{"id":3834,"date":"2010-06-09T09:11:29","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T14:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2010-06-09T09:11:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T14:11:29","slug":"poetry-project-leslie-scalapino-memorial-annoucement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/poetry-project-leslie-scalapino-memorial-annoucement\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Project Leslie Scalapino Memorial Annoucement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3835 lazyload\" title=\"scalapino\" data-src=\"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/scalapino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 200\/267;\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Memorial for Leslie Scalapino<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Monday June 21, 2010<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>8:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Poetry Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>131 E. 10th St. New York NY 10003<br \/>\n212-674-0910  |  <a href=\"mailto:info@poetryproject.org\">info@poetryproject.org<\/a><\/strong><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\/\/ <![CDATA[ eval(unescape(\"%64%6f%63%75%6d%65%6e%74%2e%77%72%69%74%65%28%27%3c%61%20%68%72%65%66%3d%22%6d%61%69%6c%74%6f%3a%69%6e%66%6f%40%70%6f%65%74%72%79%70%72%6f%6a%65%63%74%2e%6f%72%67%22%3e%69%6e%66%6f%40%70%6f%65%74%72%79%70%72%6f%6a%65%63%74%2e%6f%72%67%3c%2f%61%3e%27%29%3b\"));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It is with heavy hearts that we will open the doors of the Parish  Hall so that we may all come together in friendship and grief to  remember Leslie Scalapino, one of our greatest poets, who passed away on  May 28th. Guests who will speak include <strong>Petah Coyne, Simone  Fattal, Joan Retallack, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Charles Bernstein, Susan  Bee, Ann Lauterbach, Susan Howe, Paolo Javier, Molissa Foley, Fiona  Templeton, Laura Elrick, Rodrigo Toscano, Steve Clay, Rachel Levitsky,  James Sherry, Pierre Joris, Judith Goldman, E. Tracy Grinnell and Tom  White. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There will be a wine and cheese reception to follow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">FREE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you can\u2019t attend but would like to honor Leslie Scalapino, please  consider a charitable donation in her memory to: Poets in Need, PO Box  5411, Berkeley, CA 94705; \u00a0Reed College for the Leslie Scalapino  Scholarship, 3203 Southeast Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR  97202-8199; \u00a0The AYCO Charitable Foundation, PO Box 15203, Albany, NY  12212-5203 for the Leslie Scalapino-O Books Fund to support innovative  works of poetry, prose and art; or to a charitable organization of your  choice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Memorial follows two performances of Scalapino\u2019s Noh play  Flow\u2013Winged Crocodile at Poets House:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Saturday, June 19, at 7:00pm &amp; Sunday, June 20, at 2:00pm<br \/>\nFlow\u2014Winged Crocodile: A Noh Play by Leslie Scalapino<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Directed by Fiona Templeton, with Katie Brown, Stephanie Silver  and Julie Troost. \u00a0Dance by Molissa Fenley. Music by Joan Jeanrenaud.  Projected drawings by Eve Biddle. Technical director: Ray Roy III.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\nThis Noh play by poet Leslie Scalapino travels between the left and  right sides of the brain, with appearances by a reincarnated Patty  Hearst in the 1974 SLA bank heist and a green-winged creature that is  part crocodile, part Michelin man and part charging rhino. The play is  performed by The Relationship, a performance group directed by Fiona  Templeton that specializes in innovative language and use of site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leslie Scalapino is the ground-breaking, genre-stretching author of  thirty books of poetry, poem-plays, essays, and fiction, including <em>way<\/em>,  which won the American Book Award; <em>Sight<\/em>, a collaboration with  Lyn Hejinian; <em>Zither &amp; Autobiography<\/em>; <em>The Tango<\/em>; <em>New  Time<\/em>; and <em>It\u2019s go in horizontal: Selected Poems 1974-2006<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cosponsored by Belladonna and The Poetry Project.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poetry Project and Poets House  Members<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial for Leslie Scalapino Monday June 21, 2010 8:00 p.m. The Poetry Project 131 E. 10th St. New York NY 10003 212-674-0910 | info@poetryproject.org It is with heavy hearts that we will open the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,91,94,97],"tags":[480,522,610],"class_list":["post-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memorial-reading","category-poetry","category-poets","category-reading","tag-leslie-scalapino","tag-memorial","tag-poetry-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}