May 2, 2007
Charles Alexander and Mike Katell & Ensemble
with music of Tim Risher
Charles Alexander reads his poetry in advance of the musical performance of "Aviary Corridor," a contemporary piece of music written by Tim Risher in response to Alexander's poem of this name. Mike Katell directs the ensemble of soprano, flute, string quartet, and piano.
Charles Alexander’s books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings (Chax Press, Tucson, 1990), arc of light / dark matter (Segue Books, New York, 1992), Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse Press, San Diego, 2004), and Certain Slants (Junction Press, 2006). He lives in Tucson Arizona, where he directs Chax Press, publisher of letter press and trade editions of poetry. A former director of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, he has taught at Naropa University, the University of Arizona, and Pima Community College. He has published multiple essays on poetry and poetics, and on book arts. He is the current recipient of the Arizona Arts Award, the largest award given to an artist in the state.
Tim Risher received his BA in Music at the University of Central Florida and his MM in Music Composition from the Florida State University in Tallahassee. At Florida State, he organised their first permanent new music ensemble, the Tallahassee Camerata. He also founded Paragaté, composing for these groups, Songs for the Virgin Mary and Concerto for Wind Ensemble, among other works. He worked as a producer at National Public Radio for six years, producing FSU faculty and student concerts and Radio Diffusions, a showcase of new music. For more information, see: http://www.timrisher.de/index2.htm
Mike Katell received his B.A.from Bard and is a music composer and director of collaborative performances, including most recently the dance opera The Onion Twins in Seattle. He teaches media studies at Bellevue Community College.
April 4, 2007
Curtis Bonney & Jocelyn Saidenberg
Jocelyn Saidenberg is the author of Mortal City (Parentheses Writing Series), CUSP (Kelsey St. Press), winner of the Frances Jaffer Book Award, and Negativity (Atelos). Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including The Capilano Review, Mirage#4/Period(ical), Raddle Moon, Bay Poetics, and Tripwire. She has been a creative writing teacher in the California prison system and a curator for New Langton Arts. She is also the founding editor of KRUPSKAYA Books. Born and raised in New York City, she lives in San Francisco where she is active in the queer arts communities and works as a reference librarian for the public library.
Curtis Bonney’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in New American Writing, Bird Dog, The New Review of Literature, The Boston Review (with an intro by Maxine Chernoff), 6500, Key Satch(el), Fourteen Hills, and 21 Stars, among others. He’s recently finished One Day Your Family Will Love Being Yours, a collection that doubles as a remarkably lucid overview of the various psychoanalytic theories of early childhood development. He teaches at and coordinates the English language program for immigrants and refugees at North Seattle Community College.
March 7, 2007
Rob Fitterman & Bryant Mason
Robert Fitterman is the author of nine books of poetry including: Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edge Books), winner of the Small Press Traffic “Book of the Year Award” in 2003, and Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon Press), which received the Sun & Moon “New American Poetry Award” in 2000. With novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa, he co-authored the film What Sebastian Dreamt, a selection of the Sundance Film Festival (2004) and the Lincoln Center Latin Beat Festival (2004). A full-time faculty member in NYU’s General Studies Program since 1993, he has also taught at Bard College, Bennington College, and St. Mark’s Poetry Project.
Bryant Mason writes code and lives in Seattle. He is a founding member of the Subtext Collective. In 2003, members of the collective performed his multi-voice collage of the work of Louis Zukofsky at the Beyond Text Festival in Los Angeles. Texts under his name have appeared in certain finer publications such as Talisman, Score, and Birddog.
February 7, 2007
Lindsay Hill & Chris Putnam
Lindsay Hill was born in San Francisco in 1952. Graduate of Bard College. Began writing under influence of Robert Duncan, Tarn, Rexroth and Rilke. First book Avelaval (Oyez, Berkeley 1974). Work has appeared in numerous journals including Sulfur, Caliban and New American Writing. Four other books including most recent Contango (Singing Horse). Past co-editor of poetry/poetics journal Facture. Current focus on sentence-based collage writing. Living in Portland, OR with wife, Nita and children Ian and Helena. Member of the Spare Room poetry collective.
C.E. Putnam maintains P.I.S.O.R. (The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research). Some of his chapbooks include Manic Box (2001), Did you ever hear of a thing like that? (2001), Things Keep Happening (2003), and Crawlspace, a forthcoming collaboration with Daniel Comiskey. For this February reading, C.E. Putnam will read cosmic-sex/earthly-love poems. See http://www.pisor-industries.org
January 3, 2007
Paul Hoover & Maxine Chernoff
Paul Hoover has published eleven books of poetry, most recently Edge and Fold (Apogee Press, 2006) and Poems in Spanish (Omnidawn, 2005), which was nominated for the Bay Area Book Award in poetry. He is editor of the anthology Postmodern American Poetry (Norton, 1994) and, with Maxine Chernoff, of the literary magazine New American Writing. His collection of literary essays, Fables of Representation, was published by University of Michigan Press in 2004. With Nguyen Do, he has translated an anthology of contemporary Vietnamese poetry, and the selected poems of the great ancient poet Nguyen Trai. With Maxine Chernoff, he has translated Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin, which will appear from Omnidawn in 2008. He is Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University.
Maxine Chernoff is a professor and Chair of the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University. With Paul Hoover, she edits the long-running literary journal New American Writing. She is the author of six books of fiction and eight books of poetry, most recently Among the Names (Apogee Press, 2005), of which Cole Swenson said, “Among the Names [creates] a vast and layered network, in short, an economy. Exploring complexities of “the gift,” Chernoff’s is an economy of the uncanny—each exchange is strikingly new.”
Her collection of stories, Signs of Devotion, was a NYT Notable Book of 1993. Both her novel American Heaven and her book of short stories, Some of Her Friends That Year, were finalists for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Her novel A Boy in Winter is currently in production in Canada by an independent film company. With Paul Hoover, she has translated The Selected Poems of Friedrich Hölderlin, which will be published by Omnidawn Press in 2007.
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Monday, January 1, 2007
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2006 Subtext Readings
December 6, 2006
Lidia Yuknavitch & James Tierney
Lidia Yuknavitch (Portland) is the author of three collections of short fictions-- Real to Reel (FC2, 2002), Her Other Mouths, and Liberty's Excess (FC2, 2000)-- and a book of criticism, Allegories of Violence (Routledge, 2000). She has been the co-editor of Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions and the editor of two girls review. She teaches fiction writing and literature in Oregon.
James Tierney grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. He graduated from Duke University in 1994 where he began writing fiction while studying under Joe Ashby Porter. He has an MFA from Brown University. Winner of the John Hawkes Memorial Prize in Fiction, over the last three years he has published fictions, critical essays, and a play in the Golden Handcuffs Review and in the annual journal P-Queue. A short play was translated into Polish and published in Lampa, the influential Warsaw-based magazine for contemporary art, music, and literature. He recently wrote the catalog essay on Wilhelm Sasnal for the Stedelijk Museum's 2006 Vincent Prize exhibition in Amsterdam, and another essay previewing the Chinati Foundation's 2006 Open House weekend in Marfa, Texas. Last year he collaborated with Sasnal on his film The River, in which he performed with the rock bands Helsinki and ANDY. He has worked as a print journalist in the west Texas border region and also had a small career as a Natural Language Processing encoder for artificially intelligent agents. In February he will be participating in the OPENPORT Real-Time Performance, Sound and Language Festival and Symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A former Seattle resident, he is currently based in Portland, Oregon.
November 1, 2006
Meredith Quartermain & Peter Quartermain
Meredith Quartermain's most recent book is Vancouver Walking (NeWest 2005) which recently received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her book of prose poems, A Thousand Mornings (Nomados 2002), is about Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood, the dockside area of Strathcona. She has a collaborative chapbook with Robin Blaser titled Wanders (Nomados 2002). Other chapbooks include Terms of Sale (Meow 1996), Abstract Relations (Keefer Street 1998), Veers (Backwoods Broadsides 1998), Spatial Relations (Diaeresis 2001), Inland Passage (housepress 2001), and The Eye-Shift of Surface (Greenboathouse 2003).
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/MeredithQ.htm
http://ca.geocities.com/alterra@rogers.com/quartint.htm
Peter Quartermain taught contemporary poetry and poetics at the UBC for over thirty years, retiring in 1999. Critical books include Basil Bunting: Poet of the North and Disjunctive Poetics. He has edited a number of books including Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970 (with the English poet Richard Caddel); and The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (with Rachel Blau DuPlessis). He is currently writing his autobiography, Where I Lived and What I Learned There: Part I: Growing Dumb. Nomados published "1976: What I Did for Christmas" in 2005.
http://www.doppelgangermagazine.com/february/peter_quartermain.html
http://jacketmagazine.com/30/z-quartermain.html
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/pqautob.htm
October 4, 2006
Mary Burger & Meg McHutchison
Mary Burger is an Oakland CA based writer, editor, and publisher. Her books include Sonny (Leon Works, 2005), The Boy Who Could Fly (Second Story Books, 2002). Her work is included in An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman) and Technologies of Measure: A Celebration of Bay Area Women Writers (SPT, 2002). She is co-editor of the anthology Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House), and of Narrativity, an online forum for theoretical writing on narrative. She edits Second Story Books, featuring cross-genre works of innovative narrative. From 1994-1999, she was co-editor of Proliferation, a journal of innovative writing. She lives in Oakland, CA. See http://www.maryburger.com/
Meg McHutchison is a writer and filmmaker investigating the paradox of fixed forms and ephemerality. She recently completed her MFA-Interdisciplinary Art through Goddard College. Meg was the project director for the initial run of Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle. She is co-founder and president of the board of IFP/Seattle.
September 6, 2006
HOWEVER & Bill HORIST
Bill Horist's improvised, prepared guitar work is informed by Hans Reichel, Fred Frith, and Henry Kaiser, but shows a unique style and personality. Since moving to Seattle in 1995, he has established himself as a noted improviser/performer along the West Coast and beyond. He has performed over 600 concerts in the past 9 years in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan.
Horist improvises and composes for film, dance and theater as well. In the Fall 2002, he was composer in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts. There he developed a solo guitar score for University of Calgary choreographer, Davida Monk's "Lyric". He has also recorded pieces for an upcoming Italian theatrical production of Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities".
The improvising music quartet HOWEVER brings together four players from very diverse backgrounds and experiences: Lori Goldston, cello; Angelina Baldoz, trumpet and flute; Jaison Scott; drums; and Torben Ulrich, text/voicing. Ulrich will perform vocal improvisations off of texts from his series, “Stilhedens Cymbaler” (“Cymbals of Silence”).
Founded in 2005, the Seattle-based However attempts to present a primarily contingent and spontaneous field of sounds, attempting to ride a fragile balance between sound, line and pulse, readily open and receding into a silence (which is never quite silent).
Bios:
Born in 1963 in New York City, Lori Goldston studied with Aaron Shapinsky and at Bennington College. A frequent collaborator with choreographers, filmmakers and musicians from other disciplines, she has performed and/or recorded with Nirvana, David Byrne, Cat Power, and many others. She is co-founder of the Black Cat Orchestra and Spectratone International, which will release an album with Mirah on K records next year.
Born in Seattle in 1967, Angelina Baldoz has been an active multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, flutes, electronics) in and out of the Seattle area and abroad, performing and creating in the improvisational music scene as well as the dance community and, more recently, for film. She has collaborated with musicians and movement artists including Deborah Hay, Jason E Anderson, Linda Austin, Gust Burns, Lori Goldston, Ellen Fullman, Paul Hoskin. Angelina composed music for the film ‘Aliens Cut My Hair’ and also is an organizer for the Seattle Improvised Music Festival.
Born in Seattle in 1972, Jaison Scott has toured and recorded as a member of two additional Seattle bands: the heavy/experimental band Severhead (which has released the CDs "Severhead" in 2001 and "Acephal" in 2002); and the death-metal band Sindios (which recently released the CD "Modern Plagues"). He also was the drummer for the heavy-rock band Murray. His current work with However opens up to the years he’s devoted to the study of drummers from Elvin Jones to Hamid Drake.
Born in 1928 in Denmark, Torben Ulrich’s music background includes starting in the Copenhagen-based Delta Jazz Band on clarinet (being taught and scolded by Sidney Bechet) and later adding tenor saxophone and bass clarinet to two bands in his own name. He’s been writing and broadcasting over 50 years on jazz, contemporary music and culture; recording amongst others Albert Ayler and Sonny Rollins for Danish Radio; and performing and recording with the Danish avant-garde group Clinch from 2002 to 2004.
August 2, 2006
Philip Jenks & John Olson
Philip Jenks' poems have appeared in LVNG, Chicago Review, and Pulmonar. His first full-length book of poems, entitled ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN, was published by Flood Editions. More recently, Zephyr Press published MY FIRST PAINTING WILL BE "THE ACCUSER". He lives in Portland, OR.
Inspired speech recording its own fall into dead letter, the poems of Philip Jenks are strange, original, terrifying. A stuttered apocalypse, they affirm our fellowship with all matter while suffering divinity’s perpetual departure from our midst. —Benjamin Friedlander
John Olson is the author of FREE STREAM VELOCITY (2003), a collection of prose poems, and ECHO REGIME (2000) a collection of poetry, both from Black Square Editions; EGGS & MIRRORS (1999), a chapbook of vignettes & prose poems published by local printer Paul Hunter, at Woodworks Press; and LOGO LAGOON (1999), a collection of prose poems, from Paper Brain Press in San Diego. His essays, articles, literary criticism, poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including New American Writing, Talisman, Sulfur, First Intensity, American Letters & Commentary, the American Book Review, Denver Quarterly, 3rd Bed, 5 Trope, Bird Dog, Monkey Puzzle, The Raven Chronicles, the Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger. "Dylan Goes Magenta," an essay on Bob Dylan's Tarantula, appears online at Titanic Operas. His essay "Inebriate Of Air" appears in the anthology Writing On Air, from M.I.T. Press.
July 5, 2006
Ed Roberson & April DeNonno
Ed Roberson, teacher and former aquarium worker in Pittsburgh, has a new book, City Eclogue, from Atelos Press. Earlier books include Lucid Interval as Integral Music; Atmosphere Conditions (Sun & Moon); Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In (winner of the 1995 Iowa Poetry Prize); and Just In/Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Poems (Talisman Books). Roberson lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Mr. Roberson lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Review of City Eclogue (Atelos, 2006) from Publishers Weekly
Alternately detailed and abstract, calmly attentive and angry about bad news, this set of short lyrics from Roberson (Atmospheric Conditions) describes urban verticality ("buildings/ modulate the blocks// upwards/ the city a sky of floors") and zeroes in on the New York metropolitan area in particular. His depictions include the detritus of so-called urban renewal, "From the project slabs leveled/ to the poor pride-kept and neat/ stands of/ old houses mowed down." They include, too, the sounds of black America, from "the street-talk birdcall of sucked teeth" to the disorienting jazz of Thelonious Monk. Lines like "Adventure somehow decides to bypass all the already," announces a modernist aesthetic which finds the basis for poetry anywhere. But however abstract he gets, Roberson never loses his sense of a personal voice, of a man talking (to himself or others) about the space in which we might try to live.
April DeNonno teaches contemporary literature, film, and cultural studies at Cornish College. Recent poems have appeared in the literary magazines Monkey Puzzle, Facture, and Fine Madness.
June 7, 2006
Ethan FUGATE and Daniel COMISKEY
Daniel Comiskey lives and works in Seattle. With Kreg Hasegawa, he edited Monkey Puzzle, a magazine of poetry and prose. He was a guest curator for the Subtext Reading Series in the fall of 2003, and worked as literary manager for The Poet's Theater, which produced readings of dramatic works written by poets including John Ashbery, e.e. cummings, Joyelle McSweeney, and Frank O'Hara. He has collaborated with other poets on a number of projects, the most recent of which is the long poem Crawlspace, written with C.E. Putnam and forthcoming as a chapbook (with bonus CD and 3-D glasses). Translations of Hu Xudong, produced in conjunction with Ying Qin, will appear later this year in the Talisman Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry.
Ethan Fugate is the author of self published chapbooks "Pneumatics" and "The Weight of the Sea in a Lazyboy Next Door." His work has recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Puppyflowers.com, and poems from the "Lazyboy" series may be heard on Tangent Radio http://www.thetangentpress.org/radio.htm. Ethan is the co-editor of the journal POM2. Ethan lives in Brooklyn with his beagle Coltrane and is currently finishing book length version of the "Lazyboy" poems.
May 3, 2006
Jules BOYKOFF and Kaia SAND
Jules Boykoff is the author of Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006), The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006), and Philosophical Investigations Inna Neo-Con Roots-Dub Styley (Interrupting Cow Press, 2004). He lives in Portland, Oregon where he teaches political science at Pacific University and co-edits the Tangent, a zine of politics and the arts.
Kaia Sand is the author of Interval (Edge Books 2004), as well as several chapbooks. She is the co-editor of the Tangent, a zine, pamphlet, and chapbook press with a dormant radio show. She is currently working on a manuscript called why this body decided to be left-handed. She lives and writes and learns in Portland, and she writes and learns and teaches elsewhere, including, this summer, in Bulgaria.
April 5, 2006
Mark TARDI and Sarah MANGOLD
Mark Tardi lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. His first book Euclid Shudders (Litmus Press, 2003) was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. More recently, two chapbooks have appeared: Airport Music (Bronze Skull Press) and Part First – Chopin's Feet (g o n g). His poems, essays and reviews can be found in Antennae, Aufgabe, Bird Dog, Jacket, Play a Journal of Plays, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and other periodicals.
Sarah Mangold received a BA in English literature from the University of Oklahoma and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Her books include Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets, 1998), Household Mechanics (New Issues, 2002, selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize), and Boxer Rebellion (g o n g, 2004). She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Seattle Arts Commission and a MacDowell Colony fellowship. She lives in Seattle and publishes/edits Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art.
March 1, 2006
Jonathan BRANNEN and Adriana GRANT
Jonathan Brannen is the author of twelve collections of poetry and three collections of visual literature. His most recent books are Deaccessioned Landscapes (Chax Press, Tucson) and No Place To Fall (Sink Press, San Francisco, 1999). His poetry has appeared in more than 60 journals (most recently Tinfish, Situation, Texture, 6ix, Talisman, Juxta, DCPoetry, House Organ, and New Orleans Review) and a dozen anthologies. His short stories have appeared in Asylum Annual, Black Ice, Central Park, Fiction International, Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category (FC2/Black Ice Books, 1995) and elsewhere. He currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota where he edits Standing Stones Press.
Adriana Grant is a visual artist and poet. Her work employs objects or lines that may be found on the street. Her poems have appeared in LIT, The Diagram, Bird Dog, Monkey Puzzle, and are forthcoming in 3rd bed. Her poetry won third prize in 3rd bed's First Annual Prize for Poetry and Fiction, selected by Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop. She is the recipient of an Artist Trust Grant for Artist Projects (GAP) for a two-week writing jaunt in New Orleans. Critical work has appeared in The American Book Review, The Stranger, Rain Taxi and Art Access. Her visual art has been seen at the Henry Art Gallery, Western Bridge, Consolidated Works and Bumbershoot. Collaborating with Kristen Ramirez and Dan Rhoads, she curated Catalog, an exhibit at SOIL Art Gallery in December 2005. Her work will be included in a group show at ArtsWest in April 2006. She grew up in small-town New Hampshire and has lived in Seattle since 1995.
February 1, 2006
Brian EVENSON, Stacey LEVINE
Brian Evenson is the author of six books of fiction, including Altmann’s Tongue, Father of Lies, Contagion, and Dark Property. He is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship, an O. Henry Prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Third Bed, The Southern Review, and a number of other magazines. He teaches in Brown University’s Creative Writing Program, and is a Senior Editor for Conjunctions. Evenson earned his Ph.D. in critical theory and English literature at the University of Washington.
Stacey Levine lives in Seattle and is the author of the award winning My Horse and Other Stories, and Dra – (a novel), both from Sun & Moon Press. Her new novel Frances Johnson is forthcoming from Clear Cut Press.
January 4, 2006
Lucy CORIN and Jeanne HEUVING
Lucy Corin is a fiction writer with particular interest in innovative narrative. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Conjunctions, Fiction International, Southern Review and in anthologies such as Algonquin's New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (1997 and 2003), The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Narrative, and Serpent's Tail's Strictly Casual: Women on Love. Her novel, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls was published by FC2 in 2004. She teaches at UC Davis.
Jeanne Heuving just won a Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic in San Francisco for her cross genre book Incapacity. Her recent poetry has been published in First Intensity, Bird Dog, Titanic Operas, Volt, Subtext Annual, and is forthcoming in 'A Right Good Salvo of Barks': Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore. She has published criticism on multiple avant-garde and innovative writers, including the book Omissions Are Not Accidents. She is currently finishing up a new critical book, The Transmutation of Love in Twentieth Century Poetry. She is on the editorial advisory board of HOW2 and a member of the Subtext Collective. She is on the faculty at the University of Washington, Bothell and Seattle.
Lidia Yuknavitch & James Tierney
Lidia Yuknavitch (Portland) is the author of three collections of short fictions-- Real to Reel (FC2, 2002), Her Other Mouths, and Liberty's Excess (FC2, 2000)-- and a book of criticism, Allegories of Violence (Routledge, 2000). She has been the co-editor of Northwest Edge: Deviant Fictions and the editor of two girls review. She teaches fiction writing and literature in Oregon.
James Tierney grew up in Lafayette, Louisiana. He graduated from Duke University in 1994 where he began writing fiction while studying under Joe Ashby Porter. He has an MFA from Brown University. Winner of the John Hawkes Memorial Prize in Fiction, over the last three years he has published fictions, critical essays, and a play in the Golden Handcuffs Review and in the annual journal P-Queue. A short play was translated into Polish and published in Lampa, the influential Warsaw-based magazine for contemporary art, music, and literature. He recently wrote the catalog essay on Wilhelm Sasnal for the Stedelijk Museum's 2006 Vincent Prize exhibition in Amsterdam, and another essay previewing the Chinati Foundation's 2006 Open House weekend in Marfa, Texas. Last year he collaborated with Sasnal on his film The River, in which he performed with the rock bands Helsinki and ANDY. He has worked as a print journalist in the west Texas border region and also had a small career as a Natural Language Processing encoder for artificially intelligent agents. In February he will be participating in the OPENPORT Real-Time Performance, Sound and Language Festival and Symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A former Seattle resident, he is currently based in Portland, Oregon.
November 1, 2006
Meredith Quartermain & Peter Quartermain
Meredith Quartermain's most recent book is Vancouver Walking (NeWest 2005) which recently received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her book of prose poems, A Thousand Mornings (Nomados 2002), is about Vancouver's oldest neighbourhood, the dockside area of Strathcona. She has a collaborative chapbook with Robin Blaser titled Wanders (Nomados 2002). Other chapbooks include Terms of Sale (Meow 1996), Abstract Relations (Keefer Street 1998), Veers (Backwoods Broadsides 1998), Spatial Relations (Diaeresis 2001), Inland Passage (housepress 2001), and The Eye-Shift of Surface (Greenboathouse 2003).
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/MeredithQ.htm
http://ca.geocities.com/alterra@rogers.com/quartint.htm
Peter Quartermain taught contemporary poetry and poetics at the UBC for over thirty years, retiring in 1999. Critical books include Basil Bunting: Poet of the North and Disjunctive Poetics. He has edited a number of books including Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970 (with the English poet Richard Caddel); and The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (with Rachel Blau DuPlessis). He is currently writing his autobiography, Where I Lived and What I Learned There: Part I: Growing Dumb. Nomados published "1976: What I Did for Christmas" in 2005.
http://www.doppelgangermagazine.com/february/peter_quartermain.html
http://jacketmagazine.com/30/z-quartermain.html
http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/pqautob.htm
October 4, 2006
Mary Burger & Meg McHutchison
Mary Burger is an Oakland CA based writer, editor, and publisher. Her books include Sonny (Leon Works, 2005), The Boy Who Could Fly (Second Story Books, 2002). Her work is included in An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman) and Technologies of Measure: A Celebration of Bay Area Women Writers (SPT, 2002). She is co-editor of the anthology Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House), and of Narrativity, an online forum for theoretical writing on narrative. She edits Second Story Books, featuring cross-genre works of innovative narrative. From 1994-1999, she was co-editor of Proliferation, a journal of innovative writing. She lives in Oakland, CA. See http://www.maryburger.com/
Meg McHutchison is a writer and filmmaker investigating the paradox of fixed forms and ephemerality. She recently completed her MFA-Interdisciplinary Art through Goddard College. Meg was the project director for the initial run of Teatro ZinZanni in Seattle. She is co-founder and president of the board of IFP/Seattle.
September 6, 2006
HOWEVER & Bill HORIST
Bill Horist's improvised, prepared guitar work is informed by Hans Reichel, Fred Frith, and Henry Kaiser, but shows a unique style and personality. Since moving to Seattle in 1995, he has established himself as a noted improviser/performer along the West Coast and beyond. He has performed over 600 concerts in the past 9 years in the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Japan.
Horist improvises and composes for film, dance and theater as well. In the Fall 2002, he was composer in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts. There he developed a solo guitar score for University of Calgary choreographer, Davida Monk's "Lyric". He has also recorded pieces for an upcoming Italian theatrical production of Italo Calvino's "Invisible Cities".
The improvising music quartet HOWEVER brings together four players from very diverse backgrounds and experiences: Lori Goldston, cello; Angelina Baldoz, trumpet and flute; Jaison Scott; drums; and Torben Ulrich, text/voicing. Ulrich will perform vocal improvisations off of texts from his series, “Stilhedens Cymbaler” (“Cymbals of Silence”).
Founded in 2005, the Seattle-based However attempts to present a primarily contingent and spontaneous field of sounds, attempting to ride a fragile balance between sound, line and pulse, readily open and receding into a silence (which is never quite silent).
Bios:
Born in 1963 in New York City, Lori Goldston studied with Aaron Shapinsky and at Bennington College. A frequent collaborator with choreographers, filmmakers and musicians from other disciplines, she has performed and/or recorded with Nirvana, David Byrne, Cat Power, and many others. She is co-founder of the Black Cat Orchestra and Spectratone International, which will release an album with Mirah on K records next year.
Born in Seattle in 1967, Angelina Baldoz has been an active multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, flutes, electronics) in and out of the Seattle area and abroad, performing and creating in the improvisational music scene as well as the dance community and, more recently, for film. She has collaborated with musicians and movement artists including Deborah Hay, Jason E Anderson, Linda Austin, Gust Burns, Lori Goldston, Ellen Fullman, Paul Hoskin. Angelina composed music for the film ‘Aliens Cut My Hair’ and also is an organizer for the Seattle Improvised Music Festival.
Born in Seattle in 1972, Jaison Scott has toured and recorded as a member of two additional Seattle bands: the heavy/experimental band Severhead (which has released the CDs "Severhead" in 2001 and "Acephal" in 2002); and the death-metal band Sindios (which recently released the CD "Modern Plagues"). He also was the drummer for the heavy-rock band Murray. His current work with However opens up to the years he’s devoted to the study of drummers from Elvin Jones to Hamid Drake.
Born in 1928 in Denmark, Torben Ulrich’s music background includes starting in the Copenhagen-based Delta Jazz Band on clarinet (being taught and scolded by Sidney Bechet) and later adding tenor saxophone and bass clarinet to two bands in his own name. He’s been writing and broadcasting over 50 years on jazz, contemporary music and culture; recording amongst others Albert Ayler and Sonny Rollins for Danish Radio; and performing and recording with the Danish avant-garde group Clinch from 2002 to 2004.
August 2, 2006
Philip Jenks & John Olson
Philip Jenks' poems have appeared in LVNG, Chicago Review, and Pulmonar. His first full-length book of poems, entitled ON THE CAVE YOU LIVE IN, was published by Flood Editions. More recently, Zephyr Press published MY FIRST PAINTING WILL BE "THE ACCUSER". He lives in Portland, OR.
Inspired speech recording its own fall into dead letter, the poems of Philip Jenks are strange, original, terrifying. A stuttered apocalypse, they affirm our fellowship with all matter while suffering divinity’s perpetual departure from our midst. —Benjamin Friedlander
John Olson is the author of FREE STREAM VELOCITY (2003), a collection of prose poems, and ECHO REGIME (2000) a collection of poetry, both from Black Square Editions; EGGS & MIRRORS (1999), a chapbook of vignettes & prose poems published by local printer Paul Hunter, at Woodworks Press; and LOGO LAGOON (1999), a collection of prose poems, from Paper Brain Press in San Diego. His essays, articles, literary criticism, poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including New American Writing, Talisman, Sulfur, First Intensity, American Letters & Commentary, the American Book Review, Denver Quarterly, 3rd Bed, 5 Trope, Bird Dog, Monkey Puzzle, The Raven Chronicles, the Seattle Weekly, and The Stranger. "Dylan Goes Magenta," an essay on Bob Dylan's Tarantula, appears online at Titanic Operas. His essay "Inebriate Of Air" appears in the anthology Writing On Air, from M.I.T. Press.
July 5, 2006
Ed Roberson & April DeNonno
Ed Roberson, teacher and former aquarium worker in Pittsburgh, has a new book, City Eclogue, from Atelos Press. Earlier books include Lucid Interval as Integral Music; Atmosphere Conditions (Sun & Moon); Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In (winner of the 1995 Iowa Poetry Prize); and Just In/Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Poems (Talisman Books). Roberson lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Mr. Roberson lives in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Review of City Eclogue (Atelos, 2006) from Publishers Weekly
Alternately detailed and abstract, calmly attentive and angry about bad news, this set of short lyrics from Roberson (Atmospheric Conditions) describes urban verticality ("buildings/ modulate the blocks// upwards/ the city a sky of floors") and zeroes in on the New York metropolitan area in particular. His depictions include the detritus of so-called urban renewal, "From the project slabs leveled/ to the poor pride-kept and neat/ stands of/ old houses mowed down." They include, too, the sounds of black America, from "the street-talk birdcall of sucked teeth" to the disorienting jazz of Thelonious Monk. Lines like "Adventure somehow decides to bypass all the already," announces a modernist aesthetic which finds the basis for poetry anywhere. But however abstract he gets, Roberson never loses his sense of a personal voice, of a man talking (to himself or others) about the space in which we might try to live.
April DeNonno teaches contemporary literature, film, and cultural studies at Cornish College. Recent poems have appeared in the literary magazines Monkey Puzzle, Facture, and Fine Madness.
June 7, 2006
Ethan FUGATE and Daniel COMISKEY
Daniel Comiskey lives and works in Seattle. With Kreg Hasegawa, he edited Monkey Puzzle, a magazine of poetry and prose. He was a guest curator for the Subtext Reading Series in the fall of 2003, and worked as literary manager for The Poet's Theater, which produced readings of dramatic works written by poets including John Ashbery, e.e. cummings, Joyelle McSweeney, and Frank O'Hara. He has collaborated with other poets on a number of projects, the most recent of which is the long poem Crawlspace, written with C.E. Putnam and forthcoming as a chapbook (with bonus CD and 3-D glasses). Translations of Hu Xudong, produced in conjunction with Ying Qin, will appear later this year in the Talisman Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry.
Ethan Fugate is the author of self published chapbooks "Pneumatics" and "The Weight of the Sea in a Lazyboy Next Door." His work has recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Puppyflowers.com, and poems from the "Lazyboy" series may be heard on Tangent Radio http://www.thetangentpress.org/radio.htm. Ethan is the co-editor of the journal POM2. Ethan lives in Brooklyn with his beagle Coltrane and is currently finishing book length version of the "Lazyboy" poems.
May 3, 2006
Jules BOYKOFF and Kaia SAND
Jules Boykoff is the author of Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books, 2006), The Suppression of Dissent: How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements (Routledge, 2006), and Philosophical Investigations Inna Neo-Con Roots-Dub Styley (Interrupting Cow Press, 2004). He lives in Portland, Oregon where he teaches political science at Pacific University and co-edits the Tangent, a zine of politics and the arts
Kaia Sand is the author of Interval (Edge Books 2004), as well as several chapbooks. She is the co-editor of the Tangent, a zine, pamphlet, and chapbook press with a dormant radio show. She is currently working on a manuscript called why this body decided to be left-handed. She lives and writes and learns in Portland, and she writes and learns and teaches elsewhere, including, this summer, in Bulgaria.
April 5, 2006
Mark TARDI and Sarah MANGOLD
Mark Tardi lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. His first book Euclid Shudders (Litmus Press, 2003) was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. More recently, two chapbooks have appeared: Airport Music (Bronze Skull Press) and Part First – Chopin's Feet (g o n g). His poems, essays and reviews can be found in Antennae, Aufgabe, Bird Dog, Jacket, Play a Journal of Plays, Review of Contemporary Fiction, and other periodicals.
Sarah Mangold received a BA in English literature from the University of Oklahoma and an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Her books include Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets, 1998), Household Mechanics (New Issues, 2002, selected by C.D. Wright for the New Issues Poetry Prize), and Boxer Rebellion (g o n g, 2004). She is the recipient of an Individual Artist Award from the Seattle Arts Commission and a MacDowell Colony fellowship. She lives in Seattle and publishes/edits Bird Dog, a journal of innovative writing and art.
March 1, 2006
Jonathan BRANNEN and Adriana GRANT
Jonathan Brannen is the author of twelve collections of poetry and three collections of visual literature. His most recent books are Deaccessioned Landscapes (Chax Press, Tucson) and No Place To Fall (Sink Press, San Francisco, 1999). His poetry has appeared in more than 60 journals (most recently Tinfish, Situation, Texture, 6ix, Talisman, Juxta, DCPoetry, House Organ, and New Orleans Review) and a dozen anthologies. His short stories have appeared in Asylum Annual, Black Ice, Central Park, Fiction International, Degenerative Prose: Writing Beyond Category (FC2/Black Ice Books, 1995) and elsewhere. He currently resides in St. Paul, Minnesota where he edits Standing Stones Press.
Adriana Grant is a visual artist and poet. Her work employs objects or lines that may be found on the street. Her poems have appeared in LIT, The Diagram, Bird Dog, Monkey Puzzle, and are forthcoming in 3rd bed. Her poetry won third prize in 3rd bed's First Annual Prize for Poetry and Fiction, selected by Rosmarie and Keith Waldrop. She is the recipient of an Artist Trust Grant for Artist Projects (GAP) for a two-week writing jaunt in New Orleans. Critical work has appeared in The American Book Review, The Stranger, Rain Taxi and Art Access. Her visual art has been seen at the Henry Art Gallery, Western Bridge, Consolidated Works and Bumbershoot. Collaborating with Kristen Ramirez and Dan Rhoads, she curated Catalog, an exhibit at SOIL Art Gallery in December 2005. Her work will be included in a group show at ArtsWest in April 2006. She grew up in small-town New Hampshire and has lived in Seattle since 1995.
February 1, 2006
Brian EVENSON, Stacey LEVINE
Brian Evenson is the author of six books of fiction, including Altmann’s Tongue, Father of Lies, Contagion, and Dark Property. He is the recipient of a NEA Fellowship, an O. Henry Prize, and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award. His short fiction has appeared in The Paris Review, Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Third Bed, The Southern Review, and a number of other magazines. He teaches in Brown University’s Creative Writing Program, and is a Senior Editor for Conjunctions. Evenson earned his Ph.D. in critical theory and English literature at the University of Washington.
Stacey Levine lives in Seattle and is the author of the award winning My Horse and Other Stories, and Dra – (a novel), both from Sun & Moon Press. Her new novel Frances Johnson is forthcoming from Clear Cut Press.
January 4, 2006
Lucy CORIN and Jeanne HEUVING
Lucy Corin is a fiction writer with particular interest in innovative narrative. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Conjunctions, Fiction International, Southern Review and in anthologies such as Algonquin's New Stories from the South: The Year's Best (1997 and 2003), The Iowa Anthology of Innovative Narrative, and Serpent's Tail's Strictly Casual: Women on Love. Her novel, Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls was published by FC2 in 2004. She teaches at UC Davis.
Jeanne Heuving just won a Book of the Year Award from Small Press Traffic in San Francisco for her cross genre book Incapacity. Her recent poetry has been published in First Intensity, Bird Dog, Titanic Operas, Volt, Subtext Annual, and is forthcoming in 'A Right Good Salvo of Barks': Critics and Poets on Marianne Moore. She has published criticism on multiple avant-garde and innovative writers, including the book Omissions Are Not Accidents. She is currently finishing up a new critical book, The Transmutation of Love in Twentieth Century Poetry. She is on the editorial advisory board of HOW2 and a member of the Subtext Collective. She is on the faculty at the University of Washington, Bothell and Seattle.
Saturday, January 1, 2005
2005 Subtext Readings
2005
December 7, 2005
Rebecca BROWN, David McALEAVEY, Charles ALEXANDER
Rebecca Brown’s new book The Last Time I Saw You will be published by City Lights in Jan 2006. She is the author of Woman In Ill Fitting Wig, a collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer, and Excerpts From A Family Medical Dictionary which was recently published by Granta Books. Other books include The End of Youth, The Gifts of the Body, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, Annie Oakley’s Girl and The Terrible Girls. She has recently written the libretto for The Onion Twins, a dancer opera created in collaboration with Better Biscuit Dance which will have its Seattle premiere in Jan 2006. She teaches at Goddard College and is Creative Director of Literature at Centrum. She lives in Seattle.
Charles Alexander’s books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings, Arc of Light/Dark Matter, Etudes: D & D, Pushing Water 1-6, Pushing Water 7, Four Ninety Eight to Seven, Near or Random Acts, and more. Certain Slants, from Junction Press, is forthcoming. He founded Black Mesa Press in 1981, and founded Chax Press in 1984, where he works as director, editor, publisher, and book artist. Alexander has taught at the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, and Naropa University. In the mid-1990's he was the executive director of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, where he organized the symposium Art & Language: Re-Reading the Boundless Book, and edited the book Talking the Boundless Book.
David McAleavey’s fifth book of poems, Huge Haiku was recently published by Chax Press. Earlier volumes are Sterling 403 (1971), The Forty Days (1975), Shrine, Shelter, Cave (1980), and Holding Obsidian (1985), and David McAleavey's Greatest Hits, 1971-2000 (2001). He was editor and publisher of Ithaca House Press in the 1970s, and has been teaching at George Washington University since 1974, where he has been director of creative writing in the English Department since 1998.
November 3, 2005
Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian
Dodie Bellamy's latest collection of writings, Academonia, is forthcoming in 2005 from Factory School Press. Pink Steam, her collection of stories, memoirs and memoiresque essays, was published in 2004 by San Francisco's Suspect Thoughts Press. Also in 2004, her infamous epistolary vampire novel, The Letters of Mina Harker, was reprinted by the University of Wisconsin Press. Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. She is currently working on The Fourth Form, a multi-dimensional sex novel. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Antioch University, Los Angeles.
Kevin Killian, born 1952, is a US poet, novelist, critic and playwright. He has written a book of poetry, Argento Series (2001), two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), and a book of stories, Little Men (1996) that won the PEN Oakland award for fiction. A second collection I Cry Like a Baby was published by Painted Leaf Books in 2001. With Lew Ellingham, Killian has written many essays and articles on the life and work of the American poet Jack Spicer [1925-65] and co-edited Spicer’s posthumous books The Train of Thought and The Tower of Babel (both 1994). Their biography of Spicer, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1998. He and Peter Gizzi are currently (2005) editing Spicer’s complete poems. Killian's work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in, among others, Best American Poetry 1988 (ed. John Ashbery), Men on Men (ed. Geo. Stambolian), Discontents (ed. Dennis Cooper), Best Gay American Fiction 1996 and 1997 (ed. Brian Bouldrey), and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (ed. Timothy Liu). For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written thirty plays, including Stone Marmalade (1996, with Leslie Scalapino) and Often (2001, with Barbara Guest). He is the film columnist for the new online journal Fanzine. His next book—in fact, his next two books—will be all about Kylie Minogue.
October 5, 2005
Stephen Collis & Cathleen Shattuck
Poet and critic Stephen Collis is the author of two books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) and Anarchive (New Star 2005), as well as numerous chapbooks, including The Birth of Blue (1997), Anima/lung (1998), Midden (2001) and Blackberries (2005). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and he is the author of two forthcoming book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe/George Butterick, a Correspondence (ELS 2006), and has edited Companions & Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry (WCL 2005). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University. He lives with his family in Tsawwassen BC where he indulges his current obsession with Thoreau and berry picking.
Appearing in select living rooms, Cathleen Shattuck sings for the Strawberry Roans and is seven years into her Seattle residence. Her poems have appeared in First Intensity, Five Fingers Review, Oblek, Ashen Meal and Notus and has published two books: The Three Queens and House.
September 7, 2005
Panel Discussion: WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH POETICS
Members of the community and of the Subtext collective, including Ezra Mark, Jeanne Heuving, Bryant Mason, and Robert Mittenthal will address the subject of poetics. An attempt to assess, re-assess the how and why, or the whatever of writing: its process, politics & product.
What’s happened, what’s happening? Where are “we” going; what are people thinking / doing?
Texts as openings for discussion from are available at http://subtext-poetics.blogspot.com/ Or contact miss_bosanquet@yahoo.com for more information. Your participation is encouraged and necessary.
August 3, 2005
Rusty MORRISON and Christine DEAVEL
Rusty Morrison’s Whethering won the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Forrest Gander. Her poems &/or essays have appeared in Boston Review, Conduit, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, New American Writing, Rain Taxi, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She is the co-winner of the 2003 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Five Fingers Review Poetry Prize. Co-editor and co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishing, and co-edits the poetry journal 26, which is affiliated with the Saint Mary's MFA program. She is also a contributing editor for Poetry Flash.
Christine Deavel's work has appeared in Fence, Ploughshares, Talisman, American Poetry Review, and other magazines. She is co-owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium, one of two poetry-only bookstores in the country.
July 6, 2005
Christian BÖK and Nico VASSILAKIS
Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence (2002). Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), his first book of poetry, has also earned a nomination for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (1995). Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry. His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s Cubes and Lego Bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. Bök currently teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/index.html
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http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bok.html
Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle. Recent writing can be found in Bird Dog, Traverse, 3rd Bed, 5 trope. Nico has a DVD recently available titled Concrete: Movies. He is also working on a play about Morton Feldman. With compass and pencil he is drafting his way through dread.
Ron Silliman writes: Nico Vassilakis writes a very clean line… There are, of course, as many reasons to not want a clean line as there might be to desire one. Like rhyme or the tub-thumping metrics of iambic pentameter, the form insinuates a vision of unmediated & harmonious existence that is patently a lie. Vassilakis does a superb job in … of using just such possibilities against themselves. Sort of an anti-Moxley, Vassilakis’s irony meter has arrived at a throbbing red maximum. “Meanness is allowed to fester / And it will ruin the spine” is an absolutely fabulous moment in this regard. It is difficult to imagine how an individual could ever hope to write much better than that.
June 1, 2005
Ezra MARK & Susan CLARK
Susan CLARK is the author of as lit x: the syntax of adoration (Runcible Mountain). Editor of the reknown journal Raddle Moon, she currently lives in Victoria BC. Other books include Bad Infinity, Believing in the World, & Suck Glow.
Ezra MARK is a signifying practice, as specific yet as general as the words "alone" and "bread." He is the author of Intention, Narthex, and Two. His influences include Wittgenstein, Agnes Martin & baseball.
May 4, 2005
Eric BAUS & Joseph BRADSHAW
Eric Baus' book, The To Sound , was selected by Forrest Gander for the 2002 Verse Press Prize and was awarded a grant from the Greenwall Fund of the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of three chapbooks: The Space Between Magnets , A Swarm In The Aperture , and Something Else The Music Was . His poems have appeared in Verse, Colorado Review, Hambone, Web Conjunctions, and other journals. He currently lives in western Massachusetts.
Peter Gizzi writes: Eric Baus has channeled the consciousness of migratory animals, of a collective self, of others, of objects. He has written an open letter from a marvelous land just beside this one, a place of interior wonder and intimate noise. It’s The To Sound of course: bent, exuberant notes that will wake you up wherever you are.
Joseph Bradshaw cofounded and helps FO A RM Magazine, and is a member of the Spare Room poetry collective in Portland. Recent work has appeared at flim.com, in many mailboxes, and is forthcoming in more mailboxes and in the form of a chapbook, Wolf Assay.
April 6, 2005
Lance Olsen & Andi Olsen & Vanessa DeWolf
Lance Olsen is author of fifteen books of and about innovative fiction, including his new novel 10:01 about the Mall of America, which exists in complementary print and hypermedia versions. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two, one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. His website is http://www.cafezeitgeist.com/.
Andi Olsen is a collagist, assemblage artist, and short-film maker who explores the notion of monstrosity in her ongoing installation Hideous Beauties: A Freak Show. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and published around the country and abroad. Her website is www.cafezeitgeist.com/andi.html.
Vanessa DeWolf creates image-based performances and artworks using: found text, objects, improvisation, writing processes and collage-forms. In 2002 she investigated the inner life of a 1950's housewife through her appliances in "Her Home Magic Set". In 2001 Vanessa received an Artist Trust GAP grant to complete "Citrus Effect", an obsessive collection of orange, lime and lemon objects that resulted in a series of site-specific performances. She is eclectically trained as a figure skater, visual artist, and performer and in 1992 received an M.A. in Playwriting at Boston University under the tutelage of Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott. Last year "Even Here", an installation-performance, was selected for On The Boards 2004 Northwest New Works. In 2004 Vanessa, also had "Narrative Object #5: A Woman's Hairpiece", selected for the Tacoma Art Museum's Northwest Biennial. She is currently the director of The Field-Seattle, an artist-run organization that holds regular peer-review feedback sessions for writers and performers. In addition to being the director, she has been the editor and publisher of "FLOW", an annual Field-Seattle chapbook. She is the proud partner of STUDIO-CURRENT, a new multi-arts studio in the heart of Capitol Hill and home to Tuesday Surrealists.
March 2, 2005
Kerri Sonnenberg & Drew Kunz
KERRI SONNENBERG lives in Chicago where she edits the journal Conundrum and co-directs the Discrete Reading Series. Her first book, _The Mudra_, was published by Litmus Press in 2004, and the chapbook _Practical Art Criticism_ is forthcoming from Bronze Skull Press. Work has appeared in the journals 26, Bird Dog, antennae, Crayon, Factorial, Moria and elsewhere.
Photographer, artist, & writer
DREW KUNZ is co-editor of the poetry journal traverse as well as editor of g o n g chapbooks. He has published numerous pieces in antennae, Aufgabe, Bird Dog, Conundrum, & the Cultural Society on-line. He has work forthcoming in Pom2 and has provided monotypes for Stacy Szymaszekís book _Emptied of All Ships_ (Litmus Press, 2005). He currently lives on Bainbridge Island with his wife and their cat.
February 2, 2005
Alicia Cohen and Seattle School
Alicia Cohen lives in Portland, Oregon, where, in 2000, she helped establish the art space collective Pacific Switchboard. She has published a book of poems, _bEAR_, with Handwritten Press and last year wrote, directed, and produced a multimedia opera and gallery installation titled "Northwest Inhabitation Log." Her work has recently appeared in Ecopoetics, How2, Bird Dog, and Traverse. She earned her doctorate at SUNY Buffalo, writing a dissertation about vision and epistemology in the work of Jack Spicer, Emily Dickinson, Leslie Scalapino, and Robert Duncan. She is the poetry editor for the Organ review of Arts.
Seattle School was established in 2002 as a performance group interested in exploring sound and music, primarily in terms of spatial relations, memory, deep-time/wide-incidence, calculus, communication/notation, failure, physicality, and inquiries into the definitions of tone, language, and audience. Influences include the Futurists, Dada, Earle Brown, Fluxus, Aktionists, Yoko Ono, Irritart, John Cage, Abbie Hoffman, Buster Keaton, Harry Partch, Alvin Lucier, Andy Kaufman, video game audio implementation, and No Wave.
Mike Min was honorably discharged from the US Army. Between 1998 and 2000, he released three independent CD's: Popollution, At Chateau Dunbar, and The Aberdeen Transplant (2000). He has scored for the films True and Black Sheep of Chinatown, and, for a brief period until its demise, IgooTV employed Min as its resident composer. He is a member of the Seattle Composers Alliance and serves as the Vice President of Sound Currents.
Korby Sears attended the University of North Texas as a composition major, with an instrumental concentration in organ performance. He has contributed music and sound design to projects in diverse media, including a number of films and video games. As a performer, Korby has been principal contrabassist for the Sammamish Symphony, a pit orchestra member of the Peccadillo Players, and a freelance jazz pianist, accordionist, and contrabassist with various jazz ensembles. He has written for The Stranger, Seattle Weekly and P-Form Magazine. He curates the Seattle Composers Alliance Score Salon series, a monthly orchestral score study group.
January 5, 2005
David Matlin & Lou Rowan
DAVID MATLIN is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His collections of poetry and prose include the books _China Beach_, _Dressed In Protective Fashion_, and _Fontana's Mirror_. His first novel _How the Night is Divided_ (McPherson & Company, 1993) was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. †Excerpts from his new novel entitled _A HalfMan Dreaming_ have been published in the Notre Dame Review, Apex of the M, Golden Handcuffs Review, Fiction International, Poetry New York, and FLASHPOINT.
His book length essay _Vernooykill Creek: The Crisis of Prisons in America_ (San Diego State Univ Press, 1997) is based on ten years of teaching in one of the oldest Prison Education Programs in the nation in New York State. This essay discusses the crisis of prisons, the invention of surplus populations, and how America has been mining its own civil disintegrations for at least two decades. The book was widely reviewed and continues to receive strong critical acclaim. A new publication of the book with a more extensive introduction is forthcoming from North Atlantic Books. From 1986 through 1989, Matlin was the Curator of Poetry and Literature at P.S.1 and the Clocktower in New York City. He is a widely published reviewer and an essayist on art, literature, and culture. He lives in San Diego where he teaches in both the Literature and MFA Creative Writing Programs at SDSU.
LOU ROWAN currently writes fiction and essays. He's at work on a novel about the losing of the American West, and he has completed a book of short stories, _Except My Life_, a satirical novel narrated by a superhero, and a collection of poems. His fiction currently appears in Prague Literary Review, and his stories, essays and poetry have appeared in a wide variety of journals. He began writing in New York City, and participated in many of the literary experiments around St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. He has earned his living as a businessman and as an educator, and now edits Golden Handcuffs Review and works in residential real estate in Seattle.
December 7, 2005
Rebecca BROWN, David McALEAVEY, Charles ALEXANDER
Rebecca Brown’s new book The Last Time I Saw You will be published by City Lights in Jan 2006. She is the author of Woman In Ill Fitting Wig, a collaboration with painter Nancy Kiefer, and Excerpts From A Family Medical Dictionary which was recently published by Granta Books. Other books include The End of Youth, The Gifts of the Body, The Dogs: A Modern Bestiary, Annie Oakley’s Girl and The Terrible Girls. She has recently written the libretto for The Onion Twins, a dancer opera created in collaboration with Better Biscuit Dance which will have its Seattle premiere in Jan 2006. She teaches at Goddard College and is Creative Director of Literature at Centrum. She lives in Seattle.
Charles Alexander’s books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings, Arc of Light/Dark Matter, Etudes: D & D, Pushing Water 1-6, Pushing Water 7, Four Ninety Eight to Seven, Near or Random Acts, and more. Certain Slants, from Junction Press, is forthcoming. He founded Black Mesa Press in 1981, and founded Chax Press in 1984, where he works as director, editor, publisher, and book artist. Alexander has taught at the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, and Naropa University. In the mid-1990's he was the executive director of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, where he organized the symposium Art & Language: Re-Reading the Boundless Book, and edited the book Talking the Boundless Book.
Poet Robert Creeley has written that Alexander's work "hears a complex literacy of literalizing words. By means of a fencing of statements, sense is found rather than determined. The real is as thought."
Ron Silliman writes of Alexander's Arc of Light/Dark Matter : "What begins in the eye as a paragraph becomes in the ear a line, 53 of them in fact, one line poems rich with news, life, war, sex, parenting, the texts at hand, the spicing of mulled thought, humor, bright southwestern colors, and an ear to die for."
Ron Silliman writes of Alexander's Arc of Light/Dark Matter : "What begins in the eye as a paragraph becomes in the ear a line, 53 of them in fact, one line poems rich with news, life, war, sex, parenting, the texts at hand, the spicing of mulled thought, humor, bright southwestern colors, and an ear to die for."
David McAleavey’s fifth book of poems, Huge Haiku was recently published by Chax Press. Earlier volumes are Sterling 403 (1971), The Forty Days (1975), Shrine, Shelter, Cave (1980), and Holding Obsidian (1985), and David McAleavey's Greatest Hits, 1971-2000 (2001). He was editor and publisher of Ithaca House Press in the 1970s, and has been teaching at George Washington University since 1974, where he has been director of creative writing in the English Department since 1998.
November 3, 2005
Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian
Dodie Bellamy's latest collection of writings, Academonia, is forthcoming in 2005 from Factory School Press. Pink Steam, her collection of stories, memoirs and memoiresque essays, was published in 2004 by San Francisco's Suspect Thoughts Press. Also in 2004, her infamous epistolary vampire novel, The Letters of Mina Harker, was reprinted by the University of Wisconsin Press. Her book Cunt-Ups (Tender Buttons) won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. She is currently working on The Fourth Form, a multi-dimensional sex novel. She teaches creative writing at San Francisco State University and Antioch University, Los Angeles.
Kevin Killian, born 1952, is a US poet, novelist, critic and playwright. He has written a book of poetry, Argento Series (2001), two novels, Shy (1989) and Arctic Summer (1997), a book of memoirs, Bedrooms Have Windows (1989), and a book of stories, Little Men (1996) that won the PEN Oakland award for fiction. A second collection I Cry Like a Baby was published by Painted Leaf Books in 2001. With Lew Ellingham, Killian has written many essays and articles on the life and work of the American poet Jack Spicer [1925-65] and co-edited Spicer’s posthumous books The Train of Thought and The Tower of Babel (both 1994). Their biography of Spicer, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance was published by Wesleyan University Press in 1998. He and Peter Gizzi are currently (2005) editing Spicer’s complete poems. Killian's work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in, among others, Best American Poetry 1988 (ed. John Ashbery), Men on Men (ed. Geo. Stambolian), Discontents (ed. Dennis Cooper), Best Gay American Fiction 1996 and 1997 (ed. Brian Bouldrey), and Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (ed. Timothy Liu). For the San Francisco Poets Theater Killian has written thirty plays, including Stone Marmalade (1996, with Leslie Scalapino) and Often (2001, with Barbara Guest). He is the film columnist for the new online journal Fanzine. His next book—in fact, his next two books—will be all about Kylie Minogue.
October 5, 2005
Stephen Collis & Cathleen Shattuck
Poet and critic Stephen Collis is the author of two books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) and Anarchive (New Star 2005), as well as numerous chapbooks, including The Birth of Blue (1997), Anima/lung (1998), Midden (2001) and Blackberries (2005). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and he is the author of two forthcoming book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe/George Butterick, a Correspondence (ELS 2006), and has edited Companions & Horizons: An Anthology of Simon Fraser University Poetry (WCL 2005). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University. He lives with his family in Tsawwassen BC where he indulges his current obsession with Thoreau and berry picking.
Appearing in select living rooms, Cathleen Shattuck sings for the Strawberry Roans and is seven years into her Seattle residence. Her poems have appeared in First Intensity, Five Fingers Review, Oblek, Ashen Meal and Notus and has published two books: The Three Queens and House.
September 7, 2005
Panel Discussion: WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH POETICS
Members of the community and of the Subtext collective, including Ezra Mark, Jeanne Heuving, Bryant Mason, and Robert Mittenthal will address the subject of poetics. An attempt to assess, re-assess the how and why, or the whatever of writing: its process, politics & product.
What’s happened, what’s happening? Where are “we” going; what are people thinking / doing?
Texts as openings for discussion from are available at http://subtext-poetics.blogspot.com/ Or contact miss_bosanquet@yahoo.com for more information. Your participation is encouraged and necessary.
August 3, 2005
Rusty MORRISON and Christine DEAVEL
Rusty Morrison’s Whethering won the 2004 Colorado Prize for Poetry, selected by Forrest Gander. Her poems &/or essays have appeared in Boston Review, Conduit, Conjunctions, Denver Quarterly, First Intensity, New American Writing, Rain Taxi, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere. She is the co-winner of the 2003 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the Five Fingers Review Poetry Prize. Co-editor and co-publisher of Omnidawn Publishing, and co-edits the poetry journal 26, which is affiliated with the Saint Mary's MFA program. She is also a contributing editor for Poetry Flash.
Christine Deavel's work has appeared in Fence, Ploughshares, Talisman, American Poetry Review, and other magazines. She is co-owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium, one of two poetry-only bookstores in the country.
July 6, 2005
Christian BÖK and Nico VASSILAKIS
Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence (2002). Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), his first book of poetry, has also earned a nomination for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (1995). Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. Bök has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry. His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s Cubes and Lego Bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. Bök currently teaches in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.
http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/index.html
http://www.chbooks.com/online/eunoia/new_ennui.html
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bok
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bok.html
Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle. Recent writing can be found in Bird Dog, Traverse, 3rd Bed, 5 trope. Nico has a DVD recently available titled Concrete: Movies. He is also working on a play about Morton Feldman. With compass and pencil he is drafting his way through dread.
Ron Silliman writes: Nico Vassilakis writes a very clean line… There are, of course, as many reasons to not want a clean line as there might be to desire one. Like rhyme or the tub-thumping metrics of iambic pentameter, the form insinuates a vision of unmediated & harmonious existence that is patently a lie. Vassilakis does a superb job in … of using just such possibilities against themselves. Sort of an anti-Moxley, Vassilakis’s irony meter has arrived at a throbbing red maximum. “Meanness is allowed to fester / And it will ruin the spine” is an absolutely fabulous moment in this regard. It is difficult to imagine how an individual could ever hope to write much better than that.
June 1, 2005
Ezra MARK & Susan CLARK
Susan CLARK is the author of as lit x: the syntax of adoration (Runcible Mountain). Editor of the reknown journal Raddle Moon, she currently lives in Victoria BC. Other books include Bad Infinity, Believing in the World, & Suck Glow.
Ezra MARK is a signifying practice, as specific yet as general as the words "alone" and "bread." He is the author of Intention, Narthex, and Two. His influences include Wittgenstein, Agnes Martin & baseball.
May 4, 2005
Eric BAUS & Joseph BRADSHAW
Eric Baus' book, The To Sound , was selected by Forrest Gander for the 2002 Verse Press Prize and was awarded a grant from the Greenwall Fund of the Academy of American Poets. He is also the author of three chapbooks: The Space Between Magnets , A Swarm In The Aperture , and Something Else The Music Was . His poems have appeared in Verse, Colorado Review, Hambone, Web Conjunctions, and other journals. He currently lives in western Massachusetts.
Peter Gizzi writes: Eric Baus has channeled the consciousness of migratory animals, of a collective self, of others, of objects. He has written an open letter from a marvelous land just beside this one, a place of interior wonder and intimate noise. It’s The To Sound of course: bent, exuberant notes that will wake you up wherever you are.
Joseph Bradshaw cofounded and helps FO A RM Magazine, and is a member of the Spare Room poetry collective in Portland. Recent work has appeared at flim.com, in many mailboxes, and is forthcoming in more mailboxes and in the form of a chapbook, Wolf Assay.
April 6, 2005
Lance Olsen & Andi Olsen & Vanessa DeWolf
Lance Olsen is author of fifteen books of and about innovative fiction, including his new novel 10:01 about the Mall of America, which exists in complementary print and hypermedia versions. He serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fiction Collective Two, one of America's best-known ongoing literary experiments and progressive art communities. His website is http://www.cafezeitgeist.com/.
Andi Olsen is a collagist, assemblage artist, and short-film maker who explores the notion of monstrosity in her ongoing installation Hideous Beauties: A Freak Show. Her work has been exhibited, screened, and published around the country and abroad. Her website is www.cafezeitgeist.com/andi.html.
Vanessa DeWolf creates image-based performances and artworks using: found text, objects, improvisation, writing processes and collage-forms. In 2002 she investigated the inner life of a 1950's housewife through her appliances in "Her Home Magic Set". In 2001 Vanessa received an Artist Trust GAP grant to complete "Citrus Effect", an obsessive collection of orange, lime and lemon objects that resulted in a series of site-specific performances. She is eclectically trained as a figure skater, visual artist, and performer and in 1992 received an M.A. in Playwriting at Boston University under the tutelage of Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott. Last year "Even Here", an installation-performance, was selected for On The Boards 2004 Northwest New Works. In 2004 Vanessa, also had "Narrative Object #5: A Woman's Hairpiece", selected for the Tacoma Art Museum's Northwest Biennial. She is currently the director of The Field-Seattle, an artist-run organization that holds regular peer-review feedback sessions for writers and performers. In addition to being the director, she has been the editor and publisher of "FLOW", an annual Field-Seattle chapbook. She is the proud partner of STUDIO-CURRENT, a new multi-arts studio in the heart of Capitol Hill and home to Tuesday Surrealists.
March 2, 2005
Kerri Sonnenberg & Drew Kunz
KERRI SONNENBERG lives in Chicago where she edits the journal Conundrum and co-directs the Discrete Reading Series. Her first book, _The Mudra_, was published by Litmus Press in 2004, and the chapbook _Practical Art Criticism_ is forthcoming from Bronze Skull Press. Work has appeared in the journals 26, Bird Dog, antennae, Crayon, Factorial, Moria and elsewhere.
Photographer, artist, & writer
DREW KUNZ is co-editor of the poetry journal traverse as well as editor of g o n g chapbooks. He has published numerous pieces in antennae, Aufgabe, Bird Dog, Conundrum, & the Cultural Society on-line. He has work forthcoming in Pom2 and has provided monotypes for Stacy Szymaszekís book _Emptied of All Ships_ (Litmus Press, 2005). He currently lives on Bainbridge Island with his wife and their cat.
February 2, 2005
Alicia Cohen and Seattle School
Alicia Cohen lives in Portland, Oregon, where, in 2000, she helped establish the art space collective Pacific Switchboard. She has published a book of poems, _bEAR_, with Handwritten Press and last year wrote, directed, and produced a multimedia opera and gallery installation titled "Northwest Inhabitation Log." Her work has recently appeared in Ecopoetics, How2, Bird Dog, and Traverse. She earned her doctorate at SUNY Buffalo, writing a dissertation about vision and epistemology in the work of Jack Spicer, Emily Dickinson, Leslie Scalapino, and Robert Duncan. She is the poetry editor for the Organ review of Arts.
Seattle School was established in 2002 as a performance group interested in exploring sound and music, primarily in terms of spatial relations, memory, deep-time/wide-incidence, calculus, communication/notation, failure, physicality, and inquiries into the definitions of tone, language, and audience. Influences include the Futurists, Dada, Earle Brown, Fluxus, Aktionists, Yoko Ono, Irritart, John Cage, Abbie Hoffman, Buster Keaton, Harry Partch, Alvin Lucier, Andy Kaufman, video game audio implementation, and No Wave.
Mike Min was honorably discharged from the US Army. Between 1998 and 2000, he released three independent CD's: Popollution, At Chateau Dunbar, and The Aberdeen Transplant (2000). He has scored for the films True and Black Sheep of Chinatown, and, for a brief period until its demise, IgooTV employed Min as its resident composer. He is a member of the Seattle Composers Alliance and serves as the Vice President of Sound Currents.
Korby Sears attended the University of North Texas as a composition major, with an instrumental concentration in organ performance. He has contributed music and sound design to projects in diverse media, including a number of films and video games. As a performer, Korby has been principal contrabassist for the Sammamish Symphony, a pit orchestra member of the Peccadillo Players, and a freelance jazz pianist, accordionist, and contrabassist with various jazz ensembles. He has written for The Stranger, Seattle Weekly and P-Form Magazine. He curates the Seattle Composers Alliance Score Salon series, a monthly orchestral score study group.
January 5, 2005
David Matlin & Lou Rowan
DAVID MATLIN is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His collections of poetry and prose include the books _China Beach_, _Dressed In Protective Fashion_, and _Fontana's Mirror_. His first novel _How the Night is Divided_ (McPherson & Company, 1993) was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1993. †Excerpts from his new novel entitled _A HalfMan Dreaming_ have been published in the Notre Dame Review, Apex of the M, Golden Handcuffs Review, Fiction International, Poetry New York, and FLASHPOINT.
His book length essay _Vernooykill Creek: The Crisis of Prisons in America_ (San Diego State Univ Press, 1997) is based on ten years of teaching in one of the oldest Prison Education Programs in the nation in New York State. This essay discusses the crisis of prisons, the invention of surplus populations, and how America has been mining its own civil disintegrations for at least two decades. The book was widely reviewed and continues to receive strong critical acclaim. A new publication of the book with a more extensive introduction is forthcoming from North Atlantic Books. From 1986 through 1989, Matlin was the Curator of Poetry and Literature at P.S.1 and the Clocktower in New York City. He is a widely published reviewer and an essayist on art, literature, and culture. He lives in San Diego where he teaches in both the Literature and MFA Creative Writing Programs at SDSU.
LOU ROWAN currently writes fiction and essays. He's at work on a novel about the losing of the American West, and he has completed a book of short stories, _Except My Life_, a satirical novel narrated by a superhero, and a collection of poems. His fiction currently appears in Prague Literary Review, and his stories, essays and poetry have appeared in a wide variety of journals. He began writing in New York City, and participated in many of the literary experiments around St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. He has earned his living as a businessman and as an educator, and now edits Golden Handcuffs Review and works in residential real estate in Seattle.
Thursday, January 1, 2004
2004 Subtext Readings
2004
DECEMBER 1, 2004
Catriona Strang & Nancy Shaw
Catriona STRANG and Nancy SHAW are from Vancouver BC and co-authored Busted (Coach House). They each have books from ECW in Toronto: Low Fancy and Scopocratic, respectively. Strang's collaboration with Francois Houle is available on the CD Clamourous Alphabet.
Shaw is also a visual artist and curator. Busted is a book about governance, and a catalogue of possible relations. It explores a litany of genres concerned with allegiance and refusal, and inhabits the array of ways we do or donít jive with self, group and governing relations. It is a polemic, it is a collage that interrogates how language and linguistic discourses contribute to shaping the relationship between the subject and polity.
NOVEMBER 3, 2004
David ABEL & William FOX
David ABEL is a co-instigator of the Spare Room reading series (www.flim.com/spareroom) in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Recent publications include "A Reading of a Reading of Ashes" (envelope #6) and Threnos (designed and sewn on a thirty-seven-foot ribbon by Katherine Kuehn). "Embargo" is forthcoming in the next issue of Slope (www.slope.org), devoted to responses to the Treasury Department's proposed interdiction on the editing of manuscripts from Iran. Other recent Portland manifestations include the installation/performance "Permanent Red" (with percussionist Tim DuRoche) at the Modern Zoo; a four-hour version of "Chutes and Ladders: A Word Event for mARK oWENs and Jackson Mac Low" at Pacific Switchboard's Fluxus Seminar; and the premiere of Frozen Sea at the Collaborative Poetics Festival.
William L. FOX has published fifteen collections of poetry and six nonfiction books about cognition and landscape. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, and most recently the National Endowment for the Humanities. Recent books of poetry include Reading Sand: Selected Desert Poems, 1975-2000 (University of Nevada) and One Wave Standing (La Alameda Press); of nonfiction, Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty (University of Nevada) and The Void, the Grid, and the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin (University of Utah). He lives in Los Angeles, where he has recently completed books on the Antarctic and Las Vegas, and is working on a book about Mars..
4 PM, SUN OCTOBER 24, 2004 At HENRY ART GALLERY
Marjorie Perloff & Charlie Altieri
CRITICS AS PERFORMERS
Well known critics of contemporaneity / postmodernity take to the stage, exploring what it means to be a critic as performer. Casting off their prepared remarks &/or taking them up anew, these critics enter into the space of their own abandon. No longer avant or apres la lettre, but extemporaneous, expropriating, exfoliating, these critics subsume the excess of their own presence, do just what they want to do, for an evening of wind sheer, free fall, perspicacious pleasures, serious maladies and the like.
Charles Altieri, who spent more than a decade in Seattle at the UW, is currently Professor of English at University of California - Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books on critical theory and literary modernism, and a leading authority on expressive theories of art. He has a new book from Cornell University Press titled The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. His books include: Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (Cambridge); Canons and Consequences (Northwestern); Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications; Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.
Marjorie Perloff is professor emeritus at Stanford and is author of innumerable critical books and essays, including The Poetics of Indeterminacy, and most recently The Vienna Paradox (a memoir from New Directions). See http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/perloff/vita.html.
OCTOBER 6, 2004
Margareta WATERMAN & Marion KIMES
Margareta WATERMAN's career in poetry has included most of the stations of the craft: 22 books published; evenings of abstract theatre, mixed-media events and poetry readings; innovative poetry videos, touring the US and Canada; visual poetry mural; collaborative work; festivals; magazines and reviews; workshops. She is publisher of Nine Muses Press. Her work has been featured and praised in magazines and books, on radio and television, in poetry scenes and other literate worlds. Her most recent books are hohokam (a fiction chapbook) and loose ends. She has never left an audience unmoved.
Marion KIMES brought her love of the live reading here in 1981. Over the years a fine pile of small-press books & broadsides has accumulated beside a long list of readings, fests & projects. Her books include CROW'S EYES, of multiplication & light (Nine Muses), Whirled, and NAMORATUNG'A (Woodworks). She has been a driving force in Red Sky Theatre for many years.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
Chris MANN & Zhang ER
ZHANG ER was born in Beijing, China, and moved to the United States in 1986. She writes in Chinese, then translates her poems into English with various collaborators. Collections of her work in Chinese include Seen, Unseen, published by QingHai Publishing House of China in 1999, and Water Words, published by New World Poetry Press in 2002. She has published numerous chapbooks in English including: Winter Garden (Goats and Compasses), Verses on Bird (Jensen/Daniels), The Autumn of Gu Yao (Spuyten Duyvil), Cross River, Pick Lotus (Belladonna Books), and Carved Water (Tinfish Press). She teaches at Evergreen State College in Olympia.
CHRIS MANN is an Australian composer (currently based in NYC) working in Compositional Linguistics. Or, as he tells it: "Remember that day in second grade when they told you there was a difference between language and music? Well, I was out that day." Mann's work is a dense rush of words - philosophical musings, theoretical babble, Aussie vernacular - delivered at a superhuman velocity that transforms sentences into melodic lines, blurring the distinction between "reading" and "singing." You can't understand a word he says, but it sounds great. Much like opera. Only much, much faster. A founding member of the improvised music/word group Machine for Making Sense, Mann's texts have been deconstructed, interpreted, and set by admiring artists such as Thomas Buckner, John Cage, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Annea Lockwood, Larry Polansky, Robert Rauschenberg, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. His recordings have been released by Lovely Music, Frog Peak, Nonsequitur, and others.
THURSDAY AUGUST 12, 2004
RON SILLIMAN
Ron Silliman has written and edited 25 books to date, including the anthology In the American Tree, which the National Poetry Foundation has just republished with a new afterword. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. Volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, (r), Toner, What and Xing. Woundwood, his most recent book, is one section of VOG.
His http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com is one of the most widely read blogs on poetics in the English language. Silliman was a 2003 Literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council and received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry. An extensive bibliography can be found at: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/silliman/pub.html
AUGUST 4, 2004
Nathaniel TARN & Janet RODNEY
Nathaniel Tarn has published some twenty-five of poetry and many volumes of translation, including Pablo Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu. His latest books of poems include: _Selected Poems: 1950-2000_ (Wesleyan), _The St Petersburg Poems_ and _The Architextures_ (Chax). He also has an anthology of essays of literary and cultural criticism titled _Views from the Weaving Mountain_. Recipient of numerous awards including the Guinness prize, the Wenner Gren fellowship, a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. A specialist in Highland Maya studies and the sociology of Buddhist institutions, he currently lives north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Janet Rodney is a digital artist, poet and letterpress printer living in Santa Fe, where she runs Weaselsleeves Press. She is author of four books of poetry, including _Orphydice_, _Atitlan / Alashka_, and the meditative memoir _The Book of Craving_. Raised in Europe, the United States, and Taiwan, she spent fifteen years in Spain as a journalist, editor, translator, and interpreter. Digital images and words are forthcoming in the on-line magazine, Titanic Operas (www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/).
JULY 7, 2004
SUBTEXT POETRY READING - 10th ANNIVERSARY GROUP READING
Readers including: Nico Vassilakis, April Denonno, Maged Zaher, Jeanne Heuving, Doug Nufer, Christine Deavel, John Olson, Joe Keppler, Joe Donahue, Adriana Grant, Mickey O'Connor, Roberta Olson, Lou Rowan, Ezra Mark, Bryant Mason, Kreg Hasegawa, Robert Mittenthal, and maybe more.
JUNE 2, 2004
Lidia YUKNAVITCH & Stacey LEVINE
Lidia Yuknavitch is author of three collections of short stories, _Her Other Mouths_, _Liberty's Excess_, and _Real to Reel_ (FC2), and a critical work, _Allegories of Violence: Tracing the Writing of War in Late 20th Century Fiction_ (Routledge). Founder of Chiasmus Press, and publisher of Northwest Edge, she lives in Portland, OR.
Stacey Levine lives in Seattle and is the author of the award winning _My Horse and Other Stories_, and _Dra ñ (a novel)_, both from Sun & Moon Press. Her new novel _Frances Johnson_ is forthcoming from Clear Cut Press.
May 5, 2004
CRITICS AS PERFORMERS featuring:
Charles ALTIERI and Steven SHAVIRO
CRITICS AS PERFORMERS -- A SUBTEXT SPECIAL EVENT
Well known critics of contemporaneity / postmodernity take to the stage, exploring what it means to be a critic as performer. Casting off their prepared remarks &/or taking them up anew, these critics enter into the space of their own abandon. No longer avant or apres la lettre, but extemporaneous, expropriating, exfoliating, these critics subsume the excess of their own presence, do just what they want to do, for an evening of wind sheer, free fall, perspicacious pleasures, serious maladies and the like.
Charles Altieri, who spent more than a decade in Seattle at the UW, is currently Professor of English at University of California - Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books on critical theory and literary modernism, and a leading authority on expressive theories of art. He has a new book from Cornell University Press titled The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. His books include: Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (Cambridge); Canons and Consequences (Northwestern); Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications; Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.
Steve Shaviro is author of Connected, or what it means to live in the network society (University of Minnesota, 2003), Doom Patrols (Serpents Tail), The Cinematic Body, and Passion and Excess. He is currently teaching his last term at the UW before moving to Detroit to teach at Wayne State University.
APRIL 7, 2004
Anselm BERRIGAN & Karen WEISER
Anselm Berrigan is the author of Zero Star Hotel and Integrity & Dramatic Life (both from Edge Books). He is also the author of a few chapbooks, including Strangers in the Nest (Dolphin), They Beat Me Over the Head With a Sack (Edge), and On the Premises (GAS). A cd of poetry (no music) was recently released by Narrow House Records. He lives in New York City, and is the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
Karen Weiser lives in New York City where she is developing a long-term love for Milton. Her chapbook, published by Pressed Wafer (2002), is entitled Eight Positive Trees and she co-authored the chapbook Underneath the Bright Discus (1998) published by Potes and Poets Press. Poems will be appearing this winter and spring in upcoming issues of Van Gogh's Ear, 6x6, and Lungfull! Magazine.
MARCH 3, 2004
Juliana SPAHR & Bill LUOMA
Juliana Spahr won the National Poetry Series for her first book, _Response_ (Sun & Moon). She is author of _Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You_ (Wesleyan), and a critical study, _Everybodyís Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity_ (U Alabama). She teaches at University of Hawaiíi and at Mills College. She is an editor of Chain magazine & of the anthology _American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language_ (New England).
Bill Luoma is the author of Works & Days, Swoon Rocket (The Figures), Western Love (Situations), My Trip to New York City, and Dead Dad. He currently lives in Oakland, CA. He is a member of the subpress collective.
FEBRUARY 4, 2004
Jeff DERKSEN & Kreg HASEGAWA
Jeff Derksen is author of three books of poetry: Down Time, Dwell and Transnational Muscle Cars. His writing on art, urbanism, and imperialism has appeared in magazines in North America & Europe. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. where he works at Simon Fraser University. He is a member of the transnational poetry collective, The Social Mark.
Kreg Hasegawa lives in Seattle. He is coeditor of Monkey Puzzle, a stapled, 8 1/2 by 11 inch magazine of poetry and prose. His essays have appeared in The Stranger, Tablet, Copper Press, and The American Book Review. His work is due to appear in The News and The Ensign.
JANUARY 7, 2004
Maryrose LARKIN & Roberta OLSON
Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, where she works as a freelance researcher. Her work can be found in F O A R M, Insurance, Bird Dog, Columbia Poetry Review, & Washington Review. She is co-editor, with Cynthia Kimball, of FLASH+CARD Press, and is a member of the Spare Room Poetry Collective.
Roberta Olson's work has most recently appeared in the Seattle journals Bird Dog, and Monkey Puzzle. Her chapbook All These Fair and Flagrant Things was published in 2001 by Etherdome (Oakland). She continuously lives in Seattle with her husband John Olson and their cat Toby. Her future is ungraspable.
DECEMBER 1, 2004
Catriona Strang & Nancy Shaw
Catriona STRANG and Nancy SHAW are from Vancouver BC and co-authored Busted (Coach House). They each have books from ECW in Toronto: Low Fancy and Scopocratic, respectively. Strang's collaboration with Francois Houle is available on the CD Clamourous Alphabet.
Shaw is also a visual artist and curator. Busted is a book about governance, and a catalogue of possible relations. It explores a litany of genres concerned with allegiance and refusal, and inhabits the array of ways we do or donít jive with self, group and governing relations. It is a polemic, it is a collage that interrogates how language and linguistic discourses contribute to shaping the relationship between the subject and polity.
NOVEMBER 3, 2004
David ABEL & William FOX
David ABEL is a co-instigator of the Spare Room reading series (www.flim.com/spareroom) in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Recent publications include "A Reading of a Reading of Ashes" (envelope #6) and Threnos (designed and sewn on a thirty-seven-foot ribbon by Katherine Kuehn). "Embargo" is forthcoming in the next issue of Slope (www.slope.org), devoted to responses to the Treasury Department's proposed interdiction on the editing of manuscripts from Iran. Other recent Portland manifestations include the installation/performance "Permanent Red" (with percussionist Tim DuRoche) at the Modern Zoo; a four-hour version of "Chutes and Ladders: A Word Event for mARK oWENs and Jackson Mac Low" at Pacific Switchboard's Fluxus Seminar; and the premiere of Frozen Sea at the Collaborative Poetics Festival.
William L. FOX has published fifteen collections of poetry and six nonfiction books about cognition and landscape. He has received awards and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Guggenheim and Lannan Foundations, and most recently the National Endowment for the Humanities. Recent books of poetry include Reading Sand: Selected Desert Poems, 1975-2000 (University of Nevada) and One Wave Standing (La Alameda Press); of nonfiction, Playa Works: The Myth of the Empty (University of Nevada) and The Void, the Grid, and the Sign: Traversing the Great Basin (University of Utah). He lives in Los Angeles, where he has recently completed books on the Antarctic and Las Vegas, and is working on a book about Mars..
4 PM, SUN OCTOBER 24, 2004 At HENRY ART GALLERY
Marjorie Perloff & Charlie Altieri
CRITICS AS PERFORMERS
Well known critics of contemporaneity / postmodernity take to the stage, exploring what it means to be a critic as performer. Casting off their prepared remarks &/or taking them up anew, these critics enter into the space of their own abandon. No longer avant or apres la lettre, but extemporaneous, expropriating, exfoliating, these critics subsume the excess of their own presence, do just what they want to do, for an evening of wind sheer, free fall, perspicacious pleasures, serious maladies and the like.
Charles Altieri, who spent more than a decade in Seattle at the UW, is currently Professor of English at University of California - Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books on critical theory and literary modernism, and a leading authority on expressive theories of art. He has a new book from Cornell University Press titled The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. His books include: Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (Cambridge); Canons and Consequences (Northwestern); Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications; Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.
Marjorie Perloff is professor emeritus at Stanford and is author of innumerable critical books and essays, including The Poetics of Indeterminacy, and most recently The Vienna Paradox (a memoir from New Directions). See http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/perloff/vita.html.
OCTOBER 6, 2004
Margareta WATERMAN & Marion KIMES
Margareta WATERMAN's career in poetry has included most of the stations of the craft: 22 books published; evenings of abstract theatre, mixed-media events and poetry readings; innovative poetry videos, touring the US and Canada; visual poetry mural; collaborative work; festivals; magazines and reviews; workshops. She is publisher of Nine Muses Press. Her work has been featured and praised in magazines and books, on radio and television, in poetry scenes and other literate worlds. Her most recent books are hohokam (a fiction chapbook) and loose ends. She has never left an audience unmoved.
Marion KIMES brought her love of the live reading here in 1981. Over the years a fine pile of small-press books & broadsides has accumulated beside a long list of readings, fests & projects. Her books include CROW'S EYES, of multiplication & light (Nine Muses), Whirled, and NAMORATUNG'A (Woodworks). She has been a driving force in Red Sky Theatre for many years.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
Chris MANN & Zhang ER
ZHANG ER was born in Beijing, China, and moved to the United States in 1986. She writes in Chinese, then translates her poems into English with various collaborators. Collections of her work in Chinese include Seen, Unseen, published by QingHai Publishing House of China in 1999, and Water Words, published by New World Poetry Press in 2002. She has published numerous chapbooks in English including: Winter Garden (Goats and Compasses), Verses on Bird (Jensen/Daniels), The Autumn of Gu Yao (Spuyten Duyvil), Cross River, Pick Lotus (Belladonna Books), and Carved Water (Tinfish Press). She teaches at Evergreen State College in Olympia.
CHRIS MANN is an Australian composer (currently based in NYC) working in Compositional Linguistics. Or, as he tells it: "Remember that day in second grade when they told you there was a difference between language and music? Well, I was out that day." Mann's work is a dense rush of words - philosophical musings, theoretical babble, Aussie vernacular - delivered at a superhuman velocity that transforms sentences into melodic lines, blurring the distinction between "reading" and "singing." You can't understand a word he says, but it sounds great. Much like opera. Only much, much faster. A founding member of the improvised music/word group Machine for Making Sense, Mann's texts have been deconstructed, interpreted, and set by admiring artists such as Thomas Buckner, John Cage, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Annea Lockwood, Larry Polansky, Robert Rauschenberg, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. His recordings have been released by Lovely Music, Frog Peak, Nonsequitur, and others.
THURSDAY AUGUST 12, 2004
RON SILLIMAN
Ron Silliman has written and edited 25 books to date, including the anthology In the American Tree, which the National Poetry Foundation has just republished with a new afterword. Since 1979, Silliman has been writing a poem entitled The Alphabet. Volumes published thus far from that project have included ABC, Demo to Ink, Jones, Lit, Manifest, N/O, Paradise, (r), Toner, What and Xing. Woundwood, his most recent book, is one section of VOG.
His http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com is one of the most widely read blogs on poetics in the English language. Silliman was a 2003 Literary fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2002 Fellow of the Pennsylvania Arts Council and received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 1998. He lives in Chester County, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two sons, and works as a market analyst in the computer industry. An extensive bibliography can be found at: http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/silliman/pub.html
AUGUST 4, 2004
Nathaniel TARN & Janet RODNEY
Nathaniel Tarn has published some twenty-five of poetry and many volumes of translation, including Pablo Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu. His latest books of poems include: _Selected Poems: 1950-2000_ (Wesleyan), _The St Petersburg Poems_ and _The Architextures_ (Chax). He also has an anthology of essays of literary and cultural criticism titled _Views from the Weaving Mountain_. Recipient of numerous awards including the Guinness prize, the Wenner Gren fellowship, a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship. A specialist in Highland Maya studies and the sociology of Buddhist institutions, he currently lives north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Janet Rodney is a digital artist, poet and letterpress printer living in Santa Fe, where she runs Weaselsleeves Press. She is author of four books of poetry, including _Orphydice_, _Atitlan / Alashka_, and the meditative memoir _The Book of Craving_. Raised in Europe, the United States, and Taiwan, she spent fifteen years in Spain as a journalist, editor, translator, and interpreter. Digital images and words are forthcoming in the on-line magazine, Titanic Operas (www.emilydickinson.org/titanic/).
JULY 7, 2004
SUBTEXT POETRY READING - 10th ANNIVERSARY GROUP READING
Readers including: Nico Vassilakis, April Denonno, Maged Zaher, Jeanne Heuving, Doug Nufer, Christine Deavel, John Olson, Joe Keppler, Joe Donahue, Adriana Grant, Mickey O'Connor, Roberta Olson, Lou Rowan, Ezra Mark, Bryant Mason, Kreg Hasegawa, Robert Mittenthal, and maybe more.
JUNE 2, 2004
Lidia YUKNAVITCH & Stacey LEVINE
Lidia Yuknavitch is author of three collections of short stories, _Her Other Mouths_, _Liberty's Excess_, and _Real to Reel_ (FC2), and a critical work, _Allegories of Violence: Tracing the Writing of War in Late 20th Century Fiction_ (Routledge). Founder of Chiasmus Press, and publisher of Northwest Edge, she lives in Portland, OR.
Stacey Levine lives in Seattle and is the author of the award winning _My Horse and Other Stories_, and _Dra ñ (a novel)_, both from Sun & Moon Press. Her new novel _Frances Johnson_ is forthcoming from Clear Cut Press.
May 5, 2004
CRITICS AS PERFORMERS featuring:
Charles ALTIERI and Steven SHAVIRO
CRITICS AS PERFORMERS -- A SUBTEXT SPECIAL EVENT
Well known critics of contemporaneity / postmodernity take to the stage, exploring what it means to be a critic as performer. Casting off their prepared remarks &/or taking them up anew, these critics enter into the space of their own abandon. No longer avant or apres la lettre, but extemporaneous, expropriating, exfoliating, these critics subsume the excess of their own presence, do just what they want to do, for an evening of wind sheer, free fall, perspicacious pleasures, serious maladies and the like.
Charles Altieri, who spent more than a decade in Seattle at the UW, is currently Professor of English at University of California - Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books on critical theory and literary modernism, and a leading authority on expressive theories of art. He has a new book from Cornell University Press titled The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects. His books include: Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (Cambridge); Canons and Consequences (Northwestern); Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-Person Expressivity and its Social Implications; Postmodernism Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts.
Steve Shaviro is author of Connected, or what it means to live in the network society (University of Minnesota, 2003), Doom Patrols (Serpents Tail), The Cinematic Body, and Passion and Excess. He is currently teaching his last term at the UW before moving to Detroit to teach at Wayne State University.
APRIL 7, 2004
Anselm BERRIGAN & Karen WEISER
Anselm Berrigan is the author of Zero Star Hotel and Integrity & Dramatic Life (both from Edge Books). He is also the author of a few chapbooks, including Strangers in the Nest (Dolphin), They Beat Me Over the Head With a Sack (Edge), and On the Premises (GAS). A cd of poetry (no music) was recently released by Narrow House Records. He lives in New York City, and is the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
Karen Weiser lives in New York City where she is developing a long-term love for Milton. Her chapbook, published by Pressed Wafer (2002), is entitled Eight Positive Trees and she co-authored the chapbook Underneath the Bright Discus (1998) published by Potes and Poets Press. Poems will be appearing this winter and spring in upcoming issues of Van Gogh's Ear, 6x6, and Lungfull! Magazine.
MARCH 3, 2004
Juliana SPAHR & Bill LUOMA
Juliana Spahr won the National Poetry Series for her first book, _Response_ (Sun & Moon). She is author of _Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You_ (Wesleyan), and a critical study, _Everybodyís Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity_ (U Alabama). She teaches at University of Hawaiíi and at Mills College. She is an editor of Chain magazine & of the anthology _American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language_ (New England).
Bill Luoma is the author of Works & Days, Swoon Rocket (The Figures), Western Love (Situations), My Trip to New York City, and Dead Dad. He currently lives in Oakland, CA. He is a member of the subpress collective.
FEBRUARY 4, 2004
Jeff DERKSEN & Kreg HASEGAWA
Jeff Derksen is author of three books of poetry: Down Time, Dwell and Transnational Muscle Cars. His writing on art, urbanism, and imperialism has appeared in magazines in North America & Europe. He lives in Vancouver, B.C. where he works at Simon Fraser University. He is a member of the transnational poetry collective, The Social Mark.
Kreg Hasegawa lives in Seattle. He is coeditor of Monkey Puzzle, a stapled, 8 1/2 by 11 inch magazine of poetry and prose. His essays have appeared in The Stranger, Tablet, Copper Press, and The American Book Review. His work is due to appear in The News and The Ensign.
JANUARY 7, 2004
Maryrose LARKIN & Roberta OLSON
Maryrose Larkin lives in Portland, where she works as a freelance researcher. Her work can be found in F O A R M, Insurance, Bird Dog, Columbia Poetry Review, & Washington Review. She is co-editor, with Cynthia Kimball, of FLASH+CARD Press, and is a member of the Spare Room Poetry Collective.
Roberta Olson's work has most recently appeared in the Seattle journals Bird Dog, and Monkey Puzzle. Her chapbook All These Fair and Flagrant Things was published in 2001 by Etherdome (Oakland). She continuously lives in Seattle with her husband John Olson and their cat Toby. Her future is ungraspable.
Wednesday, January 1, 2003
2003 Subtext Readings
2003
DECEMBER 3, 2003
Laynie BROWNE & Robert MITTENTHAL
Laynie Browne's books include a novel, Acts of Levitation (Spuytenduyvil 2002) and three collections of poetry, most recently Pollen Memory (Tender Buttons 2003) and previously The Agency of Wind (Avec Books 1999) and Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street 1997). Her work appears in the current issue of Conjunctions:40 and is forthcoming in Titantic Operas and Monkey Puzzle. Currently she resides in Oakland, California.
Robert Mittenthal is a Seattle-based poet and critic. He is author of Martyr Economy (Sprang Texts) and Ready Terms (Tsunami Editions). His poems have appeared in a variety of publications including: Bird Dog; Score, Aerial; The Kootenay School of Writing's Anthology: Writing Class; Rhizome; & Talisman. Recent work can be found on-line in The News, at http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/whatsnews.htm, and in Alterra at http://members.rogers.com/alterra/mitt2.htm, and in W at www.kswnet.org/w/seven/w7.pdf. He is a curator of the Subtext reading series at Hugo House.
NOVEMBER 5, 2003
Leonard SCHWARTZ & Doug NUFER
Doug Nufer is the author of Never Again (ubu.com and forthcoming from Black Square and Negativeland (forthcoming from Autonomedia), two novels that follow formal constraints. By-products of these and of his novel-in-progress Circus Solus pop up in the magazines Monkey Puzzle and Chain, the anthology clear-cut (Subrosa), and on the Muse Apprentice Guild web site. He's an editor of American Book Review and a member of the performance troupe Staggered Thirds. An excerpt from his Novel Double / Double Novel can be found at http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext/poetry/dougNufer/poem1.htm
OCTOBER 1, 2003
Jacqueline WATERS & Donna STONECIPHER
Jacqueline Waters is the author of A Minute Without Danger (Adventures in Poetry, 2001). She lives in Brooklyn. Parts of her manuscript, "I Don't Care About Anything, Do You?", have appeared in 6x6, Insurance, Boston Review and Aphros.
Donna Stonecipher grew up in Seattle and Tehran. She lived in Prague from 1994 to 1998 and graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 2001. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Field, Indiana Review, New American Writing, and Web Conjunctions, among other journals. Her first book, The Reservoir, won the 2002 University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Competition.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2003
David PERRY & C. E. PUTNAM
David Perry lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a freelance editor, multimedia producer, landscaper, occasional adjunct English professor (most recently at St. John's University) and writer. He is the author of two books, Range Finder (Adventures in Poetry, 2001) and Knowledge Follows. Recent poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in Baffling Combustions, DC Poetry Anthology 2003 (http://www.dcpoetry.com/anth2003.htm), The Poker, The Baffler, and Monkey Puzzle. He also has work in the Subtext poetry archive at: http://www.speakeasy.org/subtext/poetry/davidperry/.
C.E. Putnam was born in Seattle Washington and has lived in three world capitals (London, Washington DC, and Bangkok). He maintains P.I.S.O.R. (The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research) & operates FiftyCentsOffPress. Monkey Puzzle, Bird Dog, Pom2, Ixnay, 6ix, Pavement Saw, Tin Fish, Skanky Possum and http://canwehaveourballback.com/ 6putnam.htm contain some of his writings. He currently lives in Seattle and is a co-curator of the Subtext Reading Series.
AUGUST 6, 2003
Joe DONAHUE and Peter O'LEARY
Joseph Donahue has published several books of poetry, most recently Incidental Eclipse (Talisman House), heralded by John Ashbery as showing Donahue to be "one of the major American poets of this time." He is the co-editor, of The World in Time and Space: Toward a History of Innovative Poetry in our Time as well as Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. A previous member of the Subtext Collective, Donahue lives in Durham, North Carolina and teaches at Duke University. He edits on the on-line journal Titanic Operas.
Peter O'Leary resides in Chicago were he edits LVNG magazine. He has recently published the critical work, Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness (Wesleyan University Press) and a book of poetry, Watchfulness (Spuyten Duyvil). He is the executor and editor of Ronald Johnson’s work, editing To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson (Talisman Publishing House). His poetry can be accessed through the website www.culturalsociety.org/kontakion.
JULY 2, 2003
SUBTEXT 9th ANNIVERSARY GROUP READING
Readers included: Nico Vassilakis, Jeanne Heuving, John Olson, April Denonno, Ezra Mark, Bryant Mason, Roberta Olson, Kreg Hasegawa, Robert Mittenthal, Daniel Comiskey, C.E. Putnam, and many more.
JUNE 4, 2003
Allison COBB, Jen COLEMAN, Sarah MANGOLD
Allison Cobb is author The LIttle Box Book (Situation), The J Poems (BabySelf), Polar Bear and Desert Fox (BabySelf) and One-foot A History Play (BabySelf). Her full-length collection Born Two is forthcoming this from Chax Press. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jen Coleman is a poet in NYC and co-editor of the poetry journal POMPOM. She's also co-author of the chapbook Communal Bebop Canto with CE Putnam and Allison Cobb, and author of the chapbook Propinquity. You can see her work online at http://www.theeastvillage.com/v12.htm
Raised in Oklahoma, Sarah Mangold received an MFA from San Francisco State University. She is the author of Household Mechanics, selected by C.D. Wright for the 2001 New Issues Poetry Prize. She is also author of a chapbook, Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets, 1998), and the editor of the Seattle-based magazine Bird Dog.
"When I think of an obvious alignment, I think of The Objectivists. Especially, the lone woman affiliated, the geographical isolate, Niedecker. I had always wished there were more of them, because they introduced me to a brand of lucidity, rare, oh rare in these dis-united states of poetry. The is 'not an airshow.' This is household mechanics. This living; it takes a lifetime."--C.D. Wright, from the Foreword
May 7, 2003
Rae Armantrout and David Bromige
Rae Armantrout has published eight books of poetry, including, NECROMANCE (Sun And Moon, 1991), Couverture (a selected in French translation from Les Cahiers de Royaumont, 1991), Made To Seem (Sun And Moon, 1995), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001) and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Veil was a finalist for the PEN Central USA Literary Award in Poetry for 2002. Of Veil, Fanny Howe says, "There is something like a reflective fire surrounding each poem like a little wire aura. I am moved and amazed." Armantrout's poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), Poems For The Millennium (California, 1998), and three editions of The Best American Poetry series. She teaches writing courses at the University of California, San Diego.
David Bromige came to Canada from the UK at age 13, settled in Vancouver in 1956, graduated from UBC in 1962, went to Berkeley as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar that fall, was befriended by Robert Duncan, who secured the publication of his first poetry book by Fred Wah in Buffalo in 1965, and his next by Black Sparrow 3 years later. He taught poetry at Sonoma State U. from '70-'93, when he took early retirement, but has taught short-term at various venues since, including U.San Francisco, and Naropa. His 35 books include a novel, a novella, a collection of stories, a songbook and some 30 poetry titles. In 1988, his selected poems, DESIRE, from Black Sparrow, won the Western States book award. He has awards from the NEA, the Canada Council, the Poets Foundation, and a Pushcart Prize. His latest book, published last year by Chax Press, Tucson, is AS IN T AS IN TETHER. He has lived in or near San Francisco for the past 40 years.
April 2, 2003
kari edwards and Rebecca Brown
kari edwards is a poet, artist and gender activist, winner of New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002), author of A day in the life of p., and A diary of lies, editor of Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text. Sie is also the poetry editor of I.F.G.E's Transgender - Tapestry. Hir work has been exhibited throughout the US, including Denver Art Museum, New Orleans Contemporary Art Museum, University of California - San Diego, and University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Work has appeared in a many journals including: Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Avoid Strange Men, Bird Dog, RealPoetik, and Raised in a Barn.
Rebecca Brown is the author of numerous books, most recently The End of Youth (City Lights, May 2003). She has also written a play, The Toaster which she hopes will be produced by New City Theater in Seattle either this fall or next winter. She teaches in the MFA low residency at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Hugo House in Seattle. Her work has been translated alot.
March 5, 2003
Rhoda Rosenfeld and April DeNonno
Rhoda Rosenfeld was born in Montreal and grew up in Quebec in the "la noirceur" era. She was a young adult during the time of the Quiet Revolution. In Vancouver since 1968, she is involved in both the visual arts and literary communities. Her art has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Gallery Project at Britannia Library and the UBC Fine Arts Gallery. Her poems have appeared in West Coast Line, Raddle Moon, W and most recently online in The News, at: http:/www.interchange.ubc.ca/quareterm/The News.htm
April DeNonno is a Humanities and Sciences instructor at Cornish College of the Arts where she teaches contemporary literature, film, and cultural studies. Her Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Washington is titled "Model Thinking: The Posthuman Subject in John Ashbery's Poetry." Recent poems have appeared in the literary magazines MONKEY PUZZLE, FACTURE, and FINE MADNESS.
February 5, 2003
mARK oWEns and John Olson
mARK oWEns moved to Portland, OR in 2002. His participARTE poems have been realized in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Guadalajara, Mexico; Dayton, Ohio, Seattle, and Portland. His current project OHO INTERCAMBIO is a venue for multidisciplinary art exchanges both in the streets and through the mail. He has edited Nexus magazine from Dayton, OH and co-produced INN-BOX magazine from Guadalajara, Mexico. He takes naps.
John Olson is the author of Echo Regime, a collection of poetry from Black Square Editions. This spring Black Square Editions will also be bringing out Jurassic Chandelier, a collection of prose poems. "Inebriate of Air," an essay about air, will be published in an anthology this May called Writings on Air, from M.I.T. Press. His literary essays have appeared in a number of journals & magazines, including Talisman, Sulfur, Facture, First Intensity, the American Book Review, Rain Taxi, the Denver Quarterly & The Stranger. He is currently at work on a novel about Arthur Rimbaud & Billy the Ki
DECEMBER 3, 2003
Laynie BROWNE & Robert MITTENTHAL
Laynie Browne's books include a novel, Acts of Levitation (Spuytenduyvil 2002) and three collections of poetry, most recently Pollen Memory (Tender Buttons 2003) and previously The Agency of Wind (Avec Books 1999) and Rebecca Letters (Kelsey Street 1997). Her work appears in the current issue of Conjunctions:40 and is forthcoming in Titantic Operas and Monkey Puzzle. Currently she resides in Oakland, California.
Robert Mittenthal is a Seattle-based poet and critic. He is author of Martyr Economy (Sprang Texts) and Ready Terms (Tsunami Editions). His poems have appeared in a variety of publications including: Bird Dog; Score, Aerial; The Kootenay School of Writing's Anthology: Writing Class; Rhizome; & Talisman. Recent work can be found on-line in The News, at http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/quarterm/whatsnews.htm, and in Alterra at http://members.rogers.com/alterra/mitt2.htm, and in W at www.kswnet.org/w/seven/w7.pdf. He is a curator of the Subtext reading series at Hugo House.
NOVEMBER 5, 2003
Leonard SCHWARTZ & Doug NUFER
Doug Nufer is the author of Never Again (ubu.com and forthcoming from Black Square and Negativeland (forthcoming from Autonomedia), two novels that follow formal constraints. By-products of these and of his novel-in-progress Circus Solus pop up in the magazines Monkey Puzzle and Chain, the anthology clear-cut (Subrosa), and on the Muse Apprentice Guild web site. He's an editor of American Book Review and a member of the performance troupe Staggered Thirds. An excerpt from his Novel Double / Double Novel can be found at http://www.speakeasy.org/~subtext/poetry/dougNufer/poem1.htm
OCTOBER 1, 2003
Jacqueline WATERS & Donna STONECIPHER
Jacqueline Waters is the author of A Minute Without Danger (Adventures in Poetry, 2001). She lives in Brooklyn. Parts of her manuscript, "I Don't Care About Anything, Do You?", have appeared in 6x6, Insurance, Boston Review and Aphros.
Donna Stonecipher grew up in Seattle and Tehran. She lived in Prague from 1994 to 1998 and graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 2001. Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Field, Indiana Review, New American Writing, and Web Conjunctions, among other journals. Her first book, The Reservoir, won the 2002 University of Georgia Press Contemporary Poetry Series Competition.
SEPTEMBER 3, 2003
David PERRY & C. E. PUTNAM
David Perry lives in Brooklyn, New York, and works as a freelance editor, multimedia producer, landscaper, occasional adjunct English professor (most recently at St. John's University) and writer. He is the author of two books, Range Finder (Adventures in Poetry, 2001) and Knowledge Follows. Recent poetry is forthcoming or has appeared in Baffling Combustions, DC Poetry Anthology 2003 (http://www.dcpoetry.com/anth2003.htm), The Poker, The Baffler, and Monkey Puzzle. He also has work in the Subtext poetry archive at: http://www.speakeasy.org/subtext/poetry/davidperry/.
C.E. Putnam was born in Seattle Washington and has lived in three world capitals (London, Washington DC, and Bangkok). He maintains P.I.S.O.R. (The Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research) & operates FiftyCentsOffPress. Monkey Puzzle, Bird Dog, Pom2, Ixnay, 6ix, Pavement Saw, Tin Fish, Skanky Possum and http://canwehaveourballback.com/ 6putnam.htm contain some of his writings. He currently lives in Seattle and is a co-curator of the Subtext Reading Series.
AUGUST 6, 2003
Joe DONAHUE and Peter O'LEARY
Joseph Donahue has published several books of poetry, most recently Incidental Eclipse (Talisman House), heralded by John Ashbery as showing Donahue to be "one of the major American poets of this time." He is the co-editor, of The World in Time and Space: Toward a History of Innovative Poetry in our Time as well as Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. A previous member of the Subtext Collective, Donahue lives in Durham, North Carolina and teaches at Duke University. He edits on the on-line journal Titanic Operas.
Peter O'Leary resides in Chicago were he edits LVNG magazine. He has recently published the critical work, Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness (Wesleyan University Press) and a book of poetry, Watchfulness (Spuyten Duyvil). He is the executor and editor of Ronald Johnson’s work, editing To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems of Ronald Johnson (Talisman Publishing House). His poetry can be accessed through the website www.culturalsociety.org/kontakion.
JULY 2, 2003
SUBTEXT 9th ANNIVERSARY GROUP READING
Readers included: Nico Vassilakis, Jeanne Heuving, John Olson, April Denonno, Ezra Mark, Bryant Mason, Roberta Olson, Kreg Hasegawa, Robert Mittenthal, Daniel Comiskey, C.E. Putnam, and many more.
JUNE 4, 2003
Allison COBB, Jen COLEMAN, Sarah MANGOLD
Allison Cobb is author The LIttle Box Book (Situation), The J Poems (BabySelf), Polar Bear and Desert Fox (BabySelf) and One-foot A History Play (BabySelf). Her full-length collection Born Two is forthcoming this from Chax Press. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Jen Coleman is a poet in NYC and co-editor of the poetry journal POMPOM. She's also co-author of the chapbook Communal Bebop Canto with CE Putnam and Allison Cobb, and author of the chapbook Propinquity. You can see her work online at http://www.theeastvillage.com/v12.htm
Raised in Oklahoma, Sarah Mangold received an MFA from San Francisco State University. She is the author of Household Mechanics, selected by C.D. Wright for the 2001 New Issues Poetry Prize. She is also author of a chapbook, Blood Substitutes (Potes & Poets, 1998), and the editor of the Seattle-based magazine Bird Dog.
"When I think of an obvious alignment, I think of The Objectivists. Especially, the lone woman affiliated, the geographical isolate, Niedecker. I had always wished there were more of them, because they introduced me to a brand of lucidity, rare, oh rare in these dis-united states of poetry. The is 'not an airshow.' This is household mechanics. This living; it takes a lifetime."--C.D. Wright, from the Foreword
May 7, 2003
Rae Armantrout and David Bromige
Rae Armantrout has published eight books of poetry, including, NECROMANCE (Sun And Moon, 1991), Couverture (a selected in French translation from Les Cahiers de Royaumont, 1991), Made To Seem (Sun And Moon, 1995), The Pretext (Green Integer, 2001) and Veil: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). Veil was a finalist for the PEN Central USA Literary Award in Poetry for 2002. Of Veil, Fanny Howe says, "There is something like a reflective fire surrounding each poem like a little wire aura. I am moved and amazed." Armantrout's poems have been included in numerous anthologies, including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (1993), Poems For The Millennium (California, 1998), and three editions of The Best American Poetry series. She teaches writing courses at the University of California, San Diego.
David Bromige came to Canada from the UK at age 13, settled in Vancouver in 1956, graduated from UBC in 1962, went to Berkeley as a Woodrow Wilson Scholar that fall, was befriended by Robert Duncan, who secured the publication of his first poetry book by Fred Wah in Buffalo in 1965, and his next by Black Sparrow 3 years later. He taught poetry at Sonoma State U. from '70-'93, when he took early retirement, but has taught short-term at various venues since, including U.San Francisco, and Naropa. His 35 books include a novel, a novella, a collection of stories, a songbook and some 30 poetry titles. In 1988, his selected poems, DESIRE, from Black Sparrow, won the Western States book award. He has awards from the NEA, the Canada Council, the Poets Foundation, and a Pushcart Prize. His latest book, published last year by Chax Press, Tucson, is AS IN T AS IN TETHER. He has lived in or near San Francisco for the past 40 years.
April 2, 2003
kari edwards and Rebecca Brown
kari edwards is a poet, artist and gender activist, winner of New Langton Art's Bay Area Award in literature (2002), author of A day in the life of p., and A diary of lies, editor of Electric Spandex: anthology of writing the queer text. Sie is also the poetry editor of I.F.G.E's Transgender - Tapestry. Hir work has been exhibited throughout the US, including Denver Art Museum, New Orleans Contemporary Art Museum, University of California - San Diego, and University of Massachusetts - Amherst. Work has appeared in a many journals including: Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Avoid Strange Men, Bird Dog, RealPoetik, and Raised in a Barn.
Rebecca Brown is the author of numerous books, most recently The End of Youth (City Lights, May 2003). She has also written a play, The Toaster which she hopes will be produced by New City Theater in Seattle either this fall or next winter. She teaches in the MFA low residency at Goddard College in Vermont and at the Hugo House in Seattle. Her work has been translated alot.
March 5, 2003
Rhoda Rosenfeld and April DeNonno
Rhoda Rosenfeld was born in Montreal and grew up in Quebec in the "la noirceur" era. She was a young adult during the time of the Quiet Revolution. In Vancouver since 1968, she is involved in both the visual arts and literary communities. Her art has been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Gallery, the Gallery Project at Britannia Library and the UBC Fine Arts Gallery. Her poems have appeared in West Coast Line, Raddle Moon, W and most recently online in The News, at: http:/www.interchange.ubc.ca/quareterm/The News.htm
April DeNonno is a Humanities and Sciences instructor at Cornish College of the Arts where she teaches contemporary literature, film, and cultural studies. Her Ph.D. dissertation from the University of Washington is titled "Model Thinking: The Posthuman Subject in John Ashbery's Poetry." Recent poems have appeared in the literary magazines MONKEY PUZZLE, FACTURE, and FINE MADNESS.
February 5, 2003
mARK oWEns and John Olson
mARK oWEns moved to Portland, OR in 2002. His participARTE poems have been realized in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Guadalajara, Mexico; Dayton, Ohio, Seattle, and Portland. His current project OHO INTERCAMBIO is a venue for multidisciplinary art exchanges both in the streets and through the mail. He has edited Nexus magazine from Dayton, OH and co-produced INN-BOX magazine from Guadalajara, Mexico. He takes naps.
John Olson is the author of Echo Regime, a collection of poetry from Black Square Editions. This spring Black Square Editions will also be bringing out Jurassic Chandelier, a collection of prose poems. "Inebriate of Air," an essay about air, will be published in an anthology this May called Writings on Air, from M.I.T. Press. His literary essays have appeared in a number of journals & magazines, including Talisman, Sulfur, Facture, First Intensity, the American Book Review, Rain Taxi, the Denver Quarterly & The Stranger. He is currently at work on a novel about Arthur Rimbaud & Billy the Ki
Tuesday, January 1, 2002
2002 Subtext Readings
2002
December 4, 2002
Peter Culley and Daniel Comiskey
Peter Culley lives in South Wellington, near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. His books of poetry include The Climax Forest (Leech Books, 1995) and Hammertown, which will be published by New Star in 2003. His writings on visual art have been appearing in various venues since 1987.
Daniel Comiskey is co-editor and co-publisher of "Monkey Puzzle," a magazine of innovative and experimental writing. He's also the literary manager for The Poet's Theater, a local company dedicated to producing plays by poets. He writes poetry and works at the Seattle Public Library.
November 6, 2002
Peter Quartermain and Charles Mudede
Peter Quartermain retired in 1999 from UBC, where he taught contemporary poetry and poetics for over thirty years. In addition to writing Disjunctive Poetics: from Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (1992), and Basil Bunting: Poet of the North (1990), he edited four volumes on American Poets 1880-1945 for the Dictionary of Literary Biography (1986-7), and two anthologies: Other British and Irish Poetry since 1970 with Richard Caddel (Wesleyan UP, 1998) and The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (U of Alabama P, 1999) with Rachel Blau DuPlessis. He has published about seventy articles and essays on poets writing in English. He most recently interrupted the writing of his autobiography Where I Lived and What I Learned For: Part I -- Growing Dumb, with a brief stint conducting a workshop at the Naropa Summer Writing Program in Boulder, Colorado. He is married to the poet Meredith Quartermain. They ran Slug Press (now defunct) and are currently setting up Keefer Street Press, for limited-edition letter-press work.
Charles Tonderai Mudede is a native of Zimbabwe who has lived in Seattle since 1991. He is currently the books editor of The Stranger, where he also writes the "Police Beat" column. He also teaches at Pacific Lutheran University. His work has appeared appeared in the Village Voice, Sydney Morning Daily, Radical Urban Theory, Ars Electronica, Seattle Review, and Nest Magazine, among others. This summer, his screenplay, Superpower, which he co-authored with Robinson Devor, was selected for the Sundance Screenplay Lab. Mudede is a founding member of the Seattle Research Institute and co-author, with Diana George, of "Last Seen," an essay published by the Artspeak Gallery in Vancouver, B.C.
October 2, 2002
Christine Stewart and Bryant Mason
Christine Stewart lives in Vancouver, BC. She studies and teaches and
shelves books at UBC. She has been published in Semiotexte, Raddle Moon, How2, Matrix, The Gig, Alterra and other magazines. Her most recent book, Taxonomy, is forthcoming from West House Press (London).
Bryant Mason is a long time member of the Subtext collective. His work has been variously described as "lightheartedly paranormal" and "born of an almost religious fervor." He promises to leave his Ukulele at home.
September 4, 2002
Jacqueline Turner and Maged Zaher
Jacqueline Turner is a Vancouver poet. Her first book Into the Fold (ECW Press, 2000) examines the poetics of the fold through a series of triptychs that examine the triple pull of the domestic, the erotic, and the geographic. Canadian poet Fred Wah says, "Into the Fold is a narrative and cartography of the erotic that moves quickly and constantly around particles of yearning as pleats of the written body." Her second book, Careful, due out in the fall of 2002, careens around a series of domestic distractions and interruptions where language is compressed and the poetic line rearticulated. Her work has appeared in absinthe, West Coast Line, Rampike, qwerty, Tessera, and Fireweed. In Calgary, she was a founding member of Filling Station magazine.
Maged Zaher was born in Cairo, Egypt and educated in Egypt and the US. His poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse, and other magazines. His most recent chapbook, speculations on a second weather, was published in 2001 by So Many Birds Publishing.
August 7, 2002
Aaron Vidaver and Diana George
Aaron Vidaver is an occasional participant in the activities of three Vancouver collectives: Friends of Runcible Mountain, Kootenay School of Writing, and the Pacific Association for Language and Literacy. His poetry appears in Estrus, Judy, Anarcho-Modernism, W, Host and the chapbooks Flukes, Sumac, and Unentitled "wildlife" [repealed, 1994, c.23, s.4]. He recently presented talks on Counter-Interpellation and Sabotage for Artspeak Gallery and the Mayworks Festival in Vancouver.
Diana George studied German and Comparative Literature in Seattle, Buffalo and Berlin. After that, she spent two years working the evening shift in a funeral home. Her essays have appeared in Nest and in Seattle's Arcade. Her fiction has appeared in 3rd Bed, Alt-x.com, and Post Road. She is translating a selection from Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt's Geschichte und Eigensinn.
July 3, 2002
Benefit for BIRD DOG magazine
Writers published in Seattle's newest innovative mag, BIRD DOG, take to the stage on the eve of the nation's birthday to launch this revolutionary zine. Everyone else is invited to deliver their fireworks and smoke bombs at Subtext's first and perhaps only open mike. The group reading starts at 7:30 p.m; the open mike begins after a cake break. Sign ups for the late night reading at the door. All donations for this reading go to the HUGO HOUSE and BIRD DOG.
BIRD DOG'S publisher, Sarah Mangold, will be on hand to answer queries about purchasing and submitting work to this mag. Readers will include John Olson, Roberta Olson, Sarah Mangold, Jeanne Heuving, Robert Mittenthal, Nico Vassilakis, Ezra Mark, and Chad Bennett.
June 5, 2002
Chris Stroffolino, Nico Vassilakis and Brett Ralph
Poet, Editor, Rocker, Wild Man Chris Stroffolino, vintage 1963, is a dynamic figure whose recent west coast arrival (Bay Area) has been greeted with much anticipation. He is a new incarnation of the American idiom(t)--set to Spin Cycle 7 (durable fabrics). Author of (among many) Cusps (Aerial Edge) Light as a Fetter (Situations) and co-editor of Cliff Notes Shakespeare's 12th Night. He has also played with some rock bands, including the Silver Jews.
Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle, drives a car, does stuff, yeah, that's it. He collects shoehorns & enjoys colanders. His most recent book is Orange: A Manual. He is a member of the Subtext Collective. He organized the NORTHWEST CONCRETE AND VISUAL POETRY EXHIBITION, currently showing at the OSEAO Gallery on Capitol Hill.
Brett Eugene Ralph is currently everyone's favorite Associate Professor of English at Hopkinsville Community College in Western Kentucky. His work has appeared in such journals as: Exquisite Corpse, Mudfish, Conduit, and The American Poetry Review. His band, Rising Shotgun, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South. Watch out. Really...
May 1, 2002
Charles Borkhuis and Jeanne Heuving
Charles Borkhuis is author of three collections of poetry, including Proximity (Stolen Arrows), and a book of full-length plays, Mouth of Shadows. He is the recipient of a Dramalogue Award in playwriting and is the former editor of the experimental theater magazine "Theater: Ex." His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in: Avec, Caliban, Central Park, Generator, Hambone, Mudfish, o.blek, Onthebus, St Marks Poetry Project. He is a professor of English at Truro College and lives in New York City.
Jeanne Heuving work has appeared in various journals including Bird Dog, Common Knowledge, Clear-Cut, and Talisman, and in a chapbook, Offering (bcc press). She is on the editorial board of the journal How2, and teaches in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at the University of Washington, Bothell and in the English Graduate program at the Seattle campus. In addition to her critical book on Marianne Moore, Omissions Are Not Accidents (Wayne St U Press), she has published critical articles on several innovative women poets. She is a member of the Subtext Collective.
April 3, 2002
Geraldine Monk (UK) and Alan Halsey (UK)
Geraldine Monk's latest book Noctivagations collects poems & performance pieces written since the mid-1990s. Her current projects include collaborations with the composer Martin Archer. Their Angel High Wires, a suite of twelve electroacoustic songs, was recently issued on a Voiceprint CD. Interregnum, a sequence of poems on the Pendle Witches, was published in 1994 and a selected poems, The Sway of Precious Demons, appeared in 1992.
Alan Halsey's selected writings, Wittgenstein's Devil, appeared in 2000 and his prose-poem The Text of Shelley's Death was reprinted in 2001. Other recent publications include the text/graphic collaboration with Kelvin Corcoran Your Thinking Tracts or Nations & graphics for Tony Baker's translation of Cendrars' Prose of the Trans-siberian. He is the publisher of West House Books & for many years ran the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye.
March 6, 2002
Ezra Mark and Buck Downs
Ezra Mark is author of Narthex, Tenet, Re(a)d, and untitled. His influences include Wittgenstein, Agnes Martin, and baseball. He is editor of Vortext and a member of the Subtext collective.
Buck Downs lives and works in Washington, DC and he thinks you should, too. He is making a rare Pacific Northwest visit to promote his latest collection Marijuana Softdrink. Publisher's Weekly writes: "In Downs's writing, the humbling effects of the omnipresent everyday, and the moral ambiguities of the brand-name marketplace give his speaker the demeanor of a zealous, defrocked televangelist..." He is editor of Open 24 Hours, and publisher of Buck Downs Books.
February 6, 2002
Susan Landers and Joseph Zitt
Susan Landers lives in Brooklyn, where she co-edits Pom2, a journal that engages and responds to work printed in previous issues. Her work has appeared on-line in theeastvillage.com and readme, as well as in print journals, including Crowd, Lungfull, Washington Review and Ixnay. She is at work on a book length poem, X mgs., panic picnic.
Joseph Zitt's vocal performances combine a background in traditional synagogue and world musics with a mastery of extended vocal techniques. His recordings include All Souls, in collaboration with Thomas Bickley, Comma's (voices), and Gray Code's Live In Philadelphia. Publisher of Metatron Press, he lives in Washington DC. His new book is called Surprise Me With Beauty: the Music of Human Systems. This performance is part of a solo North American tour – including events in 18 cities.
December 4, 2002
Peter Culley and Daniel Comiskey
Peter Culley lives in South Wellington, near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. His books of poetry include The Climax Forest (Leech Books, 1995) and Hammertown, which will be published by New Star in 2003. His writings on visual art have been appearing in various venues since 1987.
Daniel Comiskey is co-editor and co-publisher of "Monkey Puzzle," a magazine of innovative and experimental writing. He's also the literary manager for The Poet's Theater, a local company dedicated to producing plays by poets. He writes poetry and works at the Seattle Public Library.
November 6, 2002
Peter Quartermain and Charles Mudede
Peter Quartermain retired in 1999 from UBC, where he taught contemporary poetry and poetics for over thirty years. In addition to writing Disjunctive Poetics: from Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (1992), and Basil Bunting: Poet of the North (1990), he edited four volumes on American Poets 1880-1945 for the Dictionary of Literary Biography (1986-7), and two anthologies: Other British and Irish Poetry since 1970 with Richard Caddel (Wesleyan UP, 1998) and The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (U of Alabama P, 1999) with Rachel Blau DuPlessis. He has published about seventy articles and essays on poets writing in English. He most recently interrupted the writing of his autobiography Where I Lived and What I Learned For: Part I -- Growing Dumb, with a brief stint conducting a workshop at the Naropa Summer Writing Program in Boulder, Colorado. He is married to the poet Meredith Quartermain. They ran Slug Press (now defunct) and are currently setting up Keefer Street Press, for limited-edition letter-press work.
Charles Tonderai Mudede is a native of Zimbabwe who has lived in Seattle since 1991. He is currently the books editor of The Stranger, where he also writes the "Police Beat" column. He also teaches at Pacific Lutheran University. His work has appeared appeared in the Village Voice, Sydney Morning Daily, Radical Urban Theory, Ars Electronica, Seattle Review, and Nest Magazine, among others. This summer, his screenplay, Superpower, which he co-authored with Robinson Devor, was selected for the Sundance Screenplay Lab. Mudede is a founding member of the Seattle Research Institute and co-author, with Diana George, of "Last Seen," an essay published by the Artspeak Gallery in Vancouver, B.C.
October 2, 2002
Christine Stewart and Bryant Mason
Christine Stewart lives in Vancouver, BC. She studies and teaches and
shelves books at UBC. She has been published in Semiotexte, Raddle Moon, How2, Matrix, The Gig, Alterra and other magazines. Her most recent book, Taxonomy, is forthcoming from West House Press (London).
Bryant Mason is a long time member of the Subtext collective. His work has been variously described as "lightheartedly paranormal" and "born of an almost religious fervor." He promises to leave his Ukulele at home.
September 4, 2002
Jacqueline Turner and Maged Zaher
Jacqueline Turner is a Vancouver poet. Her first book Into the Fold (ECW Press, 2000) examines the poetics of the fold through a series of triptychs that examine the triple pull of the domestic, the erotic, and the geographic. Canadian poet Fred Wah says, "Into the Fold is a narrative and cartography of the erotic that moves quickly and constantly around particles of yearning as pleats of the written body." Her second book, Careful, due out in the fall of 2002, careens around a series of domestic distractions and interruptions where language is compressed and the poetic line rearticulated. Her work has appeared in absinthe, West Coast Line, Rampike, qwerty, Tessera, and Fireweed. In Calgary, she was a founding member of Filling Station magazine.
Maged Zaher was born in Cairo, Egypt and educated in Egypt and the US. His poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse, and other magazines. His most recent chapbook, speculations on a second weather, was published in 2001 by So Many Birds Publishing.
August 7, 2002
Aaron Vidaver and Diana George
Aaron Vidaver is an occasional participant in the activities of three Vancouver collectives: Friends of Runcible Mountain, Kootenay School of Writing, and the Pacific Association for Language and Literacy. His poetry appears in Estrus, Judy, Anarcho-Modernism, W, Host and the chapbooks Flukes, Sumac, and Unentitled "wildlife" [repealed, 1994, c.23, s.4]. He recently presented talks on Counter-Interpellation and Sabotage for Artspeak Gallery and the Mayworks Festival in Vancouver.
Diana George studied German and Comparative Literature in Seattle, Buffalo and Berlin. After that, she spent two years working the evening shift in a funeral home. Her essays have appeared in Nest and in Seattle's Arcade. Her fiction has appeared in 3rd Bed, Alt-x.com, and Post Road. She is translating a selection from Alexander Kluge and Oskar Negt's Geschichte und Eigensinn.
July 3, 2002
Benefit for BIRD DOG magazine
Writers published in Seattle's newest innovative mag, BIRD DOG, take to the stage on the eve of the nation's birthday to launch this revolutionary zine. Everyone else is invited to deliver their fireworks and smoke bombs at Subtext's first and perhaps only open mike. The group reading starts at 7:30 p.m; the open mike begins after a cake break. Sign ups for the late night reading at the door. All donations for this reading go to the HUGO HOUSE and BIRD DOG.
BIRD DOG'S publisher, Sarah Mangold, will be on hand to answer queries about purchasing and submitting work to this mag. Readers will include John Olson, Roberta Olson, Sarah Mangold, Jeanne Heuving, Robert Mittenthal, Nico Vassilakis, Ezra Mark, and Chad Bennett.
June 5, 2002
Chris Stroffolino, Nico Vassilakis and Brett Ralph
Poet, Editor, Rocker, Wild Man Chris Stroffolino, vintage 1963, is a dynamic figure whose recent west coast arrival (Bay Area) has been greeted with much anticipation. He is a new incarnation of the American idiom(t)--set to Spin Cycle 7 (durable fabrics). Author of (among many) Cusps (Aerial Edge) Light as a Fetter (Situations) and co-editor of Cliff Notes Shakespeare's 12th Night. He has also played with some rock bands, including the Silver Jews.
Nico Vassilakis lives in Seattle, drives a car, does stuff, yeah, that's it. He collects shoehorns & enjoys colanders. His most recent book is Orange: A Manual. He is a member of the Subtext Collective. He organized the NORTHWEST CONCRETE AND VISUAL POETRY EXHIBITION, currently showing at the OSEAO Gallery on Capitol Hill.
Brett Eugene Ralph is currently everyone's favorite Associate Professor of English at Hopkinsville Community College in Western Kentucky. His work has appeared in such journals as: Exquisite Corpse, Mudfish, Conduit, and The American Poetry Review. His band, Rising Shotgun, can be heard in seedy dives throughout the South. Watch out. Really...
May 1, 2002
Charles Borkhuis and Jeanne Heuving
Charles Borkhuis is author of three collections of poetry, including Proximity (Stolen Arrows), and a book of full-length plays, Mouth of Shadows. He is the recipient of a Dramalogue Award in playwriting and is the former editor of the experimental theater magazine "Theater: Ex." His poems, essays and reviews have appeared in: Avec, Caliban, Central Park, Generator, Hambone, Mudfish, o.blek, Onthebus, St Marks Poetry Project. He is a professor of English at Truro College and lives in New York City.
Jeanne Heuving work has appeared in various journals including Bird Dog, Common Knowledge, Clear-Cut, and Talisman, and in a chapbook, Offering (bcc press). She is on the editorial board of the journal How2, and teaches in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at the University of Washington, Bothell and in the English Graduate program at the Seattle campus. In addition to her critical book on Marianne Moore, Omissions Are Not Accidents (Wayne St U Press), she has published critical articles on several innovative women poets. She is a member of the Subtext Collective.
April 3, 2002
Geraldine Monk (UK) and Alan Halsey (UK)
Geraldine Monk's latest book Noctivagations collects poems & performance pieces written since the mid-1990s. Her current projects include collaborations with the composer Martin Archer. Their Angel High Wires, a suite of twelve electroacoustic songs, was recently issued on a Voiceprint CD. Interregnum, a sequence of poems on the Pendle Witches, was published in 1994 and a selected poems, The Sway of Precious Demons, appeared in 1992.
Alan Halsey's selected writings, Wittgenstein's Devil, appeared in 2000 and his prose-poem The Text of Shelley's Death was reprinted in 2001. Other recent publications include the text/graphic collaboration with Kelvin Corcoran Your Thinking Tracts or Nations & graphics for Tony Baker's translation of Cendrars' Prose of the Trans-siberian. He is the publisher of West House Books & for many years ran the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye.
March 6, 2002
Ezra Mark and Buck Downs
Ezra Mark is author of Narthex, Tenet, Re(a)d, and untitled. His influences include Wittgenstein, Agnes Martin, and baseball. He is editor of Vortext and a member of the Subtext collective.
Buck Downs lives and works in Washington, DC and he thinks you should, too. He is making a rare Pacific Northwest visit to promote his latest collection Marijuana Softdrink. Publisher's Weekly writes: "In Downs's writing, the humbling effects of the omnipresent everyday, and the moral ambiguities of the brand-name marketplace give his speaker the demeanor of a zealous, defrocked televangelist..." He is editor of Open 24 Hours, and publisher of Buck Downs Books.
February 6, 2002
Susan Landers and Joseph Zitt
Susan Landers lives in Brooklyn, where she co-edits Pom2, a journal that engages and responds to work printed in previous issues. Her work has appeared on-line in theeastvillage.com and readme, as well as in print journals, including Crowd, Lungfull, Washington Review and Ixnay. She is at work on a book length poem, X mgs., panic picnic.
Joseph Zitt's vocal performances combine a background in traditional synagogue and world musics with a mastery of extended vocal techniques. His recordings include All Souls, in collaboration with Thomas Bickley, Comma's (voices), and Gray Code's Live In Philadelphia. Publisher of Metatron Press, he lives in Washington DC. His new book is called Surprise Me With Beauty: the Music of Human Systems. This performance is part of a solo North American tour – including events in 18 cities.
Monday, January 1, 2001
2001 Subtext Readings
2001
December 5, 2001
Susan Schultz and Ron Starr
Susan Shultz's newest book, Aleatory Allegories, is forthcoming from Folio in Australia. Previous books include Another Childhood (Leave Books), Earthquake Dreams (Standing Stones), voice-overs (with John Kinsella) and Addenda (Meow Press). She is editor of Tinfish, a paper and electronic journal of experimental poetry from the Pacific region, and of a series of Tinfish Network chapbooks. Shultz teaches modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing at University of Hawaii, and has published critical articles and review essays on Hart Crane, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Ann Lauterbach, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and others. Editor of The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (U of Alabama Press).
Ron Starr's poems have appeared in StringTown, Crab Creek Review, and Chrysanthemum. Recent work develops out of an interest in combining intuitive and procedural writing methods. He lives in Seattle.
November 7, 2001
Bernadette Mayer, Philip Good and C.E. Putnam
This Subtext reading is co-sponsored and co-produced by Eleventh Hour Productions. In addition to the Subtext reading, Mayer will be the "Open Livingroom" special guest on Thursday November 8th at Northwest SPLAB in Auburn (14 S. Division - 253.735.6328).
Most often associated with the New York School, poet Bernadette Mayer is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. Her latest books include Another Smashed Pinecone (United Artists), Two Haloed Mourners (Granary Books), The Bernadette Mayer Reader, and Proper Name & other stories (both New Directions). Since the 1970s at the Poetry Project in NYC, she has regularly taught her legendary Experiments in Poetry Workshop, which explores compositional methods such as chance operations, collage and cut-up.
Philip Good edited Blue Smoke, the last of the mimeo magazines. He is the founder of Utopia Productions, putting poetry on CDs. Good's poetry is published in various small magazines, including: Pome, Oblek, Tool, Bombay Gin and Cover. His books include, Drunken Bee Poems, Corn, and Passion Come Running.
C.E. Putnam lives in Seattle and operates North America's only "silent-open-mic." Recent works include: "99 Bottle"; "Did you ever hear of a thing like that?" a collaborative text-multi-media-creature collaboration with brother & artist Robb Putnam; "1,000 Insanities", a six person 1,000 mini-poem length collaboration with writers from NYC, Seattle, and Memphis; and the forthcoming, "The Maniac Box." "He used to be water, but now he is coffee." -A. Rimbaud.
October 3, 2001
Tyler Carter and selections from Louis Zukofsky's "A" --- a special performance by members of Subtext
September 5, 2001
Martha Ronk and Cathleen Shattuck
Poet Martha Ronk is the author of several books, most recently Displeasures of the Table, a fictional memoir (Green Integer) and Quotidian (a+bent). Other books include Eyetrouble (Georgia University Press, 1998) and State of Mind (Sun & Moon, 1995). Other chapbooks include Allegories with the artist Tom Wudl (ML&NLF, Italy, 1998) and Emblems (Instress Press, 1998). Ronk lives in Los Angeles, where she is one of the editors of Littoral Books, a press dedicated to publishing experimental poetry; and she teaches English at Occidental College, specializing in Creative Writing and Shakespeare.
Cathleen Shattuck is author of two books: The Three Queens (Leave Books) and House (St Lazaire). Her writing has appeared in First Intensity, Five Fingers Review, Ashen Meal and o'blek.
August 1, 2001
Jill Levine and Stephen Kessler
Jill Levine has just finished a biography titled Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. She has translated many books by Latin American authors, including texts by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Adolof Bioy Casares, Cecila Viciuna, and Jorge Louis Borges. She has received the PEN Center Award for Career Achievement, a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as grants from NEA and NEH. She teaches at UC Santa Barbara. She will be reading from her own writings and from translation.
Stephen Kessler's most recent book of poetry is After Modigliani. He is the author of five previous books of original poetry, and is translator of nine books of poetry and fiction from Spanish, including works by Fernando Alegría, Julio Cortázar, Ariel Dorfman, and Nobel laureate Vicente Aleixandre. His translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, the American Poetry Review, Mother Jones, Conjunctions, and many other magazines. He lives on the coast of Northern California, where he edits The Redwood Coast Review. He was a founding editor and publisher of small poetry presses Green Horse Press and Alcatraz Editions, including the literary journal Alcatraz. He will be reading from his own writing and translations.
June 6th, 2001
Meredith Quartermain and Mickey O'Connor
Meredith Quartermain is a Vancouver writer whose work foregrounds the (f)act of dwelling in words. Her publications include Terms of Sale, Abstract Relations, Veers, and Gospel According to Bees. Her poems have recently appeared in West Coast Line, Five Fingers Review, Chain, & Raddle Moon.
Mickey O'Connor's book, Not Even Merely End is forthcoming from Church of the Head Press. He lives and writes in Seattle.
May 2, 2001
Avery Burns and Christine Deavel
This reading is being presented as part of the 2001 Seattle Poetry Festival (see http://poetryfestival.org for more information).
Avery Burns's new full length collection is The Idler Wheel (Manifest Press). Burns has published the magazine lyric& since 1992 with seven issues to date, and has run the Canessa Park reading series in San Francisco since 1995. The first section of a new manuscript, aether, is due out in December as a Seeing Eye chapbook. Poems have recently appeared on-line in Arc (a collaboration with Eric Selland), Shampoo and Vert (a collaboration with Joseph Noble). Poems are forthcoming in Aufgabe, Cello Entry, Five Fingers Review, and New American Writing. A short interview is included in the most recent issue of Syllogism. Two chapbooks appeared in 2000, ekistic displays (a+bend press) and A Duelling Primer (2nd Story Press).
Christine Deavel's work has appeared in Fence, Ploughshares, Talisman, American Poetry Review, and other magazines. She is co-owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium, one of two poetry-only bookstores in the country.
April 4, 2001
Lisa Robertson and Stacey Levine
Lisa Robertson lives in Vancouver BC where she works as a freelance writer, teacher, and editor. A new book, The Weather, will be published in Spring 2001 by New Star Books. Other works include Debbie:An Epic (New Star), which was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1998, and XEclogue (1993), reissued in a revised edition in 1999. LR is a founder of the Office for Soft Architecture, which although non-existent, sees fit to issue reports, manifestoes, narrations and essays concerned with the mutable corporalities of cities.
Stacey Levine is the author of Dra (Sun & Moon). Her first book, My Horse and other stories, (Sun & Moon) won the 1994 PEN/West Award for fiction. She writes regularly for The Stranger.
March 7, 2001
Elizabeth Robinson and K T Cutler
Elizabeth Robinson's most recent book is House Made of Silver from Kelsey St. Press. Previous books include: Bed of Lists, also from Kelsey St., and In the Sequence of Falling Things, from paradigm press. Chapbooks include: Lodger from Arcturus Editions, and As Betokening, from Quarry Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Hambone, Volt, The Germ, and Crayon. With Colleen Lookingbill, she co-edits EtherDome Press.
K T Cutler is a self-taught writer. She has developed several performances combining language and movement, and has been working on ways of combining text and images. She recently accomplished a long-term dream of walking from her home in Seattle to the farm where she grew up near Spokane.
February 7, 2001
David Abel and Craig Van Riper
David Abel works as a freelance editor and bookdealer in Portland, Oregon. His long collage text "Conduction," inspired by the work of visual artist Anna Hepler, appeared in Conduit, an exhibition catalogue published last year in Seoul, Korea. A chapbook of poems, CUT, was published by Situations in 1999. Earlier publications include Rose and Selected Durations (collaborations with book artist Katherine Kuehn, published by Salient Seedling Press).
Craig Van Riper has published two collections of poems, Convenient Danger (Pecan Grove Press) and Making the Path While You Walk (Sagittarius Press). His work has appeared in over fifty literary journals and anthologies of contemporary American poetry, including Seattle Poets and Photographers: A Millennium Reflection (University of Washington Press) and clearcut: anthology (Sub Rosa). Van Riper was winner of the Pecan Grove Press National Chapbook Prize in 1999, featured reader at Bumbershoot in 2000 and 1995, and recipient of a Seattle Arts Commission grant in 1994. He serves as Contributing Editor of San Francisco's Five Fingers Review and resides in Seattle.
January 3, 2001
Rod Smith and visual poet NBB
Rod Smith is the author of In Memory of My Theories (O Books), The Boy Poems, Protective Immediacy, and with Lisa Jarnot & Bill Luoma, New Mannerist Tricycle. The Good House and The Given are forthcoming in 2001. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals including New American Writing, Lingo, The Germ, The Tangent, The Washington Review, Shenandoah, Poetics Journal, & The Baltimore Sun. Smith has read & lectured at Rutgers University, NYU, The Saint Mark's Poetry Project, The Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, The University of California Santa Cruz, Small Press Traffic (SF), The University of Pennsylvania and many other universities and community reading series. He edits Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.
Visual poetry by Nancy Brush Burr (NBB) can be seen in current issues of "SCORE" and "asemic" (Australia) and in upcoming publications from House Press (Canada), and "essex" magazine. Her work can be seen at the Richard Hugo House in January 2001. She is also a mail artist. She lives in Seattle.
December 5, 2001
Susan Schultz and Ron Starr
Susan Shultz's newest book, Aleatory Allegories, is forthcoming from Folio in Australia. Previous books include Another Childhood (Leave Books), Earthquake Dreams (Standing Stones), voice-overs (with John Kinsella) and Addenda (Meow Press). She is editor of Tinfish, a paper and electronic journal of experimental poetry from the Pacific region, and of a series of Tinfish Network chapbooks. Shultz teaches modern and contemporary poetry, American literature, and creative writing at University of Hawaii, and has published critical articles and review essays on Hart Crane, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Ann Lauterbach, Lois-Ann Yamanaka, and others. Editor of The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry (U of Alabama Press).
Ron Starr's poems have appeared in StringTown, Crab Creek Review, and Chrysanthemum. Recent work develops out of an interest in combining intuitive and procedural writing methods. He lives in Seattle.
November 7, 2001
Bernadette Mayer, Philip Good and C.E. Putnam
This Subtext reading is co-sponsored and co-produced by Eleventh Hour Productions. In addition to the Subtext reading, Mayer will be the "Open Livingroom" special guest on Thursday November 8th at Northwest SPLAB in Auburn (14 S. Division - 253.735.6328).
Most often associated with the New York School, poet Bernadette Mayer is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose. Her latest books include Another Smashed Pinecone (United Artists), Two Haloed Mourners (Granary Books), The Bernadette Mayer Reader, and Proper Name & other stories (both New Directions). Since the 1970s at the Poetry Project in NYC, she has regularly taught her legendary Experiments in Poetry Workshop, which explores compositional methods such as chance operations, collage and cut-up.
Philip Good edited Blue Smoke, the last of the mimeo magazines. He is the founder of Utopia Productions, putting poetry on CDs. Good's poetry is published in various small magazines, including: Pome, Oblek, Tool, Bombay Gin and Cover. His books include, Drunken Bee Poems, Corn, and Passion Come Running.
C.E. Putnam lives in Seattle and operates North America's only "silent-open-mic." Recent works include: "99 Bottle"; "Did you ever hear of a thing like that?" a collaborative text-multi-media-creature collaboration with brother & artist Robb Putnam; "1,000 Insanities", a six person 1,000 mini-poem length collaboration with writers from NYC, Seattle, and Memphis; and the forthcoming, "The Maniac Box." "He used to be water, but now he is coffee." -A. Rimbaud.
October 3, 2001
Tyler Carter and selections from Louis Zukofsky's "A" --- a special performance by members of Subtext
September 5, 2001
Martha Ronk and Cathleen Shattuck
Poet Martha Ronk is the author of several books, most recently Displeasures of the Table, a fictional memoir (Green Integer) and Quotidian (a+bent). Other books include Eyetrouble (Georgia University Press, 1998) and State of Mind (Sun & Moon, 1995). Other chapbooks include Allegories with the artist Tom Wudl (ML&NLF, Italy, 1998) and Emblems (Instress Press, 1998). Ronk lives in Los Angeles, where she is one of the editors of Littoral Books, a press dedicated to publishing experimental poetry; and she teaches English at Occidental College, specializing in Creative Writing and Shakespeare.
Cathleen Shattuck is author of two books: The Three Queens (Leave Books) and House (St Lazaire). Her writing has appeared in First Intensity, Five Fingers Review, Ashen Meal and o'blek.
August 1, 2001
Jill Levine and Stephen Kessler
Jill Levine has just finished a biography titled Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions. She has translated many books by Latin American authors, including texts by Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Adolof Bioy Casares, Cecila Viciuna, and Jorge Louis Borges. She has received the PEN Center Award for Career Achievement, a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as grants from NEA and NEH. She teaches at UC Santa Barbara. She will be reading from her own writings and from translation.
Stephen Kessler's most recent book of poetry is After Modigliani. He is the author of five previous books of original poetry, and is translator of nine books of poetry and fiction from Spanish, including works by Fernando Alegría, Julio Cortázar, Ariel Dorfman, and Nobel laureate Vicente Aleixandre. His translations have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, the American Poetry Review, Mother Jones, Conjunctions, and many other magazines. He lives on the coast of Northern California, where he edits The Redwood Coast Review. He was a founding editor and publisher of small poetry presses Green Horse Press and Alcatraz Editions, including the literary journal Alcatraz. He will be reading from his own writing and translations.
June 6th, 2001
Meredith Quartermain and Mickey O'Connor
Meredith Quartermain is a Vancouver writer whose work foregrounds the (f)act of dwelling in words. Her publications include Terms of Sale, Abstract Relations, Veers, and Gospel According to Bees. Her poems have recently appeared in West Coast Line, Five Fingers Review, Chain, & Raddle Moon.
Mickey O'Connor's book, Not Even Merely End is forthcoming from Church of the Head Press. He lives and writes in Seattle.
May 2, 2001
Avery Burns and Christine Deavel
This reading is being presented as part of the 2001 Seattle Poetry Festival (see http://poetryfestival.org for more information).
Avery Burns's new full length collection is The Idler Wheel (Manifest Press). Burns has published the magazine lyric& since 1992 with seven issues to date, and has run the Canessa Park reading series in San Francisco since 1995. The first section of a new manuscript, aether, is due out in December as a Seeing Eye chapbook. Poems have recently appeared on-line in Arc (a collaboration with Eric Selland), Shampoo and Vert (a collaboration with Joseph Noble). Poems are forthcoming in Aufgabe, Cello Entry, Five Fingers Review, and New American Writing. A short interview is included in the most recent issue of Syllogism. Two chapbooks appeared in 2000, ekistic displays (a+bend press) and A Duelling Primer (2nd Story Press).
Christine Deavel's work has appeared in Fence, Ploughshares, Talisman, American Poetry Review, and other magazines. She is co-owner of Open Books: A Poem Emporium, one of two poetry-only bookstores in the country.
April 4, 2001
Lisa Robertson and Stacey Levine
Lisa Robertson lives in Vancouver BC where she works as a freelance writer, teacher, and editor. A new book, The Weather, will be published in Spring 2001 by New Star Books. Other works include Debbie:An Epic (New Star), which was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1998, and XEclogue (1993), reissued in a revised edition in 1999. LR is a founder of the Office for Soft Architecture, which although non-existent, sees fit to issue reports, manifestoes, narrations and essays concerned with the mutable corporalities of cities.
Stacey Levine is the author of Dra (Sun & Moon). Her first book, My Horse and other stories, (Sun & Moon) won the 1994 PEN/West Award for fiction. She writes regularly for The Stranger.
March 7, 2001
Elizabeth Robinson and K T Cutler
Elizabeth Robinson's most recent book is House Made of Silver from Kelsey St. Press. Previous books include: Bed of Lists, also from Kelsey St., and In the Sequence of Falling Things, from paradigm press. Chapbooks include: Lodger from Arcturus Editions, and As Betokening, from Quarry Press. Her poems have recently appeared in Hambone, Volt, The Germ, and Crayon. With Colleen Lookingbill, she co-edits EtherDome Press.
K T Cutler is a self-taught writer. She has developed several performances combining language and movement, and has been working on ways of combining text and images. She recently accomplished a long-term dream of walking from her home in Seattle to the farm where she grew up near Spokane.
February 7, 2001
David Abel and Craig Van Riper
David Abel works as a freelance editor and bookdealer in Portland, Oregon. His long collage text "Conduction," inspired by the work of visual artist Anna Hepler, appeared in Conduit, an exhibition catalogue published last year in Seoul, Korea. A chapbook of poems, CUT, was published by Situations in 1999. Earlier publications include Rose and Selected Durations (collaborations with book artist Katherine Kuehn, published by Salient Seedling Press).
Craig Van Riper has published two collections of poems, Convenient Danger (Pecan Grove Press) and Making the Path While You Walk (Sagittarius Press). His work has appeared in over fifty literary journals and anthologies of contemporary American poetry, including Seattle Poets and Photographers: A Millennium Reflection (University of Washington Press) and clearcut: anthology (Sub Rosa). Van Riper was winner of the Pecan Grove Press National Chapbook Prize in 1999, featured reader at Bumbershoot in 2000 and 1995, and recipient of a Seattle Arts Commission grant in 1994. He serves as Contributing Editor of San Francisco's Five Fingers Review and resides in Seattle.
January 3, 2001
Rod Smith and visual poet NBB
Rod Smith is the author of In Memory of My Theories (O Books), The Boy Poems, Protective Immediacy, and with Lisa Jarnot & Bill Luoma, New Mannerist Tricycle. The Good House and The Given are forthcoming in 2001. His poetry and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals including New American Writing, Lingo, The Germ, The Tangent, The Washington Review, Shenandoah, Poetics Journal, & The Baltimore Sun. Smith has read & lectured at Rutgers University, NYU, The Saint Mark's Poetry Project, The Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, The University of California Santa Cruz, Small Press Traffic (SF), The University of Pennsylvania and many other universities and community reading series. He edits Aerial magazine, publishes Edge Books, and manages Bridge Street Books in Washington, DC.
Visual poetry by Nancy Brush Burr (NBB) can be seen in current issues of "SCORE" and "asemic" (Australia) and in upcoming publications from House Press (Canada), and "essex" magazine. Her work can be seen at the Richard Hugo House in January 2001. She is also a mail artist. She lives in Seattle.
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