programming history
Program for 1996-97
12/15/96: Local painter Jim Waid: slide presentation and discussion at December POG meeting
1/29/97: Bob Perelman: talk on poetics with question-and-answer session at Dinnerware Gallery
3/23/97: Tom Mandel: Poetry reading at Chax Press
4/97: Steve McCaffery and Karen MacCormack: Poetry reading at Dinnwerare Gallery. Recorded by KXCI Radio.
5/17/97: David Bromige: Poetry reading at Dinnerware Gallery.
Program for 1997-98
Sept 19
Dinnerware Gallery
presentation by painter Cynthia Miller; poetry reading by Roberto Tejada
Sept 25
Dinnerware
Drama reading/performance, question-and-answer session by poet Leslie Scalapino (in conjunction w her poetry reading for the UA Poetry Center)
Oct 30
Dinnerware
talk, question-and-answer session with poet Brenda Hillman (in conjunction w her poetry reading for the UA Poetry Center)
Oct 30
Etherton Gallery
Video, question-and-answer session with film-maker Victor Masayesva
Dec 13
Dinnerware
poetry reading by Sheila Murphy and Robert Hogg
Jan 24
Pima Community College Arts Center (West Campus)
poetry reading by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge; lecture and mixed-media performance by composer Larry Solomon
Feb 17
Etherton
poetry reading by Charles Alexander and Tom Raworth (co-sponsored by UA Extended University Writing Works Program)
Feb 18
Little Chapel at UA
Tom Raworth workshop
Feb 28
Dinnerware
Rae Armantrout afternoon workshop; Rae Armantrout poetry reading; presentation by visual artist A.C. Huerta
Mar 13
Harvill at UA
Clayton Eshleman multimedia presentation and translation of works of Antonin Artaud (co-sponsored by UA Department of English and the Arizona Quarterly)
Mar 14
Los Artes Studios
poetry eading by Clayton Eshleman and Jerome Rothenberg; presentation by sculptor and community arts organize Alex Garza
Apr 11
Dinnerware
reading by poet Lisa Cooper and fiction writer Lydia Davis
March 25
Stone Avenue Temple
reading by poet Michael Davidson
May 9
Ned Schaper studio
presentation by kinetic sculptor & performance artist Ned Schaper; reading by poets Dodie Bellamy & Kevin Killian
Program for 1998-99
October 13
Dinnerware
Tony Lopez (visiting poet),
Nancy Solomon (local visual artist--video art, photography, books)
November 17
Dinnerware
Stephen Scobie and Douglas Barbour (visiting performance poets)
Barbara Penn (local visual artist--installations)
December 5
Orts
Eli Goldblatt (visiting poet, co-sponsored by UA Composition Program)
Helen Mirra (visiting video and performance artist)
January 23
Dinnerware
Jack & Adele Foley (visiting poets and performance artists)
February 6
Los Artes Studios
Norman Fischer (visiting poet),
Maurice Grossman (local visual artist--ceramics)
February 13
Dinnerware
Erica Hunt (visiting poet)
Jen Bervin (Bisbee poet and visual artist)
March 13
Las Artes Studios
Juan Felipe Herrera (visiting poet, co-sponsored by Extended University and UA Poetry Center)
March 20
Orts
Peter Ganick (visiting poet)
Sheila Murphy (Scottsdale poet)
March 25
Stone Avenue Temple
David Shapiro (visiting poet, co-sponsored by Arizona Quarterly and Tucson Poetry Festival)
April 10
Los Artes Studios
Rodrigo Toscano (visiting poet),
Hong T. Qu (visiting poet)
Dan Featherston (local poet)
May, date TBA
Las Artes Studios
Danny Lopez (Tohono O'odham poet and storyteller)
Tohono O'odham dancers (students of Danny Lopez)
June, TBA
TBA
Maggie Jaffe (visiting poet, co-sponsored by Womanspeak)
Program for 1999-2000
Sunday, October 31, 4pm, St Francis in the Foothills, 4625 East River Road
Poets Bernadette Mayer and Barbara Cully
Saturday, February 19, 7pm, Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Poets Juliana Spahr and Bill Luoma
Saturday, March 4, 7:15pm, Antigone Books, 411 N 4th Ave
Poets giovanni singleton and Deborah Bernhardt
Tuesday, March 28, 7pm, Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Poets Gil Ott and Julia Blumenrcich
Event co-sponsored by Chax Press
Saturday, April 1, 7pm, Orts Theatre of Dance
Poet Lyn Hejinian and dancer/choreographer Anne Bunker
Event co-sponsored by Chax Press
Saturday, April 15, 7pm, Orts Theatre of Dance
Poet/storyteller Danny Lopez with Tohono O'odham Dance Group
Saturday, May 13, 7pm, Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Poet Jessica Lowenthal and poet/painter David Chorlton
Saturday, May 27, 7pm, Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Poet Maggie Jaffe and puppeteer Gwen Ray
Programming for 2000-2001
Writer Sharon Wahl and poet/photographer Sam Smukler, Sept 23, Antigone
group reading by members of the POG Collective, October 13, Dinnerware
poet Cole Swensen and dancer/dance-historian Donald Eno Washington, November 18, Orts
poet Diane Glancy and visual artist Ted Pope, December 16, Dinnerware (Diane Glancy co-sponsored by Chax Press)
poet Jackson Mac Low, January 27, Dinnerware (co-sponsored by Chax Press)
poet Hank Lazer, January 30, Dinnerware (co-sponsored by Chax Press)
poet Joe Amato and composer/musician Jay Vosk, February 24, Dinnerware
poet Nora Marks Dauenhauer, April 5, University of Arizona
co-sponsored by the Tucson Poetry Festival, the University of Arizona Press, the University of Arizona English Department, and several other University of Arizona departments and programs
poet Myung Mi Kim, April 7, Tucson Poetry Festival
co-sponsored by the Tucson Poetry Festival and Chax Press