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Not Your Average Poetry Reading #1
| Benefit Brunch for BMCMAC | Not
Your Average Poetry Reading #2
Poets:
Michael Boughn | Lee
Ann Brown and Beth Brown Al-Rawi | Patrick
Herron | Lisa Jarnot | John
Landry
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Not Your Average Poetry Reading
#1:
Description: Poetry
readings by Lee Ann Brown (with Beth
Brown Al-Rawi), Patrick Herron and
John Landry. The poets performing at
Malaprop's explore the frontiers of poetry and music and poetry
and audio montage, as well as the propositional voice of poetry
so characteristic of Black Mountain College poet Charles Olson.
They make use of materials as diverse as the traditional ballads
of Western North Carolina and the digital audio resources
of the electronic age. Expect the unexpected.
Date: Saturday, 9/21
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Malaprop's
Bookstore
Cost: Free
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Benefit Champagne Brunch for
BMCMAC
Description: A benefit
brunch for the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center.
Michael Boughn, Lee
Ann Brown, Beth Brown Al-Rawi, Patrick
Herron, Lisa Jarnot, and John
Landry will be on hand for a discussion. This will also
be an opportunity to view the Fundamental
Design: A Conscious Revolution or a Nostalgic Reaction
exhibition. Dr. Newt Smith will also present The Interaction
of Arts and Poetry at Black Mountain College lecture.
Reservations are required. RSVP to Jane
Anne Tager at 828-658-3576 (no later than Saturday, 9/21).
Date: Sunday, 9/22
Time: 1pm
Location: Black
Mountain Center for the Arts Gallery
Cost: $35
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Not Your Average Poetry Reading
#2:
Description: Poetry
readings by Michael Boughn and Lisa
Jarnot at the former BMC Campus. The readings will take
place in the Dining Hall where Cage's Theatre
Piece No. 1 was performed in the summer of 1952.
Carrying the pioneering tradition of Black Mountain College
poets to new frontiers, Michael Bough and Lisa Jarnot both
use language to explore the boundaries of meaning, challenging
the syntax of the familiar. Like the most useful poetry of
any age, their works open new doors of perception. Never mind
everything you thought you knew!
Date: Sunday, 9/22
Time: 3:15pm-5pm
Location: Camp
Rockmont (Dining Hall)
Cost: Free with Brunch,
$10 others
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Poets:
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Michael Boughn
Description: Michael
Boughn is a writer, scholar, and sometimes teacher. From 1982
until 1989 he worked closely with Robert Creeley and John
Clarke at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His
most recent book of poetry was one’s own MIND, the
penultimate volume in A Curriculum of the Soul published
by the Institute of Further Studies in Canton, NY. Dislocations
in Crystal is due out from Coach House Books in Toronto
in September. Robin Blaser calls it "an astonishing book—
beautiful language and syntax that flows and entangles the
reader in a discontinuing HERE, then heads for a THERE that
is not all THERE for any of us." He is currently working on
a descriptive bibliography of Charles Olson, a mystery novel
called Hornet Summer, and a new book of poems, Precarious
Situates. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Elizabeth,
and two children, Amelia and Sam.
Further Information:
Date: Sunday, 9/22
Time: 3:15pm
Location: Camp
Rockmont (Dining Hall)
Cost: Free with Brunch,
$10 others
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Michael Boughn
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Lee Ann Brown (with Beth Brown
Al-Rawi)
Description: Lee
Ann Brown is the author of Polyverse
(Sun & Moon Press) which won the New American Poetry Prize
and the forthcoming volume, The Sleep that Changed Everything
(Wesleyan University Press). She was born in Japan, raised
in Charlotte, NC and now lives in New York City. She has an
MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University and has taught
poetry and literature at Bard College, Naropa Univeristy MFA
program, Barnard College and is now teaching at St. John's
University in Staten Island. Upon first arriving in New York
City she worked at The
Poetry Project where she came in to contact with many
poets of the Black
Mountain, New
York School, Beat
and L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
and other "outsider" poetic traditions. She performs her work
internationally, most recently as part of the the Slovenian
poetry festival "Days of Poetry & Wine" in August 2002.
Beth Brown Al-Rawi is an accomplished old-time and cajun
fiddler, visual artist and documentarian. She attended the
North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston Salem and The
Chicago Art Institute, where she received her BFA. She is
a certified Suzuki violin instructor and is currently studying
at the Duke Center for Documentary Studies. She playse fiddle
and sings in the Charlotte, NC-based band Carolina Gator Gumbo,
whose first CD "Into the Bayou" was just released.
Beth and Lee Ann are longtime sisters, NC mountain campers
and collaborators who will be presenting a program of poetry,
songs, games, string tricks and rhymes.
Further Information:
Date:
Saturday, 9/21
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Malaprop's
Cost: Free
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Lee Ann Brown
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Patrick Herron
Description: Patrick
Herron lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he creates
poetry, music, software, and web art. Patrick has recently
completed his second collection of poetry, entitled Hyperlustrous
Purse (forthcoming). He is also the creator of Proximate.org,
a website that has been featured in university design and
web art curricula from Canada to India to Germany to the US.
Patrick's poems, criticism, and textual works have recently
been published in Jacket,
VeRT, Blaze,
Readme,
Rhizome.org,
Oasia Press, and A
Chide's Alphabet. Some of Patrick's new web art is coming
soon to the Iowa
Review Web. Patrick has also recently recorded an album
of electronic music under the name of Blindfolder.
Further Information:
Date: Saturday, 9/21
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Malaprop's
Cost: Free
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Patrick Herron
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Lisa Jarnot
Description: Lisa
Jarnot was born in 1967 in Buffalo, New York. She attended
State University of New York at Buffalo (1986-1989) and Brown
University (1992-1994). She has been the Editor of two small
poetry magazines : No Trees (1987-1989, Buffalo) and
Troubled Surfer (1990-1992, Oakland). She was also
Editor of St Mark's Newsletter until 1997. She also
taught at the Naropa
Institute's Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics.
Her recent book Ring
of Fire was published by Zoland Books (Boston).
Further Information:
Date: Sunday, 9/22
Time: 3:15pm
Location: Camp
Rockmont (Dining Hall)
Cost: Free with Brunch,
$10 others
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Lisa Jarnot
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John Landry
Description: John
Landry was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1953. At
the age of 38 he discovered he'd lived in 38 places and held
38 jobs, having been employed as quahaugger, scallop-shucker,
factory and warehouse worker, hotel concierge, Plimoth Plantation
lecturer of Native American history and culture, pollster,
health street outreach assistant, librarian, dishwasher, and
can now be found at UMass Dartmouth teaching courses on Black
Mountain College.
His poetry has appeared in journals such as Beatitude,
Greenfield Review, Contact II, Exquisite
Corpse, NRG, Range, canwehaveourballback?.
He has been the editor of Patmos Press, producing chapbooks
and the magazine collision. He was a student of Ed Dorn at
Naropa University’s Jack Kerousc School of Disembodied Poets
in the 1970’s, and continues to be wowed by the work of the
late John Wieners, Robert Duncan, Paul Metcalf, and other
Black Mountain College instructors, alumni, and associates
he has had the pleasure to hear and learn from at breath’s
range. At the invitation of Gwendolyn Brooks (1986 Poetry
Consultant), he gave a reading of his work at the Library
of Congress. A healthy set of excerpts from his life-long
project about the peninsula on which he has spent most of
his life, Sconticut, will be featured in a future issue
of polis, a new journal published in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Further Information:
Date: Saturday, 9/21
(Reading)
Time: 6-8pm
Location: Malaprop's
Cost: Free
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John Landry
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