{"id":16126,"date":"2018-05-22T11:34:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=16126"},"modified":"2018-05-22T12:10:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T16:10:07","slug":"glasfryn-project-black-mountain-college-a-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/glasfryn-project-black-mountain-college-a-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasfryn Project: Black Mountain College, A Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nicole & I much looking forward to take part in this!<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Black Mountain College USA (1933 \u2013 1957) comes to the Black Mountains of Powys, Wales.\u00a0A full weekend exploration and celebration of the work, philosophy and ongoing influence of that remarkable, mid-twentieth century educational and multi-genre artistic experimental venture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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MAY 26th \u2013 27th<\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The morning and afternoon sessions will be held at <\/span>the Dance Studio in Crickhowell Community Sports Centre (Off New Road, Crickhowell)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>The evening sessions will be held at the Crickhowell Parish Hall (Church Lane, Crickhowell)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

SATURDAY MORNING 11.00 \u2013 1.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome and Introduction<\/p>\n

Michael Kindellan<\/strong>
\nCharles Olson and education.<\/p>\n

Ian Hunt<\/strong>
\nAnni Albers and Josef Albers.<\/p>\n

Wanda O\u2019Connor<\/strong>
\nTowards a Post-Projective Poetics.<\/p>\n

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 2.00 \u2013 5.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeff Hilson<\/strong>
\nGertrude Stein, Black Mountain and Ray Johnson.<\/p>\n

Alice Entwistle<\/strong>
\nEchoes and Edges: Re-reading Creeley.<\/p>\n

Peter Gillies<\/strong>
\nThread \u2013 Paint \u2013 Ink \u2013 Film: Women Artists at Black Mountain.<\/p>\n

Lee Duggan<\/strong>
\nOlson and the influence of projective verse, particularly in reference to women\u2019s writing.<\/p>\n

Camilla Nelson<\/strong>
\nOne day this glass will break (after Cornelia Parker)<\/p>\n

SATURDAY EVENING 7.00 \u2013 9.30<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Allen Fisher<\/strong>
\nConstruction and Assemblage in the Work of Robert Rauschenberg and Franz Kline.<\/p>\n

Redell Olsen<\/strong>
\n\u2018Observation Judgement Action \u20181\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

Pierre Joris<\/strong>
\nCharles Olson now.<\/p>\n

Nicole Peyrafitte<\/strong>
\nBasil King: Mirage. A film directed by Nicole Peyrafitte, co-directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, starring Basil King.<\/p>\n

SUNDAY MORNING 10.30 \u2013 1.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ian Brinton<\/strong>
\nMike Rumaker: \u2018shifting it into the real\u2019.<\/p>\n

Anthony Mellors<\/strong>
\nJohn Cage, Williams Mix: collage and synthesis.<\/p>\n

Paige Mitchell<\/strong>
\nOn Merce Cunningham<\/p>\n

John Goodby<\/strong>
\nEncounters with the work of Ed Dorn.<\/p>\n

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 2.00 \u2013 5.00<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gavin Selerie<\/strong>
\nThe legacy of interactions between art forms at Black Mountain College and after.<\/p>\n

Tilla Brading<\/strong>
\n\u2018Breath between the Black Mountains\u2019.
\nCharles Olson & David Jones.<\/p>\n

Peter Hughes<\/strong>
\nAbstract art & writing, leaping off from the work of Cy Twombly.<\/p>\n

Carol Watts<\/strong>
\nOn Balance: a Poetics of Memory, Labour, Practice.<\/p>\n

Tim Atkins<\/strong>
\nHilda Morley \u2013 the longest serving poet at Black Mountain.<\/p>\n

SUNDAY EVENING 7.00 \u2013 9.30<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Readings
\nDiscussion<\/p>\n

Open multi-genre collaborative jam session with Lyndon Davies, Graham Hartill, Nicole Peyrafitte, Pierre Joris, Rhys Trimble, Camilla Nelson, Scott Thurston, Wanda O\u2019Connor, Penny Hallas<\/strong>and others.<\/p>\n

\u00a315 for the whole weekend (\u00a312 concessions)
\nor \u00a35 per individual session (\u00a34 concessions)<\/p>\n

To book or for more info\u00a0contact Lyndon Davies at\u00a0goodiebard2@googlemail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Contributors:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Allen Fisher<\/strong>. Recent books: Tip Regard, Sputtor, Gravity as a consequence of shape, and Imperfect Fit (an aesthetics of fracture, function and perception). Recent work has been on Black Ponds in Powys. See YouTube film: www.allenfisher.co.uk<\/p>\n

Peter Hughes<\/strong> is a poet and the founding editor of Oystercatcher Press. He\u2019s based in Cambridge where he was recently the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry. His books include a\u00a0Selected Poems<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(Shearsman 2013), versions of Petrarch\u2019s sonnets (Quite Frankly,<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Reality Street Editions 2015),\u00a0Cavalcanty<\/em>(Carcanet 2017) and\u00a0via Leopardi 21<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(Equipage 2018). He is currently working on a project mapping the Berlin Ringbahn.<\/p>\n

Tim Atkins<\/strong> is a Leo with Leo rising. He\u2019s a Western Buddhist which means he does what he wants and says it\u2019s done with the concept of emptiness,\u00a0Buddhist emptiness,<\/em>\u00a0of course, uppermost in his mind. Oh! And its done with compassion for all sentient beings. Except for\u2026<\/p>\n

Lee Duggan<\/strong> is origninally from London but has\u00a0lived in North Wales since the age of 20. Her\u00a0writing is very much informed by location and the impact place has on identity, as well as by her experiences as a working, single mother of three. \u00a0She has an MA in Writing: Practice and Context from Bangor University and her first poetry collection, Reference Points<\/em>, was published in 2017 by Aquifer Books.<\/p>\n

Wanda O\u2019Connor<\/strong> is a poet and doctoral candidate in Critical and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Recent work is available or forthcoming in The World Speaking Back: to Denise Riley<\/em> (Boiler House Press 2018), Wretched Strangers<\/em> (Boiler House Press 2018), Bad Kid Catullus<\/em> (Sidekick Books 2017), Poetry Wales<\/em>, and others. She is organizer of the 2018 symposium \u2018Projectivisms\u2019 and co-runs the Cardiff Poetry Experiment reading series.<\/p>\n

Nicole Peyrafitte<\/strong> is a pluridisciplinary artist born & raised in the Pyrenees.\u00a0Her processes include visuals, texts, live action paintings, film, & cooking. Her latest project is the just finished\u00a0Things Fall Where They Lie,\u00a0a 55-minute film with Yoko Otomo, Steve Dalachinski, Eric Sarner & Katalin Pataki.\u00a0 Forthcoming this June is\u00a0Land0Scape ,\u00a0a collection of texts & photographs, from Editions Plaine Page. Other works include\u00a0The Book of U \/Le livre des cormorans<\/em>\u00a0(with Pierre Joris, Editions Simoncini, 2017);\u00a0Bi-Valve : Vulvic Space\/Vulvic Knowledge: 17 paintings, 17 multilingual texts, 1 recipe & 1 CD,and the CD\u00a0Whisk Don\u2019t Churn\u00a0with bassist Michael Bisio. She resides in Brooklyn with her husband & often-times collaborator Pierre Joris.\u00a0Basil King: Mirage<\/em>\u00a0is 22-minute short film from 2012, co-directed with Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, on painter, poet & Black Mountain student Basil King.\u00a0http:\/\/nicolepeyrafitte.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Born in 1946 in Strasbourg, France, raised in Luxembourg, Pierre Joris<\/strong> has moved between the US, Europe & North Africa for 50\u00a0years, publishing close to 50\u00a0books of poetry, essays, anthologies, plays and translations. \u00a0In 1992 he returned to New York, first the state, where he\u00a0taught poetry & poetics at SUNY-Albany until 2012, \u00a0but also, since 2008, the city \u2014 happily humming Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cI\u2019m going back to New York City, I believe I\u2019ve had enough\u2026\u201d. When not on the road (see the \u201cEvents Calendar\u201d page on his blog:\u00a0Nomadics<\/a>\u00a0or on his website: pierrejoris.com<\/a>), he\u00a0lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn \u2014 baptized\u00a0Sorrentinostan by him \u2014 with his wife, painter, singer & multimedia performance artist\u00a0Nicole\u00a0Peyrafitte.<\/p>\n

Jeff Hilson<\/strong> has written four books of poetry: stretchers<\/em> (Reality Street, 2006), Bird bird<\/em> (Landfill, 2009), In The Assarts<\/em> (Veer, 2010) and Latanoprost Variations<\/em> (Boiler House Press, 2017). A fifth book, Organ Music<\/em>, is due out from Crater Press in 2019. He also edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets<\/em> (Reality Street, 2008). He runs Xing the Line<\/em> poetry reading series in London, and is Reader in Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton.<\/p>\n

Alice Entwistle<\/strong> is\u00a0Professor of Textual Aesthetics and Contemporary Poetry at the University of South Wales; she is currently\u00a0working on books about Gwyneth Lewis and Ciaran Carson, respectively. Her\u00a0published works are\u00a0A History of Twentieth Century British Women\u2019s Poetry<\/i>\u00a0(Cambridge with Jane Dowson),\u00a0Poetry Geography Gender: Women writing contemporary Wales<\/i>\u00a0(U Wales P, 2013) and\u00a0In Her Own Words: Women talking poetry and Wales<\/i>\u00a0(Seren 2014). She was awarded her doctorate in 1997 for \u2018Creeley Among Others: An American Poetics in Context\u2019; it\u2019s unpublished.<\/p>\n

Tilla Brading<\/strong> is a poet, performer and textual artist who has taught creative writing as well as working most of her life with students who have a variety of Learning Difficulties. From the experience of her up-bringing on a hill farm in Ystradfellte, Powys, using its people and situations, her work has evolved towards a freer exploration of language, semantics, performance and the visual. Starting points may be from texts, landscape, history, the news or anything that can weave, meld and fray into a termination if not a completion. She was joint editor of Odyssey Press \/ PQR (Poetry Quarterly Review) and assistant custodian of the cottage where Coleridge lived in Nether Stowey, Somerset. Her work which has included collaboration and improvisations has appeared in a variety of books, magazines, projects and on-line<\/p>\n

Lyndon Davies<\/strong> lives\u00a0in Powys. He has published four collections of poetry, the most recent of which is\u00a0Bridge 116<\/em> (Aquifer 2017). Bridge 116 <\/em>(Aquifer Books 2017). He is editor of an internet literature and arts magazine called Junction Box, and also runs the Glasfryn Seminars, a series of literary discussion groups.\u00a0Between 2009 and 2012 he co-ran, with John Goodby, the Hay Poetry Jamboree \u2013 a festival of innovative poetries at Hay on Wye.<\/p>\n

John Goodby<\/strong>. Born in Birmingham, universitied in Yorkshire, taught in Ireland, living since 1994 in Wales. Lectures at Swansea University and is editor of the new Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas<\/em>; has been co-editor of Irish and Welsh issues of Angel Exhaust, and published, with Shearsman, Illennium<\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n

Camilla Nelson<\/strong> is a British language artist.\u00a0\u00a0Her work explores language as material and performance in page-based poetry,\u00a0installation, sound and movement. The script of\u00a0<\/span>Reading Movement<\/span><\/i><\/a>,\u00a0a series of movement language performances,\u00a0<\/span>was\u00a0long-listed for The Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in 2016. Her first full poetry collection,\u00a0Apples & Other Languages<\/i>, was long-listed for the Melita Hume Poetry Prize<\/span>\u00a0in 2015 and\u00a0is out now with Knives Forks and Spoons. Her second collection,\u00a0A Yarn Er Narrative,<\/i>\u00a0is forthcoming with Contraband Books. Camilla\u00a0is founding editor of<\/span>Singing Apple Press<\/span><\/a>, a\u00a0<\/span>small independent press that produces hand-crafted, limited edition poem-prints, books and other objects. For more info visit\u00a0www.singingapplepress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

After thirty-seven years of Secondary School teaching Ian Brinton<\/strong> now writes full time. His publications over the past ten years have included translations of poetry from French and critical works on modern poetry. A former editor of The Use of English<\/em> for The English Association he now co-edits the poetry magazines Tears in the Fence<\/em> and SNOW<\/em> and is on the committee setting up the Archive of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Cambridge. As a reviewer he has been published by The Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, The London Magazine<\/em>, PN Review<\/em>, Notre Dame Review<\/em>, World Literature Today<\/em>, Poetry Salzburg Review<\/em> and Poetry Review<\/em>. Recent publications include Selected Poems & Prose of John Riley<\/em>(Shearsman), Translation of poems of Philippe Jaccottet<\/em> (Oystercatcher), For the Future<\/em>, a festschrift for J.H. Prynne (Shearsman) and An Andrew Crozier Reader<\/em> (Carcanet).<\/p>\n

Michael Kindellan<\/strong> is a Vice Chancellor\u2019s Fellow at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of\u00a0The Late Cantos of Ezra Pound: Composition, Revision, Publication<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(London: Bloomsbury, 2017); and with Joshua Kotin, \u201cThe Cantos<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>and Pedagogy\u201d (Modernist Cultures<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>2017).<\/p>\n

Peter Gillies<\/strong> is a poet and painter based in Falmouth. His work has been shown in Italy, France and Germany, as well as in the UK. He has received several artist\u2019s awards from ACE and he has twice been artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice. His publications include Sintesi<\/em> (with Andreas Kramer, 2003), Passaggio<\/em> (2005) and A Music Box of Snakes<\/em> (with Rupert Loydell, 2011). In 2016 he completed his PhD at PlymouthUniversity entitled Painterly Poetics<\/em>. Most recently his writing has been published in Stride<\/em>, Decals of Desire<\/em>, International Times<\/em> and Norwich Arts Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Gavin Selerie<\/strong> was born in London, where he still lives. His books include Azimuth<\/em> (1984), Roxy<\/em> (1996), Le Fanu\u2019s Ghost<\/em> (2006) and Hariot Double<\/em> (2016)\u2014all long sequences with linked units. These texts often have a visual dimension and Selerie has collaborated extensively with artist-poet Alan Halsey; he has also worked with musicians in performance. Music\u2019s Duel: New and Selected Poems 1972-2008<\/em> was published by Shearsman in 2009. Critical work includes studies of Charles Olson and Edward Dorn. Selerie\u2019s memoir of the London poetry scene 1970-1989 appeared in Clasp<\/em>, ed. Robert Hampson & Ken Edwards (2016).<\/p>\n

Carol Watts<\/strong> is Professor of Literature and Poetics at the University of Sussex. Her most recent poetry includes\u00a0Dockfield<\/i>\u00a0(Equipage, 2017), and the collection\u00a0When Blue Light Falls<\/i>(Shearsman, 2018). She often collaborates with others in making work across forms.<\/p>\n

Ian Hunt<\/strong> is an art critic, curator and poet. A book of his poetry,\u00a0Green Light,\u00a0<\/i>was published\u00a0<\/i>by Barque Press, his story\u00a0The Daubers\u00a0<\/i>appeared as part of\u00a0Andreas Ruth Still life paintings.\u00a0<\/i>He is editor of the art criticism of Stuart Morgan.<\/p>\n

Rhys Trimble<\/strong>\u00a0is a Bilingual poet \/ performer based in Bethesda, North Wales originally from Pontneddfechan. An experienced performer\/improvisor interested in medieval welsh language & bilingual poetry, music\/poetry, collaborations, digital-art and avant garde writing practices. Recent work includes performances at Dinefwr Festival (click here<\/a> to see it), Blinc Digital Arts festival, and Eisteddfod 2012 (click here<\/a>\u00a0to see it), Aberystwyth Drwm as a member of prosiect Datgeiniaeth \u2013 Datgan cerddi penpastwn with Twm Morys, Gareth Sion and Peter Greenhill (http:\/\/stiwdiogwellt.com\/album\/awdl-i-ddewi<\/a>). Editor of Ctrl+Alt+Del.<\/a> Ezine. He has a\u00a0PhD in creative writing.<\/p>\n

Penny Hallas\u00a0<\/strong>has lived in Wales since 1979. She is both an artist and an art psychotherapist, two activities which inform and nourish one another. Widely exhibited in Wales, in recent years she has been involved in a number of collaborations with poets and other artists, using film and recorded sound as well as painting and drawing. Past and current work\u00a0can be seen on her website:\u00a0http:\/\/pennyhallas.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Graham Hartill<\/strong> was born in the industrial West Midlands in 1952 and now lives near Crickhowell. He is currently writer-in-residence at HMP Parc, Bridgend, South Wales and teaches on the Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes MSc for the Metanoia Institute. He\u00a0has published widely, both poetry, papers on facilitation and co-translations from classical Chinese. Publications include:\u00a0Selected Poems of Cao Zhi, <\/em>(with Wu- Fu-Sheng), The Commercial Press, Beijing, 2014;\u00a0Chroma,<\/em> Hafan, Swansea, 2012;\u00a0A Winged Head,<\/em> Parthian, Carmarthen, 2007;\u00a0The Poems of Ruan Ji, <\/em>(with Wu Fu-Sheng) Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, 2006;\u00a0Cennau\u2019s Bell (Selected Poems), <\/em>The Collective Press, Abergavenny, 2005;\u00a0Tilt <\/em>(with Ric Hool and John Jones), The Collective Press, Abergavenny, 1996;\u00a0Ruan Ji\u2019s Island \/ (Tu Fu) In The Cities, <\/em>Wellsweep Press, London, 1988<\/p>\n

John Goodby<\/strong>. Born in Birmingham, universitied in Yorkshire, taught in Ireland, living since 1994 in Wales. Lectures at Swansea University and is editor of the new Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas<\/em>; has been co-editor of Irish and Welsh issues of Angel Exhaust, and published, with Shearsman, Illennium<\/em> (2010).<\/p>\n

Redell Olsen<\/strong>\u2019s work comprises poetry, film and performance. Recent publications include two bookworks: Mox Nox<\/em> and Smock <\/em>(2017). Other books include: Film Poems<\/em> (Les Figues, 2014), \u2018Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel\u2019 (Subpress, 2012), \u2018Secure Portable Space\u2019 (Reality Street, 2004), \u2018Book of the Fur\u2019 (rem press 2000), and, in collaboration with the bookartist Susan Johanknecht, \u2018Here Are My Instructions\u2019 (Gefn, 2004). From 2006-2010 she was the editor of How2, <\/em>theinternational online journal for Modernist and contemporary writing by women. This year she wrote and directed a short film: \u2018Now Circa (1918), to mark the one hundred year anniversary of female suffrage in Britain. She currently lectures at Royal Holloway, University of London where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics and teaches on the MA in Creative Writing \u2013 Poetic Practice. Her website can be found at: \u00a0http:\/\/redellolsenco.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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