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I'll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women

this anthology lauch is Co-sponsored by the University of Arizona Poetry Center and supported by Poets & Writers, Inc.

Friday, February 10
7 p.m.
Free and open to the public
At the UA Poetry Center

I'll Drown My Book will be the first collection of conceptual writing by women. Conceptual writing is emerging as a vital 21st century literary movement and Les Figues Press wants to represent the contributions of women in this defining moment. Edited by Caroline Bergvall, Laynie Browne, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place, the book includes work by 64 women from 10 countries. Contributors respond to the question: What is conceptual writing? I’ll Drown My Book offers feminist perspectives within this literary phenomenon. This reading will feature Renee Angle, Judith Goldman, Bhanu Kapil, and Laura Mullen.

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Reader Bios

Renee Angle lives in Tucson, Arizona where she works for the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Her poems have been published in Diagram, Practice New Art + Writing, Sonora Review, EOAGH, and in a chapbook Lucy Design in the Papal Flea (dancing girl press).

 

 

Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder (Roof 2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (O Books 2006), and l.b.; or, catenaries (Krupskaya 2011), while her work has recently appeared in journals and anthologies including Fence, Mandorla, and Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing.  She co-edited the annual journal War and Peace with Leslie Scalapino from 2005-2009 and is currently Poetry Feature Editor for the academic web-journal Postmodern Culture.  From 2007-2011, she was a Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago. In Fall 2011, she was the Holloway Poet at University of California, Berkeley.

Bhanu Kapil teaches at Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and Goddard College.  She is the author of four books of prose/poetry, most recently humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009) and Schizophrene (Nightboat, 2011).

 

 

Laura Mullen is a Professor at Louisiana State University. She is the author of four collections of poetry—The Surface, After I Was Dead, Subject and Dark Archive (University of California Press, 2011)—as well as two hybrid texts, The Tales of Horror, and Murmur. Recognitions for her poetry include Ironwood’s Stanford Prize, and she has been awarded a Board of Regents ATLAS grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors. She has had several MacDowell Fellowships and is a frequent visitor at the Summer Writing Program at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa. Her work has been widely anthologized and is included in American Hybrid (Norton). Recent prose has been collected in Civil Disobediences: Poetics & Politics in Action, and published in Ploughshares and The Fairytale Review. The composer Jason Eckardt’s setting of “The Distance (This)” (from Subject) premiered in New York and Helsinki and will be released on Mode records in August 2011. New work is out or forthcoming in Action Yes!, Cerise Press, Ghost Town, the Denver Quarterly, Viz Arts, and New American Writing. Mullen was invited to participate in the Taipei International Poetry Festival in 2009; she is the special interest delegate in Creative Writing for the Modern Language Association for 2012-2014 and a contributing editor for the on-line poetry movie site Rabbit Light Movies.  More at: http://www.lauramullen.biz/