The Poetry Project
Program Calendar
Anne Boyer & Stephanie Strickland
| February 4, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Anne Boyer is the author of The Romance of Happy Workers (Coffee House, 2008), Art is War (Mitzvah Chaps 2008), Selected Dreams with a Note on Phrenology (Dusie 2007), and Anne Boyer’s Good Apocalypse (Effing Press 2006). She lives in Kansas and teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute. Stephanie Strickland’s fifth book of poems, Zone : Zero (book + CD), was just published by Ahsahta Press. Her latest collaborative hypermedia work, which she will read from, was introduced in Paris and shown at the Zaoem poetry festival in Ghent. She teaches experimental poetry and e-lit at many colleges and universities, most recently the University of Utah, and is working on a book-length sequence of poems, “Huracan’s Harp.”
Fall Workshop Reading
| February 6, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 pm |
Come and hear what the writers who took workshops with Martine Bellen, Tisa Bryant, and CAConrad are up to! Workshop leaders will be present to introduce their students.
Richard Owens & Yedda Morrison
| February 9, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Montreal-based writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison joins us to celebrate the publication of Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008). Her other books include; My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). Morrison has exhibited her visual work in the United States and Canada, and is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC. She is currently working on a mixed-media project entitled How Flora Became an Ornament.
Richard Owens: Born Perth Amboy General Hospital, New Jersey in 1973. Dislocated at Sussex County Vocational Technical School and William Paterson College. US Army 1997 – 2001 (medic). Assigned three and a half years to post in Waegwan, south Korea, with intervening trips to Hong Kong, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and brief jump to visit Cid Corman in Kyoto. Unemployment and odd industrial jobs. Further dislocated at Carmela Soprano’s alma mater Montclair State University. Farmworker advocate in black dirt region of Orange County, New York. Presently relocating through the University at Buffalo. Poetry, essays and reviews variously published online and in little magazines. Editor: Punch Press and Damn the Caesars.
Having It Both Ways: The Prose Poem – Larry Fagin
| February 10, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
This is a workshop designed for writers of both poetry and short prose, who are interested in investigating the boundary between the two areas, or those who have discovered such boundaries to be less than trustworthy. We will study this indeterminate form – its subtle musical passages, its rhythms, its connections to narrative and vignette, and its recent incorporations of disjunction and collage. We will read (Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Stein, Max Jacob, Ponge, Ashbery, Bernadette Mayer, Lydia Davis, et al), exchange ideas (story, description, image, abstraction, the personal) and refine our writing with an eye toward publication. Weekly reading and writing assignments. Also, three individual consultations for each participant, throughout the ten weeks.
Larry Fagin is the author of 18 books, the most recent of which is Dig & Delve, a collaboration with the artist Trevor Winkfield.
Tuesdays At 7PM: 10 Sessions Begin February 10th, 2009
The Art of Collaboration: Francesco Clemente & Vincent Katz with Raymond Foye
| February 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
In his varied and prolific career, painter Francesco Clemente has had strong ties to poets, collaborating with Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, Rene Ricard and John Wieners. A new publication, Alcuni Telefonini, with watercolors by Clemente and poems by Vincent Katz (Granary Books, 2008) provides the occasion to look at Clemente’s work with poets. A reading from the book by Katz will be followed by a discussion of collaboration, moderated by Raymond Foye. Francesco Clemente‘s works are found in many museum collections in Europe and the United States. He was the subject of a retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 1999-2000. Vincent Katz is a poet, critic, and translator. He has translated Sextus Propertius and organized an exhibition on Black Mountain College. He is the publisher of Vanitas magazine and Libellum books. Raymond Foye is an independent curator, writer and publisher. His editorial works include The Unknown Poe (City Lights, 1980), The Ancient Rain: Bob Kaufman Selected Poems 1956-1978 (New Directions, 1981) and two volumes of the works of John Wieners for Black Sparrow Press (1986 &1988). He has written on the work of Francesco Clemente for retrospective catalogues published by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1990) and the Guggenheim Museum (1999).
“This Machine Kills Fascists”: Writing Political Poems – Sparrow
| February 12, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
A poem is a weapon; the question is which way to point it. In “This Machine Kills Fascists,” we will study how the masters fought evil, and we’ll teach the masters a few tricks of our own. It’s time to change the world, one line at a time. (Incidentally, this workshop is open to Republicans and free-market economists.) We will examine the works of Langston Hughes, Yoko Ono, Woody Guthrie, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, John Greenleaf Whittier, Mahmoud Darwish, and more. And we will write!
Sparrow, author of America: A Prophesy, professor and Presidential candidate, will lead this enclave.
Thursdays At 7PM: 10 Sessions Begin February 12th
The Filmic Muse: Writing Movie Poems – Jeffery Conway
| February 13, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
Whether you’re a movieholic, or just have a few movies you love, transforming film into poetry is a great way to stretch and attenuate as a writer. The workshop includes weekly readings of Frank O’Hara, Edward Field, David Trinidad, Denise Duhamel, and Lynn Crosbie, among others, as well as weekly writing exercises and opportunities to discuss your work. Some of the approaches we’ll try: persona poems as a way of inhabiting film; creating poems as scene-by-scene analysis or “poetic DVD commentary”; writing hybrid poems which incorporate biography, trivia, film criticism, and technical analysis.
Jeffery Conway‘s latest book is The Album That Changed My Life, a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.
Fridays At 7PM: 10 Sessions Begin February 13th
Phenology And Poetry – Susie Timmons
| February 14, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm |
Phenology – the study of the sequence and timing of events in the life cycles of animals and plants as they respond to seasonal changes in environment – is used by farmers and gardeners to know when to plant, when to expect certain pests etc.; for example, “Don’t plant corn before oak leaves are the size of a squirrel’s ear.” We will use the practice of phenology in conjunction with a series of exercises as a departure for examining: the temporal scale of our work, the conundrum of cyclic change, the potential for physical discomfort as a source of inspiration. Meetings will consist of excursions (in close proximity to the Poetry Project) regardless of weather conditions, methodically observing precise changes in a preordained collection of sites as we go from the dead of winter into early spring. If you think looking at twigs is stupid, this workshop is not for you.
Susie Timmons is the author of Locked From the Outside (winner of the inaugural Ted Berrigan Award).
Saturdays At Noon: 10 Sessions Begin February 14th
Danny Snelson & Lance Wakeling
| February 16, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Danny Snelson is an archivist, editor and writer. His online editorial work has ranged from Eclipse, where he started as a scanner, to UbuWeb, where he edited the 2007 series of /ubu Editions. He is currently a contributing editor to the EPC and PennSound, selecting the 2008 featured resources. Recent writing projects include my Dear coUntess (Drunken Boat #9), The Book of Ravelling Women, Aphasic Letters, and Testimony (a sound poem in Deseret).
Born in Tacoma, Washington, Lance Wakeling is an artist and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His first book Sic, Notes from a Keylogger, was published electronically by Ubu.com. He edits and distributes the PDF bulletin Private Circulation, which will publish a paperback compendium of its first twelve issues in early 2009.
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