Evergreen Course Blog | Spring 2011 | Reclaiming Public Spaces

I will talk about this Weds, and will write more about this, but for now:

*Choose 1 piece of sustained, part of class writing (like, non-warm-up 2 min. piece), 1 piece that YOU WOULD LIKE me to look at and comment on in some detail.  Once you’ve chosen which piece it is, SEND IT TO ME BY EMAIL.  You may have sent it already; if so, SEND IT AGAIN.  

*If you have no preference, I will choose one of the pieces you sent me and that I’ve read by week 10.

*The piece can be critical writing, poetry, prose, hybrid work–your choice.  If it is longer, comments may be less detailed than if the piece were in the range of work we’ve been doing together thus far.

I have and will read everything you send me, but for want of time (4 credits!), I cannot comment on / make written responses for each piece each of you has given me, obviously.  Those are for your portfolio and so I can make a full (with detail) written eval for you at the end of the quarter.

I must say that so far the writing has been very good, and at times surprising, difficult, and risky.

*Your decisions are due by end of week 9.  SEND THE PIECE BY SAT WEEK 9.

Note: the time has switched back to Thursday due to Conrad’s travel schedule.  This is a class event, so participation, like attendance in class, is mandatory (plus, Conrad will be taking the time to work with us later in the week individually).

PRESS EVENT: POET CA CONRAD @ EVERGREEN MARCH 4

Please join us for an evening of reading & discussion with CA Conrad!  Conrad will be building a new soma(tic) for this event as well as reading from three new books.  This event is open to the public.   Admission is free, though token donations are welcomed. 
For directions, email David Wolach at wolachd@evergreen.edu.

I can never have enough CAConrad, like paprika or wisdom in disguise.                                                        —Bernadette Mayer

WHEN: THURSDAY, MARCH 4 — 8PMWHERE: SEMINAR II, C1105 

CAConrad is the son of white trash asphyxiation whose childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He is the author of Deviant Propulsion (Soft Skull Press, 2006), (Soma)tic Midge (FAUX Press, 2008), The Book of Frank (Chax Press, 2008), The Advanced Elvis Course (Soft Skull, 2009), and a collaboration with poet Frank Sherlock titled THE CITY REAL & IMAGINED: Philadelphia Poems (Factory School Press, 2009). He invites you to visit him online at www.CAConrad.blogspot.com. Conrad is the winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, co-founder of Philly Sound (http://phillysound.blogspot.com/) and a co-founder of the PACE project, a Philadelphia-based group which organizes poets to read their poems aloud on street corners to passersby. 

This event is part of the ongoing PRESS literary arts and politics reading series. 
Sponsored by Wheelhouse Magazine, Experiments in Text: Radical Poetry, Politics, & Pedagogy, Performing Meaning/Translating Thought, Music and the Environment, Slightly West, The Office of the Budget Dean, and Logopoesis Posted by David (Michael)

Wolach at 10:19 PM 0 comments  Labels: CA Conrad, poetry reading, PRESS 2009-10

Please read ALL of the readings I handed out last week–Robert Kocik’s Overcoming Fitness (in two handouts) and the Ceclia Vicunia poems (2 poems, 1 handout).  Please RE-READ this work if you have already read it.  We will cover this work in relation to visionary poetics, going back to Oppen and Of Being Numerous’ relation to Kocik’s notion of “stimulating the vestigial” and “function yet unknown.”  

We’ll have 2 co-lectures (1 of them a mini workshop) during this 1 hour, in addition to me talking.

See you Weds.

David

Hi All,

A message from your classmate Will.  He will be reading in Seattle; and his reading Series, Big Pelt, will be featuring 2 outstanding poets (see 1 & 2 below).  

As part of his contract with me, Will is also doing the logistics on bringing one of Seattle’s rock stars to campus for a reading in mid-March (after CA Conrad).  As part of the PRESS series, this is great news, and for our class, it’s a chance to work with one of the founders of SubText Reading Series and now “Autonomous U,” an alternative learning collective based in the arts and radical pedagogy. More soon on Robert’s visit.  For now, read below:

1) I’m reading at the Seattle Art Museum’s remix night – it’s a kind of quarterly open house, tons of events & open bars. I’m reading with Rebar Niemi (thebest kept secret of seattle poetry in my mind, this kid’s 19 & has the most developed engagement with critical theory I’ve ever come into contact with. I can only assume his parents taught him how to read using negative dialectics or something) & a few visual artists as a part of a Pecha Kucha curated by Jessica Powers & Sol Hashemi.

It’s Sat, Feb 26th at 8PM, $10 but free if you’re one of the first 100 people to show up. Sam’s on 2nd avenue betweenUniversity & Union in downtown seattle.

2) The february Big Pelt series is happening this sunday, two of the younger members of the Kootenay School of writing, Emily Fedoruk & Cris Costa, are reading. They’re doing a collaborative essay on gender & spectacle – I know there’s some hairmetal anecdotes in the project already, I can only hope the olympics are too (C&E’re most certanly have a place for grunge-ish humor in their poetry & poetics – you can tell they’ve both spent lots of time with mr derksen). This is Sun 28th @6pm at Pilot Books – 219 Broadway ave E above the japanese restaurant.

Hi All,

Some of you expressed interested in this.  Here’s a message for you, from Juliana Spahar and Joshua Clover:

“Dear All: we are going to start the process of filling as many spots as possible for this summer’s 95cent skool seminar. It will take a couple steps because of managing multiple mailing lists. 

If (a) you would like to participate in the seminar but have not yet sent a note expressing interest to the address 95centskool@gmail.com
…or if (b) you have sent a message of interest and not gotten a note back — could you please send a note shortly? That will consolidate into one mailing list, at which point we will confirm everybody’s availability from that list, and have a lottery.”