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Our spring catalogue is now available online.  Download a printable pdf from the home page. An online catalogue will be available after the first week of January.

Read the overview from Executive | Artistic Director Rosemary Catacalos below.

¡saludos!

Now the grass, tomorrow the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf…. — William Carlos Williams

Few lines convey as accurately the sense of spring’s suddenness, yet notions of patience and everything in its proper time are also here. So it is with Gemini Ink’s spring offerings. They are sudden in their excitement, their possibility, and patient in their devotion to reflection, craft, learning, and exchange.

This season we offer a wide range of lifelong learning opportunities — from reading and writing to manage illness with Mary Earle to creative writing and the practice of yoga with New Yorker Naomi Guttman to a special in-service for teachers on using a new Texas-made anthology of Latino writing in their classrooms. And, of course, our signature reading group experience with literary diva Coleen Grissom is always the jewel in the crown.

For poets — and in honor of National Poetry Month in April — we bring you individual e-mail manuscript consultations with Jenny Browne, and a rare Spanish/English bilingual reading group focusing on Nobel-prizewinning Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. Our April First Friday/National Poetry Month reading will feature former Michener fellows Susan Briante and Farid Matuk, both with recent books. Briante and Matuk also will offer a jointly taught workshop for beginning poets.

Nonfiction will be well represented by poet, critic, scholar, and memoirist Paul Christensen with a workshop devoted to celebrating place. At the other end of the nonfiction spectrum, NPR commentator Marion Winik will point the way to writing truthfully about parents.

For fiction writers we offer individual e-mail manuscript consultations with Andrew Porter, recent winner of the prestigious Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, and writers of all genres will profit from overviews of literary magazines and independent publishing — as well as private consultations—with Wings Press’s Robert Bonazzi and Gulf Coast’s Darin Ciccotelli.

Emerging filmmaker/screenwriter Ya’Ke Smith will teach beginning screenwriting and also represent Gemini Ink at our March 2 to Watch collaboration with Artpace. Smith also will showcase his prizewinning short film, Hope’s War, as Gemini Ink’s contribution to this year’s Round Top Poetry Festival on May 2, 3 and 4.

Finally, some welcome news for Gemini Ink’s continued growth. As of January 2008 we have moved from membership giving to annual giving opportunities for all of our supporters. This will allow many more of you to take an active part in making our work possible. See page 13 for details! (We will, of course, honor current memberships until they expire.)

All in all a spring full of promise. May your works and days blossom in the fullness of another beginning.

Atentamente,
Rosemary Catacalos, Executive Director