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.

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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. He works with writers on text/image collaborations, and is the founder and curator of the on-line curatorial quarterly, Trickhouse.  He currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

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. Multi-authored, and with numerous text blocks and photos, Heath Course Pak adds a multivalent commentary to its first edition, once again in full color.

Tan Lin is the author of Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe (Sun & Moon Press, 2000), Blipsoak 01 (Atelos, 2003), HEATH (plagiarism/outsource) (Zasterle, 2007), and Seven Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (Wesleyan, 2009). His visual and video work has been exhibited at the Yale Art Museum, the Sophienholm (Copenhagen), and the Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York City). He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at New Jersey City University.

HEATH COURSE PAK
Tan Lin
$17.95; 4.75 x 8;
128 pgs.
ISBN 978-1933996-27-1

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 it for his own words when his words were what were called for. Until recently, such plagiarisms and thefts had been his most shameful secret, shared only with a trusted few. But then Kopelson—now an English professor and the author of a number of respected books, most recently 2007’s Sedaris—wrote an essay entitled “My Cortez,” which was published in the London Review of Books in 2008. It was a satirical literary confession, an exploration of Kopelson’s personal and professional life via his various acts of plagiarism. From that jumping off point and exploring also his other vices, Confessions of a Plagiarist is the compelling and clever retelling (not to mention renovation) of Kopelson’s life, one transgression at a time.

A native New Yorker, Kevin Kopelson attended both Bronx High School of Science and The Juilliard School. He majored in music at Yale (graduating at age nineteen) and then got a law degree from Columbia (at twenty-two). After practicing law, he got a doctorate in English Literature from Brown (at thirty-one). Much to his surprise, he’s been in Iowa ever since—teaching “critical theory” at a university there and also, unlike some even older colleagues, writing books (Love’s Litany [1994], Beethoven’s Kiss [1996], The Queer Afterlife of Vaslav Nijinsky [1997], Neatness Counts [2004], and Sedaris [2007]). Much to his surprise, he’s now fifty-two.

CONFESSIONS OF A PLAGIARIST:
AND OTHER TALES FROM SCHOOL
Kevin Kopelson
April 16, 2012
$17.95; 6 x 9;
240 pgs.
ISBN 978-1933996-30-1

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 “predicaments.”

Rodrigo Toscano 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 labor movement politics for over fifteen years.

DECK OF DEEDS
March 15, 2012
Rodrigo Toscano
$15.95; 6 x 8 1/4;
128 pgs.
ISBN 978-1933996-31-8

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 termed “fuzzy verse form”: 8 stanzas, each comprising 5 lines (hence “forties”): 3 moderately long lines, followed by a very long line, and then a short line.

Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) made poems, essays, and musical, performance, visual, and radio works. Author of about 30 books and published in over 90 collections, his works have been published, exhibited, and performed (often by his wife, the poet, visual artist, and composer Anne Tardos and himself) in many countries. Awards: Guggenheim, NEA, NYFA, and CAPS fellowships and the 1999 Wallace Stevens Award of the Academy of American Poets. Recent books: Doings: An Assortment of Performance Pieces 1955–2002 (Granary, 2003) and Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works (University of California Press, 2008).

Anne Tardos is a poet, visual artist, and composer. Her many books of poetry and graphics include, most recently, Both Poems (Roof Books, 2011). She is also the editor of Thing of Beauty: New and Selected Works, by Jackson Mac Low (University of California Press, 2008).

154 FORTIES
May 15, 2012
Jackson Mac Low
Edited by Anne Tardos
$18.95; 6 x 8;
352 pgs.
ISBN 978-1933996-29-5

(Author photo copyright Lawrence Schwartzwald.)

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, Richard Froude, Ben Prince, Eleni Sikelianos, Eva Sikelianos Hunt and Laird Hunt
• Music by Roger Green (from his very recent, fabulous Impossibly inspired album) with Janet Feder, James Hann and Mark Harris
• Art by Ben Prince (from his very recent, fabulous Impossibly inspired triptych)
• A film projection of Impossibly inspired footage.
• And food and drink

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For more info about Laird Hunt and/or The Impossibly, please visit www.lairdhunt.net or http://www.coffeehousepress.org/2011/06/the-impossibly-2/

Roger Green has good info up at http://www.myspace.com/rogergreen

Richard Froude can be found online at http://www.richardfroude.com/

Jeanne Liotta is here: http://www.jeanneliotta.net/

Here’s a bit of info on Eleni Sikelianos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleni_Sikelianos

Eva is in first grade and is good at drawing and many other things.

Janet Feder has a website: http://www.janetfeder.com/

More on Mark Harris at http://www.mscd.edu/music/about/faculty/harris.shtm

James Hann plays keyboards for Nathaniel Rateliff and Gregory Alan Isakov.

Ben Prince is a painter, who lives in Atlanta.

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.

part of the Counterpath video poetics series mt/time, series page here

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, the Tokyo Image Forum, and many others. His 16mm film Angel Beach was invited into the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and in 2007 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He now lives in Austin, Texas. He is the webmaster for Flicker (www.hi-beam.net), the web resource for experimental film and video. More information is available at www.scottstark.com.

Kyle Schlesinger is a poet who writes and lectures on typography and artists’ books. His books of poems include: Commonplace (Cuneiform, 2011); Bad Words to the Radio and Other Poems (Least Weasel, 2011); Picture Day (Electio Editions, 2011); What You Will (NewLightsPress, 2012) and Seeing Things (Chax Press, 2012). Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book was published in 2010 by the Center for Book Arts in conjunction with an exhibition that traveled from New York City to Houston, to Buffalo, to Chicago. He is an Assistant Professor of Communication Design at UHV and proprietor of Cuneiform Press.

part of the Counterpath video poetics series mt/time, series page here

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. Her poetry has been translated into Ukrainian, Hungarian, Arabic, Bangla and Galician. For more info. check out her website http://www.mindhoney.com.

part of the Counterpath video poetics series mt/time, series page here