HOW2 Updates

Dhem Advent!

2009-12-02T20:22:00.001Z

Very pleased to host the Delirious Hem in tandem w/ Dusie this year...

tis an avante advent calendar fed with chocolate, pussipo poets and words.

Marianne Morris is the day one! Click on her to hear her read a new poem!!!

http://www.dusie.org/dhem09.html

go here for more on Delirious Hem (a feminist blog & an offspring of the pussipo listserve)

http://www.delirioushem.blogspot.com

if you are interested in hearing more about pussipo or delirious hem check it out, or backchannel me for more info!

bests,

Susana/dusie

ALISON KNOWLES PERFORMANCE AND BOOK RELEASE

2009-11-20T20:53:00.001Z

PRINTED MATTER, INC. 195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2009, 5-7PM

Please join Sara Ranchouse Publishing at Printed Matter, Inc., 195 Tenth Avenue (between 21st and 22nd), NYC, on Friday, November 6 from 5-7pm, for the publication release of "Plah Plah Pli Plah" by artist Alison Knowles. Knowles will be present to sign copies of her book.
"Plah Plah Pli Plah" documents the sounds, performance and material of Knowles’ handmade paper and dried bean instrument “Bean Turners.” It includes transcriptions of the instruments’ sounds, images of Knowles performing, scores, and a “bean page instrument,” fabricated especially for this project at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, Chicago.

Knowles and others of her Bean Turner Ensemble will perform her instruments throughout the evening. Don’t miss this opportunity to see and hear Alison’s amazing instruments live and to support the publication of "Plah Plah Pli Plah."

If you won’t be in New York, you can purchase "Plah Plah Pli Plah" and other of Knowles’ books online at: www.sararanchouse.com. Shipping is free within the US (mention this email) if you place your order before November 30, 2009.

ALISON KNOWLES is a visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, publications and association with Fluxus, the experimental avant-garde group formally founded in 1962. Since the early 1960s, she has traveled and performed throughout Europe, Asia and United States. Some of her seminal book projects include "Notations," a book of experimental composition that she designed and co-edited with John Cage (1968, Something Else Press), and "The Big Book" (1967), a walk-in book comprised of 8 ft. pages around a center spine, permitting the spectator/reader to physically go inside of the book. "Bean Rolls," a canned book, appeared in the Whitney Museum exhibition The American Century (2000), and in 1968, "The House of Dust," programmed with the help of composer Jim Tenney, was recognized as the first computer poem on record, winning her a Guggenheim Fellowship. For more information about Alison Knowles, please visit: www.aknowles.com.

SARA RANCHOUSE PUBLISHING was founded in 1993 to promote printed matter, especially the book, as a space in which to make and read visual art and unconventional texts. We are interested in found, rearranged and recontextualized texts, images and materials; in the significance of the physical make-up and production requirements of a publication in relation both to its content and to its subsequent functional and economic life; and in the pursuit of collaborative projects, especially those that resuscitate material that has been under acknowledged. Alison Knowles’ early score and publication, "The Identical Lunch" (1969), is one of our favorite books of all time and we are so pleased to be able to offer a Knowles title ourselves, forty years later! For more information about Sara Ranchouse Publishing, visit: www.sararanchouse.com or write info@sararanchouse.com.

PRINTED MATTER INC. is an independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation, dissemination, and understanding of artists’ books and other artists’ publications. Printed Matter maintains a public reading room where over 15,000 titles by 5,000 international artists are available for viewing and purchase. For more information about Printed Matter, Inc., please visit: http://printedmatter.org.

Call for Papers: Before and after 9/11: American Literature and Visual Culture

2009-11-20T20:51:00.002Z

A one-day conference at the University of Leicester

Friday 18 June 2010

The twenty-year span from the end of the Cold War to 2009, a period that has 9/11 almost at its mid-point, has been a fertile one for American literature. Especially in the wake of 9/11 and the “war on terror” writers have re-engaged with politics: recent writing has commented on Guantanamo, the political responses to 9/11, the war of image and rhetoric waged by the government against the American people and America’s role in Iraq. Environmental and cultural policies have also seen increased attention. Political decisions after 9/11 have had an undeniable impact on contemporary literature and visual representation, but can these art-forms exert any influence in return?

The relationship between word and image has also come under examination in this period of reassessment. A generation of creative and critical thinkers have begun to chart the difficult moral and ethical territory of the responsibilities inherent in any act of representation after 9/11. Critics argue that political responses to 9/11 have created a ‘Culture of Fear’ that “limits our intellectual and moral capacities, it turns us against others, it changes our behavior and perspective”[ <#_ftn1>1] This culture has encouraged acts of resistance in both literary and visual expression.

We invite papers that investigate any aspect of American literature’s engagement with the politics surrounding 9/11, from Canada and Latin America as well as the United States. We are especially interested in papers that explore formal and ideological developments in American writing across this period, either through the investigation of changing priorities and themes or through developments in the work of specific authors, and in those that look at the impact of visual culture on American writing.

Papers could address:

American writing and/or visual culture after 9/11
The use of word and image to manipulate public opinion
Responses to the images of 9/11 and the Iraq war
Writing about the environment or the construction of cultural memory
Resistance through formal innovation
The theory and ethics of representation after 9/11

Please submit 200 word proposals for 20 minute papers to Emma Kimberley (ek36@le.ac.uk) by 30th January 2010.

Placing Poetry: A reading and colloquium 6th-7th November 2009 at Bangor University, Wales

2009-11-20T20:49:00.001Z

Placing Poetry: A reading and colloquium 6th-7th November 2009 at Bangor University, Wales.

Friday 6th November 5.30pm

Lecture Room 1, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

Please email z.skoulding@bangor.ac.uk for further details

Readings by:

Jules Boykoff
Kaia Sand
Harriet Tarlo
Nerys Williams
Elzbieta Wojcik-Leese

Saturday 7th November 10 am-6pm

WISCA Seminar Room, Main Arts Building, Bangor University

9.30 Coffee

10.00 Ian Davidson and Zoe Skoulding - Introduction and overview of
Placing Poetry

10.15-11.15 Textual Spaces 1

Alice Entwistle - Taking place: politics, positionality and poetic form

Nerys Williams - Transforming information as a site for poetic knowledge

11.15 Coffee

11.30-12.30 Textual Spaces 2

Elz.bieta Wójcik-Leese - Placing the Poem in Translation

Peter Barry - Just Looking

12.30 -1.30 Lunch

1.30-3.15 Ethical and political spaces: counter-space and protest

Jules Boykoff - Poets as Experimental Geographers: Mark Nowak, Kaia Sand
and the Reconstitution of Historical-Political Space

Kaia Sand - Poem/NonPoem: The Work of Laura Elrick, Kristin Prevallet &
David Buuck

John Wrighton - Ethnopoetics and the Performativity of Place

3.15 Tea/Coffee

3.30-5.30 Environment

Carol Watts - Zeta Landscapes: Thoughts on Poetry, Place and Number

Harriet Tarlo - Fieldwork: open form poetry and poetics in and around the
field

Matthew Jarvis - In/human Place: The Poetry of John Barnie

5.30 DVD paper John Kinsella- Territories of Birds: further de-mapping
and reconnoitring notations of boundaries

Poetry Wales issue 45.2

2009-11-20T20:47:00.003Z

Poetry Wales issue 45.2 features Nerys Williams on Juliana Spahr and the American long poem, Robert Minhinnick on the Llynfi Valley, Matthew Jarvis in dialogue with John Kinsella on Welsh environments, and John Goodby on the Hay Poetry Jamboree.

There are translations from Danish, Welsh and Chinese by John Barnie, Fflur Dafydd and Pascale Petit respectively, and poems by Frances Presley, Peter Larkin, Mark Goodwin, Peter Hughes and Carol Watts, Katherine Stansfield, Anna Lewis, Linda Black, Vuyelwa Carlin and John Kinsella.

Reviews include Tim Liardet on Damian Walford Davies and Richard Marggraf Turley, Alison Brackenbury on Ian Gregson, Fiona Owen on Ruth Bidgood and John Powell Ward, Tony Frazer on translations of Victor Rodríguez Núñez and Petr Borkovec, Elzbieta Wójcik-Leese on European poetry, and Peter Hughes on Harry Guest and Sirol Troup.

This issue is available for £5.50 inc. UK postage, annual subscriptions at £20 (£18 for students), cheques to Poetry Wales Press Ltd., 57 Nolton Street, Bridgend, CF31 3AE Wales, or online http://www.seren-books.com/poetry-wales/
For other subscription enquiries or overseas subscription rates please email robingrossmann@seren-books.com

TARPAULIN SKY PRESS IS HIRING

2009-11-20T20:47:00.001Z

No pay--aside from fame and free books. Start immediately.

Over the next couple weeks, Tarpaulin Sky Press will be filling a variety of editorial and production positions. If you are interested in working for us, please email Christian Peet & Editors at newstaff[AT]tarpaulinsky[DOT]com, and let us know your experiences with (or your desire to be part of) Tarpaulin Sky Press and the small press community as a whole.

Please understand that we would be delighted for you to read submissions, but also that we consider reading submissions to be "the fun part" of editing, and that editors at TSky have many other responsibilities. Also, while ambition will serve as a fine substitute for experience in several positions at TSky Press, we are also looking specifically for people with experience in one or more of the following areas: web design, book design, event coordination, marketing and promotion.

It is not necessary to send a resume/CV--a letter will do fine--
but we will happily peruse anything you send.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Best,

Christian Peet & Co.
Tarpaulin Sky Press

ELO_AI: Archive & Innovate

2009-11-20T20:40:00.002Z

The Electronic Literature Organization's
Fourth International Conference
& Program of Digitally Mediated Literary Art

June 3-6, 2010
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Organized by the ELO and Writing Digital Media
at the Brown University Literary Arts Program
dedicated to Robert Coover

The Electronic Literature Organization and Brown University's Literary Arts Program invite submissions to the Electronic Literature Organization 2010 Conference to be held from June 3-6 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

electronic literature . writing digital media .
language-driven digital poesis . literal art . literary hypermedia .

We welcome papers and presentations on a broad range of topics. The conference will focus on the theory, criticism, close-reading, practice and archiving of language-driven digital art and poetics. Our gathering will also embrace all the related cultural practices that continue to be addressed by scholars and artists in our growing field:

expressive processing, computational art, artificial cognition and intelligence, aesthetic gaming, information art, codework, digitally mediated performance, network & media art & activism.

In addition we will give a special welcome to papers that engage with the contribution that Robert Coover has made to our field. A festschrift comprised of papers from the conference is proposed and Professor Coover will be our chief featured (e)Writer. (Other featured speakers to be announced shortly.)

In conjunction with the three-day conference, there will be a juried Program of Language-Driven Digital Art, concentrating on but not confined to installation works. We plan to show the selected work in gallery spaces close to the conference venue in downtown Providence over a two week period. Subject to funding restrictions, selected artists will be awarded bursaries to assist with attending the conference.

If you want to give a paper, or form a panel, at this point, please submit a maximum 500-word abstract, with title and brief bio (indicating affiliation, if any).
If you are proposing an installation, or an artistic presentation, or an alternative (innovative) proposal please also describe this in 500 words or less, with title, and bio(s). If you send illustrative, digitized AV materials, either keep these (byte-wise) small and short, or send us links.

Deadline for Submissions: December 15, 2009 
- Send to: elo.ai@eliterature.org.
Notification of Acceptance: January 25, 2010
PLEASE NOTE: Deadline for full papers will be May 1, 2010
to allow for reflection and exchange on the papers prior to the conference and to get a head-start in the publication process.

The basic cost of the conference is $150; graduate students and non-affiliated artists pay only $100.
Conference registration covers access to all events, the reception, some meals, and shuttle transportation.
All conference attendees are also expected to join the ELO before the conference and this can be done at registration.

We are planning to implement online submission and registration. Before submitting, please consult the conference website at ...

http://ai.eliterature.org

... where these facilities will be available and where you will find much more information about both the content and the form of the conference and arts program.

After consulting the website, for further queries and all email correspondence contact:
elo.ai@eliterature.org

The above address should be used for all conference business. It will checked by myself and also those colleagues and students who will be assisting me with the conference organization. But I appreciate that you may sometimes also want to get in touch with the conference organizer: John Cayley Literary Arts Program - Box 1923, Brown University, 68 1/2 Brown Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA. office: +1 401 863 3966, John_Cayley@brown.edu

FURTHER SUPPORT AND SPONSORSHIP SOLICITED
The Conference is currently sponsored and supported by
The Electronic Literature Organization, Brown University Literary Arts Program,
Brown University Creative Arts Council, Brown University Library, and the RISD D+M Program.
Any organization or individual in receipt of this call who would like to sponsor and
support this major international conference, please get in touch.
External sponsors are being sought and will be appropriately acknowledged.

Experimental Bookdesign & London's Little Presses

2009-01-19T10:12:00.003Z

"'Short run': experimental book design & London's little presses" is an exhibition and illustrated talk showcasing the book design and production practices of five London-based little presses:

Stuart Montgomery's Fulcrum Press
Stefan & Franciszka Themerson's Gaberbocchus Press
Roy Lewis's Keepsake Press
Asa Benveniste's Trigram Press and
Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum.

This free exhibition, 12-30 January, at St Bride's Printing Library, London focuses on the heyday of little press publishing in London (1945-79), from the end of World War 2 to the beginning of Thatcher. *Additionally on Thursday 15 January, the curator Rathna Ramanathan will give a talk, 7.00pm (with exhibition open from 6.00pm). Admission £7, concs £5. Pay on the door.

Location & more info: http://www.stbride.org/
"Little presses are not Miniature Big Presses. Nor is the word 'Little' a term of endearment. [...] The difference between Little Presses and Big Presses is not in their respective sizes, nor in their loveability [sic], but in the Minds that are behind them. [...] Both minds may be most magnificent, but they start working from two opposite ends. A really Big Press Mind starts with Market Research. [...] The Minds behind Little Presses work in a different way. [...] They start with a Thought."
- Stefan Themerson, 'Introduction' to the 1974 "Catalogue of little press books in print published in the United Kingdom"

Poets Out Loud at Fordham University

2008-08-26T17:06:00.002Z

Poets Out Loud
at Fordham University

presents

ALICIA OSTRIKER
Monday, September 15th, 2008, 7:00 pm

Alicia Ostriker is a major American poet and critic. Twice nominated for a National Book Award, she is author of eleven volumes of poetry, most recently No Heaven (2005). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Antaeus, The Nation, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Atlantic, Tikkun, and many other journals, and have been widely anthologized. As a critic Ostriker is the author of two path-breaking volumes on women's poetry, Writing Like a Woman and Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. Her most recent critical book is Dancing at the Devil's Party: Essays on Poetry, Politics and the Erotic. Ostriker is Professor Emerita of Rutgers University.

RECEPTION & BOOK SIGNING to follow

FREE and open to the public

LOCATION:
Fordham University, Lincoln Center
140 West 62nd Street (Law School entrance)
McNally Amphitheater

DIRECTIONS:

A, B, C, D & 1 trains to Columbus Circle. Exit at 60th Street & Broadway. McNally Amphitheater is in the Fordham Law School at 140 West 62nd Street, just west of Columbus Ave. Upon entering the double glass doors and informing the security desk that you are attending the "Poets Out Loud" event, walk up the stairs and take a quick left. After going through another pair of double doors, take the first right and enter the Atrium through its glass doors. The Amphitheater will be ahead of you to your left.

CONTACT:

Poets Out Loud
Fordham University
113 W. 60th Street, Room 924i
New York, NY 10023
(212) 636-6792
www.fordham.edu/pol
pol@fordham.edu

Elisabeth Frost, Director

EARTH'S BODY: AN ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY

2008-06-09T20:57:00.001Z

Coeditors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street solicit submissions for an international anthology of ecopoetry. We are looking for a wide and varied array of submissions. Our working definition of "ecopoetry" is flexible; it includes not only what might be called nature poetry, and not only poetry that focuses on environmental issues, but also experimental poetry--poetry that explores language in its relations with the other-than-human. We welcome work by emerging as well as established poets. We welcome serious poems, playful poems, poems in open or traditional forms. Depending on limitations of space, we will consider not only short poems but also poems of several pages. The anthology will include only living poets or poets who were alive as of July 2007, and will include only poems either written in English or already translated into English; for poems not written in English, both the original and the translation must be submitted, and if accepted, both will be published. We will consider work that has been previously published, but the poet (and/or translator) MUST control rights to the work.

The deadline for submissions is DECEMBER 15, 2008. Please send up to six poems to BOTH Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street. You may send them as email text or by snail mail. If they come as email text, make sure the spacing and lineation travel accurately. WE WILL NOT OPEN ATTACHMENTS AT THIS TIME. Please also include a short bio and a cover letter, and an SASE for our reply.

Ann Fisher-Wirth
English Department
Bondurant C-135
University of Mississippi
University, MS 38677
afwirth@olemiss.edu

Laura-Gray Street
English Department
2500 Rivermont
Randolph College
Lynchburg, VA 24503
lstreet@randolphcollege.edu

We look forward to reading your wonderful, very best work!

SUSAN HOWE: A CELEBRATION

2008-06-01T20:03:00.001Z

Birkbeck, University of London
Saturday 21st June, 9.25am-6.30pm

Susan Howe is a unique figure in twentieth-century poetry. Her work came to prominence in the early 1990s in association with the American Language poets, but quickly set its own agenda outside these parameters. From her first career as an artist, Howe brought an intense sensitivity to the visual dimensions of the text, producing a diverse body of work that has continually probed the borders between poetry and other disciplines and media. In its unorthodox readings of the American canon, its obsessive interest in history and what the official narratives of history exclude, and, more recently, in her collaborations with the experimental musician, David Grubbs, Howe’s work is unrelenting in its capacity to surprise and stimulate us.

In this one-day symposium, we aim to recognize the impact Susan Howe’s writing has had on contemporary poetics, and to provide a focus for new critical approaches to her poetry.

The conference begins with the keynote lecture by Elizabeth Willis at 9.30am, followed by four panels of papers, and finishing with a drinks reception at 6.30pm. This event is free and open to all.

Keynote Lecture: Elizabeth Willis (Wesleyan University)

Papers by: Stephen Collis, Drew Milne, Will Montgomery, Redell Olsen, Tony Lopez, Nick Selby, Carol Watts, William Watkin, William Rowe, Catherine Martin, Jess Wilkinson, Susan Nurmi-Schomers, Anna Reckin, Mandy Bloomfield.

To see the full programme please visit the conference webpage:

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/news/newsitem1

John Tranter: edit@jacketmagazine.com

Conference: Lifting Belly High: Women’s Poetry Since 1900

2008-04-02T19:01:00.002Z

Lifting Belly High: Women’s Poetry Since 1900 will be held at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 11, 12, & 13, 2008. This conference celebrates women poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a national gathering of critics, scholars and poets, including Blau DuPlessis, Kathleen Fraser, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Lisa Samuels, Anne Finch, Dawn Lundy Martin, Cristanne Miller, Arielle Greenberg, Alan Golding, Susan Stanford Friedman, Debbie Mix, Adalaide Morris, Lynn Keller, Leslie Wheeler, Elizabeth Frost, and Cynthia Hogue. Exploring the rich and diverse textures of poetry and scholarship, the conference encourages discussion about the shape and direction of women’s poetry and discourse that can carry poetry into academic, social and political life. The conference will include a range of contexts for discussing and hearing poetry:

Plenary panels featuring invited scholars and poets discussing “new directions in scholarship,” “poetry and the visual,” and “feminism, formalism and innovation.”
Readings by contemporary poets
Break-out sessions for submitted papers and panels
Seminar discussions of pre-submitted papers on various topics

We invite panel, paper, and seminar topic proposals on women’s poetry since 1900, including but not limited to the direction of scholarship about women’s poetry; producing, accessing, and editing texts; pedagogical approaches to experimental writing; neglected issues in women’s poetry; spirituality and religion, and the separatist anthology.

Individual paper submissions should be limited to abstracts of 300 words. Please include the name and contact information.
Panel proposals should include a rationale as well as paper abstracts of no more than 300 words each.
Seminar proposals should state the panel organizer(s), rationale for the topic, discussion format plans, and ideal number of participants.

Deadline for submissions (extended): May 16, 2008. Send submissions electronically to: womenspoetry@yahoo.com, or by mail to: Women Poets, Department of English, Duquesne University, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15282.

Questions and inquiries may be directed to Dr. Elisabeth Joyce, Dr. Linda Kinnahan, Dr. Elizabeth Savage, or Dr. Ellen McGrath Smith at womenspoetry@yahoo.com.

More information is available on the conference website: www.duq.edu/womenpoets

“Public Figures” New Submission: Frances Presley's “Anne R”

2008-03-18T23:08:00.003Z

A new submission in response to Jena Osman's Public Figures project (featured in HOW2 Vol. 1 No. 1) is now up on the Public Figures submissions page.

Anne R

Submissions are ongoing. If you would like to respond to Public Figures, please see the submission guidelines and send your submission to Lauren Shufran <shufran.lauren@gmail.com>

Poets Out Loud: Thomas Sayers Ellis, Reginald Flood, Duriel Harris, Pamela Plummer & Evie Shockley

2008-03-14T22:38:00.002Z

Poets Out Loud Presents: Cave Canem Poets Celebrate
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South

PLEASE NOTE NEW STARTING TIME, LOCATION AND DIRECTIONS

Featuring Thomas Sayers Ellis, Reginald Flood, Duriel Harris, Pamela Plummer & Evie Shockley
Monday, April 21st, 2008
7:30 PM, 155 W. 60th Street, McMahon Hall, Room 205-6
Free and open to the public
Refreshments will be served

Directions: Enter at 155 W. 60th Street (between Columbus & Amsterdam). Go Left towards guard station. Follow corridor to elevators. Take elevators to 2nd floor. Go right, then left down the hallway to Room 205.

Poets Out Load at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th St., Ste. 924-I
New York, NY 10023
(212) 636-6792

How to Make Europe Dream?: A Cultural Congress

2008-03-08T21:39:00.004Z

The European community will only be built as an imaginative community. This two-day congress brings to London writers, artists, musicians, philosophers, filmmakers and others to discuss the future of the arts in Europe. Including workshops on: translation, the tradition, the Mediterranean and arts and engagement, and a special workshop coordinated by the research cluster Critical Practice by the title "What is Cultural about Economics?"

Highlights of the congress include What's Cultural About Economics?, 4-6pm on Sun 16 Mar. Based on the model of the ancient bazaar, Critical Practice will organise a Market of Ideas in which 'stalls' organised by artists, anthropologists, economists and others will exchange their knowledge with the milling crowd. Two evening debates will focus on Dreaming of Europe in the Arts and Towards a European Cultural Avant-Garde, featuring Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gianni Vattimo.

The congress will form a major part of the London Festival of Europe 2008, a series of free lectures, debates and art events running from 6th - 16th March, organised by the independent, non-profit group of writers, artists and activists European Alternatives. The London Festival of Europe is an annual two-week series of events engaging with contemporary European politics, society and cultures. It promotes public discussion of European issues and celebrates cultural exchange.

The first London Festival of Europe was in March 2007. Over 10 days some of London's most prestigious venues were host to debates, lectures and film screenings covering a wide range of topics from the environment and the European social model to artistic relations between Europe and China. Over 1500 people attended the 2007 festival, which was opened by Zygmunt Bauman.

In addition to the program in London, several outreach events will be staged in Warsaw, Milan and Rome, to add a trans-European aspect to the festival. To promote maximum participation from a diverse audience, most of the events at the Festival will be FREE to attend, but registration advised:
editors@euroalter.com

What: How to Make Europe Dream? - A Cultural Congress

Where: Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Art and Design, 16 John Islip Street, London, SW1P 4JU

When: Sat 15 Mar, 12.30 - 7pm and Sun 16 Mar, 1 - 7.30pm

Further Details:

View full programme for the Cultural Congress
View full programme for the Festival of Europe

Contact: register: editors@euroalter.com

Poets Out Loud: Claudia Rankine and Stephanie Strickland

2008-01-15T12:15:00.000Z

Poets Out Loud presents an evening of visual and digital poetry with Claudia Rankine and Stephanie Strickland.

Thursday, February 14th, 2008. 7:00 PM. The reading will take place at McNally Amphitheater, Fordham Law School. 140 West 62nd Street, New York, NY 10023. The A, B, C, D, 1, and 9 subway trains all stop at 59th Street/Columbus Circle. The campus is located one block west. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please call (212) 636-6792 or visit www.fordham.edu/pol.

Poets Out Loud at Lincoln Center
113 West 60th St., Ste. 924-I
New York, NY 10023
(212) 636-6792

Call for Papers: Long Poems ::: Major Forms

2008-01-13T21:29:00.000Z

The University of Sussex’s School of Humanities, in conjunction with the Centre for Modernist Studies, invites submissions for papers to be given at the following conference, scheduled for Friday the 16th and Saturday the 17th of May 2008:

Long Poems ::: Major Forms

The ‘long poem’ has been traditionally conceived of as the principal means by which poets confront political and aesthetic problems through sustained investigations. Beyond this general outline, or indeed perhaps because of it, there is little consensus as to either what the long poem is, or what it might be uniquely capable of. In ‘The Poetic Principle,’ Edgar Allen Poe went so far as to assert that “a long poem does not exist” since “the ultimate, aggregate, or absolute effect of even the best epic under the sun, is a nullity.” Years later, and seeking to resolve the technical and affective dilemmas that Poe identified, Charles Olson prescribed a ‘projective verse’ that he purported might carry “much larger material than it has carried in our language since the Elizabethans.” He thought Pound’s Cantos exemplified the beginnings of such poetry, displaying a methodology capable of solving “problems of larger content and of larger forms.”

This conference seeks to address the contemporary relevance of the long poem: how has it evolved, what standing does it currently hold, and who are now its readers? As both a poetic and a critical concept, the ‘long poem’ presents poets with the difficulty of articulating what Pound called “a compound of freedom and order” that “hangs between chaos on the one side and mechanics on the other.” We hope this conference will provide a forum for the consideration of ways in which comprehensive, often formally complex and expansive poems may respond, or fail to respond, to certain “obligations toward the difficult whole,” and to explore what these obligations might now entail for both poets and their readers. We therefore welcome proposals for presentations addressing aesthetic, formal, generic, compositional and literary-historical questions the ‘long poem’ brings into particular focus.

Papers should be no more than 20 minutes in length, and calibrated towards generating wider

discussion. Please send a 250-word abstract, along with a brief biographical note by 1st March 2008 to thelongpoemconference@sussex.ac.uk. We will send out notifications shortly thereafter.

London Tate Modern

2007-10-28T15:50:00.001Z

'I am not a Woman Writer'
2007 Feminist Theory Lecture by Professor Toril Moi

Toril Moi Photo: Susannah Batia Felicity Paletz

Tuesday 20 November 2007, 18.30–20.00

Recent theories of women, sex and gender have challenged the category of woman. The value of literature (and the other arts) has also been called into question. Have the new gender theories made feminist criticism obsolete? Does it still make sense to claim, as the first feminist critics did, that literature and other arts are crucially important to feminists? Professor Toril Moi addresses these questions in the 2007 Feminist Theory lecture.

In collaboration with Feminist Theory and supported by Sage Publications

Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£8 (£6 concessions), booking recommended
For tickets book online
or call 020 7887 8888.

2007-10-23T23:11:00.000Z

PERFORMA 07
the second visual art performance biennial
October 27-November 20 2007

www.performa-arts.org

PERFORMA 07 will take place across New York City with an expanded roster of consortium members, ten major new PERFORMA Commissions, a lively and event driven educational program, and a focus on several new themes, including the relationship between the avant-garde dance and art worlds, with visual art projects that include choreographic precepts as material for art.

An exciting four week programme of performances, exhibitions, film, screenings, lectures and symposia, as well as PERFORMA TV and PERFORMA Radio, PERFORMA 07 has been organized in collaboration with 30 leading cultural institutions and their curators across the city to provide audiences with an overview of contemporary visual art performance.

Featuring more than one hundred international artists and projects including Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (Reenactment), Dance After Choreography (with Xavier Leroy, Jerome Bel, Pablo Bronstein, Markus Schinwald, and more), the Long March Project from Beijing, amongst many others, PERFORMA07 will articulate a broad range of ideas and sensibilities across disciplines and media. Building on the important era of downtown New York of the Sixties and Seventies, when the area was a beacon for the newest developments in dance, film, music and visual arts, this second biennial re-imagines the past, with historical reconstructions such as Allan Kaprow's legendary "18 Happenings in Six Parts," and also looks to the future, with its focus on new media and the infinite possibilities of generating new directions for the visual and performing arts of the new century.

PERFORMA 07 sees the expansion of PERFORMA Commissions, with the programme featuring ten artists, including Francesco Vezzoli, Daria Martin, Isaac Julien, Yvonne Rainer, Kelly Nipper, Adam Pendelton, Nathalie Durberg, and Japanther amongst others.

PERFORMA 07 also launches PERFORMA publications, with PERFORMA: New Visual Art Performance, a chronology and a record of PERFORMA 05, that is as much artists' notebook as a new guide to cultural life in the city.

PERFORMA also hosts for the first time, with New York University, Performance Studies International, a four-day conference (8 – 11 November) of keynote addresses, panels and workshops that offer an exciting opportunity to provide a critical and historical context for the new work presented during the biennial. www.psi-web.org/psi13/main.html

Full PERFORMA 07 programme and venue details can be found on www.performa-arts.org

Abigail Child: RETROSPECTIVE SCREENINGS

2007-10-17T15:48:00.000Z

Last Call for Submissions: Tarpaulin Sky Press

2007-10-17T14:29:00.000Z

The deadline is around the corner: the open reading period for Tarpaulin Sky Press ends October 31, 2007.

We will consider both chapbook and full-length manuscripts. Please do not query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Past contributors to the journal-as well as writers whose work has been accepted for publication in future issues-may submit their manuscripts with no reading fee. Writers who have not been published in our journal should include a $20 reading fee--which will also entitle them to a free trade paperback edition of the TSky Press book of their choice. Be sure to indicate which title you would like to receive, and include a self-addressed envelope 6"x9" or larger so we may mail your book.

Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what you're up to, and where we can read more of your work. We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines and anthologies, but the
collection as a whole must be unpublished.

Be sure that your title page includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, etc. Send one copy of your manuscript submission with two copies of the title page. For notification of decisions, include a business-sized SASE. If you would like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please include a stamped, self-addressed
postcard. Manuscripts cannot be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.

Please make your check payable to Tarpaulin Sky Press. Send your manuscript to

Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146

(Please note the new address. Please note, too, however, that submissions sent to the old address have been received and will continue to be received without problems). Notification of decisions will be made on or before December 15, 2007. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in Fall 2008 or Spring 2009.

http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Press/index.html

Erin Moure Updated Info

2007-10-15T23:29:00.000Z

Erin Moure will be visiting the UK from Montreal and reading on the dates below.

October 2007

Weds 17th Shearsman Series, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, London, 7.30. Details on Shearsman website. Contributions on the door.

Thurs 18th De Montfort University Leicester 2pm. Contact Simon Perril for further details.

Sat 20th The Language Club, Plymouth Arts Centre, 7.30.

Tues 23rd Bangor University, Contempo videoconference with Aberystwyth. Free.

Weds 24th Bangor University, translation seminar with Chus Pato, Tricolore 2-4pm. Free.

Weds 24th Bangor University, reading with Chus Pato. 7.30, with wine reception and discussion. Free.

Thurs 25th Rose Theatre, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, 7.30. Contact Robert Sheppard for further details.

Moure writes mainly in English, but also in Galician and French and has translated from Spanish, Portugese, Galician and French into English. She has described her poetry as a way of “thinking about and in spacings, placings, stagings, and how to think and be in such spacings – always in language, and always spatial, physical, because we are sited, incorporated beings.” Her 2002 work O Cidadán sprang from the need to rethink the notion of the citizen, and insisted that it is the crossing of borders and leakages in borders that makes entities (countries, persons, communities) possible. Of Moure’s later books, Little Theatres (2005) includes poems in Galician in a book destined for English-language readers, and her latest work, O Cadoiro, explores the radical modernity of the lyric voice. Moure’s practice includes both creation and translation, and she does not distinguish between them.

The Bangor events on the 24th feature Chus Pato, one of the most singular and acclaimed voices in contemporary Spanish poetry. She writes in Galician, and her poems have been widely translated. Erin Moure's translation of from m-Talá (Nomados, 2003) and Charenton, just published by Shearsman Books, brings her unique perspective and political energy into an encounter with the English language.

For further details please contact Zoe Skoulding ems216@bangor.ac.uk

Erin Mouré in the UK

2007-09-11T20:36:00.000Z

Erin Mouré is coming over from Montreal to read in the UK on the following dates in October:

Weds 17th Shearsman Series, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury, London.

Sat 20th The Language Club, Plymouth Arts Centre.

Tues 23rd University of Wales, Bangor, Contempo videoconference with Aberystwyth.

Weds 24th University of Wales, Bangor, reading with Chus Pato.

Thurs 25th Rose Theatre, Edge Hill, Liverpool.

Mouré's latest collection 'O Cadoiro' is just published - see http://www.anansi.ca/titles.cfm?pub_id=1157 and her translation (from Galician) of Chus Pato's Charenton is out now from Shearsman.

Postcard

2007-06-28T09:55:00.000Z

So you readers can hide a lot from us but what you can’t hide is the fact that you all have plenty of things to say directly after perusing the recent issue of How2. We know this because we’re its readers, too - & what would really make us happy is to be able to keep engaging with you all well after each issue is out. For this reason revisions have been made in the upcoming issue to make the Postcard section more accessible, so you can post reactions to texts & sections as quickly as they come. Beginning with this issue, each section of How2 links directly to Postcards in order to help generate & encourage response, conversation, debate, other sharings & digressions etc. We’re really hoping to make Postcard a thriving section again. So please know it’s there - & know that when we say you’ve got access to it it’s because we really do hope that you’ll engage there.

Thanks & Looking Forward,

Lauren Shufran,
Postcard Editor

See how to submit a Postcard contribution here.

Postcards Update

2007-06-15T14:22:00.000Z

So hopefully you all have or are-soon-to recognize with this current issue that the Postcard section has been updated – or rather, the magazine format itself has been updated, to permit easier access to the Postcard section, and thus hopefully to facilitate a more immediate level of response to its submissions. I’d like to direct your attention to our first (!) Postcard of this issue by Emma Bee Bernstein: a response to MOMA’s recent symposium “The Feminist Future,” in which Emma both exposes her own confrontations and poses a number of acutely relevant questions for (and with) us: of negotiating how to exist both within and without the structures of a movement, of whether or not it's even possible to create rupture from without, of the difference between circumvention, transgression, and acknowledgement of definitions and boundaries (and definitional boundaries), whether the issues are categorical or the way in which our categories have been defined and institutionalized, of avoidance and allusion (and how these might function as parody, and how, instead, they might function to counter the very speech-through-silence they might have desired).

A number of fantastic female artists whose work poses these same questions (and who were present at the symposium) are also cited. Feel free to read, respond, post additions, interrogations, and possible solutions. We’re looking forward to what may come of this section, and I’m absolutely pleased that this particular piece has arrived to help facilitate that.

HOW2 Postcards

Lauren Shufran

HOW2 Summer 2007 Issue Now Online

2007-06-15T14:20:00.000Z

The Summer 2007 issue of HOW2 is online. Go to http://www.how2journal.com.

View the full announcement with contents summary and links here.

Cinenova at The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 16th and 17th of June

2007-06-13T16:35:00.000Z

Saturday 16th June

3pm
An Epic Poem, Lezli Ann Barret, UK 1982, 30mins
Home and Dry, Leeds Animation Workshop, UK 1987, 8mins
Living the Sacrifice, Emily Roysdon, 8mins, USA, 2006

5pm
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey with Emma Hedditch

7pm
Daughter Rite, Michelle Citron, USA, 1978, 53mins
Women of the Rhondda, Esther Ronay, Mary Capps, Brigid Seagrave, Mary Kelly, Humphrey Trevelyan, UK, 1972, 20mins

Sunday 17th June

3pm
The Impossible Decade, Juliet Miller, UK 1985, 50mins
Light Reading, Lis Rhodes, UK 1978, 20mins

5pm
Phrenological Self Portrait, Marianne Heske, 1976, 8mins
Sharon Hayes ‘reads’ Sadie Benning

7pm
Veronica 4 Rose, Melanie Chait, UK 1983, 48mins
Model of the Figure, Karolin Meunier, Germany 2005, 7mins

Whitechapel
Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX

Nearest tube: Aldgate East

Tickets:
Weekend pass: £25 / £16 concessions/members
Day pass: £15 / £12 concessions/members
Individual screenings: £5

Box office: 020 7522 7888
www.whitechapel.org

American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics

2007-06-11T22:06:00.000Z

American Poets in the 21st Century:
The New Poetics
edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/0-8195-6727-2.html

What are readers to make of the lament that the field of poetry is in crisis? Or the statement that poetry as a genre no longer "matters"? Readers are left to sort through the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and experimental, trying to figure out what poetry, if any, defines our current epoch. With the release of AMERICAN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE NEW POETICS, editors Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell counter such negative views and confusion by documenting the advent of a poetry that is vital and varied in both its style and subject.

AMERICAN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY collects thirteen significant voices from a new generation of poets. In addition to the poems, Rankine and Sewell have included brief statements from each poet, along with thirteen critical essays that provide an historical context and analysis of the ways the specific work alters and extends the understanding of what the new American poetries can look, feel, and sound like.

Accompanying the book is a CD that contains readings from each of the poets. Additional recordings from the poets will be at www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/americanpoets by July 1st.

Contributing poets include Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young.

Claudia Rankine is a professor of English at Pomona College. She is the author of four poetry books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004), and co-editor of American Women Poets in the 21st Century (2002). Lisa Sewell is a professor of English at Villanova University and the author of two poetry books, the most recent of which is Name Withheld (2006).

PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A REVIEW COPY or TO SEE A PDF SAMPLE FROM THE BOOK
Contact: Stephanie Elliott
Wesleyan University Press
215 Long Lane
Middletown, CT 06459
(860) 685-7723
selliott@wesleyan.edu
Please visit our new Web site: www.wesleyan.edu/wespress

American Poets in the 21st Century:
The New Poetics
edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell

416 pp., CD, 6 x 9", Accompanying web site
$75.00 unjacketed cloth
EAN: 978-0-8195-6727-7
ISBN: 0-8195-6727-2
$27.95 paper
EAN: 978-0-8195-6728-4
ISBN: 0-8195-6728-0

Publication Date:
July 9, 2007

Kritya’s New Issue is online

2007-06-02T21:04:00.000Z

"Listen to the music within your soul.

While listening, do you not feel
an inner self awakening deep within you -

that it is by its strength that your head is lifted,
that your arms are raised,
that you are walking slowly towards the light?"

Isadora Duncan

Kritya’s New Issue is on line-
www.kritya.in

Kritya is now entering its third year in the world of poetry. With the coming of July, Kritya2007 - an international festival of poetry will be born with grace. Held between 21st and 23rd July 2007, this year’s event has grown in size and has already drawn rave reviews. It is going to be a dynamic celebration of poetry, music and performance by more than 60 talented poets and artists, ranging from internationally acclaimed, to hot new talents for you to discover.

Rati Saxena

SOFT TARGETS v.2.1 + v.2.2 Release Event: 5.30.07

2007-05-22T08:47:00.000Z

Dear Friends + Enemies,

This notification is to announce the release event for SOFT TARGETS v.2.1., a handheld journal of poetry, artwork, theory, and fiction, as well as v.2.2, a 5" LP. Please join the Front Office for readings and performances by Kalup Linzy, Gary Lutz, Ariana Reines, and Mick Barr

as Octis.

The Kitchen, NYC
512 West 19th Street
Wednesday, May 30th
7pm, FREE

SOFT TARGETS v.2.1 features contributions from Alain Badiou, John Waters, Zoe Leonard, Yto Barrada, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, James Tate, Alexander Kluge, Christian Marclay, Tatiana Trouvé, Paris-based political collective TIQQUN, Chris Marker, Ben Lerner, Arno Schmidt, Roberto Bolaño, Lisa Jarnot, and RAQS Media Collective, among others.

256pp, w/ color illustrations throughout; dusty pink cover.

SOFT TARGETS v.2.2 is a 5" LP recording of the NYC avant-metal band Orthrelm. Side A: "03-7" [0:48]; Side B: "03-8" [0:57]; 33 revolutions per minute.

Visit www.softtargetsjournal.com for an exclusive interview: "Divine Violence and Liberated Territories: SOFT TARGETS talks with Slavoj Zizek."

v.2.1 available for pre-order to bookstores, museums, and other venues through Distributed Arts Publishers (www.artbook.com); v.2.1 + v.2.2 available at www.softtargetsjournal.com beginning May 30th.

Yours,
the Front Office
__________________

Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. Born in Stuckey, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Recently, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2007-2008. Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. Linzy also performs on stage using many of the same characters. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum.

Gary Lutz is the author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He will be reading from "Years of Age," a work in progress.

Ariana Reines was born in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence Books 2006) and the forthcoming Thank You, new life, and The Hand of Thomas. She writes on art for tema celeste and has contributed exhibition essays on Jonas Mekas, Marc Chagall, Ken Jacobs, and Taka Imura for Maya Stendhal Gallery. Ariana graduated from Barnard College in 2003, winning fourteen prizes and scholarships for literature and translation. She has collaborated on sound/vj projects with Ilan Katin for Belgium's MappingFestival and at Brooklyn's Monkeytown. Poems and stories can be found in Skanky Possum, The Open Face Sandwich, WebConjunctions, and Action Yes.

Mick Barr is from New Haven County, CT. He spent most of his early music years playing in metal and hardcore bands. In 1996 he moved to Washington D.C. and started his first drums and guitar duo Crom Tech. In 2000 he started his second drums and guitar duo, Orthrelm, as well as his guitar and drum machine project Octis. Since then he has moved between D.C., San Francisco, and New York City, playing in numerous projects including Quix*o*tic and the Flying Luttenbachers. In 2005 he started his new guitar only project Ocrilim.

__________________

Founded in 2005 and curated by several Offices including the Front Office and the Office of Special Plans, SOFT TARGETS is the tightest of rings; a narrowing, and not widening, gyre; neither a stately pleasure dome, nor the expansive hunger of a corporation. SOFT TARGETS is a colony.

FRONT OFFICE
Daniel Feinberg
Dan Hoy

OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS
Rachel Kushner
Jason Smith

OFFICE OF CONCRETE
+ PLASTIC STUDIES
Anthony Allen

OFFICE OF ASSEMBLY
Jane Lewis

OFFICE OF AFFAIRS
Brian Kalkbrenner

www.softtargetsjournal.com

EUROPA! EUROPA? Call for Submissions

2007-05-04T20:37:00.001Z

First bi-annual conference of the
European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM)
29-31 May 2008 - Ghent University, Belgium
http://www.eam-europe.ugent.be

With initiatives in the cross-disciplinary fields of avant-garde and modernism studies booming throughout European academia, time has come to provide a more permanent platform in Europe for scholars to meet and discuss their research. The European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM) will devote itself to the study of the avant-garde and modernism in Europe within a global setting, throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. EAM will promote interdisciplinary and intermedial research on experimental aesthetics and poetics, and aims to encourage an interest in the cultural dimensions and contexts of the avant-garde and modernism. The network aspires to embrace the wide variety within avant-garde and modernism studies, and welcomes all scholars engaged in these areas of research to participate in its founding conference.

EAM's first conference will focus on the relation between the avant-garde, modernism and Europe. For more information about potential topics for panel, roundtable and paper proposals, visit: http://www.eam-europe.ugent.be.

Confirmed key-note speakers include: Charles Altieri (University of Berkeley, California), Astradur Eysteinsson (University of Iceland, Reykjavik), Paul Micheal Lützeler (Washington University, St. Louis), William Marx (University of Orléans and University Institute of France) and Piotr Piotrowski (Mickiewicz University, Poznan - Poland).

Conference proposals and papers can be composed in English, French or German.

Deadline for panel proposals: 1 September 2007
Deadline for roundtable proposals: 1 September 2007
Deadline for paper proposals: 1 October 2007

Contact: eam-europe@ugent.be

The conference is sponsored by the Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, the Centre for Modernist Studies at the University of Sussex, the 'Textual Culture: Modernism and Memory' research group of the University of Utrecht, the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics at the University of Liège, the L.P. Boon Centre of Antwerp University, OLITH (Research community in literary theory, Flanders), and the department of Dutch Literature and Literary Theory as well as the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy of Ghent University.

Download Call for Submissions PDF or as Word document

Extended Reading Period for Full-Length Manuscripts at Octopus Books

2007-05-01T23:34:00.000Z

Octopus Books is reading full-length manuscripts for publication in the winter. We will continue to take manuscript submissions through May 14th.

All manuscripts will be read anonymously & we will choose at least one book from the submissions we receive. For more information click here:

http://www.octopusbooks.net/submit.htm

http://www.octopusbooks.net
http://www.octopusmagazine.com

New issue of kritya - a web journal of poetry

2007-05-01T23:28:00.000Z

www.kritya.in

The third edition of Kritya’s festival of poetry is scheduled to be held in late July and this time, it?s going to be an International festival of poetry. To capture the festival distinctively, a number of poets and cultural activists from all over the world will participate in the gathering. To promote the voice of poetry, we are reviving varied voices in art and culture, there is nothing else comparable going on south of the Indian subcontinent. While we have aspirations to earn widespread interest for poetry, we are also putting our necks on the block - but then brass necks are difficult to sever!

Kritya, has grown and thrived in the last couple of years, in almost every way - more events, bigger venues, larger readership and audiences, more awareness and yes, thanks to the faith of the Kritya team for coming this far.

Around 50 poets, from India and abroad will assemble in Trivandrum to present their work. Performance poets and artists will give the festival a cultural dimension.

Rati Saxena

SEMINA - WHERE THE NOVEL HAS A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

2007-04-23T22:59:00.000Z

BOOK WORKS NEW OPEN SUBMISSION SERIES
COMMISSIONING EDITOR: STEWART HOME

Theme

Semina takes its inspiration from a series of nine loose-leaf magazines issued by Californian beat artist Wallace Berman in the 1950s and 1960s. We are looking for experimental prose that draws inspiration from art as much as it does from literature; for writing with a radical and extremely selfconscious understanding of itself; work that takes itself both beyond and behind the mid-twentieth century après-garde and is inspired by groups such as Cobra, the Beats, Fluxus, Oulipo, the Letterists, and those involved with the new novel and Black Mountain, as well as the more recognizably post-modern experimentation associated with figures like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper and Lynne Tillman. We aim to publish work that will cross any and all genre boundaries, that is unable to recognise differences between poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, high brow and low brow, art and life; and that continually reforges the passage between formalism and sensuous activity. Themes that interest us include drugs, magic, the art world, life, death and transcendence; but above all we’re looking for unknown artists and writers willing to take risks with their prose and who demonstrate total disregard for the conventions that structure received ideas about fiction.

Design

Semina will have a series identity and a regular format drawn from Wallace Berman’s Semina magazine and verifax collages. We will commission and work with a designer on this project. The print-run will be up to 1,500 copies. Published works will be between 30,000 & 50,000 words or 72 & 128 pages.

The Commission

Commissioned and edited by artist and writer Stewart Home, the series will publish nine books, six of which will be selected by open submission, a further two commissioned by the editor, and a final title Blood Rites of the Bourgeoisie to be produced by Stewart Home. Three books will be published a year. The selection will be by Stewart Home and Book Works staff.

How to apply

Please return the attached form and send a sample of between 3000 & 5000 words of the proposed work, a CV, a registration fee of £10, and a stamped self-addressed envelope for your reply, before the deadline of 31 May 2007. If you want your submission and supporting material returned please include sufficient postage stamps. Submissions must be typed; hand written submissions or electronic files will not be accepted. Proposals should be text based, though this series may include illustrations. We are not looking for works that have already been written, we want to develop the book with you.

Eligibility

Proposals are welcome from all sections of society, including practitioners from different culturally diverse backgrounds.

Selection and schedule

The shortlist and selection from open submission for the first publications is scheduled for Summer 2007. We will write to let you know if your work has been short-listed and selected as soon as we can. If your work is short-listed we may then ring/contact you for further information or ask you to come and talk more about your proposal with us. We would expect the commissions to be underway from August, for publication in Spring 2008.

Feedback

Due to the volume of applications we receive each year we will not be able to give any specific feedback on individual proposals unless short-listed. However we do run free artists’ surgeries on a monthly basis, and are able to spend time discussing potential projects, offering help and advice on publishing and distribution of artists’ books at these sessions.

Fee

A commissioning fee of £500 will be paid to the selected artists/writers, plus 100 copies of their book. Book Works will be responsible for all production, publishing and marketing costs. The selected artists will be asked to sign an agreement with Book Works that will include a contract and detailed schedule for work.

General information on Book Works

Book Works commissions new work in collaboration with artists, writers, and designers; publishes and produces books, multiples, videos and internet/new media projects. It organizes exhibitions, installations, time based and performance works, discussions and events. It promotes and distributes its own publications and offers a resource about book publishing, production and distribution. It has a studio offering a range of printing and binding facilities and services. For full details about Book Works past/current projects please refer to our website: www.bookworks.org.uk

Book Works
19 Holywell Row
London EC2A 4JB
Telephone: 020 7247 2203
Facsimile: 020 7247 2540
www.bookworks.org.uk

Two Upcoming Readings at Teachers & Writers Collaborative

2007-04-10T01:15:00.000Z

April 19th 7 pm 2020 Visions: David Lehman and Erica Fabri

A reading with David Lehman, author of 7 books of poetry, including When a Woman Loves a Man and An Alternative to Speech, and 3 books of non-fiction, as well as, series editor for Best American Poetry.

Erica Miriam Fabri, author of High Heel Magazine, winner of the Belle Letters Chapbook prize. Her poetry has appeared in many journals including, MiPoesia, Good Foot, and Sink Review.

A light reception to follow.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
520 8th Ave, btwn 36th and 37th
suite 2020
Trains A,C,E, to 34th Penn Station
www.twc.org/ 212-691-6590

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May 10th 7pm 2020 Visions: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Prageeta Sharma

A reading with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, author of I Love Artist: New and Selected Poems, Heat Bird, Empathy, Sphericity and Four Year Old Girl.

Prageeta Sharma, author of The Opening Question, winner of the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Series and Bliss To Fill.

A light reception to follow.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
520 8th Ave, btwn 36th and 37th
suite 2020
Trains A,C,E, to 34th Penn Station
www.twc.org 212-691-6590

Introducing the Arts Awards with Wellcome Trust

2007-04-05T19:13:00.000Z

A new funding scheme which continues to support arts projects that engage with biomedical science.

www.wellcome.ac.uk/arts

The Wellcome Trust believes the arts are an effective way of stimulating debate and engaging people with biomedical science. Visual art, music, moving image, creative writing and performance can reach new audiences which may not traditionally be interested in science and provide new ways of thinking about the social, cultural and ethical issues around contemporary science. Collaborative and interdisciplinary practice across the arts and sciences can help to provide new perspectives on both fields. The arts can also provide imaginative ways of engaging and educating young people in the field of science.

The Arts Awards support projects that engage the public with biomedical science through the arts. The scheme aims to:

stimulate interest, excitement and debate about biomedical science through the arts
examine the social, cultural, and ethical impact of biomedical science
support formal and informal learning
encourage new ways of thinking
encourage high quality interdisciplinary practice and collaborative partnerships in arts, science and/or education practice.
All art forms are covered by the programme: dance, drama, performance arts, visual arts, music, film, craft, photography, creative writing or digital media.
We invite applications for projects which engage adult audiences and/or young people.

Projects should have some biomedical scientific input either through a scientist taking on an advisory role or through direct collaboration. Applicants are encouraged to investigate new methods of interdisciplinary working as well as new models of engagement in biomedical science.

View examples of projects funded through our previous arts funding schemes:
Sciart (arts and science collaboration)
Pulse (young people's arts).

Funding levels
Funding can be applied for at two levels:
Small to medium sized projects (up to and including £30 000)
Funding can either be used to support the development of new project ideas, deliver small-scale productions or workshops, investigate and experiment with new methods of engagement through the arts, or develop new collaborative relationships between artists and scientists.

Large projects (above £30 000)
This funding can be used to fund full or part production costs for large-scale arts projects that aim to have significant impact on the public's engagement with biomedical science. We are also interested in supporting high-quality, multi-audience, multi-outcome projects.

Applicants can apply for any amount within the above boundaries, for projects lasting a maximum of three years.

Who can apply?
Applicants must be based in the UK or the Republic of Ireland and the activity must take place in the UK or Republic of Ireland. Applicants are usually affiliated to organisations, but can apply as individuals.

The scheme is open to a wide range of people including, among others, artists, scientists, curators, filmmakers, writers, producers, directors, academics, science communicators, teachers, arts workers and education officers.

Organisations may include: arts venues; museums and other cultural attractions; arts agencies; production companies; broadcast media; schools; local education authorities; universities and colleges; youth clubs; community groups; research institutes; the NHS; science centres.

How to apply
Applications must be made using the Wellcome Trust application form available at:
www.wellcome.ac.uk/arts
Please refer to the application guidelines, evaluation guidelines and Grant Conditions prior to completing the form.
If you would like advice on the eligibility of your project or how to apply, please contact the Arts Awards office well in advance of the deadline.

Timing
For small to medium sized projects (up to and including £30 000) there will be four deadlines in 2007: 16 March, 13 July, 28 September and 15 November. Decisions will be made approximately three months after the deadline.

For large projects (over £30 000) the deadline is 27 April 2007. Decisions will be made approximately five months after the deadline.

All projects will be peer reviewed and assessed individually on merit and need by the Funding Committee.

All enquiries and applications should be addressed to:
Arts Awards
Wellcome Trust
Gibbs Building
215 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE, UK

T +44 (0)20 7611 7222
F +44 (0)20 7611 8269
E arts@wellcome.ac.uk

The Poetics of Globalisation

2007-04-05T05:31:00.000Z

May 2nd, Centre for Contemporary Writing, University of Southampton

Confirmed speakers
Michael Davidson (University of California, San Diego)
Jeff Derksen (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
Liam Connell (University of Herfordshire, UK)
Keston Sutherland (University of Sussex, UK)

The implications of the ubiquitous languages of ‘globalization’ for literary and cultural critique are far from clear. The term is deeply ambivalent, suggesting both a political critique of the neo-liberal agenda and an accession to the universalizing assumptions of its corporate entities. This workshop offers literary critics the opportunity to assess and openly debate the significance of the theoretical and political frameworks of globalization for the study of literature.

Specific issues to be addressed include:

How does literature allow us to better understand the impact and effects of globalization: on the body, on the nation, on work?
How can globalization be understood as a cultural, as well as economic and political, entity? What cultural and literary forms has it produced? What kinds of engagement with the economic and political do these cultural forms demand or produce?
What are the languages of globalization? How new are they? How do they supplement or replace existing discourses of Marxism, post-colonialism, or postmodernism?

This event is intended to facilitate discussion between specialists working in these emerging areas. It will consist of a two two-hour panels (with three speakers in each) and one extended roundtable discussion.

Proposals of maximum 200 words are sought for twenty-minute workshop papers, as well as for short (max 5 minutes) 'position papers' for the concluding discussion.

Please email proposals or enquiries to Nicky Marsh at nm8@soton.ac.uk

Little Red Leaves

2007-04-04T06:47:00.000Z

Little Red Leaves is a collectively edited online poetry journal. Our first issue will be released on MayDay (May 1st 2007). Since this is a collective, we do not subscribe to any one poetics/school of poetry etc. and the hope is that this will still ensure an interesting read. We also have a chapbook press, Dos Press, which will be debuting in May as well, with poems from Hoa Nguyen, Andrea Strudensky, and Carter Smith.

(In addition to this email, information about the journal can be found at littleredleavesjournal.blogspot.com)

*General Submissions: Please send 3-5 poems (of any length) as a Word, RTF, or PDF attachment to littleredleaves@gmail.com. In the subject line include your name and "general."

*Other Submissions: Each editor might also decide to edit a 'special section' with more specific guidelines. These will be posted separately as such.

Simultaneous submissions are accepted as long as you let us know if someone else has snatched your brilliant poem first. We do not consider previously published work.

Please allow six to eight weeks for a response. After eight weeks, please query if you haven't heard a word.

*Queries: Send any questions you might have to littleredleaves@gmail.com with "Query" as your subject line.

Special Calls :

Currently we have two calls- one for long poems and one for entre-genres. Please see the blog for updates/editions to these.

We hope to hear from you!

Alison Cimino
Michelle Detorie
Julia Drescher
Chad Heltzel
CJ Martin
Pablo Miguel Martinez
Karen McBurney

Two CLMP Lit Mag & Small Press Fairs Coming up this Spring

2007-03-14T22:35:00.000Z

Sign up NOW! to attend or contribute copies of your publication to CLMP fairs in New Britain, CT and Hudson, NY

The Fairs feature independent literary publishers, with journals selling for $2 an issue and books for $4 each. There are also panels and readings to attract the public. These fairs are presented as marketing opportunities to raise the awareness of what you publish (it's the Bargains Galore! aspect that draws the crowds), so take advantage of these chances to utilize your backstock and introduce yourselves to new audiences.

Attend these fairs in person and and keep all proceeds of your sales, while meeting and greeting fair attendees. If you can't come in person, contribute copies and make sure your books or magazines reach new readers' hands!

Sign up now with our easy online registration form:
http://www.clmp.org/fairform.html

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CLMP's Literary Magazine & Small Press Fair at
Recharging the Sensorium: Central Connecticut State University's Writing Conference

Friday, April 27th, 2007, 9am-5pm
Location:

Founder's Hall
Central Connecticut State University
New Britain, CT

More info the Recharging the Sensorium Conference here:
http://www.english.ccsu.edu/recharge.htm

CLMP is thrilled to bring our program of Literary Magazine and Small Press Book fairs to CCSU's 6th Annual Writing Conference (the largest writing conference in the state!), dedicated to exploring the connections between text and media. We have collaborated with co-sponsors Drunken Boat (www.drunkenboat.com) and Connecticut Review to plan this day-long event that will promote the wonderful and varied literary publishers we represent to an eager regional audience of potential subscribers and supporters.

Interested publishers may sign up online at:
http://www.clmp.org/fairform.html

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CLMP's Literary Magazine & Small Press Fair
at the 3rd Annual Hudson Valley Literary Festival—All LIT Up!

Saturday, May 5th, 2007, 11 AM - 4 PM
Location:

Hudson Opera House
Hudson, NY

More info on the venue at:
http://www.hudsonoperahouse.org/

CLMP will collaborate once again with local Hudson organizations, including the Hudson Opera House, Spotty Dog Books & Ale, and Hudson Wine Merchants, to present this popular day-long festival! Events will include a panel discussion on "The Future of Fiction,", a reading, and Unpleasant Event Schedule's Denial Nester will reprise our raucous Hudson edition of Karaoke + Poetry = Fun, where all are welcome to participate: read a poem, sing a song, and have a beer!

Interested publishers may sign up online at:
http://www.clmp.org/fairform.html

You will receive confirmation (by email if possible) of your registration and further instructions on when and where to send your journals (do not send them before instructed to do so, please)!

All Best,
Jamie Schwartz
Programs Director
Council of Literary Magazines & Presses

Support Reality Street Editions

2007-02-18T02:09:00.000Z

I’d like to persuade you to become a Reality Street Supporter. Supporters have been absolutely vital to the success of the press, particularly in the past three years, during which we have published eleven titles, breaking even financially without the need for external support.

Supporting Reality Street’s programme of innovative writing this year costs you £35 (if you’re in the UK/Europe), £40 (if you’re outside Europe). For this, you will receive four books scheduled for 2007 (subject to any last minute changes), as follow:

Wendy Mulford: THE SPACE BETWEEN - New work since her Selected Poems, and suddenly, supposing... by Reality Street's co-founder. Around 48pp.

Sarah Riggs: chain of minuscule decisions... - A visually beautiful permutational work by a US poet based in Paris, her first UK publication. Around 56pp.

Eugene Savitzkaya: BEING ALIVE - The latest in Reality Street's narrative series, a translation of this Polish/Belgian writer's prose narrative En Vie, by Paul Buck and Catherine Petit. Around 80pp.

The Contemporary Free Verse Sonnet O'Hara, Berrigan, Mayer, Fisher, Raworth ... how far can the venerable 14-liner be stretched? Jeff Hilson edits this groundbreaking anthology, which is expected to include 35-40 poets and run to 300-350pp.

The retail prices of these books separately are expected to amount to £38.50 not counting postage & packing, so I hope you agree that subscribing to all four makes economic sense. In addition, you will get your name as a Supporter printed on the back of all four books – unless you tell me you prefer to remain anonymous.

To become a Supporter, PLEASE REPLY TO THE EMAIL ADDRESS BELOW. I will then send you a secure credit card payment request via PayPal. You do not need to be a member of or to join PayPal – just click on the link and complete your credit card and delivery address details. Non-sterling currencies will be automatically converted at the prevailing rate.

You can still pay by sterling cheque if you wish. Make the cheque out to REALITY STREET and send it to the address below. If you need to pay by non-sterling cheque (check), you can, but there’s an additional charge of £5, as this is what the bank charges us for conversion.

Please do become a Reality Street Supporter and help enable publication of some of the most exciting writing around. Ask me any questions you need to.

Best wishes,

Ken Edwards
Reality Street Editions
63 All Saints Street
Hastings, East Sussex TN34 3BN
www.realitystreet.co.uk

Ken Edwards <reality.street@virgin.net>

M /E / A/ N /I /N /G Online

2007-02-16T19:48:00.000Z

M /E / A/ N /I /N /G
Online

#4
(February 2007)

Feminist Art:
A Reassessment

Edited by
Susan Bee
&
Mira Schor

A forum
including writing and images
by
artists and art historians
from three generations

Irina Aristarkhova, Susan Bee, Emma Bee Bernstein,
Johanna Burton, Ingrid Calame, Maura Coughlin,
Bailey Doogan, Johanna Drucker, Carol Duncan,
Mary Beth Edelson, Joanna Frueh, Vanalyne Green,
Mimi Gross, Susanna Heller, Janet Kaplan,
Tom Knechtel, Judith Linhares, Lenore Malen,
Ann McCoy, Adelheid Mers, Robin Mitchell,
Carrie Moyer, Beverly Naidus, Rachel Owens,
Sheila Pepe, Nancy Princenthal, Carolee Schneemann,
Mira Schor, Joan Snyder, Anne Swartz,
Faith Wilding, and Barbara Zucker.

http://writing.upenn.edu/pepc/meaning/04/

CALL FOR PROJECT PROPOSALS

2007-02-16T17:12:00.001Z

DEADLINE March 2, 2007 (date of arrival)

The conference is accompanied by an inspiring programme of public events and exhibitions, including screening programmes as well as performance-based and participatory art projects which make use of the BBC Big Screens Network. We are looking for existing and potentially adaptable projects which employ one ore more permanent or temporary screen.

We are particularly interested in projects

exploring web-based content and streaming media
connecting screen audiences in various places
interactive and participatory works using bodily interfaces and ubiquitous communication devices
text pieces, video and animation which suit airing on urban screens
performance-based works including audiovisual performance/VJing

For detailed information on the BBC screens’ system please download the tech sheet by following this link

http://www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk/Call%20for%20Proposals_files/Screens%20Tech%20Spec.pdf

HOW TO SUBMIT
Please send project proposals in the form of a project description, illustrative material and the author’s CV by March 2, 2007 to:

CORNERHOUSE
Urban Screens Conference
70 Oxford Street
Manchester M1 5NH
United Kingdom

MULTIMEDIA ARTIST RESIDENCY

2007-02-16T17:11:00.000Z

DEADLINE: Thursday, March 1, 2007

APPLICATION: http://www.rotundagallery.org/rotunda/residency.asp

BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access Television and The Rotunda Gallery, a not-for-profit exhibition space for contemporary art invite artists to submit applications for the 2007 multimedia artist residency program. Each year BCAT makes its audio/video equipment, production studio, and editing facilities available to Brooklyn-based artists along with free training programs to learn how to use cameras and editing software. The goal is to assist artists interested in exploring video and/or multimedia as an artistic medium at no cost, and to provide training and technical assistance in video and digital production and post-production technologies.

BCAT/Brooklyn Community Access Television and The Rotunda Gallery are programs of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture.

This program has been supported by a generous grant from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts.

ELIGIBILITY: Open to artists who live or work in the borough of Brooklyn. Artists need not have any previous experience in video or multimedia to apply. Artists who have a strong desire to explore multimedia as a distinct medium or as part of an interdisciplinary approach to art making are encouraged to apply. Note that the purpose of the residency is to support artistic production as opposed to marketing or promotional projects. Artists currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs OR who completed BCAT residencies in 2005-2006 are not eligible to apply.

MORE INFO: Patrick Grenier, Associate Director <pgrenier@briconline.org>

Rhizome 2007-2008 Commissions

2007-02-16T17:08:00.000Z

Open for proposals until April 2, 2007

I'm pleased to announce that our 2007-2008 Commissions cycle begins today! This year, Rhizome will award commissions to eleven new works of Internet-based art. We are accepting proposals in two categories: 1) New works and 2) Community Project.

The deadline for submission is midnight April 2nd, 2007.

To apply:
http://rhizome.org/commissions/

For general information on our submission and voting procedures:
http://rhizome.org/commissions/2007/procedures.php

Please spread the word!

All best, Lauren

Executive Director
Rhizome at the New Museum
www.rhizome.org

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Rhizome.org 2005-2006 Net Art Commissions

The Rhizome Commissioning Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of innovative new media art work via panel-awarded commissions.

For the 2005-2006 Rhizome Commissions, eleven artists/groups were selected to create original works of net art.

http://rhizome.org/commissions/

The Rhizome Commissions Program is made possible by support from the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial, the Greenwall Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support has been provided by members of the Rhizome community.

GIRL MONSTER STAGES

2007-02-11T23:09:00.000Z

We're happy to announce Girl Monster will be featured at many summer festivals this year, with GM concept stages.

The first Girl Monster stage has just been confirmed-) Nuits Sonores Festival in Lyon / www.nuits-sonores.com
PLANNINGTOROCK (tbc)
CHICKS ON SPEED
THE RAINCOATS
ANGIE REED

GIRL MONSTER SPACES

A Girl Monster installation, including "Switch on The Power" curated by Zavier Arakistan 2nd February - 4th May
Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain
Fray Zacarias, 2
01001 Vitoria Gasteiz
Alava
http://www.vitoria-gasteiz.org

Exhibition features all the Girl Monster acts on Volume 1 plus new acts Sharon Cheslow and Menstruation Monsters with dvd contributions.

Check http://www.myspace.com/girlmonsternet for documentary photos.

KISS KISS BANG BANG. 45 STEPS IN 45 YEARS OF ART AND FEMINISM.

2007-02-11T23:04:00.000Z

Opening June 11th, at the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain. An exhibition that surveys "Feminist Art" through a focus on political, social and academic contexts. This medium sized exhibition, is a super hit show, bringing together 37 international artists, with works from the 60's of the XXth century to today.

from *Chicks On Speed NEW MUSIC*
"myspace" song, available free on the Chix myspace http://www.myspace.com/chicksonspeed
since October 06.

Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria, Spain *Fray Zacarias, 2*
*01001 Vitoria Gasteiz*
http://www.vitoria-gasteiz.org

Job Opportunity in the US: Salt Publishing

2007-02-10T01:25:00.000Z

We are looking to recruit some help in the US and would love to hear from anyone who would be willing to work for us on a freelance basis, part-time, to help with sales and marketing. Further details are here:

http://saltpublishing.com/saline/index.php?topic=234.0

If you know of anyone who may be interested, please ask them to contact Chris Hamilton-Emery on cemery@saltpublishing.com

APPLY NOW: MENTORSHIP GRANTS FOR LITERARY MAGAZINES

2007-02-10T00:17:00.000Z

CLMP is pleased to offer our literary magazines the opportunity to apply for twelve free hours with a consultant through our annual Mentorship Program. This program connects grantees with an experienced professional to help identify and implement strategies for improvement in areas such as design, marketing, publicity, fundraising or overall operations.

Application instructions and guidelines are included below as a word document and as a PDF.

Applications are due in our office 3/16/2007. NOTE: This is not a postmark deadline.

Applicants must meet the following criteria:

US-based literary magazine
CLMP member (Note that you can apply for membership in tandem with your Mentorship proposal.)
Can dedicate time to working with a consultant between 4/1/07 and 6/30/07
Willing to provide a Final Report to CLMP after the Mentorship Period is complete.
Have NOT received a Mentorship Award in the last 18 months

We will begin taking applications immediately. If you would like to apply, contact Jamie Schwartz to confirm that you will be sending an application.

Please contact Jamie Schwartz with any questions, or if you would like to discuss potential proposals for the program.

Download Application instructions and guidelines:

Word Document (.doc)
Adobe PDF Document (.pdf)

Poetry and Public Language: a conference on contemporary poetry

2007-02-06T23:17:00.000Z

Speakers include:
Barrett Watten,
Lyn Hejinian,
Allen Fisher,
Peter Nicholls,
Andrea Brady,
Peter Middleton,
William Rowe,
Hélène Aji,
Robert Hampson,
Mairéad Byrne,
Robert Sheppard

30 March – 1 April 2007 at the University of Plymouth with an evening poetry performance by Lyn Hejinian and Barrett Watten at Dartington College of Arts, 31 March 07

To attend the conference, and for details of registration and programme, please contact the conference administrator susan.matheron@plymouth.ac.uk

POETRY AND PUBLIC LANGUAGE 2007 is a collaborative venture sponsored by the University of Plymouth and Dartington College of Arts, promoted in association with Peninsula Arts.
Conference committee: Anthony Caleshu, John Hall, Mark Leahy, Tony Lopez

Public Pages CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

2007-01-04T19:00:00.000Z

Public Pages is an exhibition of Text Art and Visual Poetry bringing together contributions from poets, artists and makers of works which explore the visual and cultural impact of the sign and the slogan in public space. Designed as a complement to the academic conference Poetry and Public Language, this exhibition will show works which engage with the placement and displacement of text on the page, that articulate the two-dimensional surface, that integrate visual and textual elements in a composition and consider the page as a public space, addressing a public and entering into public debate.

Public Pages is curated by Mark Leahy

DATES: 26 March - 8 April, 2007
Opening reception Friday 30 March

The exhibition invites responses from poets, artists, writers, makers, to the possibilities of the restrictions of a one-page work. The works will be published in digital form on the exhibition website, and a selection will be printed as larger scale works (up to A0 size) to be shown in the gallery spaces of the Portland Square Building at Plymouth University.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are requested for an exhibition of one page visual textual works that will be shown in conjunction with the conference Poetry and Public Language, at Portland Square Building, Plymouth University and online at www.peninsulaarts.org.uk

Works are welcomed that engage with the placement and displacement of text on the page, that articulate the two-dimensional surface, that integrate visual and textual elements in a composition, and consider this page a public space, as addressing a public, or entering into public debate.

Submissions should be sent in the form of PDF documents of one page (or in files which may be converted to this format). Works will be published on the exhibition website. A selection will be printed in poster form for exhibition in the University of Plymouth buildings.

address for submissions: m.leahy@dartington.ac.uk
closing date: February 2nd 2007

Organising committee for Poetry and Public Language 2007:
Tony Lopez, Anthony Caleshu, John Hall, Mark Leahy

'Poetry and Public Language 2007' is a collaborative venture sponsored by the University of Plymouth and Dartington College of Arts, promoted in association with Peninsula Arts

New Website Devoted to Dorothy Richardson

2007-01-02T18:50:00.000Z

A new website devoted to Dorothy Richardson was launched today at:

http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/en/richardson/richardsonmain.html

The website is very much a work in progress, but it will soon contain a bibliography compiled by Averill Buchanan, which we will be updating and adding to over the next twelve months so that includes details of the contents of the Dorothy Richardson archives in the US.

I'd also like to draw your attention to two British Academy funded events in 2007:

A Dorothy Richardson Workshop

An International Dorothy Richardson Conference

Both to be held at the Institute for English Studies

The aims of the workshop will be to: organise regular conferences on Richardson's work; to found an electronic journal devoted to Richardson studies; to advance the publication of Richardson' work; to co-ordinate existing research and to encourage further new research on Richardson.

The aim of the conference will be celebrate the half-centenary since Richardson's death.

For information on the conference or website, please contact Scott McCrackern at s.mccracken@engl.keele.ac.uk

Call for Submissions: ICORN Webzine

2006-11-10T21:31:00.000Z

Call for Submissions:

ICORN Webzine

The International Cities of Refuge Network has launched its new quarterly webzine.

ICORN’s work focuses on the importance of freedom of expression. Our first webzine issue features the work of award-winning novelist Chenjerai Hove, and the renowned philosopher Etienné Balibar.

We are inviting writers to submit essays on the subjects of
1) nationalism, identity, “the exile experience”, patriotism and/or citizenship
2) cross-cultural literatures, translation, critical analysis of fiction and poetry with an eye on history or current events

We also welcome submissions of poetry*, short stories or short creative non-fiction for our Babel Voice section; and interviews and dialogues for our In Dialogue section. We are especially interested in work we can publish in two languages and SOUND FILES of oral presentations.

Please note that we have an international focus and that *we receive a disproportionately large number of poetry submissions. We enthusiastically welcome well-crafted essays. See our Masthead for details and submission procedures. www.icorn.org

We are a not-for-profit organization and regret that we do not have funds to pay our contributors at this time. We hope that you will consider the electronic rights to your work as a donation for an important cause.