WHAT:
Thing significance thing. And to retrieve it. Retains of a particular. Jennifer Manzano, Brent Cunningham, and Stacy Doris recall and recollect “memory” in this tenth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Jennifer Manzano mothers in Alameda, letterpresses in Oakland, and gets paid in San Francisco. She received her MFA from Mills College in 2007 and co-publishes olywa press with Michael Nicoloff. Recent work is in or on TRY!, the press gang, Cricket Online Review, and this is not a french press.
Brent Cunningham is a writer, publisher and visual artist currently living in Oakland with his fiancée and new daughter. His first book of poetry, Bird & Forest, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2005. He works for Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, serves on the board of Small Press Traffic in San Francisco, and helps coordinate the Artifact Reading Series in Oakland. In 2005, he and Neil Alger founded Hooke Press, a chapbook press dedicated to publishing short runs of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera, which can be found at hookepress.com.
Stacy Doris writes books in French and English and is also deeply involved with translating. Forthcoming from P.O.L. is Caroline Dubois and Anne Portugal’s rendition of her Krupskaya book Paramour. She is a Creative Writing professor at San Francisco State University.
WHEN:
Saturday, April 11, 8pm
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($5 at the door). Refreshments provided.
Coming up next: May 16, 8pm – Laurel DeCou, Stan Apps, and Bill Luoma on “the inarticulate”. . .
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Sunday, March 8, 2009
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” . . .
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” . . .
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
February 21/Samantha Giles/Brandon Brown/Lauren Shufran
WHAT:
It is true and not real and real and not true. Samantha Giles, Brandon Brown, and Lauren Shufran very or extremely contemplate “vérité” in this eighth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Samantha Giles recently received her MFA from Mills College where she was managing editor of the literary journal 580 Split. Her work has appeared at/in Deep Oakland, Vert, Work, The Press Gang, Shampoo, and Cricket Online Review.
Brandon Brown is a poet and translator from Kansas City, Missouri. Taxt Press published his chapbook Camels! (2008) and Mitzvah Press is publishing his chapbook Wondrous Things I Have Seen in 2009. He co-curates the (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand with Alli Warren.
Lauren Shufran has just rehydrated in order to write this bio. In her more regularly hydrated states, she is reading up on waste theory and working on an essay on gender and olfaction, as well as chasing a perpetual dream of knowing anything about the Arabic language. She received both her M.A. and her M.F.A. from San Francisco State University, where she practiced grammatical dismantling for four years, and now spends her evenings teaching high school students proper syntax. She’s trying to view this not as an ironic turn of events, but rather a digression back into structure.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
Coming up next: March 14, 8pm – movements in modernity with readers from With + Stand Magazine, featuring Joshua Clover, Dan Thomas-Glass, Meg Hamil, Jen Hofer, Timothy Kreiner, and Juliana Spahr . . .
It is true and not real and real and not true. Samantha Giles, Brandon Brown, and Lauren Shufran very or extremely contemplate “vérité” in this eighth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Samantha Giles recently received her MFA from Mills College where she was managing editor of the literary journal 580 Split. Her work has appeared at/in Deep Oakland, Vert, Work, The Press Gang, Shampoo, and Cricket Online Review.
Brandon Brown is a poet and translator from Kansas City, Missouri. Taxt Press published his chapbook Camels! (2008) and Mitzvah Press is publishing his chapbook Wondrous Things I Have Seen in 2009. He co-curates the (New) Reading Series at 21 Grand with Alli Warren.
Lauren Shufran has just rehydrated in order to write this bio. In her more regularly hydrated states, she is reading up on waste theory and working on an essay on gender and olfaction, as well as chasing a perpetual dream of knowing anything about the Arabic language. She received both her M.A. and her M.F.A. from San Francisco State University, where she practiced grammatical dismantling for four years, and now spends her evenings teaching high school students proper syntax. She’s trying to view this not as an ironic turn of events, but rather a digression back into structure.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
Coming up next: March 14, 8pm – movements in modernity with readers from With + Stand Magazine, featuring Joshua Clover, Dan Thomas-Glass, Meg Hamil, Jen Hofer, Timothy Kreiner, and Juliana Spahr . . .
Friday, December 26, 2008
January 17/Erika Staiti/Suzanne Stein/Dodie Bellamy
WHAT:
Was it divine intervention or did the devil make you do it? Do you blame your first English teacher or that old Beat you met at City Lights? Why are you (gasp) a poet? Erika Staiti, Suzanne Stein, and Dodie Bellamy ponder the nature of “influence” in this seventh installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Erika Staiti lives in North Oakland. She is currently running a Fassbinder marathon.
Suzanne Stein is a poet. Two of several projects forthcoming this year: a chapbook, Passenger Ship, from Ypolita press, and Signs of Life from O Books. Former co-director and film curator at four walls gallery, she works currently as community producer at SFMOMA. Stein is editor and publisher of the small press TAXT and lives in Oakland. Please visit www.taxtpress.blogspot.com or www.i-caved.blogspot.com
Dodie Bellamy's chapbook Barf Manifesto is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam, and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January 2006, she curated an installation of Kathy Acker’s clothing for White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
Was it divine intervention or did the devil make you do it? Do you blame your first English teacher or that old Beat you met at City Lights? Why are you (gasp) a poet? Erika Staiti, Suzanne Stein, and Dodie Bellamy ponder the nature of “influence” in this seventh installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Erika Staiti lives in North Oakland. She is currently running a Fassbinder marathon.
Suzanne Stein is a poet. Two of several projects forthcoming this year: a chapbook, Passenger Ship, from Ypolita press, and Signs of Life from O Books. Former co-director and film curator at four walls gallery, she works currently as community producer at SFMOMA. Stein is editor and publisher of the small press TAXT and lives in Oakland. Please visit www.taxtpress.blogspot.com or www.i-caved.blogspot.com
Dodie Bellamy's chapbook Barf Manifesto is just out from Ugly Duckling Presse. Other books include Academonia, Pink Steam, and The Letters of Mina Harker. Her book Cunt-Ups won the 2002 Firecracker Alternative Book Award for poetry. In January 2006, she curated an installation of Kathy Acker’s clothing for White Columns, New York’s oldest alternative art space. She lives in San Francisco with writer Kevin Killian and three cats.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
Sunday, December 7, 2008
December 6/Teresa Miller/Taylor Brady/Susan Gevirtz
WHAT:
When is a poem more than the sum of its parts? Teresa K. Miller, Taylor Brady, and Susan Gervirtz piece the “fragments” together in this sixth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Teresa K. Miller is the author of Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Word For/Word, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, MiPOesias, Coconut, Shampoo, Cricket Online Review, and others. Originally from Seattle, she currently teaches in Oakland.
Taylor Brady is active in the Nonsite Collective (www.nonsitecollective.org), and is the author of books including Yesterday’s News, Occupational Treatment, and Snow Sensitive Skin, co-authored with Rob Halpern.
Susan Gevirtz’s books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming
from Kelsey Street; Broadcast; THRALL; Omatic & After St. John; Hourglass Transcripts; Spelt, a collaboration with Myung Mi Kim; Black Box Cutaway, PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA; Taken Place; Linen minus; Domino: point of entry; Korean and Milkhouse; and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson. Her many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. An Assistant Professor for 10 years at Sonoma State University, she now teaches in the MFA in Poetry program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the U.S.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door).
When is a poem more than the sum of its parts? Teresa K. Miller, Taylor Brady, and Susan Gervirtz piece the “fragments” together in this sixth installment of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
Teresa K. Miller is the author of Forever No Lo (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2008). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in ZYZZYVA, Word For/Word, DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, MiPOesias, Coconut, Shampoo, Cricket Online Review, and others. Originally from Seattle, she currently teaches in Oakland.
Taylor Brady is active in the Nonsite Collective (www.nonsitecollective.org), and is the author of books including Yesterday’s News, Occupational Treatment, and Snow Sensitive Skin, co-authored with Rob Halpern.
Susan Gevirtz’s books include Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger, forthcoming
from Kelsey Street; Broadcast; THRALL; Omatic & After St. John; Hourglass Transcripts; Spelt, a collaboration with Myung Mi Kim; Black Box Cutaway, PROSTHESIS : : CAESAREA; Taken Place; Linen minus; Domino: point of entry; Korean and Milkhouse; and the critical study Narrative's Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson. Her many essays have appeared in literary magazines and scholarly journals. An Assistant Professor for 10 years at Sonoma State University, she now teaches in the MFA in Poetry program at Mills College. With Greek poet Siarita Kouka she runs The Paros Symposium, an annual meeting of poets and translators from Greece and the U.S.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street, SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door).
Saturday, November 15, 2008
November 22/Benjamin L. Pérez/David Harrison Horton/Jason Morris
WHAT:
Sometimes you just have to shoot from the hip. Bad boy poets Benjamin L. Pérez, David Harrison Horton, and Jason Morris hit us with their best shot in this evening of “(m)ad libs,” the fifth installation of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
David Harrison Horton edits the zine WORK and co-edits (with Stephanie Young) Deep Oakland. Horton is an artist, curator, and writer. His paintings, sculptures, sound installations and videos have been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Paris, Caracas, Minneapolis and San Francisco. He curated the Salon Salon Reading and Performance Series in Oakland in 2002 and is the author of the chaps Pete Hoffman Days and BeiHai, and the limited edition altered book project Stein's Tender Buttons. His creative work has been published in Cricket Online Review, Femme Toupee, and Alice Blue, among others. He currently lives and writes in a tiny studio apartment that overlooks Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.
Benjamin L. Pérez teaches American History and English at Expression College for Digital Arts. He earned his BA in Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and went on to complete advanced degrees in Native American Studies at UCLA and American History at UC Davis; he received his MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Pérez’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various academic and popular print and online publications, including Watchword, Sacramento News and Review (SN&R), Cricket Online Review (COR), the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ), and Ishmael Reed’s Konch. In 2005, Spuyten Duyvil published his experimental and transgressive work, The Evil Queen: A Pornolexicology, which made Dennis Cooper’s top-10 list for that year. He is currently putting the final touches on a “bi-textual” work: CUNTIONARY/Repent at Your Leisure (or The Folklore of Hell).
Jason Morris was born in Vermont in 1977. His poems have appeared in Mirage #4 Period(ical), Forklift Ohio, TRY, Salt Hill & elsewhere. He is the editor of Big Bell Magazine.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
Sometimes you just have to shoot from the hip. Bad boy poets Benjamin L. Pérez, David Harrison Horton, and Jason Morris hit us with their best shot in this evening of “(m)ad libs,” the fifth installation of the Canessa Gallery Reading Series.
David Harrison Horton edits the zine WORK and co-edits (with Stephanie Young) Deep Oakland. Horton is an artist, curator, and writer. His paintings, sculptures, sound installations and videos have been exhibited in New York, Berlin, Paris, Caracas, Minneapolis and San Francisco. He curated the Salon Salon Reading and Performance Series in Oakland in 2002 and is the author of the chaps Pete Hoffman Days and BeiHai, and the limited edition altered book project Stein's Tender Buttons. His creative work has been published in Cricket Online Review, Femme Toupee, and Alice Blue, among others. He currently lives and writes in a tiny studio apartment that overlooks Lake Merritt in Oakland, California.
Benjamin L. Pérez teaches American History and English at Expression College for Digital Arts. He earned his BA in Religious Studies at UC Berkeley and went on to complete advanced degrees in Native American Studies at UCLA and American History at UC Davis; he received his MFA in Creative Writing at Mills College. Pérez’s poems, essays, and book reviews have appeared in various academic and popular print and online publications, including Watchword, Sacramento News and Review (SN&R), Cricket Online Review (COR), the American Indian Culture and Research Journal (AICRJ), and Ishmael Reed’s Konch. In 2005, Spuyten Duyvil published his experimental and transgressive work, The Evil Queen: A Pornolexicology, which made Dennis Cooper’s top-10 list for that year. He is currently putting the final touches on a “bi-textual” work: CUNTIONARY/Repent at Your Leisure (or The Folklore of Hell).
Jason Morris was born in Vermont in 1977. His poems have appeared in Mirage #4 Period(ical), Forklift Ohio, TRY, Salt Hill & elsewhere. He is the editor of Big Bell Magazine.
WHERE:
Canessa Gallery, 708 Montgomery Street (at Columbus), SF
TICKETS:
Open to the public ($3 at the door)
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