Negotiating the social bond of poetics (Louis Cabri Workshop in Vancouver, BC)

Negotiating the social bond of poetics—KSW Reading and Critical Workshop series.

Louis Cabri’s new chapbooks are What Is Venice? (Wrinkle Press) and —that can’t (Nomados). Recent poetry appears in jacketmagazine.com, Rampike and (together with a dialogue with Roger Farr) The Capilano Review, in the anthologies Less Is More (SFU Gallery), Open Text vol. 1 (CUE), and Post-Prairie (Talon), and is forthcoming in Windsor Review. The Mood Embosser is available online at chbooks.com, webdesigned by Damien Lopez. Last year Louis edited and introduced a selected poems by Fred Wah for Wilfrid Laurier UP and with Peter Quartermain a collection of critical essays on poetry and sound (accompanying CD edited by Michael S. Hennessey) for ESC: English Studies in Canada. “The Social Mark” was a poets’ symposium he helped to curate, produced by the Slought Foundation (Philadelphia), and PhillyTalks a newsletter and events series of poets’ dialogues he edited. He has also edited (with Nicole Markotić) two issues of Open Letter featuring open letters to/from poets, and produced (with Rob Manery) hole magazine and books, and the Transparency Machine Reading Series that so far has featured over thirty events where a poet presents his or her writing in a selected context. He has written essays on Bruce Andrews, Earle Birney, P. Inman, Jackson Mac Low, Frank O’Hara, Harryette Mullen, Laura Riding, Catriona Strang, Roy Miki, Louis Zukofsky, among others, and teaches modern and contemporary US and Canadian poetry, literary theory, and creative writing at the University of Windsor, in Windsor, Ontario, where he is currently organizing a spring symposium (25-26 March 2011) on Ron Silliman’s booklength poem, the Alphabet.

This reading and critical workshop are part of an ongoing series that will run for the equivalent of one academic year, with one writer a month presenting a reading one evening and participating in a workshop, which will address the theme the following day.

Please email Nancy Gillespie at Gillespie(dot)nancy(at)gmail(dot)com to Rsvp for the workshop and to receive pertinent series information.

Time: July 17, 2010 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: W2 Storyeum, upstairs
Street: 151 West Cordova Street
City/Town: Vancouver, BC
Website or Map: http://kswnet.org/

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Jack Kerouac School in Trouble

Message from Anne Waldman and Lisa Birman

Dear Community & Friends of the Jack Kerouac School:

Lisa Birman and I are writing to you from the Summer Writing Program Office.  We know that the Naropa environment has suffered because of the recent downsizing of Naropa staff  at large. 23 staff members, though no one from Summer Writing Program or Writing & Poetics, were laid off in June. The community has suffered tremendously as these individuals were part of our world and community. We all have questions and concerns. Our hearts and support go out to those individuals.

However, there are some clearer answers now, and we are more than willing to address your grievances as much as we can.  Students are gathering these days to address and protest their concerns, which center on issues of transparency, student involvement in university-wide decisions, diversity issues, and the well being of the campus and all who are engaged here…

the whole post is here. It’d would be a shame to the poetry community for this school to be closed down.

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John Olson Reviews An Dantomine Eerly

John Olson is one of the most astute reviewers and writers in Seattle. His use of language is virtuosic. Today he takes on the work of a 24 year old novelist, Jarret Middleton. Here’s an excerpt of the review:

What I like best about this book is the notion that our largest adventures, our noblest conflicts, do not occur in the trenches of actual warfare or scaling, with frost-bitten fingers to the tops of Himalayan peaks, but occur within, are conflicts of self and soul, Eros and Thanatos.

http://tillalala.blogspot.com/2010/07/something-was-in-house.html

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A review of my recent reading in Auburn from “A Time Before Slaughter.”

Poetry is the language of the mythic, and mythology is the story that can’t be told. So how can you get around it? I think I have gotten to the story from about as many angles as are possible. I could have spent another 20 years and gotten up more, and you probably would have seen more in the book, about the shadow side of Native Americans. I could tell you stories from my 14 months working for the reservation that would just tear your heart out…

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/aub/community/97622364.html

Reporter Robert Whale is a remarkable resource for the Auburn community.

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