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Image: Zachary Pace

Thursday, May 13 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.

May Artists

Timothy Donnelly's first book of poems, Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebensziet, was published by Grove Press in 2003, and his second, The Cloud Corporation, will be published by Wave Books in 2010. Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in A Public Space, Boulevard, Harper's, Iowa Review, jubilat, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. He is a poetry editor for Boston Review and teaches in the Writing Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts.

Matthea Harvey is the author of three books of poetry: Modern Life, Sad Little Breathing Machine, and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000) as well as a fable for adults and children, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake (Tin House, 2009), illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel. Of Lamb, an erasure of a Charles Lamb biography, illustrated by Amy Jean Porter, will be published by McSweeney's in 2011.

Natalie Eilbert is in the midst of calling herself a poet, an MFA graduate from Columbia University, and a resident of Brooklyn. She is working on a collection of work that deals with artifacts, from the Venis Figurines to something of an existential one. Her work has appeared in DIAGRAM, Folly Magazine, and Boxcar Poetry Review.

Jimin Seo is an MFA candidate at Columbia University. He lives in New York City. 

Programming at CPR is made possible through a generous grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Art.