as I hear now in the fire in my head out there. at night, in the cold. as some people hear other places, summer. I can hear the deepest part of their song. not the crescendo cranking up attack but the heart of the song when all the world vibrates with cicada wings. I turn up the fire. from Cicadas (Barnburner Press, 1993) Robert Trammell [1939 – 2006]

FALL 2007 SCHEDULE

This Fall, WordSpace is proud to feature a number of programs highlighting local musical artists. Rock musician Rod Russell-Ides performs with Kenny Withrow, guitar player for Edie Brickell & New Bohemians. Composer and jazz pianist William Foley celebrates the release of his CD Ceremony of Innocence at a members-only salon. Our regular Writers-in-the-Universities program will feature UTD student Heather Wood at Opening Bell Coffee at Southside on Lamar.

We also introduce a new reading series at Bill's Records hosted by HBO Def Jam poet RockBaby and Willie Sims.

As well as KAREN X PRESENTS, an ongoing series of poetry readings on the 3rd Sunday of every month at 7:00 p.m. at Paperbacks Plus.

September

ROD RUSSELL-IDES & KENNY WITHROW
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

OPENING BELL COFFEE, DALLAS, TX
1409 S. LAMAR AVE.
9:30 P.M.
FREE

Rod Russell Ides' new CD (available on i-tunes), Crazy In Love, has been featured on KHYI, (The Range). Says DJ Brett Dillon, "Rod (Red Orange Dreams) Russell Ides...From sunrise to sunset...his music rolls the tides." Thor Christensen of The Dallas Morning News writes, "An impressive singer songwriter, Ides' dusty voice recalls Tom Waits by way of Neil Young, while his best tracks fuse Texas swing with Caribbean grooves.


Kenny Withrow is a guitarist, composer, and producer from Dallas. Withrow graduated from Booker T. Washington School of the Arts, where he studied jazz guitar and composition. He is a founding and current member of Edie Brickell & New Bohemians and RainMaker (the Dallas-based back up band for Rod Russell-Ides). Kenny has also played with such groups as B.L. Lacerta, Cottonmouth Texas, as well as touring acts Everlast and LARRY.

October

ARTHUR SZE AT THE TRAMMELL CROW COLLECTION OF ASIAN ART
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11

2010 FLORA, DALLAS, TX
7:00 P.M.
FREE

Arthur Sze is the author of eight books of poetry, including Quipu, The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998, and Archipelago. He is also a celebrated translator, and released The Silk Dragon: Translations from the Chinese in 2001. He is the recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, a Lannan Literary Award, two NEA fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship, and grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation. He is a professor emeritus at the Institute of American Indian Arts and is the first poet laureate of Santa Fe.

NORTHWOOD LITERARY FESTIVAL
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23

LAMBERT COMMONS
NORTHWOOD COLLEGE
1114 WEST FM 1382 CEDAR HILL, TX
11:00 A.M. & 7:00 PM
FREE

Northwood's literary festival features Dallas poet Willie Sims and fiction writers Robin Romm and Don Waters. The morning event features Sims and Waters. The evening fiction reading showcases Romm, Waters and Sims.

Willie Sims is a performance poet and storyteller from L.A. Robin Romm's debut story collection, The Mother Garden, was published by Scribner in July 2007. She has an MFA from SFSU and a BA from Brown University where she received the Barbara Banks Brodsky prize for her first story collection, Certain Kinds of Illness. Don Waters' debut story collection, Desert Gothic, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award, will be published by The University of Iowa Press in the fall of 2007.

The Northwood Literary Festival will be held at Lambert Commons on the Northwood University's 400-acre campus, located at 1114 West FM 1382, Cedar Hill Texas - (click link for map) - about 25 minutes from downtown Dallas, just off Highway 67 South -- the Joe Pool Lake exit.

November

THE DANCING TONGUE LITERARY CABARET: THE "GIVE PEACE A CHANCE" SHOW
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4

UNDERMAIN THEATER
3200 MAIN STREET, DEEP ELLUM
7:00 PM
$10.00

The Dancing Tongue troupe takes spoken word, scrambles it with music, performance, movement and video to demonstrate that literature is, indeed, a lively art. Come experience cutting- edge entertainment that offers up an intellectual edge with a populist sensibility-this time the troupe ponders Rodney King's immortal words: "People, why can't we all just get along?" Featuring Tim Cloward, Chad Evans, Kim Corbet, Lisa Huffaker, Fran Carris, Richard Allen and special guests TBA.

SALON EVENT: COMPOSER WILLIAM FOLEY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9

4808 DREXEL DRIVE, DALLAS, TX
7:00 P.M.
MEMBERS ONLY
RSVP REQUIRED
214-328-3385

William Foley, composer and piano player, is a graduate of the music program at the University of North Texas. He performs nationally and locally. This special event marks the release of William's first solo CD, Ceremony Of Innocence. His compositions are a blend of classical, jazz and pop that take listeners on a journey.

December

NEXT-ON-DECK: WRITERS IN THE UNIVERSITIES
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6

OPENING BELL COFFEE
1409 S. LAMAR
7:30 P.M.
FREE

Twice a year, WordSpace seeks out new voices at Texas universities and invites these talented students to give readings of their work in a professional setting. These up-and-coming writers share their poetry, fiction, essays and playwriting in a supportive environment which allows them to celebrate their efforts with other like-minded emerging artists. Our Fall reading features the work of writer and humorist Heather Wood, a PhD candidate at the University of Texas at Dallas. Other writers TBA.

WordSpace is also proud to sponsor:

The Free Speech Zone Open Mic at Bill's Records.

KAREN X PRESENTS An ongoing series of poetry readings on the 3rd Sunday
of every month at 7:00 p.m. at Paperbacks Plus.

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