Look for Beto and the Fairlanes Friday, June 26 (and every third Friday of the month) at the Elephant Room, 9:30p downbeat. Seems that Wynton Marsalis likes the Elephant Room, too--he's named it one of the top ten jazz venues in the U.S. in USA Today. (Maybe we saw you, too, recently at the Fable Record Reunion at Threadgills?)
And this is still the big poetry news at our casa: Katherine's poems won the 2009 UNO Creative Writing Contest for Study Abroad in Poetry! The poems, "La Esqina," "Lengua Tejana," and "Historias en Hilo," are forthcoming in the fall issue of The Normal School, whose editors judged the contest. She'll be spending July in Brunnenburg, Italy, at the Ezra Pound Center for Literature. After the summer program ends, Turo will join her for travels in Italy, France and Spain.
CIRRUS ROCKS! Logic 55 - Cirrus Logic's corporate band that features Turo on congas - won best over-all band in the corporate battle of the bands benefit for Health Alliance for Austin Musicians at Antone's on Tuesday, April 20, and their sister band DEUCE won best fan band! Saturday, April 25th Turo will be playing those congas with Beto and the Fairlanes at Central Market, 6-9p.
We hope you'll check out qarrtsiluni for a collaborative project, "Flying," featuring poems by David Meischen, W. Joe Hoppe, Judy Jensen, D'Arcy Randall, and Katherine, accompanied by a video of photos from past kite festivals and the poems in draft, composed b
y Katherine with Turo's assistance. Earlier in the same issue, qarrtsiluni published "Puebla de los angeles," a collaboration that is one of our favorites because it features the gorgeous piano music of Robert "Beto" Skiles. Turo composed that video, using Kat's photographs of Puebla, Mexico and her poem.
Please do check out Water Signs available from BookWoman in Austin, or online from Finishing Line Press or amazon.com
The latest word is that Katherine's poem, "Self-Portrait in a Bus Window," which won the Vassar Miller Award at UNO this past fall, will be in the upcoming issue of Ellipsis and her poem, "Cancion para los muertos," has been selected for the 2010 Texas Poetry Calendar.
Katherine also has poems in the 2009 Texas Poetry Calendar and the anthology, Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair! Best of Texas Poetry Calendar. (Did we say how much we love dos gatos?)
Look for the spring/summer issue of Borderlands, dedicated to ekphrastic poetry, which Kat edited. On a related note, check out the "If These Walls Could Speak" interactive poetry and art project online at the Blanton Museum. Kurt Heinzelman and D'Arcy Randall co-curated the project, which will have a feature in Borderlands. (Kat's poem, "St. Agatha" was included in the Blanton project last spring, posted by the Riminaldi painting that inspired it. ) Katherine traveled with D'Arcy, Kurt, Susan Somers B.A. Willett, Steven Kellman and Rebecca Spears to read poems from the Blanton Project at Montgomery College in the Woodlands at the end of March, a wonderful event organized by Dave Parsons.
