presents
poets
Ron Silliman & Lisa Jarnot
reading Saturday, May 18, 7 pm
workshop Sunday afternoon, May 19
MOCA
(Museum of Contemporary Art)
191 E. Toole Ave. (NW corner of Toole 6th Ave, downtown)
Ron Silliman has worked as an organizer in the prison and tenant movements, a lobbyist, and an editor of the Socialist Review; more recently he’s been a computer programmer and analyst. Silliman is one of the original group of San Francisco Language poets. Controversies over Language writing have been reflected in many influential journals of contemporary writing, opening out into questions concerning the possible place and function of poetry in ideological analysis and social debate. In writing what he has named the “new sentence,” Silliman frustrates the convention of the poetic line as well as the reader’s expectations of closure. His ongoing long poem, The Alphabet, which now includes ABC (1983), Paradise (1985), What (1989), Toner (1992), among other volumes, will eventually grow to twenty-six book-length installments. Some of Silliman’s many other books include Ketjak (This, 1978), Sitting Up, Standing, Taking Steps (Tuumba Press, 1978), Legend (L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E/Segue, 1980), Tjanting (The Figures, 1981), Bart (Potes & Poets Press, 1982), ABC (Tuumba Press, 1983), Paradise (Burning Deck, 1985), The Age of Huts (Roof, 1986), The New Sentence (Roof, 1987), Lit (Potes & Poets Press, 1987), and What (The Figures, 1988). He was the editor of the influential anthology In the American Tree (The National Poetry Foundation, 1986).
There's more at the EPC Ron Silliman page.
Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo in 1967. She won an International Book of the Year award from the London Times Literary Supplement for her first full-length book, Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck). In 2001 Zoland published her collection Ring of Fire. Jarnot teaches at Long Island University and at the Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics.
For more see Lisa Jarnot's home page or the EPC Lisa Jarnot page.
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 Arts. 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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