The BathHouse Reading Series continues with Cris Cheek and Robert Fitterman, this Thursday, March 12, at 5:00 pm, at the Dreamland Theater (26 N. Washington Street, Ypsilanti).
Cris Cheek is an assistant professor at Miami University. He is a self-described “poet-pedagogue, writer-critic, book artist-publisher, new media practitioner and interdisciplinary performer,” earned his PhD at Lancaster (UK), and has been involved in the creative literary and artistic activities since 1975. Cheek works in various spheres of the contemporary art, incorporating a wide range of media-strategies and technologies into his projects. For many years he has developed the ideas of live-art, spontaneous literary performance and “chaotic declamation” on his own and as member of various musical and poetic groups including jgjgjgjg (in collaboration with P.C. Fencott, L. Upton), CoAccident, Garam Masala, Slant (in collaboration with Ph. Jeck, S. Jones). Cheek is the author of a number of poetry editions and books, among them are the following: a present (Bluff Books, 1980), mud (Spanner/Open Field, 1984), Cloud Eyes (Microbrigade Ed., 1991), skin upon skin (CD, Sound & Language, 1996), stranger (Sound & Language, 1996), Songs from Navigation (book+CD, Reality Street, 1998) and others. His works have been published in various international magazines, literary miscellanies and anthologies, including West Coast Line (Vancouver), Open Letter (Toronto), Kontexts (Amsterdam), Boxkite (Sydney), Reality Studios (London), Poetics Journal (San Francisco),The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (University of Indiana), Floating Capital (Connecticut), Documents (Glasgow), as well as MC, CD and CD-R formats in Crayon (NY), Widemouth (Baltimore), Little Magazine (Albany), and Balsam Flex (London).
Cheek is an inveterate collaborative writer whose more recent work includes Critical Path with The Three Little Heretics and an ongoing body of interdisciplinary practice (since 1998) with Kirsten Lavers as TNWK (http://www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com/). His latest book is the church – the school – the beer from Critical Documents (http://plantarchy.us/Plantarchy_3.html).
Find his audio work here:
http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/cheek/
http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=2655781&song=cris+cheek+on+Radio+Radio
Robert Fitterman is the author of nine books of poetry, including three installments of his ongoing poem Metropolis: Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000), Metropolis 16-29 (Coach House Books, 2002), and Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edge Books, 2004). Earlier titles include rob the plagiarist (Roof Books), Notes on Conceptualisms co-authored with Vanessa Place (Ugly Ducklying Press), Sprawl: Metropolis 30A (Make Now Books), Leases (Periphery Press), Among the Cynics (Singing Horse Press) and Ameresque (Buck Downs Books). War, the Musical, is a collaboration with artist Dirk Rowntree. He teaches at New York University in both the General Studies Program and the Department of English, and also the writing faculty at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College.
Read The Window Makes Me Feel at:
http://ubu.com/ubu/fitterman_window.html
Read a review of Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire at:
http://jacketmagazine.com/30/alworth-fitt.html