Alkali collects six works, including two desert pastorals describing the sonic and luminescent landscape surrounding the Great Salt Lake, two minimalist geometrical exercises exhausting the typographic limits of two particular oulippean constraints, a restaging of Clark Coolidge’s The Crystal […]
Farther Traveler by Ronaldo Wilson is an expansive, complex hybrid of poetry, prose, and memoir that engages with contemporary culture, race and sexuality. Poet Ronaldo Wilson earned an BA at the University of California-Berkeley, an MA at New […]
#! (pronounced “shebang”) consists of poetic texts that are presented alongside the short computer programs that generated them. The poems, in new and existing forms, are inquiries into the features that make poetry recognizable as such, into code […]
In a neural rush, Early Linoleum engages the propulsive flow of contemporaneous valences—psycho-geography meets in the force-field of biopolitical conditions. Poet activists congregate on the steps of the New York Public Library, there’s art beneath the dirt, rock […]
Berlin is a lyrical account of the city as well as a book of discoveries, allusions, and traces, an homage to great literary figures who have lived in Berlin. 31 prose miniatures are combined with 21 black-and-white photos […]
Untold numbers of scans of book pages are available in digital repositories. But without the physical presence of a book, is there a way to take in some aspect of it all at once? Both an artist’s book and an […]
On Sunday, December 7, at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted the opening of “A Dream of Temporary Space,” an installation, on view through December, by Dennis Rosenfeld. The opening also feature a reading by Kameron Bashi. About the installation: A suitcase, a […]
Opening Friday, November 7, 2014, at 7 p.m., and on view through December 4, 2014, Counterpath hosted an exhibit of photographs by Patricia McInroy, “Cruzando Caminos” (Crossing Paths). The majority of the images were taken along the US/Mexico border between […]
On Sunday, November 30, at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted a screening and Q&A by award-winning filmmaker Vincent Grenier, plus an exhibition by Amy Letter of her recent work at the Media Archaeology Lab at CU Boulder, and a reading by […]
Featured in Poetry magazine, May 2014 “Exhilarating, daring, breathtaking. These words are not hyperbolic. This book is a head-rush! Language-mixing, genre-mixing, rhythm-dazzling. From Rosa Alcalà to a poet whose work she’s translated, Cecilia Vicuña, these Angels of the […]
Exactly a century ago, French author Raymond Roussel published Locus Solus. The book went on to influence some of the major figures of 20th century art and literature, including Marcel Duchamp, Alain Robbe-Grillet, John Ashbery, and Harry Mathews. Now […]
If you search on references to Ron Silliman in Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, edited by Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith (Northwestern University Press, 2011), you find the following: table of contents, pg. xv, Ron Silliman, 531, from […]
On Friday, November 14th at 7:00 pm, Counterpath hosted a reading/performance by Sarah Dowling and Eric Baus, along with an exhibit by Heather M. O’Brien and Jonathan Takahashi. Sarah Dowling is the author of DOWN, Birds & Bees, and Security Posture, winner of the Robert Kroetsch Award for […]
On Wednesday, October 12, at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted a dance performance by Serena Chopra, followed by a reading by Oliver Rohe, author of Vacant Lot (Counterpath, 2011), in conversation with his translator Laird Hunt. The event featured a bilingual […]
On Friday, November 7, 2014, at 7 p.m. Counterpath will host a reading by Laynie Browne. The reading will be in conjunction with the opening reception for Patricia McInroy’s photography exhibit, “Cruzando Caminos.” RSVP Laynie Browne is the author of […]
Opening Friday, October 3, 2014, at 7 p.m., and on view through November 1, 2014, Counterpath host an exhibit of recent work by Albert Chong, “The Photomosaics: Works on Paper, Wood, and Stone.” The work consists of image transfers onto […]
On Tuesday, October 28, 2014, at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted a reading by Peter Cole and Eryn Green. Peter Cole is the author of four books of poems, most recently The Invention of Influence and Things on Which I’ve Stumbled. […]
On Friday, October 24, at 7 p.m., Counterpath hosted a reading by Alexandra Chasin, a screening of work by Chasin and Cathy Lee Crane, a performance by Rae Goodwin, and a reading by Sarah Boyer. Chasin and Crane presented “Charadrius […]
mUtter-bAbel, a graphic and textual exploration of ugly archaic feelings and their troubling social effects. It is a verbo-visual experiment integrating handmade drawings with computer-designed texts, exploring very early feelings babies have for their mothers. Whether because many people cannot […]
On Friday, October 10, 2014, at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted a reading by Barry Schwabsky, Noel Black, and Alexis Almeida. Barry Schwabsky was born in Paterson, New Jersey, and presently lives in London. He is the art critic of The Nation and his […]
On Friday, October 3, 2014, at 7 p.m., Counterpath celebrated the publication of Mark Amerika’s new book with Counterpath, Locus Solus, an event that was combined with the opening of Albert Chong’s exhibit “The Photomosaics.” Exactly a century ago, French author […]
Rae Armantrout, winner of the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, is one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets and stand apart from other Language poets in her lyrical voice […]
Jaded Ibis Press, founded in 2010, is one of the most innovative small presses around. This is at least in part due to its business model, which while still producing traditional books is overtly grounded in network theory. According to the press’s website, […]
On Thursday, September 18, at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted Warren Motte for a talk about his new book, Mirror Gazing, just out from Dalkey Archive Press. The talk was preceded by brief readings by Tim Roberts, Jeffrey Pethybridge, J. Michael […]
On Saturday, June 14, at 7 p.m., Counterpath hosted performance artist Leah Lovett, with a reading by David Buuck and a reading of a new translation of Leslie Kaplan by Jennifer Pap and Julie Carr. Lovett will perform Filter (2009), a […]
On Friday, June 6, at 7 p.m., Sawako Nakayasu presented “Insect Orchestra,” the latest installment in the Insect Country series. Insect Country is an ongoing investigation and tutelage under the auspices of the universe as lived by insects, mostly that […]
Counterpath hosted the opening of Elizabeth Leister’s “Strange Loop” on Saturday, May 17 at 7 p.m. The opening featured a performance by Leister (video above), and coincide with reading/performances by writers Divya Victor and Isaac Linder. “Strange Loop” will be […]
On Saturday, May 17 at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted Divya Victor and Isaac Linder for a reading/performance. The evening coincided with the opening night performance by Elizabeth Leister in connection with her new exhibit at Counterpath. Divya Victor is the […]
On Saturday, May 3 at 7 p.m., Counterpath opens an exhibit of artist Sharon Brant’s recent work. The opening will also feature a reading by poets Noah Eli Gordon, Karla Kelsey, and George Albon. Brant’s exhibit will be on display […]
On Saturday, May 10 from 6 to 10 p.m. Heather Warren-Crow and Seth Warren-Crow performed 4-Hour Confession (Pity Party #2) at Counterpath. 4-Hour Confession (Pity Party #2) is a participatory sound performance in which Heather Warren-Crow and special guests will […]
On Friday, May 2 at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted scholar Stephen Voyce for a presentation that explored intersecting developments in experimental art, mapmaking, activism, and new media. Read an interview with Stephen Voyce about this event. The practice variously called […]
From Monday, April 28, to Tuesday April 29, Counterpath hosted London-based artist Teresa Albor for a performance work: Albor made 100 paintings in 24 hours. The paintings were then given away. The performance is part of the artist’s investigation of what […]
Denver drone artist Radere took over Counterpath for an evening of light and sound, joined for this event by fellow Colorado sound artists offthesky and Cody Yantis, with whom he has recently begun a new collaborative project. ::: Radere ::: […]
On Friday, April 25 at 7 p.m., Sam Truitt presented his most recently completed project: “Dick: An Oblique Kennedy Conspiracy Countdown,” a one-year project (22.Nov.12—22.Nov.13) of daily transmissions via youtube interacting chronologically through sound, images and motion with the text […]
On Sunday, April 20 at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted poet and editor Vincent Katz for a talk on his recent volume on Black Mountain College, Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT Press). “Althought it lasted only twenty-three years (1933-1956) […]
On Saturday, April 12 at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted an afterparty for Conor McGarrigle’s walking art performance, “Walking West.” Walking West is a durational performance involving walking the entire 26.2 miles of Denver’s Colfax Avenue. All are invited to participate […]
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