November 4, 2012 at ARTIST TELEVISION ACCESS

a reading and conversation with
Dana Ward, Julian Brolaski
and Cynthia Sailers

Dana Ward lives in Cincinnati, OH. His most recent book is This Can’t Be Life, out from Edge. New books are coming  from Futurepoem Books, & Flowers and Cream. He loves the month of May.

Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012), gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and co-editor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books 2009). Julian lives in Brooklyn where xe is an editor at Litmus Press and plays country music with
Juan & the Pines (www.reverbnation.com/juanandthepines). New work is on the blog hermofwarsaw.

Cynthia Sailers is a psychologist in private practice in San Francisco. Author of Lake Systems (Tougher Disguises, 2004) and a recently  published  chapbook of poems Lady of Leisure of Leisure (Cypress, 2011).  Her current writing projects include the history of the clinic, perversion, and group psychology.  She leads a work group in psychoanalysis and film and curates a film program for the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis.

Please join us for a night of wonderful.

OCTOBER 21st, 2012

DOORS OPEN AT 5PM/EVENT BEGINS AT 5:30PM

at ARTIST TELEVISION ACCESS

a reading and conversation with Paolo Javier, Cathy Park Hong and Cheena Marie Lo

Paolo Javier is the current Queens Poet Laureate. The recipient of grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, he is the author of five chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections, including The Feeling Is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011). Javier also publishes 2nd Avenue Poetry, and curates Queens Poet Lore, a roving poetry series set across the borough.

Cathy Park Hong’s first book, Translating Mo’um was published in 2002 by Hanging Loose Press. Her second collection, Dance Dance Revolution, was chosen for the Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published in 2007 by WW Norton. Her third book of poems, Engine Empire, was published in May 2012 by WW Norton.   Her poems have been published in A Public Space, Poetry, Paris Review, Conjunctions, Lana Turner, McSweeney’s, Boston Review, The Nation, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, and other journals.She is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

Join us for an exciting evening of new work and discussion with three of our most exciting thinkers and creators.

a reading and conversation with Meg Day,
Michelle Naka Pierce and Jai Arun Ravine

Meg Day is a three-time Pushcart-nominated poet, nationally awarded spoken word artist, & veteran arts educator who is currently a PhD fellow in Poetry & Disability Poetics at the University of Utah. Meg hails from San Diego by way of Oakland, where she taught young poets to hold their own at the mic in San Francisco with WritersCorps & Youth Speaks. A 2010 Lambda Fellow, 2011 Hedgebrook Fellow, & 2012 Squaw Valley Fellow, Meg completed her MFA at Mills College & publishes the femme ally zine, ON OUR KNEES, out of Salt Lake City. A 2012 AWP Intro Award Winner & nominee for the Best New Poets of 2012, Meg’s most recent work can be found in Drunken Boat & forthcoming from Artful Dodge, This Assignment is So Gay: Poems from LGBTQ Teachers, & Troubling the Line: An Anthology of Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics.  www.megday.com

Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is the author of seven titles, including She, A Blueprint (BlazeVOX, 2011) with art by Sue Hammond West and Continuous Frieze Bordering Red (Fordham, 2012), awarded the Poets Out Loud Editor’s Prize. Pierce has collaborated with artists, dancers, and filmmakers and performed her work internationally, most recently at La Kunsthalle in France. Pierce is associate professor and director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. http://michellenakapierce.blogspot.com

Jai Arun Ravine is a text-based artist working in film/video, movement and performance. Most recently they are the author of a book of experimental poetics, AND THEN ENTWINE (Tinfish Press, 2011); the creator of a film project on Thai and Thai American trans-masculinities, TOM/TRANS/THAI (2011), which was installed at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Bangkok, Thailand) and the Sabina Lee Gallery (Los Angeles); and the creator of a multi-media performance on identity tourism, THE PACKAGE TOUR (2011), which was staged at Subterranean Arthouse (Berkeley) and the African American Art & Culture Complex (San Francisco). A recipient of fellowships from ComPeung, Djerassi and Kundiman, Jai is also a staff writer for Lantern Review. For more information on projects, events and publications, please visit http://jaiarunravine.wordpress.com

DOORS OPEN AT 5:00PM/EVENT BEGINS AT 5:30PM

Join us for the Bay Area launch of the Les Figues Press anthology I’LL DROWN MY BOOK: CONCEPTUAL WRITING BY WOMEN edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place. The book features work by sixty-four women from ten countries. Contributors responded to the question: What is conceptual writing? I’LL DROWN MY BOOK offers a feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon.

This event will feature the following contributors as themselves and others:

Dodie Bellamy, Jen Hofer, Jen Karmin, Laura Moriarty, Yedda Morrison,  Norma Cole, Kristen Prevallet, kathryn l. pringle, Frances Richard,  giovanni singleton, Juliana Spahr and Christine Wertheim.

Hosted by Vanessa Place. 

DOORS OPEN AT 5:00PM/READING BEGINS AT 5:30PM

Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and I’ll Drown My Bookrepresents the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, I’ll Drown My Book takes its name from a poem by Bernadette Mayer, appropriating Shakespeare. The book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries, with contributors’ responses to the question—What is conceptual writing?—appearing alongside their work. I’ll Drown My Book offers feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon.

CONTRIBUTORS:

Kathy Acker, Oana Avasilichioaei & Erin Moure, Dodie Bellamy, Lee Ann Brown, Angela Carr, Monica de la Torre, Danielle Dutton, Renee Gladman, Jen Hofer, Bernadette Mayer, Sharon Mesmer, Laura Mullen, Harryette Mullen, Deborah Richards, Juliana Spahr, Cecilia Vicuna, Wendy Walker, Jen Bervin, Inger Christiansen, Marcella Durand, Katie Degentesh, Nada Gordon, Jennifer Karmin, Mette Moestrup, Yedda Morrison, Anne Portugal, Joan Retallack, Cia Rinne, Giovanni Singleton, Anne Tardos, Hannah Weiner, Christine Wertheim, Norma Cole, Debra Di Blasi, Stacy Doris & Lisa Robertson, Sarah Dowling, Bhanu Kapil, Rachel Levitsky, Laura Moriarty, Redell Olsen, Chus Pato, Julie Patton, Kristin Prevallet, a.rawlings, Ryoko Seikiguchi, Susan M. Schultz, Rosmarie Waldrop, Renee Angle, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tina Darragh, Judith Goldman, Susan Howe, Maryrose Larkin, Tracie Morris, Sawako Nakayasu, M. NourbeSe Philip, Jena Osman, kathryn l. pringle, Frances Richard, Kim Rosenfeld, and Rachel Zolf.

REVIEWS:

“It makes its own rules and sometimes it follows them, which implies that you, reader, too, should make your own rules and sometimes follow them. It’s a koan of a map to some writers you probably don’t know and you might love. It acknowledges that we can’t possibly be expected to understand ourselves unless we listen to each other while recognizing too that it is our task alone to understand ourselves.” Diagram

Links to more reviews:

A review from HTML GIANT

Featured on Marjorie Wellish’s column “What I’m Reading Now” on Drunken Boat