Jack Collom Receives Artists Grant

Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Grants To Artists
Poets Jack Collom of Boulder, Colorado, and Tan Lin of New York City received 2012 Grants to Artists. Each received $25,000. The annual awards are given to emerging poets. There is no application process.
Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 820 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10014. (212) 807-7077.
www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org

Tim Z. Hernandez: Book inspired by Jack Kerouac

American Book Award winner Tim Z. Hernandez (“Skin Tax”) stumbled upon this story at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Tim Z. Hernandez: Book inspired by Jack Kerouac

The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics

JALAL TOUFIC

 

“I Have SomeTHIng to Say (Silence-over) and I am Saying It (thanks to music-over) and that IS Poetry”

 

Sunday, June 10, 2012; 5 pm

Timkin Hall at CCA

1111 8th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

Admission: $5-8 (Members Free)

  

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Naropa Summer Writing Program

 

Jalal Toufic is a thinker and a mortal to death. He was born in 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad and died before dying in 1989 in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of Distracted (1991; 2nd ed., 2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993; 2nd ed., 2003), Over-Sensitivity (1996; 2nd ed., 2009), Forthcoming (2000), Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002), Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You (2005), ‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins (2005), Undeserving Lebanon (2007), The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009), Graziella: The Corrected Edition (2009), What Is the Sum of Recurrently? (2010), The Portrait of the Pubescent Girl: A Rite of Non-Passage (2011), and What Were You Thinking? (2011). Many of his books, most of which were published by Forthcoming Books, are available for download as PDF files at his website. He currently teaches at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.

The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics is an annual lecture series with a focus on critical analysis of innovative poetry, essays, plays and cross-genre work primarily by women poets. The series invites contemporary writers to present their work in the spirit exemplified by Scalapino’s own critical writing and editorial vision as publisher of O Books.

Schantz’s “First Snow” Wins 3rd Place in Fiction Contest

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz’s short story “First Snow” won third place for a fiction contest hosted by 971 Menu. Another story titled “News Item” was accepted for publication by The Adirondack Review. Both stories will go live on the journals’ websites in June.

“The Sound of Crying Sheep” Published for the Third Time

Sarah Elizabeth Schantz’s short story, “The Sound of Crying Sheep” was just accepted again for publication in the Summer 2012 Issue 6 of Midwestern Gothic. This is the third time this story has been published.