3/14/11
11/8/10
Nov 30, 7pm: Kate Eichhorn and Jenny Sampirisi
Kate Eichhorn
Jenny Sampirisi
7pm in the Arts Cafe
Kelly Writers House
3805 Locust Walk
Philadelphia
Kate Eichhorn is the author of Fond (BookThug, 2008), a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award, and Fieldnotes, a forensic (BookThug, 2010), and is co-editor of Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women's Poetry and Poetics (Coach House Books, 2009). Her poetry, prose and criticism are part of a serial investigation of historiography, ethnography and poetics. She teaches writing and cultural theory at the New School University in New York City.
Jenny Sampirisi is the author of is/was, a novel, and Croak, an in-progress collection of poems. She's the managing editor of BookThug, co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing and associate director of the Scream Literary Festival.
9/30/10
Oct 5, 6pm: Raquel Albarrán and Carlos Soto Román
A POETRY READING
BY RAQUEL ALBARRÁN
AND CARLOS SOTO ROMÁN
BY RAQUEL ALBARRÁN
AND CARLOS SOTO ROMÁN
6pm in the Arts Cafe, Kelly Writers House, 3805 Locust Walk, Philadelphia
9/23/10
fall 2010 poets
coming to Emergency this fall: Raquel Albarrán + Carlos Soto Román on Oct. 5 at 6pm, and Kate Eichhorn + Jenny Sampirisi on Nov. 30 at 7pm. Watch here for more details or join our Facebook page.
9/4/10
Emergency Feeling: Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
& a draft [beer] party
celebrating Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (Salt)
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS is an American poet-critic whose on-going long poem project, begun in 1986, is collected in Torques: Drafts 58-76, as well as in Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan U.P., 2001) , Drafts 39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004) and Pitch: Drafts 77-95 (Salt Publishing, 2010). DuPlessis was awarded a residency at Bellagio in 2007; she was the recipient of a Pew Fellowship for Artists and of the Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize, both in 2002.
EMERGENCY is curated by Julia Bloch and Sarah Dowling. WHENEVER WE FEEL LIKE IT is put on by Committee of Vigilance members Emily Pettit and Michelle Taransky. The Committee of Vigilance is a subdivision of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, which is the production division of The Meeteetzee Institute. http://wheneverwefeellikeit.
2/23/10
March 3, 5pm: Jaramillo, Elrick, Neuman
Laura Jaramillo is a poet from Queens, living in Brooklyn. She's the author of The Reactionary Poems (Olywa Press) and Civilan Nest (Love Among the Ruins Editions).
Laura Neuman is a writer and performing artist based in Philadelphia. Locally, she is a regular performer and recent co-choreographer with Workshop For Potential Movement, and has also worked and studied with members of Green Chair Dance Group, Headlong Dance Theatre and the Pig Iron Theatre Company. Laura studies poetry at Temple University's Masters in Creative Writing Program and at Bard College's Milton Avery School of the Arts.
1/14/10
Jan. 21, 6pm: Jen Scappettone and Tonya Foster
Tonya Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court, forthcoming from Belladonna* and Futurepoem in 2010. She is currently completing A Mathematics of Chaos, a cross-genre, multi-media piece on New Orleans, Monkey Talk, an inter-genre piece about race, paranoia, and surveillance, and A History of the Bitch, a collection of poems. A native of New Orleans, she resides and writes in Harlem. (image by Keily Anderson)