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  Digital Media Exhibit, January 27-29, 2012

    Through this exhibit, on display January 27-29, 2012, contemporary Colorado artists explored insincerities, deconstructed ideas of perfection, and questioned the authenticity of media. Don’t Believe a Word We Say included video, film, photography, and sculpture and featured work by Mark Banzhoff, Max Bernstein, Sarah Jane Biagini, Adan de la Garza, Taylor Dunne, Paul Echeverria, Ryan Everson, Jenna Maurice Montazeri, Nicholas O’Brien, Clarissa Rose Peppers, Julie Rooney, and Laura Shill. A video snapshot of the opening:

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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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• miniatures (from jhana and the rats of james olds), 2:01

  miniatures (from jhana and the rats of james olds), by Stephanie Barber A series of sentences read by museum visitors inspired by, and paired with, a number of miniature Elizabethan portraits. Words and paintings––each seem equally able and unable to represent a life. The man who reads the line “I think constantly about my coming demise” came through the exhibition several times and participated in a few different pieces. He is big, young, strong and confident. I had him read [...]

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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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  Mark Yakich and Joe Sampson

  Sunday, November 6, 2011, 6 p.m. Mark Yakich is the author of the novel A Meaning for Wife (Ig Publishing) & the poetry collections Unrelated Individuals Forming a Group Waiting to Cross (National Poetry Series, Penguin 2004), The Making of Collateral Beauty (Snowbound Chapbook Award, Tupelo 2006), & The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin 2008). He is an associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. Known locally as a songwriter’s songwriter, Joe Sampson is a member [...]

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  Brandon Downing and Roger Green, Oct. 22, 2011

  NY poet, filmmaker & provocateur Brandon Downing was in Denver to present his pastiche films & to read from his new chapbook At Me (Octopus Books). Denver musician & pedal-wrangler Roger Green played music at the event. (Sorry no video of Roger!) Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer, originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 2000, he has lived in New York City, where he works as an exhibit designer and writer. His poetry collections include [...]

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  Epoxy: Kelly Dulaney, Logan Burns, Francesca Chabrier, Brian Kiteley Reading, Friday, October 7, 2011

  Reading Friday, October 7 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm. Hosted by Oren Silverman and Seth Landman. Kelly Dulaney is an MFA candidate at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Her fiction has featured in Titmouse, Caketrain, Abjective, elsewhere. Logan Burns is from Baltimore. His poems have been published in Conjunctions, Web Conjuctions and Barrow Street. He divides his time between Dwight Yoakam and Paprika Steen. Francesca Chabrier is the interviews editor for jubilat. Her chapbook, The Axioms, is forthcoming from Pilot [...]

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  Mathias Svalina Hosts

    August 6, 2011: Poetry reading with Denverite & visiting poets: Lisa Donovan, Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes, Charles Gabel, Seth Landman, & JA Tyler & School Supplies Donation Drive for Homeless Youths. Donations taken for Minority Enterprise & Educational Development, Inc. (MEED), collecting new and gently used backpacks and school supplies to distribute to  homeless students attending Denver Public School (DPS).

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  Subito Press Panel on Small Presses

  September 14, 2011: The Publishing Workshop at the University of Colorado-Boulder, in conjunction with Subito Press, presented a panel discussion on small press publishing, featuring local publishers and editors from national literary presses and journals. Featured guests discussed their various projects and engaged in a conversation about small press publishing. Panel moderator: Noah Eli Gordon Panelists: Sommer Browning, Flying Guillotine Press Serena Chopra, TitMouse Magazine Julia Cohen, Saltgrass and Denver Quarterly Erin Costello and Mark Rockswold, SpringGun Press Rachel Levy, [...]

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  Susan Tichy reads at Counterpath

  Susan Tichy read at Counterpath July 8, 2011. She is the author of four books, most recently Gallowglass (2010) and Bone Pagoda (2007), both from Ahsahta Press. Both books are underwritten by her experience as a war protester and as the wife (now widow) of a combat veteran. Bone Pagoda is an extended meditation on Vietnam, while Gallowglass takes its title from an Anglicized form of the Gaelic gal-óglac, a foreign soldier or mercenary. Her poems and mixed-genre works have [...]

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  Kids Interview

  Attendees of the music & swim summer camp of Greg Degroat stop in on their way to the pool and talk about their impressions of Counterpath.

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  AURA: LAST ESSAYS
  by Gustaf Sobin

  Gustaf Sobin’s final book of essays continues his meditations on the meaning of archaeological vestiges in the south of France. Sobin’s writing synthesizes insights from anthropology, philosophy, theology, and the history of art to produce a spiritual and poetic travelogue through vanished time. Left uncompleted at the end of his life, the present volume would have concluded the trilogy whose first two volumes were published by the University of California Press (Luminous Debris [1999] and Ladder of Shadows [2009]). The [...]

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  JULIOLOGY
  Nicolas Pesquès

  Juliology is an extended poetic meditation on a mountain (Juliau) that is visible from the poet’s house in the Ardèche region of south-central France. Focusing in particular on the flowering yellow English broom that covers the mountain in spring, Pesquès intermingles close observation with a philosophical reflection on the roles and potentials of language. Both lyrical and abstract, both grounded and rangy, the text takes us inward toward systems of representation at the same time that it directs us outward [...]

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  sexoPUROsexoVELOZ // Septiembre
  Dolores Dorantes

  sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre are books two and three of Mexican poet Dolores Dorantes’ lifelong project titled Dolores Dorantes. These works consist of fragmented interlocking sequences of poems that create a scaffolding to frame Dorantes’ vivid explorations of the intensely personal and intensely social questions that inhabit the space called “Dolores Dorantes.” Dorantes writes, “May be / I had to forget how…”; it is from within the particular experience she offers of forgetting how  that we might, perhaps, begin to remember [...]

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  THE CRY AT ZERO
  Andrew Joron

  Here Andrew Joron ranges through literature, science, and philosophy as he maps a poetics that confronts postmodern skepticism and begins from the premise that poets are “chained to the impossible,” that the poetic “cry” exceeds specific social crises. Joron proposes a distinct and obvious place for the unsayable, the abyssal, in our poetic practice. With lucidity and compassion, Joron’s prose works, interwoven here with a series of prose poems, are indispensable in our attempts to embrace a creative space that [...]

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  DAILY SONNETS
  Laynie Browne

  In Daily Sonnets Laynie Browne charts new territory as she subtly investigates the daily influxes of the poetic moment. From longing for the family in the very midst of the family, to the play of the mind which mimics and shepherds the visible games of children, Browne offers here the mimesis of the possible, a moving reflection of action and intimacy, a letting go and a grasping of the poetic and the political, all in the firm hold of song. Laynie [...]

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