COMPLIANT NONCOMPLIANCE, or complicit noncompliance
Small Press Traffic presents a 30th Anniversary Reading:
Noncompliance
Friday, October 8, 2004 at 7:30
"I discovered I couldn't go along, with the government or governments, with radicals and certainly not with conservatives or centrists, with radical poetics and certainly not with other poetics, with other women's feminisms, with any f----g [fucking in original--spt edit] thing at all; belonging to any of it was not only an infringement on my liberty but a veil over clear thinking."
-- Alice Notley, "The Poetics of Disobedience"
with David BUUCK, Sarah Anne COX, kari EDWARDS, Judith GOLDMAN, Cedar SIGO, giovanni SINGLETON, & Juliana SPAHR
David Buuck lives in Oakland, where he edits _Tripwire_ and coordinates BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-Aesthetics. He is Contributing Editor to _Artweek_ and a student at the History of Consciousness program at UC-Santa Cruz. He is at work on _Operation Desert Survivor_, a musical.
Sarah Anne Cox is the author of _Arrival_ (Krupskaya 2002). Recent work is forthcoming in _Conundrum_. Besides writing and teaching writing, Sarah windsurfs, snowboards and looks after her 2 children. Tonight she will be reading from her new manuscript, _Fragment_.
kari edwards is author of _iduna_ (O Books 2003), and _a day in the life of p._ (subpress collective, 2002.). hir work can also be found in Scribner?s _The Best American Poetry 2004_, _Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action) (Coffee House Press, 2004), _Narrativity: Investigations by Writers_ (Coach House, Toronto, 2004), _Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others_ (Hawoth Presss, Inc. 2004), and elsewhere.
Judith Goldman is the author of _Vocoder_ (Roof Books 2001), which won a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award in 2002. She has recently served on the editorial board of Krupskaya Press and co-edits the journal _War and Peace_ with Leslie Scalapino. She is currently co-composing, with Joel Nickles, a dystopian rock opera entitled _Force Majeure_. She is also writing a dissertation on eighteenth-century philosophy and literature in the Department of English at Columbia University.
Cedar Sigo's first book of poetry, _Goodnight Nurse_, was published in 2001 by Angry Dog Press; his second, _Selected Writings_, in 2003 by Ugly Duckling Presse. He is the editor of _Old Gold_ magazine and his most recentwork appears in the anthology _Evidence of the Paranormal_ (Owl Press, 2002). Raised on the Squamish Reservation near Seattle, he studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, moved to San Francisco in 1999, and recently starred in the video "Kevin and Cedar."
giovanni singleton is the editor of _nocturnes_, an annual (re)view of the literary arts dedicated to innovative critical and creative literary art from the African Diaspora. She is a former recipient of the Bay Area Award in Literature from New Langton Arts.
Juliana Spahr's books include _Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You_ (Wesleyan U P, 2001), _Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity_ (U of Alabama P, 2001), and _Response_ (Sun & Moon P, 1996). _This Connection of Everyone with Lungs_ is forthcoming from U of California Press. She co-edits the journal _Chain_ with Jena Osman (archive at http://www.temple.edu/chain) and she frequently self-publishes her work (archive at http://people.mills.edu/jspahr).
$5-10 sliding scale
Small Press Traffic presents a 30th Anniversary Reading:
Noncompliance
Friday, October 8, 2004 at 7:30
"I discovered I couldn't go along, with the government or governments, with radicals and certainly not with conservatives or centrists, with radical poetics and certainly not with other poetics, with other women's feminisms, with any f----g [fucking in original--spt edit] thing at all; belonging to any of it was not only an infringement on my liberty but a veil over clear thinking."
-- Alice Notley, "The Poetics of Disobedience"
with David BUUCK, Sarah Anne COX, kari EDWARDS, Judith GOLDMAN, Cedar SIGO, giovanni SINGLETON, & Juliana SPAHR
David Buuck lives in Oakland, where he edits _Tripwire_ and coordinates BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-Aesthetics. He is Contributing Editor to _Artweek_ and a student at the History of Consciousness program at UC-Santa Cruz. He is at work on _Operation Desert Survivor_, a musical.
Sarah Anne Cox is the author of _Arrival_ (Krupskaya 2002). Recent work is forthcoming in _Conundrum_. Besides writing and teaching writing, Sarah windsurfs, snowboards and looks after her 2 children. Tonight she will be reading from her new manuscript, _Fragment_.
kari edwards is author of _iduna_ (O Books 2003), and _a day in the life of p._ (subpress collective, 2002.). hir work can also be found in Scribner?s _The Best American Poetry 2004_, _Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action) (Coffee House Press, 2004), _Narrativity: Investigations by Writers_ (Coach House, Toronto, 2004), _Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others_ (Hawoth Presss, Inc. 2004), and elsewhere.
Judith Goldman is the author of _Vocoder_ (Roof Books 2001), which won a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award in 2002. She has recently served on the editorial board of Krupskaya Press and co-edits the journal _War and Peace_ with Leslie Scalapino. She is currently co-composing, with Joel Nickles, a dystopian rock opera entitled _Force Majeure_. She is also writing a dissertation on eighteenth-century philosophy and literature in the Department of English at Columbia University.
Cedar Sigo's first book of poetry, _Goodnight Nurse_, was published in 2001 by Angry Dog Press; his second, _Selected Writings_, in 2003 by Ugly Duckling Presse. He is the editor of _Old Gold_ magazine and his most recentwork appears in the anthology _Evidence of the Paranormal_ (Owl Press, 2002). Raised on the Squamish Reservation near Seattle, he studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, moved to San Francisco in 1999, and recently starred in the video "Kevin and Cedar."
giovanni singleton is the editor of _nocturnes_, an annual (re)view of the literary arts dedicated to innovative critical and creative literary art from the African Diaspora. She is a former recipient of the Bay Area Award in Literature from New Langton Arts.
Juliana Spahr's books include _Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You_ (Wesleyan U P, 2001), _Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity_ (U of Alabama P, 2001), and _Response_ (Sun & Moon P, 1996). _This Connection of Everyone with Lungs_ is forthcoming from U of California Press. She co-edits the journal _Chain_ with Jena Osman (archive at http://www.temple.edu/chain) and she frequently self-publishes her work (archive at http://people.mills.edu/jspahr).
$5-10 sliding scale
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