Author: lesliescalapino

Non-Sequitur by Khadijah Queen is the winner of the second Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. The award will presented, with a reading of the winning play directed by Fiona Templeton, on Monday, November 17th, 8:00pm  at the New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, New York NY 10014.

Simone White and Divya Victor presented the 4th annual Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at the California College of the Arts (CCA) on June 1, 2014. Full text of both lectures are now available through X Poetics.

Joyelle McSweeney, winner of the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, discusses her award-winning play, the pandemic violence it seeks to emerge from, and the influence of Scalapino’s work at 2Paragraphs. Dead Youth, or, the Leaks will receive a staged reading at the New Ohio Theatre in New York, directed by Fiona Templeton, on… Continue reading Joyelle McSweeney on the Influence of Leslie Scalapino

“In the preface to How Phenomena Appear to Unfold, Leslie Scalapino describes the architecture of her startling book as ‘an ongoing, flexible structure that incorporates demonstrations of its gestures, such as poem-plays and poem-sequences alongside essays, the essays also demonstrations—of my own poetics and of other poets’ works.’ Intermittently autobiography, critical digest, poetry collection, photo… Continue reading Jose-Luis Moctezuma reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold for MAKE

Dead Youth, or The Leaks by Joyelle McSweeney is the winner of the first Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. Runners-up are Afall / Trauma by Angela Rawlings and Gagged by Hannah Silva. The award will presented, with a reading of the winning play directed by Fiona Templeton,  on Monday October 14th at 6:30pm at the… Continue reading Announcing the winner of the first Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights