Jennine DOC Wright @ Dallas Poetry Slam

0 CommentsSunday • July 23, 2017 • by admin

Who: Jennine Doc Wright
What: Dallas Poetry Slam Features
Where: Heroes, Greenville Ave., 7402 Greenville, 75231
When: September 15, 8 pm
Admission: $5, Free to WS Members

JENNINE DOC WRIGHT is a mother, writer, artivist and educator in Austin, Texas. She has competed in the Women of the World competition, Southern Fried competition and has been on multiple National Poetry Slam teams to include Killeen Poetry Slam that placed 2^nd overall in the nation in 2012 and Neo Soul Poetry Slam coming in 1^st in the nation in the group piece finals in 2013, 2^nd in 2014, and 3^rd in 2015. Jennine was the 2015 season slam champ for Austin’s Neo Soul was recently the coach for the Austin Poetry Slam 2016 national team that made it to semi finals. She currently teaches English at Huston-Tillotson University while serving as Co- Executive Director of the Speak Piece Poetry Project, a youth writing and poetry slam mentorship program. Jennine has one chapbook titled A Long Time Coming and a CD titled Real Talk. Doc focuses her writing on diverse topics to include race, gender, and identity. She is now working on her MFA in poetry at Spalding University.

WordSpace is honored to partner with Dallas Poetry Slam
to produce Feature Readers on 3rd Fridays of every month.

Brian Allen Carr & Inferno Texino

0 CommentsSunday • July 23, 2017 • by admin

It’s that time again!

Join WordSpace (Got To!) for our annual Season Kick Off Party.

Get a good peek up our upcoming season.

With Special Guests: Inferno Texino, and Brian Alan Carr.

$1 Tacos will be provided by El Padrino to go with your favorite beverage.

7 pm The Wild Detectives 8th and Bishop in the OC 75208

BRIAN ALLEN CARR

Brian Allen Carr (born 1979 in Austin, Texas) is an American writer based in Indiana. He is the author of the short story collection Short Bus (2011) and was the winner of the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize as judged by Larry McMurtry in 2011. Carr was also a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for First Fiction, 2011. His stories appear in numerous lit mags. Brian visited WordSpace at WD in 2014 after the release of his book “Motherfucking Sharks”. We knew we’d have to have him back. Lucky break-he’s on another new book tour. His most resent novel “Sip” (Soho Press, 2016) will be available for sale. “A lyrical, apocalyptic debut novel about addiction, friendship, and the struggle for survival …”

INFERNO TEXINO

These guys…an awesome music project featuring Andy Don Emmons, Clay Stinett, Jason Cohen and other distinguished artists (truth! They are distinguished!) All are regular contributors to WordSpace ArtSpeak series at Mighty Fine Arts. PS: It’s both Andy Don and Sandy Emmons’ birthdays that night.
Promises to be epic.

As always, Special Thanks to our friends and programming partners at The Wild Detectives.