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Dallas Youth Poets & Randall Garrett @ Better Block
On stage, in the alley next to MFA Gallery! Starts around 7ish! Dont forget to stop in the gallery and check out the current show by Frank Lopez: “Make Mine Marvel, A Tintype View of Graffiti and Other Small Monuments” and say hello at the Wordspace table and get some cookies, and look out for the surprise street art sculptures by Robert Hamilton!
Who: Randall Garrett & Dallas Youth Poets
When: April 26 @ 7 pm
Where: Mighty Fine Arts, 409 A N. Tyler Street
Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series
When: Every first Saturday at 4-6 pm
Where: Half Price Books, 5803 E. NW Highway, Program Room
Hosted by: Alexandra Marie and Joaquin Zihuatanejo
WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam to bring Poetry and Slam outreach to area youth for workshops and performance.
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What: Richard Dobson When: May 5, 2013 at 5-7 pm Where: Lucky Dog Books, Oak Cliff 633 W Davis St., Dallas TX 75208 Bookstore Phone: 214-941-2665 Richard Dobson is a Texas singer-songwriter from Tyler and former roughneck who gamboled around Galveston and Houston, then Austin and Nashville, before spending the past 13 years living in Switzerland and playing all over Europe |
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Club Bolano When: Tuesday, May 7, 7pm Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 West Davis in Oak Cliff Admission: Members FREE, donation suggested for non members Hosted by Joe Milazzo for the obsessed fans of Roberto Bolaño, (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003), a Chilean novelist and poet. More Info: 214-838-3554 |
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What: OffWorld When: May 8, 2013 at 7-9 pm Where:WordSpace, 415 North Tyler Street Admission: Free Presented By: Phillip Washington Hosted By: Charles Dee Mitchell Join us for a discussion of science fiction writers This month’s focus is on Philip K. Dick |
Anita Barnard
What: Book Release: On the Dark Path: An Anthology of Fairy Tale Poetry
When: Saturday, May 11, 7 pm
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis, 214-941-2665
Meet Anita and friends in a special evening of poetry and fun with lit pack peeps
Admission: Free
What: Princess McDowell at Dallas Poetry Slam
When: May 17, 2013 at 8pm
Where: Heroes, 7402 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75231
Admission: $5, Free to WordSpace Members
Hosted By: Rock Baby and Alexandra Marie
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What: Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series When: July 6, 2013 at 4-6 pm Where: Half Price Books, 5803 NW Hwy Hosted By: Alexandra Marie and Joaquin Zihuatanejo WordSpace partners with Dallas Poetry Slam to bring Poetry and Slam outreach to area youth for workshops and performances. |
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Club Bolano When: Tuesday, July9, 7pm Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 West Davis in Oak Cliff Admission: Members FREE, donation suggested for non members Hosted by Joe Milazzo for the obsessed fans of Roberto Bolaño, (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003), a Chilean novelist and poet. More Info: 214-838-3554 |
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Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series Team @ Read Rite Market Where: Read Rite Market @ Oil and Cotton, 837 W. 7th When: July 20, 2:30 pmWS and Dallas Poetry Slam present the 2013 Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series Team traveling to compete at Brave New Voice in Chicago: Kellen Weigand, Eliza Schreibman (the Grand Slam Champion), Lizzie Vamos, Josh Rambeau, Blake Lackey, and Amanda Jackson, presented Alexandra MarieCheck the amazing schedule of events for this day long festival. |
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Anant Kumar, Charley Moon, Bunny Trahan When: Friday, August 9, 7:30 pm Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 West Davis in Oak Cliff Join Charley Moon and Bunny Trahan in welcoming Anant Kumar during his U.S. tour.Refreshments will be served. Read More |
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FALL SEASON OPENS: WORDSPACE AT THE KESSLER- The “Reveal” Reception @ Half Price Books, NW Highway.September 4, 5-7 pmJoin us for wine and a splasy promo reception as we reveal our full lineup and turn ticket sales on with Members Discounts.Wordspace is honored to have Half Price Books as principle artists sponsors for this benefit series that supports our 50+ annual programs. Additional partial sponsorship of our 2013-14 Season is made possible by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, board, members and friends. |
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Bonnie Friedman What: WordSpace Salon When: Sept 12, 2013 7 pm Where: Private Residence,RSVP: 214-838-3554 or wordspace@wordspace.us.Bonnie Friedman writes both creative nonfiction and fiction. She is the author of the Village Voice bestseller Writing Past Dark: Envy, Fear, Distraction, and Other Dilemmas in the Writer’s Life (HarperCollins). Read More… |
March 20, 2013 – SMU Literary Festival March 13, 2013 – Robert Jackson Bennett March 5, 2013 – Club Bolano March 2, 2013 – Art Speak: Hancock Brothers, Clay Stinnett and Matt Bagley March 2, 2013 – Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series March 2, 2013 – Jan Reid Book Signing March 1, 2013 – Simon Phx at Dallas Poetry Slam February 28, 2013 – Dagoberto Gilb w/ Felix Flores Band February 15, 2013 – La-Love at Dallas Poetry Slam February 13, 2013 – OffWorld February 7, 2013 – Martha Heimberg and Brian Nowlin on Wallace Stevens February 2, 20123 – Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series February 1, 2013 – Ronaldo Wilson January 25, 2013 – Klassnik, Matuk and Swenson January 18, 2013 – Ebony Stewart at Dallas Poetry Slam January 9, 2013 – OffWorld January 5, 2013 — Dallas Poetry Slam Youth Series January 4, 2013 — Zubair Ahmed
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Da’Shade Moonbeam at Dallas Poetry Slam When: September 13 at 8pm Where: Heroes, 7402 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75231 Admission: $5, Free to WordSpace Members Hosted By: Rock Baby and Alexandra Marie Dallas Poetry Slam is back with a new |
The “Word-Up Allstars” lineup includes 10-minute performances by Matt Bagley, Michael Clay, The Dallas Poetry Slam Team, The Andy Don Emmons Revival, Randall Garrett, Joseph Justin, William Bryan Massey III, Rosemary Meza-DesPlas, Carlos Salas, Opalina Salas, Bruce Webb, Josh Weir and Laney Yarber. Special Suprise guests are imminent!This cabaret cavalcade is a unique extravaganza of talents and sensibilities that will help celebrate the power of WordSpace, which provides Readings, Salons, Next Generation Projects, lively Panel Discussions and Showcase Events featuring emerging to prominent writers, and performers all year long! Join us for “Word-Up” admission is FREE! But we hope that everyone will help realize our goal for the day of 100 folks giving up $35 each for a Wordspace membership donation.This is a once in a blue moon opportunity to catch a line-up of notoriously gifted folks who will cajole, enchant, entertain, enlighten, and amaze! Make plans to come out! Bring your cash, check, or credit card, have a favorite beverage, hang tight, hold on to your hat and your seat ‘cause this is going to be big fun!
JANIS KEARNEY-Author, Publisher and Personal Diarist to President Clinton
SALON ON THURSDAY! RSVP: 214-838-3554 or wordspace@wordspace.us
Janis Kearney-Author, Publisher and Personal Diarist to Presdent Clinton
What: WordSpace Salon
Who: JANIS KEARNEY
When: Thursday, November 7, 7 pm
Where: Private Residence, RSVP 214-838-3554
Hosted by: Sanderia Smith and Charles Dee Mitchell
BONUS: Her new book Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir will be availble for purchase and signing
Admission: Members-Free! Non Members-Suggested Donation, Thank You.
Janis F. Kearney, book publisher and author; former publisher of the Arkansas State Press Newspaper, and former Personal Diarist to President William J. Clinton, is one of 19 children born to Arkansas Delta Sharecroppers, and cotton farmers. She graduated from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville with a B.A. in Journalism, and 30 graduate level hours toward degrees in Public Administration, and Journalism.
In 2003, Kearney founded Writing our World Press, a micropublishing company. The Company’s current slate of books include: the award-winning Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir; Quiet Guys Do Great Things, Too – as told by Frank Ross; and Conversations: William Jefferson Clinton…from Hope to Harlem, an oral biography centered around the Clinton presidency and political legacy; Once Upon a Time there was a Girl: a Murder at Mobile Bay; Kearney’s first fiction, and Something to Write Home About: Memories from a Presidential Diarist, her second memoir, nominated for the Small Independent Booksellers Award (SIBA) for 2009. In 2009, WOW Press published Black Classical Musicians in Philadelphia, by Elaine Mack. In 2013, WOW! Press debuted Kearney’s sixth book, Daisy: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, a biographical memoir chronicling the life of civil rights leader Daisy Lee Bates.
Kearney completed a two-year W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship at Harvard University’s Center for African and African American Studies, in 2003, and was also appointed that year, as Chancellor’s Lecturer at Chicago City Colleges, which included lecturing at Chicago’s seven city colleges. In 2004, she began a two-year Humanities Fellowship at Chicago’s DePaul University Center for the Humanities. She was appointed, in 2007, to one-year Visiting Humanities and Political Science Professorship at Arkansas State University (ASU), teaching Memoir Writing, Writing Arkansas Culture, The Clinton Presidency, and the American Presidency: Inside the White House.
Kearney served as Personal Diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton from 1995-2001. She was the country’s first personal diarist to a U.S. President, serving as the White House liaison to the U.S. National Archive’s presidential records office. In her role as diarist, she attended numerous levels of meetings throughout the day led by the President, as well as official events at the white house. She also participated in White House management meetings, and worked closely with the White House Information and Records Management office – an extension of the National Archives – to help collect and maintain Presidential records for future presidential library. She served as personal diarist during the six-month Presidential Transition Office, January – June 2001.
Kearney was appointed by President Clinton, in 1993, as Director of Public Communications, for the Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration, serving for two and one-half years. As Public Affairs Manager, she was responsible for the agency’s national media coordination, including new product rollouts, briefing and preparing SBA Administrator for all media interviews, coordinating press conferences, and all other media events. She also supervised, trained and evaluated all regional information directors.
She took the role of Managing Editor of the Arkansas State Press Newspaper, founded by Arkansas civil rights legends, Daisy and L.C. Bates in 1987. She became Publisher and Owner of the Arkansas State Press in 1988 with overall responsibility for the operation of the company, which included hiring and supervision of all full time and part-time staff, development and building creating new image for the newspaper, and expanding into new market niches. In 1991, Kearney was elected by publisher colleagues to the board of directors for the National Newspaper Publishers Association; as well as the outreach committee for the Arkansas Press Association.
Currently, she serves on a number of volunteer boards and committees, including Director of the Arkansas Writers Conference; and President of Arkansas’ Pioneer Chapter of the National League of Pen Women. Awards and Recognitions include: Arkansas’ Small Business Administration’s Minority Business Award, 1992; the PUSH for Excellence Award for outstanding communications; induction into the History Makers Archives of Outstanding African American leaders; University of Arkansas Outstanding Alumni Award, and the University of Arkansas’ distinguished Journalism Lemke Award; and a Special Recognition Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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Sandra Bernhard
What: Half Price Books presents WordSpace at The Kessler
Who: Sandra Bernhard
When: October 23, 8 pm
Where: The Kessler Theater, 1230 West Davis
BUY TICKETS
 Sandra Bernhard began her career at L.A.’s famed Comedy Store in the ‘70s, and since then has written and starred in numerous one-woman shows, acted in movies and on television, recorded albums and authored books.Her first one-woman show, the groundbreaking Without You I’m Nothing, ran for 6 months off-Broadway in 1988 and served as inspiration for the film and Grammy-nominated album of the same name. The critically acclaimed I’m Still Here… Dammit! opened off-Broadway in 1997, moved to Broadway a year later, and was filmed for an HBO special.The New York Times described Bernhard as a “living, breathing bonfire” and applauded the show, calling it “an angst driven, foul-mouthed, poison-laced joy ride that banks and careens frenetically through the worlds of fashion, celebrity, rock, and religion.”
In 2006, Bernhard’s Everything Bad and Beautiful also opened to raves. “Give the dame her due, it’s invigorating to be in the presence of a true original.” (New York Times, 6/06) Her most recent show, I Love Being Me, Don’t You? played to sold-out crowds for an extended run last summer in Los Angeles. The album version of the show was released on Rooftop Records last fall, and she has been touring it with since. “She has chutzpah to spare, but it’s her articulate intelligence that earns our attention … It’s [her] combination of glamour and accessibility that accounts for Bernhard’s enduring appeal,” wrote the Los Angeles Times. From 1991-1996 Bernhard played Nancy Bartlett—the first openly gay character on a network sitcom—on Roseanne. And she has had guest starring or recurring roles on numerous other shows, among them: Good Christian Belles, Hot in Cleveland, The New Adventures of Old Christine, Crossing Jordan, Law & Order: SVU, Will&Grace, The Sopranos, The L Word, Ally McBeal, The Larry Sanders Show, and The Richard Pryor Show. She has appeared more than 30 times on Late Night with David Letterman and has been a regular guest of Howard Stern’s since the early ‘80s. Bernhard’s film credits include Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy, for which she was awarded Best Supporting Actress by the National Society of Film Critics, Nicholas Roeg’s Track 29, Hudson Hawk, Dinner Rush, and Dare. Bernhard’s music albums include: I’m Your Woman (Polygram, 1986), Excuses for Bad Behavior (Epic, 1994) and the world music album Whatever It Takes (Mi5). She has also sung with or opened for various musical acts, including: The Pretenders, Cyndi Lauper, and the Scissor Sisters. Other notable performances include her participation in the Stormy Weather Benefit, the Rainforest Benefit, and The Elton John Tribute for Broadway Cares. “She has musicality to die for,” the L.A. Times wrote recently, “a voice that swoops from the bluesy basement to a top-floor falsetto and a campy soulfulness that can compellingly reinterpret the Isley Brothers’ “That Lady” or just go nuts with “Lady Marmalade.” Bernhard has also written three books: Confessions of a Pretty Lady (Harper&Row, 1988), Love, Love and Love (HarperCollins, 1994), and May I Kiss You on the Lips, Miss Sandra? (William Morrow,1998). Her work has also been published in numerous magazines, including, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast Traveler, Rolling Stone, Interview, and Spy |
Club Bolano
What: Club Bolaño, Roberto Bolaño readers club
When: May 7, Tuesday, 8-9:30 pm
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 West Davis in Oak Cliff
Presented by: Joe Milazzo
Admission: WS Members FREE, Donation suggested for non members
Contact: wordspace@wordspace.us, 214-838-3554
Club Bolaño is not a formerly luxuriant resort gone a little to pot and decadence. It’s a monthly program designed by Joe Milazzo for the obsessed fans of Roberto Bolaño, (28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003), a Chilean novelist and poet. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel Los detectives salvajes (The Savage Detectives), and in 2008 he was posthumously awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for his novel 2666,
This meeting will focus on LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH — then shift to NAZI LITERATURE IN THE AMERICAS, and then plunge into the big books: SAVAGE DETECTIVES and 2666. .
For most of his early adulthood, Bolaño was a vagabond, living at one time or another in Chile, Mexico, El Salvador, France, and Spain. He was a founding member of infrarrealismo, a minor poetic movement. He affectionately parodied aspects of the movement in The Savage Detectives. In Mexico, living as a bohemian poet and literary enfant terrible, “a professional provocateur feared at all the publishing houses even though he was a nobody, bursting into literary presentations and reading”.
Joe Milazzo facilitates Club Bolaño, beginning the journey with stories in LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH, followed with the interconnected shorts in NAZI LITERATURE IN THE AMERICAS, and then we dive into THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES, taking us through 2013, if not further.. and hope to eventually arrive at 2666. Milazzo is the author of The Terraces (Das Arquibancadas) (Little Red Leaves textile Series, 2012). His writings have appeared in H_NGM_N, The Collagist, Drunken Boat, Black Clock, and elsewhere. Along with Janice Lee and Eric Lindley, he edits the online interdisciplinary arts journal [out of nothing] (http://www.outofnothing.org). Joe lives and works in Dallas, TX, and his virtual location ishttp://www.slowstudies.net/jmilazzo.
Historic WordSpace
Founded in 1994 by the Dallas poet Robert Trammell, WordSpace is the city’s oldest 501(c)(3) literary organization. From its inception, WordSpace has presented the broadest possible spectrum of programs, featuring internationally known writers and performers such as NPR Andrei Codrescu, Scottish, Booker Prize winner James Kelman, NEA winners such as Ed Sanders, Native American writer, LeAnn Howe, and media pundit, Dan Savage, along with continued service to emerging writers, members Salons, Critics Circles and area students.
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Board
WordSpace’s Board is comprised of working writers, critics, musicians, artists and educators.
President– Charles Dee Mitchell
Immediate Past President, Governance Committee Chair.
Secretary– Jean Lambertyt.
Co-Treasurer– Stanley W. Thomas
Co-Treasurer– Ben Yip
Chair, Communications Committee– Sharon Bailey
Chair, Resource Committee– Venus Opal Reese
Chair, New Media– Steve Paul
Martha Heimberg
Roderick Goudy, also known as Rock Baby
Sanderia Smith
Board Program Committee:
Program Director- Karen X Minzer aka Karen X, Farid Matuk
President
Charles Dee Mitchell is a freelance writer based in Dallas. Locally he has been a contributor to The Dallas Observer and The Dallas Morning News, and he is a frequent contributor to Art in America. He has written essays for exhibitions at The Dallas Museum of Art, The Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art, The UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, and many other commercial and non-profit exhibition spaces. In 2008 he retired from Half Price Books, Records, and Magazines, where he was Executive Vice President of New Media Purchases and Proprietary Publishing. Read Dee’s Blog at www.potatoweather.blogspot.com
Immediate Past President
Adrienne Cox Trammell is a co-founder of WordSpace. She has worked in nonprofit administration for 20 years in fund development, program coordination, management consulting services, database administration and office management. Currently Adrienne Trammell is Governance Committee Chair.
Secretary
Jean Lamberty has been an educator in a variety of roles for the past 17 years. Her publications include An Extreme Risk, Illya’s Honey, and the next issue of Sentence. She has also been a juried poet in the Houston Poetry Festival and received an honorable mention in the Poetic Friends of The Bridge poetry contest.
Co-Treasurer
Stanley W. Thomas graduated from the University of North Texas with a BBA in accounting after spending two years as a music major in the jazz program at UNT. Currently an Accounting Supervisor for a subsidiary of JPMorgan / Chase in Lewisville, TX . He has worked in accounting in the financial services industry for the last 30 years. For several years he also taught as an Adjunct Instructor in business at the Community College level.
Co-Treasurer
Ben Yip holds a BA in Anthropology and is working on his MBA at SMU.
Chair, Communications Committee
Sharon Bailey is a former board president and a 20 year veteran of nonprofit sector, and works as a consultant for nonprofit management.
Chair, Resource Committee
Venus Opal Reese, BFA, MA, MFA, Ph.D., is an award winning performer, playwright, director, choreographer and poet. She has performed at the Sorborne under the auspices of the W.E.B. Dubois Institute at Harvard University, La Mama Umbria International, Spoleto, Italy, Universita di Padova, the L.A. Women’s Festival and the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival, NYC. Dr. Reese’s research links Africa, the Middle Passage, Antebellum Slavery, minstrelsy and popular culture. She offers and designs courses in Spoken Word, Arts and Performance, Acting, Performativity, Cultural Studies, Womanism/Feminism, Queer Theory, Literary Theory, Critical Race Theory, and Identity and Media. She is a tenured professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Chair, New Media
Steve Paul is an award-winning audio and video engineer with over 16 years’ experience in the recording industry. Passionate about music and art, he has developed a dedicated client base and has a proven production track record. After opening his third recording studio, He began studying photography and videography. Pursuing his interest in art, sound and design he opened Steve Paul Productions.
Martha Heimberg is associate professor of English at Northwood University in Cedar Hill, Texas, creative writing instructor at Richland College and arts critic for Theater Jones and Turtle Creek News. Five-time winner of Dallas Press Club’s Katie Award for arts criticism, community affairs and business writing, she has also won the Texas Historic Commission Griffin Award and the Sierra Club Award for writing. She has written over 200 features and reviews on live theater, visual and literary arts, and community affairs for Texas publications, including D Magazine, Texas Monthly, Lone Star Book Review and others. She originated DART’s Poetry in Motion program, a national project placing contemporary and classic poems on buses and trains, and is a founding member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum.
Roderick Goudy, also known as Rock Baby, is a graduate of University of North Texas with a Bachelor’s of Applied Arts and Science with an emphasis in education. In 1993, he began his career as an educator with P.A.C.E. Head Start in Mississippi. In 1999, Roderick began his career as a poet where he has become a nationally known performance poet performing across North America including television appearances. In 1998, Roderick Goudy began substituting teaching with Dallas Independent School District and from 1999-2002 held the position of PTA President. Roderick began organizing poetry competitions as the City of Dallas Slam Master for Dallas Poetry Slam in 2003. As a Slam Master, he has combined his love for art and education to organize and implement area writing and performance workshops, mentor young artists, guest lecture for community colleges and universities throughout the DFW Metroplex and nationally. Roderick has served as an art instructor with Junior Players Guild for over 3 years providing instruction in dance, writing, and theatre while addressing issues of bullying, self-esteem, and healthy conflict resolution. He is a frequent guest speaker for area schools addressing bullying, communication and other life skills critical to student success. Since 1988, he has held positions in the U.S. Army as a communications specialist, a pre-school, after-school and substitute teacher, committee member with WordSpace, a literary non-profit, board member with Family Care Connections, a social service non-profit with emphasis on healthy families and fatherhood initiatives, and Slam Master of Dallas Poetry Slam.
Sanderia Smith holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Arizona State University and a B.S. in Accounting from University of Arkansas. She has taught Creative Writing at Florida Community College, Central Texas College, Mesa Community College, Arizona State University and Andre House Homeless Shelter in Phoenix, Arizona. She is the recipient of a Writers In Paradise Scholarship and Vermont Studio Center, Writers Residency.
Board Program Committee:
Program Director Karen X Minzer aka Karen X is a writer/poet/gypsy, published by the Austin Sun in the 70s, Paris Records in the 80s and Wowapi, 90s to present. In 1976 she discovered WordSpace founder, Robert Trammell, reading his poetry at Old City Park across the street from her home at the historic (grundgy) Ambassador Hotel. She is a former student and special friend to Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, studied in poetics apprenticeship with Allen Ginsberg and assisted him with transcribing his diary notebooks to manuscript. She has also studied with Robert Creeley, Quincey Troupe, Ed Sanders, Galway Kinnell, Gary Snyder, Anne Waldman, Jack Myers, Larry Fagin. With alot of help from alot of friends, she has curated thousands of writers for over 30 years–including Literary Festivals for SMU and Eastfield College, readings for Paperbacks Plus, Writers Garret, WordSpace, Dial A Poet Television in Dallas and Boulder, Starck Club, Caravan of Dreams, and Morrison Street for Paris Records. Ms. X is a veteran performer/warm up shouter for songwriter-poets such as Frank Black, John Cale, Bad Brains, et al. Dharma Broad and student of Michelle Andrie, Angela Farmer and Victor Van Kooten in Eftalou, Greece, Karen has also taught creative writing at Brookhaven College and as a Writer-in-the-Schools and teaches yoga at Tranquilo Studio
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. Farid Matuk has served on the WordSpace Board of Directors as Program Chair and continues to serve on the WordSpace Programming Committee, coordinating the Greenhill School partnership with our Members Salon.
WordSpace Critics Circle
WordSpace Board Member programming committee member Martha Heimberg curates an evening of analytical review and comparative investigations of selected works for WordSpace Members Only. Become a Member!
Martha Heimberg is assistant professor of English at Northwood University in Cedar Hill, Texas, creative writing instructor at Richland College and arts critic for Turtle Creek News and Theater Jones.
Five-time winner of Dallas Press Club’s Katie Award for arts criticism, community affairs and business writing, she has also won the Texas Historic Commission Griffin Award and the Sierra Club Award for writing. She has written over 200 features and reviews on live theater, visual and literary arts, and community affairs for Texas publications, including D Magazine, Texas Monthly, Lone Star Book Review and others. She originated DART’s Poetry in Motion program, a national project placing contemporary and classic poems on buses and trains, and is a founding member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum.
