Michael Palmer
reading at Harvard

Tom Pickard & Hillary Gravendyk
reading at UC Berkeley

Today in La Jolla
at the
UC San Diego
Visual Arts Facility
Performance Space

Ron Silliman
will read
4:30 – 6:30 PM

Tomorrow in Long Beach
at the
Cal State
University Student Union Auditorium

photo by Pearl Pirie

Ron Silliman
will read at
2:00 PM
in
The One Day Poetry Festival

Lucy Harvest Clarke & Katerina Kashchavtseva
reading for
The Camarade Project II
London, February 2012

Larry Sawyer reads @ Bonk!
Racine, WI – December 2011

Tomorrow in Berkeley
at the
University of California

photo by Arielle Brousse

Ron Silliman
will read in
315 Wheeler Hall
(The Maude Fife Room)
6:30 – 8:00 PM

Timothy Yu @ Bonk!
Racine, WI – January 2012

California, here we come

 

Photo by Arielle Brousse

Ron Silliman
is reading or talking
at the following
locations over the next two weeks

 

 

Easter Sunday, April 8, San Francisco
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis

3:30 – 5:30 PM
2340 Jackson St (4^th Floor)
at Webster
reservations required

 

 

Tuesday, April 10, UC Berkeley
315 Wheeler Hall

(The Maude Fife Room)
6:30 – 8:00 PM

 

 

Monday, April 16, Cal State Long Beach

The One Day Poetry Festival
University Student Union Auditorium

2:00 pm

 

 

Wednesday, April 18, UC San Diego

Visual Arts Facility Performance Space

4:30 – 6:30 PM

Sean Bonney & Keston Sutherland
reading for
The Camarade Project II
London, February 2012

Darrell Gray reading in 1983

Part 2 is here

My reading
for the Kelly Writers House Fellows program
March 19, 2012

Corina Copp & Miguel Gutierrez
reading @ the Poetry Project

Sound poetry by
Satu Kaikkonen & Karri Kokko
from the 2011 Text Festival,
Bury Parish Church
Bury, Lancashire
April 30, 2011

(with thanks to Geof Huth & the Text Festival)

Peter Jaeger & Marcus Slease
reading for
The Camarade Project II
London, February 2012

Jeff Hilson & Philip Terry
reading for
The Camarade Project II
London, February 2012

Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks
reading for
The Camarade Project II
London, February 2012

A reading for Gil Ott
Today
3:00-4:30 PM

Painted Bride Art Center

230 Vine Street

Philadelphia, PA 19106

Not quite five years ago, I wrote

More than any other individual, Gil Ott is the person responsible for the strength of the poetry community in Philadelphia over the past 30 years. His skills as a poet & prose writer, as an editor, publisher & arts administrator, and as a community organizer, proved to be a unique combination. A small “d” democrat, Gil led by example, usually denying that he was doing anything other than just being himself.

All still true. Gil also used to do these great little prints, such as the one above, that turned into holiday greetings – I still have one set of four images at the head of the stairs down to my study. I look at it just about every day.

Gil was the founding editor of the literary journal Paper Air as well as the original publisher of Singing Horse Press. Gil influenced many poets in Philadelphia, across America, and in the English-speaking world, me included. From 1981 to 1995, he worked at the Painted Bride Arts Center, first conducting a capital campaign and assisting its founder Gerry Givnish, and later creating an extensive network of community-based arts and educational collaborations. From the mid 90’s until his death in 2004, he served as the Director of Development for Liberty Resources, Philadelphia’s Center for Independent Living, which advocates for the rights of people with disabilities.

Gerry Givnish will introduce. Julia Blumenreich, Gil’s widow, will read her suite of poems that sparked Wendy Osterweil to make Reforesting: An Homage to Gil Ott, an exhibition currently on display in the gallery. Poets will then read from Gil’s forthcoming Collected Poems. Readers include Julia, CA Conrad, Eli Goldblatt, Jena Osman, Bob Perelman, Tim Peterson, Ron Silliman, Brian Teare, & Heather Thomas.

Gil reading “Stingere

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