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Other recent publications include the CD Routes, African-American artists of all disciplines, including such literary not Roots and Meditations on the Stations of Mansour luminaries as Ishmael Reed, Calvin Hernton, Victor Hernandez, 7:00 P.M. Al-Hallaj 1-21. Recent translations include Paul Celan: David Henderson, and Lorenzo Thomas. Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye 9:10 p.m. $5 suggested and Selections and Lightduress by Paul Celan, which received the 2005 PEN Poetry Translation Award. With Jerome Nicole Peyrafitte 8:00 p.m. Anne Waldman two-drink min. Rothenberg he edited the award-winning anthologies Poems www.nicolepeyrafitte.com www.jacketmagazine.com/27/index. for the Millennium (volumes I & II). He teaches at the Nicole Peyrafitte is a shtml University of Albany, SUNY. performance artist “She is the fastest, wittiest woman Sidewalk Café born and raised in to run with the wolves in some 94 Ave. A Maureen Thorson 7:35 p.m. the French Pyrenees. time.” —Ken Tucker, The New www.maureenthorson.com She considers herself a York Times (at East 6th Street) Maureen Thorson is the Gasco-Rican (half Gascon, Poet Anne Waldman has been NYC author of three chapbooks: half American) and a an active member of the “Outrider” Directions: F/V to 2nd Avenue, L to 1st Avenue Twenty Questions for the citizen of Brooklyn. She pursues related multicultural and experimental poetry community for Drunken Sailor (dusie/ multimedia investigations that integrate her voice, texts, over 40 years as writer, sprechstimme flynpyntar press), Mayport visuals, and also cooking. performer, professor, editor, magpie Noelle Kocot 7:00 p.m. (Poetry Society of America), scholar, infra-structure, and cultural/political activist. Her www.wavepoetry.com/authors/25- and Novelty Act (Ugly published work is prodigious, and she has concentrated on Talk Talk 8:20 p.m. noelle-kocot Duckling Presse). Her poetry the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects Noelle Kocot is the author of four has recently appeared or is David Shapiro reading and as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared books, most recently, Poem for the forthcoming in Lungfull!, Barrelhouse, and Hotel Amerika. in conversation with Joanna Fuhrman to a Bubble; the recent Manatee/Humanity (Penguin Poets), End of Time and Sunny Wednesday She lives in Washington, D.C., where she co-curates the In which is a book-length rhizomic meditation on evolution and (both from Wave Books). She has Your Ear reading series at the D.C. Arts Center and runs endangered species; and the 900-page Iovis Trilogy, Colors In a poetry book, The Bigger World, and a discography David Shapiro Big Game Books, the tiniest press in the world. www.jacketmagazine.com/23/shap-p.html The Mechanism of Concealment, which will be published by also forthcoming from Wave. She has won awards from Coffee House Press in 2011. The National Endowment for the Arts, The Fund for David Shapiro has published more than 20 volumes of art and literary criticism, Publishers Weekly recently referred to Anne Waldman Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and the Academy of Steve Cannon 7:55 p.m. as a “counter-cultural giant.” Waldman grew up on American Poets. Originally from Brooklyn, she now lives Originally from the cultural translations, and anthologies. He has won many prizes and was the first to Macdougal Street in the heart of Greenwich Village, in South Jersey. hotbed of New Orleans, Steve where she still lives. She bifurcated to Boulder, Colo. Cannon developed a taste for write a book on John Ashbery and a monograph on Jasper Johns’ drawings. in 1974 when she cofounded The Jack Kerouac School Afternoon the arts at a very young of Disembodied Poetics with Allen Ginsberg at Naropa A white trumpet ends the silence. age. An institution himself, His New and Selected Poems (1965–2006) came out from Overlook Press. University, the first Buddhist-inspired school in the West, A bird in the hand speaks. Professor Cannon has been where she currently serves as artistic director of its There is no other afternoon. active in the multicultural celebrated summer writing program. artistic community on the Lower East Side in New York City Joanna Fuhrman Waldman helped found and direct The Poetry Project Pierre Joris 7:20 p.m. for almost four decades. As the executive director and founder www.redroom.com/author/ at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where she worked first of Tribes, he has been the central figure of the organization joanna-fuhrman as assistant director and then director for a decade. www.pierrejoris.com/home.html since its inception in 1991. He continues to pave its artistic Joanna Fuhrman is the author Pierre Joris is a poet, translator, She has also been working most recently with other direction, despite having lost his eyesight over a decade ago, of four books of poetry, most media, including film and video with her husband, writer essayist, and anthologist who left an unfortunate occurrence that has only served to sharpen his recently Pageant (Alice James Luxembourg at 19 and has since and video/film director Ed Bowes. She also performs with vision and heighten his desire to advance the development of Books) and Moraine (Hanging her son, musician/composer Ambrose Bye. Their latest CD is lived in France, England, Algeria, the arts. A retired professor of the humanities at Medgar Evers Loose Press). She teaches poetry and the United States. He has Matching Half with Akilah Oliver. College in the CUNY system and the author of the underground at Rutgers University and in public schools through Some of her performances may be viewed on YouTube. published over 40 books, most recently Canto Diurno #4: classic Groove, Bang and Jive Around, he is closely connected Teachers & Writers Collaborative. She is the poetry editor Ambrose Bye SATURDAY www.flyingguillotinepress.blogspot.com Matt Reeck, No, Dear magazine 1:55 p.m. www.myspace.com/ Mark Horosky is the author of the chapbook collection fastspeakingmusicmyspace SEPTEMBER 25 of prose poems, Let It Be Nearby, and the forthcoming Ambrose Bye, musician (piano/ chapbooks More Frisk Than Risk (Flying Guillotine Press) keyboard, guitar, voice) and composer, 12:00 P.M., Free and Fabulous Beasts (The Equalizer). He is a special www.nodearmagazine.com grew up in the environment of The education teacher in Brooklyn, New York. Matt Reeck has published poetry Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied In 2008, Tony Mancus and Sommer Browning, two and translations in magazines and Poetics at Naropa University, counting Unnameable friends from poetry school, started Flying Guillotine Press. chapbooks, including Midwinter by Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs as “poetic” godfathers. They endeavor to make pretty, small, handbound, medulla Fact-Simile Press. Coyote Pursues, his He has performed on stage a number of times, accompanying Books oblongata-exploding poetry chapbooks cheaply. They work marionette theater collaboration with the visual artist poets and performers at New York’s Issue Project Room, The 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Denver, Colorado and Arlington, Virginia. Deborah Simon, was performed during St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Poetry Project, The Bowery Poetry Club, KGB Bar, The Boulder (bet. Prospect Place/St. Marks Avenue) Labapalooza in June. Theatre’s “Music and Poetry for Progressives” headlined by Abby Walthausen, Fractious Press 1:05 p.m. No, Dear is a hand-sewn print poetry publication Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Naropa University, The New Brooklyn www.literature featuring the work of New York City poets. School, White Columns Gallery, and San Francisco’s Meridian Directions: 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza, sandwich.com Gallery. He is in production with his next CD, Hombres. C to Clinton-Washington avenues, Q to 7th Avenue www.fractiouspress. Tom Orange 2:05 p.m. His most recent CD is Matching Half with Anne Waldman com www.destinationout.vox.com and Akilah Oliver, which was produced by Farfalla, McMillen, 7th Annual Small, Abby Walthausen After eight years in the D.C. Parrish. His previous composing/production credits include likes to write what poetry scene and adjunct In The Room of Never Grieve, (produced by Coffee House Small Press Fair could be considered teaching there and a year in Press) and The Eye of the Falcon (Farfalla, McMillen, Parrish) the “historical fiction” of poetry. She spends her time Nashville, Tom Orange moved with poetry by Waldman. His music accompanies the video taking all the fun out of poetry for high school students. Fay Chiang, Bowery Books 12:35 p.m. back to his hometown of The Wake-Up Call of a Poet, produced by the Buddhist Her poetry book The Internet is forthcoming from Cleveland, where he is active Broadcasting Foundation, the Netherlands, and was broadcast Fractious Press. in the local arts and music over Dutch TV last year. Nathaniel Siegel photo. Fractious Press is a small artist-run publishing scenes. Recent work includes Tremont Poetography, a collective founded in the Bronx and Washington Heights, group poet-photographer book and exhibition at Doubting Magnetic Island 9:50 p.m.
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    t 5 Expanding the Repertoire: Continuity & Change in Mrican-American Writing - Expanding the Repertoire: Continuity and Change in African-American Writing 5 f- Contents Editor.s' Notts issut' l·o~II.!UUI Renee Gladman & giova nni singleton t'<liu:d by Yr..M~ l\l•uttllln 6( ll~ .,111•1•1• ~ lnrroducri on 1 ISSN: 10 N .!I 'II "Catch a Fire" : The Ro le of Innovation Rt ncc Gladman $8 Introduction $15 IV.tll IICI Nathaniel Mackey (Outsidt of U~, piU\C' "''\' $~ j>< I I ut} Expanding the Rcpenoire Harl)<e tte Mullen Untitled II Wanda Coleman Covtr Jrt by Amnld j. l..;cmt• A\·am-Garde with Mainstream Tendencies 15 O ur thattks w the I ll htuu,!Jtuut,lht \Ju ,, .. ,.._ .... ,. A.tt,( mnm•·•wn. Discussion 32 and Snull Prtu luOk. lor gcnthm' ~upj~trl nl lim tuuc. " Kindred" : Origins of the Black Avant-Garde tripwi re mvnn ~ubmw1nnt nl nwv• u.m•IJIIufll, llltn\'tl"W1 . .an & book reviews. bullnin\, ltncu ~IN.Iittl.ng "' p•n"•um ... u,· , 6: "'"uJI Erica Hunt art. Visual .m ntbmisMOm ~hould IK' rtjllu,luohlc 111 hiJd~ & ,,.!Juc; (In re:) Sources of the Black A\•a m-Garde 35 visual anisu .uc tnLourJgcd to indude J \IJttn•t•u .Jho111 ditlr work M :nk McMorris At this time, wt ut not JCCtpting unsolicited pocuy lor puhltt.~flon Sinctriry and Revolt in Avam-Garde Poetry 4 1 All ~ u b mi~io n s should indu,lc .1 ho~rd copy. Lorenzo Thomas Dc:ull inc for l upwin· 6 is J:uuwy I, 2002.