poet Benjamin Hollander
visual artist Gwyneth Scally
Saturday, March 16, 7 pm
MOCA
(Museum of Contemporary Art)
191 E. Toole Ave. (NW corner of Toole 6th Ave, downtown)
Admission: $5; Students $3
Benjamin Hollander was born in Israel and emigrated to New York City in 1958, at the age of six. He has lived in San Francisco since 1978. His books include The Book Of Who Are Was (Sun & Moon, 1997), How to Read, too (Leech Books, 1992), and Translating Tradition: Paul Celan in France (editor, ACTS, 1988). Hollander's poetry and prose have appeared in a variety of journals, including Sulfur, Sagetrieb, Hambone, Five Fingers Review, Boxkite, and Raddle Moon. In 1993, he visited the Fondation Royaumont in Paris, where selections of his poetry were collectively translated into French and appeared as Le Livre De Qui Sont Etait (Creaphis, 1997). His work has also been published in translation in several anthologies of French poetry, including Tout Le Mond Se Ressemble: Une Anthologie de Poesie Contemporaine, edited by Emmanuel Hocquard. Hollander served as an associate editor of David Levi Strauss' Acts: A Journal of New Writing throughout the 1980's. In the past, he has directed The Floating Center for Poetry and Translation, a forum for writers, translators and scholars engaging in collective translations of contemporary foreign poets. He currently teaches critical thinking, writing, and other courses at Chabot Community College in Hayward, California.
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Gwyneth Scally was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Her work is deeply informed by early immersion in the worlds of politics and journalism; the malleable natures of truth and information are important themes in her paintings, as are the underlying psychological forces that shape the public worlds of mass culture and social systems. After receiving degrees in both art and literature, Scally moved to Arizona. She paints in the Historic Warehouse District of Tucson, interspersing her work with trips to Latin America, Europe, and New York. Scally notes that the Southwest offers a pace of life crucial to the creative process, as well as a grand physical expanse of land and sky that challenges the artist to match its scale in vision.
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POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English . We also thank the following POG donors: Patrons Austin Publicover and Mark & Gail Seldess; Sponsors Sam Ace, Charles Alexander, Alison Deming, Maggie Golston, Mary Rising Higgins, Elizabeth Landry, Allison Moore, Sheila Murphy, Heather Nagami & Tim Peterson, Tenney Nathanson, Stacey Richter, Jesse Seldess, and Frances Sjoberg.
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