Monday, September 21, 2009
MLK: "Letter from Birmingham Jail"
Here is the link to Dr. Martin Luther King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Go through it point by point and explain how he has organized it.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
America Engages the World: A Public Forum on the Global Role of the United States
You are cordially invited to attend "America Engages the World: A Public Forum on the Global Role of the United States," this coming Friday,September 11, 2009 from 9 a.m. -5:30 p.m. in the EMU Student Center. Theevent will bring together students, academics, professionals, and communityleaders to discuss the foreign policy of the United States and consider whatcitizens can do to foster positive US international engagement. As you cansee from the attached schedule, more than thirty panels and breakoutsessions will explore a variety of global issues and challenges. Many willalso emphasize the value of "thinking globally and acting locally." Inaddition, there will be two major guests of honor, Mr. Ramu Damodaran,Deputy Director of the Public Information Division of the United Nations,and Ambassador Tom Miller, President and CEO of the United NationsAssociation of the United States of America. Ambassador Miller will speak onthe "The Foreign Policy Agenda of the Obama Administration: A Practitioner's Perspective," from 11:45-12:30 in the Grand Ballroom. Mr. Damodaran will give the closing speech on the topic of "Civil Societyand the United Nations" in the Auditorium at 4:30. A reception for Mr.Damodaran will follow in the Mezzanine from 5:30-6:30.
Bath House Schedule w/ Links
TUESDAY, Nov 3 at 5 PM in Sponberg Theater: Bhanu Kapil
BHANU KAPIL Bhanu Kapil writes at the intersection of poetry, prose, non-fiction and a kind of irreversible yet mutable "document." She is the author of The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), and Humanimal, a project for future children (Kelsey Street Press, 2009). Nationally, she has given readings of her work and presented lectures/panel talks on monsters, cyborgs, architecture, and hybridity. Born in the UK to Indian parents, Bhanu lives in Colorado, where she teaches in The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University . She also maintains a blog, " Was Jack Kerouac A Punjabi? a day in the life of a Naropa University Writing Professor " devoted to quotidian and hybrid behaviors of all kinds.
Interviews Audio files of reading Work sample
MONDAY, Nov 9, place and time tba: Rodrigo Toscano
RODRIGO TOSCANO Rodrigo Toscano latest book is Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books; a National Poetry Series 2007 selection). He is also the author of To Leveling Swerve (Kruspkaya Book), Platform (Atelos), The Disparities (Green Integer) and Partisans (O Books). His poetry has appeared Best American Poetry 2004 , War and Peace (2004 & 2007), and in the Criminal's Cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction (2004), and in McSweeny’s Poets Picking Poets . He was a 2005 recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. Toscano is also the artistic director and writer for the Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT), see http://cpt.blip.tv and http://poeticstheater.typepad.com/photos/rt_pics/index.html . His polyvocalic pieces, poetics plays, and body-movement poems, have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater in Los Angeles, Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival, Poet’s Theater Jamboree 2007, and the Yockadot Poetics Theater Festival. His radio pieces have appeared on WPIX FM (New York), KAOS Public Radio Olympia, WNYU, and PS.1 Radio. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Catalonian. Toscano is originally from Southern California. He works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute, and lives in Brooklyn.
Samples of work Audio Interview and review Podcast on Toscano poem
TUES, Dec 1 at 12:30 PM in Student Center 310 A: Yedda Morrison (jointly sponsored with Art Dept)
YEDDA MORRISON Writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Darkness, Chapter 1 (Little Red Leaves, 2009), Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008), My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaborations with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). Morrison was a founding editor of Tripwire: a Journal of Experimental Poetics and Visual Art . She has performed and exhibited her work in the US and Canada and is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC. She currently lives in Montreal.
Work Sample 1 Work Sample 2 Work Sample 3 Review of her work
BHANU KAPIL Bhanu Kapil writes at the intersection of poetry, prose, non-fiction and a kind of irreversible yet mutable "document." She is the author of The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), and Humanimal, a project for future children (Kelsey Street Press, 2009). Nationally, she has given readings of her work and presented lectures/panel talks on monsters, cyborgs, architecture, and hybridity. Born in the UK to Indian parents, Bhanu lives in Colorado, where she teaches in The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University . She also maintains a blog, " Was Jack Kerouac A Punjabi? a day in the life of a Naropa University Writing Professor " devoted to quotidian and hybrid behaviors of all kinds.
MONDAY, Nov 9, place and time tba: Rodrigo Toscano
RODRIGO TOSCANO Rodrigo Toscano latest book is Collapsible Poetics Theater (Fence Books; a National Poetry Series 2007 selection). He is also the author of To Leveling Swerve (Kruspkaya Book), Platform (Atelos), The Disparities (Green Integer) and Partisans (O Books). His poetry has appeared Best American Poetry 2004 , War and Peace (2004 & 2007), and in the Criminal's Cabinet: An anthology of poetry and fiction (2004), and in McSweeny’s Poets Picking Poets . He was a 2005 recipient of a New York State Fellowship in Poetry. Toscano is also the artistic director and writer for the Collapsible Poetics Theater (CPT), see http://cpt.blip.tv and http://poeticstheater.typepad.com/photos/rt_pics/index.html . His polyvocalic pieces, poetics plays, and body-movement poems, have been performed at the Disney Redcat Theater in Los Angeles, Ontological-Hysteric Poet’s Theater Festival, Poet’s Theater Jamboree 2007, and the Yockadot Poetics Theater Festival. His radio pieces have appeared on WPIX FM (New York), KAOS Public Radio Olympia, WNYU, and PS.1 Radio. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, and Catalonian. Toscano is originally from Southern California. He works in Manhattan at the Labor Institute, and lives in Brooklyn.
TUES, Dec 1 at 12:30 PM in Student Center 310 A: Yedda Morrison (jointly sponsored with Art Dept)
YEDDA MORRISON Writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her books include Darkness, Chapter 1 (Little Red Leaves, 2009), Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Press, 2008), My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaborations with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). Morrison was a founding editor of Tripwire: a Journal of Experimental Poetics and Visual Art . She has performed and exhibited her work in the US and Canada and is represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC. She currently lives in Montreal.
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