Sunday, December 10, 2006, at 7 p.m. FREE
WordSpace presents a program of some of this area’s finest poets: Jerry Kelly, Martha Heimberg, Sharon Bailey, Tim Cloward and Shin Yu Pai.
Jeremiah Kelley holds a BA degree from Harvard University. He has published poetry in The Texas Observer as well as a number of little magazines in North Texas, and has forth-coming fiction in Southwest Review. He lives in old East Dallas with his wife, Patty Turner.
Martha Heimberg is assistant professor of English at Northwood University in Cedar Hill, Texas, creative writing instructor at Richland College and arts critic for Dallas Weekly. Five-time winner of Dallas Press Club's Katie Award for arts criticism, community affairs and business writing, she has also won the Texas Historic Commission Griffin Award and the Sierra Club Award for writing.
Sharon Bailey is a poet who for the last eight years has worked as Director of Education for the Center of Nonprofit Management. She holds an MA from the University of Texas at Dallas and her critical interest has been in the work of Flannery O’Conner, Toni Morrison and Wolfram von Eschenbach.
Tim Cloward teaches history and is assistant principal at Yavneh Academy of Dallas. He is the founder of the poetry/ performance troupe Dancing Tongue, and has worked with Poetry Circus and Question Authority, both acclaimed performance poetry ensembles. His work is included in Three Dallas Poets and he holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Shin Yu Pai is the author of The Love Hotel Poems (Press Lorentz), Unnecessary Roughness (xPress(ed)), Equivalence (La Alameda Press) and Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers (Third Ear Books). Forthcoming books include Nutritional Feed (Tupelo Press), Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks) and Sightings (Ahadada Books). She is the programming chair and curator of Next on Deck for WordSpace.
