Group Reading: WRITING TO POINT WRITING TO ENCLAVE

at 7:30 pm!

SEPTEMBER SUBTEXT
a writing event

WRITING TO POINT
WRITING TO ENCLAVE

Subtext invites you to A WRITING EVENT on September 3. We hope you will CREATE NEW WORK that explores, disagrees, exploits, negates, parodies, riffs, amplifies, exonerates, extols, exemplifies and/or vilifies the quotations (and their sources, if you wish) below. You can choose to read your work in any of the four sections where you think it fits. Because we expect a large crowd, please plan to read for no more than 3-4 minutes.

I. Writing to Point

A point is that which has no part.
--Euclid, Elements: Book of Definitions

II. Writing to Enclave

Moving into elsewhere music moves us
to boulders.
These columns. Shadows secure in thunder.
As boats move thick against water, forests
contained by sky.
These are contents.
Loss gropes toward its vase. Etching the way
Driving horses around the Etruscan rim.
--Barbara Guest, Turler Losses

III. Writing to Point, Writing to Enclave

Literature is not innocent; it is guilty and should admit itself so.
--Georges Bataille, Literature and Evil

a permanent Riotocracy
--Herman Melville, The Encantadas

IV Completely Open