Forthcoming events sponsored by and related to The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Tuesday, March 30, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Stratford Park Reading Series presents
Andrew Schelling & Erik Anderson Location: Stratford Park Community House: 3030 O'Neal Parkway, Boulder
Wednesday–Friday, March 31–April 2, 2010
Environmental Ethics Conference:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reshaping Our Relationship With Nature
Sponsored by the
Metro State Philosophy Club This conference invites all disciplines and community members to share ideas about the theory and practice of interconnectedness with nature, including literature about the environment. The intention of the conference is to create an atmosphere for individuals to have the opportunity to collectively reshape our relationship with nature.
For more information including a complete schedule of events and specific locations, please click here. Location: Metro State
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Poets' Co-op presents a reading with Bhanu Kapil Location: Loveland Museum Gallery: 503 N. Lincoln Ave, Loveland
Monday, April 5, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
Reading featuring Tim Z. Hernandez and his new book, Breathing, In Dust.
Sponsored by the Boulder Bookstore Location: Boulder Bookstore: 1107 Pearl Street, Boulder
Wednesday–Saturday, April 7-10, 2010
Naropa is a Benefactor Sponsor for the AWP Conference Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics is pleased to announce its benefactor sponsorship of the 2010 Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference in Denver at the Colorado Convention Center from April 7-10. As one of the biggest literary gatherings in North America with over 8,000 people and 500 publishers in attendance, AWP will provide Kerouac School faculty, students, and alumni an international stage to share their writing and contribute to conversations about emerging trends in our discipline, curricular development, the publishing industry, and more through discussions, readings, lectures, and book signings. AWP also presents important opportunities for program development, pedagogical and career resources, and student recruitment. The Kerouac School is sponsoring three readings, two panels, a reception, and a series of book signings while maintaining a joint booth for the Kerouac School and Bombay Gin at the Bookfair. There will also be unofficial off-site events, including a Kerouac School reading hosted at the Mercury Café on the final evening of the conference. This is the first year the Kerouac School has been involved with AWP at this scale. We are grateful to the faculty and staff at Naropa who have supported this sponsorship, and we hope to provide such vital programming in the future. Please read below for a list of events sponsored by and related to Naropa.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7:00 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event Breathing, In Dust book release (off-site event)
Participants: Naropa alum Tim Z. Hernandez
Location: CHAC,
Chicano Humanities & Arts Council, 772 Santa Fe Dr, Denver
Registration pass not required
Thursday, April 8, 2010
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Sponsored by the CLMP Anne Waldman's CLMP Keynote Address
Small Press Heaven: Poetics from the Floating World Location: Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency
Registration pass required
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event Bollywood, Bullets, and Beyond: The Poetry of South Asian America Participants: Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam, Srikanth Reddy, Bhanu Kapil, Subhashini Kaligotla, Monica Ferrell Location: 102, 104, Convention Center
Registration pass required
12:00 p.m.–1:15 p.m. Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Jack Kerouac School Faculty Reading Participants: Lisa Birman, Anselm Hollo, Junior Burke, Danielle Dutton, Amy Catanzano Description: Naropa University is home to one of the most prestigious and diverse writing programs in the West, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Five faculty members will celebrate the school’s 35th anniversary with a reading of recent work, including short prose and poetry. Location: 303, Convention Center
Registration pass required
1:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m. Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics And the Beat Goes On... Participants: Elizabeth Robinson, Anselm Hollo, Maureen Owen, Reed Bye Description: Since its inception, Naropa University’s Writing & Poetics program has been a living model of ‘outrider’ traditions. This roundtable includes poets who have lived through and shaped poetic movements central to the 20th & 21st centuries: from Beat and Black Mountain experiments through New York School and Language poetries, this panel offers conversations with Naropa poets who have been at the center of American poetic history. Location: Agate Room, Hyatt Regency
Registration pass required
7:00 p.m. Sponsored by Julie Carr Colorado Writers Reading (off-site event) Description: Reading featuring many Colorado writers including Kerouac School faculty Amy Catanzano, Maureen Owen, Sara Veglahn and more. Location: The Mercury Café: 2199 California Street, Denver
Registration pass not required
7:00 p.m. Sponsored by Shearsman Press, Flim Forum, SongCave, EtherDome Press, Instance Press, and Woodland Editions Poetry Reading (off-site event) Description: Reading
featuring many authors including Kerouac School faculty Elizabeth Robinson. Location: Plus Gallery: 2501 Larimer Street, Denver
Registration pass not required
10:30 p.m.–1:00 a.m.
Sponsored by Bombay Gin, Fast Forward, Tarpaulin Sky Press, Monkey Puzzle Press, Fact-Simile, and Zero Ducats Reading (off-site event) Location:Dazzle Restaurant & Lounge: 930 Lincoln St., Denver
Registration pass not required
Friday, April 9, 2010
3:00 p.m.– 4:15 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Camp Kerouac—35 Years of Naropa’s Summer Writing Program Participants: Lisa Birman, Max Regan, Akilah Oliver, Shane Jimenez Description: In June 1974, Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman launched a Summer Arts Festival in Boulder, Colorado. Over the last 35 years, a who’s who of US and international poetics has taught, learned, lectured, listened, written, and read at Naropa’s Summer Writing Program. The SWP is now an integral part of Naropa’s MFA degrees, in addition to its thriving undergraduate and non-credit populations. Faculty, staff, and students will discuss diversity, community building, recruitment, and pedagogy. Location: 210, 212, Convention Center
Registration pass required
4:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Featured reading for Michael Nava and Achy Obejas Location: Mineral Hall, Hyatt Regency
Registration pass required
4:30 p.m.–5:45 p.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event Colorado's Innovative Writers Past and Present Participants: Julie Carr, Noah Eli Gordon, Eleni Sikelianos, Bhanu Kapil, Dan Beachy-Quick, and Matthew Cooperman Location: 301, 302, Convention Center
Registration pass required
7:00 p.m.– 8:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa University Reception
Before Anne Waldman’s featured reading, please join us for a reception with students, faculty, staff, and alumni, past and present. Location: TBA
Registration pass required
7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Astrophil Press Reading (off-site event) Participants: Keith Kumasen Abbott, Laird Hunt, Selah Saterstrom,
David Gruber, Joanna Howard, Sandy Florian, and Brett Ralph
Description:
A night of readings and music. Free door prizes include free drinks and books. A DJ and live bands will cap off the night! Come celebrate independent publishing!
Location: Hi-Dive: 7 South Broadway, Denver
Registration pass not required
8:00 p.m.–10:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the University of Denver Reading featuring Anne Waldman and Gary Snyder Location: Four Seasons Ballroom, Convention Center
Registration pass required
Saturday, April 10, 2010
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. Non-Naropa sponsored event
Re-writing America: Complicating the Poetics of Identity.
Participants: Tim Z. Hernandez, Neelanjana Banerjee, Hayan Charara, Samantha Thornhill, Ching-In Chen, and Summi Kaipa Description: Even as the minority surges towards the majority in making up the New America, poets seek out the nurturing spaces of ethno-literary organizations like Kundiman and Cave Canem. Popular ethnic-specific anthologies are being published each year. Yet the work coming out of these cultural boundaries is incredibly diverse in style and influence. This panel examines the ways in which hyphenated American poets are rethinking the concept of identity and, in turn, shaping the national zeitgeist.
Location: 201, Convention Center
Registration pass required
11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa Faculty Book signing 11:00 am: Keith Kumasen Abbott, Andrew Schelling, Indira Ganesan 12:00 pm: Anne Waldman, Bhanu Kapil, Anselm Hollo 1:00 pm: Amy Catanzano, Junior Burke, Lisa Birman, Elizabeth Robinson Location: Jack Kerouac School Bookfair Booth, Convention Center
Registration pass not required
1:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m.
Non-Naropa sponsored event Both Sides of the Mouth: Teaching Bilingual Workshops Participants: Tim Z. Hernandez, Cheryl Klein, Daniel Chacón, Naomi Hirahara Description: Writers on this panel will talk about the challenges and the literary and cultural opportunities that arise when teaching workshops for audiences with mixed linguistic backgrounds in both community and academic settings. Location: 107, Convention Center
Registration pass required
7:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Mercury Café Reading (off-site event)
Please join us for a reading with Kerouac School faculty past and present. Location: The Mercury Café: 2199 California Street, Denver
Registration pass not required
7:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Ahadada Books Poetry from Ahadada Books & Unlikely Stories (off-site event)
Featured readers include Kerouac School faculty Amy Catanzano, alum
Mark DuCharme,
and other Ahadada Books authors Location: Michelangelo’s Coffee & Wine Bar: 1 Broadway Ste. B, Denver
Registration pass not required
Thursday, April 15, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Colorado State University Hosts the 4×4 Reading, FREE Naropa University, University of Denver, Colorado State University, and University of Colorado at Boulder all participate in the 4x4 Reading Series, where MFA and PhD students from each creative writing program meet twice a semester to give a reading on the host campus. Naropa’s MFA students are nominated and selected by consensus at faculty meetings.
This 4x4 Reading features the following readers:
Naropa:
Hannah Rodabaugh
CU:
Mark Rockswold
CSU:
Gus Mircos
DU:
Cristina Celona Location: CSU: Room TBA
Monday, April 19, 2010
Reading featuring Andrew Schelling & Megan DiBello
Location: The Laughing Goat:
1709 Pearl Street, Boulder
Thursday, May 6, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Writing & Poetics BA Graduation Student Reading
Location: Naropa: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Friday, May 7, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Writing & Poetics MFA Graduation Student Reading Location: Naropa: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Week One: June 14–20
Poet or Assassin? Description: “The assassin is the one who bombards the existing people with molecular populars that are forever closing all of the assemblages, hurling them into an even wider and deeper black hole. The poet is one who lets loose molecular populations in hopes that this will sow the seeds of, or even engender the people to come − open a cosmos” (Deleuze & Guattari). Paul Virilio also posits the question: “To live as poet or assassin?” This week, our writers will consider personal ethos, including their current projects and “roles” in the world as scholars, activists, and educators. Where do cultures within cultures reside? To whom are we beholden? Guest Faculty: Charles Alexander, Junior Burke, Julie Carr, Linh Dinh, Steve Evans, Thalia Field, Ross Gay, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Laird Hunt, Stephen Graham Jones, Bhanu Kapil, Joanne Kyger, Jaime Manrique, Jennifer Moxley, Jennifer Scappettone, David Trinidad, & Others.
Week Two: June 21–27
Planet News: Investigating Eco-Ethos-Eros Description: Considering both human and non-human elements, where does our writing practice intersect with others? A sense of empathy, one evidenced in the mirror neurons of chimps, attracts our attention. From flowers, spiders, to the wooly mammoth, we will consider our ongoing investigative projects in “nature” as templates for radical shifts in research and imagination. Eros suggests we fall more in love with our world and the dharma suggests we do the same. What does it mean for locals here at Naropaland, who continue to struggle with the karma of Rocky Flats plutonium waste? Guest Faculty: Jane Augustine, Sherwin Bitsui, Caroline Bergvall, Ed Bowes, Jack Collom, Samuel R. Delany, Jon Davis, Santee Frazier, Alan Gilbert, Allison Hedge Coke, Michael Heller, Brenda Hillman, Helen Howe Braider, Lisa Jarnot, Layli Long Soldier, Tracie Morris, dg okpik, Daniel Pinchbeck, Evelyn Reilly, Elizabeth Robinson, James Stevens, Mary Tasillo, Orlando White, & Others.
Week Three: June 28–July 4
Great Divides & Common Ground Description: This week, writers from Bosnia, Turkey, Mexico, China, and indigenous America join us as we consider ways to acknowledge the richness of linguistic, historical, and ritual difference, yet enjoy common ground. What are the stories of ethnicity that we arrive with and where do they go? How do we regard the power structures that dominate our lives? What do we read and in what tongues? How do we translate and study our various maps and boundaries? Guest Faculty: Erik Anderson, Sinan Antoon, Sherwin Bitsui, Xi Chuan, Dolores Dorantes, Jack Hirschman, Jen Hofer, Anselm Hollo, Bob Holman, Brian Kiteley, Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Akilah Oliver, Margaret Randall, Damion Searls, Julia Seko, & Others.
Week Four: July 5–11
Public Space: Performance & Small Press Publishing Description: Performance (from the French parfornir) is to enact a ritual in front of an audience. “Can you hear me in the back?” Vladimir Mayakovsky inquires in a famous poem. We will work on writing with an ear to project our voices, bodies, and imaginations to the back of the room. Dancers, singers, actors and word workers of many ilks join the mix this week. Collaboration is an effort that turns in many directions in that it takes two or more people to operate a printshop or found a small press in order to send books out into the ozone. How do we keep the spirit going for many decades, as has, for instance, Coffee House Press, whose founder and publisher, Allan Kornblum, joins us this week? Guest Faculty: Penny Arcade, Amiri Baraka, Laynie Browne, Ambrose Bye, Douglas Dunn, Danielle Dutton, Brian Evenson, Colin Frazer, Joanna Howard, Allan Kornblum, Rachel Levitsky, Michelle Naka Pierce, Julie Patton, Martin Riker, Selah Saterstrom, Patricia Smith, Steven Taylor, Anne Waldman, & Others.
Recent events sponsored by and related to The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics
Friday, March 12, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
BA and MFA Student Reading Location: Naropa: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Friday, March 12, 2010, 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Undergraduate Preview Weekend
Naropa Resource Fair
2:30 - 3:30 p.m. Showcase your student group to prospective and future Naropa undergrads Open Mic Coffee House 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Sing! Dance! Read a poem! Improvise! Show off! Please email rsurprenant@naropa.edu to reserve a spot in advance. Location: Naropa: Student Center
Thursday, March 11, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Entanglement, film by Ed Bowes
Written by Bowes and Anne Waldman Entanglement is about the ways we think, what we want, how we see and remember; language and space. It features performances by Eleni Sikelianos, Oona Fraser, Angie Yeowell and Michael Jones.
Q&A after the film screening. Location: Boulder Public Library: Main Branch, Canyon Theater
Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Naropa Hosts the 4×4 Reading
FREE Naropa University, University of Denver, Colorado State University, and University of Colorado at Boulder all participate in the 4x4 Reading Series, where MFA and PhD students from each creative writing program meet twice a semester to give a reading on the host campus. Naropa’s MFA students are nominated and selected by consensus at faculty meetings.
This 4x4 Reading features the following readers:
Naropa: Kelly Alsup
CU: Alicia Montero Gomez
CSU: Adam Lozeau
DU: Julia Cohen Location: Naropa: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Sunday, March 7, 2010, 1:00 p.m. Arts, Scraps, & Services Fair
Presented by Student Life Programming. Location: Naropa: Room TBA
Friday–Saturday , March 5-6, 2010 Small Press Festival sponsored by the University of Colorado This year we will have talks, presentations, and readings by: Christine Hume, Andrew Zawacki, Travis Nichols, Eric Baus, Eric Lorberer, Brian Henry, Jeremy Davies, Carol Snow, Gillian Conoley, Janet Holmes, Anna Moschovakis, and more!
Presses and journal represented include: Verse, Volt, Rain Taxi, Ugly Duckling, Dalkey Archives, Ahsahta, Counterpath, Letter Machine Editions, Octopus, Underland, and others. Please click here for a pdf of events and specific locations . Location:University of Colorado - Boulder
Tuesday, March 2, 2010, 8:00 p.m. Reading with Gillian Conoley Location: Naropa: Shambhala Hall
Wednesday, March 3, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Yellow Pine Reading Series Featured readers include Shane Oshetski, Aimee Herman, Mark DuCharme, and Pam Kohll Location:Wild Sage Community House: 1650 Zamia Ave in North Boulder
Friday, February 26, 2010, 7:30 p.m. Amiri Baraka poetry reading
Sponsored by DU Location: The University of Denver
Thursday, February 25, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
The University of Colorado Hosts the 4×4 Reading
FREE Naropa University, University of Denver, Colorado State University, and University of Colorado at Boulder all participate in the 4x4 Reading Series, where MFA and PhD students from each creative writing program meet twice a semester to give a reading on the host campus. Naropa’s MFA students are nominated and selected by consensus at faculty meetings.
This 4x4 Reading features the following readers:
Naropa: Steven Scheuer
CU: Erin Costello & Aaron Angelo
CSU: Rico Moore
DU: Seth Landman Location: CU-Boulder, Atlas 100
Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:30 a.m. Naropa’s Career and Internship Fair
Network with representatives and learn about their organizations. Explore internships as well as full-time, part-time and seasonal employment opportunities Location: Naropa: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Monday, February 22, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Malcolm X movie Presented by El Centro & Snow Lion for Black History Month
Location: Naropa: Snow Lion Community Room
Saturday, February 20, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Reading with Bhanu Kapil, Noah Eli Gordon, and David Buuck, with special musical guest Edward Almost
Location: The Dikeou Collection: 1615 California Street (Suite 515), Denver
Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 12:00 p.m. Brother Outsider movie Presented by El Centro & Snow Lion for Black History Month
Location: Naropa: El Centro de la Gente
Monday, February 15, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Brother Outsider movie Presented by El Centro & Snow Lion for Black History Month
Location: Naropa: Snow Lion Community Room
Thursday–Sunday, February 11-14, 2010 Boulder International Film Festival The 6th Annual Boulder International Film Festival. In just a few years, the Boulder International Film Festival has developed a reputation as one of the most influential young film festivals in the U.S. MovieMaker magazine voted the BIFF “one of the coolest film festivals in the world” in 2009.
Location: Various locations in Boulder. For a schedule of films, click here.
Monday, February 8, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Talk to Me movie Presented by El Centro & Snow Lion for Black History Month
Location: Naropa: Snow Lion Community Room
Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:00 p.m. The Color Purple movie Presented by El Centro & Snow Lion for Black History Month
Location: Naropa: Snow Lion Community Room
Friday, February 5, 2010, 7:00 p.m. Naropa Supports Haiti Coffee House Open Mic Come out to watch talented artists and musicians from the Naropa community and beyond at our evening open mic. Along with music, poetry, slam, readings, Jewelry Extravaganza, alien autopsy and dance, the Community Kitchen will be cooking up some delectable treats for all to enjoy. If you’re interested in performing, email HaitiSupport@naropa.edu. This event is sponsored by Naropa Supports Haiti. We will be accepting donations at the door and all proceeds will be donated to the relief efforts in Haiti.Sponsored by Naropa Supports Haiti.
Location: Naropa: Performing Arts Center (PAC)
