YEDDA MORRISON
poetry reading and workshop
Wednesday, February 4
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
free and open to the public
Yedda Morrison lives in Oakland where she co-edits Tripwire, a Journal of Experimental Poetics. Her books of poetry include, The Marriage of the Well Built Head (Double Lucy Press, 1998), Shed (A + Bend Press, 2000), and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). She teaches creative writing at an arts center for low-income and homeless adults in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. She exhibits her visual work throughout the Bay Area and is currently working on a multimedia project titled Girl Scout Nation. Yedda was born in San Francisco and has lived throughout the North and East Bay. In 2000 she moved to North Oakland seeking lower housing costs and more space to do her visual work. She currently lives in an apartment near Lake Merritt. Her interest in public space, the construction of leisure landscapes, and the function of the city park itself has prompted her to begin documenting the Lake Merritt area through writing and photography.
About Crop… Yedda Morrison's first book, Crop, heralds a remarkable new voice for the politically engaged poetic. Under Morrison's relentless scrutiny, an entire teeming universe peopled by "cherry pickers" and others comes alive. Crop probes and reinvents the contradictory logics of capitalism, (re) production and gender without succumbing to polemic, "she----general defused female violence inviter---diminished double-----blue throated." Laboring against our expectations, Morrison assembles poems of richness, commitment and astonishing humor.
forthcoming talks/readings/discussions/workshops by oakland associated writers...
11-Feb elizabeth treadwell
18-Feb catalina cariaga
25-Feb truong tran
24-Mar chris chen
31-Mar tisa bryant
7-Apr eileen tabios and michelle batista
14-Apr rodrigo toscano
21-Apr renee gladman
Series sponsored in part with funds from the Irvine Foundation at Mills College and from 'A 'A Arts with grants it has received from the National Endowment for the Arts and Poets & Writers, Inc, through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
poetry reading and workshop
Wednesday, February 4
7 pm
Mills Hall 322
free and open to the public
Yedda Morrison lives in Oakland where she co-edits Tripwire, a Journal of Experimental Poetics. Her books of poetry include, The Marriage of the Well Built Head (Double Lucy Press, 1998), Shed (A + Bend Press, 2000), and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). She teaches creative writing at an arts center for low-income and homeless adults in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. She exhibits her visual work throughout the Bay Area and is currently working on a multimedia project titled Girl Scout Nation. Yedda was born in San Francisco and has lived throughout the North and East Bay. In 2000 she moved to North Oakland seeking lower housing costs and more space to do her visual work. She currently lives in an apartment near Lake Merritt. Her interest in public space, the construction of leisure landscapes, and the function of the city park itself has prompted her to begin documenting the Lake Merritt area through writing and photography.
About Crop… Yedda Morrison's first book, Crop, heralds a remarkable new voice for the politically engaged poetic. Under Morrison's relentless scrutiny, an entire teeming universe peopled by "cherry pickers" and others comes alive. Crop probes and reinvents the contradictory logics of capitalism, (re) production and gender without succumbing to polemic, "she----general defused female violence inviter---diminished double-----blue throated." Laboring against our expectations, Morrison assembles poems of richness, commitment and astonishing humor.
forthcoming talks/readings/discussions/workshops by oakland associated writers...
11-Feb elizabeth treadwell
18-Feb catalina cariaga
25-Feb truong tran
24-Mar chris chen
31-Mar tisa bryant
7-Apr eileen tabios and michelle batista
14-Apr rodrigo toscano
21-Apr renee gladman
Series sponsored in part with funds from the Irvine Foundation at Mills College and from 'A 'A Arts with grants it has received from the National Endowment for the Arts and Poets & Writers, Inc, through a grant it has received from the James Irvine Foundation.
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