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  • NOAH SATERSTROM</br>Exhibit, Opening Reception February 18, on view through February 29

    NOAH SATERSTROM
    Exhibit, Opening Reception February 18, on view through February 29

    Paintings and collaborations by Noah Saterstrom. Opening reception Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., with readings by Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Noah Eli Gordon. Work on view through February 29. RSVP Raised in Mississippi and educated at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, Noah Saterstrom works as a visual artist and independent curator. His paintings, drawings, and print installations have been shown nationally and internationally, most recently in Brooklyn, NY, New Orleans, LA and Glasgow, Scotland. [...]

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  • HEATH COURSE PAK</br> Tan Lin

    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 PLAGIARIST</br>Kevin Kopelson

    CONFESSIONS OF A PLAGIARIST
    Kevin 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 </br>Rodrigo Toscano

    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 FORTIES</br>Jackson Mac Low

    154 FORTIES
    Jackson Mac Low

    The first publication of the complete series of Jackson Mac Low’s “Forties” poems. Written and revised from 1990 to 1999 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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  • Launch for the Re-Release of Laird Hunt’s THE IMPOSSIBLY

    Launch for the Re-Release of Laird Hunt’s THE IMPOSSIBLY

    Please join us on Saturday, February 11th, from 5-7 p.m. at Counterpath (613 22nd St., Denver) for a reading, musical performance and art display to celebrate the 10th anniversary paperback rerelease of Laird Hunt’s The Impossibly.  The new edition, which has an introduction by Percival Everett, an afterword by Laird and a previously unpublished “lost” chapter, will be for sale at the event. Over the course of the evening their will be, intermingled: Readings from The Impossibly by Jeanne Liotta, [...]

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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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  • Digital Media Exhibit, January 27-29, 2012

    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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  • 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</br> Jonathan Stalling

    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</br> Matthew Cooperman

    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

    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

    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 II

    EPOXY II

    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

    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

    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 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

    Craig Dworkin at Counterpath

    May 6, 2011: Craig Dworkin presented his online journal Eclipse and talked about the digital archive.

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  • Stephen Ratcliffe at Counterpath

    Stephen Ratcliffe at Counterpath

    Stephen Ratcliffe reads at Counterpath Stephen Ratcliffe did the inugural reading at Counterpath on January 12, 2011, spending some time presenting his press Avenue B. Stephen Ratcliffe is a poet and critic whose most recent books are Reading the Unseen: (Offstage) Hamlet (Counterpath Press, 2009) and REAL, a 474-page book of poems written in 474 consecutive days (Avenue B, 2007).  Previous books include Portraits & Repetition (The Post-Apollo Press, 2002) and SOUND/(system) (Green Integer, 2002). Listening to Reading, a collection [...]

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  • Kids Interview

    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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  • VACANT LOT</br> Oliver Rohe

    VACANT LOT
    Oliver Rohe

    Set in a city much like Beirut in the aftermath of bloody civil war, a former mercenary relates his fate and that of others of his kind after the peace. The world is rapidly healing itself—people getting back to their lives, the city being rebuilt. But he is unable to leave the site his crimes. Rohe’s narrative is striking in its understatement: much of the work’s power lies in what’s unsaid, what’s hinted and inferred. Sentences run on and on [...]

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  • THE FIELD IS LETHAL</br> Suzanne Doppelt

    THE FIELD IS LETHAL
    Suzanne Doppelt

    The supernatural, ventriloquism, table-turning, magic carpets, ghosts, The Field is Lethal is immersed in a late nineteeth-century spiritualism . Borrowing freely from folklore and anecdote, Doppelt mixes oblique references, catching us in the sound and play of language as much as of ideas. Well-known as a photographer, Doppelt juxtaposes her text with delicate, eerie images. As Avital Ronell writes in her Postface for the book, we appreciate here “her manner, her astonishing modalities, the precision of her cuts.” Suzanne Doppelt, a [...]

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  • THE DESIRES OF LETTERS<br />Laynie Browne

    THE DESIRES OF LETTERS
    Laynie Browne

    “Motherhood and housewifery and other worldly concerns of the female artist-provider ride rampant here in this bustling exploding book of prose & poem meditations. One of our best writers does it again” (Anne Waldman). Prose, verse, letters, and plays, The Desires of Letters is a passionate commentary on writing, mothering, and the navigation of politics, community, and imagination. An homage to Bernadette Mayer’s The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters, the book begins at the onset of the [...]

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  • THE USE OF SPEECH<br /> Nathalie Sarraute

    THE USE OF SPEECH
    Nathalie Sarraute

    In this reprint of a classic later work from French novelist Nathalie Sarraute, one finds a “delectably austere, beady-eyed book. . . . The phrases that give rise to the scenes or episodes are ordinary enough until Sarraute imagines for them a context which turns them from bland civilities into weapons of psychological warfare. Friends meet and converse, in a café or in the street, and are all sociability; except underneath, where the best of friends can be the most [...]

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