Recent Publications & Events

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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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  Coffee House Press Feature, Friday, May 11, 2012

  Reading by Coffee House Press authors, Joseph Lease, Lightsey Darst, Maureen Owen, and Laird Hunt. Friday, May 11, 2012, 7 p.m. Scroll down for videos of the readings.   Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011); Broken World (Coffee House Press); and Human Rights (Talisman House, second edition forthcoming). Lease’s poems “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and “Send My Roots Rain” have been selected for Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second Edition). “‘Broken [...]

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  Entanglement: Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Bowes, Saturday, April 28, 2012

  Saturday, April 28, 2012, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Counterpath hosted “Entanglement,” a poetry performance/reading by Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos, and screening of Ed Bowes’s Entanglement (2009), with contributing text by Anne Waldman, and starring Eleni Sikelianos. Anne Waldman, recently deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publisher’s Weekly, is a  poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist. She is the author of more than 40 books and has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such [...]

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  Craig Baldwin’s SONIC OUTLAWS, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 7 p.m.

  On April 25th, 7 p.m., collage-film essayist and west coast underground film legend  Craig Baldwin comes to Denver for a screening at Counterpath of his 1995 documentary, Sonic Outlaws. One of Senses Of Cinema’s “great directors,” Craig Baldwin is a recombinatory filmmaker who exists at the edge of contemporary cinema both through his films and his weekly film series, Other Cinema. The spread of his films in the last two decades, particularly *Tribulation 99*, *Sonic Outlaws* and *Spectres of the [...]

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  Lisa Robertson: Screenings of In Painting and A Modest Treatise, Sunday, April 22, 2012

  Sunday, April 22, 2012, at 6 p.m. Screening of In Painting (a collaborative work by Allyson Clay, Nathanael, and Lisa Robertson) and A Modest Treatise (Allyson Clay and Lisa Robertson), introduced by Lisa Robertson. RSVP For many years Lisa Robertson has worked across disciplines and often in collaboration. With the late Stacy Doris she was the Perfume Recordist, an ongoing sound performance and writing project with work in the new I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She worked [...]

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  Ugly Duckling Presse Feature, with Matvei Yankelevich and Noel Black, Saturday April 21, 2012

  Saturday, April 21, 2012, at 7 p.m. at Counterpath hosted “Buy, Sell, Trade: The Chapbook Press in the 21st Century, and the Story of Ugly Duckling Presse,” with a talk and presentation by Ugly Duckling Presse founder Matvei Yankelevich and a reading by Ugly Duckling Presse author Noel Black (unfortunately our video cut off before Noel’s reading). Counterpath carries the full range of Ugly Duckling Presse titles, and you can find out more about Ugly Duckling Presse here. Matvei Yankelevich is [...]

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  “Shape of the ‘I’” Conference Reading, Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

  Saturday, April 14, 2012, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Counterpath hosted a reading as part of “Shape of the ‘I’: A National Conference,” a two-day series of events at the University of Colorado, Boulder, including panel discussions, readings, screenings, and performances focused on questions of the subject through such diverse lenses as medicine, law, literature, poetics, creative non-fiction, feminism, queer studies, performance studies, and more. For more information on the conference, click here. With readings at Counterpath by: Francisco [...]

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  Line Describing a Cone (1973) by Anthony McCall, Friday, March 23, 8 p.m.

  Line Describing a Cone, Anthony McCall, 16mm, 1973, 30 mins Friday March 23 @ 8pm—this one-time-only solid film event will begin at 8:30 p.m. sharp—no entrance will be allowed after the start time! Presented and installed  by Think Outside the Booth, with Jeanne Liotta. ———— Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It deals with the projected light beam itself, rather than treating the light beam as a mere carrier of coded information, which is decoded [...]

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  Cole Swensen and Nicolas Pesquès Reading: Sunday, March 11, 6 p.m.

  Sunday, March 11, 2012: A reading by Cole Swensen and Nicolas Pesquès. Cole Swensen is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently Greensward (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) and Ours (U. of California Press, 2008), and a volume of essays, Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). She is the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid, the founding editor of La Presse Books, which specializes in contemporary French writing translated by English-language poets, and a [...]

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  New Ages: Screening and Launch of Incite: Experimental Media #3

    New Ages: Video Screening and Launch of Incite Journal of Experimental Media #3 Featuring work by: Jaimz Asmundson, Jacob Ciocci, Clint Enns, Eliza Koch, Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, Lillian Schwartz, and Leslie Supnet Curated by Brett Kashmere Wedneday, March 7, 2012 @ 8PM Counterpath (613 22nd Street, Denver) RSVP This is a new age (for New Age-ism).  Although it may be in vogue now, New Age subculture was once the subject of widespread ridicule and scorn. Combining quasi-religious mysticism [...]

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  NOAH SATERSTROM
  Exhibit, Opening Reception February 18, on view through February 29

    Paintings and collaborations by Noah Saterstrom. Opening reception Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., with readings by Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Noah Eli Gordon. Work on view through February 29. Raised in Mississippi and educated at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Noah Saterstrom works as a visual artist and independent curator. His paintings, drawings, and print installations have been shown nationally and internationally, most recently in Brooklyn, NY, New Orleans, LA and Glasgow, Scotland. [...]

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  Launch for the Re-Release of Laird Hunt’s THE IMPOSSIBLY

    Please join us on Saturday, February 11th, from 5-7 p.m. at Counterpath (613 22nd St., Denver) for a reading, musical performance and art display to celebrate the 10th anniversary paperback rerelease of Laird Hunt’s The Impossibly.  The new edition, which has an introduction by Percival Everett, an afterword by Laird and a previously unpublished “lost” chapter, will be for sale at the event. Over the course of the evening their will be, intermingled: Readings from The Impossibly by Jeanne [...]

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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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