21st-Century Poetics:  Food, Readings, Talks,

& the occasional dance

Series II:  Fall 2002/Spring 2003

Beth Anderson and Ange Mlinko

Friday, October 11, 6:30pm potluck, 8pm readings, 900 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA:

free admission

Beth and Ange will read from their work and address issues surrounding

travel writing and vertigo.

Beth Anderson is the author of The Habitable World (Instance Press, 2001)

and four chapbooks, including The Impending Collision and Hazard. Her poems

have appeared or are forthcoming in The Germ, Barrow Street, Hanging Loose,

and other journals and in An Anthology of New (American) Poets (Talisman

House, 1998). The Habitable World was a finalist manuscript for the National

Poetry Series and the Walt Whitman Award.  Anderson is also an editor of

Subpress, a cooperative small press publisher of poetry.

Ange Mlinko's first book of poems was Matinees (Zoland Books, 1999)

and her second one is in progress. She was born in Philadelphia and

has lived and engaged in alternative poetry scenes in Boston,

Providence, and New York City. In 1999 she lived and taught a poetry

workshop in the Kingdom of Morocco. She edited The Poetry Project

Newsletter from 2000-2002.

A round-table discussion on the poetics and politics of publishing

featuring

Patricia Dientsfrey, Laura Moriarty, Andrew Maxwell, and Travis Ortiz

Friday, November 22, 6:30 p.m. potluck, 8 p.m. presentations and discussion, 900 Bancroft Way (at 7th  St.)

Patricia, Laura, Andrew and Travis will present their thoughts on current

cruxes in the publishing of poetry, speaking from their varied experiences

in editing and publishing outside of the industry's mainstream.

Patricia Dienstfrey is co-founder of Kelsey St. Press, which has been

publishing experiemental writing by women and collaborations between poets

and visual artists since 1974. Her most recent book, The Woman Without

Experiences (Kelsey St.), was winner of The American Award for Literature,

1996. Her work appears in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative

Writing by Women, edited by Mary Maragret Sloan (Talisman House, 1997). With

Brenda Hillman she is co-editor of The Grand Permission: New Writings on

Poetics and Motherhood, due out from Wesleyan University Press, in the

Spring of 2003.

Andrew Maxwell lives in Los Angeles, where he works as a lexicographer and

curates the PRB reading series out of Dawsons Book Shop. He edits the Germ

from the Western Office of the Poetic Reserch Bureau, where he also prepares

Germ Editions and Monographs, an annual series of chapbooks and trade

editions. Maxwell is a contributing editor for DoubleChange.com, a web-based

magazine and translation collective. A chapbook of his own work, Radiant

Species (Tougher Disguises), and a full-length collection of poetry, The

Coward Ecumenical (Subpress) are due out in 2003. With Guy Bennett he is

organizing the Los Angeles Festival of Literary Magazines in spring 2003.

Laura Moriarty's  recent books are Nude Memoir (Krupskaya), The Case (O Books),

Like Roads (Kelsey St. Press), Cunning (Spuyten Duyvil), L'Archiviste (Zasterle

Press) and Symmetry (Avec Books). Her book Persia (Chance Additions) co-won the

Poetry Center Book Award in 1983. She received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode

Foundation Award in Poetry in 1992. From 1986-1997 she was Archives Director

at the American Poetry Archives at the Poetry Center at San Francisco State

University. She is now the Acquisition & Marketing Director at Small Press

Distribution.

Travis Ortiz' first book, geography of parts, has recently appeared from Melodeon

Poetry Systems. Travis is co-editor of Atelos Publishing Project. He also edits a

series of short books of poetry that highlight the visual aspects of poetry, called

ghos-ti- (an indo-european root pronounced "gaws-tee"). His poems have appeared

in Chain, Salt, Mirage #4/Period[ical], Lyric&, River City. His "text collages,"

or visual poems, have appeared in Prosodia and Mirage. He is a contributing

editor for Chain's "Different Languages" issue.

LAYNIE BROWNE AND ELIZABETH ROBINSON

Thursday, February 13, 6:30pm potluck, 8pm readings, 900 Bancroft Way, free admission

Laynie Browne is the author of several books, imcluding Gravitys Mirror, The

Agency of Wind, Lore, and Rebecca Letters.  With others, she has curated poetry

series at The Ear Inn in NYC from 1992-1995, and later as a member of The Subtext

Collective in Seattle 1996-2001.  She was awarded The Gertrude Stein Award in

Innovative American Poetry three times (1993-1996).  In 1998 her work was

anthologized in the book Poet's Choice, edited by Robert Hass.  In 2000, she received

a Jack Straw Writers Program Award.  She has taught poetry-in-the-schools in NYC

and Seattle.  Currently she resides in Oakland, CA.

Elizabeth Robinson is author most recently of House Made of Silver and Harrow.

Her work was in The Best American Poetry of 2002.  Forthcoming are

Pure Descent, winner of the National Poetry Series, and Apprehend,

winner of the Fence Prize.  She is a co-editor of 26 magazine and

EtherDome Press.

KEVIN DAVIES AND JUDITH GOLDMAN

Thursday, March 20, 6:30pm potluck, 8pm readings, 900 Bancroft Way (at 7th), Berkeley, free admission

Kevin Davies was born and raised on Vancouver Island. In the 1980s, he was

active as a member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective. Since

1992, he has lived in New York City, where he works as a composition

instructor and proofreader. His books include Pause Button (Vancouver:

Tsunami Editions, 1992) and Comp. (Washington: Edge, 2000), the first two

panels of his Trilogy of Error, which will perhaps be completed by his

work-in-progress The Golden Age of Paraphernalia.

Judith Goldman is a native Californian, having recently returned to the Bay Area

after living in New York City for a decade.  She is the author of Vocoder (Roof, 2001),

winner of Small Press Traffic's "Book of the Year" award, and adversities of outerlife

(object editions, 1996).  Her work has appeared in An Anthology of New (American)

Poetry as well as the journals Object, Aerial, Shiny, Primary Writing, Boo, Arras,

$lavery, Onedit, and is forthcoming in How2 and Enough.  She is earning a doctorate

in English from Columbia University, writing a dissertation on ethics, authority, and

literary form in late eighteenth-century British contexts.

RODRIGO TOSCANO AND JULIE PATTON

Friday, April 18, 6:30pm potluck, 8pm readings, 900 Bancroft Way (at 7th), Berkeley, free admission

Rodrigo Toscano's three books include The Disparities (Green Integer) and Partisans

(O Books) and Platform (Atelos Press).  Recent work of his has appeared in Open Letter,

Perspektive, Bombay Gin and Cross Cultural Poetics. Other writing can be found in the

upcoming Rattapallax Anthology on American and Brazilian Innovative writing, Cities of

Chance. His work been translated into Spanish, German, and Portuguese Rodrigo is originally

from San Diego, California. After living three years in San Francisco, he moved to New York,

where heπs been living for four years.

Julie Ezelle Pat-tongue's paper thinkInk explorations of language as a unified field of visual,

phonetic, gestural, and semantic phenomena has been featured in performance festivals,

literary venues, exhibition spaces and publications in the Americas and abroad.

Julie's installments appear in nocturnes, Ecopoetics, Tripwire 5: Expanding The Repertoire: Continuity & Change in African America Writing, Crossroads: Journal of the Poetry Society of America, and Beyond Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Work by Women (Talisman). In addition to her solo performance art hosted by the Jazz Standard in New York, RAI Uno (Italian TV), Aachen Poetenfest, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Julie tours and records with composer/ instrumentalist Uri Caine and (other musicaLuminaries). Fresh from 'Eat-ally,' she continues her search for 'work'  in Bush country that will allow her to hit the road and make less performance tracks as *PovArty black ex-Pat. Julie has taught poetics at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, New York University, Naropa, the Schule fur Dichtung, Wien, Austria, and Universitie Antiochita de Medellin, Colombia. A new poetry collection,

'Do Rag, on and on... ' (Tender Buttons) is forthwit a companion discuit 'Permanent Process.'

21st-Century Poetics thanks the Townsend Center, The Consortium for the Arts,

the East Bay Poetics and Motorcycle Club, and the UC Berkeley Department of

English for their support. 

Participants are asked to help buttress our indie-ness by bringing food or drink;

we would also be wildly grateful for help with setup or cleanup from those who are able.

Curated by Jennifer Scappettone and Julie Carr.

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