September 1997: Audrey Code, paintings; October 1997: DeDe Fedrizzi, photography; October 11, 1997 Johannes Tonio Kreusch, classical guitar; November 1997: Alexandra Wiesenfeld, paintings; November, 1997 Reese, alternative R&B; April 1998: Jim Klein, paintings; April 1998: The Antioch Review. Stephen Jay Gould, reading; April 1998: The Interpreters: Shaping American Art , Panel Discussion: Carter Ratcliff, Rosie Schaap, Sarah Schmerler, Grady T. Turner, Alexi Worth. Moderated by Steven Vincent; May 2-31, 1998 James Gilroy, paintings & works on paper; May 1998 John Ashbery & Gerrit Henry, poetry reading; September 17 - October 31, 1998. Judy Glantzman, painting & drawings; September 24, 1998: murmur, reading. Kevin P.Q. Phelan, editor. Readers: Lindsay Ahl, Tim Davis, Oona Frawley, Laird Hunt, Krysia Jopek, Sharon Lattig, Dan Machlin, Jill Magi, Mark Mirsky, Eileen Myles, Heather Ramsdell, Danzy Senna, Stephen Mounkhall, Geny Turovsky; October 27, 1998: Ann Lauterbach & Heather Ramsdell, poetry reading; October 29,1998: Science and Art Panel Discussion with Tom Breidenbach, Mark Daniel Cohen, Jonathan Goodman, and Sharon Lattig. November 5, 1998: Raphael Rubinstein & Max Henry, poetry reading. November 28 - December 24, 1998: Group Show, paintings & drawings by Camille Eskelle, Katherine Kadish, Christina Park, and Alexandra Wiesenfeld. December 11, 1999 Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon, poetry reading. February 25, 1999: Jackson Mac Low and Jena Osman, poetry reading. March--April, 1999: Stephanie Rose, paintings; April 8, 1999 Washington Square Journal, reading. Galway Kinnell, Marie Ponsot, Agha Shahid Ali, Stephen Sandy, Alan Michael Parker, Chuck Wachtel; April 27, 1999 The Antioch Review, with Victor Navasky; April 30, 1999, Avec: A Journal of Writing, reading; May 20, 1999, C.D. Wright & Camille Guthrie, poetry reading. September 23 - October 30, 1999; Anne Dunn, paintings. October 28, 1999, Tom Breidenbach & Jonathan Goodman, poetry reading. November 6 - December 10, 1999: James Gilroy, information paintings and drawings "Don't Let Go," a digital documentary with James Gilroy & Larry Clark. November 18, 1999: Bernadette Mayer & Dan Machlin, poetry reading. January 24th 2000: Dactyl Screening Room Benefit Honorary Chair: John Ashbery Curators: John Bissell, Willem Dafoe, Sean Gullette, Lyle Hysen, Elizabeth LeCompte, David Levine, Kate Valk. Committee: Anurag Bhargava co-chair, Debra Scherer co-chair, Henry Buhl, Michael Caruso, Tom Fontana, Massi Ghausi, Agnes Gund, Eva Herzigova, Sarah Lee, Rick Montgomery, David Sussman, Hillary & Bradley Thomas, David Thorpe, Jed Weintrob. Projects: Darren Aronofsky, Peter Care, Larry Clark, James Crutchfield, Jim Findlay, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, Lewis Klahr, Ken Kobland, Alex McDowell, Jon Moritsugu, Ret.Inevitable, Richard Sandler, Leslie Thornton, Todd Solondz, Brett Vapnek, The Wooster Group. February 10, 2000: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Krysia Jopek, poetry reading. February 28th, 2000: "The Gods of Times Square" a documentary by Richard Sandler March 4--April 1, 2000: Peter Begley, sculpture. March 14, 2000: Letters from Alphaville by Raphael Rubinstein, poetry reading. March 16, 2000: Artists 4 Ireland, poetry reading. St Paddy's Jam 2000 Colum McCan, Tom Kelley and friends. March 30, 2000: Reception for the Antioch Review with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein. April 4--6, 2000: Retrodiction The History of Chaos in Literature, Science and Art April 4th & 5th: Angus Fletcher, (CUNY) on Spenser's "Mutability Cantos" and the poetry of John Ashbery April 6th: John Ashbery, (Bard College) poetry reading. Jim Crutchfield, (Santa Fe Institute) on the physics of chaos. Joan Richardson, (CUNY) on science & poetry, & Angus Fletcher, (CUNY) respondent. more information. May 12, 2000: The Figures Press & Roof Press, book party. May 15th, 2000: Shirtsleeves, a short film by Bruce Bennett, Ode, a film by Kelly Reichardt July-August-September 2000 Artist Search Project; August 12, 2000 Poetry Reading/Open Mic September 23, 2000 Artist Search Project; September 28, 2000 John Reed, reception A Still Small Voice; October-November 2000 Alexandra Wiesenfeld, paintings and works on paper, with a screening of "The Look of Love," a digital mini-doc about the artist; October 16, 2000 murmur journal, reception, volume ii includes works by Ashbery, Fletcher, Hollo, Ni Dhomhnaill, and Ramsdell; October 19, 2000 Gad Hollander's the palaver transcription, poetry screening; November 16, 2000 John Yau & Vincent Katz, poetry reading; November 28, 2000 Carter Ratcliff & Kenneth Koch, poetry reading; December 6, 2000 John Ashbery, reception Your Name Here and Other Traditions; December 8, 2000 Studio Semester in New York and Empire State College, anniversary reception; December 15-22, 2000 BookFair Limited editions, hand-made bindings, Poetry and Literary Fiction; January 10, 2001 Norman Jewison, film screening; February 6, 2001 Publication party celebrating Edizioni Mazzotta's monograph on Norman Bluhm; February 15, 2001 Brett Vapnek, film screening. Dream Machine starring Mary Timony; February 22, 2001 Ken Kobland, video screening; March 10, 2001 Washington Market School, "small works 11" children's art exhibition; March 15, 2001 Richard Sandler, film screening, The Gods of Times Square. April 4, 2001 Richard Howard and Susan Wheeler, poetry reading. Antioch Review 60th Anniversay Celebration; April 7-May 21, 2001: Judy Glantzman, paintings & drawings. April 26, 2001 6:30: Public Lecture: "The Poet, The Critic, & The Interpreter: A Crash Course," Angus Fletcher (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate School, CUNY), Respondents: Nico Israel (Asst. Prof, English, Hunter College, CUNY; critic, Artforum International Magazine) and Victoria N. Alexander (Dactyl Foundation). May 10, 2001: book party with The Figures: On the Nameways (Vol.2) by Clark Coolidge, My Terza Rima by Michael Gizzi, Push The Mule by John Godfrey, Savage Baggage by Roger Mitchell, The Drift of Things by Terence Winch, Roof: Christophe Tarkos: Ma Langue est Poetique--Selected Writings, Vocoder by Judith Goldman, Free Will by Craig Watson, Pen Chants By Lissa Wolsak. June 7th & 8th: Metropolis, film screening, Fritz Lang's 1926 landmark silent sci-fi film, With a new soundtrack by electronic musician Jeff Mills, with moderators: Anuj Desai, Editor in Chief, Black Book Magazine; Tara Anderson, Dactyl Foundation, presented by Black Book Magazine and Dactyl Foundation; July 7, 2001, Memorial service for Keenan Milton with video screening; June, July, and August, 2001, Artist Search Project, call for artists, Turning on Turner. Sunday, September 23 2001, Laird Hunt, The Impossibly (Coffee House Press). September 28, 2001, "History, Memory, Trauma," a public lecture by Dominick LaCapra, recipient of the Dactyl award for aesthetic theory. October 26, 2001, Greenroom / Mayfly Theater Company, Benefit. November 3 - December 8, 2001 Mike Piscitelli, Devolution. November 10, 2001, "Nabokov, Evolution, and Insect Mimicry" a public lecture by Victoria Alexander. Saturday, December 15 - 21, Poetry BookFair, reading Friday 14th. Feb 5, 2002 Diane Torr in Discussion. Drag King Ambassador to the World. Feb 19, 2002 Laura Biagi: A performance of Italian Folk Songs. Feb 22, 2002 poet-critics, Michael Davidson and John Taggart. Feb 26, 2002 Editing Panel and Screening New York Women in Film and Television; March 16-April 14, 2002, Emily Orling, paintings; March 26, 2002, Budoflux, performance and lecture; April 10, 2002, Suely Rolnik, public lecture on Brazilian artist Lygia Clark; April 20, 2002; small works 12 An exhibition of art by the students of The Washington Market School; May 4-25, 2002100 More Jokes from The Book of the Dead, exhibition of hand-colored etchings and poetry by Archie Rand and John Yau (Meritage Press) Also celebrating the release of My Heart Is That Eternal Rose Tattoo (Black Sparrow), Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin) by John Yau, Simply Separate People by Lynn Crawford, edited by John Yau (Black Square), Me with Animal Towering by Albert Mobilio, edited by John Yau (Black Square); and Bayart by Pascalle Monnier, translated by Cole Swensen, edited by John Yau (Black Square); May 9, 2002, Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today, a documentary film by Big Mouth Productions; May 14, 2002,Poetry reading with Meena Alexander, celebrating the release of Illiterate Heart; Introduction by Tricia Lin; May 17, 2002, Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s,ed. Mark Wallace and Steven Marks. 26 essays on contemporary avant garde poetries. Book release & panel discussion with Charles Borkhuis,Lee Ann Brown, Jeff Derksen, Jeff Hansen, Bill Howe, Andrew Levy, Eileen Myles, Leonard Schwartz, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans, Gary Sullivan, & Elizabeth Willis; Tuesday, May 21, 2002, Antioch Review Readings with James Purdy and Jeffery Renard Allen; June 1-29, 2002 Point & Shoot, a collection of T-4 photography by pro-skaters, Alex Corporan, Elska Sandor, Giovanni Estevez, A-Ron the Don, Suekwon, Shadi Perez, Giovanni Reda, Mike O'Meally, Keith & Anne Hufnagel, Todd Jordan, Aaron Meza, Athena Razo, Leo Fitzpatrick, Ryan McGinley, Angela Boatright, J2, Dave Ortiz, and Carla Ullman Reception: Saturday June 1, 2002, 7-10pm; June 4, 5, 6, 2002 Mayfly Theater Company; June 25, 2002 7pm Screening: Transportation, an episode of Rizoma by Professor Fernando Salis of The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil An integrated television program and internet site for debate and communitarian action onenvironmental issues; July 13, 2002 6pm Imaginary Architecture: Part I SkyFi A video tribute to the power of art direction and scenic design By Sean Gullette Featuring architectural installation by Yumi Moriwaki, Casey Mack, Kostas Seremeties; ; September 3 - 28, 2002 Jim Gilroy, paintings Before & After 9/11 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7th, 6-8pm; Thursday, September 12, 2002, 7:30 John Ashbery & Gerrit Henry, poetry reading; September 23, Larry Clark, Premier New York film screening of Ken Park; Saturday September 28, 2002 Short Video Show, 7:30-9:00pm "Business and Pleasure" by Maria Antelman and George Drivas "Insomnium" by Craig MacNeil "Stillspeed" by Georg Steinboeck "EX" by Andreas Troeger and Dactyl Foundation award recipient, "'Intersocial Volition' (Theirs and Ours)" by Tina Landis ; Wednesday, October 2 6:30pm Screening "Rockets Redglare!" a documentary by Luis Fernandez de la Reguera; October 5 - November 12 Yelena Yemchuk, photography "Phenomena+Existence No. 1" Opening: Saturday, October 5th, 6-8pm; Friday Oct 25th, 2002 7pm Josip Novakovich, reading; Friday, November 8th 2-4 pm panel discussion on new ways of interrogating dichotomies in the sciences Hosted at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409, by the 20th Century Group & Dactyl Foundation Panelists: Susan Oyama (Philosophy of Biology), Victoria N. Alexander (Narrative Theory), and Sharon Lattig (Poetics). ; Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002 7-9pm: Black Wine Film Screening ; November 16- December 7, 2002 The Freshjive Mad Dog Chronicles, a retrospective interview with professional skater Tony Alva featuring the photography of Wynn Miller Opening Saturday Nov 16th, 6-8 pm; December 7 - 21, 2002 Front Hall Book Fair Limited editions, hand-made, Poetry and Literary Fiction. Open reading Dec. 6th -6-8pm; February 1-28, 2003; erotic drawings by Neil Grayson Proceeds to Benefit Dactyl Foundation Reception/Fundraising Benefit, Feb. 14th, 6-9pm ; Saturday, March 8, 2003 Washington Market School, "small works" children's art exhibition ; Wednesday, March 19 Private Screening; Saturday, March 22nd, 7-9pm
Book release party for Victoria N. Alexander, Naked Singularity ; Saturday, March 29 Obscure Publications 7-9pm; April 22-May 10 Group Show. Peter Begley, Judy Glantzman, Jim Gilroy, Emily Orling and Yelena Yemchuk.Thursday, May 8th at 7pm Memorial for Gerrit Henry Readings by Neil Grayson, John Ashbery, Susan Baran, Marc Cohen, David Lehman, Maggie Paley, Bill Sullivan, John Wells, Tom Breidenbach, Audrey Ushenko, and Ellen Banks
Sunday, May 18th, 2pm The Secret Agent adapted & directed by Richard Kimmel,featuring Tony Torn as Secret Agent Verloc and Wayne Adams, Dominique Bousquet, Steve Cuiffo, Andrew Garman, Jordan Lage, and Gary Wilmes. FREE ($5 suggested donation).Drinks will be served.Seating is limited. Development of THE SECRET AGENT is supported in part by a grant from NYSCA's Individual Artist Program.
Thursday, May 22nd Antioch Review fund-raiser, 6:30-7:30pm drinks and hors d'oeuvres, 7:30-8:30pm readings by Katherine Vaz and Henry Van Dyke. Katherine Vaz is the author of the critically acclaimed novel Saudade (1994), the first contemporary novel about Portuguese-Americans from a major New York publisher. Her second novel, Mariana has been printed in six languages and is also a bestseller.Her collection Fado & Other Stories won the 1997 Drue Heinz Literature Prize. Her short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in numerous literary quarterlies, including Glimmer Train, Iowa Review. Gettysburg Review, The Sun, Tin House, Triquarterly Review, and Other Voices. Vaz will be the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Creative Writing at Harvard this fall. She is a recipient of a NEA fellowship and is the first Portuguese-American to have her work recorded for the Library of Congress.Vaz was picked National Woman of the Year in 2002 by the Portugese-American Woman's Association. Henry Van Dyke is the author of four novels, Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes, Blood of Strawberries, Dead Piano, and Lunacy and Caprice. He was awarded the Antioch Review's Lynda Lloyd Distinguished Fiction Award in 2002. His work has appeared in the Antioch Review since 1977.Van Dyke won a Guggenheim Fellowship and has been awarded a Literature Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been anthologized in The PEN Collection and Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century Afro-American Short Stories. He was born in Allegan, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Michigan. He worked for a number of years at Basic Books in New York City. In the 1970s he divided his time between New York and Kent State University, where he was writer-in-residence for a portion of the year.Van Dyke now lives full time in Manhattan and is gathering stories for a second collection.
May 23-June 28, 2003
Opening: Friday, May 23rd Heroes and Villains, skateboard art
Curated by Jon Buscemi, Matt Sohl, Michelle Harb, and Jason Dill
An exhibition featuring board designs by emerging and established artist/skaters and focusing on the community behind the industry.Friday, June 6th 7pm Discussion: Trauma at Home: After 9/11 (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) Readers will include: Jim Berger, Elizabeth Baer, Donna Bassin, Judith Greenberg (editor), Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes, E. Ann Kaplan, Nancy K. Miller, and Richard Stamelman.
Thursday, July 17th 7pm Poetry Readings, The Genius of (Mis)Translation Series . Admission Free. If meaning between two linguistic systems is incommensurable, then the translator may be forced to expand the target language, perhaps by intentional or slight mistranslation. This is one of the few ways in which truly new meaning can be created. As a tribute to the creative genius of translation, Dactyl Foundation presents: Joshua Beckman and Pierre Joris Joshua Beckman is the author of three books of poetry, Things are Happening (American Poetry Review, 1998, winner of the Honickman First Book Prize), Something I Expected to be Different (Verse Press, 2001), and Nice Hat.Thanks. (written with Matthew Rohrer, Verse Press, 2003). He is the poetry editor of Radical Society. Beckman will read his own work as well as his translations of Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun. Pierre Joris has published over 20 books and chapbooks of poetry, including Poasis (Wesleyan UP), h.j.r. (OtherWind Press), Winnetou Old (Meow Press, Buffalo, NY), Turbulence (St. Lazaire Press, Rhinebeck), and Breccia: Selected Poems 1974-1986 (Editions Phi / Station Hill). He has also published many volumes of translations, including Paul Celan’s Theadsuns and Breathturn, Maurice Blanchot’s The Unavowable Community & Edmond Jabès’s From the Desert to the Book. Rothenberg & Joris’s collaboration, Selected Writings of Kurt Schwitters (Temple UP, 1993) was awarded the 1994 PEN Center USA West Literary Award for Translation.
Partial support for this series has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.September 13th - November 8th, 2003 (extended)
Judy Glantzman, monoprints & drawings. Opening, Saturday, September 13, 6-8 PMOctober 29th Fundraiser for Fence Press, 7-10 pm
Thursday, October 30th 7pm Poetry Readings, The Genius of (Mis)Translation Series. If meaning between two linguistic systems is incommensurable, then the translator may be forced to expand the target language, perhaps by intentional or slight mistranslation. This is one of the few ways in which truly new meaning can be created. As a tribute to the creative genius of translation, Dactyl Foundation presents: Jen Hofer, Mónica Nepote, Cristina Rivera-Garza, and Laura Solórzano.Jen Hofer edited and translated Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her recent books of poetry include slide rule (subpress, 2002) and The 3:15 Experiment, with Lee Ann Brown, Danika Dinsmore, and Bernadette Mayer (The Owl Press, 2001). She is co-editor, with Rod Smith, of Aerial #10, a volume on the poetry of Lyn Hejinian. Other poems, prose texts and translations have appeared in A.BACUS, the anthology Enough (O Books, 2003), 26, Conundrum, !factorial, kenning, kiosk, NO: A Magazine of the Arts, and Aufgabe. Her next chapbook will be published by Seeing Eye Books in Los Angeles, where she currently lives. Mónica Nepote has published a number of books and chapbooks including Islario (Cuadernos de filodecaballos; Guadalajara, 2001) and Trazos de noche herida (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, CONACULTA: México, D.F., 1993). Her poetry, essays, chronicles and literary criticism have appeared in El Ángel, Biblioteca de México, Crónica Dominical, La Jornada Semanal, Nexos, Nostromo, Ovaciones en la Cultura, and Sábado. English translations of her poems have been published in Rhizome and Exquisite Corpse (www.corpse.org) as well as in the anthology Sin puertas visibles. She lives in Mexico City, where she teaches poetry workshops and writes on visual art for Channel 22 TV. Cristina Rivera-Garza was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas in 1964. She has published one book of poetry, La más mía (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, Mexico City, 1998) and three novels, Nadie me verá llorar (Tusquets Editores and CONACULTA, Mexico City, 2000), La cresta de Ilión (Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2002), and Ningún reloj cuenta esto (Tusquets Editores, Mexico City, 2002), as well as short story collections and numerous essays and academic texts. A translation of Nadie me verá llorar is forthcoming from Curbstone Press, and translations of her poems appear in the anthology Sin puertas visibles. She currently lives in Toluca,where she teaches writing at the Instituto Tecnológio de Monterrey. Laura Solórzano lives in Guadalajara. She is the author, most recently, of lobo de labio (Cuadernos de filodecaballos: Guadalajara, 2001) and Semilla de Ficus (Ediciones Rimbaud, Tlaxcala, 1999). She is on the editorial board of Tragaluz and currently teaches film studies at the Centro de Arte Audiovisual in Guadalajara. Her poems have been published in Hoja Frugal, Juglares y alarifes, Luvina, Renglones, Trashumancia and El Zahir. English translations of her poems have been published in HOW2, Aufgabe, and the anthology Sin puertas visibles.
Partial support for this series has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Mexican Consulate.November 20 - 29th, 2003
Marc Baptiste, Book Release and Photography Exhibition . Opening reception: Thursday, November 20, 6-8pmVictoria N. Alexander, author of Naked Singularity: Readings/Signings in November
Washington DC area Saturday November 8, 7:30 p.m. Washington Printmakers Gallery, several blocks north of Dupont Circle, 1732 Connecticut Ave. NW, second floor.December 9, 2003 6-8pm
Sunday November 9th 1:30 p.m. Washington Area Secular Humanists, Randallstown Library, Liberty Road, Randallstown, MD.
New York, NY, November 18th, 6pm, NY Hemlock Society, The Unitarian church of All Souls on 80th Street and Lexington Avenue.
Hudson Valley Region, NY Sunday November 23, 2 p.m. Hudson Valley Humanists at New Paltz Village Hall, 25 Plattekill Ave., New Paltz, NY more info
Kids from The Point Art Exhibition
curated by Michael GlazebrookDec 12 Private Party Museum for African Art
Tuesday, Dec 16th, 6-8 Book Release Party for Raphael Rubinstein
Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002
36 definitive essays by New York arts writer and poet, documenting the international contemporary art scene. Speaking strongly of an allegiance to sensual color and stylistic diversity, themes at the core of this collection are visual pleasure, formal complexity and the erotics of abstraction. Subjects include: Norman Bluhm, Shirley Jaffe and George Sugarman. Rubinstein looks at postwar European avant-gardes, long neglected and not understood by the art audience in America. He also turns our attention southward to contemporary Latin American. Rubinstein’s writings have helped position the work of such artists as David Reed, Jessica Stockholder, Fabian Marcaccio, Jonathan Lasker and Karin Davie. He also draws the reader’s attention to the strong tradition of poet-painter collaboration. Rubinstein's writing has appeared in Art in America, Flash Art, Arts Magazine, ArtNews and Artforum and he has written major essays for exhibitions catalogues for museums in America and Europe. He was the managing editor of Flash Art in Milan and is currently Senior Editor of Art in America.
Saturday, March 13, 2004 Genius of (Mis)Translation Series with David Hinton & Cecilia Vicuña.
Hinton's translations from Chinese include The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-yun (New Directions, 2001), Mencius (1999), The Analects of Confucius (1998), Chuang Tzu: Inner Chapters (1997), Forms of Distance by Bei Dao (1994), The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien (1993), and The Selected Poems of Tu Fu (1989). In 1997 he won The Academy of American Poets Harold Morton Landon Translation Award for his three volumes published in 1996: The Selected Poems of Lí Po and Bei Dao's Landscape Over Zero (both published by New Directions), and The Late Poems of Meng Chiao (Princeton). His other recent honors include fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Chilean poet, artist and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña is the author of fourteen poetry books, published in Europe, Latin America and the US. Honors include: The Pennies from Heaven Award, 2002, The Anonymous Was a Woman Award, l999, The Lila Wallace-Reader¹s Digest Arts International Award in l992, The Fund for Poetry Award in l995-96 and The Human Rights Award from the Fund for Free Expression in New York in l985. Her most recent books are: Instan, Kelsey St. Press, 2002 El Templo, translated by Rosa Alcalá, Situations, New York, 2001; Cloud-Net, trans. by Rosa Alcalá, Art in General/Hallwalls/DiverseWorks/ New York, Houston, Buffalo, l999; UL, Four Mapuche Poets, a Bilingual Anthology edited by Cecilia Vicuña, LALRP, Pittsburgh, 1998; QUIPOem/ The Precarious , The Art and Poetry of Cecilia Vicuña, Edited by M. Catherine de Zegher, translated by Esther Allen, Wesleyan University Press, l997; Word & Thread, translated by Rosa Alcalá, Morning StarPublications,1996; PALABRARmas/WURDWAPINschaw, translated by Edwin Morgan, Morning Star Publications, Edinburgh, l994; and Unravelling Words & The Weaving of Water, translated by Eliot Weinberger and Suzanne Jill Levine, edited by Eliot Weinberger, Graywolf Press, l992 .Thursday April 15, 2004
Dactyl celebrates the release of A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination by Angus Fletcher (Harvard University Press)
wine and hors d'oeuvres 6 p.m.
presentation 7 p.m.
suggested donation $8Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art that will resonate well into the new century.
Fletcher argues that the "best" American poetry realizes nature and environment as well, if not better, than today's complexity sciences, in part by approximating the lost grammatical technique of the middle voice, intermingling objectandsubject, activeandpassive verbs, and presenting instead environmental involvement or, in Whitman's words, both "end product and influence of the globe."
May 7, 2004, 10th Anniversary Celebration with Sarabande Books
Sarabande is a nonprofit literary press, founded in early 1994 to publish poetry, short fiction, and literary essays--genres which increasingly have trouble finding a place in the for-profit world.Thursday, September 30, 2004 7p.m.
Marcella Durand, ecology and poetry