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SEGUE READINGS AT MIXCLOUD

A bevy of readings from the Segue Foundation are now archived at MixCloud. My 2017 reading from The Republic of Exit 43 (in which I got to perform “Err-Residence” in multiple languages with the inimitable Anna Vitale) lives here:

Check the whole series out!

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BETWEEN POETRY & PAINTING (TANG CHANG)

Gallery Talk Between Poetry and Painting, Language and Gesture Jennifer Scappettone on International Visual and Concrete Poetry Saturday, July 14, 3 pm Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago

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Join Jennifer Scappettone, poet and Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature, as she reflects on international poetry movements as context for works on view in the Smart Museum’s special exhibition Tang Chang: The Painting that is Painted with Poetry Is Profoundly Beautiful.

Tang Chang pioneered a new style of visual poetry in his native Thailand, often repeating words and phrases drawn from his observations of daily life. The resulting poem-drawings have a visual relationship to the Concrete Poetry produced in the middle of the 20th century in South America, Europe, and Japan.

FREE, open to all.

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About Jennifer Scappettone’s work blends scholarly research, translation, and the literary, visual and performing arts. She is the author of the cross-genre verse books From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009) and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump (Atelos Press, 2017), and of the critical study Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice (Columbia University Press, 2014). Her translations of the polyglot poet and refugee from Fascist Italy Amelia Rosselli were collected in an award-winning volume called Locomotrix (University of Chicago Press, 2012). Visual poems of hers have been installed and performed by dancers and musicians at locations ranging from WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles, to Trajan’s aqueduct in Rome, to Fresh Kills Landfill. She is an associate professor at the University of Chicago.

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Image: Tang Chang, Person Killing Person, 1969. (คน  Person; ฆ่ากัน  Killing each other; คน  Person)

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Smart Museum of Art The University of Chicago 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue Chicago, IL 60637

smartmuseum.uchicago.edu facebook.com/smartmuseum @SmartUChicago

Hours Tuesday–Sunday 10 am–5 pm Thursday until 8 pm

Galleries closed Monday and holidays Café and Shop open daily

Admission is always free. All are welcome.

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LITERATURE AS PERFORMATIVE WRITING

Iulia Militaru, poet, artist, and publisher of FrACTalia Press, wrote compellingly about The Republic of Exit 43 in two issues of Revista—ARTA, a Bucharest journal, in Romanian and in English:

Manifest(ation) between Literature as Censorship and the Censorship of Literature

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Literature As Performative Writing

Here is an excerpt: “The Republic of Exit 43 shows how the world colonized by Alice has been “cultivated”, how the extra-human has been appropriated and introduced into the economic circuit, how its growth can be obtained through added chemical substances, fertilizers that accelerate its production, the consequences of visibility, knowledge etc. Wonderland/Underland is in no way a utopia, nor a dystopia, it does not create a possible world, for it is a realm of the non-creative, of repetition, refraction and imitation, a place for discursive remains but also home to extra-linguistic realities (the problem of pollution and waste from big companies and institutions)….It refracts not only the field elements, but also its structure, resulting in a figure that hides and through which the excess of seen reality is granted to invisibility, [so] it becomes invested with power (“Not to render the invisible visible, but to bruise and multiply the channels of its invisibility” – Scappettone, p. 44). Jennifer Scappettone might provide the best answer for all these questions on performative literature, especially for those questions that demonstrate how literature can become a performative act. Although an art of memory, of memoirism or, quite the opposite, of possible worlds, utopias, it can sometimes position itself on the line that separates them, thus becoming a frontier art through which the archived past that was passed on in the form of ascertaining descriptive discourse  becomes action, present action played out for the receiver not through the technique of representation but via direct participation – the authorial voice will have been canceled because, in the midst of total nonsense, we allow ourselves to be talked, we do not talk…. Performative literature therefore remains a laboratory where history is replayed, reassembled in order to make use of its waste, materials that have been used and abandoned – not the significance of the material itself, but what it can do, its manner of action.”

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ON BINDING, AT THE GRAY CENTER

Chicago! Be here Wednesday, 5:30-8 pm, for a conversation about binding at the Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry, in amazing company:

Gray Center Lab, 929 E 60th Street, Chicago, IL

Studio R-A presents: Assemblage Assembly “On Binding” with Ann Hamilton, Buzz Spector, Jessica Stockholder, Sreedeep Bhattacharya, Jennifer Scappettone and Bill Brown, Ted Brown, Zachary Cahill, Gabe Moreno and Brandon Truett. Food and drink will be served.

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EXIT 43 @ CROSS-CULTURAL POETICS

The great poet and master of conversation Leonard Schwartz of Evergreen College was kind enough to invite me for an interview on the radio for Cross-Cultural Poetics again this Winter. Our chat, which was about my book The Republic of Exit 43, and about garbage and the book as non-site and Dante and Alice Notley and other inspirations, is archived at this link courtesy of PennSound:

https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/groups/XCP/378-386/XCP_380_Scappettone-Jennifer_2-6-18.mp3

Please have a summer listen!

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SMELTING POT

I’m excited to share new work produced for the US Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, included in the catalog for Dimensions of Citizenship and published simultaneously by e-flux architecture: a piece commissioned specifically to address the question of Citizenship at the scale of the Globe.

My essay presents two New York City monuments—the Statue of Liberty and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum—as expressions of a smelted citizenship produced by the transnational copper extraction economy needed for the electrification and advanced telecommunications systems of the twentieth century and beyond, against the fiction of the US as melting pot.

The essay lives here: https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/dimensions-of-citizenship/178281/smelting-pot/

Foot of the Statue of Liberty. Image courtesy of National Park Service.

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FEMINIST POETICS, EMERGENT PEDAGOGIES

FEMINIST POETICS, EMERGENT PEDAGOGIES

Symposium: Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogies Los Angeles, CA  May 11 & 12, 2018 Hosted by Margaret Rhee and Andrea Quaid

All events free and open to the public.

I’m excited for this week’s Feminist Poetics, Emerging Pedagogies symposium in Los Angeles. I’ll be on a panel discussion Friday with Tia Blassingame, erika kaufman, and Celina Su at 1:30 pm, participating in a  group reading at the Poetic Research Bureau that night, and giving a workshop on Saturday at 1:30. The website is here: http://www.feministpoeticsemergentpedagogies.com/

My workshop will be about language as somatic connection:

Fully Wired & Hanging by a Thread: Choreographing a Rendezvous with the Radical Past “[M]en have successively conquered a sense of the house, the neighborhood in which they live, the city, the region, the continent,” wrote F.T. Marinetti in his 1913 manifesto on the “wireless imagination”: “Today man possesses a sense of the world; he has only a modest need to know what his forebears have done, but a burning need to know what his contemporaries are doing in every part of the globe.” How can we construct a feminist response to these claims in the 21st century? The Futurists’ call for a globalized and strictly contemporary imagination has been consummated in the age of teeming landfills and the digital cloud—an environment that promises more access to information about the past than ever, but relies on amnesia and the ruse of disembodiment in order to progress.

This is a laboratory for scoring alternative fates by remembering, ragpicking, weaving, and performing somatic scores of connection to radical elders, resisting patriarchal history and the amnesia of the virtual feed. Departing from the two dimensions of the screen and page, we will tap the deep past of poetics and generate our own webs of memory and unlearning in the spirit of Cecilia Vicuña’s “Word and Thread”: “A word once written risks becoming linear, but word and thread exist on another dimensional plane. Vibratory forms in space and in time. Acts of union and separation.” Through experiments in pulling words and ephemeral artifacts into lines and knots, we will score cross-historical communications outtakes, playing with the kinetic possibilities of entangled language. Logistics: Needles and kite string will be provided; participants are asked to bring along some text and/or a series of small, light, cheap, disposable objects that they may associate with a cherished figure from another generation.

  Symposium Schedule

Friday, May 11

at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010

12:00-1:15         Welcome, opening remarks with Andrea & Margaret, and potluck

1:30-3:00         Featured Speaker Roundtable: Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogies Tia Blassingame, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, erica kaufman, Jennifer Scappettone, Celina Su

3:15-4:45          Panel: Collaboration, Community, Solidarity  Emma Gomis and Corinne Dekkers: A Poetics of Convergence Jen Hofer and traci kato-kiriyama: Solidarity as Lens, Listening as Spark

5:00-6:00        Workshop: Improvising the World – a Radical Pedagogical Activity/Experiment Breakout Session Ching-In Chen

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Poetry Reading with symposium participants  at Poetic Research Bureau, 951 Chung King Road, LA 90012 7:30: Doors open; 8:00: Reading 

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Saturday, May 12  at Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90010

9:00-10:30       Panel: Feminist Technologies, Utopias, Digitality  Mashinka Firunts: Feminist Interventions in Bot Pedagogy Alexandra Juhasz: Fake News Poetry Workshop Eireene Nealand: Coordinative Architectures: Embodying Social Media Janet Sarbanes: Reframing the House of Dust at CalArts: A Meditation on Radical Pedagogy

10:45-12:15       Panel: Troubling the Human Animal “I” Gabrielle Civil, Brenda Iijima, Janice Lee, Soham Patel

12:15-1:15          Lunch

1:30-2:45          Featured Speaker Workshops (concurrent sessions)  Sign up here!  Tia Blassingame: Primrose Press ‘Zine Workshop Lynne DeSilva-Johnson: emBODY Work / Student emBODY :: The Radical Recentering of Somatic Experience in Practices and Pedagogy erica kaufman: “it might be a large speech time”: epic feminisms, feminist epic Jennifer Scappettone: Fully Wired & Hanging by a Thread: Choreographing a Rendezvous with the Radical Past Celina Su: Engaging Documentation as Intervention: Refusals, Subtexts, Polyvocalities as Poetic Practices

3:00-4:30        Panel: Diasporic Hybrid Poetics & Pedagogies: Modalities of Renewal and Magik Angela Peñaredondo, Rachelle Cruz, Micah Tasaka, MT Vallarta

4:45-6:15         Panel: Classroom Embodiments, Archives, and Self-Care   Liz Asch Greenhill: Self-Care Now: Experiencing the Poetics of Embodied Lyric Language Amanda Montei: Maternal Embodiment in the College Classroom Jon Rutzmoser: Practicing Neuroqueerness: Towards a Pedagogy of Dis-Rhetoricity Adrienne Walser: Our Education Commitments: Public-School Teaching and Feminist Pedagogy

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POETRY & GOTHIC INFRASTRUCTURE

Thursday, May 10, University of Washington, Bothell, 8-9:30 pm (room TBA):

Poetry, Gossip, Gothic Infrastructure, with Jennifer Scappettone

Free and open to the public

https://www.facebook.com/events/105095773679734/

  Jennifer Scappettone works at the crossroads of writing, translation, and research—on the page and off. She is the author of the cross-genre verse books From Dame Quickly and The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump, and of the critical study Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, which was a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association Annual Book Prize.

Her translations of the polyglot poet and musicologist Amelia Rosselli were collected in Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, which won the Academy of American Poets’ Raiziss/De Palchi Prize. Recent writings can be found in journals such as Asymptote, Boston Review, boundary2, Critical Inquiry, Jacket2, and Nuovi argomenti; in the collections The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention, and The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics; and in the upcoming catalog for the US Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale, Dimensions of Citizenship.

She has collaborated on site-specific works with a wide spectrum of designers and performing artists—including Judd Morrissey, Abraham Avnisan, Mark Booth, Caroline Bergvall, Marco Ariano, Kathy Westwater, AGENCY Architecture, and Paul Rudy—at locations ranging from the tract of Trajan’s aqueduct below the American Academy in Rome to the São Bento Monastery in Porto—and most recently, at 6018|North for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Installations of her visual poetry were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles. She is Associate Professor at the University of Chicago.

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POETICS & PRECARITY NOW OUT!

now out!:

POETICS AND PRECARITY, edited by Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6568-poetics-and-precarity.aspx Contents: Introduction / Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller Breath and Precarity: The Inaugural Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics / Nathaniel Mackey The Ga(s)p / M. NourbeSe Philip Precarity Shared: Breathing as Tactic in Air’s Uneven Commons / Jennifer Scappettone On Not Missing It / Elizabeth Willis Here and Elsewhere: Creeley’s Notions of Community and Teaching as Circulation / Vincent Broqua Constructive Alterities & the Agonistic Feminine / Joan Retallack Precarity, Poetry, and the Practice of Countermapping / Adelaide Morris and Stephen Voyce Supine, Prone, Precarious / Sarah Dowling The Opening of the (Transnational Battle) Field / Heriberto Yépez

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QUADRILATERAL EXPERIMENT IN CRITICISM (& READING)

Today and tomorrow, in Colorado:

Panel on Experimental Criticism with Ashon Crawley (Black Pentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility), Sasha Steensen (Gatherest, House of Deer, and other works), Jennifer Scappettone (Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice), and Brian Blanchfield (Proxies: Essays Near Knowing, and other works).

Friday, April 20 at 4:30pm to 6:00pm

University of Colorado, Boulder

Hellems Arts and Sciences, 115 1550 Central Campus Mall, Boulder, CO 80309

Reading: Ashon Crawley with Sasha Steenson and Jennifer Scappettone

On Saturday, April 21, from 5-7pm, Counterpath (7935 Easat 14th Ave., in Denver) is excited to host a talk with Ashon Crawley, author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility (Fordham UP, 2017). Also presenting from new work will be Jennifer Scappetone and Sasha Steenson. The event is free and open to the public, and is also a pot luck early dinner (main dish provided but please bring what you can!).

Free and open to the public

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POETRY & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Today at 1:30! Poetry and environmental justice, with outtakes into and out of books, dance, lyrics. Free and open to the public at Cal State LA.

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TRANSLATION AS LITERARY EXPERIMENT

Hear ye, hear ye:

Panel discussion on “Translation as Literary Experiment” with Anne Cheng, Stéphane Feuillas, Judith Zeitlin, Jennifer Scappettone, Rachel Galvin, Michael Bourdaghs, Haun Saussy, and Brook Ziporyn

Thursday, April 12

1:00 pm, Classics 110, University of Chicago

Translation, we often think, owes a responsibility to the past— to the already-written text that is being recreated in a new language. But translation also has been known to permit experiment in the language of arrival: to say what has gone unsaid, to try out broken idioms, to give free rein to fantasies of otherness, to imagine ruptures with the present. And there is a venerable tradition of original works being presented to a suspicious public under the cover of “translation” (when there was in fact no original to translate). In coordination with the visits of Anne Cheng (Collège de France) and Stéphane Feuillas (Université de Paris – Diderot), a group of translators and theorists of translation has been assembled to seek collective insight into the future-facing, precedent-breaking aspects of translation into various languages.

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SPRING EVENTS

Many language events are being churned for this Spring. Here are some that I’ll be involved in, starting tomorrow:

Friday, March 29, American Comparative Literature Association conference, UCLA: 8:30 am, presenting work on the Statue of Liberty, smelted citizenship, and poetic forms of protest, Haines 118 4-5:30 pm, reading poetry alongside the singular Keston Sutherland, Schoenberg Hall, room 1100 6-8 pm, reading a smidgeon alongside featured readers Will Alexander, Evelyn Reilly, and Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, and also Kristin George Bagdanov, Chris Chen, Margaret Ronda, Eric Sneathen, Jeanne Vaccaro, and Stephanie Young, Faculty Common Room 193, Humanities Building

Thursday, April 12, University of Chicago, 1 pm: panel on literary translation with Haun Saussy, Anne Cheng (from Collège de France) and Stéphane Feuillas (from Paris-8)

Thursday, April 19, Cal State Los Angeles: reading and speaking on poetry and environmental justice, 1:30-3 pm

Friday, April 20, University of Colorado at Boulder: Innovative Criticism symposium, with Ashon Crawley, Sasha Steensen, and Brian Branchfield, 5-7 pm Saturday, April 21, Counterpath Gallery, Denver: readings/performances and potluck with Ashon Crawley, Sasha Steensen, and Brian Branchfield, 5-7 pm

Thursday, May 9, University of Washington, Bothell: reading and talk about poetry and gothic infrastructure, 8-10 pm

Friday-Saturday May 10-11, Los Angeles: Feminist Poetics, Emergent Pedagogies Symposium, Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Chinatown: presenting on panel and giving workshop on generative forms of waste, plus Friday night reading at Poetic Research Bureau, with Tia Blassingame, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Erika Kaufman, and Celina Su, hosted by Margaret Rhee and Andrea Quaid: Submit! at http://www.feministpoeticsemergentpedagogies.com

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IMMIGRANT UNDERGROUND

Judd Morrissey and I will be at the Poetry Foundation this coming week  to present excerpts from our ongoing collaborative project with Abraham Avnisan, LAMENT: Or, The Mine has been Opened Up Well, placing the buried voices of immigrant laborers into dialogue with the palimpsestic refugee histories featured in Ellen Rothenberg’s exhibition ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant.

Poetry Foundation, Thursday 3/1/18, 7 pm

61 W Superior St Chicago, Illinois 60654

The Facebook event page is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1550266195070480/

In conjunction with Ellen Rothenberg’s exhibition at the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership, experience an evening of readings and performances by writer and translator Nathanaël, artist and translator Jennifer Scappettone, and writer and code artist Judd Morrissey. This presentation, like the exhibition, considers connections between past and contemporary issues of migration.

Spertus Institute has commissioned a site-specific installation by internationally-acclaimed, Chicago-based artist Ellen Rothenberg. Entitled ISO 6346: ineluctable immigrant, it will be on view in the Institute’s Ground Level Gallery through April 22, 2018. With this work, Rothenberg prompts visitors to consider connections between past and contemporary issues of migration. The project is inspired by objects and documents that Rothenberg uncovered in the Spertus collection — as well as research she pursued in Berlin at Germany’s largest refugee camp, currently housed in the monumental Tempelhof Airport, a disused site that was originally designed and built by the Nazis.

Cosponsored with the Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership: http://poet.ly/CR4530hZVl7

SAVAGENESS, 6018|North/Chicago Architecture Biennial, September 2018. Photo courtesy of Ji Yang.

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TRANSLATION ACROSS THE IRON CURTAIN

With Lyn Hejinian and Ilya Kutik, Chicago, 1/24/18. There will be readings, aphoristic and poetic, and discussion about, for instance, clashes of sound, sense, idiomatic language, translation and xenophobia, the corpus of Cicero’s correspondence, the generativity of sincere misunderstanding, the sociohistoric import of poets who learn and experiment in other languages. Be there or square!

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POETICS & PRECARITY

I’m really honored to be part of this volume framed around Nathaniel Mackey’s stunning and crucial essay on breath and precarity, alongside admired colleagues. Edited by Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller, and coming in June from SUNY Press. Look out for it!

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6568-poetics-and-precarity.aspx

“Poets and critics address the potential of language to address the increasing level of discord and precarity in the twenty-first century.

“At a time when wars, acts of terrorism, and ecological degradation have intensified and isolationism, misogyny, and ethnic divisiveness have been given distinctively more powerful voice in public discourse, language itself often seems to have failed. The poets and critics in this book argue that language has the potential to address this increasing level of discord and precarity, and they negotiate ways to understand poetics, or the role of the poetic, in relation to language, the body politic, the human body, breath, the bodies of the natural environment, and the body of form.

“Poetry makes urgent issues audible and poetics helps to theorize those issues into critical consciousness. Poetry also functions as a cry to protest late capitalist imperialism, misogyny, racism, climate change, and all the debilitating conditions of everyday life. Hubs of concern merge and diverge; precarity takes differently gendered, historied, embodied, geopolitical manifestations. The contributors articulate a poetics that renders what has not yet been crystallized as discourse into fields of force. They also acknowledge the beauties of sound, poetry, and music, and celebrate the power of community, marking the surge of energy that can occur at a particular place at a particular moment. Ultimately, Poetics and Precarity fosters further conversations that will imagine the concerns of poetics as a continuously emerging field.”

Contents:

Introduction / Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller

Breath and Precarity: The Inaugural Robert Creeley Lecture in Poetry and Poetics / Nathaniel Mackey

The Ga(s)p / M. NourbeSe Philip

Precarity Shared: Breathing as Tactic in Air’s Uneven Commons / Jennifer Scappettone

On Not Missing It / Elizabeth Willis

Here and Elsewhere: Creeley’s Notions of Community and Teaching as Circulation / Vincent Broqua

Constructive Alterities & the Agonistic Feminine / Joan Retallack

Precarity, Poetry, and the Practice of Countermapping / Adalaide Morris and Stephen Voyce

Supine, Prone, Precarious / Sarah Dowling

The Opening of the (Transnational Battle) Field / Heriberto Yépez

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TECHNICIANS OF THE SACRED @ 50

Please join us at the Poetic Research Bureau this evening to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jerome Rothenberg’s rotten-myth-quashing, secularly-sacred-myth-reinforcing Technicians of the Sacred: in the shadow of Thanks-taking. I’ll be reading Quechua poems against settler colonialist bosses without mouths, and interpreting poems about murder-by-dissection from Blake and Jordan Abel.

As 5 Every Day describes the event:

Just about fifty years ago, the poet John Rothenberg published “Technicians of the Sacred,” an unusual anthology pairing avant-garde and experimental poetry from the West with folk songs, artworks, and ritual texts from cultures across the world. In doing so, he created the theory and field of “ethnopoetics,” a formal approach to transcribing oral traditions into poetic text that conveys the power and beauty of those performances on the page, and suggests that poetic literature is larger than geographic, temporal, or cultural boundaries could ever contain. The book has become a landmark, and is now going into its third edition. To celebrate, Rothenberg himself will make an appearance tonight at Chinatown’s Poetic Research Bureau, for a reading and discussion co-presented by The Library Foundation of Los Angeles. With poets David Shook, Harmony Holiday, Will Alexander, Douglas Messerli, and Jennifer Scappettone.

Chinatown 951 Chung King Los Angeles, CA Price: FREE!

Time: 7:30 PM → 10:00 PM

More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/155119055096825/

Tickets: https://www.facebook.com/events/155119055096825/

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