Friday, November 18, 2011
Monday, November 14, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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The Grand Piano
2 Bay Area events
Friday, November 18 @ UC Berkeley
6:30 pm, Maude Fife Room,
Wheeler Hall
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Sunday, November 20 @ Small Press Traffic, SF
5:00 pm, Timken Hall,
California College of the Arts
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Wednesday, November 02, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Saturday, October 15, 2011
October 21, 2011 - 10 am to 5 pm -
1810 Liacouras Walk -
Temple University, Main Campus
It's a reading, hardly personal, really, though, of course, deeply engaged, made of poems and sentences constructed to see what meanings we are all inside of.
(From "Précis")
10 am - Welcome from Dean Teresa Soufas, College of Liberal Arts
10:15 am - Bob Perelman, University of Pennsylvania, "The Mothers of Us All, and Their Fathers: Drafts and the Epic Tradition"
11:15 am - Libbie Rifkin, Georgetown University, "Deixis, Midrash, Footnote: Experiencing Rachel Blau DuPlessis' Present."
11:40 am - Eric Keenaghan, SUNY Albany, "re:''Openings' and RBD's Étude: A Footnote on Politics and Vision."
Lunch Break
1 pm - Ron Silliman, "Un-scene, Ur-new: Time, History & Ambition in The Collage Poems of Drafts"
2 pm - Reading by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
3 pm - Reading by Jena Osman, Temple University
3:30 pm - Reading by Brian Teare, Temple University
4 pm - Readings by alumni and members of the Philadelphia poetry community: Emily Abendroth, Holly Bittner, C.A. Conrad, Thomas Devaney, Sarah Dowling, Ryan Eckes, Lucia Gbaya-Kanga, Pattie McCarthy, Michelle Taransky, Heather Thomas, Kevin Varrone
4:50 pm - Closing remarks by Eli Goldblatt, Temple University
5 pm - Reception, Women's Studies Lounge in Anderson Hall, Room 821
Please RSVP by Oct. 14 at CLAevent@temple.edu. Seating is limited. Lunch will be provided.
For questions about the conference, please call 215-204-1756.
Photo by Melody Holmes
Friday, September 30, 2011
Ron Silliman reads
Tonight in Buffalo, NY
September 30
at the Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington @ Mohawk
8:00 PM
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Ron Silliman reads
Next Friday in Buffalo, NY
September 30
at the Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington @ Mohawk
8:00 PM
Saturday, May 07, 2011
Monday, May 02, 2011
Tomorrow
Tuesday, May 3
7:00 PM
32 Tavistock Square WC1
London
Sponsored by
Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
University of London Birkbeck
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Today
Festival Opening
Featuring Exhibition openings and performances
@ Bury Art Gallery& Museum
Saturday 30th April 2011 / 11.00am
A celebration of visual poetry, sound, video and conceptual art with three Festival exhibitions and performances by international language artists from North America and Europe. New works,...
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Ron Silliman (USA),
Satu Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko (FIN),
and Phil Minton's Bury Feral Choir
@Bury ParishChurch
Saturday 30th April 2011 / 4.00 pm
American poet Ron Silliman returns for his second Text Festival. A major figure in international post-avant poetry, since 1974, Silliman has been working on a single poem, the first major section...
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Sound and Dark
Featuring Christian Bök (CAN), Holly Pester (UK), Sarah Boothroyd (CAN), Eduard Escoffet (SP), Bruno Bresani (BRA) - others to be confirmed
@ The Met Arts Centre
30th April 2011 / 7.30pm
A dramatically constructed evening of experimental sound-poetry and language featuring challenging sound interventions and remarkable vocal performers including the first UK performance by the remarkable...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Honoring Robert Kelly
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May 7 in NYC
The Logic of the World
The Poetics of Robert Kelly
with
Vyt Bakaitis, Phong Bui, Mary Caponegro,
Carey Harrison, Pierre Joris, Jonas Mekas,
Tom Meyer, Nicole Peyrafitte, Kristen Prevallet,
Elizabeth Robinson, George Quasha, Robert Kelly,
Carolee Schneeman, Charles Stein, David Levi-Strauss,
Peter Lamborn Wilson, John Yau,
Roger Van Voorhees, Michael Ives & more
A reading by Kelly in 6 videos
Friday, April 15, 2011
Tomorrow
The Grand Piano: A Collective Autobiography
Saturday, April 16
2:00 pm
Poets House
New York City
with
Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel,
Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson,
Ron Silliman & Barrett Watten
Moderated by Catherine Taylor
$10, $7 for students and seniors,
free to Poets House Members
Monday, April 11, 2011
Tuesday, May 3
7:00 PM
32 Tavistock Square WC1
London
Sponsored by
Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
University of London Birkbeck
Monday, March 28, 2011
The audience for my reading with Rae Armantrout on March 25. At the front table, L-R,
are Jeff Derksen, Steve McCaffery & Jed Rasula. At the table right behind them, also L-R,
are Chuck Korkegian, Antonio Rossini & Timothy Yu
TSA employee at the Detroit airport (viewing x-ray of a copy of The Alphabet in my luggage): I’m going to have to examine that big book in your suitcase.
Me: I wrote it myself.
TSA employee (looking at the book): Are you going to get it published?
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The Alphabet Symposium at the University of Windsor was a blast. It was a great gift, and was remarkably upbeat from beginning to end. There is no way to register just how deeply indebted I feel to its participants, especially to Louis Cabri who had, he said, never attempted anything on this scale before, but made everything flow smoothly.
In addition to seeing old friends – some of whom, like Jed Rasula & Asa Watten, I had not seen in years – and making several new ones, perhaps the most profound value I got from the conference was an opportunity to see the project in the hands of others. That came about even more in the interchanges between different people than in the papers themselves.
Barrett Watten & Jed Rasula were well-paired as keynote speakers, showing how you could approach the project from two completely different directions. Some talks were extraordinary: Timothy Yu did a close-reading of racial references in “Albany,” picking up on the link between them & the strained relationship I always had with my grandfather, that had me close to tears for its accuracy. Several of the graduate students from Windsor who presented showed themselves to be at least equal with their more experienced peers, or perhaps they showed the value of rigorous preparation combined with approaches that were fresh precisely because they weren’t situated into already existing literary discourses. Braydon Beaulieu, Jasmine Elliott & Ashley Girty offered some of the weekend’s best work. Steve McCaffery led off a final open-to-all-parties roundtable discussion on whatever threads people wanted to follow that led to a discussion of whether we had finally arrived, with flarf & conceptual writing, at a post-Language moment.
And the readings – Jeff Derksen, Steve McCaffery, Rae Armantrout, Watten & Carla Harryman – were consistently solid. I got goose bumps when Carla chose to read “For She,” the prose poem that provoked me into writing “The New Sentence” over 30 years ago. And Barrett Watten appears to have a lot of new work.
I do believe that most if not all of the papers will appear in a future issue of Rampike, a journal that always seems too lively to really be connected to a university, but does in fact have some relationship to the U of Windsor.
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The entire weekend had a this-can’t-be-happening feel to it. On the ride to the airport, the US border guard seemed dumbfounded when the retired police officer who was driving explained to him that in Canada retired cops don’t keep their service weapons, so that, no, he wasn’t packing heat. This delayed us only by about ten seconds. And the Detroit airport was so empty that even with that curious exchange with the TSA security screener I arrived at my gate so early that I realized an earlier flight to Philly was boarding just one gate over, and talked my way onto it without having to pay a change fee. Plus, on the ground in Philadelphia, I ran into Michael Hessel-Mial between flights on his way back to Atlanta, found my suitcase to be the second one popping out of the luggage holding system and was out of the Philadelphia airport even before I had been scheduled to take off.