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Rodrigo Toscano, Friday, June 8, 2012, 8 p.m.
Friday, June 8, 2012, at 8 p.m., Rodrigo Toscano reads at Counterpath. Author most recently of Deck of Deeds (Counterpath, 2012), he is also the author of Collapsible Poetics Theater (National Poetry Series, 2007), To Leveling Swerve, Platform, Partisans, and The Disparities. His poetry has appeared in Best American Poetry, Diasporic Avante-Gardes (Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement), and in the anthology, Against Expression. He was a recipient of a New York State Fellowship for the Arts in Poetry. Toscano has been involved in [...]
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E-LIT: Exhibit, Reading, Screening, Performance, Saturday, May 26, 2012
Saturday, May 26, 2012, 7 p.m. Join us for an electronic literature reading/performance and an exhibit that will feature the work of a number of poets working in the field of electronic literature. Featuring readings by Amaranth Borsuk, Erin Costello/Aaron Angello, and others TBA. Video/Film poems by Kate Greenstreet, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Ruth Ellen Kocher, Jeanne Liotta, Zuzana Husarova, Mark Banzhoff. Early works of Elit presented on the computers for which they were written, thanks to Lori Emerson’s Archaeological Media [...]
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ASCENSION
giovanni singleton
Winner of the California Book AwardWinner 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 meditations on the nature of the self. These poems press against our deepest held questions: what is an I? Where are my borders? What or how am I “with”? “From whom—from what—do we hide?” giovanni singleton is a poet, teacher, [...]
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A Celebration of Denver Quarterly, Saturday, May 19, 2012, 5 p.m.
After 17 years, Bin Ramke is stepping down as editor of Denver Quarterly, the acclaimed literary journal based in the English Department at the University of Denver. Please help us celebrate his extraordinary tenure, as well as the transition to the Quarterly‘s new editor, Laird Hunt, as current and former DU students and faculty, along with special guests, read selections from issues of the Quarterly published under Bin. With readings by: Selah Saterstrom Scott Howard Laird Hunt Brian Kiteley Chris [...]
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HEATH COURSE PAK Tan Lin
Like its predecessor, HEATH (plagiarism/outsource), Heath Course Pak exists somewhere between a Project Gutenberg version of Samuel Pepys Diary and a minute-to-minute news feed and blog of Heath Ledger’s death. Sad, appropriated, lyrical and confused, the book contains a brief history of recent performance art, a legal defense of plagiarism, the diary of a poetry workshop at the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, an MP3 protest song, and an examination of SMS and GMS technologies as distribution networks for human sadness. [...]
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CONFESSIONS OF A PLAGIARISTKevin Kopelson
In college, Kevin Kopelson passed off a paper by his older brother Robert as his own. In graduate school, he plagiarized nearly an entire article from a respected scholar, and then later, having met her and been asked if he would send something for her to read, sent that essay he had plagiarized from her work. This is not to mention the many instances in which he quoted others extensively, not passing their work off as his own, but substituting [...]
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DECK OF DEEDS Rodrigo Toscano
Deck of Deeds is comprised of seventy poetic prose image captions (without images) whose titles are inspired by the popular Latin American loteria card game. Written by a poet who logs in an average of ten thousand miles of air travel each month working as a union trainer and coordinator throughout the U.S., the “cards” reflect a dizzying array of cultural-geographic locations, each one acting as a scene-setter for highly dystopian portraits of “people” caught in a tangle of industry-specific [...]
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154 FORTIESJackson Mac Low
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 strings, and sometimes sentences, that he saw, heard, or thought of while writing the drafts, the poems include detailed markings of caesural spacing, timing, compound words (many neologistic), and metrical stress. Each of the poems adhere to what Mac Low [...]
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Eric Baus, Andrea Rexilius, Joseph Harrington, Richard Froude Reading, Saturday, March 31
Saturday March 31st, 2012, 6pm, Book Release Party for Eric Baus’s Scared Text, Richard Froude’s The Passenger, and Andrea Rexilius’s Half of What They Carried Flew Away, with featured guest Joseph Harrington, author of Things Come On. Eric Baus is the author of The To Sound (Verse Press/Wave Books), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books), and Scared Text (Colorado State U. Press). With Andrea Rexilius, he edits Marcel chapbooks. Andrea Rexilius is the author of Half of What They Carried Flew Away [...]
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Charging Words: Steve Katz and Jim Johnson, March 16, 2012
Friday, March 16, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Counterpath (613 22nd St., Denver) hosted a screening of 5 short poem/films by Nik & Steve Katz and a display of artist books by Jim Johnson. Much of the work centered around the book Time’s Wallet, by Steve Katz, published by Counterpath. Steve Katz is one of the founders of Fiction Collective (FC2) and he started the short-lived PIIF (Projects In Innovative Fiction) with Walter Abish, Clarence Major, and Michael Stephens. He [...]
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The Old Lens (for Jackson Mac Low)
The Old Lens (for Jackson Mac Low), by Brandon Downing, text by Jackson Mac Low 2011 Early experimental street footage, aided by windshield, accompanies this collage of terms and clauses recorded by the great Jackson Mac Low (from the poems CATER LOAF and DESECRATED ANCHORITE LOFTY). Editing and remixing by Brandon Downing. Premiered at the January 15, 2011 installment of Poetry Time, featuring Ben Doller, Sandra Doller and Lisa Robertson. Brandon Downing is a writer and visual artist originally from [...]
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plink
plink, by Scott Stark and Kyle Schlesinger Four stanzas of moving images of human recreational activities, cut to an excerpt from Marcel Duchamp’s The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp. Scott Stark has made over 70 films and videos since the early 1980s, and has created numerous installations, performances and photo-collages as well. His work has shown nationally and internationally in venues as diverse as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Cinematheque, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, [...]
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morning poem #43
morning poem #43, by Joel Schlemowitz, text by Wanda Phipps 2007. 16mm. Joel Schlemowitz is a Brooklyn-based experimental filmmaker whose work has screened at MoMA, Whitney Museum, Anthology Film Archives, and Tribeca Film Festival, New York, Chicago, London, and Sydney film festivals; awards at Chicago Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Dallas Video Festival; website: www.joelschlemowitz.com Wanda Phipps is a writer/performer living in Brooklyn, NY, author of Field of Wanting: Poems of Desire, Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems, and the CD-Rom Zither Mood. [...]
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Dark Enough
Dark Enough, by Jeanne Liotta, text by Lisa Gill Digital, 7 min., 2011 A proscenium stage for poetry to play upon, in a controlled cosmic collision of technologies past and present. Sound was composed by myself for 60 cycle speaker hum and Tibetan bell, a chaos/cosmos pairing as sonic metaphor for our earthly existence on a planet spinning in a cosmic sea of background radiation reverberating in space/time from the big bang, punctuated briefly and fleetingly by human consciousness in [...]
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Kevin and Cedar
Kevin and Cedar, by Cecilia Dougherty 8.30 minutes, 2002 West Coast poets Kevin Killian and Cedar Sigo read from their own work, in the San Francisco apartment Kevin shares with writer Dodie Bellamy. Cecilia Dougherty has created over 35 works in video, as well as many photographic works, and has published stories, poems, reviews, interviews and critical writing under the influence of radical feminism, ethnography, and studies of psychology, everyday life, architecture and space use. She lives in Brooklyn. part [...]
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To reveal the fourteen windows
To reveal the fourteen windows, Image/sound by Christina Battle, Text by Julie Carr Digital video—8.30 minutes, 2011 In crayon drawings. Some persons lie buried in fire and some have been suspended in a wave. Rain withdraws its praise. With a B.Sc. in environmental biology from the University of Alberta and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, Christina Battle currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Working with film, video and installation, her works explore themes of history and countermemory, political [...]
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Epoxy: Jess Stoner, Greg Howard, Caroline Davidson, Richard Froude
February 25, 2012: Epoxy The Third Invites You to hear Jess Stoner, Greg Howard, Caroline Davidson, and Richard Froude. It’ll be a reunion of sorts for some, a union for others, and onions for all. Hosted by Oren Silverman. Jess Stoner’s novel, I Have Blinded Myself Writing This, is now out from Short Flight/Long Drive Books (a division of Hobart). Her choose-your-own-adventure chapbook of poems, You’re Going to Die Jess Wigent, is forthcoming from Fact-Simile. Jess lives in the sweat [...]
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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 KaupangFriday, 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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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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YINGELISHI Jonathan Stalling
The nearly supernatural nature of this groundbreaking work can be glimpsed in the book’s title. When read aloud, Yíngelìshi (pronounced yeen guh lee shr) sounds like an accented pronunciation of the word “English,” while the Chinese reader sees the Chinese characters for “chanted songs, beautiful poetry.” Stalling coined this term (and “Sinophonic English”) to give a positive name to an increasingly widespread variation of English created by combining the two dominant languages of globalization (Mandarin Chinese and English). With over [...]
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STILL Matthew Cooperman
“It’s as if,” writes Gillian Conoley of Still: Of the Earth as the Ark which Does Not Move, “in our still lives, in the still shots of cultural, historical and individual atomized memory, Matthew Cooperman is holding a Geiger counter, a microphone, a mixing bowl and a spatula, defying his own lines, ‘we cannot sing dragging our saddles after and befores.’ On a big canvas, both global and the glottal, all history and information aswirl, this book risks being courageous, [...]
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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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Craig Dworkin at Counterpath
May 6, 2011: Craig Dworkin presented his online journal Eclipse and talked about the digital archive.
