 2006). Her third book, Forest Primeval, is slated for release in 2015 (Northwestern University Press). Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, textbooks, and anthologies including Poetry, Best American Poetry, Cura, Waxwing and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (W.W. Norton 2012). She has also been a Poet in Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and in 2010, a Kresge Fellowship. She is currently an Associate Editor for Callaloo, and a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing (Undergraduate Creative Writing Program) at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.
Gemini @ Dallas Poetry Slam
What: WordSpace Feature @ Dallas Poetry Slam
When: Friday, April 17, 8 pm
Where: Heroes, 7402 Greenville Avenue
Hosted by: Hosted by RockBaby and GNO
Admission: $5, WordSpace Members Free
Richelle Scott known as Gemini in the artist society started taking an interest in performing poetry in 2007. She was 18 when she realized this was her passion. In 2010 she took an interest in slam and placed 3rd at the Southwest Shootout Regional Slam. Then she place at the Dallas Slam to lock a spot on the team to go on to Nationals. The team placed top 20. When she returned from Dallas she featured many colleges, poetry slams, and all kinds of events around the US. She writes from her and her family`s experiences. She is now attending University of North Texas for a BA in Integrative studies of Sociology, Anthropology, and Philosophy. She started a organization at the university in 2007 called Poetic Justice that is still going strong. She will be graduating August 2015. She is a mother of two beautiful boys. She lives in Houston and works at Memorial Hermann Hospital. She continues to perform in shows and is working on various projects. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram @ RichelleGemini, Facebook Richelle Gemini Scott to keep up with her upcoming shows and projects.
Vievee Francis
What: Vievee Francis at The SDCC
When: April 23, 7 pm
Where: South Dallas Cultural Center, 3400 Fitzhugh
VIP Reception: 6:30-7:30, Refreshments provided by Buttons!
Master Class Enrollment is limited. To apply go here.
REGISTRATION IS CLOSED FOR MASTER CLASS
WordSpace is honored to partner with South Dallas Cultural Center to present great writers in conjunction with their theater series “Black Pain Black Power”.
Vievee Francis is the author of Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), which won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for a second collection, and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University, 2006). Her third book, Forest Primeval, is slated for release in 2015 (Northwestern University Press). Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, textbooks, and anthologies including Poetry, Best American Poetry, Cura, Waxwing and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (W.W. Norton 2012). She has also been a Poet in Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and in 2010, a Kresge Fellowship. She is currently an Associate Editor for Callaloo, and a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing (Undergraduate Creative Writing Program) at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.
