where to publish your work

...for example... these two writers are doing some interesting innovative writing; one idea is to look at writers you like and see where they've published work:

Danielle Dutton is the author of Attempts at a Life and S P R A W L, which was shortlisted for the Believer Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in magazines such as Harper’s, BOMB, and Noon, and in anthologies including A Best of Fence and Where We Live Now: An Annotated Reader. Dutton received her PhD from the University of Denver, where she served as associate editor of the Denver Quarterly. Before joining the faculty at Washington University she taught in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa and was the book designer at Dalkey Archive Press. Dutton founded and edits the small press Dorothy, a publishing project.

Sarah Rosenthal grew up in Chicago and lives in San Francisco. She is the author of three
chapbooks: How I Wrote This Story (Margin to Margin, 2001), sitings (a+bend, 2000) and
not-chicago (Melodeon Poetry Systems, 1998). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in
numerous journals and have been anthologized in Bay Poetics (Faux Press, 2006) and
hinge (Crack Press, 2002). She has taught creative writing at Santa Clara University and
San Francisco State University. She has edited a collection of interviews entitled A Community
Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area. She is the recipient of the
Leo Litwak Award for Fiction and grant-supported writing residencies at the Vermont
Studio Center and the Ragdale Foundation.

http://www.quarteraftereight.org/ (fiction, poetry, hybrid)
Tarpaulin sky
Kelsey street
Krupskaya
Dorothy
siglio press
futurepoem
roof
Skidrow Penthouse
http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/index.htm
Mudfish,Cream City Review, Chelsea, Washington Square, Nimrod, Puerto del Sol, Iron Horse
Review, American Letters & Commentary, Caketrain, Drunken Boat,
Exquisite Corpse, Fiction International, First Intensity, Gargoyle, Journal of Experimental
Literature, LIT, and Notre Dame Review, Colorado Review (poetry), Denver Quarterly


**Audio/performance:
http://textsound.org/ (tell them I told you to send your work and you were in my class)

Lists of interesting sites/presses/projects/publications online and off:
http://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/about/links/
http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/links.html (a list of odd places to publish)
http://www.durationpress.com/pages/links.htm (list of links to other sites, presses, publishers)
http://www.subitopress.org/amici
http://www.subitopress.org/archives/category/small-press-project

Stephanie Young

a short article on Picture Palace:
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/january-2009-stephanie-young/

really short video from Picture Palace: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vPYhkwb3Ks

This is a web project that she edits: http://www.deepoakland.org

Christine Hume and Catherine Wagner: The Woodward Line, April 18 Posted on April 14, 2012

Christine Hume and Catherine Wagner: The Woodward Line, April 18
Posted on April 14, 2012

Catch EMU Creative Writing Professor Christine Hume with Catherine Wagner when they read at The Woodward Line – a free poetry series at The Scarab Club in Detroit – on Wednesday, April 18, at 7:00 p.m.

The  Scarab Club is located at 217 Farnsworth in Detroit.

Christine Hume is the author of three books and two chapbooks: Musca Domestica (Beacon Press 2000); Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004); Lullaby: Speculations on the First Active Sense, a chapbook and CD (Ugly Duckling Presse 2008); Shot (Counterpath Press 2010), and Ventifacts (Omnidawn 2012). She is coordinator of the interdisciplinary Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University.

Catherine Wagner’s books include Nervous Device, forthcoming from City Lights in 2012; My New Job (Fence, 2009), Macular Hole (Fence, 2004), Miss America (Fence, 2001). Her work has been anthologized in the Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry, Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (second edition), Gurlesque, Poets on Teaching, Starting Today, Best of Fence, Best American Erotic Poems and elsewhere. She is associate professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Upcoming schedule and announcements

On Monday we will not meet in class. Instead of class, you are REQUIRED to post a response to Young's Picture Palace. Be thoughtful, creative, and comprehensive.. spend some time reading, thinking, writing in relation to this book, a particular piece in the book, whatnot.

See Matt M.'s email for info regarding turning in work for a final anthology:

"I've been charged with gathering submissions for our WFP chapbook.  Please   select one piece from your semester's body of work and turn it in to me -- either through e-mail or in person -- by Friday, April 13.  That way we can have it assembled and distributed by the last day of class (April 23).
Thanks,
Matt"

Meet in Library: 217 on April 11 & 18 and in  302 on April 16 & 23

Project 4 Schedule:
room 217   4/11 Emily C., Matt C.
room 302   4/16 Melissa, Emily R.
room 217   4/18 Miranda
room 302   4/23 Matt M.

Project 4 texts are/will be posted on myemich (files) as well as the comment sheet that you should use to write your responses to each others' projects.

You can download and type in responses on the form and  email these to each other. PLEASE CC ME ON THE EMAIL SO I CAN HAVE COPIES OF YOUR RESPONSES TO EACH OTHER.

 

For your own projects you should consider utilizing "strategies" from anything we've encountered, seen, read, discussed over the course of the semester. And think particularly about the relation between the text and the performance. Turn in a final, clean and revised Text and plan your final performance accordingly. Please let me know if you need any  technology/resources other than the basics that we've used before that actually work, etc.

20 + min ; can be divided into multiple pieces

Poetry at Wayne State Monday

Department of English @ Noon Reading Series 2012: April 9, 2012 

Rob Halpern and Jill Darling

Date: Monday, April 9, 2012, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.

Location: 10th Floor Conference Room, 5057 Woodward Avenue

Rob Halpern is the author of two books of poems, Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2004), which was nominated for a California Book Award, and Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009), as well as several chapbooks, including Weak Link (Slack Buddha 2009) and Imaginary Politics (TapRoot Editions 2008). 

Jill Darling is a recent Ph.D. graduate of the English Department. She has published Solve For and Begin with May.

Free and open to the public.

Ann Waldman in Ann Arbor

Notable Author and Beat Poetry Enthusiast Anne Waldman to Visit Ann Arbor

Internationally acclaimed poet Anne Waldman, co-founded with Allen Ginsberg, the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado and is the author of more than 40 books. On April 13th and 14th, Waldman will be visiting Ann Arbor on behalf of the One Pause Poetry Series. The events will take place at METAL, at 220 Felch Street in downtown Ann Arbor.

Waldman, active in the Beat Poetry, New York School, and Black Mountain movements, is an integral member of the "Outrider" experimental poetry community, a culture she has helped create and nurture for over four decades as writer, editor, teacher, performer, magpie scholar, and cultural/political activist. Her work is energetic, passionate, panoramic, and fierce at times. Publishers Weekly recently referred to Waldman as "a counter-cultural giant." Waldman will be reading from The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011), a 25-year project in the making.
The schedule for the events is as follows:

April 13, 7-9pm: Reading with Anne Waldman. Reception and book-signing to follow.

April 14, 10:30am-noon: Conversations with Poets: Anne Waldman. One Pause Director Sarah Messer interviews Anne Waldman on her approach to poetry. This interview will be recorded and archived as a part of the One Pause Archive Project.

All readings and conversations are free and open to the public.

One Pause Poetry is part of the nonprofit arts organization Copper Colored Mountain Arts, which serves Southeastern Michigan and is sponsored by the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation.

Points, Grades, Assignments

We will do MacLow in class on Monday; there is no pdf on myemich at this time; I will bring it to class. Please come prepared and eager to discuss and participate! This will help your GRADE.


Please make sure your blogs are caught up (see recent blog posts for assignments). These are worth POINTS. Including your responses to each others' project/presentations.

John Cage video links:
Film, "Sound":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7m4xkY0WgVw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQTzoiTwNqg


Waldman piece on Cage: http://lyrikline.org/index.php?id=162&L=1&author=aw00&show=Poems&poemId=7390&cHash=91d6f2b330

And you should be working on project 4. Let me know if you would like to set up a time to talk outside of class. I am available.

Tracie Morris assignments for Wed; read and listen to what you can from this list and come prepared to discuss:
http://traciemorris.com/Home.html
http://traciemorris.blogspot.com/
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Morris.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracie_Morris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVmkMMH2P18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4UTybSapqU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M5ZGh6nvwM
http://www.worldofpoetry.org/usop/land4.htm


Blog this week:  do one response on either MacLow or Morris, or write 2 blog responses, one on each!

For this Week 3/26, 3/28

Finish Project 3 performances on Monday (in Library)

Read John Cage texts from Silence for Wed, on myemich; skim/read through as much as you can to get a sense of Cage's project in terms of writing, lecturing, sound, performance, use of language, etc. We'll do Cage and Waldman in class (I'll bring the Waldman separately). Come prepared to share your thoughts! (Meet in Pray Harold)

Finish up your responses to others' project 3 works this week, and respond to Cage and Waldman for Friday.

Stuff to remember and think about

Make sure to post your performance text for project 3 on your blog. And spend some thoughtful time responding to everyone else's (1-2 comprehensive paragraphs) in terms of the following:

Give specific feedback/response. What did you like about the work, why? What interests you about the work, why? How/what does this make you think about your own work? Do you have suggestions or ideas about the project (not critique but in terms of engaging with the work?).


Project 4 preliminary guidelines:
You will have 20 minutes than may be extended somewhat if you like. You may do one long piece, or a series of short pieces that may or not be related in content. Consider the various elements of text-based performance that we've seen/heard/read/discussed over the course of the semester and the possibilities in terms of sound, dialogue, choreography, film/media/technology, the relation between the text and the performance, etc. and think specifically about what combinations of elements you want to include in your piece(s).

Include a cover sheet on which you write about your goals, ideas, process for this piece. Think of it as a poetics of the piece, or your "artist statement," and something about this work in relation to your other work over the course of the semester and whatnot.

today Mon 3/19

Meet in Library 217 for presentations of project 3 by Miranda and Emily C.

This week: Steiner events Mon, Wed, Thur -- See schedule in post below

Wed: Steiner class visit -- read about him and his work through the links listed in post below and come prepared to have some discussion with him on Wed.

Blog: for Friday on Steiner's work, whatever you want to say about it from the performances or the links/info you read; be thoughtful and put some time into this; some of you have been slacking some on the blog posts, and these are worth 10 points every week!

Blog: if you haven't done last week's blog assignment on Baraka and Shange, see assignment in post below and do that asap. Also, spend some time reading each others' as they are posted and as you have time. We have had some breaks from meeting in class, and so I'd like to see some effort put into these out-of-class assignments/activities before we run out of time this semester. And I don't want to have to remind you and give extra time every week.

Next Week, Project 3: 
For project 3, think  about incorporating anything we've talked about so far (use of sound, dialogue, choreography, voice, stage direction/narration/explanation of performance aspects in the text) into a 15 minute presentation/performance of the text/work. At this point you should be thinking about the relation between your text and its performance, and ways in which you might note/explain/show this relationship on the page. Think of the text and the performance as at once the same and totally different; as each a kind of hybrid form of the other. How can the text and its performance exist simultaneously in concert, and also completely separately on their own terms?

Project 3 presentation schedule:

3/19: Emily C., Miranda
3/21: Kay, Matt M., Emily R.
3/26: Jonah, Melissa, Matt C.

*if you'd like to do yours on a different day, and someone else is willing to trade, that is fine as long as you let me know.

Steiner Visit Info and Scheduling

Steiner Visit Schedule March 12-15: http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=986

If at all possible, please plan to attend the Mon. evening lecture/demonstration from 5-8pm at the Mix marketplace in Downtown Ypsi, one of the Wed. evening performances with Carla at the Dreamland Theater, and the Thur. night Cabaret. 


Also, please become familiar with his work before next week by looking through the info and links below:
 
Konrad Steiner 
 makes short non-narrative films in the American experimental tradition of unipersonal production, winning awards and screening in festivals worldwide. His primary interest is to use the moving image as a medium for compositions in language, sound and cinematography.
http://canyoncinema.com/ catalog/filmmaker/?i=297

He served on the curatorial committee of San Francisco Cinematheque from 2003-2006. In 2007 he co-founded and produced (with Irina Leimbacher) the screening and performance series kino21.
The program calendar is archived at: http://www.kino21.org/

In the last five years, his work has increasingly involved live cinema collaborations with musicians (SF Bay Area composers Jon Raskin of ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Matt Ingalls of SFSound, new music ensemble and big band leader Graham Connah) and poets (Leslie Scalapino, Steve Benson, Brent Cunningham, Carla Harryman and Jen Hofer).

In a longer term project since 2003, he has worked with dozens of writers from San Francisco and Los Angeles to Portland, Chicago, Buffalo and New York to produce shows dedicated to the renewed interest in adapting the tradition of live movie telling, an art which was brought to its apex in Japan, Korea and other East Asian nations during the silent film era. He will perform several of these "neo-benshi" pieces here at Bathhouse Events in March, in addition to screening single channel film works.

Article on live film narration from Camerawork journal:
            http://www.kino21.org/PDF/ReverseEngineering.pdf
Recent events include:
o The New Talkies at Artists Television Access (SF)
            http://www.atasite.org/calendar/archive/index-49036.html
o The Cinema Cabaret at REDCAT (LA) co-curated with Jen Hofer
            http://www.redcat.org/event/cinema-cabaret
o Neo-benshi at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
            http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/late032610
o Form Free Form at the St Marks Poetry Project (NY)
            http://tinyurl.com/78jybld
o Chicago Poetry Center / Red Rover series
            http://tinyurl.com/7njamo7

Assignments for the rest of this week

After reading and discussing the Poets Theater pieces by Baraka and Shange, do some further reading and viewing on the web (see links below) and then write an extended blog response on their work for this Friday. Also, take some time this week to challenge yourself in your blogging. For example, if you have generally posted creative "responses" to the reading on your blog, try posting a more academic/analytical response this time. If you have been responding in more academic ways, try writing a more creative response.

Links (watch all of Baraka's Dutchman if you can, and look at the short clips on Shange to give you a better sense of her range of work, etc) :

 Shange:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/147
http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-11-03/film/for-colored-girls-tyler-perry-mangles-ntozake-shange-s-play/
http://www.videosurf.com/ntozake-shange-176591
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBWnUjw2Bbg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vDmVwOI-0Q&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCZmvCsE-d4&feature=related

Baraka:
http://www.colorfultimes.com/2009/11/culture/film/dutchman-the-movie-55-mins/
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/amiri-baraka

And for next week :

Monday, 3/12: Please find me in/near the Starbucks on the 2nd floor of the student center between  2-4pm where I will be available to meet informally in lieu of meeting as a whole group in class. I will send a sign up sheet via email so you can have a time slot, or you can stop by anytime to talk if I am free.

For week of March 5

Read from Poets Theater: Waldman, Baraka, Shange for Monday.

Wed we will not meet in class, but I will have an out-of-class assignment for you.

Please remember to post comments on everyone else's performances pieces on their blogs. There are some really excellent and thoughtful comments on there already, I'd like to see everyone's!

for this week

Please take some time to respond to others' presentations/performances this week.

1. Post the text (or a version of that) of your own performance presentation on your blog.
2. Post comments to others' performances on their blogs. Your comments should address the following for each of the other class members' performance presentations:

Give specific feedback/response. What did you like about the work, why? What interests you about the work, why? How/what does this make you think about your own work? Do you have suggestions or ideas about the project (not critique but in terms of engaging with the work?).

schedule and assignments

For Wed 2/15 please come prepared to discuss the Ashbery, Duncan, and Helen Adam plays from Poets Theater anthology.

2/20 and 2/22 meet in library room 217 to do project 2 presentations.

Project 2 assignment: you are to present a textually-based performance work that incorporates some element of dialogue, some element of choreography, and some element of sound. These are open to your interpretation. You may utilize other class members in the presentation of your project if you like. Your presentation/performance should be 10-12 minutes in length.

2/20: Melissa, Matt Catania, Jonah, Kay
2/22: Emily C., Matt Mapes, Miranda, Emily R.

2/27-3/4 spring break

March 5-14 meet in Pray-Harold 308

for next week

For next week finish watching Godot (see links and info below)

Godot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKaDDWmFIjc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmiYSBJ54Io

Beckett:
http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1969/beckett.html
http://www.samuel-beckett.net/speople.html
http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~sek5/classpage.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfQUIy7TNIk


From the Kenning Anthology read the intro, the review (handout) and the following plays:

Mon: Spicer, Olson, Ashbery, O'hara
Wed: Duncan, Helen Adam

Come prepared to say 3 things, anything you want to say, about each... everyone will be responsible for the discussion.

consider submitting to these!

two places you should send some hybrid/visual/audio work:

http://yewjournal.com/index.html

http://textsound.org/index.php?ISSUE=11

Pass this along!

Steven Church

heyo FB hive, if you know some good writers who are looking for an MFA program, please encourage them to check out Fresno State. We have TA positions, GA positions that serve as Editorial Assistants to The Normal School, and some great scholarship opportunities. We're sending almost 20 students to AWP (with funding!), and this year have 15 funded scholarships for Summer Writing Conferences. Our amazing students are publishing like mad in some of the top magazines in the country. Check us out.

http://www.csufresno.edu/english/mfa/index.shtml

Fresno State MFA

www.csufresno.edu

For current events, readings, and the honors and publications of our students and faculty, check out the MFA Fresno blog.

for Monday 2/6

This just in from Carla, to read from the Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater:

Carla Harryman's Third Man, Steve Benson's Views of Communist China, and Frank O'Hara's Try Try (I think it's in there...but maybe not). If not the O'Hara, then Baraka's Dutchman (we will read/discuss this on at some point if not Mon, another time).

Also, flip through and see what other things look interesting.

And bring questions, comments for Carla.

some links on Churchill's Far Away and etc

Far Away:
https://www.google.com/search?q=far+away+churchill&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=EYf&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Pl4dT9-dKurX0QHEmvD2Aw&ved=0CDkQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=686


Reviews/articles
http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?html_title=&tols_title=FAR%20AWAY%20%28PLAY%29&pdate=20021112&byline=By%20BEN%20BRANTLEY&id=1077011429940
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/may/28/far-away-review
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/04/dystopia-on-stage-caryl-churchills-far-away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2ti5Z8bQfs&feature=related

Another Churchill Play, 7 jewish children: 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqvvytWeNQo&feature=related
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JFpMH963sk&feature=related
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoyDYJIz-tI&feature=related
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV3iASkzQkg&feature=related

7 Jewish Children Text:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/feb/26/caryl-churchill-seven-jewish-children-play-gaza

Gaza background info:
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/preciselywrong.html

some things to check out!

Please submit something to Cellar Roots by 1/23!
http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=830

EMU Theatre is running a 5-Min (or Less) Sketch Writing Contest. : http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=863

Poetry Reading: http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=855... location change: Wednesday, January 25
6:00 PM
Halle Library Room 300

This Weekend

unfortunately it is sold out... but sounds kind of Steinian...





Einstein on the Beach
http://metrotimes.com/culture/genius-on-the-stage-1.1259018

Poets Theater in CA

Check this out:

http://www.xpoetics.blogspot.com/2012/01/poets-theater-at-spt-evening-one.html

Gertrude Stein Links for 1/11

Stein; Links to Background and info on Four Saints and etc:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2011/08/four-saints-in-three-acts.html
http://www.ybca.org/steinopera#overview
http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=147587
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sfmoma/6050482400/

Stein reading her work "If I had told him..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJEIAGULmPQ&NR=1&feature=endscreen

Welcome to CRTW 422 Writing for Performance! Here you can find general info, weekly assignments and notes, and interesting links, among other possible things. Also, you will be able to see links to your own blogs in the blog roll to the left. From there you can check your own as well as others' blogs, leave comments, and etc.

Also, here's a link to my personal blog:

http://jdnotes.blogspot.com/