tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16802119320182062802024-03-12T16:13:11.003-07:00ARK PRESSArk Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963780266656170638noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680211932018206280.post-47637467489970811952014-10-22T20:55:00.003-07:002014-10-22T20:55:56.147-07:00<b style="background-color: black;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: white;">Check out Laura Madeline Wiseman's </span><a href="http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/blog/2014/10/21/the-chapbook-interview-brenda-sieczkowski-on-research-experimentation-and-goodness/"><span style="color: #ffe599;">"'</span></a></span><a href="http://www.lauramadelinewiseman.com/blog/2014/10/21/the-chapbook-interview-brenda-sieczkowski-on-research-experimentation-and-goodness/"><span style="color: #ffe599;">necessity is the mother of experimentation': chapbook interview: Brenda Sieczkowski on research, experimentation, and goodness"</span></a><span style="color: white;">::</span></span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br style="line-height: 20px;" /><span style="line-height: 20px;">The brilliant and wildly attentive, much loved, Brenda Sieczkowski talking about the way experimentation and pre</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; line-height: 20px;">sence extend to community, small press culture, her incredibly good books WONDER GIRL IN MONSTER LAND (dancing girl press, 2012), LIKE OYTERS OBSERVING THE SUN (Black Lawrence Press, 2014), FALLOUT & FLOATATION DEVICES (forthcoming from Little Red Leaves' Textile Series). There's even a special shout-out to Ark Press amongst so many other presses and people we admire!</span></span>Ark Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963780266656170638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680211932018206280.post-6393653774248704102013-10-13T19:32:00.000-07:002014-10-22T20:56:19.704-07:00<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>We've sold out of Pepper Luboff's <i>And when the time for the breaking </i>(2012) </b></span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ark Press is pleased as punch to announce that we’ve sold
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In related news, we are also incredibly grateful to Jen
Hofer for featuring Luboff’s chapbook alongside a collaborative essay/ chap about our first
summer running Ark Press and the Ark
Press Summer Reading Series in Todd, NC (Summer 2011), <i>Country Music </i>(DoubleCross Press: <i>Poetics of the Handmade</i> series 2013), in
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s a real honor to be featured in a class alongside MC
Hyland’s DoubleCross Press, Brian Teare’s Albion Books and his essay <i>Paradise
Was Typeset</i> (DoubleCross Press: <i>Poetics
of the Handmade </i>series).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Thanks to small press wunderkind MC Hyland for her
tremendous, inspiring generosity. May sweet echoes of all the time and energy
that she pours into the community return ten-fold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Check out Jen Hofer’s rad Literary Citizenship blog <a href="https://tinypresspractices.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: yellow;">here</span></a>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Ark Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963780266656170638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680211932018206280.post-74049392983916650032013-08-17T18:20:00.000-07:002013-08-17T18:20:06.586-07:00Country Music, an essay about Ark Press<br />
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"Historically, friendship has housed poetry not only in terms of readerships (think of all the poetries born of friendship), but also in terms of presses. When good work was not/is not able to find an equally good home for too long, friends<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> start their own press. They publish their friends' work; they make new friends in the process. These small presses are the no kill shelter for experimental writing."<br /><br />We are tremendously grateful to MC Hyland for publishing COUNTRY MUSIC, a collaborative essay about our first summer running Ark Press and the Ark Press Summer Reading Series in Todd, NC (Summer 2011) with such tenderness and patience as a part of her stunning DoubleCross Press Poetics of the Handmade series.<br /><br />Also, we are just tremendously grateful to have a document of this time as it has been so dear to us. Thanks and much love to everyone who has been a part of our experiment so far. </span></div>
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We are pleased to announce the arrival of our second chapbook, Pepper Luboff's <i>And when the time for the breaking. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Visually and linguistically acrobatic, <i>And when the time for the breaking </i>meditates on the fracturing, "can't say <i>uh-merica / </i>without splintering" ("Versus"), and resilience of community in Oakland and the surrounding San Francisco Bay area as it calls us to consider our culpability to one another: </div>
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our Ark Press Marathon Reading (6.22.2012). Thanks to featured readers for making it a HUGE success: Halina Duraj, Eryn Green,
Caroline Klocksiem, Esther Lee, Pepper Luboff, Christine Marshall, Hazel
McClure, Gina Myers, Brenda Sieczkowski, Mike Sikkema, and Jen Tynes. And special thanks to Lauren and LOW
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Diego, and is so happy to be reading in North Carolina. </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Her fiction and non-fiction have appeared in
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candidate at the University of Denver and holds an MFA from the University of
Utah. He has been nominated for a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, awarded by the Poetry
Foundation, and recently his collection <i>Eruv</i> was selected by C.D. Wright
as a finalist for the 2011 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize. Eryn’s work has
appeared or is forthcoming in <i>Jubilat, Colorado Review</i>, <i>the tiny, Bat
City Review, H_NGM_N</i>, <i>Word for/ Word, Rhino, Iron Horse Review, Pheobe,
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in a variety of journals, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Iowa Review</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hayden’s Ferry Review</i>;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Pinch</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">BlazeVox</i>; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">H_NGM_N</i>; and
others. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship recipient and 2011
Pushcart Prize Nominee. Look for her chapbook, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Circumstances of the House and Moon</i>, from Dancing Girl Press this
summer. Originally from South Carolina, she holds an MFA from Arizona State
University and teaches English and Literature at the University of Alabama,
where she lives with her husband, son, and orange cats. The first time language
blew her mind was in kindergarten when she realized that "stop" is "pots"
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Writing/Literature at the University of Utah and was awarded a Tanner
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Pepper Luboff is an Oakland-based
poet, visual artist, and freelance writer/editor. She holds a BA in English
from UC Berkeley and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Utah.
Her chapbook, <i>And when the time for the breaking</i>, is forthcoming from
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Davidson, North Carolina. Her poems have been published in 2009 <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Best American Poetry</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Agni</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beloit Poetry Journal</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Calyx</i>,
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holes, others, and insomnia. The name, Marshall, is derived from her place of
birth in a brightly lit corridor on the planet Mars, and she is, herself,
descended from a majestic line of talking cats.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Grand Valley State University. She has a black belt in keeping it real
and the t-shirt to prove it. Her work's appeared in <i>Coconut</i>, M<i>irage
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several chapbooks, including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">False Spring</i>
(Spooky Girlfriend, 2012). <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hold It Down</i>,
her second full-length collection, will be published by Coconut Books in 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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chapbook, <i>Wonder Girl in Monster Land,</i> is available from
dancing girl press. A full-length collection, <i>Like Oysters Observing
the Sun, </i>will be published by Black Lawrence Press in 2013.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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believe in cryptids, believes in cornbread, in swamp funk, in radical
vernacular. He knows that he is and is not his voice. He gathers poems
and mushrooms, books and friends. These days he's writing a documentary with
Jen Tynes about two mystical/mythical figures often accused of rowdyism, Pepper
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editor of Horse Less Press. She is most recently the author of <i>The
Black Mariah</i> (DoubleCross Press) and, with Michael Sikkema, <i>Autogeography</i> (Black
Warrior Review). She has chapbooks forthcoming from Projective Industries and
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of the Eye</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> claims simply to want “to know all/ of the sounds of my house by
heart” (“Song of Maryland”). Cleaving to the humility of this proposition startled by impermanence, we find “mountains/ as jagged as grief” (“Song of
California”), moments of terrible beauty that open expansively as limits are transgressed: “anything you say is real—/Ly, I love you” (“Song of Montana”). “Holy//
star of God” is written in crayon (“Untitled”) and we learn “we must never/
speak of this again” (“Song of Vermont”).</span><br />
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<br />Ark Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963780266656170638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680211932018206280.post-84293791124947775022011-12-10T10:21:00.000-08:002011-12-10T10:22:00.219-08:00Ark Audio Archive!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are excited to announce that the Ark Audio Archive is now up and running! Follow the links below (and on the left) to hear mp3 recordings of readings and poetics talks by writers who participated in our first ever Ark Press Summer Reading Series & Workshop (Summer 2011). Featured readers: Joseph Wood, Eryn Green, Brenda Sieczkowski, Michael Sikkma, and Jen Tynes. </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Round One</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/ENG/haukenk/J%20Wood%20reading%20(7.14.2011).MP3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Joseph Wood reading (7.14.2011)</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/ENG/haukenk/J%20Wood%20talk%20(7.15.2011).MP3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Joseph Wood poetics talk "The Poem as Ecumenical Humanism" (7.15.2011)</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Round Two</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/ENG/haukenk/B%20Sieczkowski%20and%20E%20Green%20reading%20(7.28.2011).MP3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brenda Sieczkowski & Eryn Green reading (7.28.2011)</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/ENG/haukenk/E%20Green%20and%20B%20Sieczkowski%20talks%20(7.29.2011)%20Part%201.MP3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eryn Green poetics talk "Jack Spicer and The Poet as Radio," Brenda Sieczkowski poetics talk "The Spectacle of The Every Day" Part One (7.29.2011)</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/ENG/haukenk/E%20Green%20and%20B%20Sieczkowski%20talks%20(7.29.2011)%20Part%202.MP3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eryn Green poetics talk "Jack Spicer and The Poet as Radio," Brenda Sieczkowski poetics talk "The Spectacle of The Every Day" Part Two (7.29.2011)</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Round Three</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/ENG/haukenk/M%20Sikkema%20and%20J%20Tynes%20reading%20(8.18.2011).MP3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michael Sikkema & Jen Tynes reading (8.18.2011)</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><a href="http://classdat.appstate.edu/AAS/ENG/haukenk/M%20Sikkema%20and%20J%20Tynes%20talk%20(8.19.2011).MP3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Michael Sikkema & Jen Tynes poetics talk "Trickster Poetics: A Left Turn at Albuquerque" (8.19.2011)</span></a></div><div><br />
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</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jen Tynes is the founding editor of Horse Less Press. She is most recently the author of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Heron/Girlfriend </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Coconut Books) and the co-author, with Michael Sikkema, of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Autogeography </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Black Warrior Review). A new chapbook, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>The Black Mariah</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, is forthcoming from DoubleCross Press.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ0fG56MFOwyewY5kuA-y2tZn8Yxl1T5ardHWOnZqQ0nJwtawiB-el-B2iQ2UDqPfz_s2TQxAZ-1mOz7DNcmuuwZleyv7hNGtrGETLEi7vpk6Nr89TWr_CRZPev2XPddzTttjG6ndEd48/s1600/DSCN0567.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ0fG56MFOwyewY5kuA-y2tZn8Yxl1T5ardHWOnZqQ0nJwtawiB-el-B2iQ2UDqPfz_s2TQxAZ-1mOz7DNcmuuwZleyv7hNGtrGETLEi7vpk6Nr89TWr_CRZPev2XPddzTttjG6ndEd48/s320/DSCN0567.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Garamond;">W</span>e were mightily glad to have dear Ark family, Brenda Siezckowski and Eryn Green, with us last week in Todd, NC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brenda and Eryn flew in from SLC, UT and Denver, CO respectively, braving long travel setbacks on runways and in scorching hot strip mall parking lots due to a defective co-pilot chair to give amazing readings Thursday night July 28<sup>th</sup> at the Todd Mercantile Bakery (Mp3 recordings forthcoming) and amazing talks around our kitchen table the following night. Brenda’s Friday night discussion focused on “The Spectacle of the Everyday,” investigated the way that the roles of writer (performance) and reader (audience) blur as they are presented by creative process.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eryn’s discussion, “Jack Spicer and the Poet as Radio,” explored nuances of Jack Spicer’s assertion that the poet is like a radio, in that a radio receives transmission that come from elsewhere, beginning with Spicer’s admission that the problem with comparing a poet and a radio is that “a radio doesn’t develop scar tissue.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mostly, we just drank beers with big-ole grins on our faces, delighted by the generosity and intelligence of friends.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIvESilR9skCOvH2MRC9xp5ulrVfN7s5EBbHqrQDlh_KjbrgekHfWV0Rrc47uBZRC-IK0owhkKRdxS4FivqKkgc1LbyBucyFxNvfPshRdZ5bAu5gZT0IDHEOf-zEvFusy_NzXg1R8W5g/s1600/DSCN0594.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyIvESilR9skCOvH2MRC9xp5ulrVfN7s5EBbHqrQDlh_KjbrgekHfWV0Rrc47uBZRC-IK0owhkKRdxS4FivqKkgc1LbyBucyFxNvfPshRdZ5bAu5gZT0IDHEOf-zEvFusy_NzXg1R8W5g/s320/DSCN0594.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The rest of their stay was centered in the music of quiet mornings on the porch, reading, writing, yoga, running, errands, TV, grilling, and swimming in the New River—we even got Brenda into a beekeeper suit (a dream come true!) at Mathomhouse Farm courtesy of the amazing Lyn Soeder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THANKS LYN!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>THANKS BRENDA AND ERYN!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brenda Sieczkowski’s chapbook </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Wonder Girl in Monster Land</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is forthcoming from Dancing Girl Press. She is currently working with Salt Lake’s chronically homeless and at-risk youth populations while she completes her PhD in Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Utah. She is also the Artist-in-Residence at the Salt Lake Community Writing Center. Her poetry, creative nonfiction, and other hybrid-genre works have appeared in a wide variety of journals. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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On Thursday night our dear friend, Joseph Wood, kicked off Ark's Summer Reading Series. After driving 11 hours from Tuscaloosa, Alabama the night before, Joseph read and talked about poems with a small but enthusiastic crowd at the Todd Mercantile and Bakery amidst the sound of pick-up trucks, tractors, riding lawn mowers and town dogs, staying late to talk with interested audience members (the range of topics I can remember include poetry, goats, farming and road construction). Later, at home, he whipped up a decadent meal consisting of at least three different kinds of fat and some asparagus.<br />
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Warm and endlessly generous, Joseph also insisted on making dinner for anyone who showed up for his talk about the space of belief in poetry the following night.<br />
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We are so grateful for his company and his commitment to poetry and community-making. It was a pleasure to have him in Todd this weekend.<br />
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You can check out Joseph's account of his visit as well as follow his ongoing exploration of poetry and daily life (among other things) <a href="http://josephpatrickwood.com/">here</a>.Ark Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963780266656170638noreply@blogger.com0Todd, NC, USA36.3095711 -81.5953845999999882.0754801 -141.3610096 70.5436621 -21.829759599999988tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680211932018206280.post-37093688232220394552011-07-08T20:34:00.000-07:002011-07-09T08:02:41.694-07:00Inaugural Reading of the Summer Reading Series This Thursday, Talk Friday!<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Joseph P. Wood </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>(Thursday, July 14-Friday, July 15) </b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br />
</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67GyC9e3mCr7ozLkCTmKoI3Ed2e_eQc1BIwvF2xgHgxXOCdrG-J180WevYNf2M2csRZmGvoYgAuQiygtZGeCWY8dUsVwYoUfivdPCH7FKUwiFa-50FriiMup_inQOAPzRfe_gC8bB7sM/s1600/ARK+PRESS-J+Wood+feat+%2528edit%2529..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj67GyC9e3mCr7ozLkCTmKoI3Ed2e_eQc1BIwvF2xgHgxXOCdrG-J180WevYNf2M2csRZmGvoYgAuQiygtZGeCWY8dUsVwYoUfivdPCH7FKUwiFa-50FriiMup_inQOAPzRfe_gC8bB7sM/s320/ARK+PRESS-J+Wood+feat+%2528edit%2529..jpg" width="180" /></a>Joseph P. Wood is the author of two full collections of poetry, <i>Fold of the Map </i>(Salmon Poetry Ltd., forthcoming) and <i>I & We</i> (CW Books, 2010), as well as five chapbooks, which include <i>Gutter Catholic Love Song </i>(Mitzvah Chaps, 2010), and <i>In What I Have Done & Failed to Do</i> (Elixir Press, 2006), which won the Elixir Press Chapbook Prize. His poems and reviews have been published widely in journals such as <i>Beloit Poetry Journal, BOMB, Boston Review, diode, Gently Read Literature, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Hunger Mountain, Indiana Review, Poetry London, Prairie Schooner, Rain Taxi, RealPoetik, Verse, West Branch, </i>among others. He's held residencies at Djerassi Resident Artists Program and at Artcroft. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wood teaches creative writing, English and American literature, and composition at The University of Alabama. In 2009, he co-founded The Slash Pine Projects (Slash Pine Press), an undergrad internship that focuses on immersion learning and community arts. Students take leadership positions in chapbook production and promotion, community arts event planning (whose yearly highlight is The Slash Pine Writers' Festival), grant writing, fundraising, mini-documentaries of poetry performance, technology and the arts, among a dozen other fluid projects. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Wood will be reading at the Todd Mercantile Bakery Thursday, July 14th at 7:00 pm. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">He will give a talk entitled "The Poem and Ecumenical Humanism" at the Todd Mercantile Bakery, Friday, July 15th at 7:00 pm and will be co-hosting a creative writing workshop immediately after. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Find a sample of his work <a href="http://www.ditchpoetry.com/josephpwood.htm">here</a> and <a href="http://www.realpoetik.org/2011/05/wood.html">here</a>.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Come on out!! Readings, talks, and workshops free and open to the public.Ark Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963780266656170638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1680211932018206280.post-55706042036326456782011-06-28T18:21:00.000-07:002011-07-01T20:47:21.448-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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John Cage/ writing good not well/ HD Thoreau’s “Higher Laws”/ Wm Blake’s Illuminated Manuscripts/ Polis/ “savage names”/ compost/ “Organic Form”/ John Coltrane/ Evan Williams/ Gertie Stein/ Days in the Wake/ “soul-making”/ Soul music/ process/ TV/ Laurel and Hardy/ Lightnin’ Hopkins/ Townes Van Zandt/ “the word was made good from the start” (CD Wright)/ Sentences/ Tim Hecker/ fiddle music/ the fact that Bugs Bunny always takes a wrong turn at Albuquerque on the way to Pismo Beach and goes on to have other adventures/ Lyn Hejinian: “A pause/ a rose/ something on paper”/ Ruskin’s second “everlasting law”/ river-life/ “THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THIS MOMENT”/ This passage from <i>Huck Finn: </i>"It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened—Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened."/ “Music = no music” (no music = music)/ JJ Rousseau’s <i>The Reveries of the Solitary Walker/ </i>D Wordsworth/ Chainsaw art/ J Clare’s “The Nightingale’s Nest”/ nests (in general)/ songbirds/ Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s finches/ Robert Smithson/ Robert Creeley/ Guy Davenport’s sense that “a change in attention is a change in culture”/ Hank Williams/ Christmas lights/ Being alone together/ melodies and harmonies/ M Rowlandson: “I was alone and God was with me”/ Son House: “The blues is by its own self”/ Francesca Woodman/ Susan Howe/ Mountains x 2/ “My mother is a fish”/ thrift store records/ L = A = N = U = A = G = E is fossil poetry/ Burn barrels/ paper/ cinderblocks/ block prints/ Jen Bervin/ our hometowns/ your hometowns/ cemeteries/ gardens/ the visionary/ Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell duets (especially, “If This World Were Mine”)/ broken fences/ ditches bursting with cattails/ “Opposition is true Friendship”/ R Blaser: “Companions are/ horizons”/ cooking/ getting Christine drunk enough to sing/ Jasper Johns/ Virgil’s shepherds/ Bob Dylan/ Will Oldham/ Shit that falls apart/ Shit that’s just about to fall apart and doesn’t/ C Coolidge’s <i>Space</i>/ coffee/ tinder/ horses/ Jonathan Edwards/ Robert Johnson postcards/ “THE WORLD IS CHARGED WITH THE GRANDEUR OF GOD./ IT WILL FLAME OUT.”/ “Maximus to Gloucester, Letter 27 [withheld]”: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYxpSjkyAg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAYxpSjkyAg</a> (“An American is a complex of occasions.” (Amen.)/ Niedecker/ yellow then purple/ jadite/ kitchen/ ahimsha/ salt/ bread/ eggs/ fall then snow then green; then tiger lilies/ letterpress/ herons/ plant & turn/ a field/ fluttering laundry/ birch paper/ that high lonesome sound/ innocence perforated by experience makes way for roadside flowers/ <i>Dog</i> is an anagram for <i>God</i> and our dog only wants to play ball the moment that we sit down to do something else/ seeds (atoms)/ fireworks/ fuzz pedals/ distortion/ amplification/ rust/ weather “the news,” etc./ Getting born again (and again and again)/ Milton’s Satan: “Myself am Hell”/ EP dragged through the wasted edge of his agency and reborn in love at Pisa: “Nothing counts save the quality of the affection”/ torn envelopes/ clippings/ cut-ups/ green glass/ <i>ATTENTION!/ </i>Rimbaud (via Donald Revell): “it began with the laughter of children; it will end there” / Jack Spicer’s “Imaginary Elegies”/ <i>the mysteries of small houses/ The Poetics of Space/ </i>drift wood/ Midnight Orchard/ morning stars/ loose change shining on the carpet/ W Whitman: “I stop somewhere waiting for you”</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div></span>Ark Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01963780266656170638noreply@blogger.com0