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 [...]
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 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 [...]
On Friday, May 31 at 7:30 PM Counterpath will host an Instance Press & Lunar Chandelier Press Feature, with readings by Jack Collom, John Godfrey, and Kimberly Lyons. RSVP Jack Collom (born November 8, 1931) is a beloved Colorado poet, [...]
On Saturday, June 15 at 7 PM at Counterpath, Chad Kautzer will give a talk called Good Guys with Guns: The Subjectivity of an American Dream. Q&A to follow. RSVP “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a [...]
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, [...]
“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 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 [...]
Join us Friday, April 19, 2013, at 7 p.m. for the opening of an exhibition of photography by Suzanne Doppelt. Work will be on display through May 9, 2013. Suzanne Doppelt has collaborated with various other artists and writers, including [...]
Saturday, April 13, at 6:30 p.m. Counterpath hosted “Not I: Collaboration & Constraint” and a feature of Les Figues Press, with publishers Vanessa Place and Teresa Carmody, as well as Les Figues authors Michael Du Plessis, Jen Hofer, and Doug [...]
Co-hosted by the University of Denver’s Creative Writing Program Los Angeles-based award-winning poet and translator Jen Hofer read from and discussed some of her many translation projects, which include Ivory Black, a bilingual edition of Negro marfil by Myriam Moscona [...]
On Friday, April 12, 2013, at 6 p.m. Counterpath presented a screening of David Barison and Daniel Ross’s film The Ister. At the height of World War Two, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century delivered a [...]
Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 7:00 PM Counterpath hosted an Ahsahta Press feature, with Ahasahta Press publisher Janet Holmes and readings by Ahsahta authors Carrie Olivia Adams, Dan Beachy-Quick, David Mutschlecner, and Kate Greenstreet. Scroll down for [...]
Opening Saturday, April 6, and on display through Saturday, April 13, Glitch work by six international digital artists, including Kim Asendorf , Giselle Beiguelman, Maneul Fernandez, Rosa Menkman, Jimmy Joe Roche, and Rick Silva. RSVP The glitch aesthetic is an [...]
On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at 7 p.m. Catherine Taylor and Mathias Svalina read at Counterpath. Taylor read from her new book Apart, which grew out of Taylor’s memories of visiting her family in South Africa as a child and [...]
On Saturday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. Janelle Schwartz gave a talk based on her book Worm Work: Recasting Romanticism. “I saw how the fine form of man was degraded and wasted; I beheld the corruption of death succeed to [...]
On Friday, March 22 at 7:00 PM Richard Vijgen, an Amsterdam-based programmer, presented his digital archiving project “The Deleted City” for the first time in the United States. RSVP For a preview, visit www.deletedcity.net. During the 1990s—as the Internet became [...]
On Thursday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m. Andrew Zawacki and Michelle Naka Pierce read at Counterpath. Andrew Zawacki is the author of the poetry books Videotape (Counterpath, 2013), Petals of Zero Petals [...]
On Sunday, March 17 at 7:00 p.m. Counterpath hosted the Denver launch of the new edition of the groundbreaking Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry. With readings by Julie Carr, Graham Foust, Noah Eli Gordon, Bin Ramke, Eleni Sikelianos, Anne [...]
On Saturday, March 16 at 7:30 p.m. there was a performance by Rachelle Beaudoin and a reading by Eric Baus. Rachelle Beaudoin performed three live pieces: “Locker Room Tease,” “Absolute Control,” and “Booty Pop.” These pieces relate to the body, [...]
On Friday, March 8 at 6:30 p.m. at Mobius (55 Norfolk St. Cambridge, MA) there was a Counterpath Off-Site Reading during the Associations of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Boston. Readers included Andrew Zawacki, Christine Wertheim, Ronaldo Wilson, Rodrigo [...]
Thursday, February 28 at 8:00 p.m. there will be a Launch Party for Brando, My Solitude (Counterpath, 2013) with Arno Bertina along with translator Laird Hunt. This event will feature a bilingual reading and a Q&A.
On Saturday, February 23 at 7:30 PM Hoa Nguyen read from her work, including As Long As Trees Last (Wave Books, 2012). Grounded in the present tense—in the dailiness of politics and domesticity, citizenship and femaleness—Nguyen’s loose, everyday language performs [...]
Saturday, February 2. “Poetry Arcade: An Exhibition of the Work of Jason Nelson” was an exhibition of digital artist and poet Jason Nelson’s work, which takes the form of video games that allow the player/reader to unlock poetic and theoretical [...]
Friday, February 1, 2013. 7 p.m. Lori Emerson gave a talk entitled “Open and Extensible to Insanely Great; or, What it Could Have Been Like to Use Your Computer,” which uncovers the cultural and technological shift that made way for [...]
Friday, January 25, 7 pm. Craig Dworkin, Seth Kim-Cohen, James Hoff, Michelle Ellsworth, Jeanne Liotta, and Christine Wertheim presented their work as an opening event for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver’s “Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art” Symposium, which took [...]
Plural is an experiential immersion in the daily life of an artist, arts critic and poet who weaves and juxtaposes aesthetic ideas, personal circumstances, philosophical questions, and societal situations while aggressively experimenting with poetic form and content. Stackhouse’s interest in [...]
MT/TIME is a series of films that confront issues of spoken or written language and that develop a language-inflected poetics of the moving image. Jeanne Liotta is curating the series. This second installment of the series (the first installment can [...]
Friday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m., a celebration of Fence Books with editor Rebecca Wolff, and featuring readings by Rebecca Wolff and Fence authors Tina Brown Celona and Sasha Steensen. Plus a short Q&A (scroll down for videos). Founded in [...]
The first publication of the complete series of Jackson Mac Low’s “Forties” poems. Written and revised from 1990 to 2001 with a method Mac Low called “gathering,” where he took into the poems words, phrases, and other kinds of word [...]
Winner of the 81st Annual California Book Award for Poetry 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 [...]
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