I need some poetry energy. What books, other than Dana Ward’s This Can’t Be Life just out from Edge Books, should I acquire next year (post holiday season, when cash flow will be present). Chris Nealon’s The Matter of Capital Poetry and Crisis in the American Century is on my list. [...]
The fall quarter at UCSD is over. I have turned in my grades and turned in my papers and final projects. It’s raining today, but other than that it has been dry and relatively cold–the temperature dropped below 40 a few nights ago. I’ve turned on Lester’s heating pad and added extra blankets around the [...]
This is the second post in a series of reports on the &Now 2011 festival at UCSD. You can find all posts in the series here.
I didn’t take notes during my panel with Bruna Mori, Jeannine Webb and Mark Wallace on social geography and innovative aesthetics in San Diego (you can find [...]
In 2007 (or 2008?) Sandra Doller, Ben Doller (now at UCSD) & James Meetze started a reading series at the Agitprop Art Space in North Park. I was pretty sure that it wouldn’t work & that no one would come. But people did come. In [...]
Even before this whole business between Brett Ortler and BlazeVOX, I’ve been thinking/rethinking about my relationship to various poetry communities and networks. I’ve been thinking about this partly because of where I live and partly because, through an MFA program, my institutional relationship to the world(s) of poetry are [...]
It’s almost September–I have about five weeks to put together two readings/presentations/performances for 1) Mobility Shifts: An International Future of Learning Summit (a panel on twitter, microblogging and “DIY Learning Environments” and 2) the &NOW Festival at UCSD, for a panel on, as the title of [...]
Annotated Spooks
Capitalist realism as I understand it cannot be confined to art or to the quasi-propagandistic way in which advertising functions. It is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action.
From Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism. Is there no alternative? (via Cara BaldwinCars ruin California.
This morning’s moment of technological determinism.
Hint to developers: if you put in a huge parking lot instead of a proper sidewalk, you’re not going to get a lot of small businesses and restaurants, and you sure won’t get a lot of foot traffic.
Encinas Power Station from the train
Agitprop Reading Series: Kim Koga & Ken White, Saturday 12/3, 7pm
We hope you can join us for our last reading of 2011 on Saturday, December 3 at 7pm for a reading at Agitprop by poets Kim Koga and Ken White.
Kim Koga is the author of Ligature Strain (Tinfish Press 2011). She received her MFA from the University of Notre Dame where she co-edited two MFA publications The Bend and Re:Visions, worked as Action Books’ editorial assistant, and curated a reading series with fellow MFA student CJ Waterman. She’s a co-founder of Cal State San Marcos’ Creative Writing Community and Workshop, their publication: Oh, Cat, and the Student Reading Series. Kim has interned with 1913 Press and Factorial Press. Her publications include Lantern Review, Triton College’s Ariel XXX, and 1913: a journal of forms.
Ken White is a poet, screenwriter, and member of the Screen Actor’s Guild, who received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. His poetry has appeared in several journals, including The Boston Review, The Tusculum Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and Versal. In addition to co-writing and co-producing the forthcoming feature film “Winter in the Blood,” his screenplay “Blight,” (with JJ Braider), was optioned by Titan films in association with Sony and later by JML films. He has also written screen adaptations of Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther (with JJ Braider), and the medieval Irish epic The Tain Bo Cuailgne – The Cattle Raid of Cooley. He’s currently working on a new poetry manuscript, The Getty Fiend.
Agitprop readings are free, but wine and donations to the gallery are always welcome.
We hope to see you there and for festivities before and after.
For more information about the Agitprop Reading Series, browse past events or join our Facebook group.
Agitprop Gallery
Saturday, December 3, 7pm
2837 University Avenue in North Park (Entrance on Utah, behind Glenn’s Market) Google Map
San Diego, CA 92104
619.384.7989
