“ACTIVITY IS THE ONLY COMMUNITY.”
(“The Radical Nature of Experience,”
How Phenomena Appear to Unfold)
News
- Announcing the Winner of the Third Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers (11/29/2016) - The Triumph of Crowds by Brigid McLeer is the winner of the third 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, December 5th, at 8:00pm at the New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, New York NY 10014. Entrance is free; contributions are welcome.
- Upcoming Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Pratt Institute (11/17/2016) - M. NourbeSe Philip will deliver the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics, “Ga(s)p: Breath, Community and Poetry,” at the Pratt Institute MFA in Writing on Friday, December 2, 2016, at 6:00 pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61. St. James Place, Brooklyn Campus.
- New videos posted for viewing (10/3/2016) - Videos of Dorothy Wang’s and Dawn Lundy Martin’s Leslie Scalapino Lectures in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University are now available.
- Upcoming Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at UC Berkeley (9/15/2016) - Nathaniel Mackey will deliver the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California in Berkeley on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, at 7:00 pm in the Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315).
- 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers now open! (5/3/2016) - The third cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers is now open. We are looking for a full-length work for live performance by a woman writer with an inquiring approach to language and content. The winner will receive a $2,500 cash prize, print publication of the winning text by Litmus Press, a staged… Continue reading 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers now open!
- Call for entries for the 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers (4/15/2016) - The third cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, with publication by Litmus Press and production by The Relationship, opens soon! The winner of the biennial award will receive a $2,500 cash prize; print publication of the winning text by Litmus Press; a staged reading of the piece in New York this… Continue reading Call for entries for the 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers
- Upcoming Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University (3/10/2016) - Dawn Lundy Martin will deliver the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University as part of this year’s 2016 Spring Symposium: “How to Grieve and Dream at the Same Time: Discuss”on Monday, March 14, at 7:30pm.
- In support of AFSCME Local 3299 and its workers, Nathaniel Mackey’s Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley is postponed (2/24/2016) - In a demonstration of support for AFSCME Local 3299 and its workers, the Department of English is canceling Nathaniel Mackey’s scheduled March 3, 2016 delivery of the 2015-16 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley. He will visit campus next November instead; we will let you know the exact date when it… Continue reading In support of AFSCME Local 3299 and its workers, Nathaniel Mackey’s Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California, Berkeley is postponed
- Upcoming Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at UC Berkeley (2/16/2016) - Nathaniel Mackey will deliver the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California in Berkeley on Thursday, March 3, 2016, at 7:00 pm in the Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315).
- Upcoming Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at UC Berkeley (4/14/2015) - Lisa Robertson will deliver the 2015 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California in Berkeley on April 24, 2015, at 7:00 pm in the Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315).
- Upcoming Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University (3/2/2015) - Dorothy Wang will deliver the 2015 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University as part of this year’s I / Not I: Symposium On Identity Politics.
- A new Scalapino Scholarship: Ashbery Home School (2/2/2015) - Five Leslie Scalapino scholarships are available for the Ashbery Home School one-week summer writing conference of 2015 in Hudson, New York.
- Seven new broadsides (1/26/2015) - Seven new broadsides of Leslie Scalapino’s work, including pieces from Considering How Exaggerated Music Is and Chameleon Series, are now available for viewing.
- Dead Youth, Or, The Leaks now available from Litmus Press (1/24/2015) - Dead Youth, Or, The Leaks, A Play in 4 Acts by Joyelle McSweeney, winner of the inaugural Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers, is now available from Litmus Press.
- New video archives posted for viewing (1/24/2015) - Two new videos of Leslie Scalapino’s performances. Neo-Benshi and How Phenomena Appear to Unfold / The Hind, part 1 of 11.
- Announcing the Winner of the Second Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers (10/17/2014) - 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.
- Full Texts of Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lectures in 21st Century Poetics by Simone White & Divya Victor (6/23/2014) - 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 on the Influence of Leslie Scalapino (10/2/2013) - 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
- Jose-Luis Moctezuma reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold for MAKE (10/2/2013) - “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
- Announcing the winner of the first Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights (9/18/2013) - 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
- Call For Work | Jacket2 Feature: Leslie Scalapino | Deadline June 15, 2013 (4/23/2013) - An upcoming special issue of Jacket2 will be dedicated to the work of poet Leslie Scalapino (1944-2010). The editors seek essays that have some degree of focus on Scalapino’s more recently published works (from 2008 to 2011) including the new edition of How Phenomena Appear to Unfold; The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom; Flow—Winged Crocodile & A… Continue reading Call For Work | Jacket2 Feature: Leslie Scalapino | Deadline June 15, 2013
- Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights (3/18/2013) - The Leslie Scalapino Award recognizes the importance of exploratory approaches and an innovative spirit in writing for performance. It wishes to encourage women writers who are taking risks with the playwriting form by offering the opportunity to gain wider exposure through readings and productions. The award will also seek to increase public awareness for this… Continue reading Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights
- New video archives posted for viewing (1/10/2013) - Sarah Dougher’s adaptation of Fin de Siècle. Memorial Reading: The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. Memorial Reading and Exhibition: Reed College. Flow Performance. New Time Performance. Reading at Bard College. Goya’s L.A.
- Sarah Dougher’s Fin de Siècle adaptation (11/8/2012) - Fin de Siècle is Portland composer Sarah Dougher’s musical interpretation of renowned American poet Leslie Scalapino’s 1990 set of three experimental poem-plays by the same name. Scalapino’s Fin de Siècle is an abstract narrative invoking war, labor, class struggle, and the fundamental interiority of experience—a visionary manifestation of the poet’s passionate humanism. Dougher’s piece weds voice with an… Continue reading Sarah Dougher’s Fin de Siècle adaptation
- SFMoMA acquires Petah Coyne sculpture (11/3/2012) - A sculpture by Petah Coyne, Untitled # 1181 (Dante’s Daphne), 2004 – 2006, has been acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its permanent collection through a gift in memory of Leslie Scalapino.
- James Yeary’s blog (9/15/2011) - James Yeary’s blog on Calendar of Catabolic Guilt.
- Oregon ArtsWatch reports (9/14/2011) - Oregon ArtsWatch reports on Fin de Siècle, Sarah Dougher’s musical interpretation of a set of three experimental poem-plays by Leslie Scalapino.
- Late Summer Memorial for Leslie Scalapino (9/13/2011) - Laura Moriarty’s account of the August 26, 2011 memorial.
- Library (9/5/2011) - Leslie Scalapino’s personal library catalog is now publicly available via Library Thing.
- Scalapino Nu Shu (9/1/2011) - The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art has aquired Petah Coyne’s “Untitled # 1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu)” (2009-2010) as the centerpiece of “The Big Reveal,” an exhibit of more than two dozen new acquisitions. It opens September 23, 2011.
- New Pages reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (9/1/2011) - “Longtime readers of Leslie Scalapino’s poetry and writings will appreciate this expansion of How Phenomena Appear to Unfold, a collection of some of Scalapino’s poetry as well as extensive coverage of her essays and critical writing.”
- Rob Mclenan reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (8/30/2011) - “The expansive nature of the project, which could have broadened further over years, is only one of many regrets such a volume can’t help but contain, as well as an awe in the kind of work she’d been able to accomplish, adding further to the conversation of a number of writers and their works. When… Continue reading Rob Mclenan reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold
- Charles Bernstein reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold for Jacket2 (7/3/2011) - “As always, Scalapino pushes beyond any easy sense of essay. What unfolds here is the startling unexpectedness of thought, articulated in visual and verbal forms that confound genre categories. In this book, Scalapino creates fields for thinking-as-perception, in which the poem emerges from the essay as counterpoint and newly forming foundation. The complex of disparate… Continue reading Charles Bernstein reviews How Phenomena Appear to Unfold for Jacket2
- The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog on Leslie Scalapino’s forthcoming poem-plays (6/15/2011) - “Worlds collide: Songwriter, composer, and professor Sarah Dougher is in the lineup at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival this fall, and she’ll be presenting Fin de Siècle, her musical interpretation of a set of three experimental poem-plays by renowned poet Leslie Scalapino (whose plays are collected in the 2008 volume, It’s go… Continue reading The Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog on Leslie Scalapino’s forthcoming poem-plays
- SPD Best-Seller (6/11/2011) - How Phenomena Appear to Unfold (Litmus Press, 2011) is named a Small Press Distribution Non-Fiction Best-Seller. April – June 2011.
- Poetry Project Newsletter Review (2/11/2011) - The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom reviewed by Karinne Keithley Syers in the Poetry Project Newsletter, #226.
- Review (1/20/2011) - Patrick Dunagan for The Critical Flame reviews The Eco Language Reader, which featured Leslie Scalapino’s essay “Eco-logic in Writing.”
- Interview (1/6/2011) - Leonard Schwartz interviews Kiki Smith about her collaboration with Leslie Scalapino, The Animal is In the World Like Water in Water for Cross-Cultural Poetics, Episode #226: Of the Body.
- Memorial (1/1/2011) - FC2 Remembers Leslie Scalapino.
- Review (11/15/2010) - Publisher’s Weekly reviews Leslie Scalapino’s The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom, saying “This collection pulses with life and Scalapino’s unmistakable voice.”
- Review (11/5/2010) - HTML Giant reviews Leslie Scalapino’s The Dihedrons Gazelle-Dihedrals Zoom.
- Lyn Hejinian on poets.org (6/1/2010) - “With the death of Leslie Scalapino on May 28, 2010, the world loses a writer whose visionary thinking provided her with a range of intensely experienced themes and images.” —Lyn Hejinian on poets.org
Events
Tuesday, November 8, 2016; 7:00pm-8:30pm
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at UC Berkeley: Nathaniel Mackey
Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall; University of California, Berkeley, California, 94720
Free and open to the public.
Nathaniel Mackey will present the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics on Thursday, March 3, at 7 pm in the Maude Fife Room of Wheeler Hall (Wheeler 315). The title of his lecture is “Breath and Precarity.” A reception will follow in the English Department Lounge. This event is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014; 7:00 pm
Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics presents the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics
On Discomfort and Creativity
with Dawn Lundy Martin
Location: Naropa University Performing Arts Center: 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO
Free and open to all
Naropa University is excited to host Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics with Dawn Lundy Martin, On Discomfort + Creativity as part of the 2016 Spring Symposium called “How To Grieve and Dream At The Same Time: Discuss” featuring three prominent cultural voices: Eunsong Kim, Ricardo Dominguez, and Sayra Pinto.
Poet, essayist and multimedia artist Dawn Lundy Martin is the author of three books of poetry, and three chapbooks. Of her latest collection, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life (Nightboat Books 2015), Fred Moten says, “Imagine Holiday singing a Blind alley, or Brooks pricing hardpack dandelion, and then we’re seized and thrown into the festival of detonation we hope we’ve been waiting for.” Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, Martin is a member of the three-person performance group, The Black Took Collective. She is also a member of the global artist collective, HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, the group that withdrew its work from the 2014 Whitney Biennial to protest the museum’s biased curatorial practices. Martin is currently working on a hybrid memoir, some of which appears as the essay, “The Long Road to Angela Davis’s Library,” published in the December 2014 New Yorker magazine. Martin was also, most recently, the editor of “On Race and Innovation,” a dossier featured in boundary2: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LITERATURE AND CULTURE.
Friday, December 4, 2015; 6:00pm
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at Pratt MFA: Erica Hunt
Location: Higgins Hall, 61 Saint James Pl, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Free and open to the public.
Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist, and author of Local History and Arcade, as well as three chapbooks, Piece Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes, and A Day and Its Approximates. She has been writer in residence in the Contemporary Poetics/Creative Writing program at the University of Pennsylvania, writer in residence at Bard College’s MFA program, Northwestern University, and Long Island University, and a repeat faculty member for Cave Canem, a workshop for Black writers from 2004 to 2015.
Sunday, June 7, 2015; 5:00 pm
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at Small Press Traffic: Ronaldo Wilson
Location: Grad Writing Studio, CCA: 195 de Haro Street, San Francisco
Admission: $8-15 (Members Free)
Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man and Poems of the Black Object. His latest book Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other is forthcoming. He is an assistant professor of Literature and Creative Writing at U.C. Santa Cruz.
Friday, April 24, 2015; 7:00 pm
The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at U.C. Berkeley: Lisa Robertson
Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall; U.C. Berkeley
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Monday, November 17, 2014; 8:00 pm
The Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers will be presented to Khadijah Queen for Khadijah’s play, Non-Sequitur
Location: The New Ohio Theatre: 154 Christopher Street, New York, NY
Admission: free
Monday, October 6, 2014; 8:30pm
Leslie Scalapino & Konrad Steiner Way
(Poetry and Film in Counterpoint)
San Francisco filmmaker Konrad Steiner took 12 years to complete a montage cycle set to the late Leslie Scalapino’s most celebrated poem, way—a sprawling book-length odyssey of shardlike urban impressions, fraught with obliquely felt social and sexual tensions. Based on the experimental writer’s own reading of the poem, recorded in 2000, Steiner created six stylistically distinctive films for each section of way, using sources ranging from Kodachrome footage of sun-kissed S.F. street scenes to internet clips of the Iraq war to a fragmented Fred Astaire dance number.
In person: Konrad Steiner
Location: REDCAT Theater: 631 West 2nd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission: $6-11
Sunday, June 1, 2014; 5pm
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at Small Press Traffic: Divya Victor & Simone White
Location: Timkin Hall at CCA, San Francisco, CA
Admission: $8-15 (Members Free)
Tuesday, April 22, 2014; 7:00 pm
Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics presents the 2014 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics
“Driven to Abstraction? Listening for ‘Late Style’ in Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry”
with Steve Evans
Location: Naropa University Performing Arts Center: 2130 Arapahoe Avenue, Boulder, CO
Free and open to all
Join us for a lecture with Steve Evans, who will test the concept of “late style” against the recent work of poets roughly of Leslie Scalapino’s generation, all of whom have enjoyed unbroken (and interconnected) arcs of artistic activity since the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their extraordinary achievements, considered individually and collectively, create a context for a radical revision of the idea of “late” or “mature” style. Examples will be drawn from the phonotextual, as well as the textual, archive, and the talk will be followed by a curated set of clips by the poets discussed.
Steve Evans, educated at UC San Diego (BA) and Brown (PhD), has served on the Poetry and Poetics faculty at the University of Maine, where he also co-directs the National Poetry Foundation, coordinates the New Writing Series, and tends the website thirdfactory.net. His criticism has appeared in numerous publications, and in 2001 he edited After Patriarchal Poetry: Feminism and the Contemporary Avant-Garde. He is presently working on a project tentatively titled “The Poetics of Phonotextuality: Timbre, Text, and Technology in Recorded Poetry.”
Thursday, March 20, 2014; 6:30 pm
The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at U.C. Berkeley:
Renee Gladman
“The Sentence as Space for Living”
Location: Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall; U.C. Berkeley
Thursday, February 27, 2014; 3pm
The Legacy of Leslie Scalapino
AWP Panel with Michael Cross (moderator), Alicia Cohen, Carla Harryman, Judith Goldman, and Maryrose Larkin
Leslie Scalapino is a literary inventor par excellence, creating essays, plays, poetry, and cross genre pieces as well as serving as a publisher and editor for more than 100 volumes. Her untimely death in 2010 left a set of acolytes as diverse as her manifest works. This panel gathers a range of responses to Scalapino’s oeuvre, honoring her literary work, her publishing, and her mentorship.
Location: Annual AWP Conference & Book Fair
Washington State Convention Center, Room 606
Seattle, WA
Thursday, October 24, 2013; 7pm & 9pm
New York premiere of “way” by Konrad Steiner in collaboration with Leslie Scalapino
New York premiere with Konrad Steiner in present at screenings.
2000-2012. 68 min, color/stereo, 35mm film. The six part film follows the six sections of Leslie Scalapino’s book length poem, ‘way’ (1988). As the poet performs the complete text on the soundtrack, a montage of images responds to various levels and qualities of movement in the reading: the narratives, the ideas, the cadences and melodies, the poetic images themselves. The look of the film is drawn from a variety of sources including 16mm film and video footage of San Francisco streets and bars, internet clips of Hollywood, documentary, personal and erotic video, and computer generated animation.
Location: Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
Admission: $10 general admission; $8 students, seniors, children; $6 AFA members
Wednesday, October 23, 2013; 8pm
At Once Yet Separate: Poet-Artist Collaboration And The Work Of Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino’s engagement with other artists via collaboration, exchange and performance provides the foundation for this evening’s panel presentation. Scalapino conceived of her own writing as physical phenomena existing in relation to and alongside other phenomena, including visual art, film, theater and dance. Yet rather than illustrating, setting or directing one another, these phenomenal gestures activate new meanings in each other. Discussion with visual artists Marina Adams and Petah Coyne, filmmaker Konrad Steiner, and poet/playwright Fiona Templeton will begin with an exploration of each artist’s particular work with Scalapino and open out to broader conversation around the nature of collaboration, process, and influence. Moderated by poet E. Tracy Grinnell.
Location: The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th Street, New York, NY 10003
Monday, October 14, 2013; 6:30pm
Reading: Winner of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights
Dead Youth, or The Leak by Joyelle McSweeney is the winner of the first Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. A reading of the play, directed by Fiona Templeton, will be presented with the award.
Location: The New Ohio Theatre
154 Christopher Street, New York NY 10014
Thursday, October 3, 2013; 7:30pm
Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University
Artist Petah Coyne, referred to as “the queen of mixed media” by Artforum, will be giving a lecture as the 2013-2013 Leslie Scalapino Lecturer in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University: “Leslie Scalapino and Petah Coyne: How a Poet and a Sculptor Crossed Paths.”
Location: Naropa University Performing Arts Center
Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, CO 80302
Admission: FREE and open the public.
Thursday, September 26, 2013; 6pm & 8:30pm
Two screenings: “way” by Konrad Steiner in collaboration with Leslie Scalapino
With Konrad Steiner present at screenings.
2000-2012, 68 min, color/stereo, 35mm film. The six part film follows the six sections of Leslie Scalapino’s book length poem, ‘way’ (1988). As the poet performs the complete text on the soundtrack, a montage of images responds to various levels and qualities of movement in the reading: the narratives, the ideas, the cadences and melodies, the poetic images themselves. The look of the film is drawn from a variety of sources including 16mm film and video footage of San Francisco streets and bars, internet clips of Hollywood, documentary, personal and erotic video, and computer generated animation.
Location: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Admission: $10 general. $8 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts members, students, seniors and teachers.
Sunday, June 23, 2013; 5pm
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at Small Press Traffic: Petah Coyne.
Location: Small Press Traffic
Timkin Hall at CCA: 1111 8th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107 Admission: $8-15 (Members Free)
Thursday, April 18, 2013; 7pm
The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at U.C. Berkeley: Judith Goldman
Hosted by the Department of English at U.C. Berkeley.
“Extinction Sinks & (Post)humanisms in Contemporary Poetry”
Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall; U.C. Berkeley
Tuesday, April 9, 2013; Time TBA
Screening of way (35 mm film): Konrad Steiner’s collaboration with Leslie Scalapino on a feature length poem-film in six parts.
Seminar hosted by Judith Goldman with presentations on Scalapino’s work by Joseph Conte, Ming Qian Ma, and Joao Paulo Guimaraes.
Location: SUNY Buffalo Center for the Arts Screening Room, North Campus
Sunday, June 10, 2012; 5 pm
Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics by Jalal Toufic.
“I Have Something to Say (Silence-over) and I Am Saying It (Thanks to Music-over) and that Is Poetry”
Location: Timkin Hall at CCA: 1111 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94107
Admission: $8-15 (Members Free)
Thursday, April 5, 2012, 8:15 p.m.
Joan Retallack
Inaugural Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecturer in Innovative Poetics
The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics is an annual lecture series with a focus on critical analysis of innovative poetry, essays, plays, and cross-genre work primarily by women poets. The Series invites contemporary writers to present their work in the spirit exemplified by Scalapino’s own critical writing and editorial vision as publisher of O Books.
Location: Naropa University: Shambhala Hall, Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, CO 80302
Free
Saturday, March 10, 2012; 7:30 pm
Sweet, A Play by Leslie Scalapino
featuring Sommer Browning, Serena Chopra, Erin Costello, HR Hegnauer, and Andrea Rexilius.
GASP: Girls Assembling Something Perpetual
Location: 1396 Josephine Street; Denver, CO 80206
Free
Friday, September 23, 2011; 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Opening Reception: The Big Reveal
This exhibition highlights new acquisitions to the permanent collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. The focal point will be the major installation Untitled #1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu) (2009–10) by artist Petah Coyne. This massive work features an apple tree, taxidermied pheasants, as well as a variety of taxidermied peacocks, among the artist’s other nontraditional materials.
Location: Kemper Museum: 4420 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO
Free
Above, left: Petah Coyne, Untitled #1336 (Scalapino Nu Shu), 2009–10; apple tree, taxidermy Black Melinistic Pheasants, taxidermy Blue India Peacocks, taxidermy Black-Shouldered Peacocks, taxidermy Spaulding Peacocks, black sand from pig iron casting, Acrylex 234, black paint, cement, chicken wire fencing, wood, gravel, sisal, staging rope, cotton rope, insulated foam sealant, pipe, epoxy, threaded rod, wire, screws, jaw-to-jaw swivels, 158 x 262 x 288 inches; Collection of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. T. Kemper Charitable Trust, UMB Bank, n.a., Trustee; Image © Petah Coyne, courtesy of Galerie Lelong, New York, photo: Elizabeth Bernstein
Wednesday, September 14, 2011; 8:30 – 9:30 pm
Fin de Siècle
Three plays by Leslie Scalapino, with music for five voices and small ensemble
Fin de Siècle is Sarah Dougher’s musical interpretation of a set of three experimental poem-plays by renowned American poet Leslie Scalapino. The poems form an abstract narrative of war, labor, and class struggle—a visionary manifestation of the poet’s passionate humanism. Structured as a set of emotive, melodic songs, Dougher’s piece weds video projection and vocal performance with an ensemble of piano, violin, cello, trumpet, trombone and percussion. The work embraces Scalapino’s challenging use of language through a richly textured score, and echoes Scalapino’s hybrid practice, inhabiting a musical space between art song and pop. Fin de Siècle is an ambitious synthesis of Dougher’s celebrated folk-rock solo music and choral compositions.
Commissioned by the estate of Leslie Scalapino.
Location: Washington High School: 531 SE 14th Ave; Portland, OR 97214
Oregon ArtsWatch review. September 14, 2011
James Yearly’s blog on Calendar of Catabolic Guilt. September 15, 2011
Friday, June 10, 2011; 6 pm
Litmus Press will celebrate its new books including How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Leslie Scalapino.
Location: 443 PAS
443 Park Avenue South, Suite 604; New York NY 10016
Friday, May 27, 2011; 7:30pm
New Series:
Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics: Joan Retallack
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics is an annual lecture series with a focus on critical analysis of innovative poetry, essays, plays and cross-genre work primarily by women poets. The series invites contemporary writers to present their work in the spirit exemplified by Scalapino’s own critical writing and editorial vision as publisher of O Books.
Location: Small Press Traffic
Timken Hall at CCA; 1111 8th Street; San Francisco, California 94107
Admission: $8-15 / Members free
Thursday, May 19, 2011; 5:45 – 8:00 pm
Litmus, United Artists, Ugly Duckling, Belladonna*, Future Poem, Talisman, Granary, Roof & The Figures invite you to a BOOK PARTY!
Litmus Press will celebrate its new books including How Phenomena Appear to Unfold by Leslie Scalapino. Refreshments will be served.
Location: ZieherSmith Gallery
516 West 20th Street; New York, NY
Saturday, February 12, 2011; 2 pm
Leslie Scalapino Memorial Reading, Reception & Exhibit
Readings by contemporary poets, Reed alumni & students. Presenters will include Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Allison Cobb, Alicia Cohen, Sarah Dougher, Judith Goldman, Endi Bogue Hartigan, Maryrose Larkin, Denise Newman, Standard Schaefer, James Sherry, Ellen Stauder, Konrad Steiner, and James Yeary.
Location: Reed College:
Eliot Hall Chapel, 3203 SE Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR 97202
Tuesday & Wednesday, December 21 & 22, 2010; 8 pm
Flow – Winged Crocodile / The Trains by Leslie Scalapino
Directed by Fiona Templeton
Performed by Molissa Fenley, Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost
Dance by Molissa Fenley
Music by Joan Jeanrenaud
Please join us for a special performance of Leslie Scalapino’s play, followed by an opening night reception.
Location: ODC Theater: 3153 17th Street @ Shotwell; San Francisco, CA
Saturday, December 4, 2010; 7:30 pm
PREMIER of Stone Marmalade
Kevin Killian presents a production of Stone Marmalade,
his collaborative play with Leslie Scalapino.
Directed by Kevin Killian
Designed by Wayne Smith
Performed by Lindsey Boldt, Karla Milosevich, Brent Cunningham, Taylor Brady, Laurie Reid, Erin Morrill, Tom Comitta, Craig Goodman, Jocelyn Saidenberg, David Brazil, & others
Location: Small Press Traffic
Timken Hall, California College of the Arts; 1111 8th Street; San Francisco, CA
Friday, December 3, 2010; 6:30 – 9:00 pm
Leslie Scalapino Memorial Reading
with Lyn Hejinian, Simone Fattal, Michael McClure, Norma Cole, Laura Moriarty, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Joanne Kyger, Konrad Steiner, E. Tracy Grinnell, Judith Goldman, Norman Fischer, Alicia Cohen, Rae Armantrout, Stephen Ratcliffe, Michael Cross, M. Mara-Ann, & Bob Grenier
Location: Maude Fife Room, 315 Wheeler Hall; University of California, Berkeley
Tuesday, November 16, 2010; 7:30 pm
Flow – Winged Crocodile / The Trains by Leslie Scalapino
Directed by Fiona Templeton
Performed by Molissa Fenley, Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost
Dance by Molissa Fenley
Please join us for a special performance of poet Leslie Scalapino’s play:
Flow – Winged Crocodile.
Dixon Place: 161 Chrystie Street; New York, NY 10002
Monday, June 21, 2010; 8:00 pm
Leslie Scalapino Memorial Readings with local poets, artists & friends
Reception to follow.
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church: 131 E. 10th Street; New York, NY 10001
Saturday, June 19, 2010; 7:00 pm & Sunday, June 20, 2010; 2:00 pm
Flow – Winged Crocodile / The Trains by Leslie Scalapino
Directed by Fiona Templeton
Performed by Molissa Fenley, Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver, and Julie Troost
Dance by Molissa Fenley
Please join us for a special performance of poet Leslie Scalapino’s play:
Flow – Winged Crocodile.
Poets House: 10 River Terrace; New York, NY 10282