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Dolores Dorantes & Laura Solórzano with Jen Hofer
| April 1, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Dolores Dorantes’s books include sexoPUROsexoVELOZ (2004), Lola (cartas cortas) (2002), Para Bernardo: un eco (2000) and Poemas para niños (1999). She is founding director of the border arts collective Compañía Frugal, based in Ciudad Juárez, where she has lived for twenty years. Compañía Frugal supports autonomous projects in the arts and counts among its activities publication of the bi-weekly poetry broadside series Hoja Frugal, printed in editions of 4000 and distributed free throughout Mexico. A translation of sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes, have been translated by Hofer and published by Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions. Laura Solórzano is the author, most recently, of Boca perdida (2005), lobo de labio (2001) and Semilla de Ficus (1999). Jen Hofer’s en face translation of lobo de labio was published as lip wolf by Action Books in March 2007. Laura is on the editorial board of the literary arts magazine Tragaluz, and currently teaches writing at the Centro de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara. Both Dorantes and Solórzano appeared in the anthology Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (ed. and trans. Jen Hofer, 2003). Jen Hofer’s latest book is The Route, an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin. She lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches poetics in the MFA Writing Program at CalArts, works as a Spanish-language interpreter with the Los Angeles County Superior Courts. She will read her English translations of the work of Dorantes and Solórzano.
Ruxandra Ceseraenu & Andrei Codrescu
| April 15, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Andrei Codrescu and Ruxandra Ceseraenu read from “The Forgiven Submarine” their book-length collaborative poem, published Black Widow Press. This is a rare opportunity to get these two poets in one place! Ruxandra Ceseraenu is one of Romania’s best-known poets, the author, among other books, of Gradina Deliciilor (The Garden of Delights), Zona Vie (Live Zone), Venetia cu vene violete (Venice with Violet Veins), and The Crusader Woman published by Black Widow Press in 2008, translated by the poet with Adam Sorkin and others. She has also written books on politics and art, and is a powerful commentator on her daily blog, mesmeea. Ruxandra lives in Cluj, Transylvania, Romania, and is a professor in the Center for Imagination Studies at Babes-Bolyai University. Andrei Codrescu’s most recent books, in addition to “The Forgiven Submarine” are Jealous Witness: New Poems (Coffee House Press, with a CD by the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars) and The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, also just published by Princeton University Press and available at the reading. Andrei is a commentator on NPR and edits Exquisite Corpse, online at corpse.org. He lives in New Orleans and the Ozarks.
A Night with Heretical Texts Vol. 4
| April 17, 2009 | ||
| 9:30 pm |
Friday
Heretical Texts is an ongoing Factory School book series published in volumes of five books each. The series aims to test old assumptions about the political efficacies of poetic texts while utilizing the series structure as a framework for documentation and investigation. Since 2005, Factory School has published twenty titles under the Heretical Texts series banner, with future volumes appearing in 2010 and beyond. Volume 4 includes books by Jules Boykoff, Brett Evans, Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle and Frank Sherlock. Please join us for an evening of readings and festivities celebrating Heretical Texts Vol. 4. Participants include Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle, Frank Sherlock and Bill Marsh. Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) and co-curates Belladonna*. kathryn l. pringle is the author of Right New Biology and lives in Durham, NC. Bill Marsh has co-directed Factory School since its founding in 2000. He is the author of Plagiarism (SUNY Press) and, with Steve Carll, Tao Drops, I Change (Subpress). He lives in Queens, NY. Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School later this year.
Talk Series – Ammiel Alcalay on Writing in Tongues: Plain Language & the Politics of Print
| April 20, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
In this talk Ammiel Alcalay will explore some of his experiences in the realm of literary and political activism, as a writer, translator, interpreter, and member of various groups and organizations, particularly in relation to issues regarding Israel/Palestine and ex-Yugoslavia. His books include After Jews & Arabs, Memories of Our Future, and from the warring factions. A new book of essays, A Little History, is due out from Beyond Baroque, and a major new project to write a republic / The Poetics of Political Memory, is in progress. His translations include work from Arabic, Bosnian, Hebrew, and Spanish.
Bill Berkson & Norma Cole
| April 22, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Bill Berkson has been active in the art and literary worlds for nearly fifty years. He is the author of sixteen books and pamphlets of poetry, including Serenade; Fugue State; a volume of his 1960s collaborations with Frank O’Hara entitled Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings; and the deluxe portfolio Gloria with etchings by Alex Katz. During the 1960s he was an editorial associate at Artnews and a regular contributor to Art. A selection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003, appeared from Qua Books in 2004, followed by Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 from Cuneiform Press. A volume of new and selected poems will appear from Coffee House Press in 2009. He now lives in New York and San Francisco. Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Among her books are Collective Memory, Do the Monkey, and Spinoza in Her Youth. Where Shadows Will: Selected Poems 1988—2008 will appear from City Lights in April 2009. Current translation work includes Danielle Collobert’s Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah’s The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. Cole has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, the Fund for Poetry, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977.
Lawrence Giffin & Nico Vassilakis
| April 24, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Friday
Lawrence Giffin is the author of a chapbook, Get the Fuck Back into That Burning Plane, as well as three volumes of Comment Is Free, an ongoing print-on-demand work of social philosophy compiled from newspaper comment streams. As a member of the publishing collective Lil’ Norton, Lawrence Giffin is the series editor of the journal The Physical Poets Home Library. A kind of historical novel, Aa, co-produced with Fernando Diaz, is forthcoming from Patrick Lovelace Editions. Nico Vassilakis works in both textual and visual poetry. He is a curator for the Subtext Reading Series in Seattle. His vispo videos have been shown in exhibits and festivals of innovative language arts. Nico’s recently published Text Loses Time is available from ManyPenny Press. Forthcoming books include Disparate Magnets (BlazeVox) & Protracted Type (White Lion Books).
Sarah Mangold & Ryan Murphy
| April 27, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Sarah Mangold is founder and editor of Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art. Currently working as a Program Coordinator at the University of Washington Extension Program—after seven years in a private library. BA University of Oklahoma; MFA San Francisco State, 1999. Recipient of an Individual Artist Award form the Seattle Arts Commission and residencies at MacDowell and Djerassi. Her books include Household Mechanics, Parlor, Picture of the Basket, and Boxer Rebellion. Ryan Murphy is the author of Down with the Ship from Otis Books / Seismicity Editions as well as the chapbooks The Gales, Ocean Park, and On Violet Street. His second book, The Redcoats, is forthcoming from Krupskaya. He has received awards from Chelsea Magazine and The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art as well as a grant from The Fund for Poetry. He is an editor for Four Way Books and teaches at Pratt Institute. He lives in New York City.
80th Birthday Reading for Kenward Elmslie
| April 29, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Help us celebrate the great poet and librettist Kenward Elmslie at 80. Friends and collaborators will assemble to read their favorite Elmslie poems, sing their favorite Elmslie songs and pay tribute to the master showman. With Bill Berkson, Maxine Chernoff, Bill Corbett, Ann Lauterbach, Ron Padgett, and Ned Rorem. For the ultimate Kenward Elmslie experience, visit his Website.
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