Dear All,
Remember to please make it to class for Rob Halpern’s workshop. Class begins at the regular time, 6pm. It will end early. We will then go to the reading below. Please do not be late, as Rob has developed a workshop and discussion that demands the amount of time we will have.
Best,
David
An Evening of Reading & Urgent Discussion With
ROB HALPERN
Founder of Nonsite Collective
Dear Friends,
Please join students & faculty of Experiments in Text, Prolegomena to a Future Poetics, and Book Arts: The Organism that Literature Demands in welcoming poets Rob Halpern and Sarah Mangold. To kick off this year’s PRESS Literary Arts & Politics series, Halpern will read from his newly released Disaster Suites, and Mangold from her new work, Parlor. The reading and discussion will focus on crucial intersections between contemporary art and political action. The event is free and open to the public, but donations are welcome. All proceeds from book sales will go to the UFE Student Solidarity Fund, a fund set up by faculty to help defray student tuition costs.
WHEN? Wednesday, May 27 @ 8pm
WHERE? The Evergreen State College Library Underground (refreshments provided)
We’re very pleased that Rob Halpern has come to Evergreen from San Francisco – a kind of “coming back” as Halpern is an alumnus of Evergreen. And we’re happy to have Sarah return to Evergreen for a second reading. If you missed her during the first PRESS Literary conference, don’t miss her work this year!
In Solidarity
David Wolach & Elizabeth Williamson
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Poet Tyrone Williams writes of Rob Halpern’s recent book: “Snow Sensitive Skin is a remarkable collaboration between Taylor Brady and Rob Halpern. Beautifully designed by Michael Cross for Atticus Finch, this black-on-black chapbook, as dense intellectually, as culturally ‘thick’ as many, much longer, books of poetry, is really a collaboration between Brady, Halpern, Cross and the inspiration for this meditation on the 2006 Israeli bombing of Lebanon, the music of Lebanese musician and artist Mazen Kerbaj. Brady’s and Halpern’s alternately terse and lapidary lyrics acknowledge the distance between them and Kerbaj, their sense of culpability and impotence, even as it rages against these ‘individual’ reactions and conditions in order to situate the war within and as a function of global economies. And always, always, they return (as did the bombs, the commands, etc.) to the body .”
Rob Halpern is the author of several books of poetry, including Rumored Place (Krupskaya Books, 2004), Snow Sensitive Skin (a collaboration with Taylor Brady, Atticus/Finch Chapbooks, 2007), and most recently Disaster Suites (Palm Press, 2009). He’s currently co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer together with Kathleen Fraser, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the first which, “For a Realist Literature,” appeared in Chicago Review. An active participant in the Nonsite Collective, he lives in San Francisco.
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Elizabeth Williamson, Ph.D.
Member of the Faculty
Evergreen State College
Sem II E2112