Monday, March 8, 2010

Award-Winning Poets Steve Collis, Rachel Zolf and Tenney Nathanson Read at UBC!

VANCOUVER - Three very talented poets, including Canadian poets Steve Collis, Rachel Zolf as well as American poet Tenney Nathanson, will join us at Green College’s Graham House for what stands to be one of the best poetry readings of the year!

Date: Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
Cost: Free

Poet Stephen Collis is the author of Mine (New Star 2001), two parts of the on-going “Barricades Project”—Anarchive (New Star 2005) and The Commons (Talonbooks 2008)—and On the Material (Talonbooks 2010). He is also the author of two books of criticism: Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS 2006) and Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing, he teaches poetry, poetics and American literature at Simon Fraser University.

Rachel Zolf’s Human Resources (Coach House, 2007), won the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry. Previous collections are Masque (Mercury, 2004) and Her absence, this wanderer (BuschekBooks, 1999). Her work appears in the anthologies Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry and Prismatic Publics: Innovative Canadian Women’s Poetry and Poetics (Coach House, 2009). She was the founding poetry editor for The Walrus magazine and has edited several books by other poets. Her latest book, Neighbor Procedure, is out this spring 2010.

Tenney Nathanson is an American poet and critic who teaches American Poetry at the University of Arizona. His poetry books include Erased Art (Chax Press, 2005), Home on the Range (The Night Sky with Stars in My Mouth) (O Books, 2005) and Ghost Snow Falls through the Void (Globalization) (Chax Press, forthcoming). He is also the author of Whitman’s Presence: Body,Voice, and Writing in Leaves of Grass (NYU 1992; rpt. 1994) and of an ongoing series of related essays focusing on the intertwining of political critique, utopian vocation, and visions of the sacred in such innovative contemporary poets as John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Leslie Scalapino, Philip Whalen, and Charles Olson.

The Play Chthonics reading series showcases innovative poetry, narrative, and cross-genre writing. We encourage creative, interdisciplinary conversations among writers, students, faculty, theorists, and community members in Vancouver. The series is sponsored by The English Department, The International Canadian Studies Centre at UBC, Green College and the Canada Council and we are grateful for their support.

For more information, see http://playchthonics.blogspot.com
Contact Gillian Jerome at gjerome@interchange.ubc.ca