University of Arizona Poetry Center- A Closer Look Book Club: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko April 12, 2012 at 6 p.m. & A Memorial Tribute to the Life and Poetry of Morgan Lucas Schuldt

University of Arizona Poetry Center- A Closer Look Book Club: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko

Thursday, April 12, 2012 at 6 p.m.

Join us around the Persian rug in the Dorothy Rubel Room as we discuss one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature. Copies of Ceremony are available for purchase at the Poetry Center’s gift shop.

A Memorial Tribute to the Life and Poetry of Morgan Lucas Schuldt

Saturday, April 14, 2012 at 3 p.m.

This memorial tribute features reminiscences and readings from Morgan’s books and chapbooks: Erros (forthcoming), Verge, (as vanish, unespecially), L=u=N=G=U=A=G=E, and Otherhow. A reception immediately follows the tribute.
Features & News

Congratulations to Joshua Furtado from Tucson High Magnet School, winner of the 2012 Arizona Poetry Out Loud State Competition! On March 29th, at Phoenix Center for the Arts, Furtado brought the house down with his renditions of Eve Merriam’s “Catch a Little Rhyme,” Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee,” and Ravi Shankar’s “Contraction.” Josh will be heading to the Poetry Out Loud Nationals in Washington D.C., May 13-15, to represent the state of Arizona. Good luck, Josh! We’re so proud of you!

Students in the Tucson area have taken the state title four times in the last five years. Josh’s win represents the second year in a row that a student from Tucson has taken the state championship. The University of Arizona Poetry Center serves as a regional partner to the Arizona Commission on the Arts in administering this national program and helps to send poets into high schools across the Southern Arizona region to coach students in poetry recitation and prepare for competition. Watch Josh’s performance at the regional finals and learn how to participate in next year’s program here.

Our Latest Feature: Poet Christopher Nelson provides us with an annotated reading list full of nuances and surprises. His selections include works by poets, a translator, and a psychoanalyst. Christopher earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona, where he was a Jacob Javits Fellow. His chapbook BLUE HOUSE was published in 2009 by the Poetry Society of America.

Next Week at the Poetry Center

Reading: A POETIC INVENTORY OF SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK

Monday, April 16, 2012 at 7 p.m.
Come hear poetry and prose inspired by local species such as the Bark Scorpion, Jumping Cholla, Flicker, Saguaro, Mountain Lion, Gila Monster, Sacred Datura, Tarantula, Western Diamond-Backed Rattlesnake, and Harris Hawk. Featuring Eric Magrane, Christopher Cokinos, Laynie Browne, Alison Hawthorne Deming, Cybele Knowles, Ken Lamberton, Kristen Nelson, Logan Phillips, Maria Elena Wakamatsu, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and others.

Also, please join us for a reception before the reading, starting at 6 p.m. The reception and reading are free and open to the public.

PERSONA Reading
Thursday, April 19 at 7 p.m.
Established in 1978, PERSONA is the University of Arizona’s undergraduate literary journal. Contributors to Persona read at this celebration of the new issue.

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Pima County Public Library- AS TOLD IN TUCSON…BOOKS ABOUT TUCSONANS & THE OLD PUEBLO

AS TOLD IN TUCSON…BOOKS ABOUT TUCSONANS & THE OLD PUEBLO

Mark Jude Poirier
GOATS: A NOVEL
This coming-of-age novel examines the relationship between a young man and the caretaker of his mother’s Catalina Foothills home and culminates in a cross-border desert trek to move a herd of goats.

Michael Prescott
STEALING FACES
A serial killer returns to Tucson to take the intended victim who eluded him 12 years earlier, while she plays a deadly game of cat-and-mouse trying to gather enough evidence to expose him.

Leslie Marmon Silko
ALMANAC OF THE DEAD
The secretary to a Native American TV talk show medicine woman transcribes an ancient manuscript that predicts the apocalyptic second coming of Quetzaocoatl and the violent end of white domination, played out against the backdrop of drug wars and corruption.

Richard Summers
DARK MADONNA
A desperately poor Mexican family struggles to survive LA CRISIS in the barrios of Depression-era Tucson.

Rosemary Taylor
CHICKEN EVERY SUNDAY: MY LIFE WITH MOTHER’S BOARDERS
A fond and humorous look back on family life in Tucson in the innocent days of the early twentieth century.

Nancy Turner
THESE IS MY WORDS: THE DIARY OF SARAH AGNES PRINE, 1881-1901
A fictionalized diary based on the true-life trials and tribulations of the author’s great grandmother, a pioneer homesteading the inhospitable wilderness near Tucson in the Arizona Territory.

University of Arizona Poetry Center- From Audio Video Library Poet Simon Ortiz, February 26, 1975

Recommendations from our Audio Video Library

Simon Ortiz, February 26, 1975.

This generous performance includes nearly 50 poems and prose excerpts, many enriched by names, words, and phrases in the Acoma language. “My Father’s Song” is a wonderfully tender tribute to Ortiz’s father, while “Forming Child” and “Four Poems for a Child Son” celebrate his children. Fittingly, the reading ends with a poem titled “It Doesn’t End, Of Course.”

::Listen to the reading::.http://avl.arizona.edu/index.php?reading_id=107

We also recommend: Leslie Marmon Silko
November 19, 1974

In describing this reading, Silko says, “I’m just doing my favorite things”—that is, telling stories in the Laguna tradition. Both Silko and Ortiz’s readings feature Coyote; Silko dedicates Track Three, “A Laguna Coyote Story,” to Ortiz.

::Listen to the reading::http://avl.arizona.edu/index.php?reading_id=39

The Poetry Center’s Audio Video Library features recordings from the Center’s long-running Reading Series and other readings presented under the auspices of the Center. The AVL includes multiple recordings of poets who have read for the Poetry Center numerous times over the years. Many of these recordings are accompanied by photographs from our archive. As we continue to digitize our recordings, these materials as well as new readings will be added to the AVL, so make sure you continue to visit us at http://avl.arizona.edu.

Arizona Daily Star February 27, 2011- BOOK EVENTS

BOOK EVENTS February 27, 2011

TODAY

Buddhist Book Group- Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave. Group will discuss the first half of THE BEST BUDDHIST WRITING 2010, a diverse and thought-provoking collection of Buddhist and Buddhist-inspired writings on a wide range of issues, edited by Melvin McLeod. 2 p.m. Feb. 27. Free. 792-3715.

Mysteries Southwest- Singing Wind Bookshop, 700 W. Singing Wind Road, Benson. Freaturing Southwestern mystery writers J. Carson Black, Donis Casey, Elizabeth Gunn, Jeff Mariotte, John Talton and Susan Cummins Miller, with music by the Ronstadt Gerenations. 1 p.m. Feb. 27. Free. 1-520-586-2425

Mystery Book Group- Antigone Books, 411 N. Fourth Ave. Group will discuss A DUTY TO THE DEAD by Charles Todd. A resourceful World War I British army nurse quickly realizes that life at home and at the front can be equally deadly. 12:30 p.m. Feb. 27. Free. 792-3715

Saguaro Book Club- Saguaro National Park West, Environmental Education Center. 2700 N. Kinney road. Group will discuss THE TURQUOISE LEDGE: A MEMOIR by Leslie Marmon Silko. Weather permitting, discussion may be outdoors. 1-3:30 p.m. Feb. 27. Park entrance fee. 733-5158

TUESDAY

Preschool story time- Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Listen to stories and songs. For children ages 3 to 5 and their parents/caregivers. 11:30- noon. Tuesdays through March 29. Free. 229-6300

WEDNESDAY

Family story time- Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Listen to stories and stongs for children newborn to 5 years and their parents and caregivers. 10-10:30 a.m. Wednesday through March 30. Free. 229-5300

Poetics and Politics Presents Franci Washburn- University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St. Thrid event in a series of readings by prominent American Indian Writers. Washburn has published two novels, ELSIE’S BUSINESS and THE SCRED WHITE TURKEY. her thrid novel. THE RED BIRD ALL-iNDIAN TRAVELING BAND is forthcoming. 7-8 p.m. March 2. Free. 626-3765

THURSDAY

Crafty Readers- Oro Valley Public Library, 1305 W. Naranja Drive, Oro Valley. Participants will read PANDA’S EARTHQUAKE ESCAPE by Phyllis Perry and making a craft. The program is for children ages 6 to 8. Registration required. 4-5 p.m. March 3. Free. 229-5300.

Leading Ladies of Liteerature- The Victorians- Oro Valley Public Libary, 1305 Naranja Drive, Oro Valley. A discussion presented by Marion Doane. Titles for this month: JANE EYRE, WUTHERING HEIGHTS and THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL by the Bronte sisters. 10 a.m-noon. March 3. Free. 229-5300

Kore Press- Heather Brittain Bergstrom Kore Press’ Short Fiction Award Winner & Two New Titles

Kore Short Fiction Award Winner 
All Sorts of Hunger, a Leslie Marmon-Silko pick

Congratulations to Heather Brittain Bergstrom from Yuba City, CA! Her manuscript, All Sorts of Hunger, was chosen out of 250 submissions by readers and final judge  Leslie Marmon-Silko as the winner for our 2010 Short Fiction Award. the finalists are: “Return,” by Sharon May and “Mr. Smith’s Tip-Top Tale of Woe and Horror,” by Nancy Holyoke.

Two New Titles from Kore Press
For more infformation go to “Kore Press” <kore@korepress.org

“This book of poems is masterful and transporting in its form and in its orchestration of themes. Balzer’s handling of the prose poem form transforms the prose “box” into a playground, a diorama. The reader enters the speaker’s imagination–that of a woman who rents a house in a scraggly desert neighborhood, who is absorbed into the vacated rooms of the previous tenant who had killed someone before moving out…”–Barbara Cully; $9, map-folded chapbook with hand-made coffee cup prints on each cover.

“Frost Heaves is powerful mediation on grief and reclamation. This is the story of Katherine Crossly, as she assesses her life after a half century of marriage. What happens when a woman realizes that her dreams were not deferred, but stifled before they are even fully imagined? Set against the beautifully drawn landscapes of a small town in Maine, this is the story of a thaw, both literal and metaphorical. –Tayari Jones, selected Frost Heaves for Kore’s ’09 Short Fiction Award.
$10, pamphlet-stitched chapbook with hand-sprayed ink clouds on each cover.

See our website at “Kore Press” <kore@korepress.org

Kore Press- Short Fiction Chapbook Contest $1,000 Prize

KORE PRESS SHORT FICTION CHAPBOOK  

 

A prize of $1,000 plus chapbook publication by Kore Press will be given for a short story written in English. Leslie Marmon Silko will be judging.Deadline: October 31st, 2009

Eligibility

This competition is open to any woman writing in English, regardless of nationality.

Leslie Marmon Silko, a former professor of English and fiction writing, is the author of novels, short stories, essays, poetry, articles, and filmscripts. She has won prizes, fellowships, and grants from such sources as the National Endowment for the Arts and The Boston Globe. She was the youngest writer to be included in The Norton Anthology of Women’s Literature, for her short story “Lullaby.” Ms. Silko lives in Tucson, Arizona.

For complete information go to http://www.korepress.org/KorePressShortFictionAward.htm

University of Arizona Poetry Center-Native American Artists Silko, Bitsui, Luna, Twist, Featured In Free “Native Creative” Performance, Forums.

       Native American Artists Silko, Bitsui, Luna, Twist, Featured In Free “Native Creative” Performance, Forums.www.tucsonpimaartscouncil.org.       TPAC offers Tucson residents and visitors the rare opportunity to attend several free public arts performances and forums with prominent Native American artists on Friday and Saturday June 12 and 13.   The “Native Creative” program features performance artist James Luna, a Luiseno Indian who lives on the La Jolla Indian Reservation, and writers Leslie Marmon Silko of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico and Sherwin Bitsui, a Navajo from White Cone, Arizona.   The Native Creative presentations and this workshop highlight the work of innovative Native American artists in the fields of performance art, multi-media art and literature – conjurers, revealers, antagonists and agitators all.   The workshop and public events will be at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, 1508 E. Helen St. , one block north of Speedway Blvd. and one block west of Cherry Ave.   For more information on the workshop and the performances call 520-624-0595 #18 or visit