Meshworks is a site dedicated to documenting and preserving video and sound recordings of writing in performance. The site’s title is taken from an essay by cris cheek in Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance, and Site-Specificity: “Each poetry reading is a meshwork, a gathering, of differentially inflected components.” more >>


Requirements

To play the video files on this site, you will need to have the latest version of the free QuickTime player installed. If you have trouble viewing the videos, we have a selection up on our YouTube Page

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Lorenzo Thomas

Thomas-Lorenzo Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 9.18.03.
In September 2003, Miami University hosted the Marjorie Cook Conference on Diversity in African American Poetry, which featured readings from 20 poets, papers by leading scholars in the field, and panels addressing a series of issues confronting poets and scholars of contemporary poetry. One of the highlights of the conference was the reading by Lorenzo Thomas.  movie and mp3 files of this event >>

Brenda Iijima

Brenda Iijima Miami University– Oxford, Ohio– 4.3.08
Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books, 204) and Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press, 2007). A visual artist as well as a poet, she lives in Brooklyn, NY, where she runs Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs

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Ward Tietz

Ward Tietz MLA – Washington D.C. – 12.28.05
Ward Tietz has exhibited and performed working in a variety of media including sculpture, sound, performance and works on paper. His most recent work includes Hg-The Liquid, which is forthcoming from 1913 Press, and a word sculpture installation called la chasse-cueillette (hunting and gathering) which is at the Villa Bernasconi Museum in Geneva, Switzerland.  movie and mp3 files of this event >>

New Video Art

Video Art and two new video art pieces: one from Keith Tuma and the other a collaboration by Catherine Wagner, Justin Katko, and daniel Ereditario.


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