Projection: A Reading Series
Image: Zachary Pace
Wednesday, November 11, 8pm
$5 Suggested Donation
Curated by Zachary 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.
NOVEMBER ARTISTS
Jennifer L. Knox was born in Lancaster, California and received her BA from the University of Iowa, and her MFA in poetry writing from New York University. She has taught poetry writing at Hunter College and New York University. Her books Drunk by Noon and A Gringo Like Me are both available from Bloof Books. Her poems have appeared in numerous places, including Best American Poetry 1997, 2003 and 2006 and Best American Erotic Poems.
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press), winner of a 2008 Global Filipino Literary Award. He lives in New York City and works at Columbia University. A graduate of New York University's Creative Writing Program, his poems appeared and/or are forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, World Literature Today, PEN International, North American Review, Callaloo, Bloomsbury Review, Poets & Writers, Gulf Coast, Gay & Lesbian Review and the anthologies Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton) and Tilting the Continent (New Rivers Press). A recipient of a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, he co-founded Kundiman (www.kundiman.org), a non-profit organization serving Asian American poets. Visit him at www.josepholegaspi.com.
Tao Lin (b. 1983, Virginia) grew up in Orlando, FL and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Tao's parents were born in Taiwan. Tao has a B.A. in Journalism from New York University. Tao is the author of a story-collection, BED, and a novel, EEEEE EEE EEEE, published simultaneously by Melville House on May 15 2007. Tao is the author of two poetry collections, COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY (2008) and YOU ARE A LITTLE BIT HAPPIER THAN I AM (2006). Tao's novella, SHOPLIFTING FROM AMERICAN APPAREL, was published September 15 2009 and his second novel, RICHARD YATES, will be published in September 2010, both by Melville House. Tao's writing has appeared in the following venues: Noon, Nerve, Vice, Esquire, The Stranger, Time Out New York, Mississippi Review, Cincinnati Review, Fourteen Hills, Adbusters, etc. He edits the literary press Muumuu House which was featured in the March 2009 issue of Nylon Magazine.
Douglas A. Martin (b. 1973, Virginia) grew up in Georgia and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He holds degrees from the University of Georgia, The New School, and the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include They Change the Subject (University of Wisconsin), a story collection named a book of the year in the San Francisco Bay Times; Branwell, a novel of the Bronte brother (Soft Skull), a Ferro-Grumley award finalist; In the Time of Assignments (Soft Skull), poetry; Outline of My Lover (Picador UK), named an International Book of the Year in the Times Literary Supplement; Your Body Figured (Nightboat Books); and most recently Once You Go Back (Seven Stories). His critical work on the writer Kathy Acker was awarded The Irving Howe Prize for Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature. Recently, he was Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at Goddard College.
