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Grrls Literary Activism Fall Showcase, January 20, 2010

@ The UA Poetry Center was

A SMASHING SUCCESS!

congratulations to the Grrls who presented: Miki Jennings, Violet Nightshade, Mattea Wallace, Marigold Hall, Hadley Smith, & Robin Soltiz.

Great big thanks to the fall facilitators & curriculum developers: poet Ann Dernier & filmmaker Jamie Lee, and to Nhu Tien Lu, writer and program coordinator!

BRAVO everyone!

Advancing Social Change by educating our future leaders

Apply NOW for the Spr '10 workshop + one-on-one mentoring pilot!

Feb 3-April 28

Feb 1 deadline to apply

e-mail Nhu Tien at grrls@korepress.org for more info or get your app here

Sp 09 grrls' blog here.

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thank you to our community business partners:

HomeStyle Galleries

Feast

Gallery of Food

Hotel Congress

Maynard's

Kathleen Williamson, Attorney

Krista Joy Niles, Photographer

UA College of Humanities

Borderlands Theater

Rhythm Industry

ZUZI!

Brooklyn Pizza

Program Partners

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Funding Partners

Kore has been publishing the creative genius of women writers since 1993, in part to maintain a more equitable public discourse and establish a more accurate historical record. Greek for "daughter," Kore (kor-ay) recalls the myth of Persephone—the story of a daughter taken into the underworld who re-emerges above ground half the year because of a bargain struck between her mother and the nasty fellow who runs the place down below. It is the daughter's coming to the surface each year that marks the change of season.

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Coming in Hot

a reading of the play

January 28th, Thursday, University of Arizona Poetry Center

6-8pm, open to the public

donations accepted at the door

and

March 10 performance at the University of Arizona Gallagher Theater, in honor of Women's Herstory month

performances by actor, writer Jeanmarie Simpson

& sound artist Vicki Brown on viola

See the Arizona Public Media story here!

photos by Krista Niles

Read what people are saying about Coming in Hot on the BLOG

Take a look behind the scenes

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2010 First Book Award winner: Laura Newbern for Love and the Eye

judge: Claudia Rankine

Laura Newbern, an Assistant Professor of English/Creative Writing at Georgia College & State University since  2005, teaches graduate and undergraduate poetry workshops, poetics, and other Creative Writing and literature courses.Laura is also the Poetry Editor of Arts & Letters.
 
She earned her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Laura returned to Warren Wilson when she was awarded their first Joan Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Laura also holds an M.A. in English/Creative Writing  from New York University, and she earned her B.A. at Barnard College at Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, The Oxford American, TriQuarterly, and Stand (U.K.), and in the anthologies Best New Poets 2007 and Urban Nature.

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2010 Short Fiction Chapbook Contest

Judge: Leslie Marmon Silko

contest closed; judging underway

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First Annual Jeremy Ingalls Poetry in Translation Award: $1,000.00 and publication of a single poem in Japanese and English by a woman, awarded to a woman translator. Deadline is extended to February 28, 2010 to allow for a fully competitve contest. Judged by Sawako Nakayasu. Read more here

photo by Shoko Kashima

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Persephone Speaks

a monthly blog

Art, Activism, Writing & Culture

Ecstasy, Agony & Creation: painter Bailey Doogan talks with Jeanmarie Simpson

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Keeping the legacy of poet Jeremy Ingalls alive on her website here

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