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Rae Armantrout
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 10.4.07
Rae Armantrout is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego. Her most recent book of poetry, Next Life, was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 by The New York Times. Other recent books include Collected Prose, Up to Speed, The Pretext, and Veil: New and Selected Poems... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Sean Bonney
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.6.05
Sean Bonney runs Yt Communication with Frances Kruk, and is the author of Blade Pitch Control Unit (Salt, 2005) and numerous pamphlets, including Document: hexprogress and Black Water. Bonney's poems are what the so-called New Generation poets must have been dreaming of 20 years ago when they declared that poetry was the new rock n' roll... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Mairéad Byrne
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.9.05
Mairéad Byrne is the author of a collection of poetry, Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Bray, Wild Honey Press 2003); and five chapbooks, Vivas (Wild Honey Press 2005); An Educated Heart (Palm Press 2005); Kalends (Belladonna 2005); China Dogs (Poetic Inhalation 2004); and The Pillar (Wild Honey Press 2000)... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Contemporary Experimental Women's Poetry Festival
University of Cambridge (UK) – Oct 6-8, 2006
Featuring: Andrea Brady, Lisa Samuels, Kathleen Fraser, Susan M. Schultz, Rod Mengham, Susana Gardner, Geraldine Monk, Peter Middleton, Redell Olsen, Carol Mirakove, Keith Tuma & Justin Katko, Marianne Morris, Tom Raworth, Catherine Wagner, Coupons≠Coupons, Camille PB, Kai Fierle-Hedrick, Kristen Kreider, Tim Atkins, Ken Edwards, Wendy Mulford, Peter Manson, Maggie O'Sullivan, Caroline Bergvall, Leslie Scalapino, and Lucy Sheerman... streaming video of this event >>
cris cheek
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.9.05
cris cheek, self-described "poet-pedagogue, writer-critic, book artist-publisher, new media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer," earned his PhD at Lancaster (UK), and has been involved in creative literary and artistic activities since 1975... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Martin Corless-Smith
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 9.12.06.
Martin Corless-Smith was born and raised in Worcestershire, England. His books are Swallows, Nota, Complete Travels, and Of Piscator. His next volume is two intersecting books entitled English Fragments/A Brief History of the Soul forthcoming from West House Books (Sheffield, England) in conjunction with Five Seasons Press (Hereford, England)... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Allen Fisher
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.7.05
Allen Fisher was born in South London in 1944. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced over one hundred and twenty-eight chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation. He has exhibited his paintings in shows including a one-man show at York in 1993 and a two-man retrospective in Hereford in 1999, and examples of his work are in the Tate Gallery collection, The King's College archive and the Living Museum, Iceland. He continues to perform and write and paint... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Randolph Healy
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.4.05
Randolph Healy was born in Irvine, Scotland and moved to Dublin as a child. After leaving school at 14, he worked as a salesman, Hoffmann presser, telex-typist, and security man before returning to Ballymun Community School and Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied mathematical sciences. He is the editor of Wild Honey Press... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
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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IMAGEworks/WORDworks
Miami University Art Museum – 2.22.07
IMAGEworks/WORDworks was an exhibition celebrating the work of five writers who maintain practices as visual artists. It included paintings, collages, installations, video work and poems by the poet-artists Norma Cole, Tom Raworth, Marjorie Welish, and TNWK (Kirsten Lavers and cris cheek). Meshworks presents here video and audio recordings of two events that were part of the exhibition: poetry readings by Norma Cole, Tom Raworth & Marjorie Welish with an introduction by Keith Tuma, and a talk by Marjorie Welish, together with the TNWK video, Once Upon a Time in the Best Western, featured in the exhibition... streaming video & sound >>
Lisa Jarnot
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 3.31.05
Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967. She attended the State University of New York at Buffalo and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Since the mid-1990s she has lived in New York City... mp3 files of this event >>
Trevor Joyce
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 10.18.07.
Trevor Joyce was born in Dublin and now lives in Cork, where he co-directs the SoundEye Festival of International Poetry. On his most recent tour in 2007, he read from What's In Store published by The Gig. In 2008, Courts of Air and Earth, a collection of workings from the Irish is due from Shearsman...
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Trevor Joyce
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.10.05
Trevor Joyce was born in Dublin and spent his early years in a central Dublin tenement. He was educated at University College, Dublin and University College, Cork. In 1967, he and Michael Smith began New Writers' Press and a year later produced the first issue of a magazine, The Lace Curtain, which published a range of international modernist poetry... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Tom Leonard
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.10.05
Tom Leonard was born in Glasgow, 1944. His Intimate Voices (poems 1965-83) has been in print through three publishers for twenty years; its sequel access to the silence (poems 1984-2004) came out in 2004. He has compiled Radical Renfrew (Poetry from the French Revolution to the First World War) and written a critical biography, Places of the Mind, on the nineteenth century Scottish poet James Thomson. Some of his prose is collected in Reports from the Present: Essays, Political Satires, and Poems 1982-1994. Being a Human Being and Other Poems is his most recent chapbook (2006)... streaming video & sound >>
Bernadette Mayer
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 4.5.06Bernadette Mayer's poetry workshops, especially at The Poetry Project in Manhattan, have inspired whole generations of new poets. Recent books include Indigo Bunting (Zasterle, 2004) and Scarlet Tanager (New Directions, 2005)... mp4 and mp3 files of this event >>
New British Poets
Miami University – April 9-10, 2007
The Spring 2007 issue of the Chicago Review, co-edited by Sam Ladkin & Robin Purves, featured the poetry of Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Sutherland. This group of poets and critics (minus Chris Goode) embarked on an American reading tour to support the issue, stopping in at Miami University on their way... streaming video & sound >>
p o s t_m o o t
Miami University – April 14-16, 2006
See two "trailers" of a festival that brought together a fold of practitioners for whom the possibilities of poetry as agency in contemporary society remains a passionate concern... movie files of this event >>
Tom Raworth
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 9.22.05
Raworth was born and grew up in London. During the 1970s he traveled and worked in the United States and Mexico, returning to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King’s College, Cambridge... mp4 and mp3 files of this event >>
Tom Raworth: Video Art
febhan.mov
Meshworks correspondent Tom Raworth sends us this detailed record of his left hand logged during the month of February. Check it out on the Video Art page. Forthcoming transmissions will log his left hand during the other eleven months... streaming video >>
Stephen Rodefer
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 2.26.07Rodefer is the author of numerous volumes of poetry including The Knife (1965), One or Two Love Poems from the White World (1976), The Bell Clerk's Tears Kept Flowing (1978), Plane Debris (1981), Emergency Measures (1987), Passing Duration (1991), Erasers (1994), and Left Under a Cloud (2000) . His book Four Lectures (1982) won the 1983 Annual Book Award given out by the American Poetry Center. His translations from the French include Orpheus (1983), and he is also, as the critic Hugh Kenner once noted, the only poet other than Basil Bunting to publish readable versions of the poetry of François Villon in English... streaming video of this event >>
SCENE !N HERD 3
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 2.28.06
An evening of diverse engagements with the complex opacities of a faced and facing (if not faceless) audience. Participants included William R. Howe, cris cheek, Keith Tuma, Rachel Smith, Rachel Chase, Paul Morrow, Kevin R. Hollo, Aaren Yandrich, Dave Rothfuss, Peter Castaldo, Brian Marina Brown, Steven Paul Lansky, Leigh Waltz, Sarah Mann, and jUStin!katKO... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Alan Sondheim
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 12.1.05
Sondheim is a multi-media artist working in written text, video, sound, and image. For the past twelve years he has been continuously writing a meditation on what it means to be "online" — a meditation that has carried him endlessly in and out of language. His readings are a kind of one-screen laptop performance... movies of this event >>
SoundEye 2007
Cork, Ireland – July 4-8, 2007
SoundEye works to continue what The Cork International Poetry Festival started when it was first held in 1997, to promote an Irish poetry alive and active in the wider world, and bring to Ireland practices, understandings, and bodies of work which have grown up elsewhere. The 2007 incarnation included more than twenty poets from all over the world. What follows is a selection from the five day festival. streaming video & sound >>
Lorenzo Thomas
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. Meshworks is in the process of digitizing readings from the conference for which there is video of sufficient quality and hopes to post others soon. movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Ward Tietz
MLA – Washington D.C. – 12.28.05
Ward Tietz has exhibited and performed in festivals, art centers and museums in the United Sates and Europe since the late 1980s, 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 >>
TNWK
p o s t_m o o t – Oxford, Ohio – 4.14.06
TNWK (formerly Things Not Worth Keeping) is a mesh of 'occurrences'; mixed-media installations, works in video, digital photography, sound works, procedural performances, bookart and hypertext. Many of these are interactive and participatory...Value-transitions, rather than value-fixities, are implied and intended by the project's title, our collaborative approach, the work and the work's frame... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Catherine Wagner
SoundEye Festival – Cork, Ireland – 7.6.05
Catherine Wagner was born in Burma and raised in Baltimore. She is the author of Macular Hole (Fence 2004), Miss America (Fence 2001) and many chapbooks, including Hotel Faust (West House Books, 2001) and Exercises (811 Books, 2004)... movie and mp3 files of this event >>
Tyrone Williams
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio – 9.22.05.
Tyrone Williams teaches literary theory and literature at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he chairs the English Department. He has published articles, reviews and poetry in a number of national journals, including Callaloo, The Denver Quarterly, Kenyon Review... movie and mp3 files of this event >>