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WordSpace presents Pegasus Reading Series: Aguilar, Craggett, Whalen, and Smooth Gravy
What: Pegasus Reading Series
When: May 25, 7 pm
Where: Kettle Arts Gallery, 2650 Main St. (Deep Ellum)
Hosted by: Sebastian Paramo and Courtney Marie
Leslie Marie Aguilar originally hails from the heartland of Texas. She has served as the Poetry Editor of Indiana Review and received her MFA from Indiana University. She is the recipient of a National Society of Arts and Letters Chapter Career Award, the David E. Albright Memorial Award, and the Washington Square Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Bellingham Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Spillway, Sonora Review, and Southern Indiana Review among others. Her chapbook, Mesquite Manual, was published by New Delta Review in 2015. She is a Fine Arts Work Center fellow.
Courtney Craggett recently completed her doctorate in creative writing and Chicano/a literature at the University of North Texas, where she taught English and served as the American Literary Review’s Assistant Fiction Editor. Her own fiction appears in Mid-American Review, Washington Square Review, Juked, Word Riot, and Monkeybicycle, among others, and was featured on Ploughshares’ blog. Her reviews appear in American Microreviews and Interviews. Courtney lives, writes, and teaches in Denton, TX and is working toward finishing her novel and turning her dissertation, a collection of short stories, into a book.
Jennifer Whalen is Texas State University’s 2015-2016 writer-in-residence at the L.D. & LaVerne Harrell Clark House in Smithville, Texas. She served as the poetry editor for Front Porch Journal, and her poems can be found or are forthcoming in Gulf Coast, New South, Day One, & elsewhere. She currently teaches college English & co-hosts the reading series Everything Is Bigger in Austin, Texas.
and Smooth Gravy!!
Wordspace presents Pegasus Reading Series: Edwards, Leverone, Rock, and Chris Garver
What: Pegasus Reading Series
When: April 27, 7 pm
Where: Kettle Arts Gallery, 2650 Main St. (Deep Ellum)
Hosted by: Sebastian Paramo and Courtney Marie
This month, Courtney Marie and Sebastian Paramo host poets Trista Edwards, editor of the anthology Till the Tide: An Anthology of Mermaid Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2015), Julia Leverone, author of Shouldering (Finishing Line, 2016), and Martin Rock, author of Residuum (CSU Poetry Center, 2016).
Trista Edwards is an Ohio born, Georgia Peach living it up in Texas. Trista is currently a Doctoral Fellow in English at the University of North Texas. Her poems and reviews are published or forthcoming in The Journal, Mid-American Review, 32 Poems, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Sou’wester, Moon City Review, and more. Trista is currently a contributing writer at Luna Luna Magazine and she recently edited the anthology Till the Tide: An Anthology of Mermaid Poetry, which was released early 2015.
Julia Leverone is from Boston and is finishing her PhD in comparative literature with Wash U in St. Louis. She translates from Spanish; her selected translations of Paco Urondo’s poems are forthcoming as a book titled Fuel and Fire, and many of these translations have appeared in places such as Waxwing, Witness, Tupelo Quarterly, and The Massachusetts Review. She is now at work translating the novel Mascaró, the American Hunter by Haroldo Conti. Julia is an Assistant Editor of fiction at Asymptote and is Editor of Sakura Review. Poems from her first chapbook, Shouldering, have been published in Cimarron Review Sugar House Review, B O D Y, and Crab Orchard Review.
Martin Rock is the author of Residuum (CSU Poetry Center, 2016), Editor’s Choice for the 2015 CSU First Book Competition. His poetry chapbooks include Dear Mark (Brooklyn Arts Press, 2013) and Fish, You Bird (Pilot, 2010), written collaboratively with Phillip D. Ischy. His poetry and translations from the Japanese have appeared or are forthcoming in journals such as Asymptote, the Agriculture Reader, AGNI, Conduit, DIAGRAM, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Third Coast, and the Tampa Review, and his work has been anthologized or featured by Best New Poets 2012, Verse Daily, Brooklyn Poets, Missouri Review’s “Poem of the Week” and elsewhere. With Kevin Prufer and Martha Collins, he edited the Unsung Masters volume Catherine B. Davis: On the Life and Work of an American Master (Pleiades, 2015). He holds an MFA from New York University and is a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Houston where he is Managing Editor for Gulf Coast. He is a poet-in-residence at Texas Children’s Hospital where he writes with hospitalized children and their families. He also designs books. His website is martinrockpoetry.com.
Music - TBA
WordSpace presents Pegasus Reading Series: Goldstein, Lee, Reaves-King, with music by Kim Nall
What: Pegasus Series
When: March 23, 7 pm
Where: Kettle Arts Gallery, 2650 Main St. (Deep Ellum)
Hosted by: Sebastian Paramo and Courtney Marie
L.E. GOLDSTEIN holds an MA from the University of Southern Mississippi and an MFA from Boston University. Her poems have recently appeared in MiddleGray, 3 Elements Review, and Illya’s Honey. She is currently working as an online content writer for a law firm in Dallas, and she is also the editor of Moon Pigeon, a poetry publication that contains content in both electronic and print. www.moonpigeonpress.com
JI YOON LEE is a poet and translator whose most recent publication is a book of translation, Cheer Up, Femme Fatale (Action Books, 2015). She is the author of Foreigner’s Folly (Coconut Books, 2014), Funsize/Bitesize (Birds of Lace, 2013), and IMMA (Radioactive Moat, 2012). She is the winner of the Joanna Cargill prize (2014), and her manuscript was a finalist for the 1913 First Book Prize (2012). She was born in South Korea, and immigrated to the United States as a teen. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame.
GAYLE REAVES-KING is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist based in Fort Worth. In addition to freelance reporting and editing, she teaches journalism at the University of North Texas and is working with co-authors on a nonfiction book called Dividing the Baby. Her poetry chapbook Spectral Analysis was published in 2015 by the Dallas Poets Community. In 2014, her chapbook Blood Forfeit was a finalist in the San Pedro River Review‘s contest. Her recent freelance work has appeared in the Texas Observer and American Way magazines. Last year she earned her master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Texas, where she now teaches. She is a former national president of the Journalism and Women Symposium and part of the brain trust at the Pandora’s Box Poetry Showcase in Dallas.
with music by KIM NALL
Pegasus Reading Series: Joe Milazzo, Jill Talbot, Kathleen Winter, & Sarah Ruth
Joe Milazzo is the author of the novel Crepuscule W/ Nellie (Jaded Ibis). His poetry collection The Habiliments is forthcoming from Apostrophe Books. His writings have appeared in The Collagist, Drunken Boat, H_NGM_N and Black Clock (among others), and are forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Tarpaulin Sky, and Whiskey Island. Joe co-edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing] and is also the proprietor of Imipolex Press. Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, and his virtual location ishttp://www.slowstudies.net/jmilazzo/.
Jill Talbot is the author of Loaded: Women and Addiction, the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together, and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in journals such as Brevity, DIAGRAM, Ecotone,
Kathleen Winter is the author of Nostalgia for the Criminal Past (Elixir Press) winner of the Antivenom Prize and the 2013 Bob Bush Memorial Award for a first book of poems. She is the Fall 2015 Dobie Paisano Fellow, selected by the University of Texas and Texas Institute of Letters. She has been awarded fellowships at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes, France; James Merrill House; Cill Rialaig Retreat; Prague Summer Program and Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in Tin House, AGNI Online, The New Republic, Memorious, Field, Gulf Coast and Poetry London. Winter grew up in San Antonio and teaches at Napa Valley College.
MUSICAL GUEST:
Sarah Ruth grew up in West Texas. She studied vocal studies and electroacoustic composition at the University of North Texas. She has performed solo, as well as in the bands Cerulean Giallo, They Say the Wind Made Them Crazy, and Violent Squid. Her solo-debut album is called Words On The Wind on Pour Le Corps.
Pegasus Reading Series is a reading series based in Dallas, TX and presented by WordSpace. Pegasus is held at Kettle Art gallery in Deep Ellum and hosted by Courtney Marie & Sebastian Paramo. Pegasus is meant to showcase local and touring writers and foster community between the authors and the writers.
Past readers for Pegasus include: Nick McRae, Octavio Quintanilla, Edyka Chilomé, Chloe Honum, Courtney Marie, Blake Kimzey, Logen Cure, Fatima Hirsi, George David Clark, Greg Brownderville, Chelsea Wagenaar, Danielle Sellers, Merritt Tierce, Jenny Molberg, Nate Logan, and others.
Pegasus Reading Series: Richard Bailey, R. Flowers Rivera, Bess Whitby, and Horace Bray
Richard Bailey‘s poems have appeared in several journals, including The Madison Review, Mudfish, Quiddity, and Whiskey Island Magazine. His films have shown in festivals across the U.S., including SXSW, Black Maria, Dallas Medianale, Anthology Film Archives, and have recently shown in Europe at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland and Proyector International Video Art Festival, Spain. Learn more about Richard at www.TropicPictures.com
R. Flowers Rivera, a Mississippi native who now lives in McKinney, Texas. Her second collection, Heathen (February 2015 by Lotus Press, distributed by Wayne State University) was selected as the winner of the 2015 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award for publication by acclaimed poet and literary activist E. Ethelbert Miller. The award was established by Lotus Press to recognize an outstanding book-length manuscript by an African-American poet. Heathen presents revisionist mythology, specifically exploring myths through the lens of race, gender, and Southern culture. This fall she is teaching at the University of Texas—Dallas. Visit http://www.promethea.com for more information.
Bess Whitby is a poet currently earning an MA in Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. She will defend her thesis this fall and graduate in December. She earned her BA in English with concentrations in Creative Writing and Literature from North Texas in May of 2013. Bess is an active participant and reader for Spiderweb Salon, a Denton-based arts collective. She is also a regular contributor to the Spiderweb Salon Zine, a DIY-style publication which seeks to publish prose, poetry, short essays, and art.
Horace Bray is a guitarist, composer, and band leader currently residing in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. While living in St. Louis, Missouri, Horace studied privately with Corey Christiansen, Paul Bollenbeck, Rick Haydon, and Reggie Thomas. He was a member of the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars, the Missouri all-suburban and all-state Jazz bands, and was the guitarist for the Birch Creek Jazz ambassadors in 2006. Horace moved to Denton to study at the University of North Texas in 2010. While there he played with the Unt Jazz singers, the 4 o’clock lab band, the 2 o’clock lab band, and was the first undergrad guitarist in 15 years to hold the guitar chair in the prestigious One O’clock Lab Band.
Pegasus Reading Series is a reading series based in Dallas, TX and presented by WordSpace. Pegasus is held at Kettle Art gallery in Deep Ellum and hosted by Sebastian Paramo. Pegasus is meant to showcase local and touring writers and foster community between the authors and the writers.
Past readers for Pegasus include: Nick McRae, Octavio Quintanilla, Edyka Chilomé, Chloe Honum, Courtney Marie, Blake Kimzey, Logen Cure, Fatima Hirsi, George David Clark, Greg Brownderville, Chelsea Wagenaar, Danielle Sellers, Merritt Tierce, Jenny Molberg, Nate Logan, and others.
