On Friday, December 13th, 2013, at 7 p.m. Counterpath will host the opening for the exhibition, publication, and collaborative performance SigNull. The exhibition features new work from ten Denver-Boulder artists who experiment with dirty new media, found film, the New […]
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 […]
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, December 6 at 7 p.m. Counterpath host filmmaker and scholar Domietta Torlasco for a talk and presentation from her recently released book The Heretical Archive: Digital Memory at the End of Film (University of Minnesota Press, 2013). Torlasco […]
On Friday, November 22 at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted a book launch for its recent publication of Robert Fitterman’s Holocaust Museum with a reading by Robert Fitterman. Holocaust Museum reframes the captions of holocaust photographs from the United States Holocaust […]
John Cayley: Writing to be Found—Three Screen-Based Projects Opening Night Performance by John Cayley and Reading by Joanna Howard On November 15 at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted an opening for an exhibition of John Cayley’s recent work—an installation exploring ambient […]
On June 25, 2013, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis filibustered the Texas State Senate to prevent the passage of a law intended to severely restrict access to abortion in Texas. Reading aloud from a lengthy prepared text, Davis was able […]
On September 28, 2013, Counterpath hosted an opening for an exhibition of rare and recently discovered photographs of the 1973 “Causaglia” performance by VALIE EXPORT. The photographs were taken by Michael Merighi and assembled in an artist book that was […]
On Saturday, October 19 at 7:00 p.m. writers Pattie McCarthy, Eleni Sikelianos, and Teresa Carmody read from their work at Counterpath. “Pattie McCarthy’s MARYBONES powerfully evokes—and invokes—the iconic, implacable mother-of-god Everywoman who is always slippping out of canonical reach. The […]
On Saturday, October 12 at 7 p.m. Counterpath will host choreographers Aynsley Vandenbroucke, Lauren Bakst, and writer Claudia La Rocco for a group performance looking into the convergence of dance and text. Taking their own distinct and overlapping trajectories as […]
Holocaust Museum reframes the captions of holocaust photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. These captions—without their photographic images—are arranged loosely in the order or narrative constructed by the museum. There are many purposes to this […]
On Wednesday, September 25 at 7:30 p.m. experimental multimedia artist and novelist Steve Tomasula gave a reading from his new short story collection Once Human and his most recent novel IN & OZ and a presentation of his multimedia work TOC. Incorporating […]
On Sunday, September 22, at 7 p.m. a celebration of the release of Philip Lamantia’s Collected Poems at Counterpath, with a reading and Q&A with volume editors Garrett Caples and Andrew Joron. From the introduction: “… Lamantia would traverse the […]
As part of a collaboration between Counterpath and the Media Archaeology Lab (MAL) at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 2013 artist-in-residence at MAL Joel Swanson presented new work at Counterpath, September 16th to the 20th, and gave a talk at […]
Performance artist Rob Andrews comes to Denver on Labor Day Weekend for a major performance involving a workshop on Saturday, August 31, at Counterpath at 4 p.m., and then a walk from the Denver International Airport to Counterpath on Sunday, […]
On Saturday, August 31, 2013, at 7 p.m. Edmund Berrigan, Jennifer Denrow, and Jessica Forini read at Counterpath. Edmund Berrigan (video above) is the author of two books of poetry, Disarming Matter (Owl Press, 1999) and Glad Stone Children (Farfalla, […]
From the curator, Christina Battle: I have a tendency to wander. While exploring different landscapes I think about how it is that I move through them and how this might be different from how I moved through other landscapes before. […]
On Monday, July 29, 2013, at 7 p.m. Christian Bök read at Counterpath, along with Brad Flis. Christian Bök is the author of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001)—a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the […]
Foreign Correspondent is about a girl reporter, Johnnie James, in search of international intrigue and romantic excitement. This short novel, written in evocative imagistic sections of short prose, follows Johnnie as she encounters philosophers, jaunty sports journalists, exotic lap birds, […]
Octopus Books Presents presented a reading and screening featuring Julie Doxee, Christina Battle, and Khadija Queen. Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at 7 p.m. Now that it is going to be July 17th your presence is requested at a reading of […]
A Book Is A-Round: textile and book works by Jill Magi June 22-July 22, 2013 On Saturday, June 22 at 6:00 p.m. Counterpath will host the opening reception for A Book Is A-Round: textile and book works by Jill Magi, […]
On this lexical roadtrip, we delight in the drama of the anagram’s deep weathers: there’s an “errant impasse” in the “itinerant passenger,” there’s “amber” in our “chambers.” Content is the secret that our forms yield up to us. With gorgeous […]
“As I was becoming a teenager, that is to say a serious person, he was becoming an eccentric, at 70, an inconsistent and flighty person. We missed each other.” In this tale, conceived as a biographical hypothesis, the author […]
On Saturday, July 6 at 7:00 PM theater practitioner and scholar Daniella Vinitski gave a presentation on the now defunct Brooklyn-based experimental opera-installation-performance company, GAle GAtes et al. Vinitski traced the trajectory of company work through descriptive analysis, personal interviews, […]
On Saturday, June 29 at 7:30 PM Counterpath hosted a reading by Christopher Stackhouse and Andrea Rexilius. Christopher Stackhouse is a writer, curator, and visual artist. He is the author of Plural (Counterpath, 2012), Slip (Corollary Press, 2005) and is the […]
On Saturday, June 15 at 7 PM at Counterpath, Chad Kautzer gave a talk, “Good Guys with Guns: The Subjectivity of an American Dream.” A Q&A followed. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a […]
On Friday, June 14 at 7:00 PM Counterpath hosted a SpringGun Press Feature with James Belflower, Aby Kaupang Cooperman, Adam Peterson, and Michael Flatt. James Belflower is the author of Commuter (Instance Press), which was voted 2009’s “Best Book Length Long Poem/Sequence by ColdFront magazine, Bird […]
On Sunday, June 9 at 7:30 PM Counterpath hosted a Singing Horse Press Feature with Paul Naylor, Andrew Schelling, & Susan M. Schultz. The late Gil Ott founded Singing Horse Press in 1976 to publish the kinds of innovative writing […]
On Saturday, June 8 at 7:30 PM Counterpath hosted a Launch for Jack London Is Dead: Contemporary Euro-American Poetry of Hawai’i & TinFish Press Feature with Margo Berdeshevsky, Ya-Wen Ho, Janna Plant, Eric Paul Shaffer and Maged Zaher. Hosted by […]
On Saturday, May 25 at 7 PM Counterpath hosted a reading with Joanna Ruocco, J. A. Tyler, and Selah Saterstrom. Joanna Ruocco co-edits Birkensnake, a fiction journal, with Brian Conn. She is the author of The Mothering Coven (Ellipsis Press), […]
On Friday, May 17 at 7:30 PM Counterpath hosted Andy Fitch and Julie Carr for “Pop Poetics and Ruptural Time: A Twin Talk” Andy Fitch’s most recent book is Pop Poetics: Reframing Joe Brainard. In fall, Ugly Duckling will publish his two collections […]
MAY 10 – JUNE 10, 2013 Opening reception: Friday, May 10, 7 PM at Counterpath David Ford presents recent work that explores the gaze of one culture into another, one human onto the bridge of faith, class, character or continent, […]
On Sunday, April 28 at 4:00 PM Counterpath hosted Octopus Books Presents, with readings by Jackie Clark, Amy Lawless, and Danielle Pafunda. Danielle Pafunda (video above) is the author of Manhater (Dusie Press Books), Iatrogenic: Their Testimonies (Noemi Press), My […]
On Friday, April 26 at 7:00 PM Counterpath hosted a reading by Kit Robinson and Michael Friedman. Kit Robinson is the author of Determination (Cuneiform Press, 2010), Train I Ride (BookThug, 2009), The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems, 1976–2003 (Adventures in […]
On Tuesday, April 23, 2013, at 7 p.m. Christophe Wall-Romana gave a talk on Cinepoetry and his new book, Cinepoetry: Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry. Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more […]
Saturday, April 20, 2013, at 7 p.m. Counterpath hosted a reading by Evelyn Reilly and Ronaldo Wilson. Videos of the reading and the following Q&A are above and below. Evelyn Reilly lives and writes in New York City. She is the […]
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