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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