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¡saludos! Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems. –Rainer Maria Rilke If you’re paying close attention, you’ll recognize this Rilke quote is the same one I used last year to welcome spring. I’ve cited it again because it’s so very appropriate to our best and brightest news of the season. Caroline Kennedy will visit San Antonio and Gemini Ink in April, touring her newest poetry anthology, She Walks in Beauty, A Woman’s Journey through Poems (Hyperion/Voice, 2011). Thanks to her mother, Caroline has been steeped in poetry since childhood, so she has always been “a child that knows poems.” She also believes in every child’s right to know poems and devotes a goodly portion of her time to that end. There is no more powerful ambassador on the national stage for reading, writing, poetry, and the power of language. (See pages 18 and 19.) As for the the local stage, our own Coleen Grissom is the maven par excellence for the power of language. This spring, she will, of course, handle the conversation with Caroline Kennedy at our colloquium luncheon and also run her wild literary discussion class again – to the amazement of participants and passersby alike. Other wonders this spring include a return round of screenwriting with prizewinning filmmaker Ya’Ke Smith, a stunning evening of La Causa performance with Gregg Barrios and friends, mind-body work that leads to writing with Tinka Tarver, a wide range of approaches to memoir, and much, much more. Also, see our website for writing by Writers in Communities students of all ages throughout our city. We show their anthologies in fancy page-turning software, so it’s almost like holding a real book! Rosemary Catacalos Executive | Artistic Director
about Gemini Ink Gemini Ink nurtures writers and readers and builds community through literature and the related arts. At Gemini Ink we believe human story in all its diverse and complicated forms and genres — from poetry and fiction to memoir and oral tradition — is essential to developing compassion and richness in both individual and community life. We encourage focused reading, writing, and exchange at every level, from elementary school student to incarcerated youth and from polished professional to the elder who has always wanted to record her family stories.
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 Brown Foundation, the City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation, the Edouard Foundation, Frost National Bank, theFund, Guerra • DeBerry • Coody Marketing and Communications, H-E-B, King William Association, the Albert and Bessie Mae Kronkosky Charitable Foundation, Ruth Lang Charitable Fund and Beulah M. and Felix J. Katz Memorial Trust of the San Antonio Area Foundation, Lifshutz Foundation, Martin Foundation, Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Genevieve and Ward Orsinger Foundation, Rackspace Foundation, the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation, the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts, the San Antonio Express-News, Shield-Ayres Foundation, the Smothers Foundation, the Jack and Doris Smothers and Mary Ann Smothers Bruni Memorial Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and Wayne Wright Lawyers. We extend very special thanks for in-kind support to H-E-B and Clear Visions Inc. for the printing of this catalogue.
Cover art: Linocut by Beatrice Peñaloza (now Catacalos), From In and Around the Alamo City, a book of linocuts and poetry by art students of Mrs. Mary Free, San Antonio Vocational and Technical School (now Fox Tech High School) Class of 1942.
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Classes & Events
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Monday, Jan. 3
Spring Registration Begins
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Saturday, Jan. 15
Poetry Out Loud (Regional Semi-finals)
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Wednesday, Jan. 26
Lifelong Learning / Grissom*
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Saturday, Jan. 29
Film / Scott
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Friday, Feb. 4
First Friday Reading
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Saturday, Feb. 5
Poetry / Mlinko Film / Smith
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Thursday, Feb. 10
POV Series
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Thursday & Friday, Feb. 17 & 18
AUTOGRAPH Series Colloquium Luncheon & Reading / Audrey Niffenegger
page 23
Friday, Feb. 18
Master Class: Conversation / Audrey Niffenegger
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Saturday & Sunday, Feb. 26 & 27
Lifelong / Shipley*
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Friday, Mar. 4
First Friday Reading
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Saturday, Mar. 5
Poetry / Cassells Nonfiction / Grimes
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Sunday, Mar. 20
Community Talk
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Friday, Apr. 1
First Friday Reading
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Saturday, Apr. 2
Fiction / Hinojosa-Smith Nonfiction / Taylor*
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Friday, Apr. 8
Expreso Mi Cultura with Gregg Barrios & Friends
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Wednesday, Apr. 20
Nonfiction / Silverstein
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Thursday & Friday, Apr. 28 &29
BREAKTHROUGH THINKERS Series page 18,19 Caroline Kennedy
Friday, May 6
First Friday Reading
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Saturday, May 7
Fiction / Rosario* Lifelong Learning / Tarver
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Note: Classes are shown here by genre and instructor(s). See page listings for detailed class descriptions and registration deadlines. *Multi-session courses are shown with an asterisk. gemini ink 2011
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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.
classes AUTOGRAPH SERIES #1 Conversation: Master Class with Audrey Niffenegger Level: Master Instructor: Audrey Niffenegger Calling all visual artists! Calling all writers! Calling anyone interested in books and art! Give yourself the rare gift of an informal conversation with Audrey Niffenegger, the multi-talented artist and handmade book maker turned international bestselling novelist. How did she go from primarily visual handmade editions of ten to publishing novels by the thousands from major publishers? Where does her current graphic novel fit in this trajectory? Does the image come first or the egg? How does the word cross the road? You’ll not have an opportunity like this again! Date: Friday, Feb. 18, 6pm - 8pm Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Tuesday, Feb. 15 CPE Credits: 4 Language Arts Fee: $100 Discounted Fee: $90 FICTION #2 Building Blocks of Fiction Level: All Instructor: Nelly Rosario This weekend intensive workshop focuses on the basic narrative elements of fiction writing: characterization, plot, dialogue, mechanics, point of view, and setting. Through brief readings, in-class/take-home writing exercises, and peer critique, students will develop and strengthen their “muscles” in each of these five areas. Students are especially encouraged to create new work that they can apply to their current projects. Date: Saturday and Sunday, May 7 - 8, 9am - 4pm (1-hour lunch break) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 4 CPE Credits: 8 Language Arts Discounted Fee: $99 Fee: $110
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#3 Special Voices, Special Stories Level: All Instructor: Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Paying close attention to the many complex speech patterns that surround us often yields stunning writing. This does not mean writing in dialect. Rather, it means being finely attuned to inflection, as well as instances of regional syntax, idioms, anachronisms, and other colorful uses of language that help “place” a story. In this class, we’ll first review the “basics” of story writing, followed by examples of “special voices” in several short stories. Feel free to ask questions at any point. We’ll finish with a writing exercise that makes the most of the incredible variations in human speech. You’ll be surprised at how well you’ve been listening. Date: Saturday, Apr. 2, 10am - 2pm Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Mar. 30 CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts Discounted Fee: $70 Fee: $80
POETRY #4 Poetry and Place in Global Times Level: All Instructor: Ange Mlinko We live in a global society in which economic viability depends on a family’s willingness to uproot, migrate, and even separate. As a result, writers must write about places without ever feeling they belong to that place, and poems which acknowledge an unstable identity become more and more universal. In this class, we will read and discuss several authors and their poems or prose excerpts that confront landscape, cityscape, history, myth, and loss. There will be several in-class writing exercises shaped by both these writings and folk songs from different countries. Date: Saturday, Feb. 5, 10am - 3pm (1-hour lunch break) Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 2 CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts Fee: $90 Discounted Fee: $80
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A registration form appears on page 22. Please mail the completed form to Gemini Ink at 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205, along with your class tuition and registration fee. You may also register by visiting our website at www.geminiink. org, calling us at 210.734.9673 (877.734.9673, toll-free), or visiting our office at the above address.
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!
Credit Card Payments Gemini
Ink accepts Discover, VISA, and MasterCard payments for class tuition or contributions. For more information, please call the office at 210.734.9673.
Registration and Payment Policies Registration and payment should be made as soon as possible. Class size is limited and filled on a first-come, first-served basis. After the published deadline, we accept registrations on a spaceavailable basis. We will charge a $10 processing fee for any returned check.
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 Landscape Thinks in Me: Conjuring the Spirit of Place Across Genres Level: All Instructor: Cyrus Cassells From Texas to Timbuktu, from country solitude to city vistas, how is the spirit of “I’ll take you there” important to your writing? Through in-class exercises, sharing of student pieces, and discussion of insights by writers and artists as diverse as Blake, Elizabeth Bishop, Sandra Cisneros, Dante, Cesare Pavese, William Shakespeare, and Georgia O’Keeffe, this lively, one-day workshop is designed to bolster your ability to recreate beloved landscapes and sacred ground that have the stamp of your individuality. How do places in our poetry, fiction, and drama serve both as sites of communion and as self-portraits? Date: Saturday, Mar. 5, 10am - 5pm (1-hour lunch break) Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Mar. 2 Required Materials: For an in-class exercise, Bring 16 copies of a concise piece in any genre that conveys a strong sense of place, a visual image of a landscape, or place. Required Reading: Two weeks before the class, the instructor will provide an eclectic packet of short place-related readings by celebrated writers and artists. CPE Credits: 7 Language Arts Fee: $110 Discounted Fee: $99
FILM #6 Crafting a Treatment and Funding Proposal for Your Documentary Level: Intermediate and Advanced Instructor: Joy-Marie Scott A compelling written proposal is a critical element of funding and producing any documentary. In this class, we’ll learn how a competitive documentary proposal efficiently tackles key components, such as a treatment that vividly translates the story from page to screen and how to address audience and community impact. Documentary projects have a wide variety of funding opportunities, and we will address strategies for documentary fundraising at every stage of production. Bring a draft of your documentary proposal and treatment for a consultation and workshop. Date: Saturday, Jan. 29, 10am - 3pm Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Jan. 26 CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts Discounted Fee: $90 Fee: $100 gemini ink 2011
#7 Screenwriting 101 Level: All Instructor: Ya’Ke Smith A house without a strong foundation will ultimately fall to the ground. Likewise, a film without a great story will self-destruct. This workshop will introduce you to the principles of storytelling and develop your ability to conceive a compelling premise and create memorable characters. Through watching award-winning shorts, dissecting screenplay structure and analyzing students’ individual work, each person will walk away with a greater knowledge of the rules of short screenplay writing. Date: Saturday, Feb. 5, 9am - 4pm (1-hour lunch break) Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 2 Required Materials: Bring a workable script for class (no more than 12 pages in length) CPE Credits: 7 Language Arts Fee: $100 Discounted Fee: $90 NONFICTION #8 Imagination vs. Memory: The Art of Perspective in Memoir Writing Level: All Instructor: Tom Grimes In fiction, of course, we create characters. In nonfiction or memoir, we recall ourselves and others. Consequently, we rely on memory rather than imagination. Still, we do recreate the past. What changes in nonfiction is our new perspective of the past. Who we are when we write a memoir is as important, if not more important, than our subject matter. In this class, we will discuss this fundamental, yet often overlooked difference between fiction and nonfiction, and in the process, strengthen our own perspectives. Date: Saturday, Mar. 5, 10am - 1pm Limit: 15 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Mar. 2 Required Reading: Read Tom Grimes’ essay “The Leash,” which you will find on Narrative magazine’s site for free (bring a copy to class to be used in discussion). CPE Credits: 5 Language Arts Fee: $90 Discounted Fee: $80
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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. Credit should be requested at the time of registration. 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, 200 E. Grayson Ste. 124, 1.800.SAYTWIG. The Twig donates 20% of our in-office book sales to Gemini Ink. www.thetwig.indiebound.com
Manuscript Submissions
For courses requiring advance manuscripts, please send manuscript attached to an 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. Manuscripts submitted after the published deadline will be distributed in class and discussed only at the instructor’s discretion.
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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 uww@geminiink.org, or, to teach in community settings, send to wic@geminiink.org.
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.
Where to Find Us
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.
Accessibility
Gemini Ink provides parking for the physically challenged in front of the building, which is wheelchair accessible.
Office Hours Monday - Friday, 9 am - 5 pm; closed on all major holidays.
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#9 The Story of You Level: All Instructor: Vallie Fletcher Taylor History has been best served by first-person narratives written by individuals who never ruled a country or led thousands of warriors into battle. The greatest gift you can give your descendants is a memoir, and you are the only expert on your life. You will be gently guided into writing vignettes from your life’s journey during this workshop. Using poetry therapy, we’ll dive into the pool of the past and watch in amazement as forgotten events float to the surface. You will leave with your memoir underway in prose and/or poetry. Date: Saturday and Sunday, Apr. 2 - 3, 10am - 3pm Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Mar. 30 Required Reading: Read Eyes in the Alley available at Gemini Ink, bookstores, and online. CPE Credits: 7 Language Arts Fee: $80 Discounted Fee: $70 #10 Where You’re From Level: All Instructor: Jake Silverstein How does a place inform a piece of writing? We will be using the June 2010 issue of Texas Monthly, a special issue titled “Where I’m From.” This issue featured 20 essays and interviews about growing up in Texas. We’ll use it to talk about home and how our origins shape us, and how to express that in writing. Date: Wednesday, Apr. 20, 5pm - 7pm Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Apr. 13 Teachers CPE Credits: 4 Language Arts Fee: $64 Discounted Fee: $58 LIFELONG LEARNING #11 Awakening the Story Level: All Instructor: Tinka Tarver We will explore the arts as a body, mind and soul exercise before a word is written. We need to unwind, to go from tight to loose, to play. In letting go we move to a deeper level of our being to find who we really are. Here is where the real story lies. Date: Saturday, May 7, 10am - noon Limit: 12 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, May 4 Teachers CPE Credits: 4 Language Arts Fee: $64 Discounted Fee: $58 gemini ink 2011
#12 Literary Excursions Level: All Instructor: Coleen Grissom Join Trinity University’s English professor Coleen Grissom as she delights, offends, inspires, and incites widespread debate among informed and engaged students of contemporary literature. Classes consist of critical analysis of the readings which include short stories and novels. Dates: 6 Wednesdays, noon - 1:30pm Jan. 26 Ian McEwan’s Solar Feb. 2 Anna Quindlen’s Every Last One Feb. 9 Paul Harding’s Tinkers Feb. 16 Kate Walbert’s A Short History of Women Feb. 23 Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin Mar. 2 Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom Limit: 50 Participants Registration Deadline: Monday, Jan. 24 Teachers CPE Credits: 9 Language Arts Fee: $110 Discounted Fee: $99
#13 The Chapbook: Reading and Writing a Slender Book Level: All Instructor: Julia Shipley A chapbook is a book of less than 50 pages, a perfect container for a group of related poems or a short story. In this two-day class we’ll cover a brief history of chapbooks, as well as examine and handle a variety of chapbooks. We will consider production techniques, from photocopiers and staplers to letterpresses and hand-sewn bindings. And finally, we will discuss the process of assembling a chapbook manuscript and finding the best venue for publishing it (from small presses and contests to Do-It-Yourself options). Date: Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 26 and 27, 9:30am - 1pm Limit: 10 Participants Registration Deadline: Wednesday, Feb. 23 Required Materials: Please bring 12 copies of a work sample (about 50 words) to our first class. Teachers CPE Credits: 7 Language Arts Discounted Fee: $90 Fee: $100
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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. 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 The Gemini Ink conference room is available for $20/hour, while the large meeting room is available for $30/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 Erika Nadeau Morgan Director, University Without Walls Daniel Torres Negrón Interim Director, University Without Walls, Fall 2010 Anisa Onofre Director, Writers in Communities Darlene Pickens Director, Communications Evelyn Reyes Managing Director Carolene Zehner Registrar | Operations Manager *part-time Volunteers Dario Beniquez Facilitator, Open Writing Workshop Jim Dawes Facilitator, Open Writing Workshop Roland Huff Facilitator, Open Writing Workshop Consultants Gloria Pins Arecchi CPA Bett Butler & Pamela Dean Kenny Dramatic Readers Theater Louis Fincias, Information Technology Interns Austin Chatillon-Reed Lindsey Clepper Monica De Los Santos Amanda Falkner 9 spring catalogue
Gemini Ink Board of Directors Mallory Belt Ahl Public Finance, Frost Bank 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 Tess Coody Partner, Guerra . DeBerry Coody Marketing & Communications, Writer Eusebio Diaz Program Director, Baptist Health Foundation of San Antonio 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 Josie Seeligson Freelance writer, Photographer and Tree Farmer Aïssatou Sidimé Communications specialist, Business Financial Group 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
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UWW facult y excerpts Treatment It’s a little spa for the mind—seeing butterflies set themselves down by the dozen like easels on bromeliads, when out on the street the boutiques are dilapidated, construction can’t be told from ruin. A single taste bud magnified resembles an orchid but what that one’s drinking from is a woman’s eye which must be brineless. I wonder what she consumes that her tears taste like fructose. For minutes she’s all its. Then the moon rises and the river flows backwards. Composed of millions of tiny north poles, iron’s punched out of the environment, hammered into railways. Pubs serve shepherd’s pies with marcelled mashed-potato crusts and each tree casts its shade in the form of its summary leaf. Is a woman’s eye a single taste bud magnified? Yet construction can’t be told from ruin. Out on the street the boutiques are dilapidated by the dozen like easels. But the mind—it’s a little spa. Ange Mlinko
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y life has been a dance - in the words of famous dancer, Carla de Sola, “making visible the invisible movements of the spirit.” It is dance that is in my genes. I have a long line of artists before me in my family - my mother, two grandmothers and a father who was an architect. Naturally I married an artist. This call to create is both a gift and a burden. I hear a small voice saying, “here I am. Enflesh me. Give me birth.” (Madeleine L’Engle, “Walking on Water”) Then it is my responsibility to respond or pay a price of losing a part of me and of giving a gift into the world. This is only a small glimpse of what I have done, but maybe you can see me in it, and know that whatever I have given has come from my heart and soul. From Art in my life- My life in art by Tinka Tarver
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Belated Libation I have enraged the ancestors again for refusing to dress them in gold lamé Not that I’ve hidden them under my tongue, either They take it upon themselves at every family event every cultural holiday to drench themselves in glitter: Celebrate one Adolfo’s chronic syphilis and penchant for moonshine Turn the Haitian Chevalier into a Frenchman Stretch a so-called Lucia’s hair longer than La Cordillera Central Make the family healer a doctor trained abroad, anointing his African skin “Taino skin” I have no pictures to hold up their somber faces, shorter hair, darker skin against the stories tangled in the branches of my ancestral tree Was not present in their times to curl my tongue today What am I choosing to wear after I am dust? Am I inspiring enough anecdotes leaving healthy paper trails staging self-promoting portraits so that my great-grandchildren will dress me in gold lamé? Maybe the ancestors are enraged for other reasons to hell with gold lamé Angered at my stronger ear for tall-tales than for their guiding voices Enraged at my amnesia, my guzzle from Fortune’s cup without a drop to earth Seething at my rush to join their ranks before transgressing death. Nelly Rosario His gloved hands unsheathe the truncated rifle barrel strapped to his chest when the cop nearest him looks out, his eyes meeting Ray’s. They don’t pick up the gun at first. It’s just a simple turn of the head, a reaction to something stirring near the blurry edge of peripheral vision.
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spring 2011 facult y Cyrus Cassells is the author of The Mud Actor (Carnegie-Mellon University Press, 1982), Soul Make a Path through Shouting (Copper Canyon Press, 1994), Beautiful Signor (Copper Canyon Press, 1997), and More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). His fifth book, The Crossed-Out Swastika, and a translation manuscript, Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas, are forthcoming. Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award, a William Carlos Williams Award, a Pushcart Prize, two NEA grants, and a Lambda Literary Award. He is a tenured Professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos and has served on the faculty of Cave Canem, the African American Poets Workshop. Tom Grimes is the author of Violence and Media Aggression: Science and Ideology (Sage, 2007), Season’s End (Bison, 1996), City of God (Pan Books Ltd, 1996), A Stone of the Heart (Southern Methodist University Press, 1997), a play, and Mentor: A Memoir (Tin House Books, 2010), which has been highly praised for its insight and sincerity on pain, self-doubt, strength of character, and persistence present in aspiring writers. He is well-hailed by his fellow contemporaries and is considered to be a master of dialogue. He edited The Workshop: Seven Decades from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (Hyperion, 1999), and he currently directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Texas State University.
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.
Ange Mlinko is a poet and author of Matinees (Zoland Books), a Publishers Weekly Book of the Year in 1999, Starred Wire (Coffee House Press), chosen for the National Poetry Series by Bob Holman in 2004, and Shoulder Season, just out from Coffee House. In 2009, she received the Poetry Foundation’s Randall Jarrell Award for Criticism. Her poetry has been published in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Nation, London Review of Books, Boston Review, Chicago Review, and many other journals. She also writes a column on language for The Nation website called “Lingo.” She teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston after living most recently in Beirut, Lebanon, the Hudson Valley, and New York City.
Open Writing Workshop
Join this peer-driven workshop facilitated by longtime Gemini Ink volunteers Dario Beniquez, 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 spring’s Open Writing Workshops will be held on Jan. 31, Feb. 28, Mar. 28, Apr. 25, and May 30. Bring 6 - 10 copies of your work to share!
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Rolando Hinojosa-Smith was born in Mercedes, Texas. He earned his BA from The University of Texas and his doctorate from the University of Illinois. His bilingual publications include The Klail City Death Trip series with fifteen novels so far, and over three dozen short stories and essays. His prizes for best novel include those from Quinto Sol and the Casa de las Américas. Doctoral theses on his work have been written in this country, Germany, Spain, Sicily, as well as masters theses in the Netherlands, Sweden, Italy, and the United States. He is the Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor in the English Department at UT. He was elected to the Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española in 1980. Nelly Rosario’s novel, Song of the Water Saints (Jenny Minton/Pantheon, 2002), was awarded a PEN/Open Book Award. Rosario was the recipient of the 2008 Sherwood Anderson Award in Fiction and, recently, a Howard Foundation Fellowship and the Alfredo Cisneros Del Moral Award. She received her MFA from Columbia University. Currently, she is a bi-weekly columnist for the Spanish-language newspaper El Diario/La Prensa and teaches creative writing in the MFA Program at Texas State University-San Marcos.
Joy-Marie Scott is a freelance distribution and financing consultant for documentary film, TV, and multimedia worldwide. Formerly of the Independent Television Service, the biggest funder of independent documentaries for U.S. television, she was an integral member of the programming team in funding/co-producing a portfolio of nearly 100 international documentaries. She has facilitated documentary funding and pitch workshops, and she has consulted on documentary programming for acclaimed international film festivals. Joy-Marie currently lives and works in the San Antonio-Austin area of Texas.
Julia Shipley is a freelance writer, teacher, and subsistence farmer. She writes poems, essays and articles on an array of topics including small scale agriculture, food, literature and the intersection of nature and culture. Her work has appeared in Vermont Magazine, Vermont Life Magazine, Alimentum, Northern Woodlands, Hunger Mountain, Bloodroot Literary Magazine, Small Farmers Journal, and Vermont’s Local Banquet. She is also a newspaper poetry columnist, and her monthly column in the Barton Chronicle features poems by Vermont writers on place and season. Julia has received numerous fellowships from organizations such as the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Community Foundation and the Center for Books and Arts, and has received the Ralph Nading Award and the Sheltering Pines Press Award. She is currently working on a full length poetry manuscript and collaborating with book artist Andrew Miller-Brown on a collection of essays.
IN MEMORIAm Bella Akhmadulina 1937-2010 Vance Bourjaily 1922-2010 George Hitchcock 1914-2010 Ali Chumacero 1918-2010 Esteban Jordan 1939-2010 Carlos Edmundo de Ory 1923-2010 Steve Orlen 1942-2010 Elizabeth Anania Edwards 1949-2010 Joseph Stein 1912-2010 Carlos Guerra 1947-2010 Howard Zinn 1922-2010 gemini ink 2011
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Jake Silverstein received a BA in English from Wesleyan University, an MA in English from Hollins University in Virginia, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. He was a reporter at the Big Bend Sentinel in Marfa from 1999 to 2000 and a 2002 Fulbright Scholar in Zacatecas, Mexico. He is a Contributing Editor to Harper’s Magazine, his essay, “Highway Run,” about a Mexican road race, won the 2007 PEN/USA Journalism Award. His journalism has also been featured in several anthologies, including the Best American Travel Writing 2002, and Submersion Journalism. His first book, Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction was published by W. W. Norton in 2010. He came to work for Texas Monthly in 2006 as a Senior Editor. In September 2008 he was named Editor of Texas Monthly. Widely regarded as one of this generation’s next film directors to watch, Ya’Ke Smith has made a name for himself as a filmmaker with a “veracious style of storytelling that takes an unflinching look at issues facing today’s society.” His films have received world-wide acclaim, have been screened, and have won awards at over 40 film festivals, including The Cannes International Film Festival, The American Black Film Festival, The Austin Film Festival, and The DC Shorts Film Festival. His films have also screened on HBO, Showtime and BET J. He’s received the Director’s Guild of America Student Film Award and a Student Academy Award Nomination. Ya’Ke obtained his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin’s film program. He is currently fundraising for his debut feature, which he plans to shoot in the near future and is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington. Vallie Fletcher Taylor has published three non-fiction books, fictional short stories and poetry. Taylor’s careers include years as a public school History teacher. She has trained future teachers for the University of Houston and Sam Houston University, as well as served as a feature writer and columnist for Houston area newspapers. Taylor also organizes seminars and workshops in Austin and at her ranch in North Texas. She currently works as a consultant for several film production companies and teaches “The Story of You” at centers for creative arts. Taylor has traveled throughout the U.S. to speak at various universities and organizations on a variety of subjects related to her books.
Tinka Tarver has just finished a book entitled Art in My Life; My Life in Art. It is a story of her drawing, quilted canvas paintings, art pieces for churches, wearable art, dream images, dance, sculpture, and jewelry. In 1986 the San Antonio Museum of Art bought her piece “Again and Again” for their permanent collection. In 2010, Tinka and her husband Lewis had a joint exhibition at the Hunt Gallery in Olmos Park that featured their recent work—Tinka’s wood constructions and metal jewelry as well as Lewis’ abstract paintings. She also had a one person show at the McNay Museum in 1989.
10th Annual Poetry at Round Top Festival Featuring: Edward Hirsch, Martin Espada, Barbara Ras, Ellen Watson, Tomaz Salamun, Judith Barrington, Naomi Shihab Nye, John Phillip Santos, Wendy Barker, Debra Monroe, Martha Serpas Featured readings, workshops, panel discussions, craft talks, participant readings, anthology, & receptions on a beautiful 200-acre campus April 15-17 The Round Top Festival Institute located between Austin, Houston, & San Antonio For information & registration: info@festivalhill.org, P.O. Box 89, Round Top, TX 78954 – tel: 979/249-3129 www.festivalhill.org
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more good stuff First Friday Reading Series Friday, Feb. 4, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Joy-Marie Scott, and Ange Mlinko
Friday, Apr. 1, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Rolando Hinojosa-Smith and Vallie Fletcher Taylor
Friday, Mar. 4, 7pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Cyrus Cassells and Tom Grimes
Friday, May 6, 6:30pm at Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa Nelly Rosario and Tinka Tarver
Free and Open to the Public Poetry Out Loud
Gemini Ink hosts the south Texas regional semi-finals of the Texas Poetry Out Loud competition. The public is invited to watch talented high school students recite some of literature’s most amazing poems. The program is organized nationally by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation, and conducted on the state level by the Texas Commission on the Arts. Saturday, January 15, at 2pm Gemini Ink 513 S. Presa San Antonio 78205 Free and Open to the Public
Community Talk
Featuring panelists Norma Cantú, María Antonietta Berriozábal, and Esther Vexler this spring’s Community Talk will explore the wide range of women’s experience and the importance of its documentation through memoir writing. Sunday, March 20 at 4:30pm Gemini Ink 513 S. Presa Free and Open to the Public
PBS POV Documentary Series
Join us and SAY Sí as we examine the price of globalization through a critical scope and screen Maquilapolis: City of Factories. This presentation will be a tribute to Las mujeres de Juarez, victims of a harsh reality just a stone’s throw away from El Paso, one of the safest cities in the United States.
Thursday, Feb. 10 at 7pm SAY Sí 1518 S. Alamo San Antonio, TX 78204 Free and Open to the Public
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writers in communities helping people tell their stories
© Robert Poschmann
Writers in Communities (WIC) provides workshops – always free to participants – highlighting oral traditions, reading, and creative writing. Our professional teaching writers work alongside students of all ages, needs, interests and abilities in diverse community settings – from schools to justice facilities. WIC has served well over 7,000 individuals and published more than 50 chapbooks and broadsides of writing by students of all ages since 2002, and we continue to seek innovative partnerships throughout the community. Our work builds the critical thinking, reading, writing, and verbal skills essential to a healthy and economically thriving populace.
Writers in Schools
Last fall, WIC teamed with Harlandale ISD’s Gilbert Elementary for the first time. In support of their Author’s Club, WIC facilitated a nine-week bilingual poetry workshop with 20 third-through fifthgrade girls. Grisel Acosta facilitated the “Beauty Is…” project, and an anthology of the work is due out in the spring.
Young writers participating in last fall’s “Neighborhood Odes” project in four SAISD elementary schools will see their work published in an anthology and on broadsides this spring. In partnership with the Rackspace Foundation, WIC recently completed a six-week after-school poetry workshop at Krueger Middle School. Student work will be published on broadsides and displayed by Windcrest and King William district merchants in late spring. The project is now being offered to White Middle School students, and an anthology of the combined broadsides will be printed in May. In neighborhood spirit, WIC returns to Bonham Academy this spring to provide writing workshops to fourth and fifth grade students. A professional artist will create colorful illustrations and work will be published on literary broadsides. A Poetry Tour will begin in April, where King William businesses will showcase the student broadsides. Put on your walking shoes and go see them! D. Ellis Phelps led four seminars for fourth graders in North East ISD at Hardberger Park last fall. The students went on a field trip and focused on honing the senses while in nature. Also this spring, Harlandale ISD funds a creative writing workshop for 12 district teachers. The workshop runs for four weekends and focuses on essay writing. An online anthology will be produced at the end of the project.
Writers in the Community Last fall, WIC returned to the Battered Women and Children’s Shelter to offer both women and their children creative writing workshops. Their writings feature very powerful pieces, rich in detail, experience, and hard-won wisdom. Open Voices culminates with an anthology publication in the spring. In November, Mobi Warren presented two seminars on flash fiction to two groups of educators at the McNay Museum’s Evening for Educators. Teachers selected a landscape painting in the exhibit to serve as inspiration for writing flash fiction pieces.
Writers in the Juvenile Justice Setting For some 10 years, WIC has provided incarcerated youth at the Cyndi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center with creative writing workshops. These workshops have been stunningly successful in enhancing the young writers’ self esteem and literacy, as well as developing a stronger sense of community and empathy through the sharing of personal stories. Local poet and playwright Gregg Barrios will lead this season’s cycle of writing workshops at the Juvenile Center. WIC is also proud to continue its work with W.I.N.G.’s for Life (Women in Need of Greater Strength) — an educational residential center housing adolescent mothers and their children as an alternative to juvenile incarceration — to offer an innovative Storybook Project to resident mothers. spring catalogue
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WIC excerpts In My Neighborhood It was in my neighborhood That the divorce happened Fights happened all night Long I don’t know why it happened But every night My brother cried himself to sleep In that neighborhood We found no peace None what-so-ever Every night Yelling Fighting So much emotion Was in that neighborhood Always negativity it made the whole area Negative So much violence So much sadness So much pain And worry Of people leaving each other But in the end we still don’t find peace What we find may be even better We become closer to our family
Rebekah Ornelas, 12 yrs, from the Our Part of Town project
Window Washer He cleans the glass Pane by pane As meticulous as a laboring ant His reflection mirrored Left to right A pendulum to time He is unafraid of the floor As he could fall useless like a leaf Anna, Battered Women and Children’s Open Voices project
Writers in Communities Partners Battered Women and Children’s Shelter Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center George W. Brackenridge Foundation Cyndi Taylor Krier Juvenile Correctional Treatment Center Harlandale Independent School District King William Association McNay Art Museum North East Independent School District Northside Independent School District Rackspace Foundation San Antonio Independent School District Texas Commission on the Arts Wayne Wright Injury Lawyers
Recent Writers in Communities Anthologies Since last catalogue printing, three WIC anthologies have been printed, highlighting the work of some 60 workshop participants – from middle school students to incarcerated migrant youth to teens in a recovery drug court program. Each anthology is $10. All proceeds benefit the Writers in Communities Program. Sad Moon and Other Works of Flash Fiction (Summer 2010); a collection of flash fiction by middle and high school students in Harlandale ISD. Cruzando Fronteras (Summer 2010); a chapbook of poetry and photographs by migrant youth in a San Antonio immigrant detention center. The Fine Within the Sweet (Summer 2010); a book of writings and illustrations by teens in the 386th Drug Court, part of the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center. A limited number of broadsides are also available ($8 each). Gemini Ink also features a published WIC anthology every month on our website. Check it out at www.geminiink.org.
To mourn and to savor The never-again-to-be I now realize Every moment is never-again-to-be From “Losses” by Hannah Rush in Not Less than Everything
Visit our Facebook page (www. facebook.com/writersincommunities) for more student writings and WIC news.
Opportunity for Professional Writers If you have a published book (or the equivalent), have experience teaching creative writing, and want to help bring creative writing, reading, storytelling, and thinking to diverse communities, we want to meet you. E-mail your resume or CV and three pages of writing samples to wic@geminiink.org.
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CAROLINE KENNEDY launches her new poetry anthology in Gemini Ink’s BREAKTHROUGH THINKERS Series
Caroline Kennedy will visit San Antonio April 28th and 29th as part of a fivecity launch tour for her new anthology, She Walks in Beauty, A Woman’s Journey Through Poems (Hyperion/Voice, 2011). Kennedy’s visit will also inaugurate Gemini Ink’s new reading series, Breakthrough Thinkers, bringing conceptual innovators and their books to San Antonio. Public Reading with Q&A Thursday, April 28, 7pm Laurie Auditorium Trinity University 715 Stadium Drive
Colloquium Luncheon Friday, April 29, 11:30am Pearl Stable 312 Pearl Parkway 210.212.9539
Free and open to the public General admission seating Book signing follows
Tickets on sale in February Conversation with Coleen Grissom Followed by Q&A and signing (As of 12.9.10)
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From SHE WALKS IN BEAUTY, A Woman’s Journey Through Poems, selected and introduced by Caroline Kennedy, Copyright (c) 2011 Caroline Kennedy, Published by Hyperion/Voice
Working on this book reminded me that the personal is universal, being a woman is a profound part of who I am, and sharing experiences and emotions is the best way we can help ourselves and others. Caroline Kennedy
In recent years, Caroline Kennedy and her friends began sharing poems reflecting the various stages of women’s lives, and the idea for an anthology was born. She Walks in Beauty, selected and introduced by Kennedy, speaks of love, marriage, motherhood, work, friendship, and aging, as well as times of silence and solitude, grief and loss, and how to live. Four contemporary San Antonio poets, Barbara Ras, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sandra Cisneros, and Rosemary Catacalos, are included in Kennedy’s book along with writers spanning literary history from Sappho and Emily Dickinson to Li Po and William Blake. Caroline Kennedy is the author and editor of seven bestselling books ranging from constitutional law to poetry. A graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, she is the vice chair of the New York City Fund for Public Schools and president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. She Walks in Beauty will be available for purchase and signing at both events. gemini ink 2011
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more UWW facult y excerpts In far West Texas, on this side of the highway that runs from Marfa to Presidio and across the Rio Grande into Ojinaga, Mexico, there is a small green sign that reads, PRO-FILE OF LINCOLN. Under these words an arrow points west at the jagged foothills of the Chinati Mountains, where you can make out the sixteenth president’s profile in the ridges of rock. He lies on his back, forever staring at the sky, his gigantic head inclined gently, as if on a pillow. The short brim of his stovepipe hat has afforded him little shade over the years, and his brow is black from the scorch of the sun. His lips, such as they are, appear cracked and turned down, his forehead wrinkled with worry, his gaze fixed ahead as if in contemplation of some profound bafflement. He seems to wonder, How in God’s name did I end up here? From Nothing Happened and Then
In that day, when families and friends provided their own entertainment, reciting long rhyming poems that related a story was the popular fashion. These sagas were quite dramatic and most often ended sadly. A series of rehearsed hand gestures always accompanied recitation of these memorized narratives. Ladies who were adept at performing them were extremely valued within society, so many prominent young women came to Livie for elocution lessons. From Eyes in the Alley Vallie Fletcher Taylor
It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction Jake Silverstein
Expreso Mi Cultura
Join Gemini Ink and friends for the third installment of Expreso Mi Cultura. Gregg Barrios, along with local writers, actors, and community artists read and perform new and old works by Barrios, one of the most influential Chicano poets and playwrights of our time. It promises to bring laughter, thought, inspiration and appreciation for a movement still alive and relevant. Friday, Apr. 8, at 6:30pm Gemini Ink 513 S. Presa San Antonio 78205 Free and Open to the Public spring catalogue
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spring 2011 autograph series Th e A u t o gra p h S e r ie s P r e s e n ts Au d rey Nif f enegger
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events
Public Reading with Q&A Thursday Feb. 17, 7pm San Pedro Playhouse 800 West Ashby Place General admission seating Free and open to the public Book signing follows
Colloquium Luncheon Friday, Feb. 18, 11:45am Pearl Studio 312 Pearl Pkwy Call Gemini Ink to reserve $50/seat; $350/table of eight Followed by Q&A and book signing
Audrey Niffenegger is a visual and book artist and a writer whose debut novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife (MacAdam/Cage, 2003), became an international bestseller and received the Boeke Prize and a British Book Award. A film version was released in 2009. Niffenegger’s second novel, Her Fearful Symmetry (Scribner, 2009) was called “bewitching” by The New York Times and also has attracted international attention. Her most recent release is The Night Bookmobile, a graphic novel which first appeared in serial form in The London Guardian and was published in September 2010 by Abrams ComicArts. Niffenegger’s first books were printed and bound by hand in editions of ten. Two of these, The Adventuress and The Three Incestuous Sisters, have since been commercially published by the art book imprint, Harry N. Abrams. She is at work on her third novel, The Chinchilla Girl in Exile. Audrey Niffenegger teaches fiction at Columbia College Chicago and is a founding faculty member of its graduate program in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts. Gemini Ink thanks the Southwest School of Art — and especially Beck Whitehead, Chair, Paper & Book Arts Department — for the opportunity to share in Audrey Niffenegger’s visit to San Antonio. gemini ink 2011
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CAROLINE KENNEDY launches her new poetry anthology in Gemini Ink’s BREAKTHROUGH THINKERS Series Public Reading with Q&A Thursday, April 28, 7pm Colloquium Luncheon Friday, April 29, 11:30am Tickets on sale in February See pages 18-19 for more information.