Press Release - Saint Julian Press Presents an Evening of Poetry and Music on Friday, June 20, 2014
Saint Julian Press - Presents an Evening of Poetry and Music
Robin Davidson - Ken Jones - Donna McKenzie - John Hardesty - Ron Starbuck
Friday Evening - June 20, 2014 from 7- 9 PM at Trinity Episcopal Church
1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004
Robin Davidson - Ken Jones - Donna McKenzie - John Hardesty - Ron Starbuck
Friday Evening - June 20, 2014 from 7- 9 PM at Trinity Episcopal Church
1015 Holman Street at Main, Houston, Texas 77004
The Guest Performers
Saint Julian Press presents an Evening of Poetry and Music on June 20, 2014
HOUSTON – May 22, 2014 – Poets and writers Robin Davidson and Ken Jones, will be joined by executive producer Donna McKenzie, composer/pianist John Hardesty, and Ron Starbuck for “An Evening of Poetry and Music” at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman Street at Main, on June 20, 2014 from 7-9 PM.
Robin Davidson, born in Trieste, Italy to American parents, holds a BA in French from the University of Texas at Austin, and MA and PhD degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston. Her poems and translations have appeared in such American literary journals as 91st Meridian, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Literary Imagination, The Paris Review, Poet Lore, qarrtsiluni, Tampa Review, Words Without Borders, as well as the Polish literary journal Fraza. She is the author of two chapbooks, Kneeling in the Dojo (Finishing Line Press) and City that Ripens on the Tree of the World (Calypso Editions), and the collection, Luminous Other, which received the 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Davidson served as a Fulbright scholar at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and her book The New Century: Poems by Ewa Lipska, translated from the Polish with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, appeared from Northwestern University Press. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in translation, two Houston Arts Alliance awards in poetry, and the Abiko International Poetry Prize in Japan. She currently teaches creative writing as an associate professor of English for the University of Houston-Downtown.
Ken Jones has published four full length poetry collections, half a dozen chapbooks and hundreds of individual poems. He performs his original poetry and music regularly. He has been a Finalist for the West Chester Poets Prize, A Pushcart Prize nominee, as well as the 2011 Critics Choice Award winner at the Houston Fringe Festival. The University of Texas at Brownsville has opened a permanent archive of his creative work in their library. His collection Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters was published by PlainViewPress in 2006. Ceaselee Greaspaint in Combat Stance Published by Slough Press in 2007
Pleadings from the Pleaides (Poetry in the Arts Publications), available at www.poetryinarts.org and his latest chapbook is Bones of Rebellion (Brave New Books chapbook series).
Donna McKenzie is a Saint Julian Press artistic partner, an executive and creative producer, and poet in her own right. Donna is a Houston based voice talent, speaker, radio personality, and creative alchemist with a passion for food, music and poetry. Her voice has been heard on Houston's airwaves for almost 25 years, she is currently a co- host for NASA's Third Rock Radio, as well as their custom stations in partnership with RFC Media. A national voiceover talent, she has voiced commercials seen on MTV, VHI, Lifetime Channel and is a prominent voice talent in the concert industry.
John Hardesty - Composer/Pianist: John's improvisational work has brought him to the stage with a variety of interesting people, including Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson and Greg Braden. As a pianist/composer, Hardesty won the 2006 Inspirational Song of the Year - New Thought Songwriters Award for his “Everlasting Love.” His gift of creating music in the moment has inspired audiences everywhere. “John has an innate gift in translating thoughts, emotions, and feelings into music. To sit quietly and witness a live performance by John is profound beyond measure.”
Ron Starbuck (Saint Julian Press - Publisher & CEO) is author of When Angels Are Born and Wheels Turning Inward, he has written poetry and practiced contemplative prayer for many years. Both books are a rich collection of over fifty poems, following a poet’s mythic and spiritual journey that crosses easily onto the paths of many contemplative traditions. He has been a contributing writer for Parabola Magazine. And has been published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, plus an interview and poem in The Criterion: An Online International Journal in English, and The Enchanting Verses Literary Review. In 2014 some his his newest poems will appear in Pirene"s Fountain.
Saint Julian Press is a new independent literary imprint whose mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature and art by encouraging the work of emerging, established, and world-renowned writers, poets, and artists. In our vision we seek to build a world community by embracing and engaging in a global literary and artistic dialogue that promotes world peace, cultural conversations, and an interfaith awareness, appreciation, and acceptance.
HOUSTON – May 22, 2014 – Poets and writers Robin Davidson and Ken Jones, will be joined by executive producer Donna McKenzie, composer/pianist John Hardesty, and Ron Starbuck for “An Evening of Poetry and Music” at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman Street at Main, on June 20, 2014 from 7-9 PM.
Robin Davidson, born in Trieste, Italy to American parents, holds a BA in French from the University of Texas at Austin, and MA and PhD degrees in creative writing from the University of Houston. Her poems and translations have appeared in such American literary journals as 91st Meridian, AGNI, Gulf Coast, Literary Imagination, The Paris Review, Poet Lore, qarrtsiluni, Tampa Review, Words Without Borders, as well as the Polish literary journal Fraza. She is the author of two chapbooks, Kneeling in the Dojo (Finishing Line Press) and City that Ripens on the Tree of the World (Calypso Editions), and the collection, Luminous Other, which received the 2012 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. Davidson served as a Fulbright scholar at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and her book The New Century: Poems by Ewa Lipska, translated from the Polish with Ewa Elżbieta Nowakowska, appeared from Northwestern University Press. She is the recipient of an NEA fellowship in translation, two Houston Arts Alliance awards in poetry, and the Abiko International Poetry Prize in Japan. She currently teaches creative writing as an associate professor of English for the University of Houston-Downtown.
Ken Jones has published four full length poetry collections, half a dozen chapbooks and hundreds of individual poems. He performs his original poetry and music regularly. He has been a Finalist for the West Chester Poets Prize, A Pushcart Prize nominee, as well as the 2011 Critics Choice Award winner at the Houston Fringe Festival. The University of Texas at Brownsville has opened a permanent archive of his creative work in their library. His collection Unutterable Blunders and Palace Disasters was published by PlainViewPress in 2006. Ceaselee Greaspaint in Combat Stance Published by Slough Press in 2007
Pleadings from the Pleaides (Poetry in the Arts Publications), available at www.poetryinarts.org and his latest chapbook is Bones of Rebellion (Brave New Books chapbook series).
Donna McKenzie is a Saint Julian Press artistic partner, an executive and creative producer, and poet in her own right. Donna is a Houston based voice talent, speaker, radio personality, and creative alchemist with a passion for food, music and poetry. Her voice has been heard on Houston's airwaves for almost 25 years, she is currently a co- host for NASA's Third Rock Radio, as well as their custom stations in partnership with RFC Media. A national voiceover talent, she has voiced commercials seen on MTV, VHI, Lifetime Channel and is a prominent voice talent in the concert industry.
John Hardesty - Composer/Pianist: John's improvisational work has brought him to the stage with a variety of interesting people, including Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson and Greg Braden. As a pianist/composer, Hardesty won the 2006 Inspirational Song of the Year - New Thought Songwriters Award for his “Everlasting Love.” His gift of creating music in the moment has inspired audiences everywhere. “John has an innate gift in translating thoughts, emotions, and feelings into music. To sit quietly and witness a live performance by John is profound beyond measure.”
Ron Starbuck (Saint Julian Press - Publisher & CEO) is author of When Angels Are Born and Wheels Turning Inward, he has written poetry and practiced contemplative prayer for many years. Both books are a rich collection of over fifty poems, following a poet’s mythic and spiritual journey that crosses easily onto the paths of many contemplative traditions. He has been a contributing writer for Parabola Magazine. And has been published in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature, plus an interview and poem in The Criterion: An Online International Journal in English, and The Enchanting Verses Literary Review. In 2014 some his his newest poems will appear in Pirene"s Fountain.
Saint Julian Press is a new independent literary imprint whose mission is to identify, nurture, and publish transformative literature and art by encouraging the work of emerging, established, and world-renowned writers, poets, and artists. In our vision we seek to build a world community by embracing and engaging in a global literary and artistic dialogue that promotes world peace, cultural conversations, and an interfaith awareness, appreciation, and acceptance.
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