The Poetry Project
Program Calendar
36th Annual New Year’s Day Marathon Benefit Reading
| January 1, 2010 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
Friday
Poets and performers this year include Ammiel Alcalay, Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers, Penny Arcade, Ari Banias, Jim Behrle, Charles Bernstein, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Ana Bozicevic, Donna Brook, Michael Brownstein, Franklin Bruno, Tyler Burba, Peter Bushyeager, Reuben Butchart, Callers, Steve Cannon, Yoshiko Chuma, Church Of Betty, Michael Cirelli, Todd Colby, John Coletti, CAConrad, Cori Copp, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Mónica de la Torre, Mina Pam Dick, Steve Dalachinsky, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Maggie Dubris, Douglas Dunn, Marcella Durand, Steve Earle, Will Edmiston, Joe Elliot, Christine Elmo, Laura Elrick, Maggie Estep, Avram Fefer, Jess Fiorini, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Foamola, Tonya Foster, David Freeman, Ed Friedman, Greg Fuchs, Joanna Fuhrman, Cliff Fyman, Kelly Ginger, Pepi Ginsberg, John Giorno, Philip Glass, John Godfrey, Toby Goodshank, Nada Gordon & Gary Sullivan, Stephanie Gray, Tim Griffin, Miguel Gutierrez, John S. Hall, Diana Hamilton, Janet Hamill, Robert Hershon, Tony Hoffman, Eddie Hopely, Lisa Jarnot, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Pierre Joris, Adeena Karasick, Erica Kaufman, Lenny Kaye, John Kelly, Aaron Kiely, David Kirschenbaum, Bill Kushner & Merle Lister, Susan Landers, Joan Larkin, Dorothea Lasky, Denizé Lauture, Joel Lewis, Brendan Lorber, Michael Lydon, Kim Lyons, Dan Machlin & Serena Jost, Judith Malina, Filip Marinovich, Chris Martin, Gillian McCain, Legs McNeil, Tracey McTague, Taylor Mead, Jonas Mekas, Sharon Mesmer, David Mills, Rebecca Moore, Tracie Morris, Will Morris, Eileen Myles, Roy Nathanson, Elinor Nauen, Murat Nemat-Nejat, Jim Neu, Geoffrey Olsen, Dael Orlandersmith, Richard O’Russa, Eugene Ostashevsky, Yuko Otomo, Gary Parrish, Simon Pettet, Nicole Peyrafitte & Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Kristin Prevallet, Brett Price, Arlo Quint, Elizabeth Reddin, Evelyn Reilly, Citizen Reno, Renato Rosaldo, Bob Rosenthal, Douglas Rothschild, Tom Savage, Michael Scharf, David Shapiro, Frank Sherlock, Elliott Sharp, Nathaniel Siegel, Patti Smith, Christopher Stackhouse, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Steven Taylor, Susie Timmons, Edwin Torres, Rodrigo Toscano’s Collapsible Poetics Theater, Tony Towle, David Vogen, Nicole Wallace, Lewis Warsh, Phyllis Wat, Karen Weiser, Simone White, Dustin Williamson, Emily XYZ, Don Yorty, Rachel Zolf, Peter Zummo Group (with Ernie Brooks and Bill Ruyle), Magdalena Zurawski & more t.b.a.
This event will be held in the Sanctuary. General admission $18, Students & Seniors $15, Members $10.
Jenny Boully & Cathy Eisenhower
| January 4, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Jenny Boully is the author of the forthcoming not merely because of the unknown that was stalking towards them (Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Book of Beginnings and Endings (Sarabande), [one love affair]* (Tarpaulin Sky Books), The Body: An Essay (Essay Press), and the chapbook Moveable Types (Noemi Press, 2007). Her work has been anthologized in The Next American Essay, The Best American Poetry, Language for a New Century, and Great American Prose Poems. Her work has been published in Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Fourth Genre, Columbia, Verse, Seneca Review, Conduit, and other places. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and holds previous graduate degrees in creative writing from the University of Notre Dame and Hollins University. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago.
Cathy Eisenhower lives and works as a librarian in Washington, DC, and is the author of Language of the Dog-heads (Phylum 2001), clearing without reversal (Edge 2008), and would with and (Roof 2009). She is co-translating the selected poems of Argentine poet Diana Bellessi and has co-curated the In Your Ear Reading Series for the past several years.
Todd Colby & Bill Kushner
| January 6, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Todd Colby has published four books of poetry: Ripsnort (1994), Cush (1995), Riot in the Charm Factory: New and Selected Writings (2000), and Tremble & Shine (2004), all published by Soft Skull Press. Todd has performed his poetry on PBS and MTV, and has produced books and paintings with the artist David Lantow, which can be seen in the Brooklyn Museum of Art and MoMA’s special collections libraries. Todd posts new work on gleefarm.blogspot.com.
Bill Kushner is the author of Night Fishing (1980), Head (1986), Love Uncut (1990), He Dreams of Rivers (2000), That April (2000), In The Hairy Arms of Whitman (2003), and In Sunsetland With You (2007). His work has been anthologized in Up Late (4 Walls & Windows, 1987), In Our Time (St. Martin’s, 1989), and Out of This World (Crown, 1991), and has appeared in numerous magazines, including Lungfull!, The New York Quarterly, and Ratapallax. He has been a 1999 and 2005 Fellow of the New York Foundation of the Arts and lives in New York City.
Fall Workshop Reading
| January 8, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Friday
Students from the Fall writing workshops, led by Vito Acconci and Mitch Highfill, will share their work.
Diana Hamilton & Laura Jaramillo
| January 11, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
Diana Hamilton’s poetry has appeared in mid)rib, Nap, Foursquare 3.1, and The Boog Reader 3, and is forthcoming in The Physical Poets Vol 3. She co-coordinated the Friday Night Series at the Poetry Project from 2008-09. Other work can be found at her website.
Laura Jaramillo is a poet from Queens. She’s the author of chapbooks The Reactionary Poems (Olywa Press) and The Civilian Nest (forthcoming from Love Among the Ruins Press).
Reading for Leland Hickman’s TIRESIAS: THE COLLECTED POEMS
| January 13, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Named for Leland Hickman’s unfinished, long poem, “Tiresias,” this volume, co-published by Nightboat Books and Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, gathers all of the poetry published during Hickman’s lifetime as well as unpublished pieces drawn from his archives. With this book, Hickman’s work will join the landscape of twentieth century American experimental poetry. Los Angeles poet and editor Leland Hickman (1934-1991) was the author of two collections of poetry: Great Slave Lake Suite (1980) and Lee Sr. Falls to the Floor (1991). He was the editor of the poetry journal Temblor, which ran for 10 issues during the 1980s. Readers will include: Elaine Equi, Alan Gilbert, Pierre Joris, Douglas A. Martin, Bill Mohr, Stephen Motika, John Yau, Marjorie Welish and more t.b.a.
William Corbett & Jonas Mekas
| January 20, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
William Corbett is a poet living in Boston’s South End. He teaches writing at MIT, directs the small press Pressed Wafer and is on the advisory board of Manhattan’s CUE Art Foundation. He edited James Schuyler’s letters and his book on Philip Guston’s late work remains in print. His recent books of poetry are Poems On Occasion (Pressed Wafer) and Opening Day (Hanging Loose Press.)
Filmmaker and poet Jonas Mekas was born in 1922 in Semeniskiai, Lithuania. He has been one of the leading figures of American avant-garde filmmaking or the “New American Cinema,” as he dubbed it in the late ’50s, playing various roles: in 1954, he became editor and chief of Film Culture; in 1958 he began writing his “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice; in 1962 he co-founded the Film- Makers’ Cooperative (FMC) and the Filmmakers’ Cinematheque in 1964, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives, one of the world’s largest and most important repositories of avant-garde films. His own output ranging from narrative films (Guns of the Trees, 1961) to documentaries (the Brig, 1963) and to “diaries” such as Walden (1969) and As I was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2001) have been screened extensively at festivals and museums around the world. His latest book To Petrarca is published by Dis Voir. A one man show of his mixed media works will open later this spring at Serpentine Gallery, London. Visit his website for more!
Francesca Chabrier & Christopher Cheney
| January 22, 2010 | ||
| 10:00 pm |
Friday
Francesca Chabrier is the assistant editor of jubilat. Her poems appear or will appear in places like notnostrums, Sixth Finch, Forklift, Ohio and Invisible Ear. Her collaborations with Christopher Cheney can be found in Glitterpony magazine. She was chosen by Thomas Sayers Ellis to receive the Deborah Slosberg Memorial prize for poetry, and currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Christopher Cheney is the managing editor of Slope Editions. His poems have appeared or will appear in Subtropics, Forklift Ohio, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Shampoo, and other places. His e-book They Kissed Their Homes was recently published by Blue Hour Press.
Ruthless 24/7 Careerism: How You Can Become The Most Important Poet In America *Overnight* (A Talk By Jim Behrle)
| January 25, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Monday
The poet is a social animal above all else: the poet’s art comes second to the types of important connections the poet can make not just with readers and an audience, but with editors, curators and people in positions of institutional power. The poet owes it to the art and to themselves to look out for #1 at all times. This talk will focus on the kinds of important community-building activities that are at the heart of all things poetic. People can be manipulated much like a line of poetry, and a poet must have complete control of those around them. Jim Behrle will discuss the kinds of behavior that can help a poet stand out amid the babbling rabble. Poetry can be the loneliest journey: we’ll discuss how to feel the warmest bosoms of constant embrace. Jim Behrle is the author of She’s My Best Friend (Pressed Wafer) and he draws the cartoon “Kreepie Kats” for Gawker.
Latasha N. Nevada Diggs & Anne Tardos
| January 27, 2010 | ||
| 8:00 pm |
Wednesday
Writer, vocalist, and sound artist, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of three chapbooks, Ichi-Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna Press), and the album, Televisíon. As a vocalist, she has worked with many artists including Vernon Reid, Akilah Oliver, Mike Ladd, Butch Morris, Gabri Christa, Shelley Hirsch, Burnt Sugar, Edwin Torres, Elliot Sharp, Mendi + Keith Obadike, Bernard Lang, Vijay Iyer, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Towa Tei, and Guillermo E. Brown. She has received scholarships, residencies, and fellowships from Cave Canem, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Naropa Institute, Caldera Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts (2003/2009), the Eben Demarest Trust, Harlem Community Arts Fund, and the Barbara Deming Memorial Grant for Women. LaTasha is a 2009-10 LMCC Workspace Artist in Residence. LaTasha currently curates and directs events with The Black Rock Coalition Orchestra. She is a Harlem Elohi Native.
Anne Tardos is a poet, composer, and visual artist. She is the author of several books of poetry and the multimedia performance work and radio play Among Men. A selection of her readings and performances (many with Jackson Mac Low) can be heard on the University of Pennsylvania’s web site : PennSound and on UbuWeb Sound. Her book of poetry, I Am You, has appeared from Salt, and she is the editor of Thing of Beauty, by Jackson Mac Low, California. She is a 2009 Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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