We will explore the new publishing medium and identify and enjoy its surprises. Andrei Codrescu has published poetry, memoirs, fiction and essays. He is a regular commentator on National Public Radio and has written and starred in the Peabody Award-winning movie, Road Scholar. Selected Poems 1970-1997, was published by Black Sparrow Press. In this seminar, we will work on translations together in group mode while we explore relationships of meaning and form, intention and circumstance.
All languages are welcome, and there is no second language requirement.
Poet, painter and translator Norma Cole's most recent poetry publications are The Vulgar Tongue, Desire and Its Double, and Spinoza in Her Youth. She lives in San Francisco. This course will focus on giving writers the means to give voice to silenced discourses. We'll examine the schizophrenic writing, think a bout the relationship of madness to syntax, stance, and vocabulary, look briefly at visual artists such as Adolph Wulfi and Henry Darger as well as writers such as Antonin Artaud and Patrick McCabe. Brain Evenson is a Senior Editor of Conjunctions.