TIC reading November 2nd "Why We Do This"

TIC reading November 2nd
8-10 pm
The Soap Factory

Writers Paula Cisewski, Beverly Cottman, Steve Healey, Satish Jayaraj, Maggie Ryan Sandford and Kate Shuknecht collect, construct, and animate stories and poems in response to "Why We Do This," Andy DuCett's multi-media solo show about memory, work, loss and leisure.  Free admission.

There's a great and varied crop of readers and an awesome installation to inspire them.  Be sure to check out the Soap Factory's website for interviews with the artist and all manner of interesting information.

Have We Got a Feast for You: Fall 2012 Events

October 6th is Colloquium at Hamline during Homecoming/Alumni weekend.  You can hear some standout graduates from last year talk about process.  That evening, be sure to head over to the Co-Kisser Film Festival, which will be showing poetry films and having an open-mic from 5:30-6:30.  You are specially invited to come and read a poem or two and celebrate this marvelous melding of film and poetry!

October 13th we're having a Happy Hour to celebrate new faculty member John Brandon's reading on October 12th and the Rain Taxi Twin Cities Book Festival at the State Fairgrounds on the 13th.  Volunteers always wanted!  Meet us at Stout's (near the Fairgrounds on the NW part of the Snelling and Larpenteur intersection) at 6:30, and watch Facebook to help us get a head count to reserve a table.

October 20th is our Moveable Feast Launch Party (in belated honor of our name change) and Touch Football Game (and then bonfire at the lovely back yard of Sarah Hayes).  Players and spectators wanted!

November 2nd is the Faculty Appreciation Dinner at 5:30 and then the Water~Stone reading at 7.  It's our annual potluck style bash to celebrate and talk to our lovely faculty members and each other.  Watch Facebook for mouth-watering postings of who is bringing what delectable food this year.

November 14th is the long-awaited publishing panel (we sincerely hope).  A panel of publishers/editors will talk to alumni about the ins and outs of publishing in the Twin Cities and beyond.

All this on top of our monthly writers group and poetry club!  If you have an event or blog or website you would like us to post about, let us know.  And if you have an idea for something you would like to contribute to this blog to make it better for alumni (a monthly column or whatnot), get in touch with us.

Full slate this fall and full steam ahead.  Look for details here, on the Facebook page, and maybe in your actual mail box.  Hope to see you soon!

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Help us add some more spice to this moveable feast August 28th!

Join us at 6:30 on Tuesday, August 28th to plan out the semester and sketch out the year for this fair alumni association.  If you'd like to help out but can't make it, let us know.  (And if you have any fabulous ideas to share but can't make it, let us know, and we'll be sure to discuss them.)

We will convene at Ginkgo Coffeehouse (just across Snelling from Hamline University). If you need more info about Ginko, you can check out their Web site: http://www.ginkgocoffee.com/.

Hope to see you there!

Talking Image Connection reading August 4th

TalkingImageConnection and The Soap Factory present

"Hedge Magic Spells and Incantations: a TalkingImageConnection reading"

Writers Dennis Cass, Heid Erdrich, Jean Miriam Larson, Matt Mauch, R. Vincent Moniz, Jr., Alison Morse and Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay conjure stories and poems in response to "Hedge Magic," a show of sculpture and installations curated by the Soap Factory, that "looks at processes of transformation."
"Hedge Magic, practiced without the mediating control of a higher power, uses intuition and inspiration to gather and interpret material found in nature and culture," with an eye toward the "chaotic detail that creates the whole."

Saturday August 4th, 8pm at the Soap Factory

514 2nd Street SE Minneapolis

Free admission

TalkingImageConnection brings together writers, contemporary art and new audiences in art galleries around the Twin Cities. For more information contact yackmor@talkimage.org.

Dennis Cass is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones and the online journal Slate. He is the author of HEAD CASE: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain (HarperCollins). Dennis has also worked as a literary agent, a copywriter, and adjunct professor at Carleton College, where he teaches creative nonfiction. He lives in Minneapolis with his wife and son and wouldn't have it any other way.

Heid E. Erdrich has authored four books of poems. Raised in Wahpeton, North Dakota, she is Ojibwe enrolled at Turtle Mountain. She frequently teaches as a visiting author and serves as a project scholar. Heid also works with visual artists and directs an Ojibwe language press. Her current projects are a cookbook from the indigenous foods movement and a collaborative multi-disciplinary show called Artifact Traffic. Her new book is Cell Traffic: New and Selected Poems. She daily enjoys the vast transhumance in view around Lake of the Isles near her home in Minnesota.

Jean Miriam Larson writes poems and creative non-fiction. Her most recent project is The Superior Life, a book of poems about Minnesota’s Boundary Waters, Lake Superior’s north shore, and all things wilderness, published by Broadcraft Press. Jean’s poems, interviews, and essays have appeared in Midway Journal, Rock, Paper, Scissors, and The Park Bugle as well as in performances with TalkingImageConnection and Three Dances. An ekphrastic essay also appears on Norton’s website, PoemsOutloud.

Matt Mauch is the author of Prayer Book (Lowbrow Press) and the forthcoming chapbook The Brilliance of the Sparrow (Mondo Bummer). His poems have appeared in Salt Hill, DIAGRAM, Willow Springs, Spinning Jenny, and elsewhere. Host of the various readings that comprise the Great Twin Cities Poetry Read (GTCPR) & Road Show, and editor of the annual anthology Poetry City, USA, Mauch teaches in the AFA program at Normandale Community College. He lives in Minneapolis.

An enrolled member of the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation of Fort Berthold North Dakota, R. Vincent Moniz Jr. is an emerging voice hailing the Philips neighborhood of south Minneapolis. Vincent has been a part of the Twin Cities artistic community for over two decades as an actor, but has only shared his poetry a handful of times. Most recently he performed as part of Equilibrium: Spoken Word at the Loft and has been working on 2 things since that evening, matching the energy of that performance and grabbing 18 dollars’ worth of quarters off of his right elbow.

Alison Morse's poems and stories have been published in Water~Stone Review, Natural Bridge, The Pedestal, Rhino, Opium Magazine, mnartists.org and other places. In 2012, she completed a collection of stories about Kenyan social justice activist Wahu Kaara for the Women PeaceMakers Program at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. She was also the 2012 "poet in residence" for the St. Paul JCC. Alison teaches English and runs TalkingImageConnection.

Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay's work has been published by literary and scholastic journals, lifestyle magazines, almanacs, newspapers, and anthologies nationwide. She is a 2011 and 2012 Jerome Foundation/Mu Performing Arts' New Eyes Theater Fellow, winner of the 2010 Alfred C. Carey Prize in Spoken Word Poetry, recipient of a Joyce Foundation Scholarship and a Loft Literary Center scholarship. Her play, Kung Fu Zombies vs Cannibals, is in its third developmental stage with Mu Performing Arts. Get to know her at http://www.refugenius.com/.

Every Day Poets seeking short poetry

Every Day Poets (http://www.everdaypoets.com/) is seeking submissions of high-quality, short (under 500 words) poetry for its online poetry journal. No previously published work Limit of three submissions under consideration at any one time. Full guidelines at http://www.everydaypoets.com/submit-story/.

If you have any questions, please contact Kathleen.

Kathleen Cassen Mickelson
Joint Managing Editor
Every Day Poets

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Cracked Walnut Reading Series Prepares for Another Season

The Cracked Walnut Reading Series is preparing for another round of readings, and big things are in store.

The Cracked Walnut Reading series takes place in innovative locations througout the Twin Cities. Readers tend to address the space which adds to the unique flavor of each reading. Some examples of past locations include The Braemer Skating Arena, Local D'lish, The Midtown Global Market, and the Washburn McGreavy Hillside Funeral Chapel. For more information on the Cracked Walnut reading series visit satishjayaraj.tumblr.com/CWRS

If you wish to become involved in the Cracked Walnut Readings join the mailing list by e-mailing me at crackedwalnut@gmail.com.

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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Phalen Park1615 Phalen Dr.

St Paul, MN 55106

3:00 - 8:00 PM (reading at 4:30)

Cracked Walnut and Red Bird Chapbooks would like to invite you to our picnic fundraiser where we will celebrate the great work of the poets and artists who contributed to Red Bird's Broadside series. Featured Readers will be Kelly Hansen Maher, Donna Isaac, Jamie Lynn Buehner, Shelly Love, Chris Title, Wendy Brown-Baez, Didi Koka, Jenny McDougal, Sandy Beach.  The reading itself will start at 4:30 at the Amphitheater, and we have rented out the close by picnic shelter for the rest of the evening. We will have some simple refreshments and appetizers available and invite you to bring finger foods that you are willing to share.

This will also be a fundraising event for Cracked Walnut and Redbird, and there will be items for sale. We are planning on becoming registered a Non-profit company.  Your kind donations, either cash or check, will help us with this endeavor.

Please follow the evite for more info and to accept our invitation
http://new.evite.com/#view_invite:eid=0366NC2ZTL7RSYAS4EPBRBFNCLSGXA

Call for poetry book club suggestions (due October 15th)

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Jean is taking nominations for next year’s poetry book club selections.  Please send her 1-3 choices with a short sentence (or two or three) about why you’d like us to read the poet and/or book.  When you’re choosing it would be helpful if you would do a search or call Micawbers (where we get a discount) to see if the book is available and in paperback.

Nominations: due by October 15th 
Voting online by mailing list members: after that

Email Jean at jeanielars@comcast.net for more information and/or to get on the Book Club's mailing list.

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TIC Reading July 9th: check this line-up out!

Saturday July 9th
8pm
the Soap Factory

TalkingImageConnection and The Soap Factory present

"Erasers and Other Memories, a TalkingImageConnection reading"

Writers Lightsey Darst, Sarah Hayes, John Jodzio, Katie Leo, Alison Morse, G.E. Patterson, and Annette Schiebout spin poems, stories and more in response to "The Erasers," an international exhibit of artists curated by Corinna Kirsch. According to Kirsch, "The works in this exhibition are all ‘erasers’: both objects imagined as something more important and mysterious than their physical shape might suggest and objects which contain the action to efface, censure, and delete the past."

at the Soap Factory

514 2nd Street SE Minneapolis

free admission

For more information contact 612.623.9176 or email yackmor@talkimage.org. TalkingImageConnection brings together writers, contemporary art and new audiences in art galleries around the Twin Cities.  For more information call 612.623.9176 or email yackmor@talkimage.org.

Writer Bios:

Originally from Tallahassee, Lightsey Darst writes, dances, writes about dance, and teaches in Minneapolis. Her Find the Girl, published by Coffee House Press in 2010, was selected for a Minnesota Book Award. Her other awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She hosts the writing salon “The Works”.

Sarah Hayes is a writer and visual artist, working in the forms of poetry, creative non-fiction and photography.  Her recent writing focuses on the coalescence of science and emotion, physics and attraction, relationships and mathematics, and other such juxtapositions. Her work has appeared in Zenith City Arts, The Muse, and Dust & Fire.

John Jodzio is a winner of the Loft-McKnight Fellowship. His stories have appeared in One Story, Barrelhouse, Opium, The Florida Review and various other places in print and online. His short story collection, If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home, was recently published by Replacement Press. He lives in Minneapolis. Find out more at www.johnjodzio.net.

Katie Hae Leo is a playwright, poet, and essayist. Her work is published or forthcoming in Water~Stone Review, Kartika Review, Midway Journal, Asian American Poetry & Writing, and Asian American Plays for a New Generation, among others. Her latest play Four Destinies will premiere at Mixed Blood Theater in October.

Alison Morse’s poetry and prose have been published in Water~Stone Review, Natural Bridge, Rhino, Opium Magazine, and The Pedestal, among other places.  She also runs TalkingImageConnection when she's not teaching or tutoring English or writing about the arts for mnartists.org.

A featured poet-performer in New York’s Panasonic Village Jazz Fest, G.E. Patterson is the author of two books of poems.  His work has garnered a Minnesota Book Award and fellowships from the Jerome Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board.  Last year, he was honored by New York City’s Fund for Poetry.  His writing can be found in several magazines and anthologies, including Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Blues Poems, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, Poetry 180, Isn’t It Romantic, American Letters and Commentary, nocturnes: (re)view of the arts, Open City, Provincetown Arts, Seneca Review, Swerve, Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project’s Poets and Poems.

Annette Schiebout writes and performs with TalkingImageConnection, Spiked Coffee, Urban Hillbilly, Story Slam and is published in rps.  She is a 2009 SASE Writer to Writer mentee. She received her MFA from Hamline University where she served as the president of the student organization West Egg Literati.  She teaches writing and communications classes at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls.

How could you miss it?!

Come to our GLAAS-TIC Mini-Writing Retreat!

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Line to Line: A GLAAS-TIC Mini-Writing Retreat in response to Tim Carroll

April 9th

The Soap Factory

noon-1:45

Please join GLAAS and TIC at the Soap Factory as Tim Carroll performs-draws his new installation for the entire afternoon. We plan to be there dressed in our warmest clothes (the Soap Factory is not heated) and writing new stuff using Tim's artwork to inspire us (we may get him to talk to us, too, but he has to keep drawing at the same time).

Wilde Roast

1:45-?

We'll head to a room at Wilde Roast where we can recharge, revise, and read work to each other. It'll be a great way push the boundaries of our writing, build community, and hear each other's voices.

(There is no charge but we strongly suggest buying at least a cup of coffee at Wilde Roast.)

Please let us know you're coming by April 7th. See you there!

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TIC Reading This Saturday

If you haven't been to a TIC reading, come to this one! Dress warmly and bring a blanket to keep you toasty while you look and listen to readers responding to art. There's great energy here, and I recommend bringing a notebook, so you can write as the inspiration strikes (and it will strike).

"ALL OUR BE-LONGINGS, a TalkingImageConnection reading"

Saturday, February 12 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm

The Soap Factory

514 2nd Street Southeast

Minneapolis, MN

Writers Sarah Fox, Didi Koka, Alison Morse, Andy Sturdevant, Bryan Thao Worra, and Stephanie Wilbur Ash invent poems, songs, and stories in response to Rosemary Williams' installation "Belongings" at the Soap Factory.

Free admission and hot cider. For more information call 612.623.9176 or email yackmor@talkimage.org.

TalkingImageConnection brings together writers, contemporary visual art and new audiences in art galleries around the Twin Cities. For more information contact yackmor@talkimage.org.



Writer Bios:

Sarah Fox is a teacher, student, and doula. Her poetry collection Because Why was published by Coffee House Press, and her poems, essays, and reviews have been published in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies, most recently Conduit, Rain Taxi, ElevenEleven, Spout, LUNGFULL!, ActionYes, and Tammy. She's received grants and fellowships from the Bush Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board and was awarded the 2010 Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize for poetry. She lives in NE Minneapolis where, with John Colburn, she co-imagines the future Center for Visionary Poetics and nurtures a relationship with entheogenic plants.

Didi Koka is writer, Healer, Mother, recent MFA grad. Winner of the 2010 Best Poetry Thesis from Ham, she has published essay in Confluence, interviews in Water~Stone, and poetry in Minnesota Medicine and rock, paper, scissors. She has conducted poetry groups for healing professionals and has performed poetry with the Heal the Earth Collective. She is interested in the voicing of beings, sensate, imagined and inanimate, and the interplay of life and its aftermath, public and private lives, natural and human-created forms or systems. Briefly. anything and everything that defines itself in opposition.

Alison Morse’s poetry and prose have been published in Natural Bridge, Water~Stone, Rhino, Opium Magazine, The Potomac, and mnartists.org, among other places. She also runs TalkingImageConnection when she's not teaching or tutoring English.

Andy Sturdevant is a writer, artist, arts administrator and layabout based in South Minneapolis. His writing has appeared in mnartists.org, Rain Taxi, Mpls. St. Paul, Art Review and Preview! and Heavy Table. He is the host of Salon Saloon, a monthly live-action arts magazine held every fourth Tuesday at the Bryant-Lake Bowl. Andy also recently wrote an essay on the visual culture of the Midwest that will appear in the catalog for The Spectacular of Vernacular exhibition, opening at the Walker Art Center in January 2011. A book of his illustrations, Handsome Liberals, will be published in 2011 by Location Books.

Bryan Thao Worra is a Laotian American poet whose books include On the Other Side of the Eye, Winter Ink, My Dinner With Cluster Bombs and Touching Detonations. He has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Loft Literary Center and the Playwrights Center. He holds a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans Leadership Award for excellence in the arts. His work is taught internationally and appears in over 100 publications around the world including Hong Kong, Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States. He resides in North Minneapolis.

Stephanie Wilbur Ash lives in Mankato and Minneapolis. She is the co-creator of more than 45 episodes of the Electric Arc Radio Show and PowderKeg Live!, and co-creator of the full-length musical Don't Crush our Heart! When she's not writing musical theater and scripted radio, she is writing short stories. When she is not writing short stories, she is writing a novel. When she is not writing a novel she is very sad and hard to live with. She has two boys and an X-box that they bought with their own money, which they pooled together with their friend Leo's money, so what could she say then, huh? What was she supposed to say then?

Michael Kiesow Moore ('99) invites you to write peace into your life this summer

Hi there,

I'm a Hamline MFA alumnus (1999), and I'd like to let everyone know about a week-long class I'll be teaching on Madeline Island this summer. Here are the details:

Writing Peace into Your Life
August 8 to August 13, 2010
All levels / multi-genre

At the peaceful setting of Madeline Island we will spend a week exploring many aspects of peace. If you had peace in your life, what would it look like? How can you use your own inner peace to benefit your family, community, and world? The goal of this class is to have students consciously explore the nature of peace through writing. In the process, we can discover deep truths about ourselves and how we relate to the world.

We'll read and discuss writings by Thich Nhat Hanh, Mohandas Gandhi, and others. Guided meditations and walks in the beautiful island setting will return students to their own sense of inner peace. Students will pull from their own craft toolkits of poetry, creative nonfiction, or fiction, at all levels of writing.

As writers-and as caring human beings-we will meet at the crossroads of peace, creativity, and imagination to inspire hope for the future, deepen our connections to ourselves and others, and inspire each other to use our creativity for peace.

For further information and registration, see http://www.madelineartschool.com/. (NOTE: You might want to use Internet Explorer to view this site, not Firefox .)

If you have any questions, let me know. Thanks!

best,
Michael

TalkingImageConnection (TIC) reading June 17th

Fitting the Profile
a reading presented by TIC and the Tychman Shapira Gallery

Thursday June 17th @ 7PM
Sabes Jewish Community Center
4330 S. Cedar Lake Road
Minneapolis, MN

writers
Naomi Cohn * Geoff Herbach * Rebecca Kanner * Judith Katz * Alison Morse * Margie Newman

respond to 

the exhibit "Profiling: Exploring The Faces of Diversity Within The Jewish Community"

For more information, email yackmor@talkimage.org.

These performances are always a blast and usually have at least one of your fellow alumni.  Be sure to experience a reading this summer, and remember that TIC is always looking for new participants.   Email TIC a story or piece of creative non-fiction or three poems, along with a description of your past experience as a reader and your interest in visual art.

Do you have an organization we should know about?

We're interested in finding out what our alumni are up to.  If you've started an organization (charity, literary magazine, theater company, reading series, etc.) or are a part of one that you think we'd be interested in finding out about, supporting, or joining, do share.

Email us, so we can post a profile of your organization.  Please include the following information:

• Your name
• Grad year
• Organization name
• What your organization does
• How you got involved
• How others can get involved
  
• Org website and email/contact info

We hope to hear from you soon.  :)