Sabrina Gilbert
Sabrina Gilbert is a very crafty writer and a skilled performer. Her work is bold and heartfelt and will leave even the most critical minds craving more.
She is sharing the stage at B&N with Michael Guinn.
Avante! Shin Yu Pai and Jerry Kelley
Featuring: Shin Yu Pai, Jerry Kelley
Shin Yu Pai grew up in the Inland Empire of Southern California and has lived and worked in Boston, Madrid, Boulder, Chicago, Dallas, Taipei, and Seattle. Currently, she resides in San Marcos, TX, where she is Assistant Curator for Acquisitions for The Wittliff Collections, which specializes in Southwestern and Mexican photography, as well as literary archives related to the Southwest. She is the author of seven books of poetry, as well as being an oral historian, photographer, and editor. Recent titles include Haiku Not Bombs, Sightings: Selected Works, and Works on Paper. White Pine Press will publish Adamantine in 2011.
Jerry Kelley–Harvard in the Sixties, living in the “bush” of British Columbia in the 70’s, musician with arts-family legacy, long-time WordSpace Board Member and aesthetics advisor. His work is Elevated–at-the-13th Floor. He travels often and widely with his wife, poet Patty Turner.
Jeffrey Davis & Linda Jones
Jeffrey Davis is author of the non-fiction book The Journey from the Center to the Page (Penguin 2004; updated ed., Monkfish 2008) and the poetry collection City Reservoir (Barnburner Press). He teaches in Western Connecticut State University’s MFA in Professional Writing Program, at the UNM Taos Writers’ Conference, and elsewhere. He also coaches best-selling authors and aspiring authors around the country. He lives in upstate New York and is at work on a collection of short stories and a non-fiction book that tracks wonder.
Linda Jones has used stories about hair in her writing as a device to explore lifestyle and cultural issues. She founded A Nappy Hair Affair in 1998 and made it an extension of her commitment as a writer to help dispel stereotypes and negative perceptions of people of color. With the help of her team of nappy proponents, Linda produced a short video documentary, which was part of the 2000 Dallas Video Festival. She also gathered artists together to produce the “Love & Nappiness,” spoken work and music CD and a stage production called “The Love and Nappiness Revue.” She also produced a member newsletter called the Nappy News and her Natually Speaking column became a monthly feature of the website Naturallycurly.com.
Candy
Candy is a poet that has a huge presence on stage with her voice and choice of words that are righteous to the hearts and minds of the audience and raunchy and raw when necessary. She is no stranger to poetry and performing on stage for she has been writing and performing for ten years and she has represented the city of Dallas on the national level in poetry competitions for three years. With a candid, sassy yet sexy performance style, Candy is known for lighting up venues with the air of eroticism and leaving audiences cold with appealing truths about the error of one’s ways and what is needed to make a difference.
London Calling…East Dallas!
Joey Cloudy & Opalina Herebia-Salas & IChat with Ali Abdolrezaei from London
Joey Cloudy co-edits the poetry magazine Death List Five (Voice of the Lunatic Fringe) with his wife, poet Jolee Davis Cloudy. He is the incendiary Anti-Poet, constantly changing hats according to the needs of survival. He has been described as the Prince of Darkness and champion of the best in New Underground artists. Joey is the author of HOWL, A Hundred and Eight Poems for Allen, TRAMP, and On Women.
Opalina Herebia-Salas “does nothing but dream to drink and smoke the holy spoken word and bite away all broken chords.” She is co-founder of DFW Open Mics and has been a guest on Mandrake Society Radio in 2007. Rattling Keys and Broken Chords, (Propinquity Press) is her most recent chapbook. Opalina is married to poet and artist Carlos Salas, with whom she owns the bookstore, Cliff Notes.
Ali Abdolrezaei was born in northern Iran in 1969. He is also trained as a mechanical engineer. In 2003 he had to flee Iran due to the serious scrutiny and censorship of his work and has lived in London ever since. He has published 12 books of poetry, including From Riskdom, Shinema, So Sermon of Society, Improvisation, This dear cat, Paris in Renault, You Name this Book. Nearly all well known poets and critics of Persian poetry have written about Abdolrezaei’s poems.
iChat Readings: Interconnecting with writers around the world:
Joey Cloudy reads at Paperbacks Plus while Abol Froushan looks on–Live from London, March 13, 2010.
Video by Peter Orozco
Flesh Eating Poetics/Get Real!
Matt Henriksen is the author of the chapbooks Is Holy (horse less press, 2006) and Another Word (DoubleCross Press). Some recent poems appear in Realpoetik, Raleigh Quarterly, Front Porch, The Cultural Society, and Handsome Journal. He co-edits Typo, an online poetry journal, and publishes Cannibal Books, a book arts poetry press. From 2005 to 2008 he curated The Burning Chair Readings in Brooklyn and now hosts irregular readings throughout the country. A special feature of Frank Stanford’s unpublished poems and fiction, selected by Henriksen, will appear in the upcoming issue of Fulcrum. He lives and teaches in the Ozark Mountains.
Gayle Bell is the witty and observant voice of the bus stop, political movements, the bi-sexual, the African American woman you’ll never convince that there’s no conspiracy, but who loves you anyway. She has several chapbooks of poetry and currently teaches an ongoing workshop in erotic poetics.
Reception in partnership with University of Texas at Dallas for Stanley Fish
New York Times blogger Stanley Fish is the Davidson-Kahn Distinguished University Professor and a professor of law at Florida International University and dean emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has also taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins and Duke University. He is the author of 10 books. His new book on higher education, Save the World On Your Own Time, has just been published.
Linda Jones
Linda Jones is an award-winning journalist who has written extensively about the lifestyle and culture of people of African descent in the US and abroad. She is author of “Nappyisms: Affirmations for Nappy-Headed People and Wannabes!” Linda is also owner of ManeLock Communications, a writing service and is producer of Finding Your Inner Scribe, writing workshops and literacy projects.
Collaborative Works: g&h (iChat Boulder) and Desmene Statum&Chris Zimmerly
Caesar Hernandes & Desmene Statum, Chris Zimmerly and IChat with G & H from Denver
Desmene Statum, a poet gypsy from Alabama, has been in Dallas, Texas for 10 years. She has published two chapbooks, Coagulation and Two Fisted Whiskey Love Songs and featured in DL5, Voice of the Lunatic Fringe, Mad Swirl VI The Blue Issue. She has been influenced by Octavio Paz, Allen Ginsberg, Rumi, and Rilke. Dez takes the ride of life at full speed hoping to find the poem that saves her soul. She has performed in galleries, bars, and festivals all over DFW. Dez enjoys doing freestyle poems with her good friends and never met a cowboy she didn’t like.
Chris Zimmerly is a local poet, former open mic host, songwriter and musician. “Hootenanny Now!”
G and H are Texas natives, veteran travelers, live-word poets, and members of the sub-cult electro-pop band Sci-Fi Uterus. They were active performance poets in the pre-Slam Deep Ellum scene and collaborated with a community of multi-media artists in the late eighties’ Cowtown underground. For the last 20 years, G and H have found beat bucolic bliss in the mythical farming community of Gowanda, Colorado—home of the avant-garde juggernaut Grant R Productions.
Militant X. Amerikkkan
Militant X. Amerikkkan is a lyricist, performance poet, writer, musician, and activist based in Dallas, TX. He also is one of the organizers and hosts of the Dallas Poetry Slam and has coached several Dallas poetry slam teams that compete at the National Poetry Slam annually. For over 25 years Militant has performed his poetry at poetry slams, open mics, arts festivals, and at private gatherings. In 2002, he authored his first book of poetry, No War, No Peace. His work has been featured in two anthologies devoted to arts, literature, poetry and culture, Taj Mahal Review’s Cyberwit’s International Journal and Voyages of World Poetry. Additionally, he was featured on satellite radio, in the Dallas Observer and his work can be found in many online sites and independent papers. Militant has recorded two full length CDs of poetry, Rogue State of Mind of an Original Terrorist and Amerikkka Can Do Better.
