Faculty & Guest Sourcebook

In previous years, the SWP has provided a printed sourcebook featuring writing samples from all incoming faculty and guests for students to peruse. In the interest of progress and ecology, we have decided to offer the following collation of online texts in its stead. Please check back soon for links pertaining to this summer's faculty and guests.

Week One: June 14-20
Poet or Assassin?

“The assassin is the one who bombards the existing people with molecular populars that are forever closing all of the assemblages, hurling them into an even wider and deeper black hole. The poet is one who lets loose molecular populations in hopes that this will sow the seeds of, or even engender the people to come − open a cosmos” (Deleuze & Guattari). Paul Virilio also posits the question: “To live as poet or assassin?” This week, our writers will consider personal ethos, including their current projects and “roles” in the world as scholars, activists, and educators. Where do cultures within cultures reside? To whom are we beholden?

Charles Alexander The printed word strikes with FORCE!

Chax Press Website

Charles Alexander: Near or Random Acts

Linh Dinh with Charles Alexander

Robert Creeley: The Speech that Seeks Company

Junior Burke & Bobbie Louise Hawkins Delivering Performance Text

Junior's Website

Junior on MySpace

Not Enough Night

"George Oppen, Mary Oppen and a Poe"

First Story (Audio)

Julie Carr Writing and Violence: Invoking, Avoiding, Inviting

"Voc Ed"

100 Notes on Violence

Equivocal Review: Jacket Magazine

Linh Dinh Streetwise

Linh's Photo Blogspot

Linh at PennSound

Linh Dinh’s Poetics of Disgust

Thalia Field Logic Defiled: Essays in Practice

Thalia's Website

Interview with Thalia: Miranda Mellis

"Experimental Theater Is history!"

Ross Gay Mastery or Mystery?

Ross at Bowdoin College: Audio Archive

Conversation with Ross

Antidote to Distraction: An Interview with Ross Gay

Kim Thomas & Ross Gay

Laird Hunt Histories

Laird's Website

Interview with Laird: Bookslut

"How 9) Strange"

"Nonrealist Fiction"

Stephen Graham Jones Stories That Shouldn't Work

Stephen's Website

The Velvet Blog

Interview with Stephen Graham Jones

Jaime Manrique Dreams, "Voices," Visions, Riffs, Meditations, Rants

Jaime's Website

Jaime's Blogspot

"Our Lives are the Rivers"

"A Sadness As Deep As The Sea"

Jennifer Moxley Radical Receptivity

Jennifer on PennSound

"Aeolian Harp"

"Fear of an Empty Life"

"Pillow Talk: A Short History of a Small Magazine"

Jennifer Scappettone Languages of Dislocation: Poetry Of & Off the Page

UBUWeb

Artists' Books Online

Is it a Book?

Poems that Go

David Trinidad The Personal Poem

Three Poems

"9 Cigarettes"

Robert Polito & David Trinidad In Conversation

"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

Week Two: June 21–27
Planet News: Investigating Eco-Ethos-Eros

Considering both human and non-human elements, where does our writing practice intersect with others? A sense of empathy, one evidenced in the mirror neurons of chimps, attracts our attention. From flowers, spiders, to the wooly mammoth, we will consider our ongoing investigative projects in “nature” as templates for radical shifts in research and imagination. Eros suggests we fall more in love with our world and the dharma suggests we do the same. What does it mean for locals here at Naropaland, who continue to struggle with the karma of Rocky Flats plutonium waste?

Jane Augustine & Michael Heller Poetical Ecologies & Radical Observation

Michael Heller: A Survey

UPF Website

Michael's collaborations with Composer, Ellen Fishman-Johnson

Michael at PennSound

Caroline Bergvall Marks and tracings

Caroline's Website

Caroline at PennSound

"Goan Atom (part one)"

"A Cat in the Throat"

Jack Collom Comedy & Nature

"An Ecosystem of Writing Ideas"

"For Jenny: A Garden Sonnet"

Birds and Words

Red Car Goes By Review

Samuel R. Delany A Writing Workshop

Samuel's Website

A Conversation with Samuel R. Delany

The Pinocchio Theory

Starshards

Flashbacks Mimic Memory

Alan Gilbert The Avant-Garde Is a Corpse, and We Are Necrophiliac

Wesleyan: "Another Future"

Here Comes Everybody

"Poem without a Coda"

Alan at the Bowery

Brenda Hillman Our ecopoetics, her inner life, its vocabulary, your-my-and-their activisms

Brenda's Website

Blue Flower Arts Bio

"Walking the Dunes"

An interview with Brenda: Poets & Writers

Lisa Jarnot Investigative Poetry!

Lisa's Website

Lisa's Blog

Here Comes Everybody

five prose pieces from Sea Lyrics

Lisa at PennSound

Tracie Morris Sound Poetry

Daniel Pinchbeck Writing and Illumination

Reality Sandwich

Video Interview with Daniel

Breaking Open the Head

Inverview with Daniel

Evelyn Reilly Ecologies of the Unpoetic

Elizabeth Robinson & Helen Howe Braider Wordscapes

Here Comes Everybody

Brooklyn Rail: Three Poems

Apprehend Review: Jacket Magazine

Elizabeth at PennSound

Barbara Guest: Revery and Apparition

Apprehend Review: Bookslut

James Stevens Shock of the (Old) New: Writing of New World Nature

Mary Tasillo Material as Muse

Week Three: June 28–July 4
Great Divides and Common Ground

This week, writers from Bosnia, Turkey, Mexico, China, and indigenous America join us as we consider ways to acknowledge the richness of linguistic, historical, and ritual difference, yet enjoy common ground. What are the stories of ethnicity that we arrive with and where do they go? How do we regard the power structures that dominate our lives? What do we read and in what tongues? How do we translate and study our various maps and boundaries?

Sinan Antoon Strangers to Ourselves

Sinan's Website

Interview with Sinan: Democracy Now

Views from the Occident

Sinan Antoon on Charlie Rose and the structure and myth of “mistakes”

Sherwin Bitsui Shifting Modalities

Sherwin's Website

Emerging Poet: On Sherwin Bitsui

"River"

"ANWR"

Xi Chuan TBA

Xi Chaun's Website

Matter over Mind: On Xi Chuan's Poetry

After Wang Ximeng’s Blue and Green Horizontal Landscape Scroll, A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains

"Twilight"

Dolores Dorantes & Jen Hofer Sad and Sweet (Trilce): Unmapping Structures of Power, Mapping Acts of Agency

Dolores' Blogspot

"September for Jen"

VenePoetics

sexoPURO sexoVELOZ Review: Jacket Magazine

"Suspension of Belief:Some Thoughts on Translation as Subversive Speech"

"Going Going!"

"From One"

Jack Hirschman The Communist Manifesto: The Original Arcane

"Defiant"

Fifteen Poems by Jack Hirschman

Interview with Jack

"Arcani"

Anselm Hollo Morphing Texts: Translation, Transformation

Two from Where if Not Here

"Anne's School"

Anne Waldman, Anselm Hollo, and the Authentic Avant-Garde

"Haiku"

Bob Holman Disappearing Tongues: Orality, Technology and the Poetry of Endangered Languages

Bob's Website

Bowery Website

On the Road with Bob Holman: West Africa (Video)

On the Road with Bob Holman: Israel and the West Bank (Video)

Ginsberg's Karma (Video)

Semezdin Mehmedinovic The Influence of Poetry on Film

Poetry and Music Monument Painted by Angelic Voices

Review of Nine Alexandrias

Poetry in a Savage Age

from "Legally Hanged"

Murat Nemet-Nejat A Rhetoric of Rebellion

"Questions of Accent"

Mao & Matisse

Notes on a Turkish Trip: The Sights and Colors of Turkey

Interview with Murat

" At the courtyard of the Blue Mosque, a secret ritual"

Akilah Oliver Playing the In-Between

Inverview with Akilah

from "Corruption"

Excerpt from “The Putterer’s Notebook: an anti-Memoir”

"Hold the Space: The Poetics of Anne Waldman"

Margaret Randall Writing From Our Other Selves

Margaret's Website

Coming Up for Air Review

Years in Cuba

The Sunday Poem: Margaret Randall... Nothing was What it Pretended

"Oñate’s Right Foot"

Damion Searls The Whole Fling of a Sentence

Damion's Website

"Manifesto: New Aestheticism"

"The Other Half of Moby Dick"

"Fifteen Thousand Pages in Three Minutes"

"Herlen, or Concrete"

Julia Seko Letterpress Printing: On the Page

Harry Smith Printshop

Broadsided! The Intersection of Art and Literature

Edible Books

Book Arts League

Week Four: July 6–12
Public Space: Performance & Small Press Publishing

Performance (from the French parfornir) is to enact a ritual in front of an audience. “Can you hear me in the back?” Vladimir Mayakovsky inquires in a famous poem. We will work on writing with an ear to project our voices, bodies, and imaginations to the back of the room. Dancers, singers, actors and word workers of many ilks join the mix this week. Collaboration is an effort that turns in many directions in that it takes two or more people to operate a printshop or found a small press in order to send books out into the ozone. How do we keep the spirit going for many decades, as has, for instance, Coffee House Press, whose founder and publisher, Allan Kornblum, joins us this week?

Penny Arcade In search of the Highest Form

Penny's Website

Penny's Performance MP3s

Penny Arcade hits Bull's-Eye: Sex Art Dance

Bad Reputation

Old Queen

Laynie Browne InFORMal Excursions

Silliman's Blog

Daily Sonnets

Poetry Center

"The Prose Poem" by Eric Lorberer

Review of Two Books: Otoliths