Rod Russell-Ides Reading & Book Signing
What: Rod Russell-Ides and his new book “Sparky and the Dipshit”
When: Saturday, April 6, 8 pm
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis St. near Bishop Arts
Admission: Members FREE
Rod-Russell Ides is a poet, songwriter, musician, performance artist, landscape artist, dharma bum, and storyteller/writer. Join us as we celebrate the release of his new book “Sparky and the Dipshit”, published by Fireside Press. Rod lives in Dallas with his wife, poet/playwright, Isabella Russell-Ides.
Rauan Klassnik, Farid Matuk and Russel Swenson
What: Rauan Klassnik, Farid Matuk and Rusell Swenson
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis St. (Oak Cliff)
When: Friday, January 25, 8 pm
“Rauan Klassnik‘s HOLY LAND (Black Ocean) is not a book for the faint of heart. His poems–dreamlike fables that conflate the domestic and quotidian with the dangerous and the perverse–are bathed in tears and blood: a trip to the bank becomes a journey to Auschwitz; bullets and gore find equivalence in rivers, birds and lush grass. In Klassnik’s startling vision, ‘the world knows what you want, and it knows what you need. It brings you bodies. And it brings you a gun”–Gary Young.Rauan grew up in South Africa and then spent most of life in Dallas, TX where he was for many years an active part of the local writing community. Rauan’s first book, Holy Land, came out from Black Ocean in 2008. His second book, The Moon’s Jaw (also fromBlack Ocean) releases end of 2012. Rauan’s poems have appeared in The Mississippi Review, Front Porch, The North American Review, Poetry Midwest & other venues. Rauan is now headquartered, close to Costco, in Kirkland, WA.
Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine, 2010), which was awarded honorable mention in the 2011 Arab American Book Award, named finalist for the Norma Farber First Book Award, and chosen by Geoffrey G. O’Brien for recognition in the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets series. New poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Iowa Review,Critical Quarterly, White Wall Review, and Poets.org. Matuk is a contributor to Scubadivers and Chrysanthemums: Essays on the Poetry of Araki Yasusada (Shearsman, 2011) and American Odysseys: Writings by New Americans (Dalkey Archive, 2013).
OffWorld-WordSpace Science Fiction Club
What: OffWorld: The WordSpace Science Fiction Book Club
Where: WordSpace, 415 North Tyler St.
When: Thursday, December 11, 7 pm
Admission: FREE
Hosted by: Phllip Washington
The Author: Neal Stephenson
To join OffWorld or for more information contact Phillip Washington at offworld@wordspace.us or call WordSpace, 214-838-3554, ext. 2, Click here for the OffWorld Blog
If you are a science fiction fan, please read Section A below. If you are not currently a science fiction reader, please skip to Section B.
SECTION A
“Does your bucket list include things like “piercing the outer layers of corporate cyberstructures, surfing the burning neon matrix of the cosmic internet, picturesque holograms of your disembodied consciousness navigating 4 dimensional super-continuums?”
Do you have dreams of futuristic landscapes, cybernetic samurais, and psychic aliens? Have you ever wanted to travel through time?” “Do you see yourself living in future dystopias and utopias? We hear you loud and clear, You’re saying: “Yes As long as it ain’t as hot THERE as summer in Dallas.” We’d have to agree with you on that one.
Answering “Yes” to most of these questions indicates a functioning imagination. And guess what? We have a place for you, and others like you. Join “OffWorld: The Official Dallas Science Fiction Book Club” today. Get ready to geek out, PhReAk out, and congregate with other kindred spirits who love Science Fiction literature.
(Please proceed to Section C, or read Section B just for the fun of it.)
SECTION B
Did you stop reading science fiction when you were fourteen years old? Is “1984″ the only science fiction novel you ever read, and then only because it was assigned in class? Do you assume all science fiction novels are either based on Star Trek or cater to adolescent, male sexual fantasies?
Well, there is a whole new alien landscape out there, and WordSpace wants to explore it with you.
The current crop of science fiction writers are complex, funny, visionary, and scary-smart on topics most people will know little or nothing about before they change our world forever.
OffWorld: The Official Dallas Science Fiction Book Club will introduce you to a new perspective of the present by examining visions of the future
(Please proceed to Section C)
SECTION C
Joining is easy and fun. Here is how OffWorld works:
1) Rather than reading a particular book, OffWorld will choose a writer to focus on for a three-month period.
2) Club members may read one or several books by that author during the three months.
3) The website Worlds Without End has generously offered to host discussion forums for OffWorld. The forums will feature ongoing discussions of individual books and general topics related to the author. Members can propose their own forum topics.
4) During the three-month session, WordSpace will host two discussions on the author and his or her work at our Tyler Street storefront in Oak Cliff.
5) During the three-month session, Half Price Books on Northwest Highway will also host a public meeting, this one with a guest speaker from the scientific, medical, or tech community who will discuss a topic —anything from robotics to advances in molecular biology, as it relates to science fiction.
6) Joining OffWorld is FREE. The sessions at Half Price Books will cost $10, but will be free to WordSpace members.
Neal Stephenson is our first OffWorld author. (Warning! Warning! Some of Mr. Stephenson’s books are 1000 pages long, but hey, you have three months to read one, and some are much shorter.)
OffWorld-The WordSpace Science Fiction Club
What: OffWorld: The WordSpace Science Fiction Book Club
Where: WordSpace, 415 North Tyler St.
When: Monthly, Tuesday, November 13, 7 pm
Admission: FREE
Hosted by: Phllip Washington
The Author: Neal Stephenson
To join OffWorld or for more information contact Phillip Washington at offworld@wordspace.us or call WordSpace, 214-838-3554, ext. 2, Click here for the OffWorld Blog
If you are a science fiction fan, please read Section A below. If you are not currently a science fiction reader, please skip to Section B.
SECTION A
“Does your bucket list include things like “piercing the outer layers of corporate cyberstructures, surfing the burning neon matrix of the cosmic internet, picturesque holograms of your disembodied consciousness navigating 4 dimensional super-continuums?”
Do you have dreams of futuristic landscapes, cybernetic samurais, and psychic aliens? Have you ever wanted to travel through time?” “Do you see yourself living in future dystopias and utopias? We hear you loud and clear, You’re saying: “Yes As long as it ain’t as hot THERE as summer in Dallas.” We’d have to agree with you on that one.
Answering “Yes” to most of these questions indicates a functioning imagination. And guess what? We have a place for you, and others like you. Join “OffWorld: The Official Dallas Science Fiction Book Club” today. Get ready to geek out, PhReAk out, and congregate with other kindred spirits who love Science Fiction literature.
(Please proceed to Section C, or read Section B just for the fun of it.)
SECTION B
Did you stop reading science fiction when you were fourteen years old? Is “1984″ the only science fiction novel you ever read, and then only because it was assigned in class? Do you assume all science fiction novels are either based on Star Trek or cater to adolescent, male sexual fantasies?
Well, there is a whole new alien landscape out there, and WordSpace wants to explore it with you.
The current crop of science fiction writers are complex, funny, visionary, and scary-smart on topics most people will know little or nothing about before they change our world forever.
OffWorld: The Official Dallas Science Fiction Book Club will introduce you to a new perspective of the present by examining visions of the future
(Please proceed to Section C)
SECTION C
Joining is easy and fun. Here is how OffWorld works:
1) Rather than reading a particular book, OffWorld will choose a writer to focus on for a three-month period.
2) Club members may read one or several books by that author during the three months.
3) The website Worlds Without End has generously offered to host discussion forums for OffWorld. The forums will feature ongoing discussions of individual books and general topics related to the author. Members can propose their own forum topics.
4) During the three-month session, WordSpace will host two discussions on the author and his or her work at our Tyler Street storefront in Oak Cliff.
5) During the three-month session, Half Price Books on Northwest Highway will also host a public meeting, this one with a guest speaker from the scientific, medical, or tech community who will discuss a topic —anything from robotics to advances in molecular biology, as it relates to science fiction.
6) Joining OffWorld is FREE. The sessions at Half Price Books will cost $10, but will be free to WordSpace members.
Neal Stephenson is our first OffWorld author. (Warning! Warning! Some of Mr. Stephenson’s books are 1000 pages long, but hey, you have three months to read one, and some are much shorter.)
OffWorld:The WordSpace Science Fiction Book Club
What: OffWorld: The WordSpace Science Fiction Book Club
Where: WordSpace, 415 North Tyler St.
When: Monthly, beginning Wednesday October 17, 7 pm
Admission: FREE
Hosted by: Phllip Washington
The Author: Neal Stephenson
An invitation from WordSpace to step OffWorld:
The WordSpace Science Fiction Book Club
If you are a science fiction fan, please read Section A below. If you are not currently a science fiction reader, please skip to Section B.
SECTION A
“Does your bucket list include things like “piercing the outer layers of corporate cyberstructures, surfing the burning neon matrix of the cosmic internet, picturesque holograms of your disembodied consciousness navigating 4 dimensional super-continuums?”
Do you have dreams of futuristic landscapes, cybernetic samurais, and psychic aliens? Have you ever wanted to travel through time?” “Do you see yourself living in future dystopias and utopias? We hear you loud and clear, You’re saying: “Yes As long as it ain’t as hot THERE as summer in Dallas.” We’d have to agree with you on that one.
Answering “Yes” to most of these questions indicates a functioning imagination. And guess what? We have a place for you, and others like you. Join “OffWorld: The Official Dallas Science Fiction Book Club” today. Get ready to geek out, PhReAk out, and congregate with other kindred spirits who love Science Fiction literature.
(Please proceed to Section C, or read Section B just for the fun of it.)
SECTION B
Did you stop reading science fiction when you were fourteen years old? Is “1984″ the only science fiction novel you ever read, and then only because it was assigned in class? Do you assume all science fiction novels are either based on Star Trek or cater to adolescent, male sexual fantasies?
Well, there is a whole new alien landscape out there, and WordSpace wants to explore it with you.
The current crop of science fiction writers are complex, funny, visionary, and scary-smart on topics most people will know little or nothing about before they change our world forever.
OffWorld: The Official Dallas Science Fiction Book Club will introduce you to a new perspective of the present by examining visions of the future
(Please proceed to Section C)
SECTION C
Joining is easy and fun. Here is how OffWorld works:
1) Rather than reading a particular book, OffWorld will choose a writer to focus on for a three-month period.
2) Club members may read one or several books by that author during the three months.
3) The website Worlds Without End has generously offered to host discussion forums for OffWorld. The forums will feature ongoing discussions of individual books and general topics related to the author. Members can propose their own forum topics.
4) During the three-month session, WordSpace will host two discussions on the author and his or her work at our Tyler Street storefront in Oak Cliff.
5) During the three-month session, Half Price Books on Northwest Highway will also host a public meeting, this one with a guest speaker from the scientific, medical, or tech community who will discuss a topic —anything from robotics to advances in molecular biology, as it relates to science fiction.
6) Joining OffWorld is FREE. The sessions at Half Price Books will cost $10, but will be free to WordSpace members.
Neal Stephenson is our first OffWorld author. (Warning! Warning! Some of Mr. Stephenson’s books are 1000 pages long, but hey, you have three months to read one, and some are much shorter.)
To join OffWorld or for more information contact Phillip Washington at offworld@wordspace.us or call WordSpace, 214-838-3554, ext. 2.
Dagoberto Gilb with Felix Flores Band
What: Dagoberto Gilb with special music guest, Felix Flores Band
Hosted by: Dallas CM Delia Jasso and Celia Alvarez Muñoz
When: Thursday, February 28, 8 pm
Where: Bishop Arts Theater, 215 South Tyler St.
Admission: $20 Gen Admin, $30 Reserved, $50 VIP Meet/Greet
MEMBERS DISCOUNTS: from $15
Read Dagoberto Gilb in the February Issue of Texas Monthly.
Dagoberto Gilb is an American writer born in Los Angeles, California, whose reputation, after years between L.A. and Texas, is as one of the leading voices from the American Southwest. His many works include Woodcuts of Women, 2001, Gritos, 2003, Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature, 2006, The Flowers, 2008, Before the End, After the Beginning, 2011,
His many many awards include James D. Phelan Award, San Francisco Foundation, 1984, Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, Texas Institute of Letters, 1987, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1992Whiting Writers’ Award, 1993PEN/Hemingway Award, 1994, PEN Faulkner Award, finalist, 1994, El Paso Writers’ Hall of Fame, 1995, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1995, National Book Critics Circle Award, finalist, 2003, Texas Book Festival Bookend Award, 2007, PEN Southwest Book Award, 2008.
Dagoberto Gilb’s work has been translated into French, Italian, Japanese, German, Spanish, and Dutch. Anthologized in many literary and college composition textbooks. He is featured in the February issue of Texas Monthly.
WordSpace is also please to present the popular hot up and coming music group Felix Flores Band to warm you up for Dagoberto.
Felix Flores Band is a Dallas based band whose music is a fusion of folk, jazz, flamenco and rock. Formed in 2005, this band has been active in the local scene for years and regularly plays coffeehouses, bars, art openings, festivals and special events.
“Felix conveys with aching accuracy the perils of love gone awry as well as poetically penetrating into the depths of the soul with his words. As for the uniquely talented characters that back him, Felix Flores Band specializes in sway in your seat, hold your honey tight- make love melodies. This is a jam band for the soul.” -Amberly Russell, poet
Felix Flores Band draws inspiration from a wide variety of sources stretching from musicians such as Ani DiFranco, Jeff Buckley, Beth Orton, PJ Harvey, Bright Eyes, Jack White, Miles Davis, Gypsy Kings -to writers Paolo Coelho and Kahlil Gibran.
“Love is like water
You can jump in it you can feel it
It can trickle down like rain
Or flood you like a hurricane”
– Lyrics from Love is like Water by Felix Flores
Felix Flores – Vocals, Guitar, Lap Steel, Mandolin
Mingo Flores – Drums, Percussion
James Sands – Lead Guitar, Bass
Ely Sellers – Bass
Our Hosts:
Dallas City Council Member Delia Jasso represents District 1, Oak Cliff, and is very active in advocating on behalf of arts, education and redevelopment of this historic Dallas neighorhood. She was served as CM since 2009 and has served as community and civics leader for over 20 years.
Celia Alvarez Muñoz was born in El Paso in 1937, and grew up amid competing cultures, languages, and value systems along the U.S.-Mexico border. She is an internationally recognized artist with countless exhibitions, public commissions and awards. Her image-text art explores the first glances and misread signs that occur where cultures meet, and the stories that they tell about the history of American society, culture, and modern art.
Matthew Posey & Northwood University Lit Fest
What: Matthew Posey and the Northwood University Literary Festival
Where: Northwood University Literary Festival
When: Tuesday, October 16, 11 am
Admission: Free
Also appearing at the Festival: 7:30 pm Matt Bondurant, 8pm Ben Fountain, , 8:30 Rock Baby and the Dallas Poetry Slam Team.
Wordspace proudly sponsors an author every year for this dynamic gathering of poets and fiction writers that takes place on the campus of Northwood University every fall. The event is held in Lambert Commons on Northwood’s 400 acre campus, located 25 minutes from downtown Dallas, just off Highway 67 south — the Joe Pool Lake exit.
Festival Chair is Martha Heimberg, Professor of English at Northwood and long time WordSpace board member.
Matt Bondurant and Kayley Romick of Yavneh Academy
What: Matt Bondurant and Kayley Romick of Yavneh Academy
When: Thursday, November 15, 7 pm
Where: Private Residence, RSVP for location: wordspace@wordspace.us or 214-838-3554
Admission: Members FREE, Non Members,$10
RSVP Appreciated: 214-838-3554
Matt Bondurant is an American contemporary writer and author of the books TheThird Translation, The Wettest County in the World and The Night Swimmer.
Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. His family’s ancestral home in Franklin County, VA is the setting of his prohibition-era historical novel The Wettest County in the World, which tells the tale of his grandfather and granduncles as they run a massive moonshining operation in the mountains of southwest Virginia.
Bondurant was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writer’s Conference and a Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State University. He graduated from James Madison University, where he was a member of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity. Bondurant is currently a literature and creative writing professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.
In 2010, director John Hillcoat planned to make a film, The Wettest County in the World, based on Bondurant’s novel and starring Shia LaBeouf but the project was shut down as a result of financing problems. An indie studio revived the project. Filming began in late February 2011, with Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska and Jessica Chastain added to the cast. In March 2012, the title was changed to Lawless.
Kayley Romick is a young writer attending Yavneh Academy. Special thanks to poet/educator, Tim Cloward for contributing his talented protegee to our project of includin area students as “warm up” readers in Salons.
Edward Garcia
What: Edward Garcia
When: Wednesday, October 10, 7 pm
Where: For Location, RSVP, 214-838-3554 or wordspace@wordspace.us
Admission: Members FREE, Non Members $10
Ed Garcia is retired from teaching composition, literature, and creative writing in the Dallas County Community College District. He has an undergraduate degree and a doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin and a Master’s from the Ohio State University. He has published many reviews and articles in The Dallas Morning News and other publications, including The Texas Observer, The Texas Humanist, Pawn Review, Texas Books in Review, Tex!, County Line Magazine, and Southwest Historical Quarterly. He is represented in Texas in Poetry 2, Texas Short Stories 2, Literary Dallas,and in two anthologies of writing by DCCCD faculty and staff, Out of Dallas and Voices from Within. He lives on the upper east side of Texas with his wife Rica.
Awaji features @ Dallas Poetry Slam
What: Awaji features @ Dallas Poetry Slam
When: December 21, 8 pm
Where: Heroes, 7402 Greenville Avenue
Born on December 26, 1976 in Detroit, Michigan, Awaji has always endeavored in the arts. His passion began with comic books illustration and then fiction novels. The first publicized book he read was “The Hobbit” at age 4. He loved drawing the “Peanuts” characters at that time and also had a great fascination for dragons. His art background progressed drawing still life nature. He has practiced virtually every media from sculpture to spoken word. In grade school he was awarded 1st place in the Mississippi National TSA (graphic design) competition 3 years consecutive from 1992 – 1995. He’s always had a love for creative writing but just recently began performing and reciting his work only 2 years ago. The challenge to be different is his only inspiration. Being cliché is his only peeve. He values originality as the most important thing any creator should be concerned with.
