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I'm reading with Adeena Karasick on Saturday March 2 in NYC

(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

Check out the Facebook event.

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.

Pattern Variants at AC Institute: Nine Poets and OuLiPo and You

Directed by Buzz Evers

In collaboration with:

Marcella Durand, Paolo Javier, Joanna Fuhrman, Vincent Katz, Anselm Berrigan, Tim Trace Peterson, Adeena Karasick, Jena Osman, Lee Ann Brown

and

Daniel Levin Becker/Writer
Roman Muradov/Illustrator
Max Giteck Duykers/Composer

May 3-May 26, 2012

Writing Installation:
May 24, 10am-1pm
May 25, 6pm-9pm
May 26, 10am-1pm

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Contact: [email protected]

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

547 W. 27th St. #610 and the AC (Exit Project Space)

New York, NY 10001
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat: 1-6pm, Thurs: 1-8pm
www.artcurrents.org / [email protected]

Douglas Rothschild performance at Zinc

 

Here's a video of Douglas doing his thing at Zinc on 7/23/11. Those are the voices of Adeena Karasick, Nada Gordon, and possibly also Kristin Prevallet in the background.

I made this video thinking I could rotate it later, but alas Android doesn't seem to have editing capability, unlike iphone and imovie. Oh well.