KYLE IN KYLE

Shin Yu Pai and Kyle Schlesinger will read at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center on Friday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. The reading is sponsored by C.J. Martin, Julia Drescher, and Ash Smith. There will be books for sale, too, so bring some cash...

KAP Literary Center

508 Center St.

Kyle, TX 78640

Shin Yu Pai is the author of seven books, including Haiku Not Bombs (Booklyn), Sightings: Selected Works (1913 Press), Works on Paper (Convivio Bookworks), and Equivalence (La Alameda Press). Two books are forthcoming in 2010 from Cinematheque Press and White Pine Press. Her poems are anthologized in The Wisdom Anthology of North American Buddhist Poetry (Wisdom Publications), America Zen: A Gathering of Poets (Bottom Dog Press), and The City Visible: Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab Books). Her work has been commissioned by the Dallas Museum of Art and exhibited at the McKinney Avenue Contemporary, The Paterson Museum, the Three Arts Club of Chicago, Harvard University, and 516 Arts in Albuquerque. She is assistant curator for the Wittliff Collections.

Kyle Schlesinger writes and lectures on poetics, artists’ books and typography. With Michael Cross and Thom Donovan, he edits the poetics journal ON: Contemporary Practice. What You Will is forthcoming from New Lights Press in Oakland, California (2010).

Hope to see you there!

-KS

ARTISTS' STATEMENTS

For years I’ve toyed with the idea of conducting a workshop to teach people how not to write artists' statements (or should the genre be abolished?).

I’d begin with a list of words that cannot be used—ever. These would include “conceptual,” “new,” “aesthetic,” “critical,” “cultural,” “subjective,” “perceptive,” “time,” “space,” “experimental,” “interstitial,” “media,” “hybrid,” “cultural,” “political,” “social,” “theory,” “praxis,” and any word that begins with “multi-” or "inter-" is off limits too. 

It's okay to mention one's nationality, but participants in the workshops would be discouraged from doing so in the first sentence. 

Verbs like “subvert,” “explores,” “strives,” “attempts,” “questions,” “challenges,” and “seeks” should be used with caution.
 
No proper names (universities, movements, famous philosophers, etc.) unless the proper name identifies someone with whom you have collaborated directly.

No blurbs (especially from current or former teachers). Period.

It's redundant to say "John Doe lives and works in New York City."  


50 word max.

BAD WORDS TO THE RADIO

 

My poem "Bad Words to the Radio" appeared in the March issue of the Brooklyn Rail. Thanks to  poetry editors Anselm Berrigan and Roger Van Voohrees.

GOES WITHOUT SAYING

Copies of my poem "Goes Without Saying" are now available from the Eucalyptus Press at Mills College. This broadside was printed letterpress by Kiala Givehand and Lyall Harris to commemorate a reading I gave at Mills in February of 2010. Signed, lettered, limited edition. $15 plus shipping. Write to bookart at mills dot edu to place your order.

THE OFFENDING ADAM 005

There's a new online journal called The Offending Adam that updates their content weekly, and in a manageable quantity. This week there's a feature on four of my poems with a super introductuon by Ryan Winet that begins: "A poet of Kyle Schlesinger's caliber might find a comparison between his recent work and the classic arcade game Donkey Kong offensive.  As tenuous as such a comparison might seem, I encounter Schlesinger’s poetry in much the same way I play Donkey Kong: moving from line to line, knowing that meaning will develop as a particular pattern of tumbling, cascading moments."

Read the rest here: http://www.theoffendingadam.com/