From peachesandbats at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 23:01:44 2012 From: peachesandbats at gmail.com (Sam Lohmann) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:01:44 -0800 Subject: [Spare Room Press Release] A marathon reading of Barbara Guest's COLLECTED POEMS, February 11-12 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *Spare Room and YU present* *a marathon reading of Barbara Guest's Collected Poems* *February 11-12* *3-8 p.m. each day* * * *in the kitchen at YU * *800 SE 10th Ave., Portland* * * *free* On Saturday and Sunday, February 11-12, YU and Spare Room will present a two-part marathon reading of *The Collected Poems of Barbara Guest *(Wesleyan, 2008). Now in its tenth year, Spare Room organizes a monthly reading series at various locations in Portland, focused on experimental poetry. In recent years they have hosted marathon readings each winter, inviting members of the community to lend their voices to a new rendition of an existing text. Recent marathons have been devoted to single book-length poems, including H.D.'s *Helen in Egypt*, Clark Coolidge's *The Crystal Text,* and Charles Olson's *Maximus Poems*; this year's marathon presents the lively and varied life's work of an influential poet who worked mainly in shorter forms. Barbara Guest (1920-2006) was a poet, art critic, novelist and biographer often associated with the New York School(s) in poetry and painting. Her work reflects a lifelong engagement with modernism in visual art and music as well as in literature, and is marked by a unique combination of audacious abstraction, vivid synesthesia and comic energy. Her posthumous *Collected Poems* brings together over twenty books published between 1960 and 2005. Readers from Portland's poetry community will read the book aloud from beginning to end over two afternoon sessions, each beginning at 3 p.m. and continuing till about 8, at YU's spacious kitchen table. Listeners are encouraged to come and go as they please, stopping by for a few pages or a few hours. ************** * * * understanding what it means* * to understand music* * * *cloudless movement beyond the neck's reach* * * *an hypnotic lull in porcelain water break mimics* * * *tonality crunch of sand under waddling* * * * * * a small seizure * * from monumentality* * * * **does not come or go with understanding* * --Barbara Guest, from "Dissonance Royal Traveler"* * * *Guest's language does not merely describe, it presents the reader with the means to see in an entirely new way. * *--Erica Kaufman, Poetry Project Newsletter* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20120123/05e4451e/attachment.html From peachesandbats at gmail.com Mon Jan 23 23:02:38 2012 From: peachesandbats at gmail.com (Sam Lohmann) Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:02:38 -0800 Subject: [Spare Room Press Release] Sunday, 2/5: Haley & Lease read for Spare Room In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Spare Room presents a poetry reading by *Jamalieh Haley* *&* *Joseph Lease* Sunday, February 5th *7:30 PM Open Space Cafe 2815 SE Holgate $5.00 suggested donation ============================== Upcoming Readings February 11-12 Barbara Guest's Collected Poems March 11 Jen Tynes, Jen Denrow, Dan Singer April 29 Cloud Shepherd: Andrew Joron, Joseph Noble, Brian Lucas May 27 Dan Thomas-Glass, Phoebe Wayne June 16 Brandon Brown, Alli Warren ============================== * * Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011), Broken World (Coffee House Press, 2007), and Human Rights(Talisman House, second edition forthcoming). Lease's poems "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" and "Send My Roots Rain" have been selected for Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second Edition). "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also selected for The Best American Poetry 2002. Lease was born in Chicago, and attended Columbia University, Brown University, and Harvard University. He has received The Academy of American Poets Prize, The Henry Evans Fellowship in Poetry, and Fellowships and grants in poetry and poetics from Columbia University, Harvard University, Brown University, and California College of the Arts. He is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Jamalieh Haley lives in Portland, Oregon, where she co-curates If Not For Kidnap Poetry series. Her work has been published in Poetry Miscellany, Birds & Whistles, Folio, Poor Claudia, and Small Doggies, and shown at various gallery spaces such as PLACE, Research Club, and Recess. She currently teaches writing and works on several manuscripts at the same time -- a method that has its consequences. She's a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art. America my scream is a brand name: blue -- for a while -- elm trees and summer and birch trees and sky, elm trees and summer and birch trees and sky: expensive houses, expensive houses dying: this lack of justice I acknowledge mine -- America, one extra summer night -- he wants to (you know) feel like a giant eyeball -- Joseph Lease * You have already changed me look, my dress is a little white bomb of outer space that will slowly murder the graceful museum of objects we are dedicated to preserving but we are dedicated to preserving that moment without objects which pleads the nightmare to produce breathable air body I fold my body into just back down the stairs of blackness out of my little white dress already exploded Jamalieh Haley* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20120123/64a31d4c/attachment.html