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Nearly 700 EventsPlanned in More Than 115 Countries for
100 Thousand Poetsfor Change
SantaRosa, Calif. (August 14, 2012) – September 29, 2012 marks the second annual globalevent of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a grassroots organization that bringspoets, artists and musicians (new this year) together to call for environmental,social, and political change, within the framework of peace and sustainability.The local focus is key to this global event as communities around the worldraise their voices through concerts, readings, workshops, flash mobs anddemonstrations that speak to the heart of their specific area of concerns, suchas homelessness, ecocide, racism and censorship.
“Peaceand sustainability is a major concern worldwide, and the guiding principle forthis global event,” said Michael Rothenberg, Co-Founder of 100 Thousand Poetsfor Change. “We are in a world where it isn't just one issue thatneeds to beaddressed. A common ground is built through this global compilationof local stories, which is how we create a true narrative for discourseto inform the future.”
Organizers and participants are hoping through theiractions and events to seize and redirect the political and social dialogue ofthe day and turn the narrative of civilization towards peace andsustainability. Those that want to get involved can visit www.100tpc.org to find an event near them orsign up to organize one in their area.
There are nearly 700 events planned worldwide,including:
• 25 different events in the San Francisco Bay Area,the birthplace of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, with live poetry readings byBeat Legend Michael McClure, former US Poet Laureate Robert Hass and other majorpoets
• The Occupy Wall Street Poetry group kicks off aweekend of events in New York City with a poetry reading at the famous St.Mark’s Poetry Project
• Peace On Streets, R.O.A.D., Tasker Elite and SHARPwill host performance artists, poets, musicians, hip hop artists and variousyouth and parent groups who will perform and lead workshops throughoutPhiladelphia to bring awareness to the ongoing problem of street violence intheir city
• Wordstock, a 3 day festival at the Bamboo Arts andCelebration Center in De Leon Springs, FL, will include poetry slams, concerts,and an art exhibition focusing on images of war and peace
• In New Orleans, a blues festival featuring tenbands will help raise funds for medical care for aging musicians
• In Jamaica a week long Street Dub Vibe seriescalled “Tell the Children the Truth” will include concerts, spoken wordperformances, art exhibits, lectures, and workshops to bring attention to thedamaging culture of secrecy and denial surrounding the abuse, poverty andilliteracy impacting the nation’s children and destroying their future.
• Poetry andpeace gatherings are planned in the strife-torn cities of Kabul and Jalalabad,Afghanistan
• In Cairoand Alexandria, Egypt, poets, musicians and mime artists, in response to the revolution in Egypt and the majorchanges taking place in the Arab World, will perform in public spaces andtheaters and explore new ways to communicate their concerns, and their roles asartists, in influencing the future of their country
• In Volos, Greece, there will be 5 days of poetryand music events, including an exhibition of photography looking at the newphenomenon of homelessness in Greece
• An event in Blackpool, England will celebrateactivist poets and writers of past generations through a special performance ofBullets and Daffodils, a play aboutthe life of peace poet Wilfred Owen
100 Thousand Poets for Change began in Sonoma County,Calif. The official Headquarters’Event will take place at the Arlene Francis Center indowntown Santa Rosa and will feature poetryreadings, group meditations, workshops, and music and dance of various stylesincluding hip hop, flamenco, African drums, reggae, salsa, folk and more. TheHQ event will also live-stream other 100 Thousand Poets for Change eventsworldwide. This 3-day event is sponsored by the Peace & Justice Center ofSonoma County and the Sonoma County Arts Council.
Immediately following September 29th, alldocumentation on the 100TPC.org website, which will include specific eventpages with photos, video and other documentation compiled by each citycoordinator, will be preserved by Stanford University in California. Stanfordrecognized 100 Thousand Poets for Change in 2011 as an historical event, thelargest poetry reading in history. They will continue to archive the completecontents of 100TPC.org, as part of their digital archiving program LOCKSS.
About 100 Thousand Poets for Change
Co-Founder Michael Rothenberg(walterblue@bigbridge.org) is a widely known poet,
editor of the online literary magazine Bigbridge.organd an environmental activist based
in Northern California. Terri Carrion is a poet,translator, photographer, and editor and visual designer for BigBridge.org.
100 Thousand Poets for Change
P.O. Box 870
Guerneville, Ca 95446
Phone: 305-753-4569
www.100TPC.org
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Sunday, September 02, 2012
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Big Bridge
Dear Friends of Big Bridge,
It’s that time again for our annual request for donations to help us keep Big Bridge going.
We greatly appreciate any amount you can contribute during these difficult economic times. Thanks so much to all who donated the last time we made a call for donations. Your contributions helped pay our Webmaster, and server fees.
Information on how to donate is at the bottom of this email.
Here are some highlights of what is to come in the 15th Anniversary Issue of Big Bridge due out in Spring 2012:
bridge work, a feature poetry chapbook by Andrei Codrescu, with illustrations by Nancy Victoria Davis
Voices for Change: A Contemporary Anthology of Moroccan Poets, edited by El Habib Louai
Guest Editor, Ampat Varghese will offering up a fine selection of New Wave Indian Writing
Jonathan Penton will manifest Cuyahoga Burning, a feature on current Ohio literature
We are honored to present an anthology of Tibetan Poets in Exile, from guest editor Teresa Chuc Dowell
Brian Unger will grace Big Bridge with another installation of Excerpts from the Philip Whalen Journals
Poetry from Japan, A Contemporary Anthology of Japanese Poetry will be a special guest edit by Jane Nakagawa
Guest editor, Adam Cornford will present a special feature “Neo-Surrealism and the Politics of The Marvelous”
Susan Deer Cloud will guest edit a Native American Anthology of poetry, prose, art and articles.
Thomas Devaney will be editing an exploratory anthology of contemporary tree poems.
Guest editor, Bonnie Finberg will be presenting 20 POETS, a poetry anthology dedicated to Akilah Oliver which will include poems by Jim Harrison, John Yau, Steve Dalachinsky, Bob Holman, Alice Notley, Patricia Spears Jones, Lynn Crawford, Louise Landis Levi and more.
And the compelling artist, Jim Spitzer, will be back with his tour de force project of art and text: THE BOOK: 40 PAGES
Plus! A mindbending gallery of visual splendor from Paris-Tsunami Book’s Henrik Aeshna.
As you know, Big Bridge is always free to readers. Please support Big Bridge, so we can keep giving you all we’ve got!
All donations are greatly appreciated!
BONUS: Donations of $20 dollars or more will get you a copy of Goofbook for Jack Kerouac by Philip Whalen.
Please, donate now if you can!
There are two ways to donate.
You can send a check to Big Bridge, Box 870, Guerneville, CA 95446
Please make checks payable to Committee on Poetry, our fiscal sponsor, a 501(c) 3 Corporation.
or
You can go to Big Bridge Donation page at: http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/donations.html and make a donation via Paypal.
Thanks to our fiscal sponsor, all donations are tax-deductible.
Thank you for your support.
Love and Peace,
Michael & Terri
www.bigbridge.org
It’s that time again for our annual request for donations to help us keep Big Bridge going.
We greatly appreciate any amount you can contribute during these difficult economic times. Thanks so much to all who donated the last time we made a call for donations. Your contributions helped pay our Webmaster, and server fees.
Information on how to donate is at the bottom of this email.
Here are some highlights of what is to come in the 15th Anniversary Issue of Big Bridge due out in Spring 2012:
bridge work, a feature poetry chapbook by Andrei Codrescu, with illustrations by Nancy Victoria Davis
Voices for Change: A Contemporary Anthology of Moroccan Poets, edited by El Habib Louai
Guest Editor, Ampat Varghese will offering up a fine selection of New Wave Indian Writing
Jonathan Penton will manifest Cuyahoga Burning, a feature on current Ohio literature
We are honored to present an anthology of Tibetan Poets in Exile, from guest editor Teresa Chuc Dowell
Brian Unger will grace Big Bridge with another installation of Excerpts from the Philip Whalen Journals
Poetry from Japan, A Contemporary Anthology of Japanese Poetry will be a special guest edit by Jane Nakagawa
Guest editor, Adam Cornford will present a special feature “Neo-Surrealism and the Politics of The Marvelous”
Susan Deer Cloud will guest edit a Native American Anthology of poetry, prose, art and articles.
Thomas Devaney will be editing an exploratory anthology of contemporary tree poems.
Guest editor, Bonnie Finberg will be presenting 20 POETS, a poetry anthology dedicated to Akilah Oliver which will include poems by Jim Harrison, John Yau, Steve Dalachinsky, Bob Holman, Alice Notley, Patricia Spears Jones, Lynn Crawford, Louise Landis Levi and more.
And the compelling artist, Jim Spitzer, will be back with his tour de force project of art and text: THE BOOK: 40 PAGES
Plus! A mindbending gallery of visual splendor from Paris-Tsunami Book’s Henrik Aeshna.
As you know, Big Bridge is always free to readers. Please support Big Bridge, so we can keep giving you all we’ve got!
All donations are greatly appreciated!
BONUS: Donations of $20 dollars or more will get you a copy of Goofbook for Jack Kerouac by Philip Whalen.
Please, donate now if you can!
There are two ways to donate.
You can send a check to Big Bridge, Box 870, Guerneville, CA 95446
Please make checks payable to Committee on Poetry, our fiscal sponsor, a 501(c) 3 Corporation.
or
You can go to Big Bridge Donation page at: http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/donations.html and make a donation via Paypal.
Thanks to our fiscal sponsor, all donations are tax-deductible.
Thank you for your support.
Love and Peace,
Michael & Terri
www.bigbridge.org
Friday, July 01, 2011
100 Thousand Poets
Dear Friends of Big Bridge,
I am writing to find out if you would be interested in organizing an event on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change in your community.
So far 100 Thousand Poets for Change has over 230 cities and 54 countries signed on to organize events, as part of a global initiative to celebrate/demonstrate poetry and address issues of peace and sustainability.
We have set up an event page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106999432715571
and a blog/website for the event at http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange
The website discusses the concept of the event in more detail on the ABOUT page, but the bottom line is that this is a global event, with the overall theme of peace and sustainability, in which each local community can address its specific concerns.
I am very excited by this project, there seems to be a groundswell. I live in the San Francisco area and originally hoped to have 1 big event but it has evolved into 11 events in the SF/Bay Area, with City Lights bookstore tweeting the event and posting flyers around the store, Oakland Slam poets will be putting on a SLAM FOR CHANGE, Word Party will organize an event of poetry and music, Free University of San Francisco will have a day of lectures by poets about poets and their art, The North Beach Annual Poetry and Art Walk located at The Beat Museum has dedicated their event to 100 Thousand Poets for Change, and there will be a 100 Thousand Poets for Change reading at the Oakland Public Library sponsored by PEN Oakland. Other groups have indicated their interest in fundraisers to help projects they care about. I like the idea that so many poets of so many styles and inclinations have seen their way through this initiative to join with each other.
Also, the website provides each individual event an EVENT LOCATION page, which is also a community page blog, that allows participants to post particular event details and also to post poems, photos, documentation to share with all the other participants around the world. Poets and writers around the world need to know each other better and these events pages will facilitate and initiate communication.
After September 24th, these event pages as a whole will become a major document of contemporary world poetry.
Not to go on too much—I would be honored to have you set up an event in your country, city, town, or neighborhood on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Please let me know if you are interested.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincere regards,
Michael Rothenberg
100 Thousand Poets for Change
walterblue@bigbridge.org
ps. you can learn more about me at Big Bridge online magazine. I am the editor and publisher. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/2011_BB_15_EDITORS/bioroth.htm
pss. Here is a very short list of some of the events that will be taking place:
In Vancouver, BC Fraser Riverkeeper will lead a TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup at False Creek East, near some of the dirtiest waters in Canada. Mary Woodbury of Moon Willow Press is working with community poets and artists to develop a poetry reading later that afternoon or evening.
In Philadelphia, there will be a PACE action, which is a wandering participatory reading through the streets.
In a Seattle, a 12 hour skype session, poets skypeing poems in from around the world.
In Kathmandu, Nepal there will be an all day school project which involves discussion of peace and sustainability, writing poems, a contest, and inclusion of the poems in a book to commemorate the event.
In Milwaukee poets who are active in the Labor Union demonstrations will give a reading.
In Guatemala, Mexico City, Lisbon, Portugal, Sydney, Australia, Austin, TX, Oakland, CA, Spokane, WA, Hilo, HI, Accra, Ghana and Athens, Greece there will be a Slam for Change!
Bancroft, Ontario, has the distinction of being known as, 'Ontario's Most Talented Town,' and this year is Bancroft's 150th anniversary so, on September 24th, they'll be celebrating their thriving arts community and a birthday with poetry, music, and, possibly, theatre. For change, their focus will be on creating more awareness about their natural environment.
In Mentone, AL for Sept 24. It will be an outdoors/picnic event with poets, speakers and music/singers/artwork. We will use the event to call attention to environmental issues and citizen action for change.
In Nigeria they will have a peace rally against gang violence with a poetry reading.
(The list goes on. And it is early yet so people are still formulating their programs).
I am writing to find out if you would be interested in organizing an event on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change in your community.
So far 100 Thousand Poets for Change has over 230 cities and 54 countries signed on to organize events, as part of a global initiative to celebrate/demonstrate poetry and address issues of peace and sustainability.
We have set up an event page on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106999432715571
and a blog/website for the event at http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange
The website discusses the concept of the event in more detail on the ABOUT page, but the bottom line is that this is a global event, with the overall theme of peace and sustainability, in which each local community can address its specific concerns.
I am very excited by this project, there seems to be a groundswell. I live in the San Francisco area and originally hoped to have 1 big event but it has evolved into 11 events in the SF/Bay Area, with City Lights bookstore tweeting the event and posting flyers around the store, Oakland Slam poets will be putting on a SLAM FOR CHANGE, Word Party will organize an event of poetry and music, Free University of San Francisco will have a day of lectures by poets about poets and their art, The North Beach Annual Poetry and Art Walk located at The Beat Museum has dedicated their event to 100 Thousand Poets for Change, and there will be a 100 Thousand Poets for Change reading at the Oakland Public Library sponsored by PEN Oakland. Other groups have indicated their interest in fundraisers to help projects they care about. I like the idea that so many poets of so many styles and inclinations have seen their way through this initiative to join with each other.
Also, the website provides each individual event an EVENT LOCATION page, which is also a community page blog, that allows participants to post particular event details and also to post poems, photos, documentation to share with all the other participants around the world. Poets and writers around the world need to know each other better and these events pages will facilitate and initiate communication.
After September 24th, these event pages as a whole will become a major document of contemporary world poetry.
Not to go on too much—I would be honored to have you set up an event in your country, city, town, or neighborhood on September 24 for 100 Thousand Poets for Change. Please let me know if you are interested.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincere regards,
Michael Rothenberg
100 Thousand Poets for Change
walterblue@bigbridge.org
ps. you can learn more about me at Big Bridge online magazine. I am the editor and publisher. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/2011_BB_15_EDITORS/bioroth.htm
pss. Here is a very short list of some of the events that will be taking place:
In Vancouver, BC Fraser Riverkeeper will lead a TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup at False Creek East, near some of the dirtiest waters in Canada. Mary Woodbury of Moon Willow Press is working with community poets and artists to develop a poetry reading later that afternoon or evening.
In Philadelphia, there will be a PACE action, which is a wandering participatory reading through the streets.
In a Seattle, a 12 hour skype session, poets skypeing poems in from around the world.
In Kathmandu, Nepal there will be an all day school project which involves discussion of peace and sustainability, writing poems, a contest, and inclusion of the poems in a book to commemorate the event.
In Milwaukee poets who are active in the Labor Union demonstrations will give a reading.
In Guatemala, Mexico City, Lisbon, Portugal, Sydney, Australia, Austin, TX, Oakland, CA, Spokane, WA, Hilo, HI, Accra, Ghana and Athens, Greece there will be a Slam for Change!
Bancroft, Ontario, has the distinction of being known as, 'Ontario's Most Talented Town,' and this year is Bancroft's 150th anniversary so, on September 24th, they'll be celebrating their thriving arts community and a birthday with poetry, music, and, possibly, theatre. For change, their focus will be on creating more awareness about their natural environment.
In Mentone, AL for Sept 24. It will be an outdoors/picnic event with poets, speakers and music/singers/artwork. We will use the event to call attention to environmental issues and citizen action for change.
In Nigeria they will have a peace rally against gang violence with a poetry reading.
(The list goes on. And it is early yet so people are still formulating their programs).
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!
Dear Friends of Big Bridge,
We are pleased to announce the final Supplement of Big Bridge's Epic Tribute to New Orleans. When we set out to offer this tribute to the magical and great City of New Orleans we had no idea it would take two years and three installments. Gratitude to Jack Krick and Mary Sands Woodbury for webmastering us through this enormity. And thank you for your patience in allowing this tribute to evolve. There is no shortage of wonders to be found within!
Love to you all! And LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!!
BIG BRIDGE
http://www.bigbridge.org
Complete New Orleans Tribute Issue
2010 SUPPLEMENT
FEATURES
Photographing the Ninth Ward
Images of New Orleans After Katrina by John Rosenthal
Diane di Prima
A Retrospective Collection of Essays
Home Again, Home Again
A Memoir by Ron Loewinsohn
Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night
Mujeres poetas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela
A Selection from the Bi-lingual Anthology
Original complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hill
Co-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co.
Selection for online edition by Terri Carrion
Poetry by
María Auxiliadora Álvarez, Edda Armas, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva,
María calcaño, Laura Cracco, Ida Gramcko, Patricia Guzmán, Veronica Jaffe,
Maritza Jiménez, Rowena Hill, Martha Kornblith, Luz machado, María Isabel Novillo,
Cecilia Ortiz, Hanni Ossott, Yolanda Pantin, Emira Rodríguez, Margara Russotto,
María Clara Salas, Elizabeth Schön, Blanca Strepponi, Ana Enriqueta Terán,
Alicia Torres, Elena Vera, Carmen Verde Arocha, Miyo Vestrin
FEATURE POETS
Wendy Babiak Jim Christy Hans Plomp Robert Priest
FEATURED ARTISTS
Ed Coletti Jeff Crouch Diana Magallon and Jeff Crouch John Martone Spencer Selby
FICTION
edited by Vernon Frazer
Tom Bradley Seth Phelps Stefani Christova Jordan Zinovich
Jefferson Hansen Joe Clifford Christopher Brookhouse Andy Stewart
REVIEWS
Allan Graubard reviews Gherasim Luca
Paul Martinez Pompa reviews Francesco Levato's translation of Tiziano Fratus
Jack Foley reviews Katherine Hastings
Roberts French reviews Anne Valley-Fox
Art Beck reviews Neeli Cherkovski
Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo review Gerald Nicosia
Billey Rainey reviews Stephen Bett
Wanda Phipps reviews a performance by Delirious Dances
An Interview with Choreographer Edisa Weeks
Interviewer: Wanda Phipps
2009 SUPPLEMENT
CHAPBOOK:
A Time in Fragments
Poem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis
FEATURES
Big Bridge New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology. Edited by Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender. Introductory notes for work by 30 artists and 90 writers.
Slow Poetry Edited by Dale Smith . One of the most refreshing and promising developments in poetry in recent years, Slow Poetry does not propose another sectarian or clique position, but rather methods of reading and attitudes toward production which could apply to most genres in the current scene or likely to emerge in the near future. The approach has a strong base in concepts and needs made more apparent than ever by current ecological and economic concerns.
Beauty Came Groveling Forward: Selected South African Poems and Stories. Edited by Gary Cummiskey. This collection was meant to show the diversity and spirited character of current South African writing. It contains work by some celebrated writers, and some whose work has not received wide circulation even in its home country. Without the problems caused by canon formation or trying to be totally comprehensive, this group of poems and stories is free to work outside the stereotypes and preconceptions of South Africa and allow the participants to show what they can do as individuals.
All This Strangeness: A Garland for George Oppen. Edited by Eric Hoffman. Commentary on Oppen has grown slowly, unobtrusively, and steadily, until it now forms a major body in itself. This collection of essays evaluates that body of criticism in less partisan terms than many of its predecessors, seeking to focus on individual poems and prosody in a broad historical context, going beyond the dichotomies that dominated the 20th Century and making room for further types of relevance in current literary and social dispensations.
Sephardic Proverbs. Collected and translated by Michael Castro. Proverbs act on many of the same principles as other miniatures, such as haiku. Like stand-alone couplets and quatrains used in everything from toasts to insults, they also include a strong element of collaboration and evolution. As a look at a tradition or a type of poem, this collection can stay with a reader a long time.
Post-Beat Anthology. Reprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief intro. Edited by Vernon Frazer. How would you edit a collection of poems with that title for a Chinese audience? Probably not the same way Frazer has. That's one of the things that makes it interesting and refreshing.
as per Le Roman de la Rose, for example. An Anthology of Middle East Genocide Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier How does the cruel and unusual work for you through art, whether it comes from direct experience or direct/indirect memory. Be Genet, for example; lemon to lemonade, for example. How does one turn to Le Roman de la Rose (a Middle Ages Poem) when one is mired in or sorting out or faced with what happened or what is happening that is cruel and unusual due to human intolerance: racial religious cultural gender related and other.
Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism by Craig Stormont
One Man Blues: Remembering Thomas Chapin. Reminiscence by Vernon Frazer
Excerpt from Autobiography by David Bromige
The India Journals by John Brandi
Genius and Heroin: by Michael Largo. In this essay, the author reviews his own book. The themes of psycho-chemistry may stretch back to pristine civilizations in China, Egypt, and Mexico, but they seem inexhaustible. Perhaps associate chemicals with genius is because our brains produce such sophisticated bases to start with, and self-review also finds a base in that phenomenon.
WAR PAPERS (3)
Poems and essays against war. Sub-features by John Bradley, Joel Lewis, Philip Metres, Vincent Katz, Francesco Levato, and Louise Landes Levi, plus reflections from around the world on the election of Barack Obama, and, of course, Halvard Johnson's continuing anthology of anti-war poems.
A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young
ART
Enigmas paintings by Jim Spitzer. As a regular contributor to Big Bridge, these paintings, variations on an enigmatic theme, show Spitzer's continuing evolution, as well as being koan-like meditations in their own right.
The Kingdom of Madison: Photographs from Madison County, North Carolina
by Rob Amberg. Selections from three sets of photos, exploring a still relatively isolated place, where landscape still has functional meaning. When Amberg arrived, not as a tourist, but as one seeking community "Planting was still done by the signs of the moon. Water came from springs and heat from forests" and traditional music still part of daily life. These photos add to the tradition begun in the WPA projects of the Great Depression, but decidedly retain an identity of their own.
These Are My Angels by Tasha Robbins. Small paintings done in Brooklyn on found cardboard by one of the Post-Katrina diaspora. Celebrating the C-Train stop at Franklin + Fulton Avenues, as the artist writes, they "kept my heart, eye + hand moving with a spirit of life close to the timbre and vibration of the Crescent City, still healing. . .
Lectura en Tránsito. Project Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria Berríos. Set based on combination of public art and poetry from Santiago de Chile. Poems translated by Terri Carrion and Carmen Gloria Berríos.
Animal Night Photography by Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi. New techniques in photography allow us to make photographic images of phenomena we could only imagine in previous eras. We might debate whether the nature of cameras and software brings us any closer to the spiritual world, but these haunting images of animals should make us feel less alone, and more in touch with the continuum of life.
12 Collages by John Brandi. These colages can be read as a non-verbal counterpart and extension of his India Journal and related work.
FICTION
Fiction by Mel Freilicher, Eric Beeny, Stefani Christova, Lynda Schor, David Madgalene, Stephen-Paul Martin, Mark Wallace, Susan Smith Nash, Richard Martin, Peter Conners, Ann Bogle, Jeffrey Hansen, Carol Novack
REVIEWS
Reviews of: Wanda Phipps, Lewis Warsh, Simon Pettet, Larissa Shmailo, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Ed Sanders, Bill Berkson, Colter Jacobsen, Mark Young, John Roche, Philip Gounis, Rich Kruse, Michael Rumaker, Annie Le Brun, George Kimball, and Ashis Gupta. Reviewed by: Kirpal Gordon; Svitlana Matviyenko, Garry Parrish, Jackie Sheeler, Jim Feast, Allan Graubard, Charles Thorne, Barbara Henning, Tom Hibbard, Steve Elmer, Stephen Lewandowski Joe Wetteroth, Vernon Frazer, Leverett T. Smith, and Katherine Hastings.
LITTLE MAGS Plastic Ocean, Green Dragon, Untamed Ink
ROCKPILE. ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer — poet, musician, essayist, and more — and Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge Press. David and Michael will journey through eight cities in the U.S. to perform poetry and prose, composed while on the road, with local musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE will serve to educate and preserve as well as to create a history of collaboration. It will help to reinforce the tradition of the troubadour of all generations, central to the cultural upheaval and identity politics that reawakened poets, artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960s through the 1970s. The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San Francisco. Check out the ROCKPILE Blog for calendar and discussion!
We are pleased to announce the final Supplement of Big Bridge's Epic Tribute to New Orleans. When we set out to offer this tribute to the magical and great City of New Orleans we had no idea it would take two years and three installments. Gratitude to Jack Krick and Mary Sands Woodbury for webmastering us through this enormity. And thank you for your patience in allowing this tribute to evolve. There is no shortage of wonders to be found within!
Love to you all! And LONG LIVE NEW ORLEANS!!!
BIG BRIDGE
http://www.bigbridge.org
Complete New Orleans Tribute Issue
2010 SUPPLEMENT
FEATURES
Photographing the Ninth Ward
Images of New Orleans After Katrina by John Rosenthal
Diane di Prima
A Retrospective Collection of Essays
Home Again, Home Again
A Memoir by Ron Loewinsohn
Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night
Mujeres poetas de Venezuela/Women Poets of Venezuela
A Selection from the Bi-lingual Anthology
Original complete text selected and translated by Rowena Hill
Co-edited by Pen de Venezuela and bid & co.
Selection for online edition by Terri Carrion
Poetry by
María Auxiliadora Álvarez, Edda Armas, Enriqueta Arvelo Larriva,
María calcaño, Laura Cracco, Ida Gramcko, Patricia Guzmán, Veronica Jaffe,
Maritza Jiménez, Rowena Hill, Martha Kornblith, Luz machado, María Isabel Novillo,
Cecilia Ortiz, Hanni Ossott, Yolanda Pantin, Emira Rodríguez, Margara Russotto,
María Clara Salas, Elizabeth Schön, Blanca Strepponi, Ana Enriqueta Terán,
Alicia Torres, Elena Vera, Carmen Verde Arocha, Miyo Vestrin
FEATURE POETS
Wendy Babiak Jim Christy Hans Plomp Robert Priest
FEATURED ARTISTS
Ed Coletti Jeff Crouch Diana Magallon and Jeff Crouch John Martone Spencer Selby
FICTION
edited by Vernon Frazer
Tom Bradley Seth Phelps Stefani Christova Jordan Zinovich
Jefferson Hansen Joe Clifford Christopher Brookhouse Andy Stewart
REVIEWS
Allan Graubard reviews Gherasim Luca
Paul Martinez Pompa reviews Francesco Levato's translation of Tiziano Fratus
Jack Foley reviews Katherine Hastings
Roberts French reviews Anne Valley-Fox
Art Beck reviews Neeli Cherkovski
Steve Dalachinsky & Yuko Otomo review Gerald Nicosia
Billey Rainey reviews Stephen Bett
Wanda Phipps reviews a performance by Delirious Dances
An Interview with Choreographer Edisa Weeks
Interviewer: Wanda Phipps
2009 SUPPLEMENT
CHAPBOOK:
A Time in Fragments
Poem by Clark Coolidge; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis
FEATURES
Big Bridge New Orleans Sturm und Drang Anthology. Edited by Dave Brinks and Bill Lavender. Introductory notes for work by 30 artists and 90 writers.
Slow Poetry Edited by Dale Smith . One of the most refreshing and promising developments in poetry in recent years, Slow Poetry does not propose another sectarian or clique position, but rather methods of reading and attitudes toward production which could apply to most genres in the current scene or likely to emerge in the near future. The approach has a strong base in concepts and needs made more apparent than ever by current ecological and economic concerns.
Beauty Came Groveling Forward: Selected South African Poems and Stories. Edited by Gary Cummiskey. This collection was meant to show the diversity and spirited character of current South African writing. It contains work by some celebrated writers, and some whose work has not received wide circulation even in its home country. Without the problems caused by canon formation or trying to be totally comprehensive, this group of poems and stories is free to work outside the stereotypes and preconceptions of South Africa and allow the participants to show what they can do as individuals.
All This Strangeness: A Garland for George Oppen. Edited by Eric Hoffman. Commentary on Oppen has grown slowly, unobtrusively, and steadily, until it now forms a major body in itself. This collection of essays evaluates that body of criticism in less partisan terms than many of its predecessors, seeking to focus on individual poems and prosody in a broad historical context, going beyond the dichotomies that dominated the 20th Century and making room for further types of relevance in current literary and social dispensations.
Sephardic Proverbs. Collected and translated by Michael Castro. Proverbs act on many of the same principles as other miniatures, such as haiku. Like stand-alone couplets and quatrains used in everything from toasts to insults, they also include a strong element of collaboration and evolution. As a look at a tradition or a type of poem, this collection can stay with a reader a long time.
Post-Beat Anthology. Reprint from the Chinese anthology, with brief intro. Edited by Vernon Frazer. How would you edit a collection of poems with that title for a Chinese audience? Probably not the same way Frazer has. That's one of the things that makes it interesting and refreshing.
as per Le Roman de la Rose, for example. An Anthology of Middle East Genocide Edited by Arpine Konyalian Grenier How does the cruel and unusual work for you through art, whether it comes from direct experience or direct/indirect memory. Be Genet, for example; lemon to lemonade, for example. How does one turn to Le Roman de la Rose (a Middle Ages Poem) when one is mired in or sorting out or faced with what happened or what is happening that is cruel and unusual due to human intolerance: racial religious cultural gender related and other.
Charles Olson and the Nature of Destructive Humanism by Craig Stormont
One Man Blues: Remembering Thomas Chapin. Reminiscence by Vernon Frazer
Excerpt from Autobiography by David Bromige
The India Journals by John Brandi
Genius and Heroin: by Michael Largo. In this essay, the author reviews his own book. The themes of psycho-chemistry may stretch back to pristine civilizations in China, Egypt, and Mexico, but they seem inexhaustible. Perhaps associate chemicals with genius is because our brains produce such sophisticated bases to start with, and self-review also finds a base in that phenomenon.
WAR PAPERS (3)
Poems and essays against war. Sub-features by John Bradley, Joel Lewis, Philip Metres, Vincent Katz, Francesco Levato, and Louise Landes Levi, plus reflections from around the world on the election of Barack Obama, and, of course, Halvard Johnson's continuing anthology of anti-war poems.
A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young
ART
Enigmas paintings by Jim Spitzer. As a regular contributor to Big Bridge, these paintings, variations on an enigmatic theme, show Spitzer's continuing evolution, as well as being koan-like meditations in their own right.
The Kingdom of Madison: Photographs from Madison County, North Carolina
by Rob Amberg. Selections from three sets of photos, exploring a still relatively isolated place, where landscape still has functional meaning. When Amberg arrived, not as a tourist, but as one seeking community "Planting was still done by the signs of the moon. Water came from springs and heat from forests" and traditional music still part of daily life. These photos add to the tradition begun in the WPA projects of the Great Depression, but decidedly retain an identity of their own.
These Are My Angels by Tasha Robbins. Small paintings done in Brooklyn on found cardboard by one of the Post-Katrina diaspora. Celebrating the C-Train stop at Franklin + Fulton Avenues, as the artist writes, they "kept my heart, eye + hand moving with a spirit of life close to the timbre and vibration of the Crescent City, still healing. . .
Lectura en Tránsito. Project Created and Directed by Carmen Gloria Berríos. Set based on combination of public art and poetry from Santiago de Chile. Poems translated by Terri Carrion and Carmen Gloria Berríos.
Animal Night Photography by Felicia Murray; notes by Louise Landes Levi. New techniques in photography allow us to make photographic images of phenomena we could only imagine in previous eras. We might debate whether the nature of cameras and software brings us any closer to the spiritual world, but these haunting images of animals should make us feel less alone, and more in touch with the continuum of life.
12 Collages by John Brandi. These colages can be read as a non-verbal counterpart and extension of his India Journal and related work.
FICTION
Fiction by Mel Freilicher, Eric Beeny, Stefani Christova, Lynda Schor, David Madgalene, Stephen-Paul Martin, Mark Wallace, Susan Smith Nash, Richard Martin, Peter Conners, Ann Bogle, Jeffrey Hansen, Carol Novack
REVIEWS
Reviews of: Wanda Phipps, Lewis Warsh, Simon Pettet, Larissa Shmailo, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Ed Sanders, Bill Berkson, Colter Jacobsen, Mark Young, John Roche, Philip Gounis, Rich Kruse, Michael Rumaker, Annie Le Brun, George Kimball, and Ashis Gupta. Reviewed by: Kirpal Gordon; Svitlana Matviyenko, Garry Parrish, Jackie Sheeler, Jim Feast, Allan Graubard, Charles Thorne, Barbara Henning, Tom Hibbard, Steve Elmer, Stephen Lewandowski Joe Wetteroth, Vernon Frazer, Leverett T. Smith, and Katherine Hastings.
LITTLE MAGS Plastic Ocean, Green Dragon, Untamed Ink
ROCKPILE. ROCKPILE is a collaboration between David Meltzer — poet, musician, essayist, and more — and Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge Press. David and Michael will journey through eight cities in the U.S. to perform poetry and prose, composed while on the road, with local musicians and artists in each city. ROCKPILE will serve to educate and preserve as well as to create a history of collaboration. It will help to reinforce the tradition of the troubadour of all generations, central to the cultural upheaval and identity politics that reawakened poets, artists, musicians, and songwriters in the mid-1960s through the 1970s. The project will end with a final multimedia performance in San Francisco. Check out the ROCKPILE Blog for calendar and discussion!
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Anne Valley-Fox, David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg reading
Anne Valley-Fox, David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg reading
Sunday, May 9, 2pm at Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood, 415-586-3733 --
http://www.birdbeckett.com/
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear... Sappho,
7th century BC
Anne Valley-Fox reads poems at 2 pm, from her new book, How Shadows Are Bundled (University of New Mexico Press, 2009) with confreres David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg. David & Michael, traveling by van crosscountry last fall in their "Rockpile" odyssey that took them to a dozen cities and dozens of poetry/music conclaves, hooked up with their long-lost friend Anne Valley-Fox in Santa Fe, remaking connections first formed four decades ago in old beat North Beach...
Here's what you'll read in Anne's bio if you check out her website: "Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Anne Valley-Fox was raised in Santa Monica, California and schooled at University of California at Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement. There, she began writing poetry in classrooms with Josephine Miles and visiting poet James Tate; in her senior year she was awarded the Eisner Prize in Literature. She cut her poetic teeth on the San Francisco poetry scene for several years before moving to northern New Mexico with her first-born son, Ezra. Her poetry books are Sending the Body Out, Fish Drum 15, Point of No Return and How Shadows Are Bundled. Her nonfiction books are Telling Your Story (with Sam Keen) and Outlaws and Desperados: A New Mexico Federal Writers Project Book (with Ann Lacy, co-editor).
Paterson... FSM... Miles & Tate... New Mexico... son Ezra!
Whatever are we in for??!!
Join us to find out...
Oh yes, and don't forget that David Meltzer & Michael Rothenberg, formidable talents both, are along for the ride... Saddle up!
check these websites:
http://www.annevalleyfox.com/
http://www.meltzerville.com/
www.bigbridge.org/bioroth.htm
Sunday, May 9, 2pm at Bird & Beckett Books
653 Chenery Street
in San Francisco's Glen Park neighborhood, 415-586-3733 --
http://www.birdbeckett.com/
Mere air, these words, but delicious to hear... Sappho,
7th century BC
Anne Valley-Fox reads poems at 2 pm, from her new book, How Shadows Are Bundled (University of New Mexico Press, 2009) with confreres David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg. David & Michael, traveling by van crosscountry last fall in their "Rockpile" odyssey that took them to a dozen cities and dozens of poetry/music conclaves, hooked up with their long-lost friend Anne Valley-Fox in Santa Fe, remaking connections first formed four decades ago in old beat North Beach...
Here's what you'll read in Anne's bio if you check out her website: "Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Anne Valley-Fox was raised in Santa Monica, California and schooled at University of California at Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement. There, she began writing poetry in classrooms with Josephine Miles and visiting poet James Tate; in her senior year she was awarded the Eisner Prize in Literature. She cut her poetic teeth on the San Francisco poetry scene for several years before moving to northern New Mexico with her first-born son, Ezra. Her poetry books are Sending the Body Out, Fish Drum 15, Point of No Return and How Shadows Are Bundled. Her nonfiction books are Telling Your Story (with Sam Keen) and Outlaws and Desperados: A New Mexico Federal Writers Project Book (with Ann Lacy, co-editor).
Paterson... FSM... Miles & Tate... New Mexico... son Ezra!
Whatever are we in for??!!
Join us to find out...
Oh yes, and don't forget that David Meltzer & Michael Rothenberg, formidable talents both, are along for the ride... Saddle up!
check these websites:
http://www.annevalleyfox.com/
http://www.meltzerville.com/
www.bigbridge.org/bioroth.htm
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
ST. LOUIS - LAST STOP OF THE ROCKPILE
ST. LOUIS—LAST STOP OF THE ROCKPILE ON THE ROAD TOUR
2 EVENTS!!
ST. LOUIS ROCKPILE Performance
November 24th 7:30-11pm
Regional Arts Commission Performance Space
6128 Delmar Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63112-1204
(314) 863-5811
http://www.art-stl.com/
Admission: free
David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Terri Carrion and The Bob Malone Band w/ Bob Malone (piano),Marc Singer (drums), Christa Hillhouse (bass) and special guest Dave Black (guitar), Very special guest readers and performers include Shirley LeFlore, Michael Castro, K. Curtis Lyle and David Jackson (assorted percussion and electronics), Alexander Balogh, Howard Schwartz, Philip Gounis and Sean Arnold
UNTAMED INK PUBLICATION CELEBRATION: "UNDER AND ABOVE GROUND"
Monday, November 23rd 6pm
Untamed Ink, Under and Above Ground:
A Publication Celebration hosted by David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
Lindenwood University, LCIE auditorium.
Admission: free
ROCKPILE is sponsored by The Committee on Poetry and funded by Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, supported by grants from The James Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
2 EVENTS!!
ST. LOUIS ROCKPILE Performance
November 24th 7:30-11pm
Regional Arts Commission Performance Space
6128 Delmar Blvd.
St. Louis, MO 63112-1204
(314) 863-5811
http://www.art-stl.com/
Admission: free
David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Terri Carrion and The Bob Malone Band w/ Bob Malone (piano),Marc Singer (drums), Christa Hillhouse (bass) and special guest Dave Black (guitar), Very special guest readers and performers include Shirley LeFlore, Michael Castro, K. Curtis Lyle and David Jackson (assorted percussion and electronics), Alexander Balogh, Howard Schwartz, Philip Gounis and Sean Arnold
UNTAMED INK PUBLICATION CELEBRATION: "UNDER AND ABOVE GROUND"
Monday, November 23rd 6pm
Untamed Ink, Under and Above Ground:
A Publication Celebration hosted by David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
Lindenwood University, LCIE auditorium.
Admission: free
ROCKPILE is sponsored by The Committee on Poetry and funded by Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, supported by grants from The James Irvine Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
Next Stop Chicago - Two Big Rockpile Events!
NEXT STOP CHICAGO--TWO BIG ROCKPILE EVENTS!!
ROCKPILE Symposium--Music and Poetry: The Art of Poetry Collaboration.
Tuesday, November 17th 5pm to 8pm
Columbia College Chicago,
Ferguson Hall
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
+1 312-663-1600
About: Since Kenneth Rexroth and Langston Hughes first collaborated with jazz musicians (but then Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have collaborated with authors, as well) poetry and music have enjoyed a special relationship. The subject ranges far and wide: Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Allen Ginsberg's manic rock combos, modern hip-hop, the singer-songwriter tradition of troubadors such as Bob Dylan and Lou Reed--the relationship between music, specifically jazz, and poetry has been percolating for generations. Sit in with these artists as they discuss this tempestuous relationship in a rapid-fire panel discussion about poetry and music.
Panelists include: David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Art Lange, Dan McNaughton, Tony Trigillio, Ed Roberson, Dan Godston, Larry Sawyer, Francesco Levato, Terri Carrion, Bob Malone, and others.
THEULTIMATE CHICAGO ROCKPILE Performance at The Hideout
Thursday, November 19, 8pm- 12pm
The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia
Chicago, Il 60622
773.227.4433
http://www.hideoutchicago.com/
ADMISSION: 10 dollars at the door
(all shows 21 & over unless stated otherwise
advance tickets online or by phone at 866.468.3401)
Poetry & Jazz Festival with ROCKPILE: David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion perform with The Spider Trio and The Bob Malone Band and special guests Art Lange, Ed Roberson, Francesco Levato, Larry Sawyer, Dan Godston Band with Renee Baker, Satya Gummuluri, Dan Godston and Jimmy Bennington
ROCKPILE Symposium--Music and Poetry: The Art of Poetry Collaboration.
Tuesday, November 17th 5pm to 8pm
Columbia College Chicago,
Ferguson Hall
600 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
+1 312-663-1600
About: Since Kenneth Rexroth and Langston Hughes first collaborated with jazz musicians (but then Jelly Roll Morton claimed to have collaborated with authors, as well) poetry and music have enjoyed a special relationship. The subject ranges far and wide: Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Allen Ginsberg's manic rock combos, modern hip-hop, the singer-songwriter tradition of troubadors such as Bob Dylan and Lou Reed--the relationship between music, specifically jazz, and poetry has been percolating for generations. Sit in with these artists as they discuss this tempestuous relationship in a rapid-fire panel discussion about poetry and music.
Panelists include: David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, Art Lange, Dan McNaughton, Tony Trigillio, Ed Roberson, Dan Godston, Larry Sawyer, Francesco Levato, Terri Carrion, Bob Malone, and others.
THEULTIMATE CHICAGO ROCKPILE Performance at The Hideout
Thursday, November 19, 8pm- 12pm
The Hideout
1354 W Wabansia
Chicago, Il 60622
773.227.4433
http://www.hideoutchicago.com/
ADMISSION: 10 dollars at the door
(all shows 21 & over unless stated otherwise
advance tickets online or by phone at 866.468.3401)
Poetry & Jazz Festival with ROCKPILE: David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion perform with The Spider Trio and The Bob Malone Band and special guests Art Lange, Ed Roberson, Francesco Levato, Larry Sawyer, Dan Godston Band with Renee Baker, Satya Gummuluri, Dan Godston and Jimmy Bennington
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
THE ROCKPILE TOUR CONTINUES...
AFTER A MAGNIFICENT SHOW AT THE GERSHWIN HOTEL IN NYC
THE ROCKPILE TOUR CONTINUES UPSTATE. . .
ROCHESTER, NY
November 11th, 4-5:15 pm
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg
read with guest musicians Carl Atkins (saxophone) and Jay Jackson (drums)
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Lounge
Bldg. 6, Rm 1251
92 Lomb Memorial Dr
Rochester, NY
(585) 475-4922
ADMISSION: free
November 11th, 7pm
David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
Reading at: Writers and Books
740 University Ave
Rochester, NY
(585) 473-2590
ADMISSION: free
November 12th, 10:30 am
Rochester Institute of Technology lecture
Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion class on
“Editing The Literary Magazine”
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY
ADMISSION: free
BUFFALO, NY
November 12th, 7PM
David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion reading
Just Buffalo @ WNYBAC
Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington St. @ Mohawk Place 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
http://www.justbuffalo.org/
ADMISSION: free
THE ROCKPILE TOUR CONTINUES UPSTATE. . .
ROCHESTER, NY
November 11th, 4-5:15 pm
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg
read with guest musicians Carl Atkins (saxophone) and Jay Jackson (drums)
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Liberal Arts Faculty Lounge
Bldg. 6, Rm 1251
92 Lomb Memorial Dr
Rochester, NY
(585) 475-4922
ADMISSION: free
November 11th, 7pm
David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion
Reading at: Writers and Books
740 University Ave
Rochester, NY
(585) 473-2590
ADMISSION: free
November 12th, 10:30 am
Rochester Institute of Technology lecture
Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion class on
“Editing The Literary Magazine”
Rochester Institute of Technology
92 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY
ADMISSION: free
BUFFALO, NY
November 12th, 7PM
David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg and Terri Carrion reading
Just Buffalo @ WNYBAC
Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington St. @ Mohawk Place 2nd Floor
Buffalo, NY 14203
http://www.justbuffalo.org/
ADMISSION: free
Sunday, November 08, 2009
STOP 5 ON THE ROCKPILE TOUR
NEW YORK CITY IS STOP 5 ON THE ROCKPILE TOUR
!!!!3 EVENTS!!!!
NYC ROCKPILE SHOW at The Gershwin Hotel
Monday, November 9th 8pm
The Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street
New York, NY 10016
(212)545-8000
http://www.gershwinhotel.com/english/site1.html
Admission: $10 at the door
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg with Marty Ehrlich (multi-reed player), Lindsey Horner (bass), Bill Zavatsky (piano), Michael Stephans (drums)
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POETRY AND MUSIC AND THE TROUBADOUR TRADITION
Monday, November 9th, 12:30-2pm
Segal Theater
The Center for the Humanities
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5103
New York, NY 10016
212-817-2005
ADMISSION: free
ROCKPILE- Poetry and Music and The Troubadour Tradition
A Discussion with David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg hosted by David Henderson and Ammiel Alcalay.
** ** ** **
ROCKPILE SYMPOSIUM ON ART AND ACTIVISM AT POETRY PROJECT
Saturday, November 7th 2-5pm
Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Parish Hall
131 E. 10th St.(& 2nd Ave.)
Manhattan, NY
ADMISSION: free
ROCKPILE Symposium: David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg host a discussion on "Art and Activism, Poetry, Music and The Troubadour Tradition, Censorship and The Academy, Community and Collaboration: Open discussion with Ammiel Alcalay, Teresa Carrion, Jim Christy, Marty Ehrlich, Murat Nemat-Nejat, Wanda Phipps, Harris Schiff, Suzi Winson and Bill Zavatsky. We welcome audience participation. Moderator: Jim Feast. (Refreshments)
!!!!3 EVENTS!!!!
NYC ROCKPILE SHOW at The Gershwin Hotel
Monday, November 9th 8pm
The Gershwin Hotel
7 East 27th Street
New York, NY 10016
(212)545-8000
http://www.gershwinhotel.com/english/site1.html
Admission: $10 at the door
David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg with Marty Ehrlich (multi-reed player), Lindsey Horner (bass), Bill Zavatsky (piano), Michael Stephans (drums)
** ** **
POETRY AND MUSIC AND THE TROUBADOUR TRADITION
Monday, November 9th, 12:30-2pm
Segal Theater
The Center for the Humanities
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5103
New York, NY 10016
212-817-2005
ADMISSION: free
ROCKPILE- Poetry and Music and The Troubadour Tradition
A Discussion with David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg hosted by David Henderson and Ammiel Alcalay.
** ** ** **
ROCKPILE SYMPOSIUM ON ART AND ACTIVISM AT POETRY PROJECT
Saturday, November 7th 2-5pm
Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
Parish Hall
131 E. 10th St.(& 2nd Ave.)
Manhattan, NY
ADMISSION: free
ROCKPILE Symposium: David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg host a discussion on "Art and Activism, Poetry, Music and The Troubadour Tradition, Censorship and The Academy, Community and Collaboration: Open discussion with Ammiel Alcalay, Teresa Carrion, Jim Christy, Marty Ehrlich, Murat Nemat-Nejat, Wanda Phipps, Harris Schiff, Suzi Winson and Bill Zavatsky. We welcome audience participation. Moderator: Jim Feast. (Refreshments)
Saturday, October 31, 2009
ROCKPILE COMES TO WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, DC is the 4th Stop on the ROCKPILE TOUR. Come join us!
Wednesday, November 4 ROCKPILE PERFORMANCE
Host: Busboys and Poets: “Hump Day Groovez” w/ Burnett Thompson and The New Columbia Orchestra
Time: 9pm-11pm
2021 14 St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-9757
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/
admission—10 dollars at the door
Tuesday, November 3, noon-1:30 pm
Poets in the (Think) Tank: ROCKPILE Symposium Co-sponsored by Split This Rock www.SplitThisRock.org and the Institute for Policy Studies www.ips-dc.org
Brown bag lunch
The Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600Washington, DC
Farragut North or Farragut West Metro
For more info: info@splitthisrock.org, 202-787-5210
In anticipation of what is sure to be a music and poetry extravaganza at Busboys and Poets November 4, ROCKPILE artists David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg host an open discussion on Art and Activism, Poetry, Music and The Troubadour Tradition, Censorship and The Academy, Community and Collaboration. Panel participants include David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, and Fred Joiner (bio below). Moderator: Sarah Browning
Sunday, November 1, "All About Rockpile" with David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg and celebrated pianist and composer Burnett Thompson with members of The New Columbia Orchestra at The Writer's Center. Special celebration of guest readers include Terri Carrion, Carlo Parcelli, Beth Joselow, Rod Smith, Sarah Browning, Tom Mandel, Ruben Jackson, Ed Baker, Tala Rahmeh, and Brian Gilmore
Writer's Center
Time: 2pm – 5:00
www.writer.org
4508 Walsh Street
Bethesda, MD 20815
(301)654-8664
Admission free
(festivities continue at Gaffney’s after the reading!)
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A leading poet of the Beat Movement, David MELTZER was raised in Brooklyn during the War years; performed on radio & early TV on the Horn & Hardart Children's Hour. Was exiled to L.A. at 16 & at 17 enrolled in an ongoing academy w/ artists Wallace Berman, George Herms, Robert Alexander, Cameron; migrated to San Francisco in 1957 for higher education w/ peers & maestros like Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, Jack Hirschman, and a cast of thousands all living extraordinary ordinary lives. Beat Thing [La Alameda Press, 2004] won the Josephine Miles PEN Award, 2005. Was editor and interviewer for San Francisco Beat: Talking With The Poets [City Lights, 2001]. With Steve Dickison, co-edits Shuffle Boil, a magazine devoted to music in all its appearances & disappearances. 2005 saw the publication of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer by Viking/Penguin, a collection spanning over forty years of work that paints a vivid portrait of Meltzer's life as a poet through poems taken from thirty of his previous books of poetry. With a versatile style and playful tone, Meltzer offers his unique vision of civilization with a range of juxtapositions from Jewish mysticism and everyday life to jazz and pop culture.
Michael ROTHENBERG is a poet, songwriter, and the editor of Big Bridge magazine online at www.bigbridge.org. His poetry books include Man/Woman, a collaboration with Joanne Kyger, The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press). His poems have been published widely in small press publications including, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Berkeley Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse, First Intensity, Fish Drum, Fulcrum, Golden Handcuffs Review, House Organ, Prague Literary Review, Tricycle, Van Gogh's Ear, Vanitas, Zyzzyva, JACK, milk, and Jacket. He is also author of the novel Punk Rockwell. Rothenberg's 2005 CD collaboration with singer Elya Finn, was praised by poet David Meltzer as "fabulous-all [the] songs sound like Weimar Lenya & postwar Nico, lushly affirmative at the same time being edged w/ cosmic weltschmertz. An immensely tasty production." He is also editor for the Penguin Poet series, which includes selected works of Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger, David Meltzer, and Ed Dorn. He has recently completed the Collected Poems of Philip Whalen for Wesleyan University Press.
Burnett Thompson and The New Columbia Orchestra. Pianist and composer Burnett Thompson has lately been working with Chinese erhu soloist Ma Xiaohui, Shanghai-based jazz vocalist Coco Zhao, Flamenco guitarist Abraham Carmona, Argentinian bandoneonista Juan Pablo Jofre Romarion, and the New Columbia Jazz Orchestra.
His Silent Shakespeare and the Sonnets is an ongoing partnership with the Goethe Institute, the Shakespeare Theatre, the National Gallery of Art and the National Arts Club in New York.
Past associations have included a unique collaboration with Maestro Lorin Maazel on recording projects and an adventurous educational program.
Burnett maintained a “piano room” on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington throughout the 80’s and 90’s, hosting guest artists Chris Vadala, Keter Betts, Drew Gress, Louis Belson, and countless others. He has appeared with numerous orchestras including the Washington Chamber Symphony and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
Burnett Thompson was educated at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Vienna, Austria, and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Sarah Browning is co-director of Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness and DC Poets Against the War. Author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007) and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Argonne House Press, 2004), she has received fellowships and prizes from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Creative Communities Initiative, and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. She co-hosts the Sunday Kind of Love reading series at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC, where she lives with her husband and son.
Fred Joiner is a poet living in Washington, DC's Historic Anacostia neighborhod. He works as a Systems Administrator for a small progressive consulting company. He collaborates frequently with jazz musicians and his poems have appeared in Callaloo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora
ROCKPILE, made possible by grants from the Creative Work Fund (www.creativeworkfund.org), the James Irvine Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and is sponsored by the Committee on Poetry, Inc.
Wednesday, November 4 ROCKPILE PERFORMANCE
Host: Busboys and Poets: “Hump Day Groovez” w/ Burnett Thompson and The New Columbia Orchestra
Time: 9pm-11pm
2021 14 St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-9757
http://www.busboysandpoets.com/
admission—10 dollars at the door
Tuesday, November 3, noon-1:30 pm
Poets in the (Think) Tank: ROCKPILE Symposium Co-sponsored by Split This Rock www.SplitThisRock.org and the Institute for Policy Studies www.ips-dc.org
Brown bag lunch
The Institute for Policy Studies
1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 600Washington, DC
Farragut North or Farragut West Metro
For more info: info@splitthisrock.org, 202-787-5210
In anticipation of what is sure to be a music and poetry extravaganza at Busboys and Poets November 4, ROCKPILE artists David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg host an open discussion on Art and Activism, Poetry, Music and The Troubadour Tradition, Censorship and The Academy, Community and Collaboration. Panel participants include David Meltzer, Michael Rothenberg, and Fred Joiner (bio below). Moderator: Sarah Browning
Sunday, November 1, "All About Rockpile" with David Meltzer and Michael Rothenberg and celebrated pianist and composer Burnett Thompson with members of The New Columbia Orchestra at The Writer's Center. Special celebration of guest readers include Terri Carrion, Carlo Parcelli, Beth Joselow, Rod Smith, Sarah Browning, Tom Mandel, Ruben Jackson, Ed Baker, Tala Rahmeh, and Brian Gilmore
Writer's Center
Time: 2pm – 5:00
www.writer.org
4508 Walsh Street
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A leading poet of the Beat Movement, David MELTZER was raised in Brooklyn during the War years; performed on radio & early TV on the Horn & Hardart Children's Hour. Was exiled to L.A. at 16 & at 17 enrolled in an ongoing academy w/ artists Wallace Berman, George Herms, Robert Alexander, Cameron; migrated to San Francisco in 1957 for higher education w/ peers & maestros like Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, Joanne Kyger, Diane DiPrima, Michael McClure, Lew Welch, Philip Whalen, Jack Hirschman, and a cast of thousands all living extraordinary ordinary lives. Beat Thing [La Alameda Press, 2004] won the Josephine Miles PEN Award, 2005. Was editor and interviewer for San Francisco Beat: Talking With The Poets [City Lights, 2001]. With Steve Dickison, co-edits Shuffle Boil, a magazine devoted to music in all its appearances & disappearances. 2005 saw the publication of David's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer by Viking/Penguin, a collection spanning over forty years of work that paints a vivid portrait of Meltzer's life as a poet through poems taken from thirty of his previous books of poetry. With a versatile style and playful tone, Meltzer offers his unique vision of civilization with a range of juxtapositions from Jewish mysticism and everyday life to jazz and pop culture.
Michael ROTHENBERG is a poet, songwriter, and the editor of Big Bridge magazine online at www.bigbridge.org. His poetry books include Man/Woman, a collaboration with Joanne Kyger, The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), and Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press). His poems have been published widely in small press publications including, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Berkeley Poetry Review, Exquisite Corpse, First Intensity, Fish Drum, Fulcrum, Golden Handcuffs Review, House Organ, Prague Literary Review, Tricycle, Van Gogh's Ear, Vanitas, Zyzzyva, JACK, milk, and Jacket. He is also author of the novel Punk Rockwell. Rothenberg's 2005 CD collaboration with singer Elya Finn, was praised by poet David Meltzer as "fabulous-all [the] songs sound like Weimar Lenya & postwar Nico, lushly affirmative at the same time being edged w/ cosmic weltschmertz. An immensely tasty production." He is also editor for the Penguin Poet series, which includes selected works of Philip Whalen, Joanne Kyger, David Meltzer, and Ed Dorn. He has recently completed the Collected Poems of Philip Whalen for Wesleyan University Press.
Burnett Thompson and The New Columbia Orchestra. Pianist and composer Burnett Thompson has lately been working with Chinese erhu soloist Ma Xiaohui, Shanghai-based jazz vocalist Coco Zhao, Flamenco guitarist Abraham Carmona, Argentinian bandoneonista Juan Pablo Jofre Romarion, and the New Columbia Jazz Orchestra.
His Silent Shakespeare and the Sonnets is an ongoing partnership with the Goethe Institute, the Shakespeare Theatre, the National Gallery of Art and the National Arts Club in New York.
Past associations have included a unique collaboration with Maestro Lorin Maazel on recording projects and an adventurous educational program.
Burnett maintained a “piano room” on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington throughout the 80’s and 90’s, hosting guest artists Chris Vadala, Keter Betts, Drew Gress, Louis Belson, and countless others. He has appeared with numerous orchestras including the Washington Chamber Symphony and the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra.
Burnett Thompson was educated at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Vienna, Austria, and the New England Conservatory of Music.
Sarah Browning is co-director of Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness and DC Poets Against the War. Author of Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works, 2007) and co-editor of D.C. Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Argonne House Press, 2004), she has received fellowships and prizes from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, the Creative Communities Initiative, and the People Before Profits Poetry Prize. She co-hosts the Sunday Kind of Love reading series at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC, where she lives with her husband and son.
Fred Joiner is a poet living in Washington, DC's Historic Anacostia neighborhod. He works as a Systems Administrator for a small progressive consulting company. He collaborates frequently with jazz musicians and his poems have appeared in Callaloo, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas, and Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora
ROCKPILE, made possible by grants from the Creative Work Fund (www.creativeworkfund.org), the James Irvine Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and is sponsored by the Committee on Poetry, Inc.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
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