R233. The Legacy of Leslie Scalapino

Room 606, Washington State Convention Center, Level 6
Thursday, February 27, 2014
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

Leslie Scalapino is a literary inventor par excellence, creating essays, plays, poetry, and cross genre pieces as well as serving as a publisher and editor for more than 100 volumes. Her untimely death in 2010 left a set of acolytes as diverse as her manifest works. This panel gathers a range of responses to Scalapino's oeuvre, honoring her literary work, her publishing, and her mentorship.


Participants

Moderator:

Michael Cross is the author of In Felt Treeling, Haecceities, and The Katechon, 1-100. He is the one-time editor of Atticus/Finch chapbooks and current editor of Compline and On: Contemporary Practice (w/ Thom Donovan).

Alicia Cohen is the author of Bear, Debts and Obligations, and a new work, Echolocation, which is forthcoming. Her poetry and critical writing explores the role of poetry and art in the production of the senses and sense of the world. She has taught at Reed College and Portland State University.

Carla Harryman is the author of seventeen books. Her Poets Theater, interdisciplinary, and bi-lingual performances have been presented nationally and internationally. Recent performance includes the “re-performance” of Theodore Adorno’s “Music and New Music” at dOCUMENTA 13 in Kassel, Germany.

Judith Goldman is the author of Vocoder, Death/Star Rico-chet, and l.b.; or, catenaries. She is core faculty in the Poetics Program at SUNY, Buffalo.

Maryrose Larkin is the author of The Book of Ocean, The Name Of This Intersection is Frost, Marrowing, and the forthcoming Identification of Ghosts. She is a founder of Spare Room, a Portland innovative writing collective and co-editor of Flash+Card Press.

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