Click here to read a thoughtful Q&A with Kazim Ali, on American poetry, from the Poetry Society of America.
Kazim is the author of Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities.
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Balasaraswati reviewed in Ballet Magazine
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Douglas M. Knight’s book Balasaraswati: Her Art and Life, was reviewed in Ballet Magazine. Read the review here.
Marcia Siegel receives Selma Jeanne Cohen Memorial Prize
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Marcia B. Siegel’s book Mirrors and Scrims: The Life and Afterlife of Ballet is the recipient of the 2010 Selma Jeanne Cohen Memorial Prize offered by the American Society for Aesthetics, for outstanding work in dance theory, dance history, or dance aesthetics.
Rae Armantrout Reading at San Diego Museum of Art
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Rae Armantrout will be reading at the San Diego Museum of Art on August 19th at 6:15, as part of their Summer Salon Series.
For more details go to their web site: www.sdmart.org
Practical Water review in Keyon Review
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Brenda Hillman’s Practical Water was reviewed in The Kenyon Review.
“A collection as wise as it is finely crafted, Brenda Hillman’s Practical Water is a remarkable addition to this accomplished poet’s body of work.”
Click here to read the full review
At left, Brenda Hillman, Robert Hass, and Jack Shoemaker at the Los Angeles Times Book Prize event. At right is Brenda’s award-winning book, Practical Water.
Tan Lin and friends at Printed Matter
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Tan Lin, author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies, will be celebrating at a Republication Party at Printed Matter.
July 29th, 5:00 PM
195 Tenth Ave.
New York, NY
Printed Matter presents Tan Lin, Danny Snelson, and friends at this Republication Party for the volumes republished at the Kelly House Event. This event will celebrate the publications created at the “On-the-Spot Republication Event” held at Kelly Writer’s House on April 21st, where a team of poet-editors (including Chris Alexander, Alejandro Crawford, Kareem Estefan, J. Gordon Faylor, Kristen Gallagher, Lawrence Giffin, Diana Hamilton, Eddie Hopely, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Patrick Lovelace, Jeremy Thompson, Sara Wintz, and Al Filreis) worked with Tan Lin in the republishing of Seven Controlled Vocabularies on the spot in a variety of formats. The works included Handmade book, PDF, lulu.com, Appendix, Powerpoint, Kanban Board/Post-Its, Blurbs, Dual Language (Chinese/English) Edition, micro lecture, Selectric II interview, wine/cheese reception, Q&A (xerox), and a film. These items will be on hand at Printed Matter on June 24th. Join the discussion on what constitutes a “book” in the digital age! Read more about this project at the EDIT Web site.
(212) 925-0325
Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction receives starred review from PW.
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“No institutional library should be without this truly phenomenal volume, and non-academic readers will greatly appreciate the bargain-basement price on the trade paperback edition.” –Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Tan Lin, author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies, on the air
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Listen to an interview with Tan Lin from The Marketplace of Ideas.
Kazim Ali, author of Bright Felon, interviewed on Radio Tahrir
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Check out this podcast from Radio Tahrir, an interview with Kazim Ali, author of Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities.
Kazuo Ohno, a Founder of Japanese Butoh, Dies at 103
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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 Here.
Please visit the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.
Wesleyan University Press is proud to have published Kazuo Ohno’s World: from without & within.
