Announcing the Fall Featured Artists

Coming in the fall, Wordspace Texas announces its featured artists line-up. Check back for more information on dates and times. Also be sure to check the calendar and programs for the full fall schedule including members Salons and Dallas Slams Featured Reader Series.

Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and has been editor of the Southwest Review since 1984. His latest book, a collection of meditations on happiness, isSeven Pleasures (FSG).  He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Rock Baby, a native of Hattiesburg, Miss., is a natural performer beginning with his television debut presentation on HBO’s “Def Poetry Jam.” His charismatic performances tap into the emotions of audiences.  His honors and titles include Dallas Poetry Team Slam Master, Grand Slam Spoken Word City Champion 2003, and HBO Def Poet in 2003 and 2005.

Susan Briante is the author of the book, Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007). Briante’s poetry, essays and translations have recently appeared in Ploughshares, Damn the Caesars, Fascicle, Bombay Gin and The Believer. Briante is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Col- ony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Djerassi Foundation, among others.  From 1992-1997, she lived in Mexico City where she worked for the magazines Artes de México and Mandorla. Briante is an assistant professor of aesthetic studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.

Farid Matuk is a Peruvian-born translator, essayist and poet.  He is the author of Is it the King? (Effing Press).  Recent poems appear in Big Bridge, Barrelhouse, Typesetter, and The Boston Review. Translations from Spanish have appeared or are forthcoming in Bombay Gin and Translation Review.  Matuk’s essays and reviews have appeared most recently in Cross Cultural Poetics, Sentence Magazine, and the Poetry Project Newsletter.