STIR SCHEDULE  + VENUES
 (Sept 12th - 14th)

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UNM Student Union Building (SUB)
UNM ArtsLab
Harwood Art Center
516 Arts
South Broadway Cultural Center
One-Up Bar
The Filling Station
Duende Reading at the Anasazi Fields Winery

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Friday, September 12, 2008

#1

Avoiding the Slush Pile

Publishing Workshop 10:00 Friday UNM upstairs SUB
Chris Wrenn and Kyle Churney, Editors of Blue Mesa Review will discuss how literary magazines make their selections and offer tips for getting published.

#2

Embracing the Stage

Performance Workshop 11:00 Friday UNM upstairs SUB
Jessica Helen Lopez and Damien Flores, veterans of the slam scene, will lead an experiential workshop about how to make the most of a poem by focusing on the voice, rhythm, and all the aspects of performance. Bring poems to workshop.

#3

Vena Cava

Brownbag Reading12:00 Friday UNM SUB atrium
Bring your lunch, or buy lunch in the SUB, and enjoy a performance by the Lobo Slam team. Participants include Jessica Helen Lopez, Damien Flores, and Lee Francis

#4

Voyage to Community

Roundtable Discussion 2:00 Friday UNM upstairs SUB
Alex Traube leads a discussion about teaching poetry in community settings with panelists Carlos Contreras, Joan Logghe, Mikaela Jae Renz, Levi Romero and Miriam Sagan.

#5

Blue Book

Graduate Student Reading 4:00 Friday UNM Humanities 108
Blue Mesa Review editor Chris Wrenn hosts a reading to feature poetry editor Kyle Churney, fiction editor Melanie Unruh, and MFA students Christina Yovovich, Erika Sanchez, Emily Morelli and Samantha Tetangco.

#6

Breaking Ground

Youth Event 4:00 Friday UNM upstairs SUB
Hosted by Sal Treppiedi

#7

Mitote

Women’s Showcase 6:00 Friday UNM upstairs SUB
Christina Yovovich hosts a reading featuring Amy Beeder, Mary Oishi, Miriam Sagan, Maria Leyba, Diane Thiel, Maisha Baton, Joan Logghe. West Mesa High School student Sirena Rayes will open.

#8

Floetry

Performance Poetry 8:00 Friday UNM SUB Ballroom
Where words can be danced to. Where music can cause bodies to sit perfectly still and absorb. Where the poet is an instrument played by the universe. Where media, movement and music write poets into works of art. Hakim Bellamy hosts this showcase which includes DJ Diles, Jessica Lopez, Tracey, James Altimirano, Carlos Contreras, Sun, Catherine Kidd, Basement Films and more.

#9

Unbuckled

Regie Cabico’s One Man Show 10:00 Friday UNM Arts Lab
Tracing his orbit from his Catholic Family roots and dreams of Broadway musicals to the spoken word slam scene and back again, performance poet and comedian Regie Cabico unleashes a night of raw talent. Attendance includes opening rotations in mini-dome to see 10 minutes of poetry videos made for the planetarium.

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Saturday, September 13, 2008

 

#10

Wordstock

Small Press Fair 10:00 until 3:30 Saturday Harwood Art Center
NMLA presents this book fair with featured readings by Bruce Holsapple, Joan Logghe, Richard Vargas, Marilyn Stablein and more, plus continuous round robin reading hosted by Kenneth Gurney and Gary Brower, haiku hoo-hah, one-page bookmaking demos by Libros, picnic, catapult, trebuchet, confessional and more.

#11

Action Poetry

Youth Workshop 10:30 Saturday Harwood Art Center
Danny Solis offers a writing workshop for middle school and high school students that starts with a poetry performance and ends with writing poems on clay and firing them from a trebuchet. ($10, sign up on site)

#12

Waiting for Goodell

Poetry Picnic 12:00 Saturday Harwoood Art Center    
Larry Goodell hosts this reading outside at the Poet’s Plaza with poets Jill Battson, Dale Harris, Sari Krosinsky, Tony Mares, Robert Reeves and Patricia Clark Smith.

#13

Calling

Panel Discussion 2:00 Saturday Harwood Art Center       
VB Price moderates a discussion of “Can Poetry Matter” with Regie Cabico, Dana Levin, Demetria Martinez, Margaret Randall, and Richard Vargas

#14

Metaphor as Map

Poetry Workshop 2:00 Saturday 516 Arts
Miriam Sagan leads participants in an exploration of metaphor as map, poem as cartography, from urban or rural to imagined and visionary. ($20) To register, call 516 ARTS at 242-1445.

#15

Book Lung

Gallery Reading 4:00 Saturday 516 ARTS
Expect to hear a fast-paced ride of poetic responses to visual art in Cautionary Tales: A Visual Dystopia and the Finding a Pulse exhibitions at 516 Arts. Participating poets include Tani Arness, Jill Battson, Amy Beeder, Hakim Bellamy, Debbi Brody, Jennifer Frank, Teresa E. Gallion, Gabriel Gomez, Renée Gregorio, Lisa Hase, Michelle Holland, Gary Jackson, Zach Kluckman, Michelle Laflamme-Childs, Maria Leyba, Joan Logghe, Tony Mares, Mary Oishi, Richard Oyama, Greta Pullen, Margaret Randall, Mitch Rayes, Miriam Sagan, Maureen Seaton, Rudolfo Serna, Diane Thiel, Maresa Irene Thompson, John Tritica, Richard Vargas, Mark Weber, Rachelle Woods, Chris Wrenn.

#16

Through the Milky Way

Joy Harjo 7:30 Saturday South Broadway Cultural Center
Joy Harjo performs work from her new album Winding through the Milky Way with the Arrow Dynamics Band. Opening set includes poets Hakim Bellamy, Dana Levin, Demetria Martinez and violinist Cármelo de los Santos.

#17

Hydra

Group Pieces Slam 10:00PM Saturday One-Up Bar
Kenn Rodriguez and Maresa Thompson host this competition which features Duets, Trios and Quartets of poets performing in unison judged by random audience members. Group poetry pieces are rarely seen outside a national poetry slam event and several New Mexico and Southwestern teams will compete for a grand prize of $300. Sacrificial poets will include Regie Cabico, Catherine Kidd, and Sheri-D Wilson.

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Sunday, September 14, 2008

 

#18

Church of Beethoven

Poetry with Classical 10:30 AM Sunday the Filling Station    
The Church of Beethoven is an ongoing weekly series founded by Felix Wurman. This particular Sunday’s incarnation will celebrate participation in STIR by featuring poets: Arthur Sze, Carol Moldaw, and Renee Gregorio. Music will include Beethoven’s Quartet in C Opus 18 no. 4 performed by Felix Wurman, David Felberg, Ikuko Kanda and Roberta Arruda.

#19

Placemat

Book Release Brunch 12:00 Sunday The Harwood Art Center
Old School Books celebrates the release of a new anthology, Looking Back to Place, with food, milling and a reading to include poems by Tani Arness, JB Bryan, Zöe Dwyer, Zach Kluckman, Carol Moldaw, Greta Pullen, Arthur Sze, Maresa Thompson, Rachelle Woods, and co-editor Mikaela Renz-Whitmore. Host Becky Holtzman.   

#20

Seamless

Panel Discussion 2:00 Sunday The Harwood Art Center
Tony Mares will moderate this discussion on integrating poetry into life (and how poetry informs life) with panelists Renée Gregorio, Maureen Seaton, Valerie Martinez, Sheri D. Wilson, and Catherine Kidd.

#21

C2H5OC2H5 

Poetry & Jazz 4:00 PM Sunday Harwood Art Center
Poets Lisa Gill, Lisa Hase, Gary Jackson, Valerie Martinez, Todd Moore, Mitch Rayes, Maureen Seaton, Danny Solis and Sheri D. Wilson will showcase a wide range of poetic styles, collaborations, and translations. Show includes music by th3 e1emental orke5tra. Free albUzerXque vol. 27 CD.

#22

Caw

Final Poetry Reading 7pm Sunday Anasazi Fields Winery
This final reading in Placitas will begin by featuring Michelle Holland, Sawnie Morris, authors of the award winning The Sound A Raven Makes, and their Tres Chicas publisher Joan Logghe The second set will feature Tina Carlson, Marilyn Stablein, Lee Francis, plus final performances by Regie Cabico, Sheri-D Wilson and Catherine Kidd.

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