Black Ocean, which published Fossils in the Making, is celebrating its 20 year anniversary! I’ll be reading with a few other Black Ocean authors at Green Apple Books in San Francisco (on 9th Ave) at 7pm on Thursday Sept. 3rd. I hope to see you there! More info / RSVP here.
If you’re attending SLSA 2019 or in the LA / Orange County area, there are two chances to hear from our roundtable about the science of poetry:
Thursday, 11/7 at Skylight Books in LA, 7:30pm and Saturday, 11/9 at UCI, 3:45-5:15
Poetry and Science at the Margins: In this roundtable, six poets will read and discuss work about their engagements with science that was or is considered peripheral to mainstream scientific theory and practice. The participants are Will Alexander, Karen Leona Anderson, Kristin George Bagdanov, Amy Catanzano, Adam Dickinson and Stephanie Strickland. Addressing physics, mathematics, biology, as well as other scientific disciplines, these poets will ask how cultural forces shape and define “the marginal” as well as the ingenious ways that science was transformed by marginal practitioners. This roundtable will also ask why poetry, as a genre sometimes considered both marginal and experimental, is well suited to treat questions of knowledge, power, and speculation at the boundaries, and we’ll discuss how poets use such language not just to represent, but to intervene in, the processes of scientific inquiry. Drawing on everything from early microscopy to contemporary physics, these readings will Involve the audience in a discussion of the embodied, material consequences of “experimental engagements” for both scientists and poets
I’m doing a poetry reading on Thursday, March 23 to kick off the Liberal Arts for a Fragile Planet conference at Westmont College this weekend. 7pm, Hieronymous Lounge. Paul Willis will also be reading.
The reading (and all the other plenary sessions) are free and open to the public. Full schedule here.
For those attending the conference, I’ll be presenting my paper “A New Formalism for the Anthropocene: Portable Forms for Interdisciplinary Conversations” at concurrent session 3 on Saturday. Hope to see you there!
AWP attendees! Join us for a panel on poetry and the environment with Matthew Cooperman, Brenda Hillman, Angela Hume, and Rusty Morrison, moderated by Kristin George Bagdanov.
Room 403 B, LA Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, April 2, 2016
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm
Info on the AWP program
Thanks to those who came out to our spring colloquium. If you’d like to be added to an email list to stay apprised of similar conversations, send me a message here.
“Anthropocene”: a word that denotes a new geological epoch precipitated by human impact; a word that reveals what happens when we overexert our agency and fail to understand the world through the perspective of deep time. Everything changes in the context of the Anthropocene; the residue of urgency and crisis is left on our speech, our actions, our writing—even the way we teach.
This discussion will focus on what it means to write and teach in the Anthropocene. What new methodologies, theories, and forms can help us better understand and incorporate the paradigm shift necessitated by theAnthropocene? How is the “ecology” of the classroom informed by the crisis of the Anthropocene?
Come on out to the first reading in this year’s three voices series, which features first year poets and prose writers in our MFA/MA creative writing program at Colorado State. Flier below by yours truly. 
Have you heard about Ruminate’s new AIR (artist-in-residence) series? We’re excited to offer our beautiful barn to a select number of artists, providing them with the space and time to create. Our inaugural AIR reception, featuring local artist Scott Laumann, is June 28th, 7pm in the barn. We hope to see you there! More information available here.
Stay tuned for our next installment in September!
Miss the event? See some photos and read my introduction to Scott’s work at Ruminate.
The Ruminate Barn
Beer donated by Pateros Creek Brewery & Fort Collins Brewery
James Hapke: 2011 Individual Artist Award, Printmaking
Arts Fund of Santa Barbara
Don’t miss the gallery opening of fellow Frame Member, James Hapke
Where: The Arts Fund Santa Barbara,
205-C Santa Barbara St.
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
When: Opening Reception: Friday, March 23rd 5:30pm-7:30pm
For more information, view the press release here
Two of James’s prints will also feature my poems, “Darkness and Light,” and “Opening the Universe”