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Program Calendar
Vibrant Futures: Episode Two
| October 2, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Friday
Vibrant Futures, directed by Robin Schavoir and Lea Cetera, is a fictional mini-series about a tree-dwelling community living in giant redwoods that experiences a rebirth of consciousness. Originally written and conceived as a five hour long film, it has been subdivided into an episodic miniseries being produced and released in consecutive order. Episode One, the 55 minute pilot, was completed in September of 2008, and was screened at Guild and Greyshkul Gallery, NYC. To view Episode One, and learn more about this project please visit vibrantfuturesmovie.com.
Vibrant Futures: Episode Two is the second installment of this five part miniseries. Watch as Trey solves the mystery of Lucy’s hat, Carl shows off his skatting skills and Moonface is visited by her old love. Approx. running time: 60 min.
Robin Schavoir is a Belgian-born artist. He attended the Cooper Union School of Art, and the Longy School of Music in Boston. He now lives and works in New York City.
Lea Marie Cetera is a New York City based artist. She was born in Brooklyn, NY and received her B.F.A from the Cooper Union School of Art in 2005. She is the co-founder and director of the experimental puppetry collaborative, IMAGINATIONEXPLOSION.
Building Architecture, Landscapes & Poems – Vito Acconci
| October 6, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Vito Acconci will be teaching a ten-week long Tuesday evening workshop, beginning October 6, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 7-9pm.
Poetry from another direction: poetry ‘caused by’ architecture & design…
Architectural materials & words as matter (‘concrete’ words, not abstractions – William Carlos Williams’ ‘No idea but in things’); the structure – the engineering – of a building & sentence-structure (diagramming a sentence & plans/section in architecture); scripts (narrative scripts, film scripts) & computer-scripting in architecture); punctuation – like Emily Dickinson’s dashes — & the time taken to walk through a building, through a city, through landscape); Roget’s Thesaurus as a geography, a terrain, of words (the dictionary is from the mechanical age, while Roget’s Thesaurus presages the internet)…
We might read Michel Butor’s Mobile (traveling through the United States in words, cities & rivers & mountains scrawled across the page); but we’ll also see the beginning of Alain Robbe-Grillet/Alain Resnais’ Last Year At Marienbad (the camera traversing corridor after corridor as the narrator’s voice performs a travelogue & a hypnotism); & we’ll listen to Vladislav Delay & Alva Noto (music & architecture are the same: each makes a surrounding, a context, an ambience – you can do other things while listening to music, you do other things while in the middle of architecture, both architecture & music engender multi-attention, the keynote of the 21st century)…
From a background of poetry & then art, Vito Acconci became a designer/architect & formed Acconci Studio in 1988. They’ve recently built a person-made island that twists from bowl to dome in Graz & a clothing store as soft as clothing in Tokyo; they’re working on a strip-mall makeover in the U.S. & a floating park over a railroad in Vienna. He still begins projects with words.
Naked Lunch at 50
| October 7, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
William S. Burroughs‘ Naked Lunch was first published in Paris in July 1959. To mark this golden anniversary, the Poetry Project will inaugurate the New York portion of an international series of festivities with a group reading of Burroughs’ masterwork. Join Eric Andersen, John Giorno, Jan Herman, Thurston Moore, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Simon Pettet, Jürgen Ploog, Anne Waldman, Nick Zedd, and more TBA in paying tribute to the book that Allen Ginsberg described as “the endless novel which will drive everybody mad.” There will be a series of Kate Simon’s photographs of WSB digitally projected during break, and a segment of the film Nova Express by Andre Perkowski will be shown as a prelude to the reading. This reading will be hosted by Keith Seward. Visit NL@50.
This event will take place in the Sanctuary.
Poetry and Magic – Mitch Highfill
| October 9, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
Mitch Highfill will be teaching a ten-week long Friday evening workshop, beginning October 9, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 7-9pm.
This workshop takes the work of Jack Spicer and “the practice of the outside” as a starting point. We will explore different technologies long associated with magic (technologies such as spells, sigils and divination) to generate writing, both in and out of the workshop setting. We will work with sources as diverse as Gerard de Nerval, Christopher Dewdney and W.S. Burroughs. A magical approach to poetics will include such concepts as the Muse, the Duende and the lore accompanying these ideas. The goal here is to gain access to writing that is not limited by the habits of personality or the predilections of the poet, but can expand our ranges to include what Robin Blaser called the outside. We might also consider the more mundane but equally interesting usage of the word magic, that is to say, sleight of hand, or prestidigitation. What does a stage magician have in common with the writer? There will be lots of reading and writing in this workshop.
Mitch Highfill is a poet and Tarot consultant who lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of several books, including Moth Light (Abraham Lincoln) and REBIS (Open Mouth).
Josef Kaplan & Jarrod Fowler
| October 9, 2009 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Friday
Josef Kaplan’s work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Sprung Formal, Model Homes, Lana Turner, mid)rib, NAP and the West Wind Review. He edits Sustainable Aircraft, an online journal of mostly critical writing on contemporary poetry, and lives in Brooklyn.
Jarrod Fowler is a conceptual percussionist with a focus around rhythm. In his work, he activates sources in order to emphasize their percussive and rhythmic forces and processes. These works may be presented in the form of documents or site specific happenings. He is the author of Translation As Rhythm (Errant Bodies) and ‘percussion’ as percussion (PLE).
Drawing the Boundaries of a Fire – Paolo Javier
| October 10, 2009 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
Paolo Javier will be teaching a ten-week long Saturday afternoon workshop, beginning October 10, 2009. The class will meet in the Parish Hall from 12-2 pm.
Since the advent of the modern cartoon strip, poets, artists, and poet-artists alike have turned to its language as a vital source for innovation in their own practice. We will explore such a tradition. The presence of the poetic in the modern comic book will be a focus of our writing and discussion, and we will experiment with its potential through a diverse practice. Collaboration between participants will be required for selected exercises, and encouraged throughout the workshop.
Paolo Javier is the author of LMFAO (OMG!), Goldfish Kisses (Sona Books), 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada Books). He is currently working on OBB, a multimedia poetry comic, with artist Ernest Concepcion, and publishes 2nd Ave Poetry.
Richard Deming & Dmitry Golynko
| October 12, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems have appeared in such places as Sulfur, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation, as well as Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present. He is the author of Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman Books), winner of the 2009 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. About Let’s Not Call It Consequence Susan Howe has written, “Deming restlessly calculates the split between promised and actual experience. The poems in his impressive new collection balance at an edge of danger syntax can only shadow.” Currently a lecturer at Yale University, he is also the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford University Press).
Dmitry Golynko was born in 1969, in Leningrad, USSR. He currently lives in St. Petersburg, Russia where he is a poet, scholar in Visual Ethics and Biopolitics, and a literary and art critic. He is also a scientific researcher at the Russian Institute of Arts History in St. Petersburg. In 2004-2005 Golynko was a visiting professor in Cheongju University’s Slavic Department in South Korea. He is a member of Moscow Art Magazine editorial board and a professor at the University of Film and Television Studies (St. Peterburg, Russia). His books of poetry include Homo Scribens (St. Petersburg, Borey-Art,1994), Directory (Moscow, Kolonna Publications, 2001), Concrete Doves (Moscow, New Literary Review, 2003), and As It Turned Out (New York, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2008). In to addition poetry, Golynko regularly publishes essays on contemporary literary process and cultural phenomena. In February, 2005 Golynko was writer-in-residence at Literarischer Colloqium in Berlin, Germany. In September 2007 he was an award-winning writer at CEC ArtsLink-Open World program. He is a CEC ArtsLink Fellow for 2009, CEU (Budapest) Fellow for 2010, and DAAD (Berlin) Artist-in-Residence for 2010-2011. Golynko’s poems and essays have been translated into English, German, French, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Swedish and Italian.
Anne Waldman: Collaborative Works
| October 14, 2009 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Anne Waldman has been an active member of the international “outrider” experimental poetry community for several decades as writer, sprechstimme performer, professor, editor, magpie scholar, infra-structure and cultural/political activist. This evening she will be joined by frequent collaborators Ambrose Bye, Steven Taylor, Douglas Dunn and Akilah Oliver. Waldman grew up on Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village where she still lives, and bi-furcated to Boulder, Colorado in 1974 when she co-founded The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired school in the West. She currently serves as Artistic Director of its celebrated Summer Writing Program. Waldman is the author of over 40 books of poetry including Kill or Cure, Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, and Manatee/Humanity (2009) (all published under the Penguin Poets imprint), as well as Fast Speaking Woman (City Lights) and the Iovis trilogy (Coffee House Press). She is editor of The Beat Book (Shambhala Publication) and co-editor of The Angel Hair Anthology (Granary Books), Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action ( Coffee House) and Beats at Naropa (Coffee House, 2009 ). Her work has been published in translation into books in French, Italian, Spanish, Czech, German and Chinese. She has been a student of Buddhism since 1962, and an ambassador for the “public space” revival of poetry, appearing on stages from Berlin to Bombay to Beijing. She has been instrumental in encouraging poetry projects world-wide and has helped organize programs in Vienna and Indonesia. She has also collaborated with artists Elizabeth Murray, Richard Tuttle, Donna Dennis and Pat Steir as well as filmmaker Ed Bowes.
Ambrose Bye is the composer, musician and producer for/of the CD “Matching Half” with Anne Waldman & Akilah Oliver (Farfalla McMillen Parrish 2009). He also composed the music & produced “The Eye of The Falcon” with Anne Waldman. Visit his MySpace page.
Steven Taylor is a poet, musician and ethnomusicologist. He is the author of False Prophet: Field Notes from the Punk Underground (Wesleyan University Press, 2003). He has toured and recorded with Allen Ginsberg, Kenward Elmslie, the Fugs.
Douglas Dunn is a dancer and choreographer. Visit his company Douglas Dunn and Dancers at douglasdunndance.com.
Poet Akilah Oliver‘s latest book is A Toast in the House of Friends (Coffee House Press, 2009). She currently lives and teaches in Brooklyn.
Living in Advance: A Tribute to David Bromige (Poets House)
| October 16, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm |
Friday, POETS HOUSE, free
This evening celebrates the life and work of poet David Bromige (1933-2009), who was born in London, grew up in Canada, and arrived in 1962 in Northern California, where he spent the rest of his life, teaching and writing more than forty books of
poetry. Readers include Charles Bernstein, Corina Copp, Rachel Levitsky, Bob Perelman, Nick Piombino, Ron Silliman, Gary Sullivan, Geoffrey Young & others.
Please note that this event will take place at Poets House in Battery Park City.
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