this is how jeffrey lependorf pitched this to me: "If you don’t know what “neo-benshi” is, in a nutshell, it’s when we remove the sound of a film clip and a poet (usually) creates new dialogue or voice-over to perform with the clip, live in front of the screen." sounds like my idea of fun.
The Ticking is the Bomb will be the summer read for entire incoming class at the Honors College; in September I will visit & discuss.
In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: "Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end." In our week together, I would like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of "bewilderment" and how it gets acted out in our writing—either through syntax, our accessing the duende, leaps into the unconscious, […]
marc beaudin will direct this staging of my play...I hope to make to to opening night.
In The Unnamable, Beckett offers this: "Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself in the end." In our week together, I would like to examine this idea by thinking about the concept of "bewilderment" and how it gets acted out in our writing—either through syntax, our accessing the duende, leaps into the unconscious, […]
In collaboration with the Texas Book Festival, I will do an event to celebrate LOW on opening night of my collage show. The show is titled SACRED TRASH. Each poem in LOW was created in response to one of the collages in the show. I will also return for the closing night, for a closing […]
CONFIRMED EVENTS: northern spy reading series (catskill ny); brazos books (houston tx); texas book festival (austin tx); hudson valley writers center (sleepy hollow ny), mass art (boston ma); exile in bookville (chicago il); powells books (portland or); moon palace (mpls mn); books are magic (brooklyn ny)
day two of the LOW tour
day three of the LOW tour
day five of the LOW tour
