EMU Creative Writing student Thom Boersma reviews the recent BathHouse reading featuring Christian Bök: A man enters an auditorium dressed as if the aim is to assassinate the medium of English language. His suit belies the mark of an international spy: dapper with a sense of flair. He takes his stance at the podium. The…
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Gerard Breitenbeck reviews CRTW Faculty BathHouse Reading
Another BathHouse review, this time from Creative Writing grad student Gerard Breitenbeck: Reading from “Shot,” “The Liberation of Soggy Muff” and “I Exhume myself Depending on my Last Name,” Christine Hume’s multimedia performance conjures the musicality of poetry as it examines what it means to be present in a poetry reading as well as what…
Kathlyn Snow reviews CRTW Faculty BathHouse Reading
Another student review of the recent BathHouse reading that featured Creative Writing Department faculty, this time from Kathlyn Snow: The BathHouse reading program opened for the fall of 2010 in the Sponberg Theatre on The Eastern Michigan Campus to a full audience. Staff from the Creative Writing Program presented some of their work. The acoustics…
Ashleigh Smith reviews CRTW Faculty BathHouse Reading
EMU student Ashleigh Smith reviews the recent BathHouse reading that featured Creative Writing Faculty: In my opinion faculty readings are kind of like running into your teacher at a bar; you never really know what to expect or how the night will turn out. After a bit of a late start Christine Hume performed some…
Stephanie Walla reviews CRTW Faculty BathHouse Reading
EMU student Stephanie Walla reviews the recent BathHouse reading featuring the Creative Writing Faculty: The Bathhouse Reading at Sponberg Theater on September 29th featured three of Eastern Michigan’s Creative Writing faculty- Christine Hume, Carla Harryman, and Rob Halpurn. Christine Hume opened reading pieces from her book, Shot, which was accompanied by soundtracks made especially per piece….
David Boeving reviews CRTW Faculty BathHouse Reading
David Boeving reviews the Creative Writing Faculty’s recent reading that was part of the BathHouse reading series: Christine Hume opened the staff BathHouse reading at The Sponberg Theater on September 29th with a mix of audio samples and live performance poetry that steadily spiraled into a type of hypnotizing poetic oblivion. The backing audio, which…
David Boeving reviews Jeff Kass
David Boeving reviews Jeff Kass’s recent reading at EMU: When Jeff Kass performed a small section of his intriguing poetry program, “Wrestle the Great Fear: A Performance Poetica,” he succeeded in many ways, yet fell short in others. The performance, taking place on the 15th of September at the EMU Student Center Auditorium, was an interesting…
Adorno’s Noise by Carla Harryman receiving numerous reviews
Adorno’s Noise, a new book by EMU Creative Writing Professor Carla Harryman, is definitely grabbing some attention. Check out these reviews from a variety of publications, including a review that was posted a few weeks back on this blog: Review from Rain Taxi (posted on EMU Creative Writing Blog) http://cw.emuenglish.org/?p=204 Jill Darlings Review in HOW/2 special feature…
Lindsay Anderson reviews Yedda Morrison
Student Lindsay Anderson reacts to Yedda Morrison’s BathHouse reading: The Fire of Yedda Morrison Yedda Morrison’s performance at the Student Center Auditorium was the experience of being seduced into her reality. Her world, narrated with a quite, dreamlike urgency and lit by a single, tentative lantern light, sucked in its audience with a dangerous confidence….
Karole Langset reviews Yedda Morrison
Another review from Karole Langset, this time about Yedda Morrison’s recent BathHouse reading: Yedda Morrison performance at EMU was abstract, unfamiliar, and yet awe inspiring. As Morrison came on to the stage the room went dark and her lantern she carefully placed on to the stage became the only noticeable light to fight the darkness…