a convocation of unorthodox poetic and cultural practices
featuring an array of cutting edge diversity in respect of poetry and performances of poetry; papers, live writing, poets theater, sound art, talk-based poetics, extended vocal performance, physical theater and digital text collaboration, polylingualism, lyric meditations, translation, poetry readings, writing interventions, sound poetry, visual poetry, eco-poetics, text-based installation, bookateria, late night readings, multimedia and a lot more besides that.
Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez
Stan Apps
Oana Avasilichioaei
Mike Basinski
Holly Bass
John M. Bennett
Black Took Collective
Sean Bonney
Tammy Brown
Mairéad Byrne
Shá Cage
cris cheek
Daniel Citro
A.M.J. Crawford
Jordan Dalton
Maria Damon
Ian Davidson
Ryan Downey
Alan Golding
K. Lorraine Graham
Duriel Harris
Carla Harryman
Jeff Hilson
Jen Hofer
Josef Horacek
William R. Howe
Jade Hudson
Christine Hume
Peter Jaeger
Mark Jeffery
Bonnie Jones
Pierre Joris
KBD Sound Collective
Adeena Karasick
Brian Kincaid
A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz
Jose Luna
Dawn Lundy-Martin
Mel Nichols
Hoa Nguyen
Chris Mann
Monica Mody
K. Silem Mohammad
Laura Moriarty
Judd Morrissey
Erin Mouré
Jason Nelson
Mel Nichols
Tom Orange
Jessica Ponto
Luke Roberts
Jaime Robles
Ric Royer
Linda Russo
Lisa Samuels
Standard Schaefer
Jonathan Skinner
Danny Snelson
Todd Seabrook
Jessica Smith
Rod Smith
Kate Sopko
Rodrigo Toscano
Lawrence Upton
Chris Vitiello
Catherine Wagner
Mark Wallace
Dana Ward
Barrett Watten
Brian Whitener
Steve Willey
Tyrone Williams
Ronaldo Wilson
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
For further information on registration and accommodation point your browser here.
the post _ moot collective are Maria Auxiliadora Alvarez, Tammy Brown, cris cheek, WIlliam R. Howe, Cathy Wagner
The first three Klatch meetings were held in Steve Willey's house (Openned Co-Editor). Klatch 0 was held on the 6th Dec 2008. This first meeting was a gathering of friends to share their poetry with one another. However, no magazine was put together. You can see photos of this meeting here.
At the second meeting (21st Feb 2009) each poet that came brought 50 copies of one page of their poetry and over the course of the evening the Klatch 1 magazine was made up. You can see a scan of this magazine here. At least ten of these magazines were sent by Amy De'Ath to Sarah Dowling at UPenn in Philadelphia, many of the others were distributed at the Openned readings at the Foundry.
This format was followed for the more recent Klatch magazine which has just been posted out. However at Klatch 2 each poet kept a copy for themselves and took one copy to distribute to whoever they wished. The remaining copies were then sent out for free to anyone who requested a copy by emailing Openned.
At Klatch 2 (29th Jan 2010) a reading was also broadcast via Openned TV. Unfortunately no recordings exist of this performance. It is possible Mike Weller was our only audience member.
We hope you enjoy Klatch 1. Klatch 2 will be posted at some point in the near future.
The 24th Ezra Pound International Conference will be held in London, the city where Pound spent the pivotal years of 1908 to 1920 and a place that figures prominently in his work. The site of the 2011 meeting, sponsored in collaboration with the Institute for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, will be Senate House, Bloomsbury, London. A prestigious facility in an ideal location for Poundians, Senate House has excellent meeting rooms and an experienced, efficient staff. In addition to four days of papers and panels on Pound and others’ work, special events tentatively planned are for walking tours of Pound’s Kensington and Pound’s Bloomsbury, as well as visits to the Courtauld Gallery and the Tate. Additional plans include a reception in Fleet Street, a reading of contemporary poetry related to Pound, the conference banquet, and a two-day excursion after the meeting (10-11 July) to sites in Sussex and Kent, including possible visits to Stone Cottage, Henry James’s Lamb House, and the homes of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Ford Madox Ford, and Virginia Woolf.
The committee invites proposals for papers on any aspect of Pound’s interaction with London, and/or the English cultural tradition in general.
Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes delivery time. Send proposals (250 words) via e-mail or mail to:
Professor John Gery (jgery@uno.edu), 24th Ezra Pound International Conference, Department of English, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148-2315 USA
To be sure to receive registration information and details about lodging and excursions, please write to the above.
The documentary features eleven poets that have been published by Writers Forum over a period of 50 years. The film had no budget and was made over the course of one week and was first screened at the Off The Shelf event held at the Slade/UCl on the 22nd March 2010.
The website version of the film has some fairly brutal compression applied to it in order to make it fit online. This means you have to watch it at a fairly low quality. If any publisher wants to help turn this film into, and distribute the film as, a DVD please get in touch.
The film is far from a complete account of the activities of Writers Forum and is meant as an introduction to the topic.
Thanks need to go to all the poets that gave up so much of their time to be interviewed, to the AHRC Beyond Text Program for funding my research, to the British Library for giving me tapes to film with and space to record in, to Paula Claire for allowing me to film in her archive, to the UCL Small Press and Little Magazine Store for allowing me to photograph their archive, to the Slade Word Image Forum (of which I am part) and the organizers of the Off The Shelf Event for affording me the opportunity to screen the film at the Off The Shelf Event on the 22nd March 2010.
There are plans to make a much longer film over the course of the year. If anyone wants to be included in this new film please make contact via Openned.com.
The video will be archived permanently on Openned here.
You can also read an interview with Tom Jenks, co-founder of The Other Room, at 3:AM Magazine, and read details of the forthcoming The Other Room Anthology 2009/2010 at The Other Room website. More details as and when it is printed.
Tuesday 30 March, 2010 tagged ;)
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