March 14/With + Stand Reading

WHAT:
Sideways or in a straight line. Contributors from With + Stand - Joshua Clover, Dan Thomas-Glass, Meg Hamill, Jen Hofer, Tim Kreiner, and Juliana Spahr - move in “modern” poetic circles in this ninth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.

With + Stand is a journal of poetry & prose which gestures/thinks in around with through & against histories (of capital & labor flows global markets trade agreements arts forms bodies states cities societies resistances migrations movements ideologies ideas etc.) and systems. With + Stand is individually edited by Dan Thomas-Glass, and collectively edited through an extended game of tag (contributors are it, tag new contributors), mapping the connections (physical, social, aesthetic, formal) between the workers & their work. Through two issues the experiment has included: Ange Mlinko, Anne Boyer, Barry Schwabsky, Ben Lerner, Bill Freind, Chris Nealon, Dan Thomas-Glass, Derek Henderson, Erica Lewis, Francisco Reinking, Jen Hofer, Joshua Clover, Juliana Spahr, Kristen Orser, Meg Hamill, Megan Kaminski, Michael Scharf, Noah Eli Gordon, Phoebe Wayne, Rodrigo Toscano, Tim Kreiner, and Vivek Narayanan. The journal is always spraypainted by a series of hands, and always distributed for free.

Joshua Clover is a former music critic, legal editor, and bookstore clerk. His most recent book, The Totality for Kids, was published in 2006 by University of California, which will also publish his forthcoming cultural history, 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About (2009).


Meg Hamill's second book Trillions & Trillions of Heartbeats is sitting in many heavy boxes in her living room. She currently lives in Santa Rosa, California, where she works as a freelance writer/editor, and as a teacher with California Poets in the Schools.

Jen Hofer's recent publications include an epistolary and poetic collaboration with Patrick Durgin, The Route (Atelos, 2008), a translation of books two and three of Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008), and lip wolf, a translation of Laura Solórzano's lobo de labio (Action Books, 2007). Forthcoming books include from the valley of death (Ponzipo), Laws (Dusie Books) and a book-length series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press).

Tim Kreiner is a sometime editor, occasional tutor, and reluctant clerk of modernity passing the buck in seminar rooms. In between things, he is the author of some poems.

Dan Thomas-Glass is the editor and publisher of With + Stand. He is writing a dissertation on language poetry and rap music as read through the various lenses of globalization, 1970s urban policy, and the crushed collectives of the 1960s. His poems have appeared in Tarpaulin Sky, BLACKBOX, Caffeine Destiny, Digital Artifact, Shampoo, Kitchen Sink, and others. He has a project on the 880 freeway (which he drives every day to teach 8th grade) forthcoming at Deep Oakland.

Juliana Spahr’s most recent book is _the Transformation_ (Atelos P).


WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, SF

TICKETS:
Open to the public ($5 at the door)



Coming up next: April 11, 8pm – Jennifer Manzano, Brent Cunningham, and Stacy Doris on “memory” . . .