Tariq Ali in Occupied Mansion Building

Saturday 15th May, 3.30 - 5.30pm

Kentucky Fried Education: The Market Assault on Reason

We’re very pleased to announce that the writer and activist Tariq Ali is coming to the saveMDXphil occupation this Saturday 15 May, 3:30pm, to speak on the struggle against neoliberalism in higher education. Tariq Ali is an editor of the New Left Review and was a leading light of the 1968 radical student movement.

To get to the Trent Park campus, head to Oakwood tube station at the north end of the Piccadilly line and take the free shuttle bus.

Mansion Building, Middlesex University Trent Park Campus

Join the Facebook group for more info and to show solidarity.

Why not attend two protests in one day? Join the demonstration organized by Stop The War. Free Palestine: End the Gaza seige. Then head up to Middlesex.

Tom Jenks - *

Tom Jenks’ second collection is an open system interaction with the world and all its contingencies. Using fragments from mass media, signage, management doublethink and myriad other sources, the work slips between inner and outer worlds as they suggest themselves, with the * symbol acting as a wildcard to select everything that is the case.

£8, if p then q, May 2010 (72 pages)

ISBN 978-0-9558641-6-2

Writers Forum

Only gone and got themselves a blog.

Voiceworks 2010

Thursday 20th May, 6pm

Collaborations between the CPRC Birkbeck and Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Featuring:

• Francisco Coll Garcia
• Albert Pellicer
• Iria Perestrelo
• Antonia Barnett-Macintosh
• Emma Bennett
• Adam Crockatt
• David Moore
• Ben Gwalchmai
• Luke Tracey
• Raymond Yiu
• Kim Patrick
• Luis Gomes
• Clément Dionet
• Patrick Brennan
• James Wilkes
• Robert Elibay-Hartog
• Nick Scott
• Frances Kruk
• Lucy Hall
• Matt Mendez
• Holly Pester
• Victor Sicard

The first live streaming of Voiceworks 2010, courtesy of the AHRC and Plushmusic, can be accessed at our new voiceworks.org.uk site which will launch on the same day. It will be later be available by podcast. This digital project, led from CPRC with Guildhall colleagues and partners Wigmore Learning is funded by the AHRC.

Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP

Admission is free but tickets must be booked in advance here or by calling 020 7935 2141.

Mark Weiss @ BBK - Reading and Talk

Wednesday 19th May, 7.30pm

The Centre welcomes Mark Weiss, US poet translator and editor of the celebrated new anthology The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry.

Room G01, Clore Management Centre, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, WC1

Admission is free, all welcome.

CPRC website

Nakba Commemoration 2010

A message for the new coalition Government

Organized by Stop The War,
Demonstration Saturday 15th May
Free Palestine: End the Gaza seige
12-2pm Opposite Downing St, London SW1 

As a corollary to protest, Steve Willey will be distributing (to those that are interested) some fragments of a newish poem provisionally titled Slogans. New song-sections include: Elton Ostrich Rocket John. 

Those that want to protest against the occupation of Palestine should attend. 

Full details can be found here.

past simple 8

Now online, featuring:

• Josh Atlas
• Erik Anderson
• Melissa R. Benham
• Dan Chelotti
• Alban Fischer
• Richard Froude
• Becca Jensen
• Patricia Lockwood
• Rebecca Loudon
• Ken Mikolowski
• Jesse Morse
• Eileen Myles
• Francis Raven
• Chris O’Rourke
• Jean Villepique
• Charlyne Yi

via Jim Goar

The Walton Femmes Ballot Paper

Read it here. Watch the video it refers to here.

galatea resurrects #14

Online now, featuring:

• Crag Hill
• Daniel Morris
• Delia Tramontina
• Derek Coyle
• Eileen Tabios
• Emmanuel Sigauke
• Erika Moya
• Fiona Sze-Lorrain
• Harry Thorne
• Jai Arun Ravine
• Jeff Harrison
• Jim McCrary
• Joey Madia
• John Bloomberg-Rissman
• John Herbert Cunningham
• Julie T. Ewald
• Kristen Orser
• Kristina Marie Darling
• Marianne Villanueva
• Meredith Caliman
• Patrick James Dunagan
• Peg Duthie
• Petra Backonja
• Richard Kostelanetz
• Steven Fama
• Thomas Fink
• Tom Beckett
• Tom Hibbard
• Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez
• William Allegrezza

James Cummins and Peter Gizzi Cambridge Reading

Friday 14th May, 7.30pm

• James Cummins
• Peter Gizzi

Queens' College Bowett Room, Cambridge University

Admission is free, all welcome, discounted wine available.

via Justin Katko