“The true star of this collection is not plot or characters, it’s storytelling itself: the weird literary ventriloquism we perform as we divide out the speaking roles of our inner lives.”
AWP 2011
Saturday, February 5th at Noon in the "Hoover" Room:
Teaching the Nontraditional Writer: Practical Techniques for Teaching Students Outside the Mainstream. (Andrew Zornoza, Robert Lopez, Margaret Fiore, Elise Juska) Narrative, character, metaphor, dramatic tension: many of the traditional points of “craft” can be easily shown to the student-writer already steeped in the literature of the western canon. But how do we teach writing to students who’ve taken a different path into our classrooms? This panel offers practical tips and strategies in teaching artists, ESL students, and other nontraditional writers who may lack the confidence and/or knowledge to feel empowered.
Also, Andrew will be signing books at the Tarpaulin Sky Press table, or meeting submitters with HOW journal.
Providence Reading with Matthew Derby!
See Matthew Derby the author of "Super Flat Times" and the influential and helmeted inventor of meat-towers in "flesh" and "spirit" at Providence's best bookstore.
717 Westminster Street • Providence RI • 02903 • 401.432.6222 • adabooks at ada-books dot com
Reading Sept 19th in NYC
Stories and Songs: Danny Lanzetta and Friends
This Week with Andrew Zornoza and Bryan Dunn and Matt Singer
Every Sunday in September
Googies Lounge
154 Ludlow Street (above The Living Room)
8 PM
Free
J, F to Delancey
Danny Lanzetta is an exciting new spoken word artist and novelist. His dynamic words span an array of subjects, from his biting indictment of Bill O'Reilly to the forlorn and melancholy moments of everyday life. Lanzetta’s spoken rhythm record, The Story of a Minute in America, is a dizzying combination of music and word
s. And coming soon, Lanzetta's second novel: Gadfly. In a previous life, Lanzetta starred on Broadway in Neil Simon’s Lost in Yonkers, Les Miserables, and in off-Broadway’s critically acclaimed Falsettoland. He also appeared for two years on the CBS television series Brooklyn Bridge as Alan Silver. Among the distinguished people he has worked with include Kevin Spacey, Anthony Hopkins, Marion Ross, John Spencer, Mickey Rourke, Mercedes Ruehl and Mimi Rogers. Lanzetta has been writing seriously for over fifteen years, both poetry and prose, spurred on by his adolescent disillusionment with the acting business and a tiny high school creative writing class that co-starred a former chess champion and a classically trained singer. His debut novel, Drunken Angel, released by independently in 2002, is an American love story about those classical, but never tired themes of heartbreak and hope. Lanzetta also writes many of the lyrics for Chris Cubeta’ of Chris Cubeta and The Liars Club. He is a a college professor and is unquestionably the world’s most devout New York Knickerbockers fan.
Upcoming Reading in Philadelphia, July 17th: 6PM!
Saturday, July 17, 2010, 6pm - NPP Presents: A Celebration of Tarpaulin Sky Press!! Featuring Andrew Zornoza, Gordon Massman, Jake Levine, & Kim Gek Lin Short. Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Samson Street, Philadelphia.
Author appearance in Denver at the AWP conference
Genres & Generations – April 8th, 10:30PM
@Dazzle, 930 Lincoln St. Denver, CO 80203
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) comes to town this week, bringing with it a variety of writers, from international bestsellers to amateur poets working on their first collections. Six local presses – Fast Forward Press, Monkey Puzzle Press, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Fact-Simile, Zero Ducats, and Bombay Gin – are using the opportunity to put together a unique literary event including some of the area’s most daring writers and poets at Dazzle on Thursday, April 8th.
Powell's and Rain Taxi
"Where I Stay" is featured over at the great Powell's Books (the world's largest independent bookstore) here in their 'Review of the Day' column. The review is reprinted from critic John Madera article in the latest issue of RainTaxi Review of Books. A snippet of that: " . . .superfluous exposition is replaced by evocative gestures, bland dialogue surrenders to resonant internal monologue. Consider Where I Stay a road map that carefully marks its scorched landscapes and anonymous small towns while also pointing out the desultory crew of squatters, border guards, prostitutes, drug dealers -- transitory figures all -- who live hardscrabble lives within them. As such, Zornoza is as much a novelist as he is a cartographer of loneliness, doubt, and fear. . . ."
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