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The poem has now been translated into German and French; when preparing the work for French translation I produced a page, stanza-by-stanza gloss of the poem for the translator. As it proved impracticable to organize a multi-author session, I am applying as an individual, and will be happy to present in whatever format is appropriate. He published 13 books of fiction and poetry Nick Montfort's computer-generated books of poetry include!
Among his more than fifty digital projects are the collaborations The Deletionist, Sea and Spar Between This minute multimedia performance combines sounds, electronics, voice, texts, and video projections, in an attempt to immerse the audience in the subject position of the operator. Constructed in an ever-tightening spiral of voiced and projected textual material and a range of sonic matter, the performance also includes a video projection from the perspective of drone cameras hovering over landscapes, watchful, monitoring.
The work examines the loss of subjecthood and agency, the negation of complexity, deviation, and unpredictability, and the strict hierarchical structure of power. OPERATOR voices and enacts the subject as vantage point, as occurrence; the subject as the eye that brutes the sky; the malleable hand that blots out the living; the subject as perpetual, replaceable; an operator, not an operative, with future blood on the hands. We're interested in the passing and weaving of paper or small objects, thinking about and making zines, alternative economies of literary production, certain low-tech mid 60's to late 80's black literary production, reading and hearing poems.
All is unfinished; and yet, the book, or not the book, or what's not there, or what's after. Join us and we'll fill the room. She's interested in mass media events and the collapsing star of discourse around them. Webster utilizes these methods in investigating race — specifically the instability of blackness and black subjectivities Spuyten Duyvil Press, in Brooklyn, N. The press welcomes work from all, and does not discriminate based on country, creed, color, sex organs, sex identity, preferred sex positions, heart's desire, age, eye color, sports agility, handedness, or lunar sign.
In the last ten years, in particular, that publishing has exploded. The reviews of Spuyten Duyvil books have been stunning. The readers are an assembly of a variety of voices, unafraid of genre agnosticism and risk. His poems, stories, and essays have appeared in over one hundred journals. His plays have been performed in St. Panel on new book, "Experimental Literature: A Collection of Statements" edited by Jeffrey R.
Di Leo and Warren Motte. Panelist will be some of the 33 contributors to the volume. With Tim Roberts, she co-edits Counterpath Press. An Installation is forthcoming from Omnidawn. He has co-edited two collections of fiction by American women, Chick-Lit I: Di Leo Jeffrey R. His recent books include Corporate Humanities in Higher Christina Milletti's novel Choke Box: Performance and reading that shares various experiments in non-monolingual writing practices.
Sade Murphy works sonically with English and German. Mirene Arsanios writes across several languages, including the Portuguese-based Caribbean creole Papiamentu. Nevada Diggs works across a range of languages, including extinct languages, mistranslations, and vernaculars. Christian Hawkey explores intersections between Arabic, English, and German, as well as right to left reading practices.
A writer, vocalist and sound artist, LaTasha N. He is a member of the decolonial translation collective WeTransist wetransist. From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice On Contemporary Practice, is the first comprehensive anthology of essays regarding New Narrative writing and community practices by a younger generation of practitioners and scholars.
This roundtable presentation and discussion proposes to take up these topics through short presentations and discussion, while asking Why New Narrative now? And, What are the stakes of New Narrative for our contemporary moment? This event will include five of the book's contributing writers, plus the its two editors. Speakers AK Amanda K. Davidson is the author of the chapbooks Arcanagrams: He co-edits and publishes ON Contemporary Practice. Kemp is a poet and artist who has collaborated with several New Narrative authors.
Alternately, Kemp engaged Dennis Susan Howe has been written about extensively, with close attention often given to the visuality of her innovative poetic practice. Debths imagines language as a complex social and aesthetic field, suggesting a poetic identity in excess of conventional scales of time and space, reader and writer, poem and material. It generously elicits a form of complex, constellative thinking suited for our difficult times, entangling us in unraveling strings of meaning, while simultaneously gathering us into the immanent field of social relation.
In Fred Moten's words, Debths "consents not to be a single being. Is This a Bad Time? An Installation" is a mixed-media show that challenges our concept of the art installation and performance. The event features video and audio by forty artists from diverse backgrounds, stages in their careers, and artistic practices. Each artist has responded to a hypothetical installation written by Julie Carr. Julie Carr can read the accompanying hypothetical installation text while the video is projected.
Brent Cox is a poet, video artist, and writer. Frank Rogaczewski is married to Beverly Stewart. Frank has published one book of prose poems, The Fate of Humanity in Verse, and is expecting another in the fall, Saturday October 6, 2: Philosophy and experimental writing: For the most part, English language experimentalism has eschewed the conventions and concerns of philosophical discourse, and Anglo-American philosophical writing has equally avoided the kind of literary and lyric innovations that motivate various poetic and diegetic avant-gardisms.
This is not true of other philosophical traditions, and in recent years a number of experimentalists with interests and backgrounds in academic philosophy have begun to incorporate overtly philosophical tropes in their work, writing in prose, verse, and hybrid forms. This panel gathers a number of such writers for a reading of their work and a conversation about the way that philosophical discourse has played a role in their own development as writers both inside and outside of academic philosophy. Her work explores spiritual contemplation and urban expressionism through forms of the influx and the coil.
She is the author SS Steven Seidenberg Writer and artist Steven Seidenberg's work is concerned and infused with the algorithmic paradigms and lyrical latencies of Western philosophy and theology, occupying the interstices between philosophical, diegetic, and poetic discursive timbres, while surrendering the epistemology Queer Epistolary Poetry Feedback Survey. In queer epistolary poetry, how do the boundaries between private desire and social experience begin to unravel? What does it mean for poets to project the body, its desires, and its grievances across the gaps between the the living and the dead, the human and the non-human?
Panelists will read and discuss their own experiments with the epistolary form, which address such issues as the potential for intimacy with strangers, the relationship between sex, power, and political solidarity, the ongoing impact of colonialism on the mestizx body, spellwork and conversing with the dead, the queerness of space travel, and the ways that machines embody emotion and gender.
His poems were anthologized in Troubling the Line Each writer will present creative work that addresses the movement and engage in a lively, exploratory discussion no predetermined goal. He is a Ph. He has been awarded Making a Language We Can Learn: Poetics as Collaborative Praxis Feedback Survey. What new conceptions of sense-making and text-making happen if we bring this work to the actual panel and invite attendees to join a making that will extend beyond our gathering together in a room?
How might new considerations of collaboration spark innovative, process-oriented approaches to poetry, narrative and performance? What emergent communities are put into motion in this praxis? In the spirit of alternative structures that embody constitutive, living energies - rhizomatic, mycorrhizal, vibrational, and prismatic - we seek new ways of making creative work. We begin with a public call for submissions around an initial question: What do we do together? Next, we will curate the texts into a print publication launched at the panel, where we will read and perform from the publication and discuss our process.
Simultaneously, we will launch an online version, inviting attendees to live annotate and co-create during and after the panel. Where will this take us and who will this us be when the panel beyond the panel continues AQ Andrea Quaid Andrea Quaid's work focuses on late 20th and 21st Century North American literature, poetry and poetics, pedagogy, and feminist studies.
She is also co-series founder and editor My ambition is that an international panel of female poets will talk about taking on the challenge of the book as lyric medium in the twenty-first century. After reading from their own book-length projects, panelists will address questions like: What do we gain by compounding the method of the lyric with the narrative structure of the book?
How does the long-form poem redefine notions of story and story-teller? Sandra Simonds is the author of six books of poetry: This panel seeks to present screenings of video poems that incorporate the visual lyrical epistolary mode. This panel will present video poems, about 15 minutes each, which function as personal letters between panel members. Finally, this panel is most interested in the proliferation of meaning and counternarratives within narration, centralizing voice while eschewing any final meaning or closure.
He is the author of several This performance will occur twice during the session time, once at the beginning and again at 3: Inside my gorge combines the real-time erection and arrangement of augmented reality-based textual architectures with immersive, 3d virtual environments to construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct a poetics of queer embodiment in mixed reality.
Drawing upon the word gorge to suggest a valley, an act of overindulgence, and a throat, the work explores gaps and excesses in language and the conflation of text, body and landscape. Bowlin's rhinestone habitat - rendered as a luminous environment derived from 3d scans - is placed in relation to auction chanting where the cumulative repetition of numbers and "filler words" becomes a fluidly stuttering drone.
Composed in an invented mixed language dialect, Guyotat's summoning of sex acts in a gay male brothel is less narrative than linguistic secretion, a distinctive outpouring of self-same written material and displaced punctuation comprising an extravagant verbivisivoco ambience. Using solicitous flows of embodied language to create dazzling environments, Inside My Gorge enacts cuts and disappearing acts between the body, language and space.
Speakers AA Abraham Avnisan Abraham Avnisan is an experimental writer and new media artist whose work is situated at the intersection of image, text, and code. He creates mobile apps, new media installations and mixed reality performances that seek to subvert dominant narratives through embodied encounters with Since , Jeffery has developed unconventional collaborations with visual artists, scholars, video artists, sound artists, new media and Judd Morrissey is a writer and code artist who creates poetic systems across a range of platforms incorporating electronic writing, internet art, live performance, and augmented reality.
He is the creator of digital literary works including The Precession: An 80 Foot Long Internet Carman, and Jim Meirose. YT Yuriy Tarnawsky Yuriy Tarnawsky has authored some three dozen books of poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and translations in English and Ukrainian, including the novels Meningitis and Three Blondes and Death, the collections of short stories Short Tails and Crocodile Smiles, three collections of mininovels A reading featuring poets and fiction writers working with found material from social media, websites, TV reality shows, video games and more.
How can innovative writing intervene in the constant flow of likes, posts, images, information and commodities that algorithmically fills our lives under late capitalism? Where is meaning to be found in this context — or generated? From Facebook to Hoarders to Koko the Gorilla and mass shootings, panelists present new ways of looking at our everyday media landscape in all its splendor, kitsch and horror.
Reading will be followed by a discussion that teases out the subversive formal and political dimensions of the work, with special attention to questions of satire, pastiche, polyvocality, digital excess, overconsumption, environmental collapse and gun violence. Kate Durbin is a Los Angeles-based artist and writer. With Mary Boo Anderson, he is editing an anthology of Brooklyn Saturday October 6, 4: Board Reading This flash reading brings together the current editorial board of FC2.
Each of the eight readers will give a short reading from one of their recent works, demonstrating the aesthetic variety and multiplicity of formal and thematic concerns, styles and preoccupations of the press. With forty four years of experience, well over authors and over books in print, FC2 remains at the vanguard of innovative and experimental fiction publication. Ruocco received her MFA at Brown, and She is the founding editor of Crashtest, an online magazine for high-school A Report , and Gone Mixed Panel 1 Feedback Survey.
The presentation will focus on connections between experimental traditions in print and forms of electronic literature such as poetry generators and hypertext fiction. It will consider the place of electronic literature in the landscape of contemporary creative writing programs and will include a reading of some short passages from the book. In this book, Rettberg places the most significant genres of electronic literature in historical, technological, and cultural contexts.
These include hypertext fiction, combinatory poetics, interactive fiction and other game-based digital literary work , kinetic and interactive poetry, and networked writing based on our collective experience of the Internet. Rettberg argues that electronic literature demands to be read both through the lens of experimental literary practices dating back to the early twentieth century and through the specificities of the technology and software used to produce the work.
As this visionary poem critiques and reinvents socio-political mechanics around lyric deixis, what emerges is a utopian zone beyond life and death: Valerie Sayers, "Apocalypse, Ho! A Genre Mash-up and Choral Reading" If futurist fiction's the new realism, what's an innovative writer to do? I propose a multi-media choral reading of my apocalyptic cowpoke prose sonnet, "Our Last Stand," a genre mash-up that pulverizes high and low, poetry and prose, the sacred and the profane, ex-pat queer Irish-Americans and their adopted country an island suspiciously resembling Ireland.
Gerard Manley Hopkins meets Kevin Barry! Set in a too-near future when climate change renders temperate zones the sites of droughts, floods, and fights to the death, "Our Last Stand" will appear in the fall issue of Agni and is a recent addition to my cycle of fictions set in the future but finding new forms to bypass "realist" futurism. Because the narrator, Tommy, so frequently invokes a collective first-person plural voice, I plan to read with a chorus of pre-recorded voices, with an accompanying visual background that combines video footage and graphic elements including lines from Hopkins and Barry.
The story's under three thousand words and reads in twenty minutes; with introductory remarks, the entire presentation will total twenty-five minutes. Speakers RC Roderick Coover. Scott Rettberg is Professor of Digital Culture in the department of linguistic, literary, and aesthetic studies at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Rettberg is the author or coauthor of novel-length works of electronic literature, combinatory poetry, and films including The Unknown Valerie Sayers University of Notre Dame. Valerie Sayers is the author of six novels, most recently The Powers, and hundreds of stories, essays, and reviews. Mixed Panel 4 Feedback Survey. After his return from the Civil War, he fathered twenty children by three of his former slaves, who were also sisters.
One of those children was my great-grandmother. As I transcribed the page diary, I became interested in its omissions and decided to write into the space of what is missing. Descent is a hybrid work of verse, prose, images, documents; traditional and innovative forms. Following in the footsteps of poets like M. Travis Sharp, "Does that make me crazy? Bob the Drag Queen's Radical Aesthetics Aesthetics and politics are prominent in many Marxist theories of the avant-garde, with aesthetics and politics being alternately read as incommensurable and mutually exclusive or as necessarily in dialectical or mutually deterministic relation, as autonomous spheres, as an autonomy-in-heteronomy, or as tools to be put to use in the revolution.
Absent in many of these narratives are any integral inclusions of race. Given the tradition of considering the avant-garde as that which integrates the artistic into the praxis of life, it is crucial to consider drag performances as key contemporary avant-garde gestures. Harvey Thomlinson, "A Different Language: The Strike " Recent research by Lera Boroditsky and others have revived interest in the question of how intricately language shapes our thought, and in the practice of fiction writing in the modernist tradition which tries to hack linguistic templates.
My project The Strike purposively misuses language to create a mimesis for readers of the temporal fissures of a remote ice-bound Chinese border town torn apart by an underground strike. The experimental sentences subvert correspondences between syntactic and semantic structures and has been described as a kind of idioglossia that shakes up the synapses of readers. The real aim, though, was to help readers understand the world of the novel and all the meanings it contains. In my session I will read fragments and draw on perspectives from multiple disciplines to present a taxonomy of syntactical templates from the text which share a consistent goal to destabilise the sentence.
There may be a resonance with phenomenology, as practiced by Merleau-Ponty and others, which tried to relate experience without obscuring the description through misused concepts. She was the Jay C. He's also a teaching His own innovative writing This critical chimera includes performative readings on and about dramatic, digital, and literary texts to stage self-reflexive inquiries into the very forms and purposes of contemporary critical practice s. In other words, this panel includes drama about drama, Instagram about Instagram, fictoessay about fictoessay.
Her work explores the relationship between the performing subject, digital correspondence, and the capacity for transformative learning. Quynn's work considers how creative-critical work might produce new play-ful forms and unconventional reading subjects. His research focuses on Modern Drama, Performance, and Film. His published work has considered many diverse figures of the modern and contemporary stage including Harold Pinter, Martin McDonagh, G.
She is co-editor of Reading and Writing What does it mean to write resistance? Contemporary writers have long created literary spaces of possibility and resistance, taking the status of outsider and expanding the project of literature. To become an artist is to write oneself back into being. A book might be a place where the individual remakes the world.
In this panel which will include reading, discussion, and performance, we will consider writing as political resistance, a tool to counter the limitations of cultural, societal and familial expectation. Hard Mouth, her debut novel, is forthcoming Anger, Grief, Empathy, and Hope: Reed was a poet and person who, in committing to her belief in justice for all people across racial, economic, and other lines, worked to change social structures and attitudes.
We reflect on her work as an environmental and social justice activist and writer, as a teacher and mentor, as a person who had ongoing relationships and projects with writers and activists around the country. We explore her influence through video interviews with those who were affected by her; we reflect on her example of ways of being in the world, merging activism and poetry in a kind of ethopoetics, acting as an artistic and pedagogical influence that ripples through to our own students; we explore how she merged the fight for environmental justice with contemporary racial and social politics; and we highlight the anger, grief, empathy and hope that fueled the collaborative curating process of Counter-Desecration: Marthe died in April, ; she was only Poetic Weapons Feedback Survey.
Poetry is not an answer— it is a space for working things out speculatively. How can ideas on the page be drawn out and used actively as weapons against what would destroy us? Just as a gambler makes a confident wager on an impossible bet, poetry can assume a win even when the odds are against us, generating a space of new possibilities in which to move.
Our wager is this: Even as avant-garde art is constantly recuperated and sold back to us in gift shops, poetry offers a multitude of poetic weapons which act as defiant tools in transitions and crises—through foam, objects, ambivalence, excess, garbage, swarms, and more—and which allow lines of flight to begin forming.
We will frame our presentation through a participatory engagement with the audience, possibly through a writing exercise, movements and gestures, or speculative acts that assume the existence of a desired reality. He is interested in critical and creative methods to explore the nuances of blackness, queerness, memory, history, identity and trauma. A Collaborative Performance Feedback Survey. This session will involve writers reading with and to each other, creating careful choices about how to be together, communicate, make, take, and share space. Writers will determine their own entrance and exit points multiple times during the event in order to read their writing with and to each other, using each line of their writing to create new, collaborative work with the other participants.
Moderators Laura Goldstein Laura Goldstein's first collection of poetry, loaded arc, was released by Trembling Pillow Press in and her second collection, awesome camera was published by Make Now Press in She has also published several chapbooks with vibrant small presses across the country, the most Venues for these pieces range from: She released her zine of She lives in Chicago and teaches writing at Northeastern Illinois University.
SG Sara Goodman Sara Goodman is a new media artist, poet, curator, VJ, and teacher working with new and old tech, forming lifelong friendships and collaborations based off of art-as- way-of-life life practice. She is drawn to pastoral landscapes, abstraction, meaning through repetition, science fiction IH Ian Hatcher Ian Hatcher is a writer, vocalist, performer, and programmer whose work explores cognition in the context of digital systems.
She is a resister and an interdisciplinary artist with no social media accounts. His chapbook, Spring Tlaloc Seance, was published Complicated Grief was published in Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in the anthologies Poesia Visual 5, and Ritual and Capital.
He has also been nominated twice for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. His work has been previously published in or is forthcoming from Jubilat, Vinyl, Bat Like Wallace Stevens and T. In her career, she uses her poetry skills to create meaningful marketing communications Her poetry often traces the breakages between words and images, and she has collaborated with Brazilian visual artist Cyriaco Lopes cyriacolopes. Writers from different global cultures will read from their work.
To connect, to expand, to invite, to be open and to be opened by. Speakers RB Rafal Betlejewski Rafal Betlejewski is a well-known Polish writer, paratheatrical artist, radio commentator,photographer, and political activist. His first novel will come out next year. In , he co-established the collaborative, "Medium Public Radio. He currently lives in Orange, California, where he works on sustainable living architecture. Featured Reading Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose.
Johanna Drucker , Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies at UCLA, is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design, typography, experimental poetry, fine art, and digital humanities. Recent publications include What Is? Cuneiform Press, , Graphesis: She is working on a database memoire, ALL the books I never wrote or wrote and never published.
Cuneiform Press, , Graphesis RG Renee Gladman Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Saturday October 6, 7: Reception Immediately following Featured Reading Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose.
Saturday October 6, 8: Sunday , October 7. The conventions of the traditional thriller employ a patriarchal mode where suspense is managed, creating a trajectory that builds to climax in which previously inexplicable plot events become fully mansplained. In experimental thrillers, such a path becomes an orbit rather than a strict narrative; these thrillers thrive when nothing is revealed and the reader is, instead, led into an experience of increasing stress, uncertainty, and trauma, until her own psychic boundaries are crossed and a realm of true mystery penetrated.
Our quotidian sense of the world is not reinforced, as in the masculine realism of the traditional thriller, but shaken until we begin to question our very ability to read clues and create order out of language. In this proposed event, we will begin with a quick exploration of the secret lineage of the experimental thriller, including seminal works by Kafka, Grand Master Margaret Millar, and Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi.
Each writer will further expound on a particular element of the experimental thriller and perform an artwork-in-progress that strives to demonstrate convention-shattering principles such as climax deferral, plot ruin, dialogue obfuscation, and anti-characterization. You can find him on Twitter She holds a PhD from Her first book, Ventriloquisms, won the Sunday October 7, 9: Fiction, Theology, Ethics Feedback Survey.
What is our responsibility to the other? This is likely THE question of our time. How can we face, respond to, speak to, touch the other while respecting its boundaries, its being, its otherness? How can we face the other without trying to make it the same? This panel believes that writing is one of the most vital and serious ways of ethically approaching the other. Hilary Plum frames this belief in terms of the connections created by private experience and larger shared histories.
Joseph Cardinale focuses on the narrative mode of parable. For Cardinale, parable is too often seen as didactic, as moving toward clarity and easily understood moral lessons. He wants to rethink parable as a genre that transcends didacticism, guiding the reader not toward clarity, but toward a universalizing spiritual apprehension of mystery and un-knowing. Jeffrey DeShell takers seriously the points of coincidence between theology and fiction, as both can be read as language freed toward an unknown and unknowable other.
Noy Holland will work within the spaces and interstices between the natural and spiritual realms. Jeffrey DeShell will serve as moderator. Karl Leone is a New York based actor, poet, and playwright. Recent NY stage credits include: Leon Ingulsrud , and Dr. Best Supporting Actor Film: He has gathered two collections of poetry and performance texts respectively titled: A play inspired by Oliver's poem In Aporia, titled The Shades of Our Eyes is currently looking for a home in the theater for Spring but is available online as an audio drama prod.
Victor Gurbo and Co. Eugene Lang College Class of This event asks a variety of writers to respond to representations of queer men in popular culture, from the fight for marriage equality to music videos and beyond. Each will present his own work in discussion with fellow panelists, and the audience will be invited to continue the conversation. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal Beacon Press, and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and collections.
Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book on queer anarchy. The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman He is also the author of two poetry chapbooks, Arrival and at Mono and In the Madrones Brian Pietras is a doctoral candidate in the English Department at Rutgers University, where he focuses on gender and sexuality in early modern England.
His latest book, Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other, is forthcoming from Counterpath Press in Mark Wunderlich is the author of three volumes of poems, the most recent of which is The Earth Avails, forthcoming from Graywolf Press. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University and Bennington College, where he also teaches undergraduate literature and directs Poetry at Bennington, a series of residencies by prominent American poets.
He lives in New York's Hudson Valley. Lang Theatre, Washington, D. Nevada Diggs and Alison Hedgecoke reading This event is free and open to the public. This series moderated by Celesti Colds Fechter, Ph. Free; seating is limited; reservations required by calling or emailing: The New School's Kellen Auditorium: Nevada Diggs, singer, and 8-year old jazz prodigy, Kojo Roney, drummer, this far-reaching evening transcends land, time, and space as it debuts new arrangements by Mulet of original works by key 20th century Harlem composers.
Rainbow Book Fair is open to the public with book discounts and giveaways. Book Launch party for LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs and R. Ariana Reines was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Her play Telephone was commissioned and produced by the Foundry Theatre in , winning two Obies. Ariana is working on a new book and a screenplay. She lives in Queens.
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The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels. She is editor at large of The Atavist, a publisher of non-fiction multi-media eBooks. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Solarized ZieherSmith Gallery, W. Nevada Diggs Presented by Cave Canem. The West Brooklyn, Union Ave. Daily and weekly programs will include: Gramsci Monument will be open daily from 9 am to 6 pm.
Presented by Dia Art Foundation. Amplified curated and organized by LaTasha N. This multimedia concert features a generation of New York and L. Sekou Sundiata Revisited Free: Entrance is on a first come first served basis; seating is limited Free: Poets House Showcase Readings: This reading is in conjunction with Dan Vera, Daniel Nathan Terry, and Michael Klein who will be reading from their poetry works as well at this panel.
Nevada Diggs will be this year's M. Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors will dedicate La Casita to the memory of Sekou Sundiata, who performed at its inaugural edition in La Casita offers urban poetry, spoken word, and the musical and poetic expressions of traditional and contemporary cultures in two marathon performances featuring 15 artists, presented in consecutive days at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Teatro Pregones. Nevada Diggs, will share the poetry of Sekou Sundiata between the sets of the invited spoken word and musical artists. Daniela Olszewska is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Audrey Zee Whitesides is a poet and musician born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.
She also leads Brooklyn trans punk band Little Waist. Cassandra Gillig is a poet and new media artist from Chicago, IL. She lives in New Brunswick, NJ. Two-day Intensive Writing Workshop with R. Erica Doyle through the Millay Colony Join us for this exciting, two-day writing workshop in at the Trisha Brown studios! How can we find language for the unspeakable ecstatic, the disastrous? How can we counter exposition with composition?
How can we distill spillage, leakage and carnage with an eye towards not only our own liberation, but the planet's? In this workshop, through exercises and readings, we will trouble and excite the writer inside and see what new moves we can make. We will begin each four-hour class at Total workshop time is eight hours. Lunch is served at each class and the day ends at 3: Limited Scholarships, based on need, are available.
Please contact director millaycolony. Erica Doyle reading with Christopher Stackhouse. Lee Gough is a cross-disciplinary artist and lives in Brooklyn, NY. She teaches drawing to people with cancer and other chronic illnesses in New York City and she does other odd jobs and occupations when she can. Her chapbook, Future Occupations, is available from Little Red Leaves and her website from her drawings, prints and experimental animations is leegough.
Julia Drescher lives in Texas. Dawn Pendergast lives in Houston, Texas. Rachel Levitsky and Latasha N. Busboys and Poets reading with LaTasha N. Creative Writing Through Visual Art. She is currently completing a cross-genre piece on New Orleans, and Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance. Her forthcoming, Transfer of Qualities, will be published by Omnidawn Books. Her current project focuses on photographs and reproductions.
Feminism, Poetry, Prose and the Germ of Language Panel, Reading, Reception This event celebrates and showcases two simultaneous publications of translation of writing from Montreal: Twenty-five years after its first French language publication, Theory, A Sunday, a collaborative feminist poetics text, debuts Belladonna Collaborative's new Germinal Texts series. Written in the context of years of theoretical discussion on feminism and language, "Sunday meetings," in Montreal, this volume gathers six women's theoretical and creative texts, plus a new introduction by Lisa Robertson and afterword by Gail Scott and Rachel Levitsky.
Rachel Levitsky will be introducing and moderating. A Journal of Writing and Art. As a long-time yoga practitioner, she brings this knowledge and discipline to her writing and teaching at Naropa University, writers. She is a book designer and website designer specializing in working with independent publishers as well as individual artists and writers. Girls Assembling Something Perpetual. Belladonna Benefit Belladonna Benefit!
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He lives in Philadelphia, PA. She writes reviews for The Constant Critic and is the editor of Corollary Press, a chapbook series dedicated to innovative mulit-ethnic writing. She is also a Pew Fellow in the Arts. This event supports artists who fuse music, movement, sound, and dance with spoken word poetry. We are dedicated to poets, like Oliver, who seek alternative ways to present the spoken word. Ideas Like Rocks Tuesday, February 18, ; 7: Expressing our gratitude for the meaningful labor of our dedicated interns from Pratt Institute and Queens College.
Though she has yet to be published, she has hopes the novel she is working on for senior thesis will prove lucrative.
Jamila Cornick is a writer of critical essays, fiction and poetry. They are currently completing their BA in psychology. She is a recipient of the Himan Brown Award for Poetry. Erica Doyle Thursday, March 27, ; 6: Erica is also a fellow of Cave Canem: A Workshop and Retreat for Black Writers. Independent Publishers Book Fair Location: Alumni Reading Room Time: A Wrecked Tangle 2.
Postmodernism and the Pastoral. She has taught poetics at St. Free broadsides for guests and a reception to follow the reading. Hip Presents Readings Series Mr. Book Party With recent releases from fellow small presses: An Evening of Readings and Dialogue: Chus Pato will be present by means of a short video reading. In your company and with your contributions, Carr and Moure and Pato as well look forward to engaging in conversations on attentiveness, on the future and building a space for it, on nation states and borders, on translation and translatability, on affective economies and momentary ones, on civic unrest, on poetry and politics.
Poets in the Garden III: Nevada Diggs, Justin Marks, and Bianca Stone reading This summer, the Academy of American Poets will continue its tradition of offering poetry readings with a diverse lineup of poets sharing their work at historic New York City locales. Free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Erica Doyle, Sarah Gerard: Berl's Bookstore, A Front St. Birds of Lace poets LaTasha N. A Sunday at Concordia University. The reading will be something that each poet finds to be in dialogue indirectly, if not directly, with the book itself, and the moment and movement, that the book illustrates.
From her early scholarship on French deconstruction to her video and performance art to her landmark book Dictee, Cha carved a singular space within the history of art, a one-woman avant-garde. Her work, described, in turns, as illegible, de-colonizing, avant-garde, stuttering, provokes us into new understandings of history, language, and the body. Monti Open Studios Join us to see the work of artists and designers working in a range of media.
Join us for readings, free broadsides, a letterpress printing demonstration, and tours of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts facilities. BPL does Poetry Month: Akilah Oliver Memorial Reading: Food and Drinks will be served. Chia-Lun Chang PM: Red Hook, NY email belladonnaseries gmail.
Betsy Fagin Book Launch! Special guests John Keene, Rickey Laurentiis, and r. The submissions help to realize what we as Co-Chairs of this year's Program Committee have seen as an especially rich opportunity to consider the systemic and ideological sources of the suffering that seems to spread more and more even as evidence of a gathering movement of change in the streets and on campuses becomes harder to ignore. The Midnight Moonlight Marathon For: The Marathon will feature 48 poets reading poems from 12 noon to 12 midnight at The Commons in Brooklyn, on February 12th just remember, on the 12th from 12 to 12!
Foster with Nate Marshall and Phillip B. Intern and Volunteer Celebration Studio Dynamo 3: Foster with Tyehimba Jess and John Keene, 4: The series seeks to support editorial curation as well as exciting new writing by established and emerging writers. Beautiful Sea Of Waves Nevada Diggs and composer Marc Cary pay homage to the artistic legacy of poet Jayne Cortez A Tribute to Jayne Cortez, 2: Frost is at her best, however, when she transcends the terrestrial and the whimsical and moves into more speculative, narrative poetry. Bodies of those who have tried litter the mountainside; are swallowed.
Frost recasts the Martian mountain, not in the triple-Everest mold common in comparisons, but as the divine Greek home its name comes from. I will tell you the noise you hear when you hack their coms is no language beautiful as your own but the noise of a million insects descending like locusts toward your planet. Other poems in similar narrative veins, from a stellar truck stop to the cockpit of a dying probe pilot, hold the collection together.
Each helps to set the tone of poem it accompanies. Cthulhu Haiku II, containing work from more than 50 authors, collects more than poems, short stories, and pieces of flash fiction—all of which in some way touch, explore, or re-imagine a section of that alien, unknowable horizon beyond our world first envisaged by H.
As the title suggests, many of the poems are haiku, but not nearly all—sonnets, free-verse poems of all types, and even a few Lovecraftian limericks all lurk between the pages—with a few prose poems to round out the collection. A similarly eclectic assortment of subjects, themes, and terrors from beyond mortal ken abound—from Philip C. Lovers of Lovecraft will find much of the terminology gratifyingly familiar. Miskatonic University, Randolph Carter, Hastur, Azazoth, the Necronomicon , and even the mad priest in the yellow silk mask, all make their unspeakable way through the collection.
As this gem of a haiku by Jason Huls demonstrates, most of the poems are comprehensible even for those readers who have never heard a fhtagn:. The runes in this book Make sense in the right lighting Did you hear that sound? The various authors and poets featured in this book have won too many awards, been published too many places, and done far too many interesting things to begin to list even a fraction here.
In this current effort, they built the poems together, trading lines back and forth in emails from their respective locales, and then Simon illustrated them. The result is a lot of decentralized poems, with the tone generally like that of a conversation between friends. I picture them passing notes, staying on topic for little while, until conversational drift takes them to the next topic, the next poem.
Let us go a-wandering and see what we shall see. Well, no surprise in the poet, no surprise in the reader. But we also get an admixture of motives and a jumpiness in narrative direction, so that the poems often come in fits and starts, albeit slaked somewhat and with the creases smoothed over. Okay, well, perverse enough for a decent horror poem, I guess.
But suddenly, three stanzas later, without explanation, she abruptly wants revenge:. She tears her tethers from the wall, seething with anger, her wounds beyond description, mind on revenge,. That same jumpiness can be seen in other poems. It seems like tangent upon tangent. Is that why we have tropes of seemingly kind and ordinary people who suddenly burst out of everyday life and cut the flesh off our bodies? There are a lot of knives in this book, a lot of cutting to the bone. This is certainly no slasher book, let me be clear.
It is horror by the daughters of Vincent Price, who have just a little less of his sweet tooth and a little more taste for blood. There are a lot of cats and glasses of wine, of ghostly moments and full or gibbous moons, of eloquent yet thirsty vampires. All in all, it is a decent book with some graceful lines, though it never catches fire. Two people passing notes back and forth are never seized by inspiration, passion, or theme.
Generally speaking they are dark, even melancholic, as the title Dark Roads suggests, and all of them have a surreal quality, whether they are science-fictional, or of the horror genre, or meditations on hallucinogenic blue pomegranates and hashish. Featuring a tendency towards narratives and symbolism, this was in contrast to the much more influential school of poetry going on then, the Confessional poets, which Bruce, in his late twenties, was already weary of.
So, a lot of his poems have a big, central image—a tent pole—and the narratives of the poem revolve around that. For example, the Mutant Rain Forest is not just a world that he and Robert Frazier created and wrote many stories and poems about, it is also a central, organizing principle. His style varies from clear, even prosaic narratives, to lush, textured atmospherics; the latter tending to be the image poems. I really liked it. He gets drunk and staggers out into the night to look at the sky:. There is an incandesce in his heart, a wilderness of light; above there is nothing but a vague gray blackness.
I loved this one, too. By the way, the book is beautifully illustrated by M. Wayne Miller, with a half a dozen or so finely wrought, full-page black and white illustrations, and a color cover which has two yellow cat eyes hanging in the dark above a wilderness highway, staring back at you.
The darkness of that poem, though not necessarily its cynicism, pervades most of the poems in this collection. There is a whole lot of pretty darn gloomy things in this book. That would be my only complaint with the collection. It is, I know, a matter of taste. It may just be a matter of personality type, too.
But I think it is also more than humors. Dick, he sure has that knee-jerk pessimism down pat. I should keep this in the context of his being, in part, a horror writer, too, having won the Bram Stoker Award four times, so darkness is part of his stock in trade. Horror, as a genre, creates a curious place for the human psyche. It partitions out a kind of limbo, outside the gates of heaven but not succumbed to the gravity of hell.
Occupying a midpoint, as if between gravitational fields, it allows a strange freedom for human beings, all of their own. I think Boston prefers looking the other way. I really really hate them, so I have to read his poems about them with a grimace. Yeah, I know, our genre, more than mainstream work, is about the imagination.
Drugs, Surrealism, and Science Fiction, they all meet at a bar called Imagination once in a while to drink alcohol together. I know so many people who have been. Let me put these gripes in the context of this being basically a masterpiece of a book that, if you are serious about this genre, you should go out and buy. Lots of solid work. If I were to quote you lines that I think really sizzled, I could give you a hundred or more. Letters with hooks and eyelets scavenged from ancient alphabets and their venerable antecedents have been tethered and sutured in the enlarged crystalline lattice of her cerebrum.
I like it when Boston, in this book and elsewhere, talks about language.
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Although not a serious sesquipedalian myself nor a voluptuous vocabularian , I know a few, and I enjoyed seeing words that are new to me, such as ylem, pavane, arcology, caul, and cicatrix, among others. But I seriously offer this up as a total matter of taste. In a similar way, I find some of the poems in Goblin Fruit or Mythic Delirium to be cluttered sometimes, but I love many of the others, and evidently the editors love them all. Let me conclude by saying that I kept sensing the presence of the ouroboros in the background, the snake eating its tale. He is an inventive poet, as much now as forty years ago, with a gravitas that lends itself to the profound, if not always playful, use of language.
This book is proof of that. Review by Charles Gramlich, Razored Zen. Darling Hands, Darling Tongue is a series of meditations and persona poems centered around J. Kindred uses this story and its characters to discuss and analyze the roles of women and mothers.
The major themes are captured in the cover illustration by Nashay Jones, which depicts a woman reaching out for a child floating among petals. It is not clear whether the mother is reaching to catch the child or is tossing them away, and it is these themes of motherhood that permeate the collection as a whole. The other major theme is the role of women in the story of Peter Pan.
From Wendy Darling to Tinker Bell to Tiger Lily, Kindred has the women question their place and role in the story, challenging the stereotypes that Barrie thrust upon them. If my lips moved in this story we could talk. Just think if my sisters and brothers were more than a smudge on the page, than Redskins moving in tandem, marching in some dim ellipse, waiting to be elected for salvation or the Superbowl. I want to be specific, arch my left brow, my story all linguistics and technology.
Kindred uses the voices of these characters to confront and contest their roles in the book, giving dimension to static characters and contemporizing them for modern readers. The poems are rich in imagery and present strong, feminist voices, reinterpreting J. This is an excellent collection that is sure to delight speculative poetry readers. Several detailed black-and-white illustrations by the talented Vongduane Manivong lend a visual aid to several poems, depicting various figures from Laotian myth. A cocky skinwalker sits nearby, occupied Spilling his coffee on a cheap copy of Skimming an Anthology of Chinese Poems Of the Dang Dynasty he barely understands, Any more than the shrugs of Ayn Rand, Or how to rage against machines.
Worra sticks to no one poetic style, making use of of an eclectic combination of stanzas to let the words and story play out in whatever manner best fits. Intensely concerned with Laotian mythology, it does not cast the reader alone into the landscape of unfamiliar monsters and spirits, containing a helpful appendix with an explanation of the various entities of interest. The poems lacking a speculative element are at times even more visceral, bursting into the spaces between mythological clashes with questions of personal identity.
Review by Russ Thompson, Hellnotes. What will impress readers of poetry is its density. At her best, Jennifer Crow packs a lot into her poems. Through layers of imagery and language, she is able to capture both subject and emotion, allowing her reader to wallow, if not fully submerge themselves, in the poem. Your heart curves into itself a treacherous spike of passion that drives you, itching where the tender scab forms, the point working its way through flesh whenever you think of her.
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This is a technique that Crow often uses throughout her poems, and one that works fairly successfully. The First Bite of the Apple is a very exciting book, rich with mythopoetic poems. As a first book, it is uncompromisingly successful, and promises a great future from a talented poet.
Anyone interested in speculative poetry should rush out to buy a copy. Hovering over the Patio The introduction by the editors tells you all you need to know: A group of writers at Wiscon decided to write poems about superheroes. The anthology quickly expanded to what it is today—a collection of over 50 superhero poems from the ridiculous to the sublime, from award-winning poets and writers to total poetry novices and everyone in between.
The unifying thread through this collection is a pure love for superheroes. A lot of these were written on the back of placemats at a dinner where the authors were gathering at Wiscon. It was never meant to be anything other than fun. I still dream about him. Is it really a super power, to be able to endure the bitter cold of your world? To see the burning embers of blue gold fires in the frosty sparkle of your eyes. To find your laughter, like cracking winter ice, beguiling.
To know your icy heart beats in its own winter way, just for me, for my touch. Perhaps it is a power then. If so it is mine. My gift to you however, is love. If they can have a rowdy, loose time making this anthology, then I suppose I should do the same reviewing it. It is mostly fun stuff, some of it so stupid as not to be mentioned otherwise, but completely unpretentious. You can knock off this collection before dinner and get a few smiles. Flying Higher collects more than 50 poems by as many authors, all of which explore, ruminate on, or reimagine the complex, cape-shrouded, and ever-evolving world of the superhero.
The collection forms a page collage of crime fighters, cackling supervillains, and superhuman heroes; both those icons of the genre and those obscured by time. By utilizing a diverse set of poetic forms—partnering villanelles with limericks dirty and otherwise , giving every freeverse poem a rhyming sidekick, and seasoning it all with a haiku or two and at least one sonnet— Flying Higher manages to be as varied and eclectic as the heroes that inspired it. The collection is marked, above all, by a deep love and enthusiasm for the superhero genre, expressed in a variety of ways. Several of the poems consider the less heroic and more quotidian aspects of superhero life.
They can't kill me, but they killed my sweater. My squishy, gunky, loaf-around sweater. I loved that sweater. You have no idea. Other poems also engage with the off-duty aspects of superheroing, but take a darker bent, considering the strain such a lifestyle would leave on an individual: Some of the poems of the collection assume a fairly detailed knowledge of the superhero genre on the part of the reader.
For anyone looking for a collection of poetry that will at turns delight, shock, or pose serious questions, Flying Higher comes recommended. It transcends both Silver-Age comics nostalgia and Watchmen -esque gritty despair to arrive, through poetry, in a fractured but rich area where superheroes are increasingly human. Satin razors bake in open shells. Maniacs seek degrees in Law. Butchers cut up teenage girls Shot during season by professionals.
As with most surrealism, the images work together to create a dream-like sequence for the reader, forcing them to make sense of the narrative as it flows past. What will catch readers of speculative poetry off guard is the extreme lack of speculative poems in this collection. The eponymous poem, for example, discusses zombies and robots.
In the land of the dead If a zombie bites you You become a zombie too You become a soldier in the zombie army Sharing a goal with no sense of purpose With an inner drive to obey. And while quantity does not necessarily equate to quality, there are enough decent enough poems to entertain the average poetry reader. Readers seeking good speculative poetry should look elsewhere. I guess these poems are for people who like to be scared. I find myself wondering if the bulk of our cultural manufacturing is to serve one hormone or another.
Sports and action serve adrenaline. Romantic comedies are to let women come home with a romantic, sexual feeling. Is that all we do our art for, just to serve a hormone? Perhaps there is some secretion for high-minded, take-your-breath-away art? Although a few are quite clever, there is a relentless grisliness to most of these that deadens us in the onslaught and makes us numb. You find out fast that almost every poem is going to have gruesome nastiness in it, and you cease caring or being scared, if you ever were. So much blood and cruelty. Many times, blood is described as a delicious beverage.
Often, as the blood flows, someone is getting sexually hot over it. Mutilation, torture, eyes carved out, limbs cut off, cruelty to animals, cannibalism, madness, self-mutilation, self-amputation, extreme misogyny hear the chainsaw? The poetic formula, for the most part, is simple. What horrible thing can I write about next? You might say, what do you expect from a splatter book of horror, John?
Yeah, well, do you really think we can so heavily dose ourselves with this stuff and not do some damage? And, actually, several of the poems in here are quite good. Let me talk about those. Instead, he goes to her his? It get creepier from there, but no one dies. We find out the doctor consistently rapes her, but she is performing imagining? Lightning courses through my brain Subtle shocks that shake me Followed by a bellowing thunder In the depths of my cortex.
Horror writer Michael A. Arnzen, her mentor, writes an AWP-style introduction, with lots of intellectualisms that, like most AWP-style introductions, bears little resemblance to what it describes. So much of this mayhem seems just dashed off. A long time ago, I remember reading a complaint in passing by David Hume about London stages where they threw buckets of blood, and I have to ask, if you can write memorable, thoughtful stuff, why just throw forgettable buckets of blood?
How did this problem come about?