Students, alums, and faculty were busy making us proud this summer and into September: Joe Sacksteder‘s sound poems were published at textsound: http://textsound.org/index.php?ISSUE=13. Joe also had a story published in Booth (Sept 7): http://booth.butler.edu Peter Markus was named a Kresge Arts Fellow for 2012. Elizabeth Mikesch, Gerard Breitenbeck, and Ned Randolph spent two weeks on a …
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Gerard Breitenbeck’s Introduction from Taylor Brady’s BathHouse Reading
Enjoy another taste of the recent Taylor Brady BathHouse Reading via the following introduction from the reading by EMU Creative Writing graduate student Gerard Breitenbeck: The BathHouse Reading Series is not only about shifting our perspectives, but redefining them. Tonight we welcome a writer whose work is all about redefining perspectives, not only with respect to…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Brenda Iijima
Another review from Creative Writing grad student Gerard Breitenbeck; this time Gerard reviews Brenda Iijima’s recent BathHouse reading: Professor Carla Harryman introduced Brenda Iijima to the Dreamland Theater in downtown Ypsilanti, speaking of her strengths as a poet who writes both inventively and politically. Following Professor Harryman, a small group of her undergraduate students presented their…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Cathy Park Hong
Creative Writing grad student Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Cathy Park Hong’s BathHouse reading from earlier this semester: In Sean Kilpatrick’s introduction of Cathy Park Hong, he notes that “Each line performs like a thousand tongues dueling,” and that we will be privy to “See cultures splayed and reviled by a renegade architect.” Indeed, reading from the…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Eric Lorberer and Barrett Watten
EMU grad student Gerard Breitenbeck reviews the recent BathHouse reading that featured Eric Lorberer and Barrett Watten: Ned Randolph introduced first Eric Lorberer who went on to speak about public art, art in a shared space and related questions of ownership and permanence vs. ephemerally. He focused on the Ashbury Bridge in Minneapolis. A person…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Julie Patton
The Julie Patton reviews keep coming. Gerard Breitenbeck reviews her recent BathHouse reading: Rob Halpern introduced poet Julie Patton by citing works such as Room for Opal, Using Blue to get Black, and Notes for some (Nominally) Awake. Having lived all over the United States and Europe, Patton currently resides in Cleveland where she’s involved…
Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Christian Bök
Grad student Gerard Breitenbeck reviews Christian Bök’s recent BathHouse reading: Appropriately enough, Christine Hume concluded her introduction of Christian Bök with a poem she composed consisting only of the letters which make up the poet’s name. Christian then took the podium and read two Hugo Ball poems which to the uninitiated could be described as…
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…