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Slight change of plans for tomorrow. Unfortunately one of our planned guests is not able to perform. We wish them well and hope to see them here in the future. Stay tuned for info on our new guest. 🖤🎤

Our new featured guest for tomorrow’s Movable Beast is Jason Johnston: Jason Johnston is a Native American artist, poet and provocateur born in California and raised in southwest, Arizona. He has been inspired by unconventional thinkers, the underserved and outspoken and the brilliant minds whom count the liminal spaces and the obscure as their very own. He is a student of life whose formal education is in visual communications from ITT Tech and he is a Behavioral Health Para-Professional with an RSS degree from the University of Arizona. His Passions include; somber walks in the cemetery, activism, and plumbing the depths of the Human experience.See you soon!

Our new featured guest for tomorrow’s Movable Beast is Jason Johnston: Jason Johnston is a Native American artist, poet and provocateur born in California and raised in southwest, Arizona. He has been inspired by unconventional thinkers, the underserved and outspoken and the brilliant minds whom count the liminal spaces and the obscure as their very own. He is a student of life whose formal education is in visual communications from ITT Tech and he is a Behavioral Health Para-Professional with an RSS degree from the University of Arizona. His Passions include; somber walks in the cemetery, activism, and plumbing the depths of the Human experience.See you soon!

Our new featured guest for tomorrow’s Movable Beast is Jason Johnston: Jason Johnston is a Native American artist, poet and provocateur born in California and raised in southwest, Arizona. He has been inspired by unconventional thinkers, the underserved and outspoken and the brilliant minds whom count the liminal spaces and the obscure as their very own. He is a student of life whose formal education is in visual communications from ITT Tech and he is a Behavioral Health Para-Professional with an RSS degree from the University of Arizona. His Passions include; somber walks in the cemetery, activism, and plumbing the depths of the Human experience.See you soon!

Our second featured guest for this Wednesday’s event is Wilson Dolaghan:
Wilson Dolaghan is a PhD student in University of Arizona’s program in English literature who studies modernism, pessimism, and terror management theory. He also writes.

See you soon! 💜

Our second featured guest for this Wednesday’s event is Wilson Dolaghan:
Wilson Dolaghan is a PhD student in University of Arizona’s program in English literature who studies modernism, pessimism, and terror management theory. He also writes.

See you soon! 💜

Our second featured guest for this Wednesday’s event is Wilson Dolaghan:
Wilson Dolaghan is a PhD student in University of Arizona’s program in English literature who studies modernism, pessimism, and terror management theory. He also writes.

See you soon! 💜

Our first featured guest for next week’s Movable Beast is Madeline McClure: Madeline McClure is a poet and fiction writer living in Tucson since 2017. A creative writing school dropout, she has pursued careers in geoduck farming, gambling, dishwashing, warehouse packaging, and union salting, to name a few. Her poems draw from the absurdism of Richard Brautigan, the punk lyricism of Patti Smith, and the confessional melancholy of Sylvia Plath, to name a few. Beyond poetry, Madeline is currently working on a sci-fi erotica novel and saving money to remove her street cat’s miserable teeth.

Come on out to our last event before our summer hiatus. We will have some exciting and exceptional guests sharing their work as well as an open mic opportunity for anyone who wants to share a bit of theirs. Hope to see you there!

Last night’s Movable Beast was filled with excellent performers and great poetic community! Thanks to our featured guests, those who read at the open mic, and everyone who attended.💕

Last night’s Movable Beast was filled with excellent performers and great poetic community! Thanks to our featured guests, those who read at the open mic, and everyone who attended.💕

Last night’s Movable Beast was filled with excellent performers and great poetic community! Thanks to our featured guests, those who read at the open mic, and everyone who attended.💕

Our final spotlight for April’s Movable Beast is Randiesia Fletcher.

Randiesia Fletcher, M.Ed. is a Cultural Arts Scholar, curator, and Master Teaching Artist whose work bridges visual art, literature, and cultural research. Specializing in artistic anthropology and auto-ethnographic practice, Fletcher explores cultural phenomena through her lived experiences, transforming personal narratives into broader reflections on social, cultural, and political realities.
A retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Fletcher later became a Tucson Public Voices Fellowship fellow, a program led by the Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona and the University of Arizona that prepares thought leaders to publish civic commentary. She is an active Op-Ed writer whose essays and cultural commentary have appeared in various news outlets. Fletcher is the author of three books written primarily in prose. Her most recent work incorporates images, research, and the analysis of text messages to examine themes of mental health, communication, and personal narrative. Her visual practice includes oil painting, oil pastel, ceramics, and printmaking. She trained under renowned master printmaker Andy Rush, expanding her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling through art.
Her work has been showcased at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, reviewed in Natural Awakenings Magazine, and featured in exhibitions including Vision & Sound: An African American Experience at the Sedona Arts Center. Fletcher’s creative philosophy is rooted in healing and dialogue. As a homeless youth growing up on Skid Row in Los Angeles, she was given oil paints and encouraged simply to paint. That moment began a lifelong practice of using art to process experience and envision possibility. Her process—what she calls “living2portraits”—creates a reciprocal relationship between word and image: life becoming portrait and portrait reflecting life. Now working as an independent cultural researcher, Fletcher travels to historically significant cultural sites where she conducts research that informs new bodies of artwork, lectures, and storytelling presentations.Hope to see you Wednesday.

Our final spotlight for April’s Movable Beast is Randiesia Fletcher.

Randiesia Fletcher, M.Ed. is a Cultural Arts Scholar, curator, and Master Teaching Artist whose work bridges visual art, literature, and cultural research. Specializing in artistic anthropology and auto-ethnographic practice, Fletcher explores cultural phenomena through her lived experiences, transforming personal narratives into broader reflections on social, cultural, and political realities.
A retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Fletcher later became a Tucson Public Voices Fellowship fellow, a program led by the Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona and the University of Arizona that prepares thought leaders to publish civic commentary. She is an active Op-Ed writer whose essays and cultural commentary have appeared in various news outlets. Fletcher is the author of three books written primarily in prose. Her most recent work incorporates images, research, and the analysis of text messages to examine themes of mental health, communication, and personal narrative. Her visual practice includes oil painting, oil pastel, ceramics, and printmaking. She trained under renowned master printmaker Andy Rush, expanding her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling through art.
Her work has been showcased at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, reviewed in Natural Awakenings Magazine, and featured in exhibitions including Vision & Sound: An African American Experience at the Sedona Arts Center. Fletcher’s creative philosophy is rooted in healing and dialogue. As a homeless youth growing up on Skid Row in Los Angeles, she was given oil paints and encouraged simply to paint. That moment began a lifelong practice of using art to process experience and envision possibility. Her process—what she calls “living2portraits”—creates a reciprocal relationship between word and image: life becoming portrait and portrait reflecting life. Now working as an independent cultural researcher, Fletcher travels to historically significant cultural sites where she conducts research that informs new bodies of artwork, lectures, and storytelling presentations.Hope to see you Wednesday.

Our final spotlight for April’s Movable Beast is Randiesia Fletcher.

Randiesia Fletcher, M.Ed. is a Cultural Arts Scholar, curator, and Master Teaching Artist whose work bridges visual art, literature, and cultural research. Specializing in artistic anthropology and auto-ethnographic practice, Fletcher explores cultural phenomena through her lived experiences, transforming personal narratives into broader reflections on social, cultural, and political realities.
A retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Fletcher later became a Tucson Public Voices Fellowship fellow, a program led by the Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona and the University of Arizona that prepares thought leaders to publish civic commentary. She is an active Op-Ed writer whose essays and cultural commentary have appeared in various news outlets. Fletcher is the author of three books written primarily in prose. Her most recent work incorporates images, research, and the analysis of text messages to examine themes of mental health, communication, and personal narrative. Her visual practice includes oil painting, oil pastel, ceramics, and printmaking. She trained under renowned master printmaker Andy Rush, expanding her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling through art.
Her work has been showcased at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, reviewed in Natural Awakenings Magazine, and featured in exhibitions including Vision & Sound: An African American Experience at the Sedona Arts Center. Fletcher’s creative philosophy is rooted in healing and dialogue. As a homeless youth growing up on Skid Row in Los Angeles, she was given oil paints and encouraged simply to paint. That moment began a lifelong practice of using art to process experience and envision possibility. Her process—what she calls “living2portraits”—creates a reciprocal relationship between word and image: life becoming portrait and portrait reflecting life. Now working as an independent cultural researcher, Fletcher travels to historically significant cultural sites where she conducts research that informs new bodies of artwork, lectures, and storytelling presentations.Hope to see you Wednesday.

Our final spotlight for April’s Movable Beast is Randiesia Fletcher.

Randiesia Fletcher, M.Ed. is a Cultural Arts Scholar, curator, and Master Teaching Artist whose work bridges visual art, literature, and cultural research. Specializing in artistic anthropology and auto-ethnographic practice, Fletcher explores cultural phenomena through her lived experiences, transforming personal narratives into broader reflections on social, cultural, and political realities.
A retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Fletcher later became a Tucson Public Voices Fellowship fellow, a program led by the Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona and the University of Arizona that prepares thought leaders to publish civic commentary. She is an active Op-Ed writer whose essays and cultural commentary have appeared in various news outlets. Fletcher is the author of three books written primarily in prose. Her most recent work incorporates images, research, and the analysis of text messages to examine themes of mental health, communication, and personal narrative. Her visual practice includes oil painting, oil pastel, ceramics, and printmaking. She trained under renowned master printmaker Andy Rush, expanding her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling through art.
Her work has been showcased at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, reviewed in Natural Awakenings Magazine, and featured in exhibitions including Vision & Sound: An African American Experience at the Sedona Arts Center. Fletcher’s creative philosophy is rooted in healing and dialogue. As a homeless youth growing up on Skid Row in Los Angeles, she was given oil paints and encouraged simply to paint. That moment began a lifelong practice of using art to process experience and envision possibility. Her process—what she calls “living2portraits”—creates a reciprocal relationship between word and image: life becoming portrait and portrait reflecting life. Now working as an independent cultural researcher, Fletcher travels to historically significant cultural sites where she conducts research that informs new bodies of artwork, lectures, and storytelling presentations.Hope to see you Wednesday.

Our final spotlight for April’s Movable Beast is Randiesia Fletcher.

Randiesia Fletcher, M.Ed. is a Cultural Arts Scholar, curator, and Master Teaching Artist whose work bridges visual art, literature, and cultural research. Specializing in artistic anthropology and auto-ethnographic practice, Fletcher explores cultural phenomena through her lived experiences, transforming personal narratives into broader reflections on social, cultural, and political realities.
A retired veteran of the United States Marine Corps, Fletcher later became a Tucson Public Voices Fellowship fellow, a program led by the Women’s Foundation for the State of Arizona and the University of Arizona that prepares thought leaders to publish civic commentary. She is an active Op-Ed writer whose essays and cultural commentary have appeared in various news outlets. Fletcher is the author of three books written primarily in prose. Her most recent work incorporates images, research, and the analysis of text messages to examine themes of mental health, communication, and personal narrative. Her visual practice includes oil painting, oil pastel, ceramics, and printmaking. She trained under renowned master printmaker Andy Rush, expanding her interdisciplinary approach to storytelling through art.
Her work has been showcased at the University of Arizona Museum of Art, reviewed in Natural Awakenings Magazine, and featured in exhibitions including Vision & Sound: An African American Experience at the Sedona Arts Center. Fletcher’s creative philosophy is rooted in healing and dialogue. As a homeless youth growing up on Skid Row in Los Angeles, she was given oil paints and encouraged simply to paint. That moment began a lifelong practice of using art to process experience and envision possibility. Her process—what she calls “living2portraits”—creates a reciprocal relationship between word and image: life becoming portrait and portrait reflecting life. Now working as an independent cultural researcher, Fletcher travels to historically significant cultural sites where she conducts research that informs new bodies of artwork, lectures, and storytelling presentations.Hope to see you Wednesday.

Next up for this month’s Movable Beast is Bill Martin (a carry over because illness prevented):

Bill Martin was a transplant from the Hollywood music scene in 1985 where, as a singer/songwriter, he appeared on other artists’ recordings, as well as recording a solo album for CBS Records. At home now in the desert, Bill teams up with a variety of musicians in duos and trios, in addition to performing as a soloist. He continues to write and record his own music here in Tucson and in California. A fan of songs and songwriters, Bill covers an eclectic mix of material representing many styles and artists.

See you soon! 💜

Time for some bios for next week’s Movable beast.
Our first feature is Wyatt Welch:
Wyatt is a local Tucson poet and English teacher. Welch earned an MA in Linguistics from the University of Florida, and as a linguist, is interested in phonology and language revitalization movements. Welch’s debut book of poetry, “Capitalism Calls Poetry Lazy,” was released in 2022 by FlowerSong Press. Welch is currently working on a project called, “The Tarot,” which is a comprehensive, tarotic poetry collection of the 78 cards.

Hope to see you next Wednesday at Wave Archive!

Join us for more great poetry, art, and music! Stay tuned for more details!

MOVEABLE BEAST: A Poetic Cabaret

Join me for an evening of poetry, presence, and artistic dialogue as I present an Artist Talk and showcase selected works.

This gathering invites us to listen, reflect, and engage with the intersections of storytelling, identity, and creative expression.

📍 Wave Archive
197 E. Toole Ave, Tucson, AZ
🗓 April 15, 2026
🕖 7:00 PM

Come experience the work. Come be in the room.

— Randiesia Fletcher

#artevent #PoeticCabaret #ArtistTalk #contemporary #ArtExhibition

Last-minute change of plans for tonight’s Movable Beast: Filling in for Bill, who was sick, is our own David Weiss. David Weiss is a poet & arts organizer living in Tucson Arizona.

David founded Sonorous Anchorite (2021), a not-for-profit literary arts press dedicated to publishing “innovative writing that tends toward the poem”. As part of Sonorous Anchorite he began A Moveable Beast, a poetical cabaret cultivating curious intersections between the varied practices of poets, musicians, artists, etc.

David served as the Assistant Director at Chax Press & as a board member of POG, a community poetry & arts organization from 2019-2022. His recent poems have appeared in the journals BlazeVOX, Alienocene, e·ratio, & Word for/Word. His book-length poem In Memoriam: in enquiry was published by Chax Press in early 2022. See you tonight!