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Readings & Special Events

Each week, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., there will be a reading featuring members of our core and guest faculty. With writers coming from coast to coast, and everywhere in between and beyond, to share their craft, this is an exciting time to see what is happening in contemporary literary culture.

All of the following readings and events are free and open to the public. All student and faculty readings will be held in the Performing Arts Center at Naropa University's Arapahoe Campus, 2130 Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder.

2011 Schedule of Readings

June 14, 2011
7:30 p.m. 
Faculty Reading

Erik Anderson, Melissa Buzzeo, Max Regan, Maureen Owen, Rebecca Brown

 
June 15, 2011
7:30 p.m.

Scholarship Recipients Reading

 

June 16, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Bhanu Kapil, Ana Bozicevic, Rob Halpern, giovanni singleton, Erica Kaufman

 

June 17, 2011
7:30 p.m.

Student Reading

 

June 18, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Sara Veglahn, Tisa Bryant, Amy King, Vanessa Place, Samuel R. Delany 

 

June 21, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Karen Weiser, Evie Shockley, Renee Gladman, David Matlin, Anselm Hollo

 

June 22, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Rikki Ducornet, C.S. Giscombe, Laird Hunt, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Sharmistha Mohanty

 

June 23, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Greg Howard, Karen Tei Yamashita, Anselm Berrigan, Stephen Graham Jones, Junior Burke 

 

June 24–June 26, 2011
Special Event
Moving Image Poetics Conference
Co-sponsored by Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, The University of Colorado Brakhage Center and Film Studies Program, and Professor Tom Gunning from the University of Chicago.

Poetry & Film Conference

June 24–26, 2011

FRIDAY

June 24, Friday night: Performing Arts Center, Naropa University

7:30–10:30:  Naropa Summer Writing Program  event

A short film program, in which the works are juxtaposed with poetic responses by writers. Writers include Reed Bye, Junior Burke, Anne Waldman, Jack Collom, and Danielle Vogel. Films include Pull My Daisy (Robert Frank and Alfred Leslie), Colors of Concealment (Ed Bowes and Anne Waldman), White Rose (Bruce Conners), covert action (Abigail Child), First Hymn to the Night – Novalis and Two Creeley McClure (Stan Brakhage), Aubade (Nathaniel Dorsky), Study in Choreography (Maya Deren), Ostensibly (Rudy Burckhardt and John Ashbery), Cocteau Cento (Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino), and Scorpio Rising (Kenneth Anger).

 

SATURDAY

June 25, Saturday: VAC 1B20, CU campus

10:00 a.m.–1:30 p.m.: Panel on Moving Image  organized by Tom Gunning

Presenters: Michele Menzies, Sarah Keller, Tom Gunning, Robert Bird 

1:30–2:45 p.m.: Lunch break

3:00–5:00 p.m.: VAC 1B20, CU campus

CU Film Studies – Organized by Phil Solomon, Jennifer Peterson

5:00–7:30 p.m.: Dinner break

7:30–10:30 p.m.: VAC 1B20

Naropa’s Summer Writing Program film event curated by Anne Waldman:

Introduction by Anne Waldman, Ed Bowes, and Daniel Kane.  

"The Value of Small Skeletons” by Ed Bowes

"The Time We Killed" by Jennifer Reeves 

 

SUNDAY

June 26, Sunday: VAC 1B20, CU campus

11:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.: Conference panel organized by Tom Gunning

Presenters: Daniel Kane, Christophe Wall-Romana, James Rosenow

2:00–3:00 p.m.: Lunch break

3:00–5:00 p.m.: VAC 1B20, CU campus

CU Film Studies organized by Don Yannacito

Filmmaker Emily Duke and Cooper Battersby in person

5:30–7:30 p.m.: VAC 1B20, CU campus

Organized by CU Creative Writing, Julie Carr

Guest presenters:  Julie Carr & Christina Battle, David Gatten, Erin Espelie. Other contributors: Claudia Rankine and John Lucas; Norma Cole, Wayne Smith, and Taylor Brady; Jeanne Liotta and Lisa Gill.

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June 28, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Michelle Naka Pierce, Jennifer Foerster, Jack Collom, Eleni Sikelianos, Jonathan Skinner 

 
June 29, 2011
7:30 p.m.

Student Reading

June 30, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Eleni Stecopoulos, Barbara Henning, Laura Mullen, Jed Rasula

July 1, 2011
7:30 p.m.

Student Reading

July 2, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Richard Froude, Marcella Durand, Tyrone Williams, Selah Saterstrom, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

 

July 5, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Lewis Warsh, Harryette Mullen, Jane Sprague, Steven Taylor, DJ Spooky 

 

July 6, 2011
7:30 p.m.

Student Reading

 

July 7, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading

Thurston Moore, Edwin Torres, Anne Waldman & Ambrose Bye, Rick Moody

 

July 8, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Student/Faculty 

Performance Salon

 

July 9, 2011
7:30 p.m.
Faculty Reading
Eileen Myles, Hal Willner, Margaret Randall, Bobbie Louise Hawkins


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