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Zach Dodson @ Wild Detectives
When: Tuesday, October 19, 7 pm
What: First Hearings
Hosted by Charles Dee Mitchell
Photo by Jonathan Crawford
Zach Dodson is a book designer particularly interested in visual narrative. He has designed books for many independent presses, most notably featherproof books, which he founded in Chicago in 2005.
Texan Zachary Thomas is the author and illustrator of Bats of the Republic, an illuminated novel due from Doubleday in 2015. Zach Plague wrote and designed the hybrid image/text boring boring boring boring boring boring boring in 2008. Neither should be contacted, as they exist only speculatively.
Professor Zachary Dodson teaches courses on hybrid narrative and storytelling atAalto University in Helsinki, Finland. He is available for guest lectures or workshops on book design, visual narrative or publishing.
Yoga Prose Series: Michelle Andrie #Evolve Your Relationships”
When: October 24 and 25, 1-5 pm
What: Evolve Your Relationships
Where: Atma Bhakti Yoga Center, 6315 Lindsey Ave., 75223
Fee: $125 per person
Class Limit: 15 per day
Deposit: $25. Class fills quickly. First come basis.
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Or Contact [email protected]
WordSpace is honored to partner with Michelle Andrie Yoga Therapy for a series of life changing yoga prose and pose series.
Michelle Andrie has read her work in WordSpace’s 2010 Yogis and Yoginis series at Paperbacks Plus and partnered with WordSpace to present the 2010 Priya Yoga Reading Series, featuring Kyle Vaughn, Richard Bailey, Griselda Castillo and Suze Riddle’s band, Frump. Her restaurant, Mextopia, co-owned with Ricardo Avila, sponsored the 2011 WordSpace series at Paperbacks Plus, featuring Austin’s Skunk Press writers, Andrew Schelling, and many others. Her yoga classes are infused with a life long love of poetry.
Michelle’s unique gift lies in her ability to read and comprehend the language of the body and to deeply listen to the stories coming from the mind. Based on this information, she helps the client become aware of their particular challenge, accept this as their work and together they develop a Yoga program to release, modify or change the struggle, pain, disconnection, disorder or disease. Ultimately, leading to a deep connection with the life force that creates healthy balance.
As a Yoga Therapist of 21 years, Michelle has touched the lives of over 6000 students. She guides clients to a state of wellness from physical, mental/emotional and spiritual challenges. Michelle offers small classroom yoga therapy classes and clinics, e-classes, personal therapy sessions, skype therapy sessions, yoga therapy teacher training, workshops on the Energy Body and retreats to The Big Island of Hawaii.
Evolve Your Relationships
This special workshop targets your relationship with others and yourself.
Dawn Lundy Martin
When: Thursday, October 8, 7 pm
What: African Diaspora: New Dialogues
Where: South Dallas Cultural Center
DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
Photo by Max Freeman
Dawn Lundy Martin is author of three books of poetry, and three chapbooks. Of her latest collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books 2015), Fred Moten says, “Imagine Holiday singing a Blind alley, or Brooks pricing hardpack dandelion, and then we’re seized and thrown into the festival of detonation we hope we’ve been waiting for.” Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, Martin is a member of the three-person performance group, The Black Took Collective. She is also a member of the global artist collective, HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, the group that withdrew its work from the 2014 Whitney Biennial to protest the museum’s biased curatorial practices. Martin is currently working on a hybrid memoir, a tiny bit of which appears as the essay, “The Long Road to Angela Davis’s Library,” published in the December 2014 New Yorker magazine.
About South Dallas Cultural Center and Vicki Meek: The South Dallas Cultural Center is a community center with a wide variety of programs inspired by the vibrancy and diversity of the African Diaspora. The SDCC seeks to educate and inspire through the visual, media, literary and performing arts. Vickie Meek is the award winning director of SDCC. She is a curator, artist and activist. Her decades of service to promote art and racial equity have profoundly impacted the cultural life of Dallas and development of a whole new generation of African American artists. In 2016, Ms. Meek will retire from her office at SDCC to co-develop The Institute for Creative Research in Puerta Viejo, Costa Rica.
Pegasus Reading Series: Joe Milazzo, Jill Talbot, & Kathleen Winter
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 (Seal Press, 2007), the co-editor of The Art of Friction: Where (Non) Fictions Come Together (University of Texas, 2008), and the editor of Metawritings: Toward a Theory of Nonfiction (University of Iowa, 2012). Her work has appeared in journals such as Brevity, DIAGRAM, Ecotone, The Paris Review Daily, The Pinch, The Rumpus, and Under the Sun. Her memoir,The Way We Weren’t, is published by Soft Skull Press, an imprint of Counterpoint. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Nonfiction at University of North Texas and the nonfiction editor for BOAAT PRESS.
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 TBA
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.
In/Verse: Looped
In/Verse: Looped is a pop-up event featuring pre-recorded, looped poetry and prose readings placed in separate rooms and installed according to each writer’s aesthetic. The audience is free to encounter each reading on their own terms, moving from room to room as they choose.
Oral Fixation @ Dallas Performance Hall
WordSpace is honored to produce the 2015 - 2016 Season of Oral Fixation!
More details coming!
Sanderia Faye In Conversation with Greg Brownderville
Who: Sanderia Faye / Greg Brownderville
What: First Hearings, A Conversation
When: October 22, 2015, 7:00 PM
Where: The Wild Detectives, 314 West Eighth Street, 75208
Hosted by: Charles Dee Mitchell
Sanderia Faye’s first novel, The Mourner’s Bench, takes place in Maeby, Arkansas. The year is 1964, and eight-year-old Sarah Jones feels it is time to take responsibility for her own sins. When a revival comes to The First Baptist Church, Sarah plans to take her place on the mourner’s bench and prepare to give her testimony. But things are changing in Maeby, Arkansas. Her own mother is a civil rights activist, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee has come to town, and tensions are running high.
Sanderia Faye will read from The Mourner’s Bench on October 22 at The Wild Detectives. After the reading, award-winning poet Greg Brownderville will lead a discussion with Sanderia. Greg is Assistant Professor at Dedman College of the Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University, and he comes from the same area of Southern Arkansas as Sanderia. They will talk about books, small Southern towns, race, and whatever other topics arise.
After the discussion, Sanderia will be signing books.
Rachel McKibbens at Dallas Poetry Slam
When: October 23, 8 pm
Where: Heroes, Greenville Ave.
Hosted by: Dallas Poetry Slam, SlamMasters GNO & RockBaby
What: WordSpace Night @ DPS
Admission: $5
Poet, activist, playwright and essayist Rachel McKibbens is a New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow and author of the critically acclaimed volume of poetry, Pink Elephant (Cypher Books, 2009.) Regarded as one of the most dynamic speakers in the country, McKibbens is a legend within the poetry slam community, noted for her accomplishments both on and off the stage: she is a nine-time National Poetry Slam team member, has appeared on eight NPS final stages, coached the New York louderARTS poetry slam team to three consecutive final stage appearances, is the 2009 Women of the World Poetry Slam champion and the 2011 National Underground Poetry Slam individual champion. For four years McKibbens taught poetry through the Healing Arts Program at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan and continues to teach poetry and creative writing and give lectures across the country as an advocate for mental health awareness, gender-equality and victims of violence and domestic abuse.
Sanderia Faye Book Launch Celebration
Salon & Book Launch Celebration: Mourner’s Bench
Who: Debut novel by Sanderia Faye
When: Thursday, October 1, 7 pm
Where: RSVP for the Party! [email protected]
Yes! Copies of Mourner’s Bench will be On Sale!
At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas,the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourner’s bench come revival, waiting for her sign, and then testifying in front of the whole church.
But first, Sarah would need to navigate the growing tensions of small-town Arkansas in the 1960s. Both smarter and more serious than her years (a “fifty-year-old mind in an eight-year-old body,” according to Esther), Sarah was torn between the traditions, religion, and work ethic of her community and the progressive civil rights and feminist politics of her mother, who had recently returned from art school in Chicago. When organizers from the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) came to town just as the revival was beginning, Sarah couldn’t help but be caught up in the turmoil. Most folks just wanted to keep the peace, and Reverend Jefferson called the SNCC organizers “the evil among us.” But her mother, along with local civil rights activist Carrie Dilworth, the SNCC organizers, Daisy Bates, attorney John Walker, and indeed most of the country, seemed determined to push Maeby toward integration.
With characters as vibrant and evocative as their setting, Mourner’s Bench is the story of a young girl coming to terms with religion, racism, and feminism while also navigating the terrain of early adolescence and trying to settle into her place in her family and community.
WordSpace is honored to be first to present the debut novel of Sanderia Faye in Dallas. We will also be hosting a conversation between Sanderia and Greg Brownderville October 22 at The Wild Detectives, but the celebration starts now!
About the Author
Sanderia Faye was born and raised in Gould, Arkansas. She is the author of Mourner’s Bench (University of Arkansas Press, September 2015). Her work has appeared in various literary journals and in Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas, edited by historians Dr. Jennifer Wallach and Dr. John Kirk.
Faye is co-founder and fellow at Kimbilio Center for Fiction. She moderated a 2015 AWP panel and the grassroots panel for the Arkansas Civil Rights Symposium during the Freedom Riders 50th Anniversary. She is a recipient of awards, residencies, and fellowships from Hurston/Wright Writers Conference, Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise Conference, Callaloo Writers Workshop, Vermont, Writers Studio, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, and Martha’s Vineyard Writers Residency.
Faye is also a PhD candidate in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. She received an MFA in Creative Writing from Arizona State University, and a BS in Accounting from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. She was an instructor for The United States Navy-Navy College Program for Afloat College Education (NCPACE)
Sarah Gerard and Colin Winnette
First Hearings: Sarah Gerard and Colin Winnette
When: Wednesday, October 14, 7 pm
Where: The Wild Detectives, 314 W. 8th Street, (Oak Cliff)
Hosted by: Charles Dee Mitchell
By now I’ve read Binary Star twice, and I’ve become so entwined with it that I’m reluctant to talk about the subject at length. Let me just say that I’ve never read anything like it. — Harry Mathews
I felt a breathless intensity the whole time I read Sarah Gerard’s brilliant Binary Star. I sped through it, dizzy, devastated, loving all of it. — Kate Zambreno, author of Heroines
Two lost souls hurtle through a long dark night where drug store fluorescents light up fashion magazine headlines and the bad flarf of the pharmacy: Hydroxycut, Seroquel, Ativan, Zantrex-3. Gerard’s young lovers rightly revolt against the insane standards of a sick society, but their pursuit of purity—ideological, mental, physical—comes to constitute another kind of impossible demand, all the more dangerous for being self-imposed. Binary Star is merciless and cyclonic, a true and brutal poem of obliteration, an all-American death chant whose chorus is “I want to look at the sky and understand.” —Justin Taylor, author of Flings
A bold, beautiful novel about wanting to disappear and almost succeeding. Sarah Gerard writes about love and loneliness in a new and brilliantly visceral way. — Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of Speculation
Allegorized by the phenomena of binary stars, Sarah Gerard’s first novel confronts the symptoms of modern living with beauty and courage. — Simon Van Booy, author of The Illusion of Separateness
Haints Stay is the story of two brothers, Brooke and Sugar, one of whom is pregnant with the other’s child. After the two middling bounty hunters are chased from town due to a bathhouse brawl, they encounter Bird — a boy who mysteriously appears in their camp with no memory and palms as smooth as stones. As the past races to catch up with them, each sets off in pursuit of their own peculiar sense of justice and belonging. An acid Western in the tradition of Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man, Kelly Reichart’sMeek’s Cutoff, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo, the novel features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, young love, a wagon train, stampedes, and the tenuous rise of the West’s first one-armed gunslinger.
In addition to being called “…the most anticipated American independent novel…” by Flavorwire , the novel was a Rumpus Book Club pick for May and a #brazosbest pick by Brazos Bookstore for June.
