Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky is a poetry collection in two acts about what can happen to a community when the military moves in to control them. It is a tale of how the ethics of those who love, desire, or harmlessly gossip, can be transformed into actors who rape, torture, and engage in murder. Read More >
I have been invited as Distinguished Editor in Residence and Distinguished Poet in Residence at San Diego State University in conjunction with Poetry International. Super excited to be returning to work with MFA students. I love what I do!
With German poet Jan Wagner and the wondrous Ilya Kaminsky
The event website is here: Distinguished Poet.Editor Maria Garcia Teutsch
Ping-Pong Free Press and Poetry International will be hosting a poetry reading/performance art exhibit at the Coagula Curatorial Gallery at 7:30 pm on March 31st, 2016 during the AWP conference. If you can’t make it come by our table at the conference: 559!
Featured Readers:
Malena Morling
Michael Waters
Katie Farris
Mihaela Moscaliuc
Katie Ford
Jesse Nathan
James Meetze
Janel Spencer
Jenny Minniti-Shippey
Adam Deutsch
Maria Garcia Teutsch
River Atwood Tabor
with special guest: Babe Teeth in performance!
Best of lists are always subjective and this one even more so. This list refers only to 2014 and it should in no way be perceived of as a best of ever list (unless noted).
Henry Miller Memorial Library announces “Speech is Not Free! 50th Anniversary: Tropic of Cancer Obscenity Trial”
Friday, November 7th at Coagula Curatorial Gallery in Los Angeles
Henry Miller is responsible for — to quote scholar James Decker — “the free speech that we now take for granted in literature.” It began fifty years ago when Miller’s novel “Tropic of Cancer” was deemed not obscene by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur and its literary magazine Ping-Pong, will be throwing a party at the Coagula Curatorial Gallery in Los Angeles to honor this landmark event while ruefully acknowledging that free speech is once again under siege.
“Speech is Not Free! 50th Anniversary of the Tropic of Cancer Obscenity Trial” will celebrate this historic win for free speech by bringing together writers, poets, and authors who will read or display a piece of art/prose/poem/song that was banned and that effected them in a transformative way. Participants will also read or sing an original piece. Read More >
Dear Reader,
Let me begin with a meditation: speech is not free, someone has paid the tab for you. This year we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1964 overturning by the Supreme Court of an earlier ruling which found the Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller to be obscene. Henry says:
It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! (Tropic of Cancer) Read More >
