PUBLIC EVENTS

Projection: A Reading Series

Image: Zachary Pace

Thursday, February 4, 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. 

February Artists

Mark Bibbins is the author of Sky Lounge, which received a Lambda Literary Award. He teaches in the graduate writing programs at The New School, where he co-founded Lit magazine, and Columbia University. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review, Boston Review, Tin House, The Best American Poetry, and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. He was a 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow.

Katie Ford is the author of Deposition and Colosseum. She is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship and the Larry Levis Reading Award. Colosseum was named a "Best Book of 2008" by Publishers Weekly and one of the "Top Ten Books of Poetry of 2008" by The Virginia Quarterly. Her recent poems appear in The New Yorker, Smartish Pace, Bayou, and Blackbird. She teaches at Franklin & Marshall College and lives in Philadelphia with her husband, the novelist Josh Emmons.

David Levithan is the author of a whole bunch of books, including Boy Meets Boy, The Realm of Possibility, and Love is the Higher Law, as well as (with Rachel Cohn) Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and (with John Green) Will Grayson, Will Grayson, which will be published in April.

Meghan O'Rourke is the author of Halflife, a collection of poems. A recipient of the 2008 May Sarton Award for Poetry, she is co-poetry editor of The Paris Review and a culture critic for Slate. She is at work on a nonfiction book about grief. Her nonfiction and poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, the Kenyon Review, and more.

CPR programming is made possible through generous support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.