TROUBLE: Queer Writers Reading
August 3 at 4 PM
Wooden Shoe Books
704 South Street, Philadelphia, PA
featuring:
Alex Smith & Maggie Eighteen (from Metropolarity)
Tim Trace Peterson
(co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics)
Che Gossett
Imogen Binnie
Patrick Lucy
hosted by Marion Bell
part of Phreak N' Queer Arts & Music Festival 2013
donations suggested, absolutely no one turned away for lack of funds
see you there!
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Join us for these upcoming events to celebrate Troubling the
Line, coming to a city near you! Let us know if you are doing events
& we can update this page, or copy it & post your own version so we can all get the word out! xo Trace
Wednesday, May 8 at 7PM
Troubling the Line at BGSQD: A NY Launch.
At Bureau of General Services - Queer Division in NY(27 Orchard St)
7pm. Readers include: Aimee Herman, Ariel Goldberg, ECCrandall, Eileen
Myles, Ely Shipley, Jaime Shearn Coan, Jake Pam Dick, Joy Ladin, and Kit
Yan. Hosted by co-editor Tim Trace Peterson. http://mappemunde.typepad.com/mappemunde/2013/05/this-wednesday-troubling-the-line-at-bgsqd-a-ny-launch.html
Thursday, May 9-12
Troubling Tucson: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry Symposium - Casa Libre in Tucson, Arizona. http://www.casalibre.org/programs/spring13/TransSymposium/symposium.html
4 days of workshops, readings, and communityfeaturing Joy Ladin, CA
Conrad, Dawn Lundy Martin, D'Lo, Samuel Ace, IanEllasante, Rae Strozzo,
Hannah Ensor, Rocket, and TC Tolbert.
Tuesday, May 14 at 6:30 PM
Troubling the Line at City College. At
The Rifkind Room, NAC 6/316, The City College of New YorkReaders: Aimee
Herman, Ariel Goldberg, EC Crandall, Ely Shipley (Baruch College),
Jaime Shearn Coan (City College), Kit Yan, and co-editor Tim Trace
Peterson (Graduate Center). Books for sale at the event. Co-sponsored by
TheRifkind Center and The City College MFA Program.
Wednesday, May 15 at7 PM
Troubling the Line: Poetries of Resistance.
At the Library Underground, Evergreen State College in Olympia,
Washington. An evening celebrating the release of Troubling the
Line:Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. The event will feature
readings by:
Molly Bess, TT Jax, Y Madrone, Fabian Romero, TT Jax Readings will be followed by a roundtable discussion/Q&A. https://www.facebook.com/events/400664723365170/408422239256085/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity
Saturday, Oct 19
Troubling the Line at the Red Rover reading series. Chicago, IL. This event is organized by Jen Jay Besemer. More info coming soon.
Wednesday, Dec 11
Troubling the Line Launch at The Poetry Project. NYC. More info coming soon.
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Wednesday May 8, 7-9 PM
at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division
Strange Loop Gallery, 27 Orchard St, NYC
Join us for an evening of poetry readings by contributors to Troubling the Line, the first-ever anthology of trans and genderqueer poetry, edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson
with readings by
Aimee Herman
Ariel Goldberg
EC Crandall
Eileen Myles
Ely Shipley
Jaime Shearn Coan
Jake Pam Dick
Joy Ladin
Kit Yan
hosted by co-editor Tim Trace Peterson
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EOAGH Lunch Poems Reading
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival
featuring Abigail Child, Jaime Shearn Coan, EC Crandall, Paolo Javier, Patricia Spears Jones, Burt Kimmelman, and Susan Landers
Friday, May 3 at 1 PM
at the CUNY Chapbook Festival
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
NYC
Hosted by Tim Trace Peterson
Abigail Child is a media artist and writer whose original montage pushes the envelope of sound-image relations. Child is the author of 5 books of poetry (A Motive for Mayhem, Scatter Matrix and Artificial Memory among them) and a book of critical writings: THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Critical Poetics of Film from University of Alabama Press (2005). Her newest book of poetry, MOUTH TO MOUTH is forthcoming from EOAGH Books this summer. Child has taught film/video production and history at various schools and is currently Senior Faculty at SMFA, Boston. Her home is in NYC.
Jaime Shearn Coan lives in Brooklyn, New York, teaches creative writing and literature at City College, and leads a long-standing writing workshop with LGBT elders through the NY Writers coalition. His poems have appeared in several journals and his artist book, Dear Someone, the product of a collaborative queer letter-writing project, is distributed through Printed Matter. A 2012 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow, Jaime has been awarded residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Saltonstall Arts Colony.EC Crandall's poems have been published in PANK, Jupiter 88, Gay Shame, and The Trans Literary Reader. Crandall is co-author of the satiric novel Executive Privilege, and teaches in the University Writing Program at Columbia University.
Paolo Javier is the current Queens Borough Poet Laureate. Author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently The Feeling is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press), Javier is also as the publisher of a Queens-based tiny press, 2nd Avenue Poetry (2ndavepoetry.com).
Patricia Spears Jones is poet and playwright and author of Painkiller (2010), Femme du Monde (2006) and The Weather That Kills (1994) and three chapbooks. She edited Think: Poems For Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Hat/ (2009) and Ordinary Women: An Anthology of Poetry by New York City Women (1978) and is editing 30 Days Hath September for the Black Earth Institute blog. Poems and prose are featured in African Voices, The Agni Review, Bomb, Barrow Street, Calabar, Callaloo, www.kwelijournal.org, Fifth Wednesday, The Oxford American, The Southampton Review, and TriQuarterly.
Burt Kimmelman has published seven collections of poetry, the most recent The Way We Live (Dos Madres Press, 2011); Gradually the World: New and Selected Poems, 1982 - 2013 (BlazeVOX [books]) is forthcoming. He has also published a number of books of criticism and scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry. He teaches at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Susan Landers is the author of 248 mgs, a panic picnic (O Books), Covers (O Books), 15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style (Least Weasel), and What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook (forthcoming, Perfect Lovers Press). Her latest project, Franklinstein, is a mash-up of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans, and the history of one Philadelphia neighborhood. She blogs about this project at susanlanders.tumblr.com.
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Brooklyn Public Library presents Brooklyn Independents:
Colette Inez, Star Black, and Andrew Levy
Wednesday May 1 at 7 PM
at the Central Library
10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY
(this reading will take place on the plaza)
http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/
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Now Available:
Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics
Edited by TC Tolbert and Tim Trace Peterson
Nightboat Books, 2013
Poetry, LGBT Studies
| $27.95
paperback, 544 pages, 7 x 10 in
ISBN: 978-1-937658-10-6
Order via Small Press Distribution at
http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781937658106/troubling-the-line-trans-and-genderqueer-poetry-and-poetics.aspx
The first of its kind, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics, gathers together a diverse range of 55 poets with varying aesthetics and backgrounds. In addition to generous samples of poetry by each trans writer, the book also includes “poetics statements”—reflections by each poet that provide context for their work covering a range of issues from identification and embodiment to language and activism.
“Just as poetry bends language away from the utilitarian task of communication, towards unanticipated expressive potentials, so too do trans and genderqueer ways of being have the capacity to exceed and transform what society would have our bodies mean and do. The poets collected in this anthology live their art as well as write it. Let them change you. Don't miss a word.” – Susan Stryker
“Troubling the Line deftly oscillates between poems and poetics statements, detonating sense and sense making through powerfully embodied zones of sexual desire and social play. Herein are rich meditations of self-fashioning for a future that trips the hard wiring of our nervousness into fearless acts of being. In this stunning and timely anthology are complex mirrors and long shadows where the trans and genderqueer self evolves, re-shot into poem as photograph, as exercise, as memory, art made from enduring phenomenon into lasting primer.” – Ronaldo Wilson
Poets Include:
Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Aimee Herman, Amir Rabiyah, Ari Banias, Ariel Goldberg, Bo Luengsuraswat, CAConrad, Ching-In Chen, Cole Krawitz, D’Lo, David Wolach, Dawn Lundy Martin, Drew Krewer, Duriel E. Harris, EC Crandall, Eileen Myles, Eli Clare, Ely Shipley, Emerson Whitney, Eric Karin, Fabian Romero, Gr Keer, HR Hegnauer, J. Rice, j/j hastain, Jaime Shearn Coan, Jake Pam Dick, Jen (Jay) Besemer, Jenny Johnson, John Wieners, Joy Ladin, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, kari edwards, Kit Yan, Laura Neuman, Lilith Latini, Lizz Bronson, Lori Selke, Max Wolf Valerio, Meg Day, Micha Cárdenas, Monica / Nico Peck, Natro, Oliver Bendorf, Reba Overkill, Samuel Ace, Stacey Waite, Stephen Burt, TC Tolbert, Tim Trace Peterson, Trish Salah, TT Jax, Y. Madrone, Yosmay del Mazo & Zoe Tuck
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Join more than 50 LGBT
writers as daylight turns to dark, in The Moonshine Room of Club Cafe.
Enjoy features by Bloom, Sibling Rivalry Press, Seven Kitchens Press,
plus a special tribute to Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish
Lesbian Poetry published by A Midsummer Night's Press. Door prizes and
author signings throughout the night.
THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
QUEERTOPIA @ CLUB CAFE http://www.clubcafe.com/
Act One: 4:00-5:00
I. Speed Kings & Queens hosted by Tory Adkisson & Andrea Jenkins
1. Andrea Jenkins
2. Jacques J. Rancourt
3. Derrick Austin
4. Jeanine Deibel
5. Staci R. Schoenfeld
6. Megan Alpert
7. Ari Banias
8. Rickey Laurentiis
9. Ruben Quesada
10. Hannah Baker-Siroty
11. David Winter
12. David Eye
13. Tim Trace Peterson
14. Tobey Kaplan
15. Tory Adkisson
Act Two: 5:00-6:00
II. Seven Kitchens Press hosted by *David J. Daniels
1. RJ Gibson
2. Jeff Oaks
3. Liz Ahl
4. Christina Hutchins
5. Kevin McLellan
6. *David J. Daniels
II. Sibling Rivalry hosted by Bryan Borland
1. Jessie Carty
2. Julie Enszer
3. Saeed Jones
4. Michael Klein
5. *Raymond Luczak
6. *Matthew Hittinger
7. Stephen Mills
8. Seth Pennington
9. Kevin Simmonds
10. Ocean Vuong
11. Valerie Wetlaufer
INTERMISSION/RAFFLE
Act Three: 6:00-7:00
I. Featured Reading with introductions by David Groff
1. Natalie Diaz
2. Eduardo C. Corral
3. Carol Guess
4. Greg Wrenn
5. Peter Covino
6. David Groff
II. Bloom Reading hosted by Charles Flowers
1. Aaron Smith
2. Alexis Stratton
3. Julie Marie Wade
4. Phillip B. Williams
5. Jill Leininger
Act Four: 7:00-8:00
I. A Midsummer Night's Press "Milk and Honey" Anthology hosted by Julie R. Enszer
1. Joy Ladin
2. Sandra Tarlin
3. Lisa Dordal
4. Marla Brettschneider
5. Julie R. Enszer
II. Featured Reading with introductions by Kazim Ali
1. Stephen Tapscott
2. Amy King
3. James Allen Hall
4. Lee Ann Rouripaugh
5. Christopher Hennessey
6. Kazim Ali
* changes
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A Poetry Reading in Honor of Gerritt Lansing
Hosted by Kimberly Lyons and Lunar Chandelier Press
Friday, March 8 at 3 PM
Poe's Kitchen at the Rattlesnake
384 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116
readers:
Lynn Behrendt
Daniel Bouchard
Julian Talamentez Brolaski
Joe Elliot
Joanna Fuhrman
Brenda Iijima
Pierre Joris
Gerrit Lansing
Eileen Myles
Tim Trace Peterson
Nicole Peyrafitte
Elizabeth Robinson
Prageeta Sharma
Toni Simon
Christopher Stackhouse
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(photo by Lawrence Schwartzwald)
I am honored to be reading with my friend Adeena Karasick for the NYC stop on her new book tour!
Boog City presents
Adeena Karasick, Tim Trace Peterson, and Rogue Beats
BoogWork features two poets reading, a musical act performing, and then one of the poets will give the gathered a poetry workshop (don’t forget to bring a pen and paper).
Saturday, March 2, 2013
6:00 p.m. sharp
(Note new, earlier start time for series)
$5 suggested
reading and workshop from Adeena Karasick
reading from
Tim Trace Peterson
and music from
Rogue Beats
Sidewalk Café
94 Ave. A
NYC
Adeena Karasick is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning poet, media-artist, and author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory, most recently, This Poem and Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth (both from Talonbooks) as well as four videopoems regularly showcased at film festivals worldwide. All her work is marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges linguistic habits and normative modes of meaning production. Engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, it is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries.
**Tim Trace Peterson
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/peterson/
Tim Trace Peterson is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) and
Violet Speech (2nd Avenue Poetry), and the editor/publisher of EOAGH.
Peterson is co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer
Poetry & Poetics (Nightboat Books) and co-editor of the forthcoming
Collected Writings of Gil Ott (Chax Press). Peterson curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series at CUNY Graduate Center from 2009-2012.
**Rogue Beats
http://www.roguebeats.bandcamp.com/
Rogue Beats is Melissa Menake and Alan Semerdjian, two NYC
educators/artists with a mutual love for great songs, ukuleles, and
singing at the top of their lungs while cooking breakfast together.
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Happy holidays to all my friends and comrades in poetry-- You know who you are! And thanks especially to all who have helped create a vital sense of poetry community around these projects in NY and beyond over the past few years:
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December 2, 2012 at 5pm
at Artist Television Access
a reading and conversation with
Tim Trace Peterson, J/J Hastain and Monica Peck
for more information, visit Small Press Traffic at
http://smallpresstraffic.org/1847
Tim Trace Peterson is the author of Since I Moved In (Chax Press) and Violet Speech (2nd Avenue Poetry), and is Editor / Publisher of EOAGH (http://eoagh.com). Peterson is also co-editor with TC Tolbert of the forthcoming anthology Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books / EOAGH) and co-editor with Gregory Laynor of the forthcoming Gil Ott: Collected Writings (Chax Press). From 2009-2012, Peterson curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series on queer writing and the manifesto at CUNY Graduate Center.
j/j hastain is currently in the process of curating an Anthology of Queer Nudes (Knives Spoons and Forks Press) and has helped curate (and participated in) two major Trans anthologies. j/j is an Elective Affinities participant, a member of Dusie kollektiv and is a regular contributor to Sous Les Paves. j/j currently writes creative reviews for Big Other, Lit Pub, PANK, Horseless Press and Emprise Review. j/j’s books have been finalists in the Kelsey Street, Grey Book Press, Grace Notes Books, Switchback, Omnidawn, The Collagist, DIAGRAM and Ahsahta book and essay competitions. j/j’s work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Publishers Triangle. j/j’s manuscript extant shamanisms won the Pavement Saw poetry award. j/j’s manuscript dear secondary umbilical, won second place in the Mad Hatter’s Wild and Wyrd Poetry Contest. In 2011 j/j’s book we in my Trans was nominated for the Stonewall Book Award and j/j’s book prurient anarchic omnibus was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award. j/j has been a guest lecturer at Naropa University and University of Colorado. j/j is an artist and activist of the audible.
Monica / Nico Peck’s chapbook The Pyrrhaiad, a “Queer Iliad” set in San Francisco, was published this year by Trafficker Press. Peck’s blog queercity.org explores abject lost/found queer archives. Peck lives in San Francisco & teaches at San Jose State. More: mjpeck.wordpress.com
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Publication Date: 25-Sep-12 | ISBN: 9781844714858 | Trim Size: 228 x 152 mm | Extent: 388pp | Format: Paperback / softback
to expedite purchase
the publisher recommends
ordering from Amazon
“What we have here is the ideal Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Charles Bernstein: the coverage is wide, & all you need is “to be ready, not prepared.” You will not be asked to lounge on the couch as nobody remembers its colors, but the essays come in all colors, except sad. Enjoy, & then get back to the poems.” —Pierre Joris
“A major poet for our time — & then some – Charles Bernstein has emerged as a principal voice –maybe the best we have – for an international avant-garde now in its second century of visions & revisions. It is in celebration of this that the Salt Companion to his work appears here, to show him in a trajectory from an American-centered language poetry in the 1970s to an active & significant relation to a constantly renewing & expanding global poetry in which his singularity has played a vital role. What becomes clear in these pages is how his generosity of mind & spirit continues to enrich us all.” —Jerome Rothenberg
Introduction
William Allegrezza
Charles Bernstein Or An Insistence To Communicate
Caroline Bergvall
Either You’re With Us And Against Us: Charles Bernstein’s
Girly Man, 9–11, And The Brechtian Figure Of The Reader
Tim Peterson
The Cave Children Of New York Are Never Free
Miekal And
The Metaphysical Mouth And The Asylum Of The Everyday: Charles
Bernstein And Contemporary Continental Philosophy Of Language
Michael Eng
“Gazoop” Replaces “Is/Are” “In A Restless
World Like This Gazoop Gazoop”
Madeline Gins
Girly Men Ballads: (Il)Legible Identities In
Charles Bernstein And Gertrude Stein
Kimberly Lamm
That Poem For Charles Bernstein
Lars Palm
“Spectres Of Benjamin”: (Re)Presentation And (Re)
Semblance In Charles Bernstein’s Shadowtime
Steven Salmoni
What As Poetic
Steve Mccaffery
Taking On The Official Voice: Charles Bernstein’s Poetic
Sophistry And Post-Process Writing Pedagogy
Megan Swihart Jewell
From The Alphabet
Ron Silliman
Beyond The Valley Of The Sophist: Charles
Bernstein, Irony, And Solidarity
Paul Stephens
Poem For Charles
Ray Craig
To Think Figuratively, Tropically: Charles Bernstein’s Post-9/11
Grammar And Pragmatist Lessons In The Age Of Baudrillard
Jason Lagapa
Charles Bernstein’s Anti-Suburban Poetry
Peter Monacell
Some Nouns
Donald Wellman
From A Philosophy Of Poetry To Poetry As Philosophy:
The Dialectical Poetics Of Charles Bernstein
Carlos Gallego
Content’s Profusion: Noise, Interruption And Reverse
Peristalsis In The Poetics Of Charles Bernstein
Michael Angelo Tata
Charles Bernstein In Buffalo 1999–2004
Kristen Gallagher
Charles Bernstein’s Catalogue Poetry
Thomas Fink
Readdressing Constructivism And Conceptual
Art:Aspects Of Work Factured By Charles Bernstein
Allen Fisher
Circles From Which
Maggie O’sullivan
Visual Strategies: A Line, A Verse, Something On Paper
James Shivers
After Residual Rubbernecking (A Speculative Non-Serial Anti-Romance)
Erica Hunt
A Life, Spliced: On The Early Tapeworks Of Charles Bernstein
Michael S. Hennessey
cover photo by Emma Bee Bernstein
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Pattern Variants explores the confluences found within the arts and sciences by harnessing the fundamental principles within poetic form: music, mathematics, and the creative processes of discovery and innovation. Developed as a demonstration project addressing the operating principles of creative exchange surrounding its parent project, Verse in the Circle of Fifths, Pattern Variants offers a menu of collaborative ventures across the visual, performing, and language arts while centered on an in-situ writing experiment grounded in the traditions of linked verse and the constraint driven propensities of the OuLiPo group of poets and writers.
This writing process itself serves as protagonist with the poets converging in strategic word play immersed in the poetics of imaging, game theory and linked verse. Executed over three days (May 24-26), in three hour sessions, the writing exercise brings together nine landmarks chosen by our nine poets, including Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge; The Puppet; The Chrysler Building; The Book of Formation; The Hays Code; Moveable Type; New French Feminism; "Sayings Of the High One" from The Poetic Edda; & Breton's 'L'amour fou'.
Charted over nine rotations and composed under the influence of Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency, coupled with our two additional memos, Symmetry and Obscurity, Pattern Variants sets in motion an experiment in creative writing with the liberating uses of form as the catalyst for enabling creative discourse. The writing installation also features our sound design in identifying particular patterns found within the writing schematic added with an undercurrent of percussive vowels in building resonance. The exhibition also features another collaboration involving a series of 3x3 combinative flash fiction grids illustrating our eight memos.
Buzz Evers is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, arts administrator, director, and producer. He attended Pitzer College receiving a degree in organizational studies and gravitated toward the arts based on his interest in collaboration and the creative process. His diverse list of experiences include works in the visual, performing, and language arts.
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AC Institute
New York, NY 10001
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat: 1-6pm, Thurs: 1-8pm
www.artcurrents.org / [email protected]
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I am pleased to have some recent work appearing in TC Tolbert's "trans genre" feature, titled Contanimation, in the new issue of Trickhouse magazine. Appearing along with my vispo piece is work by Samuel Ace, Tre Natro, J/J Hastain, D'lo, Our Lady J, and Nathalie Stephens (Nathanael).
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