Author Archive
Candy
Candy
When: March 19th, 2010
Where: It’s A Grind
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.
Dallas Slams – Featured Reader Series
London Calling…East Dallas!
Joey Cloudy & Opalina Herebia-Salas & IChat with Ali Abdolrezaei from London
When: March 13th, 2010
Where: Paperbacks Plus
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.
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Joey Cloudy reads at Paperbacks Plus while Abol Froushan looks on–Live from London, March 13, 2010.
Video by Peter Orozco
2010 WordSpace Spring Reading Series at Paperbacks Plus
Hosted by Laney Yarber
Suggested donation: $5
Jeffrey Davis & Linda Jones
Jeffrey Davis & Linda Jones
When: March 4th, 2010
Where: Members Only Salon
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.
Members-only Salon
Avante! Shin Yu Pai and Jerry Kelley
Avante! Shin Yu Pai and Jerry Kelley
When: February 6th, 2010
Where: Paperbacks Plus
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.
2010 WordSpace Spring Reading Series at Paperbacks Plus
Hosted by Laney Yarber
Suggested donation: $5
Sabrina Gilbert
Sabrina Gilbert
When: February 5th, 2010
Where: Lincoln Park Barnes & Noble
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.
Dallas Slams – Featured Reader Series
Destiny Lane
Destiny Lane
When: January 29th, 2010
Where: Cafe Madrid
Destiny Lane is a poet that writes from her soul. She connects words that resonate with thoughtfulness. Her work is spiced with sultry soliloquies that flow fluidly off her tongue while dripping with steaming hot passion leaving the imaginations of audiences moist and wanting more.
Dallas Slams – Featured Reader Series
Mad Swirl Night
Johnny Olson, MH Clay and Swirve
When: January 23rd, 2010
Where: Paperbacks Plus
Mad Swirl –Johnny Olson is the editor-in-chief of Mad Swirl, and the host at Mad SwirlOpen Mic night at Absinthe Lounge. When Johnny is not nurturing his love/lust-child,Mad Swirl or painting, he savors the time swirling around with his fellow mad ones. MH Clay is Mad Swirl’s new poetry editor and a huge advocate on all that is Mad Swirly. He’s a poet, writer, musician and general mad man. Swirve, aka Chris Curiel, Tamatha Curiel, and Gerard Bendicks, is a poetics, avant-garde person/instruments-sound-space group from Dallas.
2010 WordSpace Spring Reading Series at Paperbacks Plus
Hosted by Laney Yarber
Suggested donation: $5
A Luminous Mind: John Dolphin Allen
A Luminous Mind: John Dolphin Allen
When: April 17, 2009
Where: Dallas Museum of Nature and Science
John Allen, aka Johnny Dolphin, author of the recently released Me and the Biospheres: A Memoir by the Inventor of Biosphere 2, the definitive autobiography of one of the most luminous minds of our time, will speak and perform Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. at the Museum of Nature & Science, 1318 Second Avenue in Dallas’ Fair Park. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 students and members of Wordspace and Museum of Nature & Science. Call 254-495-9976. This event is sponsored in part by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.
Johnny Dolphin is the nom de plume of John Allen–an explorer, author, poet, playwright, scientist and heroic guru of the avant-garde. He has authored dozens of scientific articles, many books of poetry, prose, and plays, including The Dream and Drink of Freedom and 39 Blows on a Gone Trumpet, taught hundreds of actors, and performed all over the world. His latest book, Me and the Biospheres is an awe-inspiring glimpse into a luminous mind and his project-by-project chronicle of man’s potential to sustain the environment while interfacing it with art.
Born and raised in Oklahoma, he left a successful post-Harvard career in New York in the early 1960s to live in the Tangiers art scene then ventured through the secret back trails of war-torn Vietnam and Tibet. He began meeting the people who partnered his creation of Synergia Ranch, the Theater of All Possibilities and his historic environmental and cultural projects. He is the inventor of Biosphere 2, co-creator of the RV Heraclitus Planet Water Expedition, Rainforest Enrichment and Sustainable Forestry Project (Puerto Rico), Pastoral Regeneration Project (West Australia), The October Gallery (London), Les Marrionniers (France), Institute of Eco Technics and Caravan of Dreams (FW).
His conferences and collaborations on culture and science include such diverse members of the world’s intelligentsia as Timothy Leary, the Panchen Lama, William Burroughs, Ralph Metzer, Yvgeny Yevtushenko, Buckminster Fuller and Ed Bass, He is a Fellow of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Linnean Society, and the Royal Geographical Society.
Dallas Museum of Nature and Science
Dallas Slams – Featured Reader
Shug
When: December 4th, 2009
Where: Cafe Madrid
Poetry saved Shug from selling out and losing herself in all-white private schools and, later, in A&M University. So now she is searching to see if poetry hid her in the schools to hide her from Big Brother in order that she may come out of exile and revolutionize herself and the rest of us.
Member Salon
Member Salon
When: December 3, 2009
Ronald Davison is a native of Dallas. A multi-media talent whose work spans poetry, painting and music, Davison is the author of Quiet Evolution (Introspect Books). Two new CDs called Circles and Quiet Evolution II are forthcoming soon.
Frederick Turner is an internationally known poet, lecturer, and scholar, and Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. A graduate of Oxford University, his books, plays, poems, and essays are too numerous to list but can be found at frederickturnerpoet.com. He was recently interviewed on the Discovery Channel’s science documentary, “Understanding Beauty.”
Hosted by Board Member Sarah Riehm
