12/15/11 in NYC for PROJECTION Series

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I'm very excited to be reading
with ARIANA REINES, BEN FAMA
and ANDREW DURBIN

8pm
CPR Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1
Brooklyn, NY

in Boise, Idaho 11/18/11

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Torin Jensen is a poet currently embroiled in a labyrinth of dreams, stage directions, indiscernible voices and the mis-diagnosed desires of the mouth. His blood runs Montanan but he grew up in the great city of Boise, a familiar place that continues to surprise.

GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is a poetry reading series curated by poet Megan Williams that brings together the page, slam, experimental, lyrical, cowboy, etc poets that all live in Idaho yet never seem to be invited to the same readings, connects community-based audiences with a broad range of established and local poets, and connects local and non-local poets by giving them the opportunity to share the stage.

Hyde Park Books is an independently owned and operated new and used bookstore that has delivered mystery, intrigue, and intellectual delight to Boise’s North End neighborhood for twenty-seven years.

GHOSTS & PROJECTORS is made possible by generous funding from the Boise City Department of Arts & History and Boise State University’s Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program.


AND I'M also CONDUCTING A (Soma)tic Poetry Workshop in Boise on the 19th, details at THIS LINK

CELEBRATING BERN PORTER



Bern Porter and Ecopoetics:
A Discussion with
CAConrad and Jena Osman

November 15, 2011
3:30pm – 5:00 pm
Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Temple University
2001 N. 13th Street
On the north side of Norris Street between 12th and 13th Streets
(Cecil B. Moore Stop on the Broad Street Line)

The Temple Gallery will host a discussion of Bern Porter’s poetry and
its relationship to ecopoetics, followed by a found-making workshop.
Ecopoetics addresses the environment in all of its complexity; it
includes both the butterfly and the bulldozer. Although the term
“ecopoetics” didn’t exist when Bern Porter started writing poetry, it
is a term that now helps us to better understand his projects. Porter
started out as a scientist and worked on the Manhattan Project, which
created the first atomic bomb. After the bomb was detonated, he quit
his job and devoted his life to making art. He is perhaps best
remembered for his founds, which were spare collages that
recontextualized words one can find in everyday places like fashion
magazines or junk mail. During the course of this event, participants
will listen to Bern Porter's poetry (read by CAConrad), discuss
entropy and recycling in relation to Porter’s work, the idea of waste
as an essential component of energy, and the notion of permaculture.
Additionally, participants are asked to bring a non-precious piece of
paper with text (from a magazine or newspaper, or perhaps selected
randomly), which will be incorporated into a collective found and hung
in the Temple Gallery at the culmination of the workshop.

Jena Osman's latest book of poetry is The Network (selected for the
National Poetry series in 2009 and published by Fence Books). Other
books include An Essay in Asterisks and The Character. She co-edits
the ChainLinks book series with Juliana Spahr, and she teaches
creative writing and literature in the English Department at Temple.
You can read Osman’s essay Bern Porter: Recycling the Atmosphere HERE

CAConrad is a recipient of a 2011 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. He is
the author of A Beautiful Marsupial Afternoon (Wave Books, 2012), The
Book of Frank (Wave Books, 2010), Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull
Press, 2009), Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), and a
collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled The City Real & Imagined
(Factory School, 2010). He has taught poetry at St. Mark's Poetry
Project, CUNY Graduate Center, Naropa University, Goucher College, and
elsewhere. Visit him online at THIS LINK

@ Giovanni's Room Bookstore


BRIAN TEARE

MICHAEL MONTLACK

CAConrad

SUNDAY
11/13/11
5:30pm
at GIOVANNI'S ROOM BOOKSTORE
(corner of Pine & 12th, Philadelphia)