HOMES + friends

112 North Boston Avenue,Tulsa OK 74103

17 May, 2022

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a 3-headed reading / spanning the Great Lakes to OK / with artwork / & songs to the end the eve featuring MOHEB SOLIMAN with debut nature poetry book HOMES JEN STEINORTH with redacted graphic poem book Her Read & special guest JAMES IRWIN with new book-in-progress & solo songs Tuesday, May 17, 2022 // 7-9pm CST Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship Space 112 N. Boston Ave. Tulsa, OK This program is free and open to all. Refreshments provided. Presented by Tulsa Artist Fellowship & Magic City Books ABOUT MOHEB SOLIMAN is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest. I’ve presented writing, performance, installation, and video work at diverse literary, art, and public spaces in the US and Canada with support from the Banff Centre, Pillsbury House, Joyce Foundation, Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Tulsa Artist Fellowship where I’ve been a multi-year resident, among others. I have degrees from The New School for Social Research and the University of Toronto and currently live in Minnesota outside the Twin Cities as pictured here post-country form, coupled with hybrid writer Kathryn Savage, her son, and his dog inside hard at work and play. Important to highlight, my first poetry book, HOMES (Coffee House Press 2021), dwells in the natural-cultural sprawl of the Great Lakes region as it reckons like much of my work with issues of modernity, identity, place and belonging. Please reach out below to know more, keep up with me as I make good, or share your own goods or our sure overlaps. JENNIFER STEINORTH's books include Her Read, a graphic poem (2021) and A Wake with Nine Shades (2019), a finalist for Foreword Reviews Best of the Indie Press Award. A poet, educator, interdisciplinary artist and licensed builder, she has received grants from Vermont Studio Center, the Sewanee Writers Conference, Community of Writers and the MFA for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Their poems appear in Beloit Poetry Journal, Black Warrior Review, The Cincinnati Review, Mid-American Review, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, Plume, Rhino, and TriQuarterly. She is a lecturer at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and lives in Traverse City, Michigan. Steinorth began her artistic life as a dancer. They studied and performed with the Houston Ballet, the School of the Pennsylvania Ballet, and Interlochen Arts Academy. For 15 years she was president and lead designer for a design-build construction company specializing in environmentally-responsible homes; her architectural work has been featured in Fine Homebuilding and other national journals. Their visual art has appeared at the Dennos Museum, Woman Made Gallery in Chicago and elsewhere. She moonlights as an architectural designer and building consultant when the wind is just so. JAMES IRWIN writes songs with a plainspoken beauty in the spirit of Gillian Welch or Bill Callahan. With a voice often likened to Arthur Russell’s, he shares Russell’s curiosity for any and all genres. Stars Blue Wheel, (2020), an album of cosmic country songs written in response to the deaths of Jason Molina, Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, David Bowie, and James’s dear friend Katherine Peacock, is the most graceful James Irwin recording yet in terms of sound, lyric, and vibe. A tight palette of blue-lit images gather meaning across all nine songs. Previous albums Western Transport (2012), Unreal (2015), and Shabbytown (2017) gave James a singular reputation in Montreal as a folksinger at home in the arty, lofty music scene of that city’s heyday. Despite ten years of shifting from outsider folk to low-fi 80s pop to indie rock and back, the mood and lyrical voice of James’s music has always been unmistakable. Bandmates used to call it “Jamesing”. He now lives in Toronto where he’s been on hiatus writing a novel about growing up in a religious commune in Oklahoma. James also played in bands The Moment, My People Sleeping, Paradise, Poor William, The Coal Choir and has occasionally also released albums under pseudonyms like Transparents and Mamatschi. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Programming will adhere to Tulsa Artist Fellowship’s safety precautions including mandatory mask wearing when indoors. Food and beverage consumption will be permitted in outdoor spaces only. Format and protocols could shift if community health concerns become elevated. 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