As part of Creative Writing @ EMU and BathHouse Event’s Winter 2022 reading series, experimental novelist and writer Eugene Lim shared inquisitive writing methods and innovative story construction. Likewise, Lim discussed the ‘sudden beauty’ of evaporating expectations within a narrative, as well as acknowledging the quality of re-reading. Perhaps most notably, Lim shared his thoughts…
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Jackie Wang | The Prison Abolitionist Imagination | An Introduction by Parker Wilson
This past autumn, BathHouse Events had the honor of hosting Jackie Wang as part of our Fall 2021 reading series. This event featured a powerful reading and discussion of Wang’s books Carceral Capitalism and The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void, leaving the audience with a “vibrational awakening” as Wang calls…
Mark Nowak | Social Poetics | An Introduction by Andi Pontiff
This past autumn, BathHouse Events had the honor of hosting author Mark Nowak for our Fall 2021 reading series. The event featured compelling reading and discussion of Nowak’s recent book, Social Poetics (Coffee House 2020). For Nowak, “social poetics” is a way to think and practice the relation between poetry and social action, as it strengthens the …
A Conversation with Christine Hume
According to New York Times’ Book reviewer, Ken Kalfus, ” Saturation Project is sometimes elusive, but there’s no meaning in it that gets lost for long. When Hume’s thematic connections and redemptive insights arrive, it’s with the force of a hurricane.” (New York Times, 2/14/2021.) By Christina-Marie Sears Christine Hume is an acclaimed poet, essayist…
Poetics a la Shira Dentz | The Sun a Blazing Zero |
When one undertakes a close reading of Shira Dentz’ fifth full-length book of poetry, the sun a blazing zero, published in 2019 by Dialogos Books and Lavender Ink, many questions emerge. I was lucky to have an opportunity to attend Dentz’ reading via Zoom, through the auspices of BathHouse Reading and Event Series and the…
Work by Jan 20 & 21 BathHouse Readers
Kevin Killian: Works @ Open Space Works @ Electronic Poetry Center New Narrative writer and poet Kevin Killian showcases work REVIVING JACK SPICER: AN INTERVIEW WITH KEVIN KILLIAN Wayne Koestenbaum: Wayne Koestenbaum: The TNB Self-Interview Vital Signs The Visceral Visual Art of Writer Wayne Koestenbaum HOW DO WE LIVE THE COLOUR PINK, WAYNE KOESTENBAUM? In…
Work by Nov 10 BathHouse Reader
By Philip Metres: From “abu ghraib arias,” from in Sand Opera “Primer for Non-Native Speakers,” from To See the Earth:
A series of Reviews by Nicholas Hohman
October 18, 2012: Collaboration Panel When I did research papers in middle school, before the internet was the first place anyone went to for information, I remember pulling heavy encyclopedias and informative books that had several volumes in the series. When citing them there would always be several authors, which made sense because there was…
Bathhouse Past
Last Month On November 28th and 29th Emu Students and the extended community invited Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Camille Roy, and Rachel Levitsky to read at the Bathhouse event on campus. The EMU students have written reviews of the event and the blog is only too glad to share this with you. The writers each read from…
EMU’s CW students’ public collaboration makes national news
Hats off to undergrads Sam Schimmel, Eric Corliss, Karen Thompson, Taylor Cyr, and Garret Stralnic from Christine Hume’s “Collaboration and Community Projects” and Linette Lao’s “Mixed Media” classes! Their work has received national attention in the New York Daily News. The members were from the collaborative group known as Operation Mongoose 2012 whose public work urges a remembrance of books and bookstores…