Projection: A Reading Series
Image: Zachary Pace
Wednesday, December 16, 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. Listeners 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.
DECEMBER ARTISTS
Diego Báez received a BA in English from Illinois Wesleyan University and is currently pursuing his MFA at Rutgers University - Newark. He reviews debut books of poetry for Growler and upcoming albums for Heave Media. His poems have appeared in The Ampersand Review, The Little White Poetry Journal, and Granta (online). He lives and teaches in Newark, NJ.
Joseph Fasano's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Yale Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Tin House, Boston Review, Southern Review, Western Humanities Review, RATTLE, and other journals. He won the 2008 RATTLE Poetry Prize, he was a runner-up in the 2008 TLS Poetry Competition, and he has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He teaches at Manhattanville College.
Nick Flynn's "Another Bullshit Night in Suck City" (Norton, 2004), won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award, was shortlisted for France's Prix Femina, and has been translated into thirteen languages. He is also the author of two books of poetry, "Some Ether" (Graywolf, 2000), and "Blind Huber" (Graywolf, 2002), for which he received fellowships from, among other organizations, The Guggenheim Foundation and The Library of Congress. Some of the venues his poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, the Paris Review, National Public Radio's "This American Life," and The New York Times Book Review. His film credits include "field poet" and artistic collaborator on the film "Darwin's Nightmare," which was nominated for an Academy Award for best feature documentary in 2006. One semester a year he teaches at the University of Houston, and he then spends the rest of the year elsewhere.
Jason Schneiderman is the author of Sublimation Point, a Stahlecker Selection from Four Way Books. His poetry and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry, Poetry London, Grand Street, The Penguin Book of the Sonnet,Story Quarterly, and Tin House. He has received fellowships from Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center, and The Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. He was the recipient of the Emily Dickinson Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2004. A graduate of the MFA program at NYU, he is currently completing his doctorate at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
