Poets on Painters Reading, This Saturday

The Clean Part Reading Series & The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Present a poetry reading to celebrate
The Poets on Painters

Featuring a reading by poets
Corina Copp
Paul Killebrew

And a discussion of the show by curator
Katie Geha

Saturday April 26th
7pm

Sheldon Memorial Gallery
12th & R Streets

This Saturday The Clean Part Reading Series and the Sheldon will be hosting a reading and discussion in conjunction with the opening of the Poets on Painters show at the Sheldon. Corina Copp and Paul Killebrew, two poets featured in the show, will be at the Sheldon to read from their work. Co-Curator Katie Geha will discuss her work with the show.

A visual and literary exhibition that pairs 20 contemporary poets with 20 contemporary paintings, Poets on Painters opens at the Sheldon on April 26. Each poet’s response to a painting will be displayed alongside the artwork. A sampling of today’s written and visual arts, Poets on Painters focuses on the intrinsic and fascinating connections between two of the oldest art forms as seen by some of their newest practitioners.

To view a slide show of the artworks, please click: Poets on Painters Slide Show.

Poets on Painters recalls 20th-century collaborations between Apollinaire and Duchamp, Stein and Picasso, and O’Hara and Rivers in its playful examination of how poetry and painting converge and diverge in the 21st century. The internationally recognized visual and literary artists included in the exhibition represent a vast array of styles and approaches, both traditional and experimental.

The project includes such notables as painters Mark Grotjahn, Sam Prekop, Laura Owens, Monique Prieto and Dana Schutz, and poets Jeff Clark, Joshua Marie Wilkinson Noah Eli Gordon and Sawako Nakayasu.

Organized by the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas, the exhibition is curated by Katie Geha, former curator of modern and contemporary art at the Ulrich, and Travis Nichols, a freelance writer based in Seattle.


Bios:

Corina Copp hails from Lawrence, KS, Boulder, CO, and New Orleans, LA. She is most recently the author of the e-book, Carpeted (Faux Press, 2004) and Play Air (Belladonna* Books, 2005). Her poems and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming from Fence, The Germ, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Pom2, and Magazine Cypress. She is the Monday Night Reading Series Coordinator at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and lives in Brooklyn.

You can read her work at:

http://www.fauxpress.com/e/copp/p1.htm
http://www.fencemag.com/v7n2/text/copp.html
http://germspot.blogspot.com/2005/09/corina-copp-p1.htm

Paul Killebrew has published work on Slope, La Petite Zine, and McSweeneys. he is the author of Inspector Vs. Evader, published by Ugly Duckling Presse.

You can read his work at:
http://www.lapetitezine.org/PaulKillebrew.htm
http://www.softtargetsjournal.com/v11/paul_killebrew.php

Adam Clay is the author of The Wash (Parlor Press) and Canoe (Horse Less Press). His poems have appeared in A Public Space, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Court Green, and elsewhere.






Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and three chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005), Rushes (above/ground press, 2007), and This is why I hurt you (Lame House Press, forthcoming). Statues, a Big Game Books tinyside, was available briefly in 2006. Last March, Flash+Card published In Paradise there is no art, a boxed set of 12 notecards (fragments of writing & art). Greenstreet's poems have appeared most recently in Handsome, Fascicle, Ocho, The Literary Review, and KELR (a "translation" collaboration with Bob Hicok). New work is forthcoming in Practice, Wildlife, Filling Station, Hotel Amerika, and Columbia Poetry Review. Her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009.






Anthony Hawley is the author of two full-length collections of poetry Forget Reading (2008) and The Concerto Form (2006) and four chapbooks Autobiography/Oughtabiography (Counterpath Press 2007), Record-breakers (Ori is the New Apple Press 2007), Afield (Ugly Duckling Presse 2004) and Vocative (Phylum Press 2004). Recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Hat, The Tiny, 26, 1913, and Verse. He currently teaches at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Sat. Feb. 16, 2008. 7pm: John Gallaher, Wayne Miller & Betsy Wheeler

John Gallaher is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (2001), The Little Book of Guesses (2007), and Radio Good Luck (forthcoming 2010). His poems appear or are forthcoming in New American Writing, Field, Colorado Review, and The Best American Poetry 2008. he lives in rural Missouri and co-edits The Laurel Review.






Wayne Miller is the author of a collection of poems, Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006), and a chapbook, What Night Says to the Empty Boat (Greentower, 2005). He's also translator of I Don't Believe in Ghosts (BOA, 2007), by Albanian poet Moikom Zeqo, and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008). Wayne lives in Kansas City and teaches at the University of Central Missouri, where he edits Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing.






Originally from the Upper Mississippi River Valley, Betsy Wheeler studied poetry and the art of the book at the University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse where she was a Maple House Fellow for Sutton Hoo Press. She received her MFA in poetry from The Ohio State University in 2005, then lived, worked, and wrote as the Stadler Fellow at Bucknell University's Stadler Center for Poetry from 2005-2007. Her poems have recently appeared in Bat City Review, MiPoesias, Pebble Lake Review, Forklift Ohio, Ping Pong, and Absent. Her chapbook, Start Here, is available from Small Anchor Press. Co-editor of Pilot and Pilot Books, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts where she works for Wondertime magazine.

Winners of January's Clean Part raffled-off door prizes:


Joshua Marie Wilkinson of Chicago, IL. Chocolate/Walnut Banana Bread.


Tim Marcuson of Lincoln, NE. Chocolate/Walnut Banana Bread.

Not Pictured: Anthony Hawley of Lincoln, NE. Chocolate/Walnut Banana Bread.
Not Pictured: Rachel. Boston Creme Torte.

Sat. Jan. 19, 2008. 7pm: Claire Becker, Lily Brown & Steve Langan

Claire Becker lives in Oakland and teaches at the California School for the Blind. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in H_ngm_n, Typo Magazine, The Alembic, Octopus Magazine, 580 Split, Tarpaulin Sky and The Tiny. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College and is the author of the chapbook Untoward from Lame House Press.



Lily Brown holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary's College of California and currently lives in San Francisco. Her first chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, was published by Octopus Books in 2007. Her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press. Poems have appeared in Typo, Octopus, Tarpaulin Sky, Fence, Coconut and Handsome. New work is forthcoming in Pleiades, 26 and Cannibal.



Steve Langan is the author Freezing, from New Issues Press, and Notes on Exile & Other Poems, a chapbook that received the Weldon Kees Award from Backwaters Press. His poems are in recent issues of Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Zoland Poetry. He lives in Omaha, where he's the director of a non-profit health agency, and he teaches in the University of Nebraska MFA in Writing program.

Cynthia Arrieu-King! Jason Bredle! Jen Tynes! Saturday, Dec 1st! 7 pm! Sheldon Art Gallery!

Cynthia Arrieu-King is a doctoral candidate at the University of
Cincinnati and an echocardiographer. Her chapbook The Small Anything
City won the Dream Horse Press National Chapbook Contest in 2006.
She's been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts,
Kundiman, and the Juniper Summer Writer's Institute. Her poems have
appeared in Prairie Schooner, Diagram, Forklift, Ohio, Copper Nickel,
etc.






Jason Bredle is the author of Pain Fantasy (Red Morning Press),
Standing in Line for the Beast (New Issues), and A Twelve Step Guide
(New Michigan Press). He lives in Chicago.





Jen Tynes edits horse less press. She is the author of The End Of Rude
Handles (Red Morning Press 2006), See Also Electric Light (Dancing
Girl Press 2007), and, with Erika Howsare, The Ohio System (Octopus
Books 2007). Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in
Denver Quarterly, Tarpaulin Sky, LIT, and The Bedside Guide To No Tell
Motel: Second Floor.

Winner of October's Clean Part Tort giveaway, Heather Green!

Sat Oct 27th, 7pm, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery: Ana Bozicevic-Bowling, Julia Cohen & Ken Rumble

Ana Bozicevic-Bowling is a Croatian poet writing in English & the author of two chapbooks: Morning News (Kitchen Press, 2006) and Document (Octopus Books, forthcoming). Her recent poems are or will be in Octopus Magazine, The New York Quarterly, Denver Quarterly, In Posse, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor and Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. She coedits RealPoetik and works at PEN American Center in New York City.

Read her poems here
here
here
here

And read an interview with her here




Julia Cohen's chapbook, If Fire, Arrival, is out with horse less press. Her other chapbooks, Who Could Forget the Sensational First Evening of the Night (Hangman Books), When We Broke the Microscope (written with Mathias Svalina, Small Fires Press), and The History of a Lake Never Drowns (Dancing Girl Press) are forthcoming this year. Here are some of her poems from The Adirondack Review and h_ngm_n. You can find more links to her poems on her blog. She lives in Brooklyn

Read her poems here
here
here
& here






Ken Rumble is the author of Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press, 2007) which one reviewer describes as an "exuberant free-verse tour of Washington, D.C." He works as the marketing director for the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his daughter. His poems have appeared in the literary journals Octopus, Fascicle, Coconut, Cutbank, Parakeet, the tiny, Carolina Quarterly, and others. He is currently at work with his father on a nonfiction book about the Antarctic ozone hole.

Read his poems here
here
here
& here

Sat Sept 8th

Joyelle McSweeney, Johannes Göransson & John Gallaher: September 8, 7pm, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery

John Gallaher is the author of Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (SD 2001), The Little Book of Guesses (Four Way Books Levis Poetry prize, 2007), and Looselife (Four Way Books, forthcoming). Recent poems appear in jubilat, Denver Quarterly, and Colorado Review, and online at Caffeine Destiny and Pilot Poetry. He lives in rural Missouri and co-edits The Laurel Review.

Samples of his work can be read
here,
here,
& here.







Johannes Göransson is the co-editor of Action Books and Action,Yes and a PhD candidate at the U of Georgia. He has a couple of books of poetry and a novel coming out in the near future, as well as a translation of Finland-Swedish Dadaist Henry Parland's Ideals Clearance (originally published in 1929). He has also translated Remainland: Selected Poems of Aase Berg.

Samples of his work can be read
here,
here,
here
& here.






Joyelle McSweeney is the author of The Red Bird and The Commandrine and Other Poems, both from Fence. She is a co-founder and co-editor of Action Books and Action, Yes, a press and web quarterly for international writing and hybrid forms. She writes regular reviews for Rain Taxi, The Constant Critic, and other venues and teaches in the MFA Program at Notre Dame. Her next book will be the science fiction novel Flet, forthcoming from Fence in 2008.

Samples of her work can be read
here,
here,
here,
& here.

Reading Schedule for the 07/08 Season

Sat 9-8 Joyelle McSweeney, Johannes Göransson & John Gallaher

Sat 10-27 Ana Bozicevic-Bowling & Julia Cohen & Ken Rumble

Sat 12-1 Jen Tynes & Jason Bredle, Cynthia Arrieu-King & Dorothea Lasky

Sat 1-19 Claire Becker, Lily Brown & Steve Langan

Sat 2-16 Lori Shine & Betsy Wheeler

Sat 3-8 Kate Greenstreet, Alex Lemon & Adam Clay