Posts tagged "Alison Knowles"
Talk Series
The first event in this season’s Talk Series takes place November 28th:
Poetry After the White House Poetry Jam: A Panel Discussion on the Nature and Role of the Avant-Garde
This talk will focus on poets Alison Knowles (founding member of Fluxus) and Kenneth Goldsmith (Conceptual Writing figurehead) and their inclusion in the 2011 White House Poetry [...]
TALK SERIES: Poetry After the White House Jam: A Panel Discussion on the nature and Role of the Avant-Garde
[ Monday, November 28, 2011; 8:00 pm; ] This talk will focus on poets Alison Knowles (founding member of Fluxus) and Kenneth Goldsmith (Conceptual Writing figurehead) and their inclusion in the 2011 White House Poetry Jam. Specifically, thinking about Knowles and Goldsmith as “avant-garde” figures: whether there can be an avant-garde that is current and representative, and how that impulse affects/is affected by [...]
Reading Report: Alison Knowles & Jerome Rothenberg
Two old friends came together to give very different presentations on February 20th, 2008 at the church.
Alison Knowles gave us “North Water Song,” a mesmerizing duet for voice and dancer, to the accompaniment of bell-like chords on electric guitar and occasional recorded tones played on the shakuhachi, more landscape elements than music. Landscape was to [...]
