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Posted on Monday, April 22, 2013 9:49 AM
Join me this Thursday, April 25 at 7:00 pm as I do another poetry reading with my friends Richard Fox and Robert McDonald! As part of Chicago indie bookstore The Book Cellar's poetry month program, Robert, Richard and I have been invited to share the store's area-in-front-of-the-magazines (it's not exactly a stage). I'll be reading from my forthcoming collection Telephone. The reading is free, but be sure to allow yourself time to browse and buy books! The Book Cellar, 4736-8 North Lincoln Ave. 60625 773-293-2665. |
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Posted on Thursday, March 14, 2013 10:08 AM
Triple Play! Join Jen Besemer, Richard Fox and Robert McDonald for a free reading at City Lit Books (2523 North Kedzie Blvd.) Thursday March 21 at 6:30 p.m. Contact City Lit at 773-235-2523 with questions. Did we mention it's FREE? |
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Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:37 AM
I was tagged by my dear friend and collaborator j/j hastainto participate in the ongoing blog interview project, "The Next Big Thing." For this project, I am to respond on my blog to the same questions j/j used, then tag five others to do the same on their blogs--or to guest blog here-- each of whom then tag five others themselves. Here, the questions refer to one of my forthcoming books. And I will add names and links to the blogs of the authors I "tag" right here, as they agree to participate: |
publications, process notes, art practice: issues and challenges, experiments, poetics, poetry, poetry market, press, nicholas alexander hayes, blogging, j/j hastain, The Next Big Thing project, Brooklyn Arts Press, Telephone, michelle naka pierce, christine mcnair
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Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 3:28 PM
Black Took Collective:
Duriel E. Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, Ronaldo V. Wilson
3 Chicago events in 3 neighborhoods! All open to the public. No tickets or registration needed. Black Took Collective is a group of Black post-theorists who perform and write in hybrid experimental forms, embracing radical poetics and cutting-edge critical theory about race, gender, and sexuality. *Thursday, February 21 @ 6:30pmWorkshop at Columbia College33 E. Congress Pkwy (Room 101, Downtown) free admission |
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Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:51 AM
Last night I was very privileged to be able to participate in Miguel Gutierrez's performance/movement workshop, "Ineffable Intangible Sensational" at Defibrillator. It felt transformative in so many ways, and the psychic dust has yet to settle, so to speak. But one thing that I want to comment on immediately is an idea stemming from a conversation we had in a discussion period. I had asked Miguel if he saw teaching workshops as part of his own research process--and what I meant, basically, was whether that kind of teaching was important to his life as a maker of art. |
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Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:13 PM
See my essay "Collage-Mind" at Drunken Boat! Thanks to Dan Godston for inviting me to send occasional dispatches. |
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Posted on Tuesday, December 11, 2012 12:51 PM
Pretensions
to Accessibility
Poets
are people who make poetry, whatever that means. I make poetry that
interests me, and trust that my audience is made up of those who are
also interested in what I make. I find my work is strongest and most
satisfying to that audience when I am true to my own priorities and
my own poetics. I do not work with much concern over
"accessibility," which in the context of poetry refers to
whether or not the "general reader" will be able to find
value in the work--maybe through a recognition of cultural allusions
in the content, through emotional resonance or empathy with the
feelings described, or through relating to the experiences of the
poet as narrated in the poem.
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:49 PM
Polaroiding in Public
Photography is
ubiquitous in the wake of the "digital revolution."
Versatile, powerful cameras are standard equipment on devices and
tools from phones to vehicles. These days, no one looks twice at
someone holding their phone or phone-sized camera up in the most
public, everyday places: restaurants, museums, buses and subway
trains, the street, the grocery store, school, etc. A
traditional-looking DSLR--with its "pro" sign value, its
documentary seriousness and its satisfying heft--no longer generates
much interest among spectators.
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Posted on Monday, October 08, 2012 12:16 PM
Come up (or down, or over) to Rogers Park's own Mess Hall this Friday for the Between Reading!
The Between Reading presents texts based on the creative reading of and response to Nicholas Alexander Hayes's first novel Between. The source text examines perception and identity in a decaying American town. True to the shifting planes of perception in the book, writers and poets were invited to respond to the work through whatever modes they preferred. Their responses have been compiled in the Between Compendium.
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Posted on Wednesday, October 03, 2012 4:44 PM
As part of the Seventh Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival (click here for full programming info), I will be presenting a collaborative poetic performance entitled "Surrogates." I'll be offering poems written in collaboration with j/j hastain, inviting the audience to become involved as performers or prompters. Check the attached press release for more details--it should be a great evening of exciting improvisational and genre-blurring performance! |
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