June 11 Leslie Flint Presents: Brenda Iijima

Leslie Flint Presents time!
Come to Berl's Poetry Shop
June 11, 7PM to hear
Brenda Iijima

Brenda Iijima’s involvements occur at the often unnamable conjunctions and mutations of poetry, choreography, research movement, animal studies, speculative non-fiction, care-giving and forlorn histories. Her forthcoming book, Untimely Death is Driven Beyond the Horizon will be published by 1913 Press in 2014. She is also the publisher of Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs and will publish the 50th book from the press this year.

Brenda says: I’ll read from UNTIMELY DEATH IS DRIVEN BEYOND THE HORIZON, BODY WORK AND MAMA, three works with divergent registers. Between each 15 minute reading I’ll speak for 5-8 minutes about underlying themes, motivations and valences in the works which include the neuromusculature of the body (human and ecological), somatophobia, the body (gross and subtle) as filtration system, communication across event horizons, i.e. speaking with the dead, cogent life in the five mile radius, attractive writing as a genre in formation, movement potential and language potential, toxic uptake and reuptake, the “wild”, the stakes of reproductive labor, provisional autonomies and libido, missing bodies dropped out of historical reckoning, fraternities of animals, outsourcing memory, wolfs and The Hulk, amongst other pressing topics and corporeal questions.

Hosted by Joseph Bradshaw

Vanya Presents Three Poets October 19

Come to a poetry reading!

Featuring Katy Bohinc, Alana Siegel, and Brenda Iijima!

7 pm

126A Front Street

katy bohinc is a poet who lives in new york via dc&china&france&ohio. she is honest and personal. read some of "Dear Alain"—a project of love letters from a mathematical poet to a mathematical philosopher—here & here.

Alana Siegel was born in Los Angeles in 1985. She graduated from Bard College in 2007, earning a B.A. in Language and Literature. Archipelago from Station Hill Press is her first full-length book of poetry. Her chapbooks include The Occupations, Semata, and words from Ra Ra Junction. She presently lives in Berkeley, California, collaborating at the burgeoning Bay Area Public School.

Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books), Animate, Inanimate Aims (Litmus Press), revv. you'll--ution(Displaced Press) and If Not Metamorphic (Ahsahta Press), and the editor of )((eco(lang)(uage(reader)) (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs / Nightboat Books).  She is also a visual artist and the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.

This reading is hosted by Ian Dreiblatt.