Where: Memorial Park Public Library 3200 Copper Avenue (915) 566-1034
Cost: Free, but donations accepted for the presenter
When: All events are Saturday afternoons from 12:45 to 2:45
Contact: Donna Snyder at 328-5484 or tumblewordsproject@yahoo.com
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June 6 & 13 Lawrence Welsh Writing on the Downbeat: Music and Its
Influence on Poetry
Welsh is a first generation Irish–American whose mother hailed from Tipperary . Born and reared in South Central Los Angeles, he first hitchhiked to New Mexico and Texas in 1989. Five years later, he moved to El Paso . A former award-winning journalist, Welsh has published six books of poetry: Skull Highway (La Alameda Press, 2008) Walking Backwards to Santa Fe (Pitchfork Press, 2007); Believing in Bonfires (Pitchfork Press, 2003); New Shouts at Broken Dreams (Lummox Press, 2001); Rusted Steel and Bordertown Starts (Sundance Press, 1999) and Lenny Bruce in El Paso (Non Compos Mentis Press, 1997). A new chapbook is forthcoming from Unlikely Stories Books in 2010. His work has appeared in more than 200 journals, including Puerto del Sol, The Louisiana Review, Hawaii Review, Onthebus, The Wormwood Review, Nexus, Chiron Review, The Café Review, Poetry Motel, Poetry Now, Pearl, Big Bridge, Flipside, The Raven Chronicles, The Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Main Street Rag and the book Das Ist Alles--Charles Bukowski Recollected. A winner of The Bardsong Press Celtic Voice Writing Award in Poetry, Welsh is an associate professor of English at El Paso Community College . A nationally known spoken word artist, Welsh has given more than 50 readings during the past 10 years in Mexico , New Mexico , Texas , California and Kansas . THIS WORKSHOP IS SPONSORED BY THE CITY OF EL PASO MUSEUMS AND CULTURAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT AND THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS.

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