poets

 Charles Alexander

&

Karen Falkenstrom

 

 

Bookman's

 

@ Speedway/Wilmot (southwest corner)

 

free & open to the public

 

 

Charles Alexander, author of books of poetry that include Hopeful Buildings, arc of light / dark matter, Pushing Water 1-6, Four Ninety Eight to Seven, Etudes: D & D, and the just-released, from Singing Horse Press, Near or Random Acts. Works at Chax Press (which will be 20 years old in August 2004), which he founded, making books and creating art in book form. Partnered in life and such art with Cynthia Miller. Teaching includes short classes and workshops at various universities around the nation, and more frequently at the University of Arizona Poetry Center, The Learning Curve, Naropa University, and Pima Community College.

 

Karen Falkenstrom has been a Tucsonan for 15 years, during which time she earned an MFA from the UA Creative Writing program and served as Administrative Director for the Among Other Things... literary arts series, and, later, as Executive Director of the Tucson Poetry Festival. She joined the UA Poetry Center staff in 1992 and, in 1993, co-founded Kore Press with Lisa Bowden. (In 2002, a computer spell check revealed that "Kore" is just "Korea" without an a, and since Karen is herself a "1.5 generation" Korean/Norwegian-American, she's sort of embarrassed she hadn't noticed before.) Currently, she serves as Marketing and Public Relations Director for the Tucson Pima Arts Council. Her articles have appeared frequently in the Tucson Weekly and Downtown Tucsonan, and her poems have appeared in such literary publications as Colorado Review and Prairie Schooner and in her writing group's 10th anniversary anthology The Daybreak & Willingness Club. Karen also plays Irish and Japanese drums.