March 15
poets
and
Saturday, March 15, 2008, 7pm
The Drawing Studio, 33 S. 6th Ave., Tucson
$5 general admission / $3 student admission
Beverly Dahlen is a native of Portland, Oregon, Beverly Dahlen has lived in San Francisco for many years. Her first book, Out of the Third, was published by Momo’s Press in 1974. Two chapbooks, A Letter at Easter (Effie’s Press, 1976) and The Egyptian Poems (Hipparchia Press, 1983) were followed by the publication of the first volume of A Reading in 1985 (A Reading 1—7, Momo’s Press). Since then, three more volumes of A Reading have appeared. Chax Press published A Reading 8—10 (1992); Potes and Poets Press: A Reading 11—17 (1989); Instance Press: A Reading 18—20 (2006). Chax Press also published the chapbook A-reading Spicer & Eighteen Sonnets in 2004. Ms. Dahlen has also published work in numerous periodicals and anthologies. A forthcoming issue of Crayon will publish poetry and her essay on beauty.
Charles Alexander is the founder and director of Chax Press, Tucson, where he has lived for many years. His books include Hopeful Buildings (Chax 1990), Arc of Light / Dark Matter (Segue 1992), Near or Random Acts (Singing Horse 2004), and the recent Certain Slants (Junction 2007), which includes 30 sections of the ongoing work Pushing Water. He is recipient of the distinguished Arizona Arts Award, is a former director of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, of Black Mesa Press, and of the Tucson Poetry Festival. He was recently featured in a program with Linh Dinh for the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Book arts works by Alexander are included in collections at the Getty Museum Library, the State University of New York at Buffalo Poetry Collection, the New York Public Library, the University of Wisconsin Special Collections Library, the University of Arizona Special Collections Library, the Stanford University Library, the Beinecke Library at Yale University, and at other major collections. In the summer of 2007 he was a participant in the TAMAAS poetry translation seminar in Paris, France.
the nothing that is far away
the nothing close as skin on face
the nothing at the end of the pen tip
the nothing inside the body
the nothing around everything
only no such thing only what is
the case only not you only
not me time to open the
open eyes
inkstain grassblade knifemark
airsplit
splintwaffle
frogplop ashcraft oaktorn
doublemind elftoe
storehouse whistlestop through which
wordhouses we go fast
and slow
February 2007
Charles Alexander
A close brush the light not yet formalized
in the early pine the light lowering cuts under face eyes intense shadows
walking on Mission Street gut level noise not heard so much as run over crushed
stones into the parking lot then wailing loss while shopping for something one
knows not who or what this is having been dropped here by the millions what is
this thing degraded out of all recognition unknown it can’t be something anyone
would think to build for what reason what use and all the time the wind is blowing
the clouds accumulating stacked up on shelves marked down the leftovers in a
basket beside the door coming and going it sees you though unseen behind the
curtain where we dined last night by the fires of the freeway guests huddled
under the bridge warmed by candles and apples opening towards winter again a
hummingbird suddenly winding up the chilly air.
October 5—7, 2007
Beverly Dahlen
Poetry in Action 2007-08:
September 23
Michael Kelleher and Tyrone Williams
October 27
David Gitin and Frank Parker
November 17
Maureen Owen and Tenney Nathanson
February 2 Pierre Joris and Cynthia Miller
(co-sponsored by Chax Press)
February 16 Rodrigo Toscano and TC Tolbert
March 15
Beverly Dahlen and Charles Alexander
April 12
Lewis Warsh and Paul Klinger
May 3
Leslie Scalapino and Matt Rotando
and:
November 2-5 2008
Norman Fischer (poetry reading, talk, meditation workshop)
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.
POG is also
grateful to 2007-2008 donors and programming partners:
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Patrons Gail Browne
& Frances Sjoberg, Barbara Henning, Paul Klinger, and Boyer Rickel |
We're also grateful to hosts and
programming partners
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Casa Libre en La Solana Inn & Guest
House |
for further information contact
POG: 615-7803, pog@gopog.org