pretend genius and writethis.com present slam fiction. june 1. Saturday, May 20, 2006
Thursday, May 11, 2006
a mustard bastard production (friends of pretend genius)
mustard bastard hosting poetry night every thursday night at the muse in danville, va. featuring kim goransson and jimbo brown. there are too many thursdays. you can't miss them all. get on.
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Monday, May 01, 2006
Joanne Kyger reading & celebration*
Small Press Traffic / Friday, May 26, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.
Every year the board of directors of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center votes a Lifetime Achievement Award to a living writer of distinction. Past honorees have included Barbara Guest, Jackson Mac Low, and Carl Rakosi. The latest recipient of SPT's Lifetime Achievement Award is Joanne Kyger.
Joanne Kyger made an auspicious debut as the golden girl of the Spicer-Duncan circle of the late 1950s in San Francisco. Within a month of her arrival everyone wanted a piece of Kyger, and she became associated with many of the fluid, mercurial poetry scenes around the "New American Poetry." Like her best writing, she was everywhere at once, deep inside the Beat movement, all over Japan and India, up and down the San Francisco Renaissance, steeped in Charles Olson's polis-based soul curriculum, our ambassador to the New York scenes of Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, the mainstay of Bolinas, and a seer in the Buddhist poetics of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder. Those are only the locations; deeper underneath, the substance of her many lives created, over forty-five years, a new poetic freedom. Based on frank and sensual observation, an innovating line, a sometimes acerbic wit, and a devotion to the 'golden root' of compassion, Kyger's poetry continues to win her the admiration of numerous generations.
Joining us for Kyger's reading will be her friend, the poet Michael Rothenberg, who edited As Ever, Kyger's selected poems, for Penguin Books in 2002. Rothenberg, author of Unhurried Vision, has recently relocated to the Russian River area and will be on hand to introduce her. We will also show Kyger's 1968 video, "Descartes."
* Two previously unpublished poems by Joanne Kyger are featured in the new anthology "Last Night's Dream Corrected". (Link). An epic new journal poem "Éire" and others by Michael Rothenberg are also included, as well as new poetry by Bill Berkson, Ira Cohen, Mikey Delgado and others.
Every year the board of directors of Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center votes a Lifetime Achievement Award to a living writer of distinction. Past honorees have included Barbara Guest, Jackson Mac Low, and Carl Rakosi. The latest recipient of SPT's Lifetime Achievement Award is Joanne Kyger.
Joanne Kyger made an auspicious debut as the golden girl of the Spicer-Duncan circle of the late 1950s in San Francisco. Within a month of her arrival everyone wanted a piece of Kyger, and she became associated with many of the fluid, mercurial poetry scenes around the "New American Poetry." Like her best writing, she was everywhere at once, deep inside the Beat movement, all over Japan and India, up and down the San Francisco Renaissance, steeped in Charles Olson's polis-based soul curriculum, our ambassador to the New York scenes of Ted Berrigan and Anne Waldman, the mainstay of Bolinas, and a seer in the Buddhist poetics of the Jack Kerouac School at Naropa University in Boulder. Those are only the locations; deeper underneath, the substance of her many lives created, over forty-five years, a new poetic freedom. Based on frank and sensual observation, an innovating line, a sometimes acerbic wit, and a devotion to the 'golden root' of compassion, Kyger's poetry continues to win her the admiration of numerous generations.
Joining us for Kyger's reading will be her friend, the poet Michael Rothenberg, who edited As Ever, Kyger's selected poems, for Penguin Books in 2002. Rothenberg, author of Unhurried Vision, has recently relocated to the Russian River area and will be on hand to introduce her. We will also show Kyger's 1968 video, "Descartes."
* Two previously unpublished poems by Joanne Kyger are featured in the new anthology "Last Night's Dream Corrected". (Link). An epic new journal poem "Éire" and others by Michael Rothenberg are also included, as well as new poetry by Bill Berkson, Ira Cohen, Mikey Delgado and others.
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