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WordSpace Critics Circle
WordSpace Board Member programming committee member Martha Heimberg curates an evening of analytical review and comparative investigations of selected works for WordSpace Members Only. Become a Member!
Martha Heimberg is assistant professor of English at Northwood University in Cedar Hill, Texas, creative writing instructor at Richland College and arts critic for Turtle Creek News and Theater Jones.
Five-time winner of Dallas Press Club’s Katie Award for arts criticism, community affairs and business writing, she has also won the Texas Historic Commission Griffin Award and the Sierra Club Award for writing. She has written over 200 features and reviews on live theater, visual and literary arts, and community affairs for Texas publications, including D Magazine, Texas Monthly, Lone Star Book Review and others. She originated DART’s Poetry in Motion program, a national project placing contemporary and classic poems on buses and trains, and is a founding member of the Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum.
Laney Yarber @ Tyler-Davis Block Party
Laney Yarber @ Tyler-Davis 2nd Saturday: “Claireoke Revue”
When: Saturday, May 12, Slam, 5pm, Laney Yarber, 8 pm
Where: WordSpace, 415 North Tyler St. (Map)
Texas’s most celebrated performance artist Laney Yarber brings her charismatic and free associative magnetism to the Tyler-Davis Arts District’s 2nd Saturday Festivals. Laney Yarber is an artist whose work and influence has had a important impact on the state’s cultural life. Her work is part history (personal-area-occult), part installation, often multi-media, with great mastery of the craft of theater, sculpture, spoken word, and visual special effects.She is the recipient of many awards and grants, studied with Robert Wilson, and is the sister of painter Robert Yarber, Laney leaves her fans and even her diva-to-diva antagonists crying for more. Never enough. Never enough.
Michael Helsem on Sylvia Plath
WordSpace Critics Circle: Plath and the Crisis of Our Time,
Presented by Michael Helsem
What: Plath and the Crisis of Our Time
When: Tuesday, May 22, 7 pm
Where: Private Residence, RSVP: wordSpace@wordspace.us or 214-838-3554
Admission: Members-FREE, Non Members $5
photo by J. R. Compton, courtesy Dallas Arts Revue
Michael Helsem is a Dallas writer, intellectual, painter, and author with multi-disciplinary knowledge and intersections of philosophy and imagination in art. He has kindly agreed to share his rich talents in a focus on Sylvia Plath. This is a an intimate salon setting at our WordSpace programs room. Space is limited. WordSpace Members Free. Non-Members, $5.
RSVP: WordSpace 214-838-3554
WordSpace Salon: Ben Fountain
WordSpace Salon: Ben Fountain
When: Thursday, April 5th, 7 pm
Where: Contact WordSpace 214-838-3554
Ben Fountain reads from his soon-to-be released new novel, “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” published by Ecco/HarperCollins. Ben is the author of “Brief Encounters with Che Guevara” (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2006), which received the 2007 PEN/Hemingway Award and the 2006 Barnes & Noble Discover Award. His fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, and the Paris Review, among other magazines, and has received an O.Henry Award, two Pushcart Prizes, two short story awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, and the McGinnis Ritchie Prize for Fiction. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and New Letters. From 2004-2006 he served as fiction editor of the Southwest Review and past WordSpace Board President.
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Members Free! Non-Members $5
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
When: Saturday May 19th, 12pm
Where: Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
Dallas Poetry Slam heats up the hour every hour on the hour at Deep Ellum Outdoor Market. Visit the festival of arts and vendors created by Brandon Castillo for this special urban 
rejuvenation project benefitting the historic Deep Ellum District.
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
WordSpace presents the Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
When: Saturday April 21st, 12pm
Where: Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
Community is where it’s at: Visit and shop the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market! Beginning at noon and every hour on the hour, the Dallas Poetry Slam performs, bringing the best solo performances around.
WordSpace Presents Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
WordSpace Presents Dallas Poetry Slam @ Deep Ellum Outdoor Market
When: Saturday March 17th, 12pm
Where: Deep Ellum: Indiana and Malcom X
From noon-3, every hour on the hour, poets from the Dallas Poetry Slam pump up the jam Deep Ellum Outdoor Market with a 15 minute performance between music sets.
Tammy Gomez: One Block Poem @ Deep Ellum Market
Tammy Gomez: One Block Poem @ Deep Ellum Market
When: December 18th, 2010
Where: Malcom X and Elm
5 years in the making, commissioned by the Fort Worth Arts Council, Tammy Gomez has created a poem made of 125 blocks, one word per block and engages the community to assemble it the whole block long.
As a Mexican-American Texas-born writer, performance artist, and media producer, Tammy Gomez has over 20 years of experience in producing, directing, and hosting literary performance events for the stage and live audiences, and has worked with over 300 artist/writers in collaborative contexts. She curated the Poetry Tent readings for the Texas Book Festival at the State Capitol for six years.
Tammy has studied poetics with renowned award-winning writers Arthur Sze, Ann Waldman, Allen Ginsberg, and Lorna Dee Cervantes. During the 1990s, her spoken word band “La Palabra” enjoyed wide acclaim, as they took poetry to pubs, art galleries, and South by Southwest. Tammy has also been a performing member of such collectives as the Red Salmon Poets, the Blue Plate Poets, Dharma Broads, WOW (Women of Words), and Yoniverse (the latter which she founded and published).
Her audiences and sites of production have ranged from social justice and women’s advocacy organizations (Texas Association against Sexual Assault and the Esperanza Peace & Justice Center) to media production centers (WATER House, KO.OP Radio, and Austin Free-Net). For KO.OP Radio, Tammy produced the weekly women’s magazine “Notes from a Broad” for five years. Her work often touches on themes of ecofeminism, spiritual strength in the face of adversity, and cross-cultural hybridity.
WordSpace is proud to partner with Deep Ellum Open Market and the Better Block Project in sponsoring literary events. Deep Ellum Open Market, Directed by Brandon Castillo, is the 2010 winner of a Dallas Observer’s Best of Dallas award. Located on the corner of Elm St. and Malcom X Blvd, with over 40 vendors and live music, beginning at 8am in the morning.
For more information about and a visual mock up of the Better Block Project of Deep Ellum, visitwww.deepellummarket.com
Corey Marks and Farid Matuk
Corey Marks and Farid Matuk
When: December 4th, 2010
Where: Paperbacks Plus
WordSpace is proud to have this reading sponsored by our favorite neighborhood must-meet-up-regularly-at Eateries, Ricardo Avila’s Mextopia, with the freshest delicious Mexican food, gorgeous ambience and most welcoming owners and staff. Recently voted Best New Restaurant by the Dallas Observer, Mextopia is located at 2104 Greenville. Join us there after the reading! Special Thanks to Ricardo Avila and his partner, Michelle Andrie.
Corey Marks teaches at the University of North Texas and serves, with Bruce Bond, as Poetry Editor of American Literary Review. He is winner the Natalie Ornish prize, Texas Institiute for Letters, the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review. a National Poetry Series winner for his book, Renunciation and a National Endowment for the Arts recipient.
Read Corey Marks in Three Penny Review
Farid Matuk is the author of This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and the chapbooks Is it the King? (Effing Press, 2006), and Riverside, forthcoming from Longhouse Press. His poems have appeared most recently in 6X6, Barrelhouse,The Boston Review,Big Bridge, Cannibal, and Mandorla among others. His essays and reviews have appeared in Sentence, Cross-Cultural Poetics, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. Matuk has published translations from Spanish in Kadar Koli,Bombay Gin, Translation Review, and Harvard Review. Currently he serves as poetry editor for FENCE Magazine. The reciplient of Ford and Fulbright Fellowships, Matuk holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. He lives in Dallas with the poet Susan Briante.
Hosted by Karen X
Fluid Imagery
Fluid Imagery
When: December 3rd, 2010
Where: The Boiler Room
Fluid Imagery is a poet, orator, songstress, edifier, spoken word artist mother and realist. It is her belief that words can be used to heal, hurt, soothe, relate, edify and uplift. She uses the gifts that she has been blessed with to bring an awareness of issues that all people face. She believes that life and death lies in the power of the tongue and that you have to speak good things into existence. She also believes that if you dont know the past, it can haunt your present and distort your future. Her style of poetry blends song with prose to tell stories of injustice, love, pain, desires, and life. It has been branded transparent poetry as she often puts a face to the pain people go through but dare not mention. She writes snippets of her life in every piece that is penned. It is her desire to be a blessing to others through poetry, prose and psalms. Fluid Imagery… I speak……… therefore.. .I AM!!!.
Hosted by Rock Baby and Alexandra Marie
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