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  [BOND, JAMES]
  Michelle Disler

  Invokes a narrative and intimate distance through the imbalance of power between men & detectives and women & wives, leaving a risky proposition like an alphabet or the simple complexity of memoir and writing about memory. A sobering examination of the ultimate spy-styled popular thriller, a nuanced deconstruction of model masculinity in mass culture. Michelle Disler is an assistant professor of creative writing at Ohio Wesleyan University. Her work has appeared in The Laurel Review, Seneca Review, Lake Effect, Gulf [...]

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  ASCENSION
  giovanni singleton

  In this diary of intentionality, the behearer and the beholder approach the world with an attitude of longing—for less: less sorrow, less suffering. Daily practice delivers the speaker to profound meditations on the nature of the self. These poems press against our deepest held questions: what is an I? Where are my borders? What or how am I “with”? “From whom—from what—do we hide?” giovanni singleton is a poet, teacher, and founding editor of nocturnes (re)view of the literary arts, [...]

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  Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang
  Friday, Januray 20, 7 p.m.

  Friday, January 20, 2012, Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang read at Counterpath. Matthew Cooperman was born in New Haven, CT in 1964. He is the author of three full-length collections, Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move (Counterpath, 2011), DaZE (Salt Publishing Ltd, 2006) and A Sacrificial Zinc (Pleiades/LSU, 2001), which won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize, as well as three chapbooks, Still: (to be) Perpetual (Dove/Tail Poetry, 2007), Words About James (Phylum Press, 2005) and Surge (Kent State University Press, 1999). He currently lives in Fort [...]

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  MT/TIME: Video Poetics, Screening and Launch Party Friday, Dec. 2, 7 p.m.

  mt/time is a series of films that directly confront issues of spoken or written language and that develop a language-inflected poetics of the moving image. Jeanne Liotta is curating the series. The first installment of the series, which will launch with a screening at Counterpath on Friday, December 2, 2011, at 7 p.m., includes the following works: Stephanie Barber, text by Stephanie Barber miniatures (from jhana and the rats of james olds) Christina Battle, text by Julie Carr To reveal [...]

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  FLOOD EDITIONS
  Devin Johnston and Graham Foust

  Nov. 11, 7-9 p.m., Counterpath featured Flood Editions, a publisher of poetry and fiction started in 2001 and run by Devin Johnston and Michael O’Leary. Flood author Graham Foust also read, as well as publisher Devin Johnston (in what we’ve been told is the Australian style). Graham Foust has written four full-length collections of poetry: As in Every Deafness (Flood Editions, 2003), Leave the Room to Itself (Ahsahta Press, 2004), Necessary Stranger (Flood Editions, 2007), and A Mouth in California [...]

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  Christina Battle Film Screening, Nov. 4th

  17 HOURS OF DARKNESS (IT APPROACHES IN THE WIND) 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Programmed by Christina Battle In anticipation of the looming winter, a program of short works by contemporary Canadian artists turning their cameras toward the landscape and the dark, nagging secrets it holds just under the surface. [Part II of an ongoing series of programs]. With works by: Josh Bonnetta, Sara MacLean, Peter Dudar and Marianna Milhorat. American Colour – Josh Bonnetta – 2011 – 24 minutes [...]

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  Pressed Wafer: William Corbett and Linda Norton, Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect

  Friday, September 23, 7 p.m., William Corbett discussed his small press Pressed Wafer and Linda Norton presented a slide show and read from her recent Pressed Wafer title, The Public Gardens. Followed by a screening, introduced by Jeanne Liotta, of Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect (1975). William Corbett is a poet and memoirist who lives in Boston’s South End and teaches writing at MIT. He has published books on the painters Philip Guston and Albert York and edited the letters of [...]

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  Travel Patterns, installation by Sara Schnadt

  Opening performance, September 2, 2011 On view September 2 through September 30, 2011, three new works by performance/installation artist Sara Schnadt created poetic spatial systems about personal and cultural  relationships to site. All three works explored site, an accumulation of relationships to site, and resulting narratives as well as the sociopolitical and poetic implications of landscape. Where I’ve Been And Where I Want To Go was a large installation completed during the opening on September 2, 2011, by the artist [...]

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