PROVIDENCE, RI this weekend!

here's the announcement from Kate Schapira!

so looking forward to some Kate time! [Schapira AND Colby!!!!]

Dear listeners,

Kathryn (Kate) Pringle

and

Dianne Timblin

Saturday, May 2nd, at 6 pm
at Ada Books (717 Westminster St., Providence)

About them:

kathryn l. pringle is a graduate of the MFA program at San Francisco State University. Her first book, RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY, is just out from Factory School/Heretical Text Series. She is the author of The Stills (Duration Press) and Temper & Felicity are Lovers (TAXT). Her poems can be read in The Denver Quarterly, Fence, 14 hills, 580 Split, and Sidebrow, among others. She is an editor at the literary magazine minor/american, and the co-founder of the minor american reading series in Durham, N.C., now funded by Duke University.



Dianne Timblin lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Phoebe, Rivendell, minor/american, Foursquare, Fanzine and other journals.

They will either cure or exacerbate your spring fever. Whichever you like! Please come!


Your organizer,

Kate Schapira

back into the swing.

biked 25.6 miles today. 93 degrees. burned roughly 1500 calories. consumed... much less than that, so far, but, i feel fine.

lotsa water.


it has been poetry weekend in Durham.

friday night : rachel blau duplessis read [super cool reading, just her, about an hour from drafts... very fine... very fun... very smart]

saturday night: tanya olson and fred moten read in the minor american series [o, such genius!]

and today, which i had to skip because i thought i could a} work after riding 25.6 miles in 93 degrees and b} i could not work and had to sleep through the readings of both Buck Downs and Bryan Koen.

sadly. for me.


i love the heat.

i love to be home.

i love to be away, too.

what else...

poetry.

and mass.

and force.

and lotsa writing, actually.

but, the novel to waste [basket] [okay, not really, but, serious-pause buttoned due to emotional heartbreaks involved-- it takes a lot out of me... writing this novel. sometimes it just has to go away.]

poetry is happening, though.

always.

[ps... i love traveling everywhere giving readings. i love it. i just need the months of june and july off. i'm POOR!]

wow!

new york was great fun and i'm sure i'll tell you about it later, but...

check out my friend and co-anchor for neo-benshi, brian howe, on ABC!

now accepting proposals! NEO-BENSHI comes to the Triangle!

we’re bringing it to the Triangle….



announcing a new series in Durham :



Neo-Benshi Night

Hosted & Curated by kathryn l. pringle & Brian Howe

Place: Pinhook



dear friends,



brian and I are now accepting proposals for 7-15 minute [no more than 15 minutes!] neo-benshi performances. for those of you unfamiliar with neo-benshi, here is the wikipedia entry:

Neo-Benshi is the practice of producing live alternate voice-overs for movies.

The art form’s acknowledged starting point is in Korea, Japan, Taiwan and other East Asian nations during the silent film era. Benshi is a Japanese word referring to the oral "interpreter" who performed a live narrative accompaniment to silent movies, in lieu of showing intertitles with dialogue, etc. In Korean the practice is known as pyônsa. Currently, it is finding a resurgence among experimental poets in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles.

you can find some examples here:

http://benshi.org/

you can be artsy, you can be funny, you can be solo, you can collaborate



but, mostly, we encourage you to TRY!



we are hoping to make this happen at least 4 times a year, maybe more, maybe less, depending on participation and interest. please forward far and wide!



we will select 4-6 [depending on time constraints] per night.



there’s a lot on the web when you google Neo-Benshi…. make it yr own!



we are slated to perform June 10th at the Pinhook!



please submit yr proposals by April 30th, 2009 to kathrynlpringle@gmail.com ANDbrian.g.howe@gmail.com



proposals need not be super elaborate at this point! we just want to know about yr idea and how you expect it to unfold!



i'm in NY until Monday, so, if we don't get back to yr questions right away, have no fear, we will!



thanks and see you soon!

kate & brian

okay NY... i'll be seeing you tomorrow night. and then... i'm going to oyster bay... and then i'm running in central park... so there you at peoples!

NY this FRIDAY! the Poetry Project

A Night with Heretical Texts Vol. 4
April 17, 2009
9:30 pm
Friday

Heretical Texts is an ongoing Factory School book series published in volumes of five books each. The series aims to test old assumptions about the political efficacies of poetic texts while utilizing the series structure as a framework for documentation and investigation. Since 2005, Factory School has published twenty titles under the Heretical Texts series banner, with future volumes appearing in 2010 and beyond. Volume 4 includes books by Jules Boykoff, Brett Evans, Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle and Frank Sherlock. Please join us for an evening of readings and festivities celebrating Heretical Texts Vol. 4. Participants include Erica Kaufman, kathryn l. pringle, Frank Sherlock and Bill Marsh. Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse (Factory School 2009) and co-curates Belladonna*. kathryn l. pringle is the author of Right New Biology and lives in Durham, NC. Bill Marsh has co-directed Factory School since its founding in 2000. He is the author of Plagiarism (SUNY Press) and, with Steve Carll, Tao Drops, I Change (Subpress). He lives in Queens, NY. Frank Sherlock is the author of Over Here (Factory School 2009) and the co-author of Ready-To-Eat Individual (Lavender Ink 2008) with Brett Evans. A collaboration with CAConrad entitled The City Real & Imagined: Philadelphia Poems is forthcoming from Factory School later this year.

the instance is fixed.

sounds like cheating. being cheated.

despite being human... i'm incredibly happy.

i know yr all waiting for updates and i have to say, i had an amazing time in Oklahoma... and Arkansas... but, i'm tired... and needing to be quiet.

so, i'll tell you this...

Tulsa is rad... Fayetteville is, too...

and me...

i am peaceful for the first time in a while.

[and off to NY friday!]

AUDIO of RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY and many other folks i love...

Link to ALL

or

just ME


i curse a lot...

i think i do read it better now... i dunno... it is strange to hear myself. i felt a little rushed.

you tell me.

hey there peoples!

i have been trying to get my training back in line since injury//discovery of my birth defective metatarsal misalignment... i had molds of my feet made and ordered my orthotics... so... that will take until mid-May to come back to me.

in the meantime i'm running no more than 4 miles, biking a lot... and weightlifting, stretching....

i have a terrible knot in my shoulder//neck.

i leave for Tulsa Tuesday.

i'm excited to meet the fine folks of Tulsa & Fayetteville. Oklahoma & Arkansas.

and i get home a week from today... and leave again the following Friday for NY.

then i'm actually home the next weekend... and the next weekend, off to Providence. Rhode Island.

the rest of May i'm all over North Carolina. all over.

i'm tired now.

i think i'm going to drink some beer and watch baseball//NCAAW basketball until i fall asleep.

i keep thinking about this recycling of time.

and my reading in Tulsa... which... i would hate to do this to my audience, however many people... but, Grant gives you a full hour when you go to Tulsa...

i have a FULL hour...

this is tricky.

reading all of RIGHT NEW BIOLOGY, for me... reading as in speaking it... takes roughly 40 minutes.

i will not do that.

but, i may speak a little about my SCI-PO leanings....

for example, my current investigation into sound & mass and echo & time...

my desire for sound to have mass... i don't NEED that to be TRUE... i just need it to be considered...

and really...

sound hits us

it is a FORCE [thanks Chris, for the correct word... he's so good at FACTS!]

where we are in relation to time, to that recycling of time, i think impacts our psyches in such tremendous ways...

i write about this

and medication

a lot

o, i'll explain in poetry. it works better that way.

speaking of work....

so much of reality--perhaps all--depends upon where you are... place.


this is a very simple thing, that i've subscribed to, but never fully understood.

it is more than situational.

time never began.

there is no beginning.

is just is.

up late reading about Gott's time-loop universe theory.

i mean, of course, right?

how can one sleep when one is reading such a thing as this?