PUBLIC EVENTS
Image: Zachary Pace
Thursday, March 25 at 8pm
$5 Suggested Donation
Star Black, Stephen Motika, Danniel Schoonebeek, and Brenda Shaughnessy
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.
March Artists
Star Black is the author of three books of sonnets- Waterworn, Balefire and Ghostwood- a collection of double-sestinas, Double Time, and book of collaged texts, October for Idas. Her poems have been anthologized in The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1880 to The Present, and 110 Stories: New York Writers After September 11. She has taught at The New School and Stony Brook University, and has lectured at the Bennington Writers Seminars. She is the co-founder of the KGB Bar Poetry Series in the East Village. "The Collaged Accordion", an exhibit of her hand-made books containing her poems and collages, is currently on view at The Center for Book Arts.
Stephen Motika is the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman (2009) and the author of the chapbook, Arrival and At Mono (2007). Recent work has appeared in Eleven Eleven, The Boog City Reader 4, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. The Field, his collaboration with visual artist Dianna Frid, was on view at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois, Chicago, in 2003. He curates the public programs and exhibitions at Poets House and is the publisher of Nightboat Books, a literary non-profit publisher based in New York's Upper Delaware River Valley.
Danniel Schoonebeek was raised in The Catskills. He will be featured as the New Voice in Poetry in Tin House Magazine's fall 2010 issue, Class in America, and his essays and reviews have appeared in Publisher's Weekly, Tin House, and American Poet. He lives in Brooklyn.
Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet and editor. Her most recent book, Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon, 2008), won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first book, Interior with Sudden Joy (FSG, 1999) was a finalist for the Lambda Award, Norma Farber Award, and the PEN/Joyce C. Osterweil Award. She is the poetry editor of Tin House Magazine, has been a Radcliffe Institute Fellow and a Japan-US Friendship Commission fellow. She teaches at Princeton, NYU, The New School and other institutions and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
Programming at CPR is supported through a generous grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
