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¡saludos! Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems. – Rainer Maria Rilke Here at Gemini Ink we bring you experiences that will help all of us be like children who know poems. Knowing poems — and stories, and memoir and all the forms of reading and writing — is a blessed state and one that enriches both individuals and communities. Join us this semester for opportunities to read, write, understand, hope, rejuvenate, and create the full promise of spring. There is no better response to difficult times.You’ll notice we’re discounting all our fee-based classes again in an ongoing effort to ease your financial burden. We also ask that you consider making a contribution — however small — to our annual fund so that we can continue sharing the healing power of reading and writing free of charge with incarcerated teens, battered women and children, the homeless — those among us who have always been told they have “nothing to say.” Become an activist for the life-altering power of language! ¡Mil gracias! Rosemary Catacalos Executive | Artistic Director
about Gemini Ink Gemini Ink nurtures writers and readers and builds community through literature and the related arts. We now serve an average of 5,000 patrons annually – from the avid reader to troubled youth, and from the professional writer to the elder who wants to record her family stories. Writers in Communities (WIC) sends professional writers into diverse community settings to work alongside students of all ages, needs, interests, and abilities in free workshops based in oral traditions, reading, and creative writing. The Autograph Series presents writers of national and international stature – many of them recipients of major prizes such as the Pulitzer or National Book Award – in free public performances and a ticketed colloquium luncheon the next day. University Without Walls (UWW) offers three semesters of fee-based reading groups and workshops and also many free literary events, all led by professional writers, scholars, and interdisciplinary artists. Dramatic Readers Theater (DRT) features professional actors interpreting literary works in free performances, often accompanied by original music. Cover Art: Detail of Eric Avery’s Do Unto Others, 2001 containing an appropriation of Sue Coe’s Bomb Shelter? Iraq print, 1991. Used by permission of the artists and through the courtesy of the Southwest School of Art and Craft. See back cover.
Gemini Ink, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization, is extremely grateful for contributions from avid readers and writers, as well as grants from the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, the Edouard Foundation, Guerra • DeBerry • Coody Marketing and Communications, Ruth Lang Charitable Fund of the San Antonio Area Foundation, H-E-B, the Albert and Bessie Mae Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, the Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation, the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, the San Antonio Express-News, the Martin Foundation, the Smothers Foundation, the Jack and Doris Smothers and Mary Ann Smothers Bruni Memorial Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rackspace Foundation, and theFund. We extend very special thanks for in-kind support to H-E-B and Clear Visions for the printing of our course catalogues, and Tesoro Corporation for the printing of Cyndi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center anthologies.
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spring 2010 schedule Dates
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Tuesday, Dec. 15
Spring Registration Begins
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Monday, Jan. 4
Multi-Genre/Haddad
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Thursday, Jan. 7
First Thursday Reading
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Sunday, Jan. 17
Dramatic Readers Theater
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Saturday, Jan. 23
Nonfiction / CantĂş
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Wednesday, Jan. 27
Lifelong Learning / Grissom*
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Saturday, Jan. 30
Lifelong Learning / Gravenhorst* page 10
Friday, Feb. 5
First Friday Reading
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Saturday, Feb 6
Multi-Genre / Cardona
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Thursday, Feb. 18
Autograph Series Reading
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Friday, Feb. 19
Autograph Series Luncheon
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Friday, Feb. 26
Special Reading: Josh Weil
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Saturday, Feb. 27
Fiction / Weil
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Friday, Mar. 5
First Friday Reading
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Saturday, Mar. 6
Poetry / Rogers
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Monday, Mar. 15
Fiction / Liss*
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Thursday, Mar. 25
2 to Watch
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Thursday, Apr. 1
First Thursday Reading
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Saturday, Apr. 10
Fiction / McKinney
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Thursday, May 6
Community Talk Special Reading: Phillip Lopate
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Friday, May 7
First Friday Reading
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Saturday, May 8
Multi-Genre / Tingle Poetry / Levy
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Sunday, May 9
Nonfiction / Lopate
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Note: Classes are shown here by genre and instructor(s). See page listings for detailed class gemini ink 2010and registration deadlines. *Multi-session courses are shown with an 3 spring catalogue descriptions asterisk.
About Our Classes Are you interested in music, photography, theater, science, or philosophy? Are you a teacher searching for ideas to use in the classroom? Are you a business professional wanting to polish your communication skills? Do you enjoy books and good conversation? Maybe you’ve always wanted to be a writer, but you’re not sure how to get started. Or you’re a writer whose work needs more attention. The University Without Walls program offers a wide range of classes and workshops for anyone with an inquisitive mind. Whether you’re curious about ideas or deeply committed to the craft of writing, you’ll find the literary camaraderie you’re looking for at Gemini Ink. Our faculty members have extensive credentials and are committed to teaching. And, at the heart of our classes are creative, intelligent, and talented students like you. Join our community and make Gemini Ink part of your life.
Course Levels Beginner: Writers or readers who are new to the course subject and/or design. Intermediate: Writers or readers who have background knowledge of the course subject, will complete required readings, and will actively participate in class discussion. These writers have had working practice with this aspect of craft and have participated in at least one writing workshop (either with Gemini Ink or elsewhere); they are comfortable with in-class writing exercises. Intermediate/Advanced: Intermediate level requirements, plus a knowledge of all technical and formal aspects pertinent to this class. Participants are experienced in critical analysis. Writers have a history of practical experience in this area, have participated in several writing workshops, and are probably researching the publication process (and have a realistic understanding of its demands). Advanced: Intermediate/ Advanced requirements, plus extensive knowledge of this course subject. Each participant is something of an expert in this field. Each writer has attained a professional level, that is, writing has become an integral part of her/his routine and her/his work is of publication quality. Course levels are self-selected. spring catalogue
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#1 Uncharted Territory: Exploring Novellas Level: All Instructor: Josh Weil Many great works of modern fiction have been novellas – The Old Man and the Sea; Of Mice and Men; Heart of Darkness; Brokeback Mountain – yet it’s a rarely explored form in contemporary writing. Why? What is a novella? What can it accomplish that’s different from what a short story or novel can accomplish? And, most importantly: How can we writers grab hold of this powerful form to tell our stories in fresh ways? Through lecture, discussion, and in-class exercises, this course will explore answers to these questions, leaving students equipped with a new way of telling stories. Date: Saturday, Feb. 27, 9am - 2pm (lunch break included) Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 24 CPE Credits: 4 Language Arts Fee: $100 Discounted Fee: $90
#2 The Novel: Structure and Development Level: Advanced Instructor: David Liss This course for advanced writers will focus on the theoretical principles behind planning, developing, and commencing work upon a full length novel. Students will work on mastering the principles behind effective character development, plotting, and story development. Class time will center on the analysis of published works, as well as the students’ own writing. Dates: 6 Mondays: Mar. 15, 22, 29 and Apr. 5, 12, 19; 7 - 9pm Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Thursday, Mar. 11 Required Materials: Students must submit a 10 to 15 page excerpt of a work in progress upon registration. Required Reading: A reading list will be available upon registration. CPE Credits: 9 Language Arts Fee: $110 Discounted Fee: $99 PRIVATE EDITING SERVICES Former Trinity University teacher Donley Watt is available for private editing services. Prize-winning author of five books of fiction, Watt has taught creative writing at the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University. Short stories, memoirs, creative nonfiction and novels accepted. $40/hour; $40 minimum. Book-length manuscripts, $400 minimum. Call 210.734.WORD to arrange services. gemini ink 2010
#3 Writing Modern Horror
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Level: All Instructor: Joe McKinney Why isn’t your villain scary? Why do your characters seem flat, your setting dull? Why isn’t your meandering prologue a good beginning? Through a combination of lecture, discussion and in-class writing exercises, Joe McKinney’s one day seminar on writing modern horror will help you answer these questions and craft a story that will truly scare your audience. There is no required reading, but students should bring writing materials and have a general idea for a story they’d like to write. By the end of the day, the skeleton of that story idea will have some real meat on it. Date: Saturday, April 10, noon - 5pm (short break included) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, April 7 CPE Credits: 4 Language Arts Fee: $90 Discounted Fee: $81
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#4 Poetic Mimicry: Nature in Poetry Level: All Instructor: Pattiann Rogers Our workshop will focus on how the details and processes of the natural world inform us and how that experience can be expressed and made more vital through poetry. The term “biomimicry” has been broadly defined as “nature as model, measure and mentor” and is an approach applicable to the arts as well as a field of scientific research. We will discuss the ways nature can be used in poetry as model, measure, mentor, and also metaphor, and look at specific poems as examples of this approach. There will be prompts given and writing time provided in class to bring our imaginations and skills to this topic. Date: Saturday, Mar. 6, 9am - 1pm (short break included) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Mar. 3 CPE Credits: 3 Language Arts Fee: $90 Discounted Fee: $81 Be good to the earth... If you do not need this catalogue, please contact us to remove your name from our mailing list.
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Registration and Payment Policies Registration and payment should be made as soon as possible. Class size is limited and filled on a first-come, firstserved basis. After the published deadline, we accept registrations on a space-available basis until three days before the class. A late fee will be assessed after the first class meeting for any unpaid tuition. We will charge a $10 processing fee for any returned check.
Registration Fee Be sure to include the $10 registration fee in your total. The fee is required each time you enroll for classes and helps cover expenses like registration staffing, classroom maintenance, handouts, flyers, mailings, and supplies. If you are taking several classes, register for them all at once to avoid paying multiple registration fees!
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Class Cancellations Gemini Ink reserves the right to cancel or reschedule courses to adjust for enrollment. If it is necessary to cancel a course, all registered participants will be informed immediately and will be extended the opportunity to transfer to another course. If participants enrolled in a canceled class do not wish to transfer, a full refund will be made.
Discounts on Class Tuition! The class fee reflects our existing 10% discount. An additional 5% deduction is offered to educators, seniors (65+), and students. Refer five friends to any University Without Walls class or combination of classes, and we’ll waive your tuition for one class or workshop. Some restrictions apply. Call the office at 210.734.9673 for details.
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Withdrawals A student may withdraw from a Gemini Ink workshop at any time. The student must notify the office at least 5 business days prior to the first date of the workshop to be eligible for full tuition refunds, less a $25 withdrawal fee. Alternately, tuition transfers to another class are available within the same semester. Withdrawal notifications not made within 5 business days of the workshop are not eligible for tuition refunds, but students may transfer tuition to another class within the same semester, less a $25 late withdrawal fee and/or faculty cost. Withdrawal notifications made the day of the workshop or after the workshop has begun are not eligible for refunds or transfers of any kind. Transfer of tuition across semesters is not possible. Failure to attend sessions or verbal notification to instructor will not be regarded as official notice of withdrawal. Refunds will be processed within 14 business days. Refund checks must be cashed within 90 days of the check date. Otherwise, we will have to charge for any stoppayment costs we incur.
Special Info Occasionally classes will be photographed or videotaped. Please notify the instructor if you wish to be excluded. Adult classes are open to high school students by permission of the instructor only. On occasion, classes may deviate from the published course descriptions.
Volunteering. Do the Write Thing. Work toward a free class! We have lots of opportunities and a variety of jobs to do. To learn more please call 210.734.9673 and pitch in!
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#5 The Play of Poetry Level: All Instructor: Rich Levy Poetry occupies a place almost wholly outside the world of work, for most of us outside of academia. In this workshop, which I hope will speak especially to those who are writing poems in their “spare time” (whatever that is), we’ll focus on the play of poetry, and how it lifts us out of the quotidian and makes us see the world anew. Together we’ll read and discuss some fine poems, do some in-class writing, share and enhance work we’ve already written, and in general fall in love with poetry and the world again. Hopefully we’ll figure out how to add a little joy to the workday. Date: Saturday, May 8, 9am - 1pm (short break included) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 5 Required Materials: Please bring as many as three of your poems to class (12 copies of each) that you would like to have “workshopped.” CPE Credits: 3 Language Arts Fee: $90 Discounted Fee: $81
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#6 Telling to Live: Writing Your Life Story Level: All Instructor: Norma Cantú Do you have an urge to tell your family’s story? Have people said, “You should write a book!” when you tell them stories of your life? Telling to Live: Writing Your Life Story is a one-day workshop focusing on the key elements of life writing. The participants will engage in in-class writing exercises designed to elicit writing that focuses on personal recollection. Come prepared to write and share your work with the class. Leave with a plan for completing a project. Date: Saturday, Jan. 23, 10am - 1pm Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Jan. 20 Required Materials: Submit a one-page (double spaced, size 12 font) proposal of what you would like to write by registration deadline. CPE Credits: 3 Language Arts Fee: $ 90 Discounted Fee: $81
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#7 Nonfiction Seminar: Personal Essay, Memoir and The Uses of Contrariety Level: All Instructor: Phillip Lopate This workshop will focus on personal essay and memoir writing. Participants are encouraged to bring reasonably short pieces to share and have critiqued in class. One special emphasis will be on the uses of contrariety: the power and delight to be gained by nonconformist nonfiction writing that stands accepted wisdom on its head. One technique is to praise an ostensible negative value, such as Hazlitt’s “The Pleasure of Hating;” another is to challenge the value of an assumed positive value (see for instance Gombrowicz’s “Against Poetry,” Joyce Carol Oates’ “Against Nature,” Laura Kipnis’s “Against Love,” Max Beerbohm’s “Going Out for a Walk”). We may also take a commonly held adage (like “Absence makes the heart grow fonder”) and question it. Finally, we can go deeper into our own ambivalence by practicing the art of thinking against oneself. The cultivation of doubt, paradox, aphorism will all be at a premium. Date: Sunday, May 9, 9am - 1pm Limit: 12 participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 5 CPE Credits: 3 Language Arts Fee: $100 Discounted Fee: $90
Credit for Teachers Gemini Ink is registered with the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) as a provider of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) activities for standard certificate renewal for teachers. CPE credits are listed by each course description. Certificates will be mailed within 7 days of course completion.
Business and Professional Managers If you are looking for an exciting continuing education experience for your valued employees, a Gemini Ink class is ideal. University Without Walls class offerings begin on page 4. For writing instruction in the workplace, contact the Director of the Writers in Communities program at our office. Whether held at our site or yours, our classes will enrich your employees’ lives on and off the job.
Course Texts Most course texts and faculty books may be purchased at the Gemini Ink office during business hours (call for availability), or at The Twig Book Shop, 5005 Broadway, 1.800.SAYTWIG. The Twig donates 20% of our in-office book sales to Gemini Ink. www.thetwig.booksense.com Manuscript Submissions
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#8 Professional Editorial Consultations Level: Advanced Instructor: Marian Haddad Students may submit 10 pages of poetry (no more than one poem per page) or five pages of creative nonfiction, double spaced. Marian will schedule 3045 minute consultations on an individual basis, either in person or by phone; those choosing the phone consultation will need to provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope for the return of their manuscript with Marian’s notes. Manuscripts may be accepted after registration at the consultant’s discretion. Date: Individual consultations will be arranged for either a phone or in-person meeting. Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Accepting manuscripts from Jan. 4 - Jan. 20 Fee: $100 Discounted Fee: $90
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For courses requiring advance manuscripts, please send manuscript in the body of the email to info@geminiink.org. Manuscripts must have at least one-inch margins, be in an easily legible font, adhere to the instructor’s specified length limitations, and, if fiction, be double-spaced. Please note that Gemini Ink is unable to reformat manuscripts that don’t meet these guidelines. Include your instructor’s name, along with your name and contact information. The email should indicate “manuscript” and class number in the subject line. Manuscripts will be circulated electronically for advance critique. Please bring one hard copy to class. Guidelines for critiques are available from our office and at www.geminiink. org. Manuscripts submitted after the published deadline will be distributed in class and discussed only at the instructor’s discretion. Call 210.734.9673 for instructions if you don’t use email.
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Thank You We are grateful to our many Gemini Ink donors and funders who make it possible to keep your tuition affordable.
Interested in Teaching? Proposals for classes are invited! Generally, we require that our faculty have significant publishing and teaching experience. Please send a sample course outline, résumé/curriculum vitae, and (if possible) a copy of a recent book. Direct your materials to Leslie Plant, Director, University Without Walls, or, to teach in community settings, send to the director of Writers in Communities.
Plans in the Making Parents! If your children are interested in classes/workshops for young writers, please call our office at 210.734.9673 to get on our planning list. When we have ten potential students, we’ll try to put a workshop together, depending on instructor availability and compatible ages in the group.
#9 Let’s Celebrate the Pegasus In All of Us Level: All Instructor: Jacinto Jesús Cardona You say you want to start writing? Join me! Writing is exultation! So let’s catapult into our creativity. We’ll start with a list, all grist for the mill. Let’s generate a zany litany or compose a prose poem or pollinate a paragraph and if you’re a teacher, I’ll bring my bag of writing trix to cajole the writing pixie out of the child in all of us. So let’s sip from the sparkling Hippocrene. It’s all duende, comprende? On your mark, get set: Let’s germinate & illuminate! Date: Saturday, Feb. 6, 10am - 1pm (short break included) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 3 Required Materials: Just bring your paper, pencil, plus potential! CPE Credits: 3 Language Arts Fee: $50 Discounted Fee: $45
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Unless otherwise noted, events take place in our bright green building at 513 S. Presa in Southtown/King William. If you are coming from 35&10, exit Durango Blvd. East. Drive to S. Presa and turn right. We are on your right. From 37/281, exit Durango Blvd. West. Drive to the stoplight at S. Alamo and turn left; take the next right on S. Presa. We are on your left almost at the end of the block.
Parking Parking for classes and events at our facility is available in front of the building, along the street, and across the street in the lot marked “Gemini Ink.” In the interest of being good neighbors, we ask that you not park in the El Mirador restaurant lot next door. Gemini Ink provides parking for the physically challenged in front of the building, which is wheelchair accessible.
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#10 Writing, Telling, Looking For the Light Level: All Instructor: Tim Tingle Through writing, storytelling, and readings, students will uncover elements of light in even the darkest narrative. From dark times or memories, students will craft a story, spoken or written, and be given the opportunity to either read or perform their writing. Tingle, a storyteller-turned-writer, will offer feedback in both mediums. Poetic images and evocative word choices will strengthen an oral performance; and a ready grasp of vocal rhythms will increase a writer’s ability to reach his audience. Students will leave the workshop with a plot-candle in the darkness, and a story ready for revision. Bring story ideas and a fresh mind and body. Date: Saturday, May 8, 9am - 3pm (lunch break included) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 5 CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts Fee: $66 Discounted Fee: $60
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#11 Literary Excursions Level: All Instructor: Coleen Grissom
Trinity English professor Coleen Grissom once again introduces students to recent fiction and referees their discussions. These sessions are guaranteed to offend, challenge, and delight intellectually curious, serious readers. Classes consist of engaged, informed critical analysis of the readings which include short stories and novels. Dates: 6 Wednesdays, noon - 1:30pm
Jan. 27 Kate Atkinson, When Will There Be Good News?
Feb. 3 Toni Morrison, A Mercy Feb. 10 Julia Glass, I See You Everywhere Feb. 17 Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark & Termite
Gift Shop Our inventory includes books by current and previous Gemini Ink faculty; signed, limited edition prints, handmade chapbooks of the works of Gemini award winners, and gift certificates for University Without Walls classes and workshops. We also stock the literary journal, Rain Taxi, which is free for the taking. Visit us soon!
Lending Library Gemini Ink has an eclectic array of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and how-to-write books, as well as literary journals that are available to borrow. Please stop by and check out our titles.
Facilities Rental Does your writing group, discussion group, or book club need a place to meet? The Gemini Ink conference room and large meeting room are each available for a small $20/hour rental fee. Our facility belongs to you. Please take this opportunity to call the office for details.
Staff Rosemary Catacalos Executive | Artistic Director Rachel Christilles* Financial Officer Jennifer Herrera Director, Communications Anisa Onofre Director, WIC Leslie Plant Director, UWW Evelyn Reyes Managing Director Carolene Zehner Registrar | Operations Manager *part-time
Volunteers Jim Dawes Facilitator, Open Writing Workshop Roland Huff Facilitator, Open Writing Workshop
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Feb. 24 Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs Mar. 3 Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood Limit: 50 Participants Registration Deadline: Monday, Jan. 25 CPE Credits: 9 Language Arts (all levels) Fee: $110 Discounted Fee: $99
Gloria Pins Arecchi CPA Bett Butler Dramatic Readers Theater Louis Fincias Network Master Lynn Gosnell Communications
Interns Laura Kraus
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Gemini Ink Board of Directors Marian Aitches Senior Lecturer in History, University of Texas at San Antonio Norma E. Cantú, Ph.D. Professor of English, University of Texas at San Antonio, Writer Rosemary Catacalos (Ex officio), Executive | Artistic Director, Writer Sallie Chasnoff (on leave) Community Volunteer Tess Coody Partner, Guerra DeBerry Coody Marketing & Communications, Writer William A. Dupont, AIA San Antonio Conservation Society Endowed Professor of Architecture, University of Texas at San Antonio William Fisher Attorney, Cox, Smith, Matthews Inc. Anthony E. Hargrove Executive Director, Ella Austin Community Center Julie Hasdorff Attorney, Hasdorff & Convery, PC James Heidelberg Attorney, Escamilla & Poneck, Inc. María Luisa Holmgreen Attorney Marianne C. Reuter Arts Consultant
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#12 Historical Home Research in Nonfiction Writing Level: All Instructor: Edna Campos-Gravenhorst Do you live in a historic home or in an old city neighborhood? Have you ever driven past a grand old house and wondered who built this house? Who were the original owners? What were the previous owners about? If you spent time researching that house, that neighborhood and its people, what would you do with the information? In this lecture you will learn, where to go, what to look for and how to use your research to write nonfiction books and articles. Then, you will learn where and how to submit them for publication once you have written them.
Date: 2 Saturdays, Jan. 30 and Feb. 6, 9:30am - noon Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Jan. 27 CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts Fee: $72 Discounted Fee: $65
National Advisory Board Dorothy Allison San Francisco Robert Boswell Houston Sandra Cisneros San Antonio Katy Flato San Antonio Robert Flynn San Antonio Ernest J. Gaines Louisiana Edward Hirsch New York Tony Hoagland Houston Phillip Lopate New York Terry McMillan California W.S. Merwin Hawaii Antonya Nelson Houston Naomi Shihab Nye San Antonio Gregory Orr Charlottesville Carolyn Osborn Austin Martha Rhodes New York Richard Russo Maine John Phillip Santos San Antonio Ellen Bryant Voigt Vermont Chuck Wachtel New York Marion Winik Pennsylvania
Open Writing Workshop Join this peer-driven workshop facilitated by longtime Gemini Ink volunteers Jim Dawes and Roland Huff. Share your writing and get feedback on works-in-progress in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere. The workshop is held from 6:30 - 8:30 pm, on the last Monday of every month at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa.This season’s Open Writing Workshops will be held on Jan. 25, Feb. 22, and Mar. 29, Apr. 26, and May 31. Bring 6 - 10 copies of your work to share!
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spring 2010 facult y Professor Norma E. Cantú, author of the award winning Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (University of New Mexico Press, 1997), brings 30 years of teaching experience. Co-editor of Telling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios (Duke University Press, 2001) and a number of academic books, both her academic and creative work focuses on the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. She teaches at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Jacinto Jesús Cardona is the author of Pan Dulce (Chili Verde Press, 1998), a book of poems. A native of Alice, the Hub of South Texas, he celebrates the x in Mex, the x in Tex, and the humble x his mother used to make. He is the recipient of the Imagineer Award, the Ford Salute to Education in the Arts, and the Trinity Prize for Teaching Excellence. He teaches English at Incarnate Word High School and in the Upward Bound Program at Trinity University.
Edna Campos-Gravenhorst is the author of six books, three directly related to historical research: Historical Home Research in the City of St. Louis (2003), Benton Park West (Arcadia, 2005) and Southwest Garden (Arcadia, 2008). In 2002, she founded Three Nosey Broads Historical Research. She has researched more than 300 structures in St. Louis, Missouri for developers, architects, realtors, and homeowners, in addition to writing the column, “Every House Tells a Story” for the Soulard Renaissance and Tower Grove East News.
Having served Trinity University since 1958 in administrative and teaching roles, Coleen Grissom now teaches three courses each semester in the English department: Writing Workshop, First Year Seminar, and Contemporary Literature. In October 2008, the Trinity University Press published A Novel Approach to Life, a collection of speeches which she has written and delivered over the past five decades.
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Marian Haddad, poet and essayist, has two published poetry collections: a chapbook entitled Saturn Falling Down (2003) and Somewhere between Mexico and a River Called Home (Pecan Grove Press 2004), listed as recommended reading by The Small Press Review and Valparaiso Review. Haddad has taught creative writing workshops at Our Lady of the Lake University and Northwest Vista College, as well as teaching international literature at St. Mary’s University. Haddad is a manuscript consultant whose clients have won various prizes including The Ashland Poetry Prize and The Whitebird Chapbook Competition. She is working on two collections of poetry and two collections of essays. Rich Levy is a poet and, since 1995, executive director of Inprint, a nonprofit literary arts organization based in Houston, Texas. He earned his MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and his poems have appeared in Boulevard, Gulf Coast, High Plains Literary Review, Pool, The Texas Observer, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. His first poetry collection, Why Me?, was published in 2009 by Mutabilis Press. A jazz obsessive, he has three teenage children, two dogs, and one sleepy cat. David Liss is the author six novels, most recently The Devil’s Company (Random House, 2009). He has five previous bestselling novels: A Conspiracy of Paper (Random House, 2000), winner of the 2000 Edgar Award for Best First Novel, The Coffee Trader (Random House, 2003), A Spectacle of Corruption (Random House, 2006), The Ethical Assassin (Ballantine, 2004) and The Whiskey Rebels (Random House, 2008). His novels have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and four of his books, as well as a short story, are in development as film projects. When not writing fiction, David Liss may be found scripting comic books, or updating his entertaining and edifying blog at www.davidliss.com. Phillip Lopate is an essayist, novelist and poet. His essay collections include Bachelorhood (Little, Brown, 1981), Against Joie de Vivre (Poseidon Press, 1989), and Portrait of My Body (Anchor, 1997), along with a selected best, Getting Personal (Basic Books, 2003). As an editor, he contributed to the anthology Art of the Personal Essay (Anchor, 1997). His fiction includes The Rug Merchant (Penguin, 1987) and Two Marriages (Other Press, 2008); while his latest publication is a selected poetry collection, At the End of the Day (Mark Hawk Press, 2010). Currently he teaches at Columbia University and in the graduate programs at Bennington, the New School, and Hofstra University. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, amongst others.
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Joe McKinney is a homicide detective for the San Antonio Police Department with a Master’s Degree in English Literature from UTSA. He is the author of Dead City (Pinnacle, 2006) and Quarantined (Lachesis, 2009). McKinney has more than 30 horror, crime, and science fiction short stories published, and has received extensive professional training in disaster mitigation, forensics, and homicide investigation techniques. His upcoming novels include Apocalypse of the Dead, The Zombie King, Inheritance (all forthcoming from Kensington), and Lost Girl of the Lake (Bad Moon Books).
Pattiann Rogers has published 11 books of poetry, most recently Wayfare (Penguin, 2008) and Firekeeper, Revised and Expanded (Milkweed, 2006). The Grand Array, a book of her essays, is forthcoming from Trinity University Press in the fall, 2010. Rogers is the recipient of two NEA Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a 2005 Literary Award from the Lannan Foundation. Her poems have won five Pushcart Prizes and have appeared in The Best American Poetry, 1996 and 2010, and in The Best Spiritual Writing, 1999, 2000, 2001, and 2002. Rogers has been a visiting writer at numerous universities and was an associate professor at the University of Arkansas from 1993-1997. Tim Tingle is an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a frequent speaker at tribal events. Author of six books, including the award-winning Crossing Bok Chitto (Cinco Puntos Press, 2006), Tingle was a featured storyteller at the Native American wing of the Smithsonian Institute in 2006 and 2007. At the 2008 American Library Association Conference in Anaheim, California, he performed on the multi-ethnic concert, “Many Voices, One Nation.” His first book, Walking the Choctaw Road (Cinco Puntos Press, 2005), is a fictional depiction of tribal history covering two centuries, and his upcoming children’s book, Saltypie (Cinco Puntos Press, 2010), is a family tale of 20th century Indian struggles and triumph. Josh Weil is the author of the novella collection The New Valley (Grove, 2009), a New York Times Editors Choice selection for which he was honored with a “5 Under 35” National Book Award. His fiction and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Granta, Glimmer Train, Poets & Writers, and Narrative, among other publications. Since earning his MFA from Columbia University, he has received a Fulbright grant, a Writer’s Center Emerging Writer Fellowship, the Dana Award in Portfolio, and fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences. He is the writer-in-residence at Gilman School in Baltimore. gemini ink 2010
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I will die like a peach from the inside out, soft tissue darkening, drying, flaking apart, losing what sweetness it had. There will be no remedy for this rotting, but I won’t lose my pit to decay, holding fast with the pink strings of my will to a hard center— a seed, little dancing homunculus, its desires and secret fatigue intact.
The rain poured down. Gorman staggered through the burnt camp until he came upon a half-eaten blackened corpse. Chinaman or white man, he couldn’t tell. Five of the hogs were nearby. They were dead, too. There had been six. He heard a soft grunting behind him. It was Clarabelle, her muzzle stained black, like she’d been eating coal. A groan escaped Gorman’s lips. Clarabelle didn’t have a hog’s eyes any more. The vile light emanating from them, the cruel understanding, was that of the skinwalker. Gorman backed up, shaking his head. Through the gray sheets of rain the hog followed. “Skinwalker” by Joe McKinney from the forthcoming story collection Dark Alleys
There was no wind at all, but the chill bit through his sweatshirt even without it. His ears were cold. It seemed sad to him that those hay bales were just rotten lumps now, more than sad, a feeling pressed at his chest like a giant hand pushing with a spread palm. A cow, somewhere, lowed a couple times, and then was quiet. It was a little while before Osby realized he was crying. “Ridge Weather” By Josh Weil from The New Valley (Grove, 2009) spring catalogue catalogue spring
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Yellow Cab by Jacinto Cardona Feeling fabulous in the backseat of a yellow cab, giddy like the lug nuts, I become the king of gab. Bad things will happen to me, I know, but right now I am in the flow, the green glow of synchronized semaphores. The manholes cough. Oh, how I ache for window cake. Fired by the carnival, I swear I lived for weeks like a barnacle. Or was I a young bivalve clapping my way through the waves? nothing more riotous than a cold lump of toad watching like a stone for a wing of diaphanous light to pass, as still as a possum’s feint no message more profane than three straws of frost-covered grass leaning together on an empty dune a quiet more silent than a locked sacristy at midnight, more vacant than the void of an ancient secret lost at sea no sound, not even a sigh the width of one scale of a white moth’s wing, not even a hush the length of a candle’s blink nothing, even less than an imagined finger held to imagined lips from “Less Than a Whisper Poem” by Pattiann Rogers
Maisie walked into the kitchen. I followed, but only for something to do. I was always bored and uneasy when I came to the apartment. I felt strange, like I was play acting for some invisible audience, like I was a grownup trying to recapture the magic of childhood toys. Nothing with her felt natural. Christ, I could talk to a dog and feel less like I was talking to myself. That’s why I kept the visits short. I would drink the beer, order her do some light cleaning, and then get out of there. “What Maisie Knew” by David Liss from The New Dead, (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2010) ed. by Christopher Golden
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writers in communities helping people tell their stories Writers in Communities (WIC) sends professional writers into diverse community settings to work alongside students of all ages, needs, interests, and abilities in free workshops based in oral traditions, reading, and creative writing. Having served well over 6,000 individuals since inception, we continue to pursue innovative partnerships to bring programs for creative expression to the San Antonio community.
Writers in Communities Partners The Rackspace Foundation East Central Independent School District Battered Women and Children’s Shelter of Bexar County Cyndi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center Harlandale Independent School District McNay Art Museum San Antonio Independent School District Methodist Healthcare Ministries Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department Bob Ross Senior Center City of San Antonio Department of Community Initiatives
Writers in the Schools In Fall 2009, WIC embarked on a new partnership with East Central Independent School District (ECISD), offering returning high school students the opportunity to create poetry and art in two workshops both centered around culture and foodways. Austin poet Abe Louise Young kicked off the Words in the Kitchen project that ran for 12-weeks at ECISD’s Learning Center. Students in the storybook portion are young parents writing children’s stories, while the mosaic component integrates students’ writings into the creation of 6-12 mosaic plates. Writer Regina Moya facilitates the workshops, and the artist-in-residence is painter and ceramicist Carolina Flores. WIC teams up with the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD) once again on a project titled My Neighborhood in which students from five elementary schools work with professional artists and writers in a 12week workshop. Professional writers Donna Peacock, Regina Moya, Lyle Rosdahl and Rachel Jennings help students create poetry of their own, while a classroom mural exhibiting the students’ ideas about community and neighborhood will be designed with assistance from professional muralists Michael Marks, Robert Poschmann, and Fadela Castro. A collection of writing and art will be published early this spring. This project is generously funded by the George W. Brackenridge Foundation. Through our new partnership with the Rackspace Foundation, WIC is conducting a four-week after-school project entitled Word and Image: My Part of Town for 30 students at Northeast Independent School District’s Ed White Middle School. Workshop facilitators, Natalia Treviño and Ignacio Magaloni, are building students’ awareness, pride, and affinity for their neighborhood through creative writing. In the second half of the workshop, illustrator Michael Marks will work with students to create images for their poetry. The published results will be a series of broadside posters that extend into the community transforming their neighborhood into a multi-site “gallery.” A neighborhood walking tour will be designed with maps made available at participating sites throughout the students’ neighborhood. spring catalogue
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One of WIC’s upcoming projects is My Family/Mi Familia, Bonham Elementary’s After-School Bilingual Poetry Project. This two week bilingual project will be facilitated by multidisciplinary artist and writer Eduardo Cavazos Garza. Broadsides including the students’ work will be published in February 2010.
Writers in the Community Writers Cary Clack, Edna Campos-Gravenhorst, and Trey Moore are currently collecting interviews for The Stories of the Uninsured project, funded and commissioned by Methodist Healthcare Ministries (MHM). The project goal is to document 30 stories of the uninsured in San Antonio and to have them transcribed, as well as collected in audio format for historical documentation and future media use.
Writers in the Juvenile Justice Setting WIC involvement continues at the Cyndi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center with Yo Soy / I Am, a 12-week poetry workshop facilitated by writer and playwright Gregg Barrios. Students are studying Keats, Whitman, and other traditional poets along with lyrics by contemporary rappers focusing on line, rhyme scheme, and free verse. The work will culminate in an anthology of their work and a celebratory reading in January. This Spring WIC is running a 12 week storybook project at W.I.N.G.S. for Life, Inc. (Women in Need of Greater Strength). The Storybook Project will provide creative reading and writing workshops to ten young mothers which focus on children’s literature.
Now available from Gemini Ink: Writers in Communities Anthologies Mi Constelación Está en Mis Manos, Spring 2009 A collection of bilingual poetry by women and children from the Battered Women and Children’s Shelter In My Mind Was Planted a Seed, Fall 2009 A culmination of WIC’s recent collaboration with the Bexar County Juvenile Probation Department. This anthology showcases poetry and photographs by young people on juvenile probation. Each anthology is $10. All proceeds benefit the Writers in Communities program. Gemini Ink also features a published WIC anthology every month on our website www.geminiink.org
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By Jackie Rodriguez, 8th grade Harlandale ISD
There’s a place beyond any sea, You have got to close your eyes, And just believe. A curious girl in a field of roses Surrounded by oak trees There’s no way out, what a surprise. Red, red roses and baby’s breath, Vivid butterflies, they’re lost too And hope is all we have left to live for. The drillings of oil pumps linger in the distance Life beyond this abandoned root, A small business of workers with families. Oak trees can’t compare To the sweetness of honeybees And the scent of flowers that swim in the air. Clouds, shape-shifters in their own minds, Roses like chocolates, intoxicating The North Star: a convenient little sign to follow. Morning dew and heavy breathing of polluted air, Oh, how these awakened trees fence me into this field. A part of me wants no solution.
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In Memor y of Jack Myers... Jack Myers, born in Winthrop, Massachusetts in 1941, died at home in November after a long illness. Myers — one of the first Poets Laureate of Texas (20032004) — published ten volumes of poetry and several other works about poetry, among them the reference work The Longman Dictionary of Poetic Terms and the anthology New American Poets of the 90s. His work was widely anthologized and has appeared in hundreds of literary journals, from Esquire and The Nation to POETRY and The American Poetry Review. His book of poems, As Long As You’re Happy, was a National Poetry Series selection for 1985 by Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney. He was granted many fellowships and awards for his work, among them two from the National Endowment for the Arts and two from the Texas Institute of Letters. The father of four children, he lived in Mesquite, Texas, and taught and directed the creative writing program at Southern Methodist University. He served on the board of the Dallas literary center, The Writer’s Garret, was a past vice-president of the 15,000-member Associated Writing Programs, and also taught creative writing in the low-residency Vermont College MFA Program in Writing. He is survived by his wife, Thea Temple, founder of The Writer’s Garret, and numerous family and friends. Memorial contributions may be made to The Writer’s Garret at this website: https:// www.applyweb.com/public/input?wgarret. A memorial service celebrating Jack Myers’ life will be held after the first of the year at Southern Methodist University. A notice will appear on the website of The Writer’s Garret <http://www.writersgarret.org> and be sent via social media and e-mail. To be informed, please send your e-mail address to jmyers@smu.edu
Going Up, Coming Down After fifty years of meditation, an old monk set out to live on top of a nearby mountain where he was determined to fast until enlightened. On the way up, he met an old man who looked wise and was struggling under a bundle of sticks. “Say, old man,” the monk asked, “do you know anything about this enlightenment?” The old man, who was really the Bodhisattva Manjusri and who was said to appear to people when they were ready to be enlightened, looked at the monk and in answer dropped his bundle. The monk, in that moment, was enlightened, and said “So that’s it, that’s all there is to it, just let go?” The Bodhisattva smiled and, in answer, picked up his burden and continued his journey. Jack Myers, from OneOnOne (Autumn House Press, Pittsburgh, 1999) gemini ink 2010
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More Good Stuff Community Talk Moderated by poet and memoirist Phillip Lopate, visual artist Kathy Vargas, and Dr. Jerry Winakur, this spring’s discussion will cover issues surrounding ethics in the arts. How far is too far when recreating or recording pain and suffering? Does this recreation or recording belong solely to the creator or also to the source? Where is the line between documentation and exploitation? These are sensitive topics in this volatile age, which often have seemingly arbitrary answers. Come develop your opinions in a frank and organic discussion of these questions. Co-sponsored with the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics University of Texas Health Science Center Thursday, May 6th at noon 7703 Floyd Curl Drive Free and Open to the Public
First Thursday and Friday Readings Thursday, January 7, 6:30pm at Central Library, 600 Soledad St. Joe McKinney and David Liss
Friday, February 5, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Rachel Jennings and Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral 2009 award recipient Emmy Perez
Friday, February 26, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Josh Weil, National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” award recipient
Friday, March 5, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Pattiann Rogers
Thursday, April 1, 6:30pm at Central Library, 600 Soledad St. Celebrate National Poetry Month with Jesse Cardona, Vocab, and Jenny Browne
Thursday, May 6, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Phillip Lopate
Friday, May 7, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Rich Levy and Tim Tingle
2 to Watch Artpace and Gemini Ink team up again this spring to present a pair of vibrant artists, both literary and visual, to discuss the crossroads of their processes. Join us as author Bárbara Renaud González and visual artist David Zamora Casas engage each other’s spirits and inspire each other’s work.
Thursday, March 25 6:30pm Artpace 445 N Main
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spring 2010 autograph series The Autograph Series Presents David Liss & Andrew Porter Co-sponsored by the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts and Trinity University EVENTS Public Reading with Q&A Thursday, February 18, 7– 9 pm Chapman Graduate Center Auditorium Trinity University 715 Stadium Drive General admission seating Free and open to the public Book signing follows
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David Liss is the author of five novels, with more on the way. His debut novel, A Conspiracy of Paper (Random House, 2000) with its hero, the pugilist turned private investigator Benjamin Weaver, was named a New York Times Notable Book and won him the 2001 Barry, MacAvity and Edgar awards for Best First Novel. David’s second novel, The Coffee Trader (Random House, 2003) was also named a New York Times Notable Book and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the year’s 25 Books to Remember. His third novel, A Spectacle of Corruption (Random House, 2006) the sequel to A Conspiracy of Paper, became a national bestseller. David’s fourth novel, The Ethical Assassin (Ballantine, 2004) is his first full-length work that is not historical fiction. David’s most recent novel, The Whiskey Rebels (Random House, 2008), is set in 1790’s Philadelphia and New York. The third Benjamin Weaver novel, The Devil’s Company (Random House, 2009), was released in late 2009. Born in New Jersey and raised in Florida, David is, in fact, a one-time encylopedia salesman. He received his B.A. from Syracuse University, an M.A. from Georgia State Universty and his M.Phil from Columbia University, where he left his dissertation unfinished to pursue his writing career. David lives in San Antonio with his wife and children. Andrew Porter grew up in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three children. He received his B.A. in English from Vassar College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the author of the short story collection, The Theory of Light and Matter, which won the 2007 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and will be republished in paperback by Vintage/Knopf in Spring 2010. The Theory of Light and Matter also received Foreword Magazine’s 2008 “Book of the Year” Award for Short Fiction, and was selected by both The Kansas City Star and the San Antonio Express-News as one of the “Best Books of 2008.” Among his fellowships and awards are a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship, a University of Iowa Teaching/Writing Fellowship, a Sewanee’ Writers’ Conference Scholarship, an Artist Foundation of San Antonio Award, and a Pushcart Prize. His fiction has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Threepenny Review, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology, among others. Porter is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Trinity University.
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Responsible Witness A Dramatic Readers Theater production at the Southwest School of Art & Craft Sunday, January 17 | 2 pm Russell Hill Rogers Gallery II Navarro Campus complementing Engaged and Fragmented art focusing on war | through January 24, 2010 Plato wrote that it is the poet’s obligation to bear witness to war, but writers, soldiers, priests, seers and victims have sung and written about the devastations of armed conflict since well before fifth century Greece. This production — featuring professional actors and musicians — will bring together writing of witness in many genres through the ages. The performance is free and open to the public.