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People We Love: Rick Moody

Posted on May 9, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm and The Four Fingers of Death, just published a new essay collection, On Celestial Music. The titular essay, collected in Best American Essays 2008, offers a musical road map to the divine. Moody’s essays explore the music of The Velvet Underground, Wilco, and The Pogues as if scrolling through an entertainingly discursive jukebox. Moody surprises the reader by making The Clash unworthy of “cool” while elevating the acoustic falsetto Christian rock band Danielson Famile. Read an excerpt from npr.org.

Also, Moody’s new story is available to read online at newyorker.com: The Undependable Global  Positioning System.

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Sonora Review Short Fiction Fortnight

Posted on July 25, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Every day over the next two weeks, Sonora Review will post a new, handpicked short-short story by some of our favorite writers.  The stories are from the short-short fiction contest (judged by Rick Moody) that we hosted in the spring.  See the schedule below:

Tuesday,  July 26
Jennifer Adams

Wednesday, July 27
Sona Avakian

Thursday, July 28
JoeAnn Hart

Friday, July 29
Trey Moody

Monday, August 1
Anna Prushinskaya

Tuesday, August 2
Charles Rafferty

Wednesday, August 3
Lydia Ship

Thursday, August 4
John Van Kirk

Friday, August 5
Rachel Watson

See you soon.  Sonora Review

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Sonora Review Now

Posted on May 24, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Hello All:

Taking stock of where we are right now, for those who are interested…

Our short short fiction contest and our essay contest are each in the process of being judged. The results will be posted on the blog a month before our summer issue comes out of its cave (which means results will be posted in July).

Though the majority of the University of Arizona MFA students have left for the summer, a small staff of Sonora Reviewers continues onward to put the next issue out.

Our last three issues have been designed by Margi Kimball. She has moved on to bigger and better things, and we wish her the best of luck. We will be working with a new artist for our next issue: Mr. Johnny Gialanella, a man very interested in book art and collage art. We are excited to see where this collaboration leads us.

Orders continue to go out. Business as usual. Check in with the blog for further updates. We are excited to give you a new book.

Best Wishes,

Sonora Review Staff

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Check These Contests

Posted on December 13, 2010 by | Leave a comment

See this handsome man? His name is Ander Monson. He will be judging our $1,000 essay contest.

See this handsome man? His name is Rick Moody. He will be judging our $1,000 short short fiction contest.

That’s right. These two contests are going live as of RIGHT NOW. Submit some work. Make us and them proud.

Click over to our contest page to get yourself started.

-B. Rybeck

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Poetry Center

Posted on September 18, 2010 by | Leave a comment

Coming up at our very own Poetry Center:

A Reading by Rick Moody
September 23 at 8 p.m. Free

Rick Moody is a novelist and short story writer. His books include The Ice Storm (1994), which has been made into a movie; The Diviners, his memoir, The Black Veil (2002), and his most recent novel, The Four Fingers of Death (2010).

A Decade of Young Corridistas: Music and Discussion
September 25 at 3 p.m.

The Poetry Center celebrates eleven years of the Bilingual Corrido Contest for High School Students with its launch of an audio anthology featuring all the music produced from winning contest entries from the last ten years. Join experts Celestino Fernández, Maribel Álvarez, Jim Griffith for a discussion and music sampling of corrido and the new anthology. A reception featuring the corridos of Guillermo Sáenz and past winners of the contest to follow.

Una Noche de Corridos: Benefit Concert for High School Corrido Contest
October 2 – 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

Enjoy an outdoor concert with Tucson favorites Los Changuitos Feos, Grupo iMas, Mariachi Tapatio, and others. All proceeds will benefit the Poetry Center’s Corrido Contest for high school students. Buy your tickets here!

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University of Arizona Poetry Center

1508 East Helen Street (At Vine Avenue)

Tucson , AZ 85721-0150
Phone: 520-626-3765

Fax: 520-621-5566

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