Hearing Voices with Monica Hand and LaTanya McQueen

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, for readings of poetry by Monica Hand and fiction by LaTanya McQueen.

MONICA HAND

Monica A. Hand is a poet and book artist and a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of Missouri. Her book of poetry, me and nina, was named one of the top 40 poetry books of 2012 by Coldfront. Hand's poems have appeared in Black Renaissance Noir, Drunken Boat, African-American Poetry for the 21st Century, Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem’s First Decade and elsewhere. She holds a MFA in poetry and poetry in translation from Drew University. She is a Cave Canem fellow and a founding member of Poets for Ayiti, a diverse collective of poets committed to the power of poetry to transform and educate. She is also a member of Alice James Book's Cooperative Board.

LA TANYA MCQUEEN

LaTanya McQueen's stories have been published in The North American Review, Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry, Fourteen Hills, Potomac Review and War, Literature, and the Arts, among others. She is a doctoral candidate in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Missouri and is currently working on a novel that integrates the Black Power movement and the Greensboro Riots of 1979 and examines how these events affected two tobacco farming families in North Carolina.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Cornelius Eady and Anne Marie Macari

UPDATE

• Bad news: Unfortunately, Cornelius Eady's flight was canceled, and he won't make it back to Columbia in time for the reading.
• Good news: The wonderful Aliki Barnstone has agreed to fill in. So, please join us this evening to hear from Aliki and our special guest, Anne Marie Macari!

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, for readings by poets Anne Marie Macari and Aliki Barnstone.

ANNE MARIE MACARI

Anne Marie Macari is the author of three books of poetry, most recently She Heads Into the Wilderness (Autumn House, 2008).  In 2000 Macari won the APR/Honickman first book prize for Ivory Cradle, which was followed by Gloryland (2005, Alice James Books). She has also coedited, with Carey Salerno, the anthology, Lit From Inside: 40 Years of Poetry From Alice James Books. Macari has been published widely in anthologies and magazines. She founded and teaches in the MFA Program in Poetry & Poetry in Translation at Drew University in New Jersey.

ALIKI BARNSTONE
Aliki Barnstone is a poet, translator, critic and editor. She is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Bright Body (White Pine, 2011) and Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009) and a book of criticism, Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson’s Poetic Development (University Press of New England). She is the editor of two anthologies of women’s poetry, a book of literary critical essays and an edition of H.D.’s Trilogy (New Directions, 1998), for which she wrote the introduction and readers’ notes, and the translator of The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy: A New Translation (W.W. Norton, 2006). In 2014, Carnegie Mellon University Press will reissue her book, Madly in Love, as a Carnegie-Mellon Classic Contemporary. She is professor of English and creative writing at the University of Missouri, where she serves as series editor of the Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation.




Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Laura McHugh and William Claassen

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, for readings of fiction by Laura McHugh and travel writing by William Claassen.

 

LAURA MCHUGH

Laura McHugh’s debut novel, The Weight of Blood, will be published by Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau in 2014. The novel will also be published in Italy, Germany, The Netherlands and the U.K. Her short fiction has appeared in Confrontation and Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi River Valley. A former software developer, she now lives the glamorous life of a stay-at-home mom in Columbia, Missouri, where she is at work on her second book.

WILLIAM CLAASSEN

William Claassen's most recent book, Journey Man: A World Calling (Cornel & Willliams), is a gutsy, humorous, and sometimes tragic odyssey that begins on an Israeli collective farm in 1974. Years later, it draws to close at an all-night peyote ceremony on a Native American Reservation. The odyssey takes the reader into nine countries, on four continents, over a span of three decades. Claassen, a nomad raised on the Kansas plains, has tread numerous paths over the years. From community organizing in the South and stage acting in the East to tree planting in the Northwest and development work abroad.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Elizabeth Hatmaker and J. Bowers

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, for readings of poetry by Elizabeth Hatmaker and fiction by J. Bowers.

ELIZABETH HATMAKER

Elizabeth Hatmaker is the author of Girl in Two Pieces (BlazeVOX 2010), which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times book award. Her poetry is featured in Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights 2009), ACM, Bird Dog, Epoch, MiPOesias, Mandorla, Mississippi Review, Mirage/Periodical and Projector Magazine. She teaches writing, cultural studies, film and urban education at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She is currently at work on her second collection of poetry The Electric Nostalgia Coffin. 

J. BOWERS

J. Bowers’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Portland Review, cream city review, Redivider, The Indiana Review and other nationally circulated journals. She holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from Goucher College and an M.A. in the same from Hollins University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at the University of Missouri, working on a collection of short historical fiction about horses, film, photography, death and obsolescence. In her free time, she likes to think about the hungry ghosts of silent Hollywood while she rides her little yellow pony through the totemic Missouri wilderness.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Winter Break

Thanks, everyone, for a wonderful season of Hearing Voices/Seeing Visions at Orr Street Studios!

We're taking a break for the holidays, but we'll be back in late January. Check here for next semester's schedule.

If you are interested in sharing your writing or visual art with the community, please contact us at orr.series@gmail.com, or send us a message on Facebook.

Happy winter!

Seeing Visions at Grindstone Studios

Join us at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, for a very special evening at Grindstone Studios, Columbia's new art print studio.

Grindstone is a joint venture project run by Jeffrey Moore, Robert Friedman, Frank Stack and Byron Smith. Grindstone specializes in lithographic printing and has a library of prints from regional, national and international artists. Jeffrey Moore will talk about the lithographs while demonstrating the various stages in this painstaking process first invented in 1796.

The entire Seeing Visions evening will be at Grindstone Studios, which is next door to (north of) Orr Street Studios, in the same building as Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Dande Cafe and the Beach salon. 

See you there!

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Speer Morgan and Kris Somerville

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, as Speer Morgan and Kris Somerville discuss the Missouri Review's "Found Text" series featuring previously unpublished work by literary giants of the past, including Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Marianne Moore, Charlotte Bronte, Jack Kerouac and William Faulkner.
 

SPEER MORGAN

Speer Morgan is a novelist, a University of Missouri professor of English and the editor of The Missouri Review. Morgan has won several awards, including the Best Story of the Year award from Prairie Schooner in 1978, for “Internal Combustion.” He was a fiction fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994. He won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1999 for The Freshour Cylinders and a Lawrence Foundation Prize in 2000 for “The Girl.” His story “The Big Bang" received the Goodheart Prize for Shenandoah’s best story of 2008. Morgan has contributed short stories to several other magazines and journals, including Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, Northwest Review, New Letters, River Styx, and Iowa Review.

 

KRIS SOMERVILLE

Kris Somerville teaches literature, publishing and creative writing at Stephens College.  Her short stories, essays and prose poems have been published in various magazine, including North American Review, Passages North, Ecotone, River City, Zone 3 and Quarterly West.  Her visual and "Found Text" features and omnibus reviews appear regularly in The Missouri Review.







 
Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.