Acadiana Wordlab

Saturday, May 18: Jonathan Penton

Jonathan — Fri, 17 May 2013 18:11:21 +0000

Jonathan Penton founded Unlikely Stories in 1998 and has helmed it through its incarnations of Unlikely 2.0, the current Unlikely Stories: Episode IV, and the 2010 multimedia physical anthology Unlikely Stories of the Third Kind, along with the rest of its print subsidiary, Unlikely Books. He served as Assistant Editor for three Big Bridge annuals, served on the editorial board of Mezcla: Art and Writing from the Tumblewords Project and Banned in El Paso, and currently serves as Associate Editor for MadHat Press.

This year, Jonathan founded Cœur Publishing, a new imprint of translation into English. Cœur is working on translations of Alexander Xaver Gwerder by Marc Vincenz and Embrasser: A Journal in English and International French, edited by Rikki Ducornet and Emily Thibodeaux.

Jonathan’s own poetry chapbooks are Last Chap (Vergin’ Press, 2004), Blood and Salsa and Painting Rust (Unlikely Books, 2006) and Prosthetic Gods (New Sins Press, 2008).

Over the past ten years, he has lived primarily in El Paso, Texas; Guerneville, California; Toledo, Ohio; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Atlanta, Georgia; and now resides in Lafayette, Louisiana, where he still enjoys making the crawdaddies hiss at him. His cat is an undocumented alien.

Sat., May 11th: Emily Thibodeaux

Jonathan — Thu, 09 May 2013 21:57:32 +0000

On Saturday, May 11th, Acadiana Wordlab will return from a two-week break with Emily Thibodeaux!
Emily Thibodeaux is a writer and teacher living in Lafayette, Louisiana. She received her Bachelor’s in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and her MFA from Columbia University in Fiction writing. Emily has poetry published by the Ahadada Books magazine Ekleksographia, and two short stories due to be published; one is put out by Writer’s Bloq, an online community of writers of which she is a member of the collective presse, and also a new journal run out of Baton Rouge, Belle Journal, of which she is a member of the selection committee. Emily teaches English at South Louisiana Community College and is at work on her first novel, Vermilion Parish, which explores a Cajun brand of magical realism set in a small town in Acadiana. She is obsessed with the recurring dream of a house with extra rooms, Cajun folk tales, and the mystery of generational curses, all of which she is writing about in her novel. In addition to writing, Emily runs a semi-regular mindfulness writing workshop out of her house, sews period costumes, makes jewelry, and sometimes appears with friends on stage for acting and music making.

Sat., April 20: J. Bruce Fuller

Jonathan — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:32:02 +0000

Acadiana Wordlab will next meet at:

Saturday, April 6th, 2pm
in the conference room in the
Acadiana Center for the Arts
101 W. Vermilion St.,
Lafayette, Louisiana

And will be presented by J. Bruce Fuller!

J. Bruce Fuller is a Louisiana native. His chapbooks include Notes to a Husband (Imaginary Friend Press 2013), Lancelot (Lazy Mouse Press 2013), and 28 Blackbirds at the End of the World (Bandersnatch Books 2010). His poems have appeared at Crab Orchard Review, Pembroke Magazine, Yankee Pot Roast, The Louisiana Review, burntdistrict, The Lilliput Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, among others. He has twice been nominated for Best of the Net. He is the editor and publisher of Yellow Flag Press.

Sat., April 13: Lester E. Tisdale IV

Jonathan — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:57:06 +0000

Acadiana Wordlab will next meet at:

Saturday, April 6th, 2pm
in the conference room in the
Acadiana Center for the Arts
101 W. Vermilion St.,
Lafayette, Louisiana

And will be presented by Lester E. Tisdale IV!

Lester Tisdale is a graduate of the English program at University of Louisiana–Lafayette, achieving a Bachelor’s degree in what might as well have been creative writing (had it been offered as an official major) and the humanities (also not an official major). He believes that creativity can be extracted, condensed, molded and processed into art; through limitation, he attempts to prove that writing poetry does not require talent, but simply dedication and experimentation.

Sat., April 6: Carol Rice

Jonathan — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:16:52 +0000

Acadiana Wordlab will next meet at:

Saturday, April 6th, 2pm
in the conference room in the
Acadiana Center for the Arts
101 W. Vermilion St.,
Lafayette, Louisiana

And will be presented by Carol Rice!

Carol Rice owned 100 horses, raised 3 boys, sailed to Tahiti on a 30 ft boa,t lived inHawaii10 years, partnered in various businesses and two on her own, also painted obsessively for three years and had three shows.

Carol went to a garden-variety Catholic elementary and High school.U.of Dayton gave her cum laude for a BA in Psychology, English minor, U. of Toronto gave her an MA in Religious Studies and she taught that for a few years. She was very aware that the books of religions are literature and should be understood as such.

She most enjoyed teaching Continuing Ed Classes atBuffalowith titles like “Does Open Marriage lead to Sad Divorce,” “Religious themes in Literature,” and “Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament.”

Carol supports Festival of Words and Acadiana Wordlab, has a poetry circle club in her home, and is currently attempting to publish her first book of fifty poems called “Autobiobraphy of A Plankton.”