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\| News Archives -2009- Magrane will teach an Ecopoetics class at the Poetry Center starting in October 2009. (see more info here) Broadsides from the Big Cypress residency are here (see them at Bohemia). Also: Mesquite broadside are now available from the 2008 Earth Day tree planting at Canyon Ranch (available at Bohemia and at Canyon Ranch). Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! Join the birthday celebration, including a reading of Big Cypress poems by Burk & Magrane, on February 12. Magrane now shows some of his work, including the new Baroque Mirror Series, at Bohemia in Tucson. Visit the eclectic emporium at 2920 E. Broadway. -2008- Read an interview about the Big Cypress National Preserve residency in The Poetry Center's July 2008 Newsletter. Join Magrane and Wendy Burk for a University of Arizona Poetry Center workshop on the trail in the Santa Catalina mountains on Saturday, July 19. *To learn more about the workshop, see the course Poetry Goes for a Hike: Writing in the Field* on the Poetry Center's website. Check out another poem in Issue 20 of Right Hand Pointing, an issue devoted to poems less than or equal to thirty words. Read a short poem by Magrane in Issue 19 of Right Hand Pointing, which specializes in "short fiction short poetry short commentary short..uh..art." Check out the other short work while you're there, too. Thanks to Arizona Commission on the Arts for awarding Magrane an Artist Career Advancement Grant in the spring of 2008. In May 2008, Eric Magrane and Wendy Burk will be Artists in Residence at Big Cypress National Preserve, where they will write a collaborative poem series building off of their previous collaborations at Isle Royale National Park and Buffalo National River. The annual Kore Press Art Auction** is coming up on March 9. See and bid on Eric's piece, imagine light, at Pastiche Modern Eatery, 3025 N. Campbell, Tucson. Come to the unveiling event of only mountains : a permanent mirror poem installation at Casa Libre en la Solana on March 1, 2008 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Update: the unveiling went off with great success and you can now view only mountains permanently at Casa Libre. Click here for more information. -2007- Magrane's piece SHINING HISTORY is included in Prescott College's "Meeting the Mystery" show, running through December 1, 2007, at Prescott College's Tucson Center (2233 E. Speedway, Tucson). Magrane and Simmons B. Buntin will read in the Cushing Street Reading Series at Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant, Tuesday, August 14, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. It's on the patio, one block south of the Tucson Convention Center at 198 W. Cushing, and it's free! (click here for a PDF flyer) Magrane's "After We Have Turned All the Mountains Into Ideas and All the Birds Into Metaphor" combines poetry with language-images from sandblasted glass and mirror pieces: see it in the Summer/Fall 2007 issue of terrain.org. Magrane's work will be exhibited at Casa Libre en la Solana's Summer Suite Sponsor Soiree on Saturday, June 23 (click here for more info). Casa Libre is the Southwest's only year-round writers' residency and community writing center. Please go, explore, and support this fabulous Tucson institution. And now for something completely different: What happens when poetry goes to the boardroom, body-snatches two executives, takes their minds to the dry cleaners, and sends their bodies out into a field of morning light? See for yourself at Woven Tongue: Experiments in Poetry at Solar Culture Gallery in Tucson, AZ, May 19, 8:00 pm. Magrane and Wendy Burk will present the first ever (to their knowledge) poetry PowerPoint, in which they unveil the new poemgraph genre that is destined to take the literary world by storm! See and bid on "Haleakala #4 (of the crystalline)" at the Kore Press art auction and brunch (March 11, 2007, Pastiche Modern Eatery, 3025 N. Campbell, Tucson, AZ). See two new pieces from Magrane's Haleakala series at Prescott College's Tucson Center Art Show, through spring 2007. -2006- In the Fall of 2006, Magrane was selected to be on the Tucson Pima Arts Council's Public Art Roster. See Magrane's piece "& time " in the Telling Time show from July 1 to July 29, 2006 at Dinnerware Contemporary Arts Gallery. See Magrane's piece "we wait for rain" in the H2O show from June 3 to June 24, 2006 at Dinnerware Contemporary Arts Gallery. Read about Magrane's mirror poem installation Desert Water, Desert Light, which showed at DeGrazia's Little Gallery in Tucson, Arizona from January 28 to February 10, 2006, in the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Weekly.

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News Archives

-2009-

Magrane will teach an Ecopoetics class at the Poetry Center starting in October 2009. (see more info here)

Broadsides from the Big Cypress residency are here (see them at Bohemia). Also: Mesquite broadside are now available from the 2008 Earth Day tree planting at Canyon Ranch (available at Bohemia and at Canyon Ranch).

Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin! Join the birthday celebration, including a reading of Big Cypress poems by Burk & Magrane, on February 12.

Magrane now shows some of his work, including the new Baroque Mirror Series, at Bohemia in Tucson. Visit the eclectic emporium at 2920 E. Broadway.

-2008-

Read an interview about the Big Cypress National Preserve residency in The Poetry Center's July 2008 Newsletter.

Join Magrane and Wendy Burk for a University of Arizona Poetry Center workshop on the trail in the Santa Catalina mountains on Saturday, July 19. To learn more about the workshop, see the course Poetry Goes for a Hike: Writing in the Field on the Poetry Center's website.

Check out another poem in Issue 20 of Right Hand Pointing, an issue devoted to poems less than or equal to thirty words.

Read a short poem by Magrane in Issue 19 of Right Hand Pointing, which specializes in "short fiction short poetry short commentary short..uh..art." Check out the other short work while you're there, too.

Thanks to Arizona Commission on the Arts for awarding Magrane an Artist Career Advancement Grant in the spring of 2008.

In May 2008, Eric Magrane and Wendy Burk will be Artists in Residence at Big Cypress National Preserve, where they will write a collaborative poem series building off of their previous collaborations at Isle Royale National Park and Buffalo National River.

The annual Kore Press Art Auction is coming up on March 9. See and bid on Eric's piece, imagine light, at Pastiche Modern Eatery, 3025 N. Campbell, Tucson.

Come to the unveiling event of only mountains : a permanent mirror poem installation at Casa Libre en la Solana on March 1, 2008 from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. Update: the unveiling went off with great success and you can now view only mountains permanently at Casa Libre. Click here for more information.

-2007-

Magrane's piece SHINING HISTORY is included in Prescott College's "Meeting the Mystery" show, running through December 1, 2007, at Prescott College's Tucson Center (2233 E. Speedway, Tucson).

Magrane and Simmons B. Buntin will read in the Cushing Street Reading Series at Cushing Street Bar & Restaurant, Tuesday, August 14, 2007, at 8:00 p.m. It's on the patio, one block south of the Tucson Convention Center at 198 W. Cushing, and it's free! (click here for a PDF flyer)

Magrane's "After We Have Turned All the Mountains Into Ideas and All the Birds Into Metaphor" combines poetry with language-images from sandblasted glass and mirror pieces: see it in the Summer/Fall 2007 issue of terrain.org.

Magrane's work will be exhibited at Casa Libre en la Solana's Summer Suite Sponsor Soiree on Saturday, June 23 (click here for more info). Casa Libre is the Southwest's only year-round writers' residency and community writing center. Please go, explore, and support this fabulous Tucson institution.

And now for something completely different: What happens when poetry goes to the boardroom, body-snatches two executives, takes their minds to the dry cleaners, and sends their bodies out into a field of morning light? See for yourself at Woven Tongue: Experiments in Poetry at Solar Culture Gallery in Tucson, AZ, May 19, 8:00 pm. Magrane and Wendy Burk will present the first ever (to their knowledge) poetry PowerPoint, in which they unveil the new poemgraph genre that is destined to take the literary world by storm!

See and bid on "Haleakala #4 (of the crystalline)" at the Kore Press art auction and brunch (March 11, 2007, Pastiche Modern Eatery, 3025 N. Campbell, Tucson, AZ).

See two new pieces from Magrane's Haleakala series at Prescott College's Tucson Center Art Show, through spring 2007.

-2006-

In the Fall of 2006, Magrane was selected to be on the Tucson Pima Arts Council's Public Art Roster.

See Magrane's piece "& time " in the Telling Time show from July 1 to July 29, 2006 at Dinnerware Contemporary Arts Gallery.

See Magrane's piece "we wait for rain" in the H2O show from June 3 to June 24, 2006 at Dinnerware Contemporary Arts Gallery.

Read about Magrane's mirror poem installation Desert Water, Desert Light, which showed at DeGrazia's Little Gallery in Tucson, Arizona from January 28 to February 10, 2006, in the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Weekly.