Projection: A Reading Series
Image: Zach Pace
Wednesday, October 21, 8pm
$5 Suggested Donation
Curated by Zach Pace, Projection features text projected beside the reader to produce a unique sonic and visual experience of the literary arts. A great deal of kinetic energy is lost when an audience simply hears a poem. It's important for listeners to visually follow the reader. Audience will view the choices made by author on the page--including word-choice, syntax and line-length--therefore receiving the work in its complete presentation. Projection inaugurates the first performative-literary event at CPR.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Monica Ferrell is the author of a novel, THE ANSWER IS ALWAYS YES (The Dial Press/Random House), and a collection of poems, BEASTS FOR THE CHASE, selected by Jane Hirshfield for the 2007 Kathryn A Morton Poetry Prize and published by Sarabande Books. A former "Discovery"/The Nation prizewinner and Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, the Boston Review, Fence, the New York Review of Books, and other magazines and anthologies.
"The mythmaking in these poems is fierce and wildly original--this is a thrilling new poetic voice." --Nick Flynn
Cathy Park Hong is the author of TRANSLATING MO'UM (Hanging Loose Press), winner of a Pushcart Prize, and DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION (WW Norton), chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize. Her poems have been published in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Verse, Jubilat, and other journals, and she has written for the Village Voice, the New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and Parnassus. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
"Hong's work is passionate, artful, worldly. It makes a reader feel and think simultaneously." --Adrienne Rich
Jean Hartig's AVE MARIA was selected by Fanny Howe for the Poetry Society of America's New American Poets Chapbook Series. She recieved her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has appeared in Dirt: A Journal of Minimalism and Sink Review. She is an editor at Poets & Writers Magazine and lives in Queens.
"This book struck me as religious in the most beautiful, modern sense: tragic while slapping off the face of being human, and pretending something more human and beautiful is coming." --Fanny Howe
Saeed Jones is currently completing his MFA in Creative Writing at Rutgers University - Newark. He's a graduate of Western Kentucky University where he won the Jim Wayne Miller Award for Poetry. While at Western, he was the poetry editor for Rise Over Run Magazine. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications like StorySouth, Barnwood Magazine, The Adirondack Review, and Ganymede.
