Poetry Readings
October 3, 2008, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
October 17, 2008, 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Center for Book and Paper Arts
1104 South Wabash Avenue, 2nd Floor
Special readings feature Chicago-area poets whose works exemplify contemporary experimental poetic practice in the tradition fostered by the small press and artists' books. Organized by David Pavelich and Patrick Durgin these poetry readings celebrate the opening of the exhibit and special issue of the Journal of Artists' Books on Intersections of Experimental Literature and Artists' Books.
David Pavelich is a special collections librarian and bibliographer for contemporary and modern poetry at the University of Chicago Library. He edits and publishes Answer Tag chapbooks and broadsides in limited editions ( http://www.answertaghomepress.com ). His most recent poems and prose can be found in the anthologies A Sing Economy and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century; and the journals Antennae and Crayon.
Patrick Durgin’s most recent publications include Imitation Poems (Atticus/Finch, 2007), contributions to Denver Quarterly and Gam, and a collaboration with poet-translator Jen Hofer entitled The Route (Atelos, 2008). In 2006 he edited Hannah Weiner’s Open House for Kenning Editions and in 2007 he co-curated, with Robert Archambeau, the “Chicago Marathon Reading” to coincide with the MLA. He teaches literature and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. ( www.da-crouton.com )
October 3, 2008, 6:30 pm
Readings by Ed Roberson, Nathalie Stephens, Kerri Sonnenberg and Garin Cycholl
Ed Roberson is the author of a number of books, including City Eclogue(2006) and the National Poetry Series winner Atmosphere Conditions (1998). Born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA, Roberson has recently taught writing at Columbia College and the University of Chicago.
Nathalie Stephens (Nathanaël) writes l'entre-genre in English and French. She is the author of more than a dozen books including The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (Nightboat, 2007), Paper City (Coach House, 2003), Je Nathanaël (l'Hexagone, 2003) and L'Injure (l'Hexagone, 2004). Immminent with Nightboat (2009) is an essay of correspondence entitled Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book). In addition to translating herself, Stephens has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, Bhanu Kapil and Édouard Glissant.
Kerri Sonnenberg lives and writes in Chicago. She is the author of
The Mudra, published by Litmus Press.
Garin Cycholl's recent work has appeared with the Seneca Review, Exquisite Corpse, Free Verse, and PFS Post Avant, and is author of Blue Mound to 161, Nightbirds, and Rafetown Georgics. He teaches writing and literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago and is a visiting lecturer with the Committee on Creative Writing at the University of Chicago.
October 17, 2008, 6:30 pm
Readings by Judith Goldman, Roberto Harrison,
Simone Muench, and Tim Yu
Judith Goldman is the author of Deathstar/Ricochet (2006) and Vocoder (2001). With Leslie Scalapino, she edits the series of anthologies War and Peace. She teaches at the University of Chicago.
Roberto Harrison's most recent books include Os (subpress, 2006), Counter Daemons (Litmus, 2006) and Elemental Song (Answer Tag Home Press, 2006). He edits Crayon with Andrew Levy and the Bronze Skull Press chapbook series. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he hosts the Enemy Rumor reading series.
Simone Muench's last book Lampblack & Ash (2005) received the Kathryn A. Morton Prize for Poetry. She is an editor for Sharkforum, serves on the advisory board for Switchback Books, and was recently named one of New City's "Lit 50: Who Really Books in Chicago."
Tim Yu is the author of Journey to the West, which won the 2006 Vincent Chin Memorial Chapbook Prize from Kundiman and appeared in Barrow Street. An assistant professor of English at the University of Toronto, his critical book, Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965, is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in 2009.
