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Image: Zachary Pace
Monday, April 26 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.
April Artists
TINA CHANG was raised in New York City. Newly appointed Brooklyn Poet Laureate, she is the author of Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008). Her poems have been published in American Poet, Indiana Review, McSweeney's, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, among others. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van Lier Foundation among others. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College. Her new book, Of Gods & Strangers, is forthcoming in 2011 from Four Way Books.
Alex Dimitrov is the founder of Wilde Boys, a queer poetry salon in New York City. His poems have appeared in the Yale Review, Best New Poets 2009, the Southwest Review, and other journals. He works at the Academy of American Poets, frequently writes for Poets & Writers magazine, and has been the recipient of a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan.
Randall Mann's second collection of poems, BREAKFAST WITH THOM GUNN (University of Chicago, 2009), is a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and California Book Award. He is also the author of COMPLAINT IN THE GARDEN (Zoo/Orchises, 2004), winner of the 2003 Kenyon Review Prize, and co-author of the textbook WRITING POEMS (Pearson Longman 2007). He works as an editor and lives in San Francisco.
Mark Wunderlich is the author of Voluntary Servitude (Graywolf Press, 2004), and The Anchorage (1999), which won the Lambda Literary Award. The recipient of two fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, The Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and the Writers at Work Fellowship, he has published individual poems, essays, reviews and interviews in the Paris Review, Yale Review, Boston Review, Chicago Review, Fence and elsewhere. Wunderlich has taught at Stanford, San Francisco State University, Ohio University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. He is currently Professor of Literature at Bennington College in Vermont and lives in New York's Hudson River Valley.
Programming at CPR is made possible through a generous grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
