The Poetry Project
Program Calendar
Fanny Howe & Alan Loney
| March 2, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Fanny Howe has written several books of fiction and poetry. Her new collection of essays, The Winter Sun, from Graywolf Press and a story called “What Did I Do Wrong?” from Flood Editions, are being published Spring 2009. She has received many awards, including one recently for poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She teaches at Glenstal Abbey in Ireland every summer. Alan Loney had his first book of poems published in 1971 and began printing in 1974. He was co-winner of the poetry prize in the New Zealand Book Awards in 1977, Literary Fellow at the University of Auckland in 1992, and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne 2002-2006. He was Convener of the Conference on the History of the Book in New Zealand at University of Auckland 1995. Loney has published 11 books of poetry, and eight books of prose with a recent emphasis on the nature of the book. Fine editions of his work have been issued by Granary Books, The Janus Press, Barbarian Press, Red Dragonfly Press, Pear Tree Press and The Holloway Press. Formulations of Loney’s thinking about the relations between poetry and typography have appeared with Cuneiform Press in Meditatio: the printer printed: manifesto; The printing of a masterpiece published by Black Pepper Press; and Each new book, issued by Peter Koch at Hormone Derange Editions. A short account of Loney’s printerly life and a checklist of his first 50 printed books can be found in The Private Library, Winter 2007, and his most recent book of poems is Day’s Eye (Rubicon Press, Canada 2008). He was Printer in Residence at the University of Otago for 2008, and an exhibition of his books was held Sept-Oct 2008 at the Christchurch Art Gallery, New Zealand. Website : www.electioeditions.com
Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics & Community
| March 4, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Letters to Poets (edited by Jennifer Firestone & Dana Teen Lomax), a collaborative experiment conducted over approximately one year’s time, brought together 28 poets from various backgrounds, aesthetics and geographical locations and asked them to write letters to each other. The letters are uncensored: the only condition was that the writing spoke to the poets’ most urgent concerns. Please join Eileen Myles, Cecilia Vicuña, Karen Weiser, John Yau, Brenda Coultas, Anselm Berrigan, Brenda Iijima, Jill Magi, Jennifer Firestone, John Yau, Quincy Troupe, Rosamond King, Dana Teen Lomax and Traci Gourdine to read excerpts from the anthology, which was recently published by Saturnalia Books and which Cornel West calls “a courageous and visionary book.”
Ellie Ga & Marina Temkina: Ugly Duckling Presse Book Release Party
| March 6, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Ellie Ga’s projects explore the limits of photographic documentation. Her work spans a variety of mediums, often incorporating her exploratory writing, and generally culminating in lectures, slide-presentations, handmade books and instructional installations. Classification of a Spit Stain (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009) is the result of her two-year project photographing and analyzing stains on city pavements. A combination of urban flaneurie and garbology, Classification of a Spit Stain is a mysterious field guide to the landscape underneath the soles of our shoes. For the Poetry Project Friday Night Series, Ellie will present “The Catalogue of the Lost (and other revelations)” a work done in the lecture format, created during a residency at the Explorers Club (NYC). Comprised of 282 images and lasting approximately 28 minutes, this work focuses on the missing pieces of early exploration–lost places, people, and concepts as well as the successes and failures to document “the unknown.” During 2007-2008, Ellie Ga was the artist-in-residence on the Tara, a polar schooner locked in the pack-ice of the Arctic Ocean. Her work from these projects were exhibited recently at the Konstmuseum in Malmo, Galerie du Jour in Paris, and Projekt 0047 in Oslo and PNCA in Portland, Oregon. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Newark Museum of Art and the Women’s Studio Workshop. Her performances, videos and installations have been shown in New York at Dispatch, Swiss Institute-Contemporary Art, 16 Beaver, Rubin Museum of Art and Gigantic Art Space. Ellie Ga received her MFA in photography from Hunter College in 2004 and is a founding member of Ugly Duckling Presse. Marina Temkina is a poet and an artist. She is an author of four poetry books in her native Russian, and two artists books made in collaboration with Michel Gerard & published in France. Her new book What Do You Want? will be published by Ugly Duckling Presse this spring. Marina received a National Endowment for the Arts in 1994 and she was a Revson Fellow on the Future of New York at Columbia University. Marina shows her visual art and concrete poetry internationally. Her public art project could be seen on the Second Street Stop of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail in Hoboken in 2004.
Urban Word for NYC Teens
| March 9, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm |
Monday
Urban Word NYC’s 11th Annual Teen Poetry Slam brings out the top teen poets from across the city. Poets will compete for a chance to perform at the Grand Slam Finals at the Apollo Theater on April 4th, and represent NYC at the National Teen Poetry Slam in Chicago. This event is FREE for teen performers, and features special guest poets and DJs. Teen poets, emcees & spoken word artists sign up now at: signup@urbanwordnyc.org Come to watch and support: $5 teens/$7 adults.
Rob Halpern & Peter Lamborn Wilson
| March 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Rob Halpern is the author of Rumored Place, Imaginary Politics, Snow Sensitive Skin (a collaboration with Taylor Brady), and Disaster Suites. Music for Porn is forthcoming. He’s currently co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer together with Kathleen Fraser, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the first which, “For a Realist Literature,” appears in the Chicago Review. An active participant in the Nonsite Collective, Rob lives in San Francisco. Peter Lamborn Wilson is a political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based on a historical review of pirate utopias. His latest books are Green Hermeticism: Alchemy and Ecology (with Christopher Bamford and Kevin Townley – Lindisfarne, 2007) and Black Fez Manifesto (Autonomedia, 2008).
Gregg Biglieri & Larry Price
| March 16, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Gregg Biglieri was born in San Francisco on October 17, 1960. He is the author of Profession, Roma, Los Books, Reading Keats to Sleep, El Egg, Sleepy with Democracy, and I Heart My Zeppelin. Also a noted critic, Biglieri has published essays on Ronald Johnson, Bruce Andrews, Louis Zukofsky, and the sublime. Larry Price has been a poet, a performance artist, a book designer, a publisher and a graphic artist. Born in California, he went to school in Santa Barbara and San Francisco, living in the City until 1988, when he moved to New Jersey, where he lives still, working as the Creative Director in a design studio. He founded GAZ in 1982, publishing work by, among others, Harryman, Day, Fuller, Watten and Pearson. His own books include Proof (Tuumba 1982), Crude Thinking (GAZ 1985), No (world version) (Zasterle 1990), Circadium (Ubu Editions 2002), and The Quadragene (Roof 2008).
Clayton Eshleman & Robert Kelly
| March 18, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Clayton Eshleman‘s most recent publications include: An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire (poems, Black Widow Presss, 2006); The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo (University of California Press, 2007); Reciprocal Distillations (poems, Hot Whiskey Press, 2007); Archaic Design (interviews, notes, prose poems, essays, Black Widow Press, 2007); The Grindstone of Rapport / A Clayton Eshleman Reader (poems, prose, translations, Black Widow Press, 2008). Eshleman is retired from Eastern Michigan University and continues to live in Ypsilanti, with his wife Caryl. They often lead tours of small groups to the painted Ice Age caves of southwestern France in June. Robert Kelly, a poet, essayist, and fiction writer, is the author of more than sixty books, most recently Lapis (Black Sparrow Press, 2005), Threads (First Intensity Press, 2006) and May Day (Parsifal Editions, 2006). Born and bred in Brooklyn, he went up the river 44 years ago, to Annandale-on-Hudson, where he has taught at Bard College ever since.
Karen Randall & Jeremy James Thompson
| March 23, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Karen Randall is an artist who works in the media of words, digital collage (both sound and visual), oil painting, and letterpress printing/artist’s books. She is the daughter of an astrophysicist & grew up playing with primitive computers, a very cool chemistry set from the 50s, building short wave radios and a telescope, while also painting & writing poetry. She has taught hands-on science in the Chicago public schools, literary studies in western MA, and letterpress printing at the Center for the Book in NY and at Naropa. She developed four-color printing process as a means of combining the fluidity of contemporary digital imagery with the luminous qualities of ink layered on Japanese papers. Her work has been collected by numerous colleges, institutions and private collectors including the Library of Congress. Images of her work can be seen on line at www.propolispress.com. Jeremy James Thompson is an instructor at New York’s Center for Book Arts as well as a curator for their New Voices reading series. His work focuses on the process of collaboration, the reinvention of propaganda, and the defining of a practical avant-garde. Through his own Auto Types Press, he has produced collaborative prints with poets including, Edwin Torres, Joan Retallack, David Lehman and Charles Bernstein. His texts and typographic works are published in collections and journals including Cricket Online Review, Pinstripe Fedora, The Houston Literary Review, The Bucky Monkey, Lamination Colony, WORK, and Viz. Inter-Arts, a Trans-Genre Anthology. He blogs about movietelling, typography and poetics at autotypist.blogspot.com.
Sherman Alexie & Jayne Cortez
| March 25, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Sherman Alexie‘s newest collection of poems, Face, has just been published by Hanging Loose Press. He has a new young adult novel coming from Little, Brown this spring (his last one, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, won the National Book Award ) and a new book of stories from Grove/Atlantic in the fall. He’s published over 20 books altogether. The New York Times said of his very first book, The Business of Fancydancing: “Mr. Alexie’s is one of the major lyric voices of our time.” He lives in Seattle with his wife, Diane Tomhave, and their two sons. Jayne Cortez is the author of eleven books of poetry and performer of her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez has presented her work and ideas at universities, museums, and festivals around the world. Her poems have been translated into many languages and widely published in anthologies, journals, and magazines. She is a recipient of several awards including: Arts International, the National Endowment for the Arts, the International African Festival Award. The Langston Hughes Medal, The American Book Award, and the Thelma McAndless Distinguished Professorship Award. Her most recent books are On the Imperial Highway: New and Selected Poems (Hanging Loose Press), The Beautiful Book (Bola Press) and Jazz Fan Looks Back (Hanging Loose Press). Her latest CDs with the Firespitter Band are Find Your Own Voice, Borders of Disorderly Time (Bola Press), Taking the Blues Back Home, produced by Harmolodic and by Verve Records. Cortez is organizer of the international symposium “Slave Routes: Resistance, Abolition & Creative Progress” (NYU) and director of the film Yari Yari Pamberi: Black Women Writers Dissecting Globalization. She is co-founder and president of the Organization of Women Writers of Africa, Inc., and can be seen on screen in the films Women In Jazz and Poetry In Motion.
* This event will be held in the Sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church.
Ali Liebegott & Cristy C. Road
| March 27, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Friday
Ali Liebegott is the author of the award winning books, The Beautifully Worthless and The IHOP Papers. For the last seven years she’s been drawing and illustrating a full-color illustrated novel, titled The Crumb People, about a post-September 11th obsessive duck feeder. She’s also writing a sequel to her first book-length poem called, The Summer of Dead Birds. You can find her stacking cat food in aisle 9 of Rainbow Grocery Co-Op in San Francisco. She also writes for The Advocate sometimes. Cristy C. Road is a writer and illustrator who’s obsessed with human imperfection and deconstructing the norms which have sheltered her world. Aside from illustrating for countless record covers, book covers, radical organizations, and magazine articles, Road published an independent zine, Greenzine for ten years, and has released three books – Indestructible, a graphic memoir about being a teenage Latina, queer punk in high school; and Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard collection. She recently released Bad Habits, an illustrated love story about a faltering human heart’s telepathic connections to the destruction of New York City. She currently hibernates in Brooklyn, NY.
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