Artpace and Gemini Ink team up again this summer to present our version of The Odd Couple. Join literary artist Trey Moore and visual artist Ken Little as they discuss the ins and outs of their work and their processes, and the intersections of their unique artistic perspectives.

Trey Moore, a Texas native and a fourth-generation carpenter, has taught as a poet in public schools and at Northwest Vista College in San Antonio, Texas. His work has appeared in the Texas Observer and a number of anthologies. Also an arts activist, and builder of community gardens, Trey's poems investigate "our intimate, indivisible relationship to nature" from a city-dweller's perspective. Moore recently released a book of poetry, Some Will Play the Cello (Pecan Grove Press, 2010).

Ken Little received an MFA from the University of Utah in 1972. He has maintained an active national profile as an exhibiting and reviewed sculptor for over 25 years.
Little is an advocate for contemporary art in south Texas. His work is currently on view at Artpace, as part of their WindowWorks exhibition, It's Not Nine One One.

DATE: TODAY, Thursday July 22; 6:30-8pm
WHERE: Artpace, 445 N. Main, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: Free and open to the public               
FOR MORE: Contact 210.734.9673 or visit www.geminiink.org

Moderated by Annalisa Peace, executive director of the Greater Edwards Aquifer Alliance, Lanny Sinkin, executive director of Solar San Antonio, and Greg Harman, environmental writer at the San Antonio Current, this summer's Community Talk will explore environmental issues and each citizen's responsibility to protect land and natural resources. What can we do in our homes to protect the environment? What governmental policies will do the most to achieve our goals for the environment? And what should our priorities be regarding environmental issues? This honest, organic discussion is open to all members of the community. Come let us know what you think!

DATE: Sunday, July 25; 4:30pm
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: Free and open to the public
FOR MORE: Contact 210.734.9673 or www.geminiink.org

Join Gemini Ink as we welcome Summer Literary Festival faculty members Shin Yu Pai, Lyle Rosdahl, and Mobi Warren as they read from their works. Following the reading we'll have a book sale featuring books from Joe Nick Patoski, Marian Aitches, and Shin Yu Pai, to name a few. Snacks and wine will also be provided.

Shin Yu Pai is the author of seven books of poetry including Haiku Not Bombs (Booklyn, 2008), Sightings (1913 Press, 2007), and Equivalence (La Alameda, 2003). White Pine Press will publish her latest collection, Adamantine, in Fall 2010. She has taught poetry workshops at Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Dallas, and served as the 2004 Peter Taylor Fellow at Kenyon College.

Lyle D. Rosdahl is a San Antonio transplant who has taken root. He writes for the San Antonio Current(where he also edits the flash fiction section), teaches English at Palo Alto College, and works at the public library. Lyle was featured in the Artpace/Gemini Ink collaboration, 2 to Watch, where he read from an ongoing manuscript he is writing using tarot cards. He has a fascination with Oulipo (a writing technique employing experimental formal constraints) and regularly uses different constraints in his own work.

Mobi Warren, a local educator and Master Naturalist, leads monthly Haiku Hikes at Government Canyon State Natural Area. An environmental activist/poet, she has organized poetry readings at Mitchell Lake Audubon Center and at Luminaria 2010 (350.org Poets). She is the translator of A Taste of Earth (Parallax Press, 1993), a collection of Vietnamese myths and legends by Thich Nhat Hanh, and the editor of The Great Hoop of Life(A Tribe of Two Press, 2000) by Native American oral historian Paula Underwood.

DATE: Friday, July 23; 7pm
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: Free and open to the public
FOR MORE: Contact 210.734.9673 or www.geminiink.org

During Gemini Ink's Summer Literary Festival we held two Young Writers Camps with children ranging in age from 8 to 18. Instructors Derek Delgado and Donna Peacock guided students as they explored ways they have been inspired by nature while experimenting with bringing these muses to the page in prose and poetry. Both camps took a field trip to the San Antonio River and boarded a river boat. They journaled about their experiences, and will share some of their works during the Young Writers Camp reading.

DATE: Sunday, July 25; 2pm
WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa, San Antonio, TX 78205
COST: Free and open to the public
FOR MORE: Contact 210.734.9673 or www.geminiink.org