BMR Announces 2009/10 Editorial Board

Hello folks, I’m happy to announce next year’s BMR Editorial Board!

Editor: Samantha Tetangco (hey! that’s me!)

Production Editor: Daniel Darling

Fiction Editor: Melanie Unruh

Nonfiction Editor:Nari Kirk

Poetry Editor:Tanaya Winder

(stay tuned for news on the new Managing Editor… dun dun dun…)

 

Undergraduate Interns:

Production: Kimberly Keller

Prose: Monet Maloof, Lenore Gusch, Joe D. Byrne

Poetry: Bob Sabatini

 

Also as a brief update, we are digging into the fiction contest–probably as you read this even (if you’re in the english department, head to the lounge and help!). The fiction winner will be the last piece necessary to call the magazine “done.” Well, done like the way a turkey is done in the oven on Thanksgiving morning, but you still have to put it on a platter and adorn it with various accoutrements before you can carve it and put it on your plate. And then you have to add the gravy and the cranberries and the mashed potatoes and the stuffing that wasn’t actually stuffed into the turkey but we all pretend it was so I guess it’s not exactly “done” but it’s close–sorry vegetarians and vegans and fruititarians and bird lovers out there, but an analogy with a tofurkey is just not as beautiful).

All right folks, that’s all from me for now. I look forward to invading your computers for another school year.

Cheers, SAM

 

PS from SAM:  

Also, Production Intern: Kimberly Keller, who is currently working
hard to help us serve this turkey, and will return again next year to
aid Mr. Darling in his production endeavors.

Fall GAships Announced

Creative Writing Program Director Julie Shigekuni writes in:

On behalf of the creative writing faculty, I want to thank everyone who applied for a creative writing program GAship and to announce awards as follows:

Works-in-Progress: Linda Rickert

Blue Mesa Review:
Sam Tetangco, Editor
Melanie Unruh, Associate Editor (f09)
Dan Darling, Associate Editor (sp10)

Program Director’s assistant: Erika Sanchez (f09); Nari Kirk (sp10)

Taos assistant: Jennifer Simpson

In addition, I’m pleased to announce a special award this year to be given to Lisa Gill in recognition of her extraordinary achievements and contribution to the creative writing program via publishing, the organization of events, and mentoring of students. I think we all appreciate Lisa’s talents and efforts. Please join me in congratulating Lisa on receiving this award.

And to everyone who has received a GAship, congratulations!

Julie

Erika did it again!

Congratulations again to Erika Sanchez!
Her poem “Lavapiés” has been accepted by Hayden’s Ferry Review

International Day of the Books, Friday April 24

Friday, April 24th from 5-9pm: UNM Press authors Nasario Garcia, Gloria Zamora, Melody Groves, Pari Noskin Taichert, Ana Baca, Cristina and Armando Ortega, Susan Gardner, Jason Yurcic, and Marianne Broyles read from and sign their books as part of Old Town’s Second Annual International Day of the Books. The readings and signings will take place in Old Town Plaza in Albuquerque, NM.

Idris Goodwin Break Beat Poetica

Not to be missed….

Friday April 24th & Saturday April 25th @ 7pm

“Join me at the Q Staff Theater for two nights of my best stuff as a solo performer, spoken word artist, hip hop man of the people, blah blah blah…”

Featuring Special Guest Openers:

Friday – New Mexico Spoken Word Icons Danny Solis & Jessica Lopez
Saturday – Beat Box Artist Zack Freeman & UNM Poet Carmelita Jaramillo

Q Staff Theater
4819 Central Ave NE
(east of UNM on Central, across from the Highland Theater)

$10 General, $8 Student

Idris Goodwin is an award-winning hip hop playwright, break beat poet, recording artist and teacher committed to making work that incites, inspires, and engages. The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Idris a Playwright-in-Residence grant to explore hip-hop aesthetics in theater. Idris’ break beat poetry was featured on season six of Russell Simmons’ HBO Def Poetry as well as the Spoken Word Revolution Redux Anthology. Idris frequently teaches and lectures at institutions across the country on themes of art and activism. Visit www.idrisgoodwin.blogspot.com for free music and video clips.

Check out Idris on YouTube:

Job Talk

Monday, April 20th from 2-3:30pm in the department lounge will be the last of the EGSA lecture series this semester. Candice Welhausen, Cynthia Murillo, Robin Runia, and Jana Giles will talk about their recent experiences with the job market and the hiring process.
Refreshments will be served.

We hope to see you there. Also, be sure to mark your calendars for
EGSA’s graduation reception on Friday, May 15th from 6pm-9pm at the
Hibben Center!

Poetry all over the place….

Richard Vargas (MFA/poetry) has lots of poetry to be published soon…

“Childhood’s End” will appear in Big Hammer magazine

The anthology Poets of the American West from Many Voices Press will feature:  ”Laid Off”,  ”Ancestor”,  ”Baby Brother’s Blues”  and ”Race War”

The anthology Mezcla: Art & Writings from the Tumblewords Project will feature “Strange Fruit”

The ezine Lunarosity will feature “McLife II”, “Walton’s Girls”, “McLife III” and “Hard Peepees”

The ezine Heavy Bear will feature “Climate Change” and “Rival”

Good Job Richard!  and I know many of my fellow MFA students are publishing, so if you’ve got ink…  Let me know!

April 17: Friday Fun

LOTS of events to choose from this Friday, April 17

7 pm WORKS IN PROGRESS at RB Winnings
Featuring Valerie Santillanes, Marisa P. Clark and Julie Mars

6:30 pm WEST END NEW SERIES LAUNCH at The Harwood Art Center a reading in celebration of the launch of the New Series, a poetry venture devoted to emerging writers, West End Press will host a reading Friday, April 17, at 6:30 PM at the Harwood Art Center. Poets reading include Jason Yurcic, Marianne Broyles, Sy Hoahwah, and Jenifer Rae Vernon.

Following the reading will be a discussion of poetry’s cultural
influence in recovering meaning in hard economic times. Books will be
available for purchase and signing. While a $5 donation is suggested,
no one will be turned away for lack of money. The Harwood Art Center is located at 1114 7th St NW, in Albuquerque. For more information, please contact Amanda Sutton, Publicity for West End Press, at
amandaasutton@hotmail.com or 505-400-3898.

and last, but NOT AT ALL least…

6-9 pm La Tierra y El Aqua at the South Valley Economic Development Center
Arts of Aztlán presents “La Tierra y El Agua,” an art show celebrating community and our connection to the land, to benefit Connecting Community Voices, a non-profit dedicated to building positive social change through creative community expression. Join us for art, poetry, music, food and community on Friday, 6-9 at the South Valley Economic Development Center, on Isleta, south of Bridge, right next to the Blake’s.

Featured literary readers include UNM’s own  Tanaya Winder (MFA/poetry) and Michelle Otero (visiting creative non-fiction professor and author of Malinche’s Daughter)

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros’ House on Mango Street turns 25

Listen to Cisneros her talk about her book over on NPR

Double Congratulations to Kyle Churney

Make that TRIPLE Congratulations to Kyle:

Kyle Churney (MFA Poetry)  successfully defended his dissertation, Paradise Theories, on March 30

AND…   one of his poems has been accepted for an ekphrastic section in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (www.borderlands.org)…

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Three poems  more accepted by Weber (http://weberjournal.weber.edu), appearing online and in print.