Podcasts about gemini ink

We have a very special episode today, listeners! We are interviewing writer and writing teacher Laura Castoro! She's been in the biz for some time and talks with us about how to get creative with tropes, how the industry has changed over the years, and her upcoming workshop at Gemini Ink about how to prep for NaNoWritMo! Register for Laura's Class! https://geminiink.org/events/get-ready-to-write-your-novel/ Support us on Patreon! patreon.com/fmklitpod

In this episode, I talk to Florinda Flores-Brown about her work as an educator and creative interests, and her role as director of programs for Gemini Ink.

Our featured story Ignorance or Innocence is from Johnnie Bernhard. It will be included in an anthology of short stories about home, in September, 2021. Johnnie wrote this story awhile ago, before her successful novels. Unlike her novels, this story is autobiographical, set in a small Texas town where she moved in 8th grade. It's kind of a story about being an outsider, but Johnnie has this way of seeing the 'Gift' in things, even hard things like loneliness. You will hear why she starts every story with character and family and what part of writing she equates to a runner's high - it's fantastic. She's fantastic and she's clearly doing what she was meant to do. After you listen... you can listen to her TEDTalk here, https://www.ted.com/talks/johnnie_bernhard_the_human_story You can find links to purchase her novels and audiobook on her website. http://www.johnniebernhardauthor.com/ You can find her mentoring writers through Gemini Ink https://geminiink.org/ And, you can see a lovely picture she shared of her and her mom Loula Mae taken on Johnnie's wedding day. We will share it on the Desideratum website. Thanks for listening.

Our featured story Ignorance or Innocence is from Johnnie Bernhard. It will be included in an anthology of short stories about home, in September, 2021. Johnnie wrote this story awhile ago, before her successful novels. Unlike her novels, this story is autobiographical, set in a small Texas town where she moved in 8th grade. It's kind of a story about being an outsider, but Johnnie has this way of seeing the 'Gift' in things, even hard things like loneliness. You will hear why she starts every story with character and family and what part of writing she equates to a runner's high - it's fantastic. She's fantastic and she's clearly doing what she was meant to do. After you listen... you can listen to her TEDTalk here, https://www.ted.com/talks/johnnie_bernhard_the_human_story You can find links to purchase her novels and audiobook on her website. http://www.johnniebernhardauthor.com/ You can find her mentoring writers through Gemini Ink https://geminiink.org/ And, you can see a lovely picture she shared of her and her mom Loula Mae taken on Johnnie's wedding day. We will share it on the Desideratum website. Thanks for listening.

Our featured story Ignorance or Innocence is from Johnnie Bernhard.  It will be included in an anthology of short stories about home, in September, 2021. Johnnie wrote this story awhile ago, before her successful novels. Unlike her novels, this story is autobiographical, set in a small Texas town where she moved in 8th grade. It's kind of a story about being an outsider, but Johnnie has this way of seeing the 'Gift' in things, even hard things like loneliness.  You will hear why she starts every story with character and family and what part of writing she equates to a runner's high - it's fantastic.  She's fantastic and she's clearly doing what she was meant to do.  After you listen... you can listen to her TEDTalk here,  https://www.ted.com/talks/johnnie_bernhard_the_human_story  You can find links to purchase her novels and audiobook on her website. http://www.johnniebernhardauthor.com/  You can find her mentoring writers through Gemini Ink https://geminiink.org/  And, you can see a lovely picture she shared of her and her mom Loula Mae taken on Johnnie's wedding day. We will share it on the Desideratum FB page.   Thanks for listening.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theresa-bakken/support

Join hosts Chibbi and Raqui as we welcome Natalia Trevino to the Words and Sh*t stage! Streaming Live on The Blah Poetry Spot's page, tune in to get to know the person behind the poetry! Born in Mexico City, Natalia grew up in Texas where her mother taught her Spanish, and Bert and Ernie gave her lessons in English. Her work captures the voices and lives of women who emerge despite everything that works tirelessly against them. Natalia has won several awards for her poetry and fiction including the 2004 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, the 2008 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize, and the 2012 Literary Award from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio. She graduated with a BA in English when she was 21 from The University of Texas at San Antonio. Two years later, she received her Masters of Arts in English from the same university. After almost two decades of teaching, she went back to school to study fiction writing. She graduated from the University of Nebraska's MFA program in Creative Writing in 2010. Her jobs have included teacher, stay-at-home mom, a single mom, small business owner/book-keeper, and now, assistant professor of English at Northwest Vista College where she works with students of all levels. Natalia's poems appear in several publications including Bordersenses, Borderlands Texas Poetry Review, The Houston Literary Review, Sugar House Review, Sliver of Stone, burntdistric, Voices de la Luna, and North Texas State's, Inheritance of Light. A member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop, Natalia has been working to increase young adult literacy since 1992 in her teaching career and through programs sponsored by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Gemini Ink, and the Bexar County Juvenile Detention Center.

Alexandra van de Kamp is the Executive Director for Gemini Ink, San Antonio's Writing Arts Center. Her most recent books of poems are Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016) and The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010). She has also published several chapbooks, including Dear Jean Seberg (2011), which won the 2010 Burnside Review Chapbook Contest. Her poems have been published in journals nationwide, such as The Texas Observer, The Cincinnati Review, Connecticut Review, Denver Quarterly, Washington Square, 32Poems, San Antonio Express-News and more. She is currently at work on a third manuscript of poems. Her poems have been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes and Best of the Net.

While the Tulsa 1921 race massacre is well known to black historians, President Trump's initial decision to hold a campaign rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, rescinded later, has brought it to the forefront of American consciousness. On May 31 and June 1, 1921 mobs of whites attacked blacks and destroyed businesses in the prosperous black community of greeenwood. It is reported that dozens if not hundreds of African Americans were killed. In February of 2014, I discussed this dark time in black history with Frederick Williams who had just published a historical novel based on the riot, FIRES OF GREENWOOD. Frederick Williams worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Birch Bayh as a legislative aide, assisting in the drafting and management of the first Senate legislative proposal to make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday a national holiday. Currently he teaches creative writing courses for Black Writers on Tour in Los Angeles, California, for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival Education Day in Eatonville, Florida, and for Gemini Ink, a literary agency in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of four novels.

While the Tulsa 1921 race massacre is well known to black historians, President Trump's initial decision to hold a campaign rally in Tulsa on Juneteenth, rescinded later, has brought it to the forefront of American consciousness. On May 31 and June 1, 1921 mobs of whites attacked blacks and destroyed businesses in the prosperous black community of greeenwood. It is reported that dozens if not hundreds of African Americans were killed. In February of 2014, I discussed this dark time in black history with Frederick Williams who had just published a historical novel based on the riot, FIRES OF GREENWOOD. Frederick Williams worked on Capitol Hill for Senator Birch Bayh as a legislative aide, assisting in the drafting and management of the first Senate legislative proposal to make Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday a national holiday. Currently he teaches creative writing courses for Black Writers on Tour in Los Angeles, California, for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival Education Day in Eatonville, Florida, and for Gemini Ink, a literary agency in San Antonio, Texas. He is the author of four novels.

This week we bring you the songs and sounds of Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson, who's latest book you can purchase on www.flowersongpress.com. Hosted by Chibbi and Dominque. Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson is a San Antonio native that has been performing for over twenty years. She's the co-host of the consecutive award winning 2nd Verse Open Mic. She has served as a Writer in Community for Gemini Ink since 2009. She's the winner of the 2019 People's Choice Award, awarded by Luminaria Artist Foundation (formerly known as: Artist Foundation of San Antonio). Her debut book entitled: She Lives In Music, published on Flower Song Press, was released on Valentine's Day 2020. Her album She Tastes Like Music, is available on all music streaming platforms. On April 1st 2020, Andrea became the first African American, Poet Laureate of San Antonio 2020-2023. In May of 2020 she was awarded Best Live Entertainment/Band Musician of the Year by the SEA Awards. Her latest book is available at www.flowersongpress.com

Guests: Patrick Stockwell Literary Programs Director for Gemini Ink & Poet Lupe Mendez Poets & Writers Houston Coordinator. Featuring music by Mex Step. And find out about the Free Tuition Movement. Tony Diaz, El Librotraficante and the Nuestra Palabra Crew talk to Click her to donate to Nuestra Palabra: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=9CPLMM88TF5BS Bios: Patrick Stockwell is a native of Houston, Texas and holds an MFA in Creative Writing-Fiction from New Mexico State University where he served as an assistant editor for Puerto del Sol and a coordinator with La Sociedad para las Artes and the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series. Stockwell currently works as Literary Programs Director for Gemini Ink, San Antonio's Literary Arts Center. His literary debut, The Light Here Changes Everything, was the winner of the 2018 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize and will be published Fall 2019 by Texas Review Press. Originally from Galveston, TX, Lupe Mendez (Writer//Educator//Activist) works with Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, Brazilian Arts Foundation and other organizations to promote poetry events, advocate for literacy/literature and organize creative writing workshops that are open to the public. He is the founder of Tintero Projects and works with emerging Latinx writers and other writers of color within the Texas Gulf Coast Region. Lupe co-hosts INKWELL, a collaborative podcast on regional, national and international Latinx writers and other writers of color. Mendez is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondo Fellow and an Emerging Poet Incubator Fellow. Mendez has nearly 20 years of experience as a performance poet, having opened up for such notable writers as Dagoberto Gilb, Esmeralda Santiago and the late Raul Salinas. He has shared his poetry across the country in places such as the Holocaust Museum Houston, the Jung Center, MECA (Houston), the Mission Cultural Center For Latino Arts (San Francisco), the National Hispanic Cultural Center (Albuquerque) and the Mexican American Cultural Center (Austin). A keynote speaker/poetry performer across Texas, Mendez hosts writing workshops across the country, most recently NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6pm-7pm cst 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org. More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. Producers: Leti Lopez & Marlen Treviño. Board operator: Terrell Quillin Tony Diaz Sundays, Mondays, & Tuesdays & The Other Side Sun 7am "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston Mon Noon "The Cultural Accelerator" at www.TonyDiaz.net Tues 6pm NP Lit Radio 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston www.NuestraPalabra.org 24/7 The Other Side TV www.TheOtherSideTele.com

Activism, writing, and film: Tune in to learn about the Gemini Ink Literary Conference; actions to stop #babyjails from forming; and a new documentary created by 2 Latinas to explore how the illicit drug trade decimated a small town. Guests: From Gemini Ink Alexandra Vandekamp-Interim Director & Amanda Ireta-Goode; Poet and Activist Blanca Alanis Rodriguez; Mayra Garza and Melissa Santillan who created the documentary “Ciudad Mier”. Bios: Blanca Rodriguez Alanis a Mexican American poet, poetry teacher, folk artist, and human/civil rights activist. In 2008 she opened the first Spanish bilingual bookstore in Houston. Her first work was published by Boundless 2010, The Río Grande Valley International Poetry Festival. Her Spanish bilingual poetry book, Puro Corazón was released in 2013. Blanca has participated in Houston WAT Poetry Tour, Frida Festival, Women with Disabilities Empowerment Fair, and Houston’s Women International Festival. Her work is inspired by Mother Earth, humanity, and justice. She is a Curandera, she studies and practices traditional medicines of Mexico. Mayra was born in Laredo, Texas and raised just across the United States-Mexican border in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. After receiving a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication from Texas A&M International University (TAMIU), she started her career in broadcast production as a technical director in Laredo’s NBC affiliate KGNS-TV. She currently works at the TAMIU-KLRN TV studio, where she helped to establish the university’s first student reporting lab. Additionally, she is the assistant editor of the Laredo Morning Times’ Spanish section, where she occasionally writes about border culture and the local art scene. Melissa Santillana was born in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Melissa has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication and a Master’s Degree in Communication with a concentration in Border and Latin America Media Studies from Texas A&M International University. She was recently granted admission to a Ph.D. program in Media Studies at UT Austin. She is currently the Spanish Editor at Laredo Morning Times and Public Speaking Adjunct Instructor at Texas A&M International University. Alexandra van de Kamp: Originally from New York, Alexandra van de Kamp has called San Antonio, TX her home for over three years now. She is the Interim Executive Director for Gemini Ink, a literary arts nonprofit based in San Antonio that creates a wide range of programming all around the power of engaging with creative writing and literature. Van de Kamp is a working poet and the author of two full-length collections of poems: The Park of Upside-Down Chairs (CW Books 2010) and Kiss/Hierarchy (Rain Mountain Press 2016). Board operator: Leti Lopez. Producer: Marlen Treviño. Interns: Alex Sorto, and Joe Anthony Trevino. NP Radio airs live Tuesdays 6pm-7pm cst 90.1 FM KPFT Houston, TX. Livestream www.KPFT.org. More podcasts at www.NuestraPalabra.org. The Nuestra Palabra Radio Show is archived at the University of Houston Digital Archives. Our hard copy archives are kept at the Houston Public Library’s Special Collections Hispanic Archives. Tony Diaz Sundays, Mondays, & Tuesdays & The Other Side Sun 7am "What's Your Point" Fox 26 Houston Mon Noon "The Cultural Accelerator" at www.TonyDiaz.net Tues 6pm NP Lit Radio 90.1 FM KPFT, Houston www.NuestraPalabra.org 24/7 The Other Side TV www.TheOtherSideTele.com

Sep. 5, 2013. Jan Jarboe Russell discusses "The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Speaker Biography: Journalist and author Jan Jarboe Russell was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and writes on politics, religion and social issues. Her work has been in the Savannah Morning News, The San Antonio Light, Texas Monthly, Slate, The New York Times and San Antonio Express News. She is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Philosophical Society of Texas and is vice president of Gemini Ink and the Linda Pace Foundation. Russell has published the books "Lady Bird: A Biography of Mrs. Johnson" and "The Train to Crystal City: FDR's Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America's Only Family Internment Camp During World War II." She is a certified first-degree black belt in Nia. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6914