Check out this interview (BOMBsite.com) with Tan Lin, author of Seven Controlled Vocabularies:
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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 National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Council for the Humanities.
$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
Be sure to check out Brenda Hillman’s latest book, Practical Water, recipient of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
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.
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 well as intellectual. The attempt at reconstructing, or more precisely, experiencing, the physical aspect of Fuller’s performances dictates her understanding and analysis of the choreographies. The exploration begins as we witness the performer slipping into the costume and preparing for the performance; this performer is Cooper Albright. … Kinetic knowledge opens a vital dimension that purely literary examinations of dance often miss or misunderstand.” -Marion Kant, Dance Research Journal, Summer 2010
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 to be embodied, refigured, and passed on through this art form. Her thoughtful analyses build from this lived experience as the ground upon which the cogent, meticulous, narrations that she develops can inform the reader most clearly, and signify with the utmost richness and intensity.”
Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 69, Issue 1
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.
Harriet Harris reads “Any fool can get into an ocean…” by Jack Spicer
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As poetry month comes to a close, we hope you enjoy this reading of “Any fool can get into an ocean…” by Jack Spicer, from the spoken-word album Poetic License.
