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SPRING 2008 SCHEDULE The Priya Yoga Studio February Love & Renunciation An award-winning poet, Andrew Schelling is an amateur naturalist, mountaineer, and translator of India's classical poetry who lives in Boulder, Colorado, along the front range of the Southern Rocky Mountains. He will read a selection of erotic poems from Ancient India. JADE (Junior Associates Discover the East) is an alliance of individuals in their 20s, 30s, and 40s who share an interest in Asian art and culture. This event is FREE for JADE members. Reservations required. Contemplative Open Mike and Reader Series Karen X studied poetics in apprenticeship with Allen Ginsberg at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. She has published several chapbooks of poetry, and is a performer and producer of Dharma Broads. She studied yoga with Michelle Andrie for 7 years and most recently has been a student of Angela Farmer while exploring the poetics of Body Text. March Contemplative Open Mike and Reader Series Kyle Vaughn, an MFA graduate of SMU who teaches literature at Hockaday School, is a former host of Insomnia Open Mike Readings. He has a huge body of beautiful work, and writes ghazals. April The Long Road: Celebrating 20+ Years of Sojourn
at University of Texas at Dallas The Long Road: Celebrating 20+ Years of Sojourn, UT Dallas' interdisciplinary journal that fuses literary and fine arts genres, in the context of global publishing trends while making use of contemporary technologies. Join WordSpace in honoring past and present Sojourn contributors and the journal's two decades of small-press creativity. Contemplative Open Mike and Reader Series Suze Riddle is the former co-director of art installation at the Starck Club and a pioneer of the ambient video movement. A poet and songwriter in the bands The Happy TVs and Frump, she is a PETA organizer and a Librarian for the Dallas Public Library, as well as an activist in the Non-Violent Communication movement. East Dallas House Concert Series Darden Smith, one of Texas' best-known songwriters. Darden has a unique and diverse style that is difficult to categorize, and ranks up there with the likes of Townes Van Zandt, John Prine and Guy Clark. May East Dallas House Concert Series Brian Ashley Jones, Up and coming star inNashville, plays guitar and plays it like he was born with a Crafter Guitar in his hands. Brian will be accompanied by Tisha Simeral, his bassist, while they deliver their brand of blues, bluegrass, and country rock. Contemplative Open Mike and Reader Series Renee Rossi practices medicine and objectivist poetry in the tradition of Dr. William Carlos Williams, and is a runner up for a Pushcart and the Dallas Poets Community yearly award. June Contemplative Open Mike and Reader Series Cliff Roberts, founder and President of the FW Haiku Society, is the current Southwest Region Coordinator for the Haiku Society of America. The Fort Worth Haiku Society, chartered by the Poetry Society of Texas, has been in existence since June 2002. The FW Haiku Society is a member of the Haiku Society of America and the National Federation of State Poetry Societies, and to our knowledge is currently the ONLY formed haiku society in the State of Texas. June's Contemplative Open Mike and Reader Series will be hosted by Amy Martin, a Dallas-based journalist and writer for 25 years, who has worked for Dallas Times Herald, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Observer and D magazine. She was contributing editor and columnist for the national urban-eco magazine Garbage. She now operates Moonlady Media publishing www.moonlady.com and has two titles – Spirit Herbs: Simple Recipes for Hibachi Herbal Magic & Sacred Space and the upcoming Poison Oak, Poison Ivy: The Ultimate Guide. Her local alternative listserv, Moonlady News, has 2700+ members. She is executive director of Earth Rhythms www.earthrhythms.org and produces the popular Winter SolstiCelebration and Moonlady Fests.
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