2015 Conference, Brussels, Belgium
4th Annual Meeting of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
28-31 October 2015, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Thursday, October 29, 2015; 8 – 10 pm
POETRY, MUSIC & PERFORMANCE EVENING with
Anne WALDMAN, Eric ANDERSEN, Penny SKILLMAN, Ulrich ROIS, and many others …
2015 Conference, Brussels, Belgium
4th Annual Meeting of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
28-31 October 2015, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Thursday, October 29, 2015; 2 – 3:30 pm
Panel 8: Re-Inventing Territories of the Imagination I: New Readings of Anne Waldman
2015 Conference, Brussels, Belgium
4th Annual Meeting of the European Beat Studies Network (EBSN)
28-31 October 2015, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Thursday, October 29, 2015; 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
First Keynote: Anne Waldman
The Beat Legacy in the Anthropocene
HOWL
SPEECH IS NOT FREE:
60th Anniversary Celebration
PING-PONG FREE PRESS EXTRAVAGANZA
Speech is Not Free! 60th Anniversary of the publication of Howl, will celebrate this win for free speech with a Friday evening lineup: Ping-Pong poetry reading; choral reading of Howl, a performance by Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye, and a screening of the film Howl. Saturday we will have writing and performance workshops: Riot Writing: poems to start a revolution with Ping-Pong Free Press EIC Maria Garcia Teutsch; Performance and Poetry with Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye; and Freedom to Read presentation by Magnus Torén. There will also be an exhibit of rare books and letters. Saturday evening performances by Bob Forrest and Ian Brennan.
Friday Night:
7:00: Choral Reading Of Howl
Performance With Anne Waldman and Ambrose Bye
Screening of the film Howl by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman of Telling Pictures
Saturday Workshops: (Space Is Limited)
10-12: Riot Writing—Poems To Start A Revolution
12:30-2:30: Performance And Poetry
2:30: Freedom To Read
7:00: Performances by Ian Brennan (Grammy-winning author) & Bob Forrest (Thelonious Monster)
HENRY MILLER MEMORIAL LIBRARY
48603 HIGHWAY ONE, BIG SUR CA 93920
Reading and Launch of Barbaric Vast & Wild: Poems for the Millennium Vol. 5
A celebration of Barbaric Vast & Wild: Outside & Subterranean Poetry from Origins to Present, edited by Jerome Rothenberg & John Bloomberg-Rissman: a continuation and a possible culmination of the project that began with Rothenberg’s Technicians of the Sacred in 1968 and led to the first four volumes of Poems for the Millennium in the 1990s and 2000s. With Jerome Rothenberg, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Jennifer Bartlett, Charles Bernstein, Gary Sullivan, Cecilia Vicuña, and Anne Waldman.
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
In Search of Poetry Today: Toi Derricotte, Anne Waldman, and C. D. Wright
10:00–10:50 a.m.
The dissolution of genres. Poetry as drawing. The City of Poetry. The Country of Poetry. The Bomb Shelter of Poetry. The Tenant Farm of Poetry. The Exclusion Zone of Poetry. Poets Anonymous. Poetry’s Anomie—Academy Chancellors explore the shifting definition of the art form.
Purchase tickets at http://www.eventbrite.com/e/poets-forum-2015-october-8-10-tickets-17880472976
A reading by the Academy of American Poets Chancellors
Join us for an unforgettable evening as award-winning poets from across the U.S. who serve as Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets come together on one stage to share their poems. Featuring Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Mark Doty, Linda Gregerson, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alicia Ostriker, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, Arthur Sze, Anne Waldman, and C. D. Wright. Book signing to follow.
$15 REGULAR
$5 WITH STUDENT ID
Wednesday, October 7, 2015, 8:00 pm
With Sam Ace, Jen Benka, Charles Bernstein, Stephen Boyer, Alex Chee, r. erica doyle, Megan Fernandez, Adam Fitzgerald, Mira Gonzalez, Emily Gould, Patricia Spears Jones, erica kaufman, Porochista Khapour, Ben Lerner, Elinor Nauen, Trace Peterson, Ariana Reines, Jill Soloway, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Waldman, Joe Westmoreland, and Simone White.
Eileen Myles was born in Boston (1949) and she moved to New York in 1974 to be a poet. Educated at the poetry project by Violi, Notley, Berrigan & Zavatsky, Myles is the author of 19 books including new & selected poems I Must Be Living Twice & Chelsea Girls, Snowflake/different streets (poems, 2012) and Inferno (a poet’s novel) (2010). She’s a Guggenheim fellow and in 2014 received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art.
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
This event will be held in the Sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church.
Stieren Arts Enrichment Series: Anne Waldman
Monday, October 5, 2015, 7 – 9pm
Location: Chapman Center 142 – Great Hall
Anne Waldman is an internationally recognized poet who is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement. She is a distinguished professor and co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colo. Waldman is the author of more than 40 books, including Gossamurmur, Manatee/Humanity, and The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. Waldman has travelled internationally to perform her work, to places including Germany, Finland, France, Switzerland, and Morocco. Among other honors, Waldman is a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship and has been named as one of the top advocates for American poetry by The Huffington Post.
October 4, 2015, 7 pm, doors open at 6:15 pm
La MaMa ETC, Ellen Stewart Theatre
FREE to the public
Speakers:
Anne Waldman
Olympia Dukakis
Richard Schechner
Gordon Rogoff
Garrick Beck
and Special Guests
Music coordinated by Baba Israel
A special performance by The Living Theatre Ensemble
Refreshments will be served