February 2

poet/translator

Pierre Joris

painter

Cynthia Miller

Saturday   February 2   4pm
The Drawing Studio   33 S. 6th Ave., Tucson
$5 general admission   $3 student admission

and:

a talk about the poet Paul Celan

by Pierre Joris

at the Poetry Center
University of Arizona

2:30pm   Saturday, February 2

1508 E. Helen St.,
free
 

Books by the poet & artist will be available for sale at the events.

Pierre Joris left Luxembourg at nineteen & has since lived in the US, Great
Britain, North Africa & France. He has published some 40 books of poetry,
essays and translations. Forthcoming in 2008 are Aljibar II (poems, a
bilingual edition with French translation by Eric Sarner, Editions PHI) and
Justifying the Margins: Essays 1990-2006 (SALT Publishing). Pierre Joris'
2007 publications include the CD Routes, not Roots (with Munir Beken, oud;
Mike Bisio, bass; Ben Chadabe, percussion; & Mitch Elrod, guitar) issued by
Ta'wil Productions; Aljibar (poems w/ French translations by Eric Sarner,
published in Luxembourg by Editions PHI) and Meditations on the Stations of
Mansour Al-Hallaj 1-21(Anchorite Press, Albany). Other recent books include
Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999,and A Nomad Poetics (essays), both from
Wesleyan University Press. He teaches poetry & poetics at SUNY-Albany.

Originally from Wisconsin, Cynthia Miller received her B.F.A. from San
Francisco Art Institute and her M.F.A. in painting from the University of
Arizona. She is a recipient of the distinguished Arizona Artist Award,
conferred by the Tucson Community Foundation. Miller has had significant
impact on young artists, having spent much of her career teaching painting
and drawing. Her work is in institutional collections including the J. Paul
Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Tucson Museum of Art. Cynthia Miller
lives and works in Tucson, with her husband, book-artist and poet Charles
Alexander, founder and executive director of Chax Press and their two
daughters.
"Inspired by a poetic impulse to explore the language of painting in the
immediacy of daily life," Miller's open ended, colorful "visual poems" draw
from her experience, as well as thoughtfully considered historical and
cultural references, ranging from William Morris wallpapers and Guatemalan
pottery to Ukrainian folk art and Native American textiles. These influences
are as necessary to her work as the tools she uses to create them. Miller
creates mixed media paintings on paper and canvas, using a unique mixture of
acrylic paint, chalk pastels with oil paint stick, and graphite. In her
hands these objects and patterns, painted in her loose signature style, move
effortlessly, often merging and floating, one into another.

 

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:

We're also grateful to hosts and programming partners

and (still) to 2006-2007 donors: