R&F hosts another in a series of poetry
readings, Cadmium Text on Saturday,
April 19th, 2008 at 2pm. Cadmium Text is curated by local poet and book
artist Anne Gorrick and focuses on innovative writing from in and around the
Hudson Valley.
Reb Livingston is the author
Your Ten Favorite Words -
http://www.yourtenfavoritewords.com/
- (Coconut Books 2007) and co-editor of The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel -
Second Floor -
http://www.notellbooks.org/secondfloor
- (No Tell Books 2007).
Her poems have appeared in Best
American Poetry 2006, The American Poetry Review, Caffeine Destiny
and other publications. She's the poetry editor of No Tell Motel -
http://www.notellmotel.org/
- and publisher of No Tell Books -
http://notellbooks.org
George Quasha is an artist and poet who works across mediums to explore
principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound,
installation, and performance. Solo exhibitions of his axial stones and axial
drawings include the Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought
Foundation in Philadelphia, and at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New
Paltz. This work is featured in the recently published book, Axial Stones: An
Art of Precarious Balance, Foreword by Carter Ratcliff (North Atlantic
Books: Berkeley, 2006).
For his video installation work art is: Speaking Portraits (in the
performative indicative), he has recorded over 600 artists, poets, and
composers (in 10 countries and 20 languages) saying what in their view art is.
This ongoing work (“art is/music is/poetry is”) has been exhibited at the Snite
Museum of Art (University of Notre Dame), at White Box in Chelsea, at the Samuel
Dorsky Museum (SUNY New Paltz), and in several other countries (including France
and India), and has been featured in several biennials (Wroclaw, Poland; Geneva,
Switzerland; Kingston, New York). Further extensions of this work in speaking
portraiture include "myth is” and “peace is.” His other work in axial video
(including Pulp Friction, Axial Objects, Verbal Objects,
Axial Landscapes) has appeared internationally in museums, galleries,
schools, and biennials. A 30-year performance collaboration
(video/language/sound) continues with Gary Hill and Charles Stein.
In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art.
His other 14 books include poetry: Somapoetics, Giving the Lily Back
Her Hands, Ainu Dreams (with Chie Hasegawa), and Preverbs
[forthcoming]; anthologies: America a Prophecy [with Jerome Rothenberg],
Open Poetry [with Ronald Gross], An Active Anthology [with Susan
Quasha], The Station Hill Blanchot Reader [with Charles Stein]); and
writing on art: Gary Hill: Language Willing, with Charles Stein: Tall
Ships, HanD HearD/liminal objects, Viewer. A new book on Gary Hill is
forthcoming from Ediciones Poligrafa (Barcelona), also in collaboration with
Charles Stein.
Awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry. He has
taught at Stony Brook University (SUNY), Bard College, New School University
(Graduate Anthropology Department), and Naropa University. With Susan Quasha he
is founder/publisher of Barrytown/Station Hill Press in Barrytown, New York.
Cadmium Text runs the 3rd
Saturday of every month, so check back often on information for the series.
Previous guests include: Lynn
Behrendt, Celia Bland, JJ Blickstein, Dennis Doherty,
Anne Gorrick, Lea Graham, Kate Greenstreet, Joshua
Harmon, Jane Heidgerd, Steve Hirsch, Jennifer Wai-Lan
Huang, Geof Huth, Robert Kelly, Maryrose Larkin,
Charlotte Mandell, Susan McKechnie,
PF Potvin, Richard Rizzi, Carly Sachs, Lorna Smedman,
Maureen Thorson, R. Dionysius Whiteurs, and Rebecca Wolff.