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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshops / Chasing The Poem – 4th Edition / All Queer Mentorship
DESCRIPTION:From July 11th to August 1st\, Massy Arts and Massy Books host\, Chasing The Poem – Fourth Edition\, an online poetry workshop marathon for emerging writers\, in three courses created by queer poets to demystify poetry writing\, to present useful writing prompts\, to incite imagination\, and to address political and poetic points of view through poetic literature. \nThe classes – conducted by published poets David Ly + Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch + Isabella Wang\, will be held through Zoom in an exclusively online method\, with 2-hours long experimental courses that will mix literary theory + artistic expression. \nBy the end of this writing marathon\, attendees will have received feedback about their writing by authors in production\, aware of the market’s demands – but also aware of poetry’s potential. \nThe event will be hosted at Massy Arts’ Zoom room. \nTickets are limited\, and registration is mandatory + required for participation. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \n: : \nChasing The Poem – A unique opportunity for emerging writers \nWhether an emerging poet\, unpublished author\, poetry enthusiast\, or someone searching for new ways of expressing their creativity – Chasing The Poem will connect our creative community in three courses: \nJuly 11 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nDavid Ly \nRe-imagining Your Mythologies \nJuly 18 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch \nForm as the container for the personal and the political \nAugust 1 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nIsabella Wang \nPoetry Lab: Form’s Experimental Roots \n: : \nThe Workshops \n: : \n“Re-imagining Your Mythologies: Writing to See Yourself in Imagistic Poetry” by David Ly \nA workshop for emerging and established poets to practice flexing their imagination in composing poetry with vivid imagery that pushes a narrative of the self forward. \nWhether you love to write with imagery\, or would want to imbue more of it into your poems\, this workshop will be guide you through discussions\, close-readings\, and a series of writing exercises an imagistic poem. While strongly imbuing your poem with images that speak to you\, the other purpose of this workshop will be refining your poem so that it reflects your identity\, and re-imagines ideas (“mythologies”) that you have about yourself. \nAs poets\, we often explore our sense(s) of self in our work\, and by the end of this workshop\, you will leave inspired to explore what other images you can include in future poems\, that resonate with you and speak to your identity. \nDavid Ly is the author of Mythical Man (2020)\, which was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Poetry Award\, and Dream of Me as Water (2022)\, both published under the Anstruther Books imprint of Palimpsest Press. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2022). David’s poems have appeared in publications such as Arc Poetry Magazine\, Best Canadian Poetry\, PRISM International\, and The Ex-Puritan\, where he won the inaugural Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. David is the Poetry Editor at This Magazine. \n: : \n“Form as the container for the personal and the political: How to write non-didactic political poetry” by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch \nHow can writing about the daily minutia\, the sounds you like to hear\, the images you can’t get out of your head\, the construction in your city\, the long bus ride to work\, open up space to look at broader political\, social\, or interpersonal trials and difficulties? \nWriting poetry with a political or social “message” is difficult when trying to make sure it doesn’t come off as didactic or overbearing. One way of pushing through this difficulty is to lean on craft\, form\, and hybrid genres/forms in order to help shape your poetry\, the same way you would mold clay with your hands to create pottery. \nThis workshop will try to help workshop attendees to think about multiplicity as a strength in order to give their poems texture\, layers\, feeling\, energy\, elasticity\, and to avoid flatness or didacticism. We are working here with the everything\, the too much\, the big feelings\, the tiny little images stored in the back of ones head\, the gross\, the weird\, the strange\, and we’ll try to whittle it all down to a poem. \nOther ideas we’ll be thinking about: the personal vs. the political\, ways to create lenses through which we can write difficult subject matter\, caring about the self through the writing practice and also the impact on the reader. \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best \nCanadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. Their book\, knot body (2020)\, published by Metatron Press\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, published by Metonymy Press in 2021\, was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal. They are an acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French is forthcoming Spring 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of weird and experimental queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers\, forthcoming Spring 2024. \n: : \n“Poetry Lab: Form’s Experimental Roots” by Isabella Wang \nFocused on experimentation as a synaptic device in poetry. This workshop leads participants on an exploration of the experimental foundation of traditional poetic forms\, as well as the synergy from which new\, experimental forms arises from experimentation to shoulder the immediate\, aesthetic\, personal\, environmental\, and political visions of writers today. \nWe will journey with the term poiesis—a beloved term by poets—which translates loosely to mean ’the making of something out of nothing.’ Together\, participants will be encouraged to consider not only language’s ability to bring into being new feelings\, perspectives\, and original metaphors\, but equally how such perspectives are found in the unearthing of new experimental or hybrid forms. \nWhat is the relationship to form and poetic language? How do pre-existing forms or free-verse stanzas assist or hinder a poet’s intended creative representation? Is experimental poetry empowering? Political? An act of refusal and resistance? \nWe will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises ranging from experimental prose poetry to diptych and triptych forms. Exercises will followed by periods of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets\, artists\, and activists whose works engage with experimentation\, new\, and found forms. \nWe will end with a fun and artsy individual project to take home\, commemorate our writing in our time together. \nIsabella Wang is the author of the chapbook\, On Forgetting a Language\, and her full-length debut\, Pebble Swing\, shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Among other recognitions\, she has been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest\, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest and Long Poem Contest\, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. She is completing a double-major in English and World Literature at SFU. She works in freelance editing\, is a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House\, and web coordinator for Poetry In Canada.
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LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ever-Arriving Openings: An Evening with Adeena Karasick
DESCRIPTION:On Thurs. Aug. 3 at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Dialogos / Lavender Ink for the double launch of Adeena Karasick’s latest poetry books: Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations and Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings . \nThrough a poetics of politically engaged aesthetic resistance\, Ærotomania negotiates turbulence\, loss\, nostalgia and hope\, while the poems in Ouvert Oeuvre speak-sing to re-entering the world after a long period in quarantine. Adeena will be joined by special guest Jim Andrews\, who will be screening some of their recent vispo collaborations: Lorem Ipsum\, Checking In 1\, Checking In 2\, Touching in the Wake of the Virus. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the books \nÆrotomania: The Book of LumenationsLavender Ink\, 2023) \nA lyrically explosive mix of pathos\, comedy\, and wit\, and a visual feast in full color. \nMarked by a playful “cognitive dissidence” and a lyrically and visually explosive mix of pathos\, comedy\, and wit\, Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations is Karasick’s twelfth volume of poetry. Through a poetics of politically engaged aesthetic resistance\, this work negotiates turbulence\, loss\, nostalgia and hope\, inscribing a prescient “present” ever-arriving through jubilation and bereavement\, in immanence and irruption\, exposing how the airplane as an erotic theater functions like a language. \nOuvert Oeuvre: Openings (Lavender Ink\, 2023) \nAn ecstatically wrought\, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. \nInscribing what Levinas might call “espace vital” (the space we can survive)\, Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings is an ecstatically wrought\, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. Written by Adeena Karasick and visualized by Warren Lehrer\, the two poems track the pain of openings read through socio-economic\, geographic and bodily space. They explore a range of intralingual etymologies of the word opening\, laced with post-consumerist and erotic language\, theoretical discourse\, philosophical and Kabbalistic aphorisms. The poems foreground language as an organism of hope–highlighting the concept of opening as an ever-swirling palimpsest of spectral voices\, textures\, whispers and codes transported through passion\, politics and pleasure as we negotiate loss and light. This book is the first collaboration between poet\, performer\, cultural theorist and media artist Adeena Karasick\, and pioneer designer/author and vis lit practitioner Warren Lehrer. The poems\, written by Karasick\, speak-sing to re-entering the world after a long period in quarantine. Lehrer choreographs Karasick’s words on the stage of the page and through the pages of this volume. His typographic compositions give form to the interior\, emotional\, metaphorical\, historical and performative underpinnings of the poems. Together\, the writing and visuals create a new whole that engages the reader to become an active participant in the experience/performance of the poems. View the book’s website here. \nAbout the author \nAdeena Karasick\, Ph.D\, is a New York based Canadian poet\, performer\, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of 14 books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically inflected\, urban\, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard)\, “proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion” (George Quasha)\, noted for their “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing\, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) “a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick’s signature ‘syllabic labyrinth’” (Craig Dworkin); “demonstrating how desire flows through language\, an unstoppable flood of allusion (both literary and pop-cultural)\, word-play\, and extravagant and outrageous sound-work.” (Mark Scroggins). Most recently is Massaging the Medium: 7 Pechakuchas\, (The Institute of General Semantics Press: 2022)\, shortlisted for Outstanding Book of the Year Award (ICA\, 2023) and winner of the 2023 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form. (MEA)\, Checking In (Talonbooks\, 2018) and Salomé: Woman of Valor (University of Padova Press\, Italy\, 2017)\, the libretto for her Spoken Word opera; Salomé: Woman of Valor CD\, (NuJu Records\, 2020)\, and Salomé Birangona\, translation into Bengali (Boibhashik Prokashoni Press\, Kolkata\, 2020). Karasick teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Dept. at Pratt Institute\, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media Ecology\, Associate International Editor of New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication\, 2021 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award recipient and winner of the Voce Donna Italia award for her contributions to feminist thinking\, and has just been appointed Poet Laureate of the Institute of General Semantics. The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections\, Simon Fraser University. Hot off the press is Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations\, and Ouvert: Oeuvre: Openings\, (Lavender Ink Press\, 2023). \nAlso featuring: \nJim Andrews has been publishing https://vispo.com since 1996. It’s the centre of his work as a poet\, visual artist\, audio artist\, theoretician and programmer. Vispo.com is a site of interactive\, multimedia poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/ever-arriving-openings-an-evening-with-adeena-karasick/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Wild Prose Readings Presents: Troubled Towns and Waters with Curtis LeBlanc\, Michael Melgaard and Mike Sadava
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of small-town and watery crime literature! The evening will begin with an open mic at 7 – bring your writing to share! Featured readers will begin at 7:30 p.m.: Vancouver-based poet and novelist Curtis LeBlanc will read from his debut novel\, Sunsetter\, which is about crime and drugs at a small-town rodeo; Toronto-based\, island-raised author Michael Melgaard will read from his debut novel\, Not That Kind of Place\, which is about the aftermath of a murder in a small town on Vancouver Island; and local author Mike Sadava will read from his debut novel\, Troubled Waters\, which is about a potential earth-changing experiment gone horribly wrong and the international crime behind it. \nPlease bring cash for admission and authors’ books.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wild-prose-readings-presents-troubled-towns-and-waters-with-curtis-leblanc-michael-melgaard-and-mike-sadava/
LOCATION:Paul Phillips Hall\, 1923 Fernwood Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0A5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Open Mic,Reading
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