MONDAY NOVEMBER 15 / 8 PM

TAN LIN & KAREEM ESTEFAN ON AFFECT AND ATTENTION IN BEAUTIFUL OPERATING SYSTEMS (LIKE DISCO OR A RELAXING POEM)
 

 Tan Lin’s Seven Controlled Vocabularies is a book as generic data object: at times it’s like a painting and at others it’s vaguely cinematic. It has a narrative structure, but it’s loose like a tourist itinerary or inventory. The most beautiful page makes you look away from what you are reading. Tan Lin said that. Estefan and Lin will talk about what attention spans are made, and what affective states they produce, in the generic objects and operating systems of the present. 

Tan Lin is a writer, artist, and critic. He has published the books Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe, BlipSoak01, Heath: plagiarism/outsource, and 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004 The Joy of Cooking (Wesleyan University Press, 2010). His visual and video work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, the Yale Art Museum, the Sophienholm (Copenhagen), and the Marianne Boesky Gallery. He is a professor of English and creative writing at New Jersey City University. 

Kareem Estefan is a writer and critic who lives in Brooklyn. He currently co-curates the Segue Series at the Bowery Poetry Club and studies art criticism and writing at the School of Visual Arts. Previously, he hosted Ceptuetics, a WNYU radio show featuring readings and interviews with conceptually innovative poets, which is now archived at PennSound. His reviews and poems have appeared in BOMBlog, President’s Choice, Sustainable Aircraft, and elsewhere.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17 / 8 PM

JEAN-PAUL PECQUEUR & PAUL VIOLI

Jean-Paul Pecqueur’s first book of poetry, The Case Against Happiness, was published by Alice James Books.  New work has recently appeared in Fourteen Hills, So and So, Rain Taxi, BoogCity, and GulfCoast.  Jean-Paul is a native of the Pacific Northwest currently living in Brooklyn, where he teaches writing at the Pratt Institute.

Paul Violi is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Overnight, from Hanging Loose Press, and Breakers, selected long poems, from Coffee House Press; also Fracas, The Curious Builder and Likewise  (Hanging Loose Press); Splurge and Harmatan (Sun Press); and In Baltic Circles (Kulchur Press). He currently teaches at New York University, in the Graduate Writing Program at New School University, and in the English Department at Columbia University.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19 / 10 PM

POETS’ POTLUCK

Co-curated by Brett Price, Thom Donovan, & Sara Wintz.The Thanksgiving Poets’ Potluck is an opportunity for New York City’s poetry community(ies) to come together for an evening of readings, performances, and delicious food.  An array of writers from the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s series as well as other local reading series will read/perform their work.  Any one interested in bringing a dish for the potluck will contribute to an amazing Thanksgiving feast. If you’re interested in bringing food, please email Brett Price at .