Hello Everyone,
Macgregor Card has planned an ALL HALLOW'S EVE poetry reading/after-party at The Poetry Project this coming Monday. Prepare: Ariana Reines will launch Mercury, a new collection of poems (Fence Books) and James Copeland will perform "A Modus for Richard" with Michael Barron (drums) and William Rahilly (video/sound) followed by a wine reception, vinyl spinning by DJ Alan Felsenthal and dancing. For more info on all of next week's events see below or visit our Program Calendar.
With only 19 days left until our Public Access Poetry Kickstarter campaign expires, we are only at 43% ($1,635) of our $3,800 goal. Bad news: if we don't reach our funding goal by then, we will lose all funds raised so far. The Public Access Poetry Kickstarter campaign was created to help raise money to fund the preservation and digitization of 15 remaining open-reel Public Access Poetry tapes. So far, 31 of the 46 donated tapes have been digitized and made accessible for streaming via The Poetry Project's website and PennSound. Each donation above $25 warrants a Reward (check out our Kickstarter for details) and please consider making a contribution of any amount (every dollar counts!). See down below for more info on the project and how you can help contribute to it.
Also see below for an announcement for the Page Turner Literary Festival.
Sincerely,
The Poetry Project
Coming Up @ The Poetry Project
James Copeland & Ariana Reines
MONDAY OCT 31 / 8PM
James Copeland is the author of the print objects Why I Steal, To My Plants, and Fax II, and a 7″ from Unicorn Evil Records. With Michael Barron and William Rahilly he has collaborated on a series of text enhancement performances. He publishes a book series, Content, and works as Managing Director at Ugly Duckling Presse. Ariana Reines was born in Salem, Massachusetts. Her books include The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence: 2006), Coeur de Lion (Mal-O-Mar: 2007; Fence: 2011), and Mercury (Fence: 2011). TELEPHONE, her first play, was commissioned and produced by the Foundry Theatre in 2009, with two Obies. Volumes of translation include The Little Black Book of Griselidis Real by Jean-Luc Hennig (Semoitext(e): 2009), My Heart Laid Bare by Charles Baudelaire (Mal-O-Mar: 2009), and Preliminary Notes Toward a Theory of the YoungGirl by TIQQUN (Semiotext(e): 2012). She was Roberta C. Holloway Lecturer in Poetry at UC Berkeley in 2009, has taught master classes at The University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, and Pomona College, and has performed at venues across the United States and in France. Her writing has been featured in The Fader, Dazed+Confused, PLAY: A Journal of Plays, and the Works+Process series at the Guggenheim Museum.
Doug Lang & Ron Silliman
WEDNESDAY NOV 2 / 8PM
Doug Lang was born and raised in Wales, and has published poetry and novels in the UK. He moved to Washington DC in 1973, where he ran the Folio Reading Series in the late 1970s, and where he has taught writing at the Corcoran College of Art and Design since 1976. He represented DC at the recent Poetry of the 1970s conference at Orono, Maine. A collection of his selected poems, In the Works, is forthcoming from Edge Books. His works include Magic Fire Chevrolet (Titanic Books 1980), Hot Shot (Jawbone press), Lumbering and Tingling: Sonnets (1989), and Horror Vacui (1991). Ron Silliman has written and edited over 30 books, and had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. In the past 18 months, his work has appeared in Poetry, The Nation, and a Fact-Simile trading card. His sculpture, Poetry (Bury Neon), was unveiled at this year’s Text Festival and will be installed permanently in the transit center of Bury, Lancashire, this fall. Silliman’s Blog has received over 3 million visits & he’s maxed out on permissible Facebook Friends. In 2012, he will be a Kelly Writers House Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania.
Welcome to the Writing Machine
FRIDAY NOV 4 / 10PM The Writing Machine celebrates over a year of collaborative writing with readings, food, cocktails, and music in a relaxed, low-lit lounge atmosphere. Developed as a directed collaborative by Cynthia Gray, the Writing Machine uses line and line/image exchange to engage with invited poets and artists. Writing Machine poets direct their poems, and artists contribute images, with Gray acting as a responder. Chuck Stebelton, Richard Fox, Stephanie Barber, Vincent Dermody and Douglas Piccinnini will be reading. Gray will read from poems written with Jen Hofer, Joseph Havel, Howie Good and Amina Cain. Small book projects with artists Dani Leventhal and Jibade-Khalil Huffman will also be released at this event. Doors will open at 10PM for drinks and snacks and mingling, then the Writing Machine!
PUBLIC ACCESS POETRY ON KICKSTARTER
In 2009, forty-six fragile open-reel videotapes of Public Access Poetry were donated to The Poetry Project by Greg Masters. A grant and subsequent anonymous donations supported the preservation and digitization of 31 of the original tapes through The Standby Program at MercerMedia, with consulting support from Anthology Film Archives. Dedicated to making the Public Access Poetry archive available to the public, as envisioned by its producers more than thirty years ago, The Poetry Project has been collaborating with PennSound to accomplish this. Currently, all 31 of the digitized episodes are being hosted on PennSound and are viewable via The Poetry Project's website. The Poetry Project is currently seeking $3,500 in funding to have the remaining 15 open-reel tapes (approx. $250/tape) of Public Access Poetry preserved and digitized through The Standby Program at MercerMedia. The digital transfer of the 15 remaining tapes will not only complete this project, but will make the entirety of this valuable archive available and accessible to the public for the first time.
PAGE TURNER LITERARY FESTIVAL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2011, 11AM-7PM, 8-11 PM AFTERPARTY * POWERHOUSE ARENA, 37 MAIN STREET, BROOKLYN * MELVILLE HOUSE, 145 PLYMOUTH ST, BROOKLYN * AFTERWORD PARTY AT VERSO PRESS 20 JAY STREET, SUITE 1010, BROOKLYN $5 PER EVENT / $20 ALL-DAY PASS / $30 ALL-DAY PASS (W/ AFTERWORD PARTY) / $10 for AFTERWORD PARTY / 4 AFTERWORD PARTY TICKETS FOR $30 Celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, the PAGE TURNER LITERARY FESTIVAL features Junot Diaz, Amitava Ghosh, a Korean taco trunk, two stand-up comedians, five National Book Award finalists, seven Guggenheim Fellows, a killer afterparty with the best playlist of all time, and you! -
An all-star line-up featuring: Junot Díaz, Amitav Ghosh, Jessica Hagedorn, Kimiko Hahn, Hari Kunzru, Jayne Anne Phillips, Suketu Mehta, Min Jin Lee, Mark Nowak, Amitava Kumar, Granta editor John Freeman, and Guernica editor Joel Whitney. - Multi-dimensional program includes: a staged reading directed by Ralph Peña; artist Wangechi Mutu (MOMA, Guggenheim) talking about immigration; stories from twenty years of the Workshop; and hard-hitting conversations about Occupy Wall Street, Islam and the West, the rise of China/India, and the national crackdown on immigration.
- Your favorite new voices: Teju Cole, Danielle Evans (NBA 5 Under 35 winner), Booker finalist Hisham Matar, Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang, National Book Award finalist Monica Youn, NBCC finalist Brenda Shaughnessy.
Starting at 8pm, the Afterword party features a stunning view of the Manhattan skyline at night, infinite quantities of beer, and a playlist selected by Luc Sante, Das Racist, Lynne Tillman, and Tao Lin, and the head of XL Records (Vampire Weekend, the XX). Special appearances by Asian American Literary Award winners Amitava Kumar, Kimiko Hahn, and Pulitzer finalist Suketu Mehta, as well as New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee. Celebrity chef Eddie Huang of Baohaus and DJ/activist Sujatha Fernandes will DJ the night’s festivities. |
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