Reading: Anne Waldman, Victor Coleman & AROARA
(19 November 2011)
Posted in Anne Waldman, Events, Victor ColemanWhen: 19 November 2011 – 7:30PM
Where: St. Stephens-in-the-field, St. Stephens-in-the-field, 103 Bellevue Ave, Toronto (enter at Red Door on College Street).
Price: $15 at the door / $10 in advance
Toronto New School of Writing’s Visiting Author Series is pleased host an evening of readings by poets Anne Waldman and Victor Coleman, following Waldman’s afternoon Experiments in Attention Workshop. With special guest AROARA (Andrew Whiteman & Ariel Engle) performing from In The Pines.
ANNE WALDMAN has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community, a culture she has helped create and nurture for over four decades, as writer, teacher, performer, magpie scholar, editor, infra-structure curator, and cultural/political activist. Her poetry is recognized in the lineage of Whitman,Stein, and Ginsberg, and in the Beat, New York School and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry. As an “open field investigator” of consciousness, Waldman is committed to the possibilities of radical shifts of language and states of mind to create new modal structures and montages of attention. She is the author of more than 40 books, including the mini-classic Fast Speaking Woman, a collection of essays entitled Vow to Poetry and several selected poems editions including Helping the Dreamer, Kill or Cure and In the Room of Never Grieve. She has concentrated on the long poem as a cultural intervention with such projects as Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of The World Compared to a Bubble, Manatee/Humanity (all three books published by Penguin Poets) which is a book-length rhizomic meditation on evolution and endangered species, and the monumental anti-war feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment, published by Coffee House Press in 2011. Her numerous anthologies Nice To See You: Homage to Ted Berrigan, The Beat Book, Civil Disobediences (co-edited with Lisa Birman), The Angel Hair Anthology (co-edited with Lewis Warsh).
VICTOR COLEMAN was born in Toronto. After a short stint working at Oxford University Press (a virtual apprenticeship in book design and the business of publishing), he jumped ship to become linotype operator for The Coach House Printing Co. and Coach House Press editor in chief (from 1966-1975). Before the unions made it impossible for practising writers with no degrees to do so, he taught CanLit and Creative Writing for the Toronto District School Board and at York and Queens Universities. He has received grants from the Canada Council, the Toronto Arts Council and the Ontario Arts Council, and in 2001 was given the Harbourfront International Writers’ Festival Prize. In 1996, when the Coach House Press had been run into the ground by various committees, he and Stan Bevington started up Coach House Books, the world’s first simultaneous print and online publishing venture. His most recent books are ICON TACT and MAL ARME, and The Occasional Troubadour.
AroarA is the new duo of Andrew Whiteman & Ariel Engle. they play a music somewhere between bhangra and ballad, ghazal and go-go. they are currently working on two albums. One has no title yet and focuses on laptop explorations combined with lo fi cigarbox guitar thrashing. The other is called “In The Pines by Alice Notley as sung by AroarA” which is exactly what it says. the lyrical clues dropped into In The Pines are picked up and followed as the fourteen poems in Notley’s book are transformed into gothic industrial folk songs.
Advanced Tickets through www.tnsow.com are $10
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