Recently by Simone Muench
John Gallaher is the author of the books of poetry, Gentlemen in Turbans, Ladies in Cauls (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001), The Little Book of Guesses, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize, from Four Way Books, and
Map of the Folded World, from The University of Akron Press. He is currently co-editor of The Laurel Review and GreenTower Press.
What We're Up Against
On the way home from the funeral
we stopped for lunch.
Lunch was like the singing. Lunch
Catherine Yass
Still from Descent 2002
Courtesy Alison Jacques Gallery © the artist
16mm film on projected DVD
New Media Poetics: a collaboration of poetry and sound arts in two parts. In collaboration with the Experimental Sound Studio and the SAIC Department
of Exhibitions.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 6:30pm
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor
Part one: Reading
Featuring Bill Allegrezza, Ray Bianchi, Justin Cabrillos, Steve
Halle, Philip Jenks, Simone Muench, and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
This project is an artistic response to the Learning Modern exhibition, with
particular attention to modernist trends in poetry and the manner in which
design sensibilities translate across media and are even evident in our
understandings of the sonic landscape. Building on the works on display,
contemporary poets design texts, which are then read in the Sullivan
Galleries. Subsequently, SAIC sound
students engage these poems as material for further response, reframing the
auditory elements of each poem's structure into a new sound score. The
resulting projects will be presented in the lobby of the Sullivan Gallery as
a temporary sound installation November 6 - 25.
D. A. Powell's books include Tea, Lunch and Cocktails; the latter a
finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. His
most recent collection is Chronic (Graywolf, 2009). By Myself: An
Autobiography was penned in collaboration with David Trinidad and
published by Turtle Point Press. The following interview with D.A. Powell was conducted by Aaron Delee.
Delee: I've heard many people, academics and ordinary readers, saying that the
market has been flooded over the past decade with memoirs and
autobiographies; in light of your new chapbook, By Myself: An
Autobiography, what is your take on this?
Powell: Oh, yes, it's true. I think that was part of our initial impulse: knowing that the plethora of memoirs was out there, we went in fully aware that the chapbook was in part an effort to parody the genre. But it was only after we started that we truly began to understand what the form of the genre was. Everybody had the same story: strong grandmother, poverty, sense of otherness, being passed over for the role of Cinderella in the Christmas pageant, a desire for fame, a struggle to be noticed, surprise upon being successful, a nomination for the Golden Globe, an addiction.
Carolyn Guinzio is the author of Quarry (Parlor Press, 2008), and West Pullman (Bordighera, 2005), as well as the chapbook Untitled Wave (Cannibal, 2009). Originally from Chicago, she lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
from Untitled Wave
Laura Kasischke is the author of seven books of poetry, including Lilies Without (Ausable Press, 2007), Gardening in the Dark (Ausable, 2004), Dance and Disappear (Juniper Prize, 2002), and four novels. Her work has received many honors, including the Alice Fay diCastagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, the Beatrice Hawley Award, the Pushcart Prize, and the Elmer Holmes Bobst Award for Emerging Writers. She teaches at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
New Dress
Dress of dreams and portents, worn
in memory, despite
the posted warnings
Jennifer Scappettone is the author of From Dame Quickly
(Litmus Press, 2009), and of several
chapbooks: Ode oggettuale, a bilingual poemetto translated
into Italian with Marco Giovenale (La Camera Verde, 2008);
Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007); and Beauty [Is the New
Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2008). She is at work on a
manuscript called Exit 43, an archaeology of the landfill and
opera of pop-ups, for Atelos. She was guest editor of Aufgabe 7,
devoted to contemporary Italian poetry of research. She is an
assistant professor at the University of Chicago.
Delection Even
I dredge allegedly
to repair and upgrade the Port of Umm Qasr
Allison Benis White is the author of Self-Portrait with Crayon, winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, and Pleiades, among other journals. She is currently at work on a second manuscript, Small Porcelain Head, which received the 2008 James D. Phelan Award for a work-in-progress from The San Francisco Foundation. She teaches at the University of California, Irvine.
Waiting
I think of broken snow, but this is permanent. Two separate women on a bench—crossed at the wrists,
Andrew Zawacki is the author of three books of poetry—Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House, 2009), Anabranch (Wesleyan, 2004), and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2001). A former fellow of the Slovenian Writers' Association, he edited Afterwards: Slovenian Writing 1945-1995 (White Pine) and edited and cotranslated Aleš Debeljak's new and selected poems, due next fall from Persea. His translation from the French of Sébastien Smirou, My Lorenzo, is forthcoming from Burning Deck. He teaches at the University of Georgia and is Coeditor of Verse and of The Verse Book of Interviews.
from "Storm, lustral: unevensong"
A tractor rasping its talon
along the dune
Jessica Bozek received an MFA from the University of Georgia and an MA from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London. She is the author of cor·re·spond·ence (dusi/e-chap kollektiv), a collaboration with Eli Queen. She has lived in Russia, England, Spain, and Costa Rica but currently walks the dog in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Bodyfeel Lexicon was published by Switchback Books, 2009.
The Stationer's Transport
through panes and across sheets, perception yields
here, in the margins, my body-ghosts happen
Elise Paschen is the author of Bestiary (Red Hen Press, 2009), as well as Infidelities, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and Houses: Coasts. Her poems have been published in The New Republic, TriQuarterly and The Hudson Review, among other magazines, and in numerous anthologies. The editor of Poetry Speaks to Children and co-editor of Poetry Speaks and Poetry in Motion, Paschen teaches in the Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wí'-gi-e
Anna Kyle Brown. Osage.
1896-1921. Fairfax, Oklahoma.
Because she died where the ravine falls into water.
Because they dragged her down to the creek.
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