from The New York Times obituary: Kazuo Ohno, a founder of Butoh, the influential Japanese dance-theater form whose traditional look of darkness and decay evoked for many the horrors of the wartime bombings of Japan, died on Tuesday in Yokohama, Japan. He was 103 and had continued to perform beyond his 100th year. Continue Reading…
Interview with Tan Lin from BOMB magazine
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Check out this interview (BOMBsite.com) with Tan Lin, author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies:
Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass at Poets House, May 27th
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Elements & Energies: Robert Hass & Brenda Hillman on Poetry, Ecology & Environmental Action. The two poets share their experiences of activism and writing in response to the natural world.Part of Ecopoetic Futures, a series of events that examine poetry and the environment. Programs in this series are funded, in part, by grants from the…
Rae Armantrout interivew, May 20th, 11AM EST
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Listen to Rae Armantrout, author of VERSED, talk about her work. Tune in to ON POINT at 11AM on May 20th. http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/05/poet-rae-armantrout
Traces of Light reviewed in Dance Research Journal
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A review of Ann Cooper Albright’s Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loie Fuller is found in the Summer 2010 edition of Dance Research Journal. “Cooper Albright’s research method—an ‘embodied approach’—is dictated by her own career as a dancer and much ‘gut feeling.’ Her flamboyant appropriation of Fuller is physical as…
Adrian Blevins reviewed in Poetry magazine
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Adrian Blevins’ Live from the Homesick Jamboree was reviewed in the latest issue of Poetry magazine.
Rae Armantrout in The New Yorker
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An article on Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout can be found in the latest issue of The New Yorker.
Sensational Knowledge reviewed in the Journal of Asian Studies
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“With Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance, Tomie Hahn has produced an extraordinary study of the complex ways in which nihon buyô, a form of traditional Japanese dance, is transmitted and translated between bodies. Hahn mines her lifelong experience as a dancer in the Tachibana school as a means of exploring how culture comes…
Composer John Luther Adams receives Nemmers Composition Prize
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John Luther Adams, author of Winter Music and The Place Where You Go To Listen, has received the Nemmers Prize in Music Composition. In addition to a cash award, his work will be performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
New poems by Rae Armantrout in Poetry magazine
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Read some new work by Rae Armantrout here, from Poetry magazine.
