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Trouble: Queer Writers Reading (8/3/13 at Wooden Shoe Books in Philadelphia)

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!

Troubling the Line: Trans Poetry Events at AWP 2013

Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics @ AWP

Visit our publisher Nightboat Books at the AWP Bookfair, Table U6!

Thursday, March 7
PANEL & READING FOR TROUBLING THE LINE AT AWP
10:30-11:45 a.m. Rm 310, Hynes Convention Center
This reading and panel discussion at AWP will feature poets Tim Trace Peterson, Max Wolf Valerio, Dawn Lundy Martin, Trish Salah, and TC Tolbert reading their work from the new Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2013). The reading will be followed by a discussion about how issues of trans and genderqueer embodiment and identification influence writing.

Friday, March 8
OFFSITE MARATHON READING
6:30-9:30 PM at Club Cafe, 209 Columbus Ave, Boston
Join us for a marathon reading featuring 30 poets from the new anthology. Readers include: Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhran, Ariel Goldberg, Ching-In Chen, Cole Krawitz, Dawn Lundy Martin, Duriel Harris, EC Crandall, Eileen Myles, Eli Clare, Ely Shipley, Emerson Whitney, HR Hegnauer, J Rice, Jaime Shearn Coan, Jen (Jay) Besemer, Jenny Johnson, Joy Ladin, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Lilith Latini, Max Wolf Valerio, Oliver Bendorf, Samuel Ace, Stacey Waite, Stephen Burt, TC Tolbert, Tim Trace Peterson, Trish Salah, Y. Madrone, Yosmay del Mazo, Zoe Tuck. Sponsored by MTPC (Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition) http://www.masstpc.org/ with special thanks to Jesse Glass for helping us coordinate arrangements for this event.

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QUEERTOPIA Offsite Reading on Thursday, March 7

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

Transfeminism in Literature Reading and Discussion (curated by Belladonna*)

September 27, 2012 7pm
Poets House
$5 suggested donation

What is transfeminism? How does it redefine genre and gender poetics? Join Belladonna* as we host Transfeminism in Literature, a reading and discussion investigating transfeminist theory in contemporary literature, featuring poets Trish Salah, Tim Trace Peterson and critics Nicholas Birns and TL Cowan. Discussion will be moderated by poet Joy Ladin.

This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

Trish Salah is a lecturer at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. Her research addresses the contemporary emergence of transgender literatures and the cultural politics of transnational anti-trafficking movements. Her writing has appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies, most recently Selling Sex, Contested Imaginaries, Cordite Poetry Review, No More Potlucks and Feminist Studies. Her first book of poetry, Wanting in Arabic, was published by TSAR in 2002, and her new book, Lyric Sexology, is forthcoming.

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-editing, with TC Tolbert, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books / EOAGH) and co-editing with Gregory Laynor the forthcoming Collected Writings of Gil Ott (Chax Press). From 2009-2012, Peterson curated the TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice talks series at CUNY Graduate Center.

Nicholas Birns is on the faculty of Eugene Lang College, the New School, where he teaches courses on post-1900 American and British fiction, literary theory, Shakespeare, and the history of literary genres and traditions. He is the author of Understanding Anthony Powell (University of South Carolina Press, 2004) and the co-editor of A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900 (Camden House, 2007), which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book of the Year for 2008 and of Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics (Palgrave. 2010). His book Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory From 1950 to the Early 21st Century appeared from Broadview in 2010, and his edited anthology Cultural Encounter will appear from Salem Press in 2012.

T.L. Cowan teaches feminist and queer performance, literary and cultural studies at Eugene Lang College and in the School of Media Studies at The New School. T.L. has shown work in venues including Montreal’s Edgy Women Festival, Edmonton’s Visualeyez, Poetry Gabriola, and Toronto’s Festival of Original Theatre. Her performance work includes The Twisted She Project—an intermedial collaborative performance collage that deals with the perversities of contemporary queer femininity—and the ongoing video and performance cycle, Forgiving Medjugorje—a meditation on sex, religion, reconciliation and money. She is also co-convener of DYKE CHECK! Queer Takes on the Revolution, a stage for trans* feminist and queer political performance at Dixon Place, and she is the author of GLITTERfesto: An Open Call For A Revolutionary Movement Of Activist Performance Based On The Premise That Social Justice is Fabulous. You can regularly find T.L. concocting GLITTERactions on the streets of New York City, where she lives.

Joy Ladin, Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, is the first out transgender employee of an Orthodox Jewish institution. She is the author of a recently-published memoir of transition, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey Between Genders and six books of poetry, including recently-published The Definition of Joy, and two collections that address transgender issues, Forward Fives award winner Coming to Life and Lambda Literary Award finalist Transmigration.

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]

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