Donna Stonecipher
15.03.2007
Lesung
Donna Stonecipher
Samstag, 17. März 2007
18 Uhr, Galerie inges, Berlin
Lyrik aus ihrem gerade veröffentlichten Buch "Souvenir de Constantinople"
(in englischer Sprache)
Donna Stonecipher grew up in Seattle and Teheran. She studied at the
University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she received her MFA in 2001.
She is the author of The Reservoir (University of Georgia Press, 2002),
and Souvenir de Constantinople (Instance Press, 2007). Her own poems and
her translations of French and German poems have been published in many
journals. She currently lives in Berlin.
BARETT WATTEN / CARLA HARRYMAN
16.05.2006
Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006, 20 Uhr
Kochhannstraße 14 B
The two American experimentalists, known both as pivotal figures of the
Language Poetry movement of the early 1970's and as continuing innovators
in the exploration of language not simply as a vehicle for preexisting
meanings but as a system with its own rules and operations, will read current
prose, poetry, plays and genre-crossing texts.
Carla Harryman is known for her genre-disrupting experimental writings,
available in recent collections such as There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn
(City Lights), The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul
Sartre (O Books), Gardener of Stars (Atelos), and Baby (Adventures in Poetry).
One of the original innovators of San Francisco Poets Theater, her avant-garde
theater pieces have been staged in San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Montreal,
Auckland, Austria, the U.K., and Germany. She is a contributor to and
co-editor of the recently released volume of essays, Lust for Life: On the
Writings of Kathy Acker (Verso). Harryman teaches at Wayne State University
in Detroit. // http://performingobjects.com/
Barrett Watten's collected earlier poems, Frame: 1971-1990, appeared from
Sun & Moon in 1997; Bad History, an experimental work on poetry and history,
from Atelos in 1998; Progress/Under Erasure, a collection of two long poems,
from Green Integer in 2005. He has collaborated on two multi-authored
experimental works: Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (Mercury
House, 1992) and The Grand Piano, now being written online; as well as edited
the influential language-centered magazine This and co-edited Poetics Journal.
His critical study The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural
Poetics (Wes˙leyan, 2003), received the René Wellek Prize in 2004. He teaches
modernist studies and poetics at Wayne State University, and was recently a
Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2005.
He is residing in Berlin in May and June 2006. //
http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten MADE IN CHICAGO
02.12.2005
2.12.2005, 20.00 Uhr, Lesung und Videoscreening: Made in Chicago
Jesse Seldess "In Contact" Poetry
Leonie Weber "Are You Lonesome Tonight" Kurzfilm
Kristin Schulz "Open end. Chicago" aus dem Buch Das Elsterneinmaleins
Die drei Vortragenden lernten sich in Chicago kennen und die an diesem Abend
gezeigten und vorgetragenen Arbeiten sind Made in Chicago.
Jesse Seldess wird das Gedicht "In Contact" vortragen, das auf Erfahrungen im
Umgang mit Alzheimer Patienten in einem Chicagoer Pflegezentrum reagiert.
Leonie Weber zeigt ihren Kurzfilm "Are You Lonesome Tonight", den sie Anfang
diesen Jahres in Chicago mit Laiendarstellern drehte und Kristin Schulz wird
die Kurzgeschichte "Open end. Chicago" aus ihrem kürzlich erschienenen
Band "Das Elsterneinmaleins" lesen.