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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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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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Coffee House Press Feature, Friday, May 11, 2012
Reading by Coffee House Press authors, Joseph Lease, Lightsey Darst, Maureen Owen, and Laird Hunt. Friday, May 11, 2012, 7 p.m. Scroll down for videos of the readings. Joseph Lease’s critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011); Broken World (Coffee House Press); and Human Rights (Talisman House, second edition forthcoming). Lease’s poems “‘Broken World’ (For James Assatly)” and “Send My Roots Rain” have been selected for Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second Edition). “‘Broken [...]
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Entanglement: Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Bowes, Saturday, April 28, 2012
Saturday, April 28, 2012, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Counterpath hosted “Entanglement,” a poetry performance/reading by Anne Waldman and Eleni Sikelianos, and screening of Ed Bowes’s Entanglement (2009), with contributing text by Anne Waldman, and starring Eleni Sikelianos. Anne Waldman, recently deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publisher’s Weekly, is a poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist. She is the author of more than 40 books and has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such [...]
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Craig Baldwin’s SONIC OUTLAWS, Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 7 p.m.
On April 25th, 7 p.m., collage-film essayist and west coast underground film legend Craig Baldwin comes to Denver for a screening at Counterpath of his 1995 documentary, Sonic Outlaws. One of Senses Of Cinema’s “great directors,” Craig Baldwin is a recombinatory filmmaker who exists at the edge of contemporary cinema both through his films and his weekly film series, Other Cinema. The spread of his films in the last two decades, particularly *Tribulation 99*, *Sonic Outlaws* and *Spectres of the [...]
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Lisa Robertson: Screenings of In Painting and A Modest Treatise, Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 22, 2012, at 6 p.m. Screening of In Painting (a collaborative work by Allyson Clay, Nathanael, and Lisa Robertson) and A Modest Treatise (Allyson Clay and Lisa Robertson), introduced by Lisa Robertson. RSVP For many years Lisa Robertson has worked across disciplines and often in collaboration. With the late Stacy Doris she was the Perfume Recordist, an ongoing sound performance and writing project with work in the new I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women. She worked [...]
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Ugly Duckling Presse Feature, with Matvei Yankelevich and Noel Black, Saturday April 21, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012, at 7 p.m. at Counterpath hosted “Buy, Sell, Trade: The Chapbook Press in the 21st Century, and the Story of Ugly Duckling Presse,” with a talk and presentation by Ugly Duckling Presse founder Matvei Yankelevich and a reading by Ugly Duckling Presse author Noel Black (unfortunately our video cut off before Noel’s reading). Counterpath carries the full range of Ugly Duckling Presse titles, and you can find out more about Ugly Duckling Presse here. Matvei Yankelevich is [...]
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“Shape of the ‘I’” Conference Reading, Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday, April 14, 2012, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., Counterpath hosted a reading as part of “Shape of the ‘I’: A National Conference,” a two-day series of events at the University of Colorado, Boulder, including panel discussions, readings, screenings, and performances focused on questions of the subject through such diverse lenses as medicine, law, literature, poetics, creative non-fiction, feminism, queer studies, performance studies, and more. For more information on the conference, click here. With readings at Counterpath by: Francisco [...]
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Line Describing a Cone (1973) by Anthony McCall, Friday, March 23, 8 p.m.
Line Describing a Cone, Anthony McCall, 16mm, 1973, 30 mins Friday March 23 @ 8pm—this one-time-only solid film event will begin at 8:30 p.m. sharp—no entrance will be allowed after the start time! Presented and installed by Think Outside the Booth, with Jeanne Liotta. ———— Line Describing a Cone is what I term a solid light film. It deals with the projected light beam itself, rather than treating the light beam as a mere carrier of coded information, which is decoded [...]
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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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Cole Swensen and Nicolas Pesquès Reading: Sunday, March 11, 6 p.m.
Sunday, March 11, 2012: A reading by Cole Swensen and Nicolas Pesquès. Cole Swensen is the author of thirteen volumes of poetry, most recently Greensward (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010) and Ours (U. of California Press, 2008), and a volume of essays, Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan Press, 2011). She is the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid, the founding editor of La Presse Books, which specializes in contemporary French writing translated by English-language poets, and a [...]
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New Ages: Screening and Launch of Incite: Experimental Media #3
New Ages: Video Screening and Launch of Incite Journal of Experimental Media #3 Featuring work by: Jaimz Asmundson, Jacob Ciocci, Clint Enns, Eliza Koch, Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, Lillian Schwartz, and Leslie Supnet Curated by Brett Kashmere Wedneday, March 7, 2012 @ 8PM Counterpath (613 22nd Street, Denver) RSVP This is a new age (for New Age-ism). Although it may be in vogue now, New Age subculture was once the subject of widespread ridicule and scorn. Combining quasi-religious mysticism [...]
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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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NOAH SATERSTROMExhibit, 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. 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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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 [...]
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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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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 EDITIONSDevin 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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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, [...]
