The Poetry Project
Program Calendar
Dorothea Lasky & Kristin Palm
| May 4, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE (Wave Books, 2007) and Black Life (Wave Books, 2010). Her chapbooks include Tourmaline (Transmission Press, 2008), The Hatmaker’s Wife (Braincase Press, 2006), Art (H_NGM_N Press, 2006), and Alphabets and Portraits (Anchorite Press, 2005). She has been educated at Washington University, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and Harvard University. Currently, she studies creativity and education at the University of Pennsylvania. Kristin Palm grew up in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, and lived in Detroit for many years. She currently resides in San Francisco, California. Her writing has appeared in LVNG, Bird Dog, Boog City, Chain, There, Dusie and the anthology Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006), as well as numerous magazines and newspapers, including Metropolis, Planning and the Detroit Metro Times.
Arthur’s Landing (songs by Arthur Russell)
| May 6, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Please join us for a special performance by Arthur’s Landing, a band formed to celebrate the musical genius of Arthur Russell. Members of the band are all friends of Russell’s who worked closely with him: Steven Hall, Peter Zummo, Ernie Brooks, Joyce Bowden, Mustafa Ahmed, John Scherman, Bill Ruyle and Elodie Lauten. They are working on mixing their first CD to be released summer 2009. Arthur’s Landing will be headlining the Arthur-O-Rama festival in NYC this October. Seminal avant-garde composer, singer-songwriter, cellist, and disco producer Arthur Russell is the focus of the feature length 2008 documentary Wild Combination from director Matt Wolf . A biography, called Hold Onto Your Dreams by Tim Lawrence, is due out this year.
Simon Cutts & Nancy Kuhl
| May 11, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Simon Cutts is a poet, artist and editor who began Coracle in the early 1970s, having worked with small publications from the 1960s. He began making work through concrete poetry, a form of visual presentation of the poem on the page. Now he sees book-form as the physical metaphor for the poem itself. The Coracle Press Archives are held in the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. A recent book of essays, Some Forms of Availability, was published last year by Granary Books, New York. Nancy Kuhl’s first full-length collection of poems, The Wife of the Left Hand, was published in 2007 by Shearsman Books. She is the author of The Nocturnal Factory, a chapbook published in 2008 by Ugly Duckling Presse. Another chapbook, Means of Securing Houses &c. from Mischief by Thunder and Lightning, is forthcoming from Propolis Press. She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher and Curator of Poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
John Giorno
| May 13, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
John Giorno was born in New York and graduated from Columbia University in 1958. Four years later, he met Andy Warhol, who became an important influence for Giorno’s developments on poetry, performance and recordings. He was the “star” of Warhol’s film Sleep. He has collaborated with William Burroughs, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mapplethorpe. In the decade of the 2000s he has collaborated with Rirkirt Tirvanija, Pierre Huyge, Elizabeth Peyton and Ugo Rondinone, who is his partner. He is the author of ten books, including You Got to Burn to Shine, Cancer in my Left Ball, Grasping at Emptiness, Suicide Sutra, and has produced 59 LPs, CDs, tapes cassettes, videopaks and DVDs for Giorno Poetry Systems. He founded the AIDS Treatment Project and is an important force in the development of Tibetan Buddhism in the West.
John Ashbery
| May 14, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Thursday
John Ashbery was born in Rochester, New York in 1927. His Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems (Ecco, 2007) won the 2008 Griffin International Prize for Poetry. The Landscapist, his collected translations of the poetry of Pierre Martory, was published in 2008 by Sheep Meadow Press in the United States and Carcanet in the United Kingdom. The Library of America published the first volume of his Collected Poems in fall 2008. This will be his only solo reading in the NYC area during winter/spring of 2009, and the first one since his appearance at the 92nd Street Y this past October to celebrate the Library of America volume.
John Ashbery will be guest introduced by Charles North.
* This event will be held in the Sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church.
My Vocabulary Did This To Me: Panel & Reading For The Collected Jack Spicer
| May 15, 2009 | ||
| 6:30 pm | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Friday
This special event is to honor seminal West Coast poet Jack Spicer (1925-1965). My Vocabulary Did This to Me (edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian) is a landmark publication of this essential poet’s life work, and includes poems that have become increasingly hard to find.
6:30pm: Panel in the Parish Hall with Dodie Bellamy, Samuel R. Delany, Kevin Killian, Jennifer Moxley & George Stanley. Moderated by Kevin Killian.
8:00pm: Reading in the Sanctuary with Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Julian T. Brolaski, CAConrad, Samuel R. Delany, Peter Gizzi, Kevin Killian, Basil King, Douglas A. Martin, Deborah Remington, Harris Schiff, Rod Smith, George Stanley, Lewis Warsh & Karen Weiser.
Co-presented with Poets House.
Talk Series – Carolee Schneemann on Mysteries of the Iconographies
| May 18, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Carolee Schneemann is a multidisciplinary artist who has transformed the very definition of art, with work encompassing painting, film, performance and installation. Her works have been shown internationally, as well as at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art, the Hirshhorn Museum D.C., the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC. In 2007, a dual exhibit at CEPA Gallery, Buffalo NY & MOCCA Toronto featured recent video installations. Electronic Arts Intermix NYC and Anthology Film Archives NYC collaborated on presentations of newly restored and current film & videos November 2007. Correspondence Course is forthcoming from Duke University Press. In 2002 Imaging Her Erotics – Essays, Interviews, Projects was published by MIT Press; previous published books include More Than Meat Joy: Complete Performance Work and Selected Writing (1979, 1997); ABC-We Print Anything-In The Cards; Cezanne, She Was A Great Painter (1976).
Paul LaFarge & Jacqueline Waters
| May 20, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Paul LaFarge is the author of three books, The Artist of the Missing, Haussmann, or the Distinction, and The Facts of Winter. He has written essays on Hannah Arendt, phrenology, and the game Dungeons & Dragons, among other topics. He is working on a project about flight in America. Jacqueline Waters is the author of a book, A Minute without Danger (Adventures in Poetry), and a chapbook, The Garden of Eden a College (A Rest Press). Recent work has appeared in No: A Journal of the Arts and Zoland Poetry. She is an editor of The Physiocrats, a new pamphlet press: ThePhysiocrats.com.
The Recluse 5 Reading
| May 25, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Join us for our annual spring reading by contributors to the Poetry Project’s in-house magazine, The Recluse. Issue 5 is dedicated to the artist George Schneeman (1934-2009). Contributors include Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Sandy Berrigan, Lisa Birman, Todd Colby, Cliff Fyman, Steven Hall, Vincent Katz, Michael Lally, Pamela Lawton, Elinor Nauen, Maureen Owen, Gary Parrish, and Will Yackulic. Readers on hand this evening will be Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Todd Colby, Cliff Fyman, Steven Hall, Vincent Katz, Michael Lally, Pamela Lawton, Elinor Nauen, Gary Parrish, and Will Yackulic.
* Please note that there will be a formal tribute to George Schneeman on November 11, 2009 in the Sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church.
Poesia Ultima / Italian Poetry Now
| May 27, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Join Jennifer Scappettone and Carla Billitteri as they present four Italian poets “of research” featured in Aufgabe 7 for an evening of poetry and translation. Maria Attanasio is the author of five collections of poetry and four works of historical fiction. Her latest work, Il Falsario di Caltagirone, was the recipient of the prestigiouis Premio Vittorini. She was born in Caltagirone, Sicily in 1943, where she still lives. Giovanna Frene, alias Sandra Bortolazzo, was born in Asolo in 1968. Her books of poetry are Immagine di voce (1999), Spostamento (2000), Datità, with an afterword by Andrea Zanzotto (2001), Stato apparente (2004), and Sara Laughs (2007); and, as Federica Marte, the cross-genre “prosimetro” Orfeo e morto (2002). Her poems have appeared in a range of anthologies and journals in Italy, Germany, Mexico, Spain, and the US. Marco Giovenale, a poet, translator, curator, editor, cultural critic, and winner of the 2009 Delfini Prize, lives in Rome. His books of poetry include Il segno meno (Manni, 2003), Double click (Cantarena, 2005), and La casa esposta (Le Lettere, 2007). He editors and/or contributes to the periodicals il manifesto, Nuovi Argomenti, Poesia, Action Poetique, The Black Economy, and Atelier, and blogs at slowforward.wordpress.com and gamm.org, and his work has been featured and translated in a range of magazines and anthologies in Italy, France, and the US. Milli Graffi, Milanese, was born in 1940. She has produced works of sound poetry and four poetry collections, most recently embargo voice (2006), as well as a novella called Centimetri due (Edizioni d’If, 2004). She has translated Lewis Carroll and Charles Dickens, and has written on nonsense and the comic function in the early avant-gardes. She is editor-in-chief of the pioneering journal Il Verri. Carla Billitteri, born and educated in Italy, teaches poetry and poetics at the University of Maine. Her translations of contemporary Italian poetry have appeared in boundary 2, How2, and Fascicle, among other journals. A selection of her translations of Alda Merini’s aphorisms is forthcoming with Hooke Press. Jennifer Scappettone, guest-editor of Aufgabe 7, is author of From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009) and of several chapbooks, including Ode oggettuale, a bilingual edition out from La Camera Verde, and a forthcoming book for Belladonna’s Elders Series with Lyn Hejinian and Etel Adnan. She is working on the pop-up opera Exit 43 for Atelos, as well as a critical monograph on the place of Venice within the modernist and postmodern imaginary. She is an assistant professor of English and associate faculty of Romance Languages and Literatures and Gender Studies at the University of Chicago.
Co-presented with the Italian Cultural Institute, Litmus Press and Poets House.
The poets will also participate in a panel the night before. See info below:
Tuesday, May 26, 6:00pm
@ Italian Cultural Institute
686 Park Avenue (bet. 68th and 69th Streets)
Admission free
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