The Collection of Silence / Dia at the Hispanic Society

Eileen Myles writes:

WHAT ?!: TUESDAYS ON THE TERRACE: THE COLLECTION OF SILENCE
WHERE: 155 St. & BWAY
WHEN: June 30, 7PM
WHY: PEACE, AIMLESSNESS, RELIEF, SOLDARITY, RESISTANCE, SOLACE, IRONY,
FRIVOLITY, HAD ENOUGH

Being invited by Dia to curate a performance for a summer evening vaguely in response to Zoe’s show and the Hispanic Museum’s collection. I have invited five poets who invited five other poets (so there’s 25 of us, names below.) Invited as well are The Village Zendo, soprano Juliana Snapper, dancer Christine Elmo and four cohorts and about 40 kids from PS 4 conducted by poets Julie Patton and Christine Hou and finally a life drawing group from Brooklyn known as F>A>R>T>S (Friends of the Fine Arts) ; all will converge to sit, move, read and perform SILENTLY for one hour on the Hispanic Museum’s incredibly spacious and evocative Audubon Plaza. You as audience are invited to come up and stroll amongst this silent happening at your own genial pace. You’re urged to dress vividly & shamelessly as if you were attending a wedding or a renaissance fair or a nature hike, an art opening, poetry reading or to spray-paint things on your roof. At 8;15 the silence will end and morph into a decent party.

With Who: MONICA DE LA TORRE, CHARLES BERNSTEIN, STEPHANIE GRAY, TIM LIU, RACHEL ZOLF, JENNIFER BARTLETT, DANNY SNELSON, CA CONRAD, FRANK SHERLOCK, RENATO GÓMEZ, KIM ROSENFIELD, ANGELA JAEGER, JEREMY SIGLER, TIM PETERSON, LYDIA CORTES, NATHANIEL SIEGEL. PAOLO JAVIER, MARK BIBBINS, NICOLE COOLEY, LINDA GREGG, JEFFREY MCDANIEL, LILA ZEMBORAIN, TONYA FOSTER, RACHEL LEVITSKY, EMILY BEALL, CHRISTINE HOU, JULIE PATTON, STUDENTS FROM PS 4 AND EILEEN MYLES, PROJECT ORGANIZER

Heart of Queens...

FESTIVAL 2009 — Poetry & Memory
includes Nicole Cooley and Roger Sedarat
as well as Queens College MFA students...
WHEN: June 18-20, 2009

June 18 6:30PM - 9:30 PM: Workshop
June 19 7:30PM - 10:30 PM: QC MFA STUDENTS & Open Reading
June 20 All Day: Outdoor Festival

WHERE: Garden School, Jackson Heights, New York and
Terraza Cafe, 40-19 Gleane St. Elmhurst, New York
INFORMATION: www.jhpf.org

Dear Blog Reader,

Please join us for this Hudson Valley reading that celebrates online journals:
Sunday, June 14, 4:30 pm, $5 (nonmembers), $3 (HVWC members)
It will feature poets and writers from both The Acentos Review and, our own, Ozone Park. Q&A with the journal editors follows.
Ozone Park editors will bring the fabulous Francine Rubin, the poet who read at the May event, and Thad Rutkowski, a terrific fiction writer from the first issue.

Here’s what they say on the website about how to get there:
METRO-NORTH RAILROAD: From Grand Central Station, take the Hudson Line local to the Philipse Manor Station (the stop immediately north of Tarrytown). For up-to-date fare and schedule information, call 1-800-METRO-INFO or 212-532-4900, or visit the Metro North Website.

http://www.writerscenter.org/index.html

Sincerely, Deonne Kahler