tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51901340777685994222024-03-21T06:02:11.706-07:00THE SWITCHPaul Gerardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283817317818830903noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-77575032654233435142019-03-04T15:33:00.004-08:002019-03-04T15:33:51.145-08:00abreu & Giles 3/15 @ Stumptown Division<br />
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Switch No. 50: manuel arturo abreu & Samantha Giles</h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;">It's our 50th Switch reading!!! We are super glad to celebrate it with Samantha Giles from Oakland and Portland's own manuel arturo abreu--both have new books. Start your weekend right. Come early to get a coffee, we'll start sharp.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzprn_TROGCFmStbcBHzQdPpQae-A1ZGjXwnR0e4BioaacoBgjPXGk-FpXaMZLhzRh8JbDZoP6Ok_ziH6WVerwZl_2TVjZpHcRpevOH_rBis28wBee4xcQ5rb4ehpBRYhf7MdnKfB4e4/s1600/abreu.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="813" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzprn_TROGCFmStbcBHzQdPpQae-A1ZGjXwnR0e4BioaacoBgjPXGk-FpXaMZLhzRh8JbDZoP6Ok_ziH6WVerwZl_2TVjZpHcRpevOH_rBis28wBee4xcQ5rb4ehpBRYhf7MdnKfB4e4/s200/abreu.png" width="158" /></a><b>manuel arturo abreu</b> (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx, currently living/working from a garage in southeast Portland. With text, ephemeral sculpture, and photography, they work in a process of magical thinking with attention to ritual aspects of aesthetics. Recent projects and engagements with MoMA (NYC), the Frye (Seattle), Yale Union (Portland), AA|LA Gallery (LA), and Rhizome + the New Museum (online). abreu is the author of three books, most recently the Oregon Book Award creative nonfiction finalist <i>Incalculable Loss</i>. They also co-facilitate home school, a free pop-up art school in Portland. <a href="https://manuelarturoabr.eu/">https://manuelarturoabr.eu</a><br />
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-79209321534982994232018-11-01T14:14:00.000-07:002018-11-05T07:39:37.718-08:00Chao & Boykoff + Wahnetah 12/1 @ Project Object<h3>
Switch No. 49: Geneva Chao and Jules Boykoff, with art by Jules and Jessi Wahnetah</h3>
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<b>Where:</b> Project Object, 2502 NE Sandy Blvd.<br />
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We are super excited to have this event at Project Object, which supports women, LGBTQ and POC artists and designers. In addition to our readers, the event will feature beautiful wooden box lamps/mirrors picturing activist heroes, handmade by Jules and Jessi Wahnetah (photo below!) plus Project Object's incredible store collection of art and artifacts--just in time for local holiday shopping. <br />
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<b> Genève/Geneva Chao </b>is the author of three books of poetry (<i>one of us is wave one of us is shore</i>, a bilingual discours amoureux; <i>Hillary Is Dreaming</i>, a dream journal of the 2016 election; and <i>émigré,</i> a history of emigration and loss in English, French, Guernesais, and Hawaiian pidgin) and several translations. Chao lives in Los Angeles.<br />
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<b>Jules Boykoff</b> is the author of three books of poetry – <i>Fireworks</i> (Tinfish Press, 2018), <i>Hegemonic Love Potion</i> (Factory School, 2009), and <i>Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge</i> (Edge Books, 2006) – and winner of the annual CAConrad Sexiest Poetry Award. He lives in Portland with Kaia Sand and Jessi Wahnetah, and teaches politics at Pacific University. More at <a href="http://www.julesboykoff.org/">www.julesboykoff.org</a> <br />
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<br />Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-80716314260478849262018-10-07T13:09:00.001-07:002018-10-07T13:11:45.541-07:00Eckes, Mutschlecner, Ogi, Strom 10/27 @ Ford Food and Drink<h3>
Switch No. 48: Ryan Eckes, David Mutschlecner, Alyssa Ogi and Dao Strom </h3>
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<span class="s1"><b>Ryan Eckes</b> is a poet from Philadelphia. His latest book, <i>General Motors </i>(Split Lip Press, 2018), is about labor and the influence of public and private transportation on city life. Other books include <i>Valu-Plus</i> and <i>Old News</i> (Furniture Press 2014, 2011)</span><span class="s2">. His poetry can be found in </span><span class="s1"><i>Tripwire,</i> <i>Slow Poetry in America Newsletter, Entropy </i>and elsewhere<i>.</i> In recent years, he has worked as an adjunct professor and labor organizer in education. He won a Pew Fellowship in 2016.</span><span class="s3"> </span></div>
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<b>David Mutschlecner </b>is a poet who lives and works in New Mexico. His books include <i>Icon</i>, <i>Esse, Sign</i>, and <i>Enigma and Light</i>, all published by Ahsahta Press. He is interested in theopoetics, where the poetic imagination breathes new life into philosophical-theology. In 2011 he won an award from the Fund for Poetry. His first book of prose, called <i>Poetic Faith</i>, was published by the Lune Press in 2016. He has been frequently published in the journal <i>New American Writing</i>.<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>Dao Strom</b> is a writer, artist, and musician whose work explores hybridity through melding disparate “voices”—written, sung, visual—to contemplate the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of a bilingual poetry/art book, <i>You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else</i> (Ajar Press, 2018), an experimental memoir, <i>We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People</i> + music album <i>East/West</i> (2015), and two books of fiction, <i>The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys</i> (2006) and <i>Grass Roof, Tin Roof</i> (2003). She is the editor of diaCRITICS and co-founder of the arts collectives, She Who Has No Master(s) and De-Canon. <a href="http://www.daostrom.com/"><span class="s2">www.daostrom.com</span></a> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-hx6wkRJx8Pw5LP7Osswx7Cy9G9YU8Ez8iJ0uxzugggZbZ7_-eoSYAcnZiBvf6Tdblc2x1r1qM7nEqD42lf_VqOuLMY3oJE5XKmlHskvaPvNWlmvuh9T_XhtsGTmtcCr8rishuLb2Zs/s1600/Gluck.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="539" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2-hx6wkRJx8Pw5LP7Osswx7Cy9G9YU8Ez8iJ0uxzugggZbZ7_-eoSYAcnZiBvf6Tdblc2x1r1qM7nEqD42lf_VqOuLMY3oJE5XKmlHskvaPvNWlmvuh9T_XhtsGTmtcCr8rishuLb2Zs/s200/Gluck.jpg" width="200" /></a><b>Robert Glück </b>served as director of San Francisco State University’s Poetry Center, co-director of Small Press Traffic Literary Center, and associate editor at Lapis Press. His books include two novels, <i>Jack the Modernist</i> and <i>Margery Kempe</i>, two books of stories, <i>Elements</i> and <i>Denny Smith</i>, a book of poems and short prose, <i>Reader</i>, and with Kathleen Fraser, a book of prose poems,<i> In Commemoration of the Visit</i>. With Camille Roy, Mary Berger, and Gail Scott, he edited <i>Biting the Error: Writers on Narrative</i>. Glück prefaced <i>Between Life and Death</i>, a book of Frank Moore’s paintings, and he made the film <i>Aliengnosis</i> with Dean Smith. Most recently, Glück published <i>Communal Nude: Collected Essays</i>, and<i> Parables</i>, an editioned artist book with Cuban artists Jose Angel Toirac and Meira Marrero Díaz. In 2019, <i>Margery Kempe</i> will be republished by New York Review of Books Classics. Glück lives “high on a hill” in San Francisco.<br />
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<b>Kreg Hasegawa</b> is the author of two chapbooks: <i>The New Crustacean</i> (2006) and <i>3 Tales</i> (2018). New work is due out in <i>Tether</i>. He is the editor of Smoke Specs, a chapbook press. He lives in Seattle and works as a dutiful public librarian.<br />
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<b>Hajara Quinn</b> lives in Portland OR where she works as the Program Director at the Independent Publishing Resource Center. Her poems have appeared in <i>Gramma Daily, Gulf Coast, The Volta</i> and <i>Sixth Finch</i>. Her first book, <i>Coolth </i>(Big Lucks 2018), was the winner of the Ruth Stone First Book Prize. <br />
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Writer and artist <b>Steven Seidenberg</b> is the author of <i>Situ</i> (Black Sun Lit, 2018), <i>Itch</i> (RAW ArT Press, 2014),<i> Null Set</i> (Spooky Actions Books, 2015), and numerous chapbooks of verse and aphorism, including <i>Duration Knows No Law</i> (ypolita press, 2016). He co-edited the three issues of <i>pallaksch.pallaksch</i>. (Instance Press, 2014-2018), is a member of the Right Window artists collective, and has had shows of his visual work in the US, Mexico, Japan, Germany and Italy. His collections of photographs include <i>Pipevalve: Berlin</i> (Lodima Press, 2017) and <i>Choshi </i>(Littlefield's, 2017).<br />
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-11989220549538426942018-03-09T07:46:00.000-08:002018-03-09T07:46:12.756-08:00Arterian, Lee, Tran April 2 @ Ford Food and Drink<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 64, 255); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Switch No.<dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers" style="background-color: inherit; border-width: 0px !important; color: inherit; cursor: inherit; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; position: static !important; text-decoration: inherit;"> 46: We're thrilled to host Diana Arterian, Janice Lee and Stacey Tran</dfn></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 64, 255); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 64, 255); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Where:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"> Ford Food and Drink</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;" /><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px !important; color: #222222; cursor: inherit; display: inline !important; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; position: static !important; text-decoration-line: inherit;">2505 SE </dfn><dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers" style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px !important; color: #222222; cursor: inherit; display: inline !important; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; position: static !important; text-decoration-line: inherit;">11th Ave, Portland </dfn><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><br />
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<i>Diana Arterian</i> is the author of <i>Playing Monster :: Seiche</i> (1913 Press, 2017), the chapbooks <i>With Lightness & Darkness and Other Brief Pieces </i>(Essay Press, 2017) and <i>Death Centos</i> (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2013), and coeditor of <i>Among Margins: Critical & Lyrical Writing on Aesthetics</i> (Ricochet, 2016). Her creative work has been recognized with fellowships from the Banff Centre, Caldera, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo; and her poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in <i>Asymptote, BOMB, Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly,</i> and <i>Los Angeles Review of Books,</i> among others. Born and raised in Arizona, Arterian currently resides in Los Angeles, where she serves as poetry editor at Noemi Press and is a PhD candidate in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Southern California.<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">
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<b>Janice Lee</b> is the author of <i>KEROTAKIS</i> (Dog Horn Press, 2010), <i>Daughter</i> (Jaded Ibis, 2011), <i>Damnation </i>(Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), <i>Reconsolidation</i> (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and <i>The Sky Isn’t Blue</i> (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She writes about the filmic long take, slowness, interspecies communication, the apocalypse, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, and Contributing Editor at Fanzine. After living for over 30 years in California, she recently moved from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon where she is an Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University.<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">
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<b>Stacey Tran</b> is a writer from Portland, OR. She is the creator of <a href="http://tendertable.com/">Tender Table</a>, a storytelling series about food, family, identity. She is the author of <a href="http://gramma.press/weekly/stacey-tran-excerpts-soap-dogs/"><i>Soap for the Dogs</i></a> (Gramma, 2018).<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-16841355014557795132018-02-13T21:13:00.001-08:002018-02-13T21:13:50.009-08:00dan raphael & Anastacia-Renee 3/16 7:30 p.m. @ Ford Food and Drink<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 64, 255); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Switch No.<dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers" style="background-color: inherit; border-width: 0px !important; color: inherit; cursor: inherit; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; position: static !important; text-decoration: inherit;"> 45 brings together two incredible performers: Anastasia-Renee from Seattle and Portland's own dan raphael</dfn></b><br />
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theatrical mixed-media project, <i>9 Ounces: A One Woman Show, </i>is a
multivalent play unapologetically<i> </i>downward dogging its way through
class, race, culture, oppression, depression, survival and epiphany. Her
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Lesbians—We Are the Revolution,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Revise
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 12.0pt;">For over three decades, <b>dan
raphael’s</b> been active in the Northwest as poet, performer, editor and reading
host. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Closer You Get to Nowhere</i>,
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June 2016. Current poems appear in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caliban,
Otoliths, Courtship of Birds, Blackbox Manifold</i> and I<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">n Between Hangovers</i>. He is prose editor
of Unlikely Stories, hosts the Fo Po Poetry series, and writes & records a
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Julian Talamantez Brolaski is poet and country singer, the author of </span></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Macho Chango</i> (forthcoming Wave Books 2019), <i>Of Mongrelitude</i> (Wave </span></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Books 2017), <i>Advice for Lovers</i> (City Lights 2012), <i>gowanus atropolis </i></span></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(Ugly Duckling Presse 2011), and co-editor of <i>NO GENDER: Reflections </i></span></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>on the Life & Work of kari edwards</i> (Litmus Press / Belladonna Books </span></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2009). Julian is the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the bands </span></span><span class="s1" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;">Juan & the Pines (NYC) and The Western Skyline (Oakland). It </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;">currently lives in Santa Barbara, researching and editing a book on </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;">the Mescalero Apache initiation ceremony with its grandmother, Inés </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: inherit;">Talamantez.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">David Larsen is a US poet and translator of
pre-modern Arabic literature. His article on the prison poetry of ‘Alī
ibn al-Jahm (d. 863 CE) appeared in a 2016 <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://books.google.com/books?id%3Dx_UoDgAAQBAJ%26lpg%3DPP1%26pg%3DPA67%23v%3Donepage%26q%26f%3Dfalse&source=gmail&ust=1514586561807000&usg=AFQjCNH-X-Pl3LcbREovp7lAazmT8LRAhQ" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=x_UoDgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank"><i>Festschrift</i> </a>for Everett Rowson, and in 2017 his translation of the <i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://paintedlantern.blogspot.com/p/lion-faq.html&source=gmail&ust=1514586561807000&usg=AFQjCNFASPOhed0JbpKRR8CpTjzJ6cdHtQ" href="http://paintedlantern.blogspot.com/p/lion-faq.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Names of the Lion</a></i> of Ibn Khālawayh (d. 980) was brought out in a new edition by Wave Books. His verse collection <i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/0976521105/the-thorn.aspx&source=gmail&ust=1514586561807000&usg=AFQjCNFBX06XS5EYr-A05P43FPXPUdmGAg" href="https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/0976521105/the-thorn.aspx" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">The Thorn</a></i> came
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;">Julia
Clare Tillinghast is from Michigan. She studied poetry at Sarah
Lawrence College and Virginia Tech, where she received her MFA. She has
spent a number of years, on and off, living in Istanbul, Turkey, and is
Co-Translator, along with Richard Tillinghast, of Dirty August, a
Selected Poems of the experimental 20th-century Turkish poet Edip
Cansever. In addition to translations in Agni, Guernica, Arts &
Letters, Poetry Daily, The Boston Review & others, she has had or
has forthcoming original poems in 3:AM Magazine, The Bakery, Fence
Magazine, H_NGM_N, Passages North, Pank, Pleiades, Rattle, Salt Hill,
Sixth Finch, Sou'Wester, and Tin House. She lives in Portland with her
partner, Matthew, and children, Owen & Hamza.</span></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif; font-weight: normal;">Amid bindweed and migrating hummingbirds, </span></strong><span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;"><b>Mary Cisper</b> lives in northern New Mexico.
Her first poetry collection, <i>Dark
Tussock Moth,</i> won the 2016 Trio House Award (Trio House Press, 2017). Her poems and reviews have been published in
various journals including <em>Denver
Quarterly, ZYZZYVA</em>, <em>Lana
Turner, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Terrain, Water-Stone Review, Newfound, FIELD, </em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">and</span></em><em> Omniverse</em>. A former
chemist, she was once on intimate terms with ion trap mass spectrometers. She recently completed her MFA in Poetry at
Saint Mary’s College of California.<o:p></o:p></span>Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-17128398420443877572017-09-07T21:39:00.000-07:002017-09-29T10:06:38.258-07:00Carr, Olstein and Vermaas, October 7, 7 pm @ IPRC<b style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(255, 64, 255); background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;">Switch No.<dfn class="dictionary-of-numbers" style="background-color: inherit; border-width: 0px !important; color: inherit; cursor: inherit; display: inline !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; position: static !important; text-decoration: inherit;"> 42 presents Julie Carr from Boulder, Lisa Olstein from Austin, and Portland's own Jake Vermaas</dfn></b><br />
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<b>Julie Carr</b> is the author of six books of poetry, including <i>100 Notes on Violence</i> (Ahsahta, 2010), <i>RAG</i> (Omnidawn, 2014), and <i>Think Tank</i> (Solid Objects, 2015). She is also the author of two prose works: <i>Surface Tension: Ruptural Time and the Poetics of Desire in Late Victorian Poetry</i> (Dalkey Archive, 2013) and <i>Objects from a Borrowed Confession</i> (Ahsahta, 2017). With Jeffrey Robinson she is the co-editor of Active Romanticism (University of Alabama Press, 2015). A chapbook of prose, “The Silence that Fills the Future,” was released as a free pdf from Essay Press: <a href="http://www.essaypress.org/ep-19/">http://www.essaypress.org/ep-19/</a><br />
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Carr’s co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s <i>Excess-The Factory</i> is due out from Commune Editions in 2018, as is a mixed-genre work, <i>Reallife: An Installation</i> (Omnidawn). Also to be published in 2018 is her book of critical essays, <i>Someone Shot my Book</i> (University of Michigan Press). <br />
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Carr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow and is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. She regularly collaborates with dance artist K.J. Holmes and, with Tim Roberts, is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden (<a href="http://www.counterpathpress.org/">www.counterpathpress.org</a>) in Denver.</div>
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<b>Lisa Olstein</b> is the author of four poetry collections: <i>Radio Crackling, Radio Gone</i> (Copper Canyon Press 2006), winner of the Hayden Carruth Award; <i>Lost Alphabet</i> (Copper Canyon Press 2009), a Library Journal best book of the year; <i>Little Stranger</i> (Copper Canyon Press 2013), a Lannan Literary Selection; and <i>Late Empire</i>, forthcoming from Copper Canyon in fall 2017. Her chapbook, <i>The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance</i>, won an Essay Press prize and was released in 2016. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, and her honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Writing Residency, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Centrum. <br />
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A member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin, Olstein teaches in the New Writers Project and Michener Center for Writers MFA programs. She is also the lyricist for the rock band Cold Satellite, fronted by acclaimed songwriter Jeffrey Foucault. Previously, she co-founded and for ten years directed the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, where she also served as associate director of the MFA program. She serves as an associate editor for Tupelo Quarterly, a contributing editor for jubilat, and advisor for Bat City Review.<br />
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Olstein earned a BA from Barnard College and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, undertaking additional studies at the Aegean Center for Fine Arts and Harvard Divinity School.<br />
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Hajara Quinn lives in Portland OR. She is an assistant editor for Octopus Books, Program Director at the IPRC, and the author of the chapbook <i>Unnaysayer</i> (Flying Object 2013). Her poems have appeared in <i>Gulf Coast, The Volta</i> and <i>Sixth Finch</i>, and she is the recipient of a 2015 Oregon Literary Fellowship. Her first book, <i>Coolth</i> is forthcoming from Big Lucks Books in 2017.<br /><div>
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James Yeary is, with Nate Orton, co-author of <i>My Night at Chopsticks III</i> (Abandoned Bike, 2017), a political and phenomenological survey of a Portland karaoke venue (and pop-up book). <i>My Night at Chopsticks III</i> is the 41st installment of the my day series. He has his fingers in a handful of micropresses, and writes for the <i>Northwest Review of Books</i>.</div>
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<b>Switch No. 39 presents Kreg Hasegawa from Seattle, Lauren Levin and Eric Sneathen from Oakland, and Portland's own C.E. Putnam</b><br />
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<b>Lauren Levin</b> is the author of <i>THE BRAID</i> (Krupskaya, 2016) and the forthcoming <i>TWO ESSAYS</i> (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2018) as well as several chapbooks. From 2011-2014, she co–edited the Poetic Labor Project. She grew up in New Orleans and lives in Richmond, CA with her family.<br />
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C.E. Putnam maintains the Putnam Institute for Space Opera Research in Portland, OR. His six book back catalog was published on the Autumnal Equinox in 2012. The chapbook "The Bunny Manuscript: Episode 3" is from the Little Red Leaves Textile series. His Halloween themed psych-mixes can be listened to here: <a href="https://m.mixcloud.com/PISOR/">https://m.mixcloud.com/PISOR/</a></div>
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</style>Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-75431193163414052982017-03-12T14:46:00.000-07:002017-03-17T16:52:57.807-07:003/25 Scappettone, Herrera, & DinéYazhi´ 7 p.m. @ IPRC<h4>
Switch No. 38 presents Jennifer Scappettone from Chicago and Portland's own Brandi Katherine Herrera & Demian DinéYazhi´</h4>
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<b>Brandi Katherine Herrera i</b>s a Portland, Ore. based multidisciplinary artist, poet, and translator, whose work in text, film, and sound explores the poetics of space. She is the author of <i><a href="http://brandikatherineherrera.com/mutterfarbe" target="_blank">Mutterfarbe</a></i>, a limited edition artist book of color theory, experimental translation, photography, and poems, and <i><a href="http://brandikatherineherrera.com/naturlicher" target="_blank">Natürlicher</a></i>, a chapbook of color swatch poems (<a href="http://brokencloudpress.com/portfolio/" target="_blank">Broken Cloud Press</a>, 2016). Her work is held in various private and public collections, including the Seattle Art Museum, and Yale University's Faber Birren Collection of Books on Color, and has been featured in a number of solo and group exhibitions, performance series, and publications, including 23 Sandy Gallery, Cube Gallery, Poetry Press Week, Pure Surface, The Volta, Octopus Magazine, The Common, and Poor Claudia, among others.<br />
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<b>Jennifer Scappettone</b> works at the crossroads of writing, translation, and scholarly research, on the page and off. She is the author of the hybrid-genre verse books <i><a href="http://www.litmuspress.org/from-dame-quickly/" target="_blank">From Dame Quickly</a></i> (Litmus, 2009) and <i><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781891190407/the-republic-of-exit-43-outtakes--scores-from-an-archaeology-and-popup-opera-of-the-corporate-dump.aspx" target="_blank">The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump</a></i> (just out from Atelos Press), and of the scholarly monograph <i><a href="http://cup.columbia.edu/book/killing-the-moonlight/9780231164320" target="_blank">Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice</a></i> (Columbia University Press, 2014). Her translations from the Italian of the polyglot poet and musicologist Amelia Rosselli were collected in <a href="http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo12620076.html" target="_blank"><i>Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli</i></a>. She founded, and curates, <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Italiana.php" target="_blank">PennSound Italiana</a>, a new sector of the audiovisual archive based at the University of Pennsylvania devoted to experimental Italian poetry. Her installation pieces were exhibited most recently at Una Vetrina Gallery in Rome and WUHO Gallery in Los Angeles, and she has collaborated on site-specific performance works with a wide spectrum of musicians, architects, code artists, and dancers, at locations ranging from the tract of Trajan’s aqueduct beneath the American Academy in Rome to Fresh Kills Landfill. Scappettone is an associate professor of various subjects at the University of Chicago.<br />
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<b>Demian DinéYazhi´ </b>(born 1983) is an Indigenous Diné transdisciplinary artist born to the clans Naasht'ézhí Tábąąhá (Zuni Clan Water's Edge) & Tódích'íí'nii (Bitter Water). Through research, mining community archives, and social collaboration and activism, DinéYazhi´ highlights the intersections of Radical Indigenous Queer Feminist identity and political ideology while challenging the white noise of the contemporary art movement. DinéYazhi´ is the founder of the artist/activist initiative, R.I.S.E.: <i>Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment</i>, which is dedicated to the education, perseverance, & evolution of Indigenous art & culture. DinéYazhi´ also serves as co-director for the zine, Locusts: A Post-Queer Nation Zine. DinéYazhi´ is currently a 2017 resident for Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Creative Exchange Lab Residency Program, as well as an awarded recipient of Crow’s Shadow 2017 Golden Spot Residency. You can follow him on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/heterogeneoushomosexual/" target="_blank">@heterogeneoushomosexual</a>.<br />
<br />Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-36246743506574886992017-02-17T10:57:00.002-08:002017-02-20T16:38:47.720-08:003/14: Abreu, Goldberg, Harris @ IPRC 7 p.m.Switch No. 37 presents three innovative poets, thinkers and artists from NYC and Portland.<br />
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<b>Who: </b>manuel arturo abreu, Ariel Goldberg and Jamondria Harris<br />
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<b>When: </b>Tuesday, March 14, 7 p.m. sharp<br />
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<b>manuel arturo abreu</b> (b. 1991, Santo Domingo) is a poet and artist from the Bronx. Currently living and working in a garage in southeast Portland, they received their BA in Linguistics from Reed College in 2014. Recent work in <i>AA|LA, As It Stands</i> (LA), <i>INCA</i> (Seattle), R<i>hizome, Open Space, NewHive</i>, et al. They wrote <i>List of Consonants</i> (Bottlecap Press, 2015) and <i>transtrender </i>(Quimérica Books). They co-facilitate <a href="http://homeschoolpdx.tumblr.com/">home school</a>, a free pop-up art school in Portland. Find manuel at <a href="http://www.manuelarturoabr.eu/">www.manuelarturoabr.eu</a>.<br />
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ARIEL GOLDBERG</b> is a writer, artist and curator. Their publications include T<i>he Estrangement Principle</i> (Nightboat Books) and <i>The Photographer </i>(Roof Books). Goldberg is the Friday Night Coordinator at The Poetry Project. Their research and performance based work has been supported by the New York Public Library, Franklin Furnace Fund, Headlands Center for the Arts, The Invisible Dog, Residencias Artísticas Intercambios and SOMA in Mexico City. They teach at Parsons, The New School, Pratt Institute, and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging.<br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Jamondria Marnice Harris </b>i<span style="font-weight: normal;">s </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">a poet & artist living in Portland. They use words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & what falls into their hands to engage with blackness, desire, decolonization, fairy tales, femme supremacy, & body horror. They are a VONA Workshop Fellow, among other things. Their music can be found at </span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/meroitic">soundcloud.com/meroitic</a>.</div>
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-5935562083839605652016-08-18T21:31:00.001-07:002016-09-09T09:51:22.472-07:009/17: Coleman, Collis, Rhodes & Sand @ Roll UpThe Switch is super happy to host this special event!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Switch No. 36: Jen Coleman, Stephen Collis and Kaia Sand-- with a special pop up show of paintings by Jeremy Okai Davis!</span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">When:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;"> Saturday, September 17, 7 p.m. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>Stephen Collis’s</b> many books of poetry
include <i>The Commons </i>(Talon Books 2008; 2014), <i>On the Material </i>(Talon Books
2010—awarded the BC Book Prize for Poetry), <i>DECOMP</i> (with Jordan Scott—Coach
House 2013), and <i>Once in Blockadia</i> (Talon Books 2016). He has also written two
books of literary criticism, a book of essays on the Occupy Movement, and a
novel. In 2014 he was sued for $5.6 million by U.S. energy giant Kinder Morgan,
whose lawyers read his writing in court as “evidence.” He lives near Vancouver,
on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon
Fraser University. </span><br />
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In the work of <b>Jeremy Okai Davis</b>, color use and fidelity to his subjects make them feel alive, but without being too literal. The work feels really light at first glance, but on closer examination of text and posture, the work is full of conflict, an exploration of the contrast between the shiny, smiling exterior that is frequently presented on the surface and the inner, self-conscious, status obsessed mind state that so many of us endure beneath it all.<br />
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<b>Leo Rhodes </b>is a Street Roots vendor and board member, and a community organizer with experience organizing self-managed tent cities and indoor and outdoor shelters in both Seattle and Portland. He is a military veteran and brings the experience of homelessness and the Native American perspective as a member of the Pima tribe. Leo is currently completing a memoir told through poetry and prose, as well as a play based on the founding of Right2DreamToo.</div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Kaia Sand</b> is the author of the newly released <i>A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost its Puff</i> (Tinfish Press 2016) as well as <i>Remember to Wave</i> (Tinfish Press 2010), and <i>interval</i> (Edge Books), a Small Press Traffic book of the year in 2004; and co-author with Jules Boykoff of <i>Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space</i> (Palm Press, 2008). With Garrick Imatani, she was an artist-in-residence from 2013-2015 at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center, responding to historical surveillance files on local political activists. This past spring she exhibited Moth, Flame, Desire, at the Portland Community College Cascade Gallery, after serving in the Despina Artist Residency at Largo das Artes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She works across genres and media, dislodging poetry from the book into more unconventional contexts; she documents work at <a href="http://kaiasand.net/"><span class="s2">kaiasand.net</span></a>.</span></div>
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-72331508098278371022016-08-17T12:43:00.000-07:002016-09-14T18:37:15.332-07:009/9: Carrie Hunter @ Littman Gallery with Ben Glas<i>We are very excited to co-host a reading with the Littman Gallery by Bay Area poet </i><b>Carrie Hunter</b><i>, as a part of an exhibition of a sound work by artist Ben Glas. Please join us for Switch no. 37!</i><b>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Reading by Carrie Hunter</b></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br />When:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14px;"> Friday, September 9, 7:00 p.m.</span><b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br />Where:</b></span></b></span></span></span></b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b></b> Littman Gallery at Portland State University,</span></span></span> 1825 SW Broadway, Smith Memorial Student Union (SMSU), Portland<b>.</b></span><b> </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="s1"><b>Ben Glas</b><i> Ing Ing (Variation 3) </i></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="s1"> </span><span class="s1"><br />On view </span>September 9, 12 – 4 p.m.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"> <span style="color: black;"><b>Carrie Hunter</b> received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, edits the chapbook press, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://tumblr.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u%3Ded6a6838ec3e82463557a486a%26id%3D672a49cc61%26e%3Daa3c0038dc&source=gmail&ust=1472086220664000&usg=AFQjCNHELuHrn-1fITmhYpZPh42Rdqzg1g" href="http://tumblr.us11.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=ed6a6838ec3e82463557a486a&id=672a49cc61&e=aa3c0038dc" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">ypolita press</a>, and is on the editorial board of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://tumblr.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u%3Ded6a6838ec3e82463557a486a%26id%3D74a53e642b%26e%3Daa3c0038dc&source=gmail&ust=1472086220664000&usg=AFQjCNGT__QrzA1_zM2oncuNHaIWLHbhIA" href="http://tumblr.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ed6a6838ec3e82463557a486a&id=74a53e642b&e=aa3c0038dc" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Black Radish Books</a>. Her latest chapbook <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://tumblr.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Ded6a6838ec3e82463557a486a%26id%3D3c60dbcf42%26e%3Daa3c0038dc&source=gmail&ust=1472086220664000&usg=AFQjCNHd6bECx4fpehc9wk6Vh2LD2OLlSA" href="http://tumblr.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed6a6838ec3e82463557a486a&id=3c60dbcf42&e=aa3c0038dc" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><i>Vice/Versa</i></a> recently came out with <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://tumblr.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Ded6a6838ec3e82463557a486a%26id%3D4991ffa6a5%26e%3Daa3c0038dc&source=gmail&ust=1472086220664000&usg=AFQjCNEmTG7aAvPlSa0RGD38vI9q2ijxdA" href="http://tumblr.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ed6a6838ec3e82463557a486a&id=4991ffa6a5&e=aa3c0038dc" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Dancing Girl Press</a>. Her full-length collection, <i>The Incompossible</i>, was published in 2011 by Black Radish Books, and another, <i>Orphan Machines</i>, came out in 2015. She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "helvetica";"><b>Ben Glas</b> is an interdisciplinary artist and composer based in Portland, Oregon. <a href="http://blnkstrs.com/ben-glas" style="font-weight: normal; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">Glas</a>'
work focuses intently on egalitarian proprioception, stasis/rush within
digital systems, and notions of spacetime. Working extensively
with sine-waves and unconventional softwares, Glas engages physical
spaces and their ephemeral inhabitants to remind participants of a
momentary sonic awareness within space and time. </span><span style="color: #656565; font-family: "helvetica";"> </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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merges time and space, proprioception and movement. Utilizing
open-ended drones and acoustic beating, its installation space becomes
an interactive 3D album; the choice of movement and composition are in
the hands and minds of each individual listener, as they sculpt their
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Paul Gerardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283817317818830903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-43338753470242903942016-05-28T08:11:00.002-07:002016-05-28T11:48:32.878-07:00Conrad, Carr, Buuck 6/19 @ Ford Food and DrinkSwitch No. 35: CAConrad, Emily Carr and David Buuck<br />
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turn into love poems that are sometimes (by her McSweeney’s editors, for
example) called divorce poems.” She has lived all over the world and is the
author of several collections and chapbooks of poems. After she got an MFA in
poetry from the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, she took a doctorate
in ecopoetics at the University of Calgary. These days, she’s the program
director of the low-residency MFA in creative writing at Oregon State
University-Cascades. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #0b0b0b; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 17.3333px;">Her newest book, </span><a href="https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/whosoever-has-let-a-minotaur-enter-them-or-a-sonnet?taxon_id=1" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 17.3333px;"><span class="s2">Whosoever Has Let a Minotaur Enter Them, Or a Sonnet—</span></a><span style="color: #0b0b0b; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 17.3333px;">, is available from McSweeney's. It inspired a beer of the same name, now available at the </span><a href="http://www.thealeapothecary.com/" style="font-family: calibri; font-size: 17.3333px;"><span class="s2">Ale Apothecary</span></a><span style="color: #0b0b0b; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 17.3333px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b0b0b; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>David Buuck</b> is a writer and performer who lives in
Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in
Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of <i>Tripwire</i>, a journal of poetics.
Recent publications include <i>SITE CITE CITY</i> (Futurepoem, 2015) and <i>An Army of
Lovers</i>, co-written with Juliana Spahr (City Lights, 2013). <i>A Swarming, A
Wolfing</i> is forthcoming from Roof Books in 2016. He teaches composition at Mills
College and is an organizer for the Adjuncts Union, SEIU local 1021.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-74497764557802631692016-04-13T19:52:00.000-07:002016-04-20T12:37:38.896-07:00Halpern, Haynes, Jensen 5/7 @ IPRCSwitch No. 34: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "verdana" , "geneva" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18.48px;">Rob Halpern of Ypsilanti, MI, and Portland's own Lamarra Haynes and Rachael Jensen.</span><br />
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<i>Common Place</i> (Ugly
Duckling Presse 2015) is <b>Rob Halpern's</b> most recent book of poetry. Other titles
include <i>Music for Porn</i> (Nightboat 2013), <i>Disaster Suites</i> (Palm Press 2009), and
<i>Rumored Place</i> (Krupskaya 2006). Together with Taylor Brady, he also co-authored
the book-length poem <i>Snow Sensitive Skin</i>, which has been reissued by Displaced
Press. Recent essays and translations appear in <i>Chicago Review</i>, <i>Journal of
Narrative Theory</i>, and <i>The Claudius App</i>. Rob currently splits his time between
San Francisco and Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he teaches at Eastern Michigan
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developing her poetic voice last year when her professor, Kaia Sand, gave her
the space to express her coursework through a poetic lens. Lamarra’s poems
generally emerge from political analysis and then she attempts to make the
political personal; she attempts to understand how big lofty political
decisions have affected her own life. Her poem “#FreddieGray” is published in
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-90623357147213447142016-03-13T10:21:00.000-07:002016-03-22T15:49:33.348-07:00Landers, Sand and Masigat 3/26 @ Roll Up Photo Studio + GalleryThe Switch is proud to host a reading by Susan Landers of Brooklyn, who has a new book just out from Roof, along with our own Kaia Sand, and music from Portland's Kelly Anne Masigat!<br />
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<span class="s1"><b>Susan Landers'</b> latest book, <a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/9781931824644/franklinstein.aspx"><span class="s2">FRANKLINSTEIN</span></a>, tells the story of one Philadelphia neighborhood wrestling with the legacies of colonialism, racism, and capitalism. She is also the author of 248 MGS., A PANIC PICNIC and COVERS. Her chapbooks include <i>15: A Poetic Engagement with the Chicago Manual of Style</i> and<i> What I Was Tweeting While You Were On Facebook</i>. She was the founding editor of the journal Pom2 and has an MFA from George Mason University. She lives in Brooklyn. You can follow her on Twitter @suelanders. </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>Kaia Sand </b>writes investigative poetry that is often experiential and material. She is the author of three poetry collections—<i>Interval</i> (Edge Books), <i>Remember to Wave</i> (Tinfish Press), and <i>A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Money that Lost Its Puff </i> (forthcoming<i>, </i>Tinfish Press), which includes a magic show she created about the global financial crisis. Sand co-authored <i>Landsapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space</i>; and created poetry sign projects as well as a series of poetry walks. She served in a residency with artist Garrick Imatani at the City of Portland Archives and Records Center, commissioned by the Regional Arts & Culture Council, where they explored surveillance police filed on political activists. Sand built a poetic series, <i>“She Had Her Own Reason for Participating,”</i> sledgehammering copper cards. This past autumn, she served in a Despina Artist residency at Largo das Artes, Rio de Janeiro. This winter, she had a solo exhibition at the Cascade Gallery, Portland Community College. More info: <span class="s2"><a href="http://kaiasand.net/">http://kaiasand.net/</a></span></span><br />
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-66546487606037947292016-01-27T12:25:00.002-08:002016-01-27T12:38:35.775-08:00Simon, Ruoff, & Jet Black Pearl: 2/21 @ IPRC<h4>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aaron Simon</b> is
the author of Carrier (Insurance Editions, 2006), Periodical Days (Green
Zone Editions, 2007), Senses Himself (Green Zone Editions, 2014), and
<a href="http://www.blazevox.org/index.php/blog/rain-check-poems-by-aaron-simon-now-available-341/" target="_blank">Rain Check Poems</a> (BlazeVOX [books], 2015). His poems have appeared in
several publications, including Like Musical Instruments: 83
Contemporary American Poets (Broadstone Books, 2014), Shiny, Exquisite
Corpse, Sal Mimeo, Across the Margin, Nowhere, and Harriet the Blog. He
studied poetry and philosophy at The New School in NYC, and has lived
between San Francisco and Brooklyn since 1999.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lindsay Allison Ruoff</b> lives in Portland, OR where she works at an
elementary school. She is the author and creator of the ebook <a href="https://archive.org/stream/moodring_201403/moodring#page/n0/mode/1up" target="_blank"><i>MOOD RING</i></a> and the very small chapbook MIRACLE ROMANCE. You can see more of what she's made at: <a href="http://laruoff.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">laruoff.tumblr.com</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jet Black Pearl</b> - This world wild accordion diva from the port of
Amsterdam started as a graphic designer and street musician in New York
before she moved to France, from where she performed on more than a
thousand stages all over Europe. She recently moved to Portland, ready
to experience new adventures with (or without) her accordion. <a href="http://jetblackpearl.com/">http://jetblackpearl.com</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i> "The
most eccentric and equally the most talented woman you will see in
Edinburgh this month." </i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>- Broadway Baby, Edinburgh Fringe Festival</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">LONE STAR</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">A traffic camera flashed</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">between</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Dallas-Forth Worth</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the dead moon in a jar </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the perils of youth</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Motion</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> itself</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> kind of due process</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the feeling of flight risk</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">conspires</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> with air</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Night</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> falls hard on the plains</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">erasing</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the lakes</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">where</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the new summer opens</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);"><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">its</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">synoptical</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> lens</span></span></div>
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from REFLESH<br />
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I wanted to intensify my ability<br />
to totally inhabit the body<br />
to do it to death<br />
I wanted to be or do<br />
at least one thing forever<br />
but I’ve misplaced my credentials<br />
when we move to enunciate violence<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Jet Black Pearl live in La Vista Theater </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in Montpellier, with Mic Lee (beat box) </span></i></div>
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Magdalena Zurawski's poetry collection <i><a href="http://www.litmuspress.org/companion-animal/" target="_blank">Companion Animal </a></i>was published in 2015 by Litmus Press. Her novel, <i><a href="http://www.fc2.org/authors/zurawski/bruise/bruise.html" target="_blank">The Bruise</a></i> (FC2 2008), won
both the Ronald Sukenick Prize for innovative fiction and the LAMBDA Award for
Lesbian Debut Fiction. Her online column on teaching aesthetics after Ferguson
can be viewed at <a href="http://jacket2.org/commentary/feel-beauty-supply-post-1" target="_blank">Jacket2</a>. Zurawski teaches in the <a href="https://www.english.uga.edu/cwp/pages/143" target="_blank">Creative Writing Program</a> at the
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<span class="s1">Amy Berkowitz is the author of <i>Tender Points</i> (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2015). Her writing has appeared in publications including <i>Dusie</i>, <i>Textsound</i>, and <i>Where Eagles Dare</i>, and on the VIDA blog. In 2014, she was a Writer in Residence at Alley Cat Bookstore & Gallery. She lives in a rent-controlled apartment in San Francisco, where she is the founding editor of Mondo Bummer Books and the host of the Amy's Kitchen Organics reading series.</span></div>
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Dear night possessor: your funeral barge rocked tight in the fisting water makes small winter </div>
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Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-3772723475652150422015-07-14T15:32:00.000-07:002015-07-14T15:34:42.798-07:00Saturday, August 8: Tolbert & Gray<div dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-535f693d-8a45-cf2f-576b-cef56e93f2b6" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">Explain to me the crime of poverty<br /><br />Asking for too many buttons<br />Wrong thing I get But question<br />Where I'm smiling<br /><br />Are the dead ones tonight<br />Pigeon faced in the slop</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">It's time to up The moon<br /><br />The moon isn't hiding It's out<br />Soak air plant Sunday<br />Do you speak To your hunger<br /><br />In the mirror I am<br />Pushing myself into Love Lake You</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;">Can't keep<br /><br />A good Horse<br />Out of church<br />Oh!<br /><br />I was not born<br />To write poems<br />Today<br /><br />Having been Numbed<br />By the beauty<br />I put the book down<br /><br />Pick it back up<br />The dough In hell<br />Is rising<br /><br />The dogs of Joy are walking<br />Foreign graveyards<br />Abandon the space<br /><br />Inside body<br />King of dumb<br />Pain in bed<br /><br />Am I sick Because I deserve<br />But the Sun The clock<br />And feast<br /><br />I kiss my own<br />Miss the New<br />And quickly Carcass my grief</span><br />
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<br />Paul Gerardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283817317818830903noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-81756941868191387762015-04-09T11:20:00.001-07:002015-04-09T11:20:42.455-07:00Haley, Kawano, Tran 4/22 7 p.m. Radio Room<br />
The Switch is super excited to host a special event at the Radio Room featuring readings by Jamalieh Haley and Stacey Tran in conjunction with an exhibit of visual art by Yukiyo Kawano.<br />
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<b>When:</b> Wednesday, April 22, 7 pm sharp<br />
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<b>Where:</b> <a href="http://www.radioroompdx.com/" target="_blank">Radio Room</a>, 1101 NE Alberta, PDX<br />
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Jamalieh Haley lives in Portland, Oregon where she co-curates <a href="http://ifnotforkidnap.com/" target="_blank">If Not For Kidnap</a> and teaches writing and literature. Her work has appeared in <i>Interrupture</i>, <i>Sink Review</i>, <i>Everyday Genius</i>, <i>Sixth Finch</i>, <i>Plinth</i> and she is the author of <i>Strange Tarot</i> (Poor Claudia, 2014). <br />
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<a href="http://yukiyokawano.com/" target="_blank">Yukiyo Kawano</a>, a third generation hibakusha (nuclear bomb survivor) grew up decades after the bombing of Hiroshima. Her work is personal, reflecting lasting attitudes towards the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Kawano’s main focus is her/our forgetfulness, her/our dialectics of memory, issues around cultural politics, and historical politics. She has an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, is the recipient of numerous grants, and has exhibited her work in the U.S. and Japan. <br />
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<a href="http://www.staceytran.com/" target="_blank">Stacey Tran</a> is a curator of a performance series, <a href="http://www.puresurface.info/" target="_blank">Pure Surface</a>, and an editor of a small press publisher, <a href="http://poorclaudia.org/" target="_blank">Poor Claudia</a>. Her poems have appeared in <i>The Curator</i>, <i>Imperial Matters</i>, <i>BOAAT</i>, <i>The Volta</i>, and other publications online and in print. She lives and works in Portland, OR.Allison Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18431179513192401190noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190134077768599422.post-56282252644294785342015-01-18T13:31:00.000-08:002015-01-18T18:05:38.938-08:00Karmin & O'Malley, Saturday, 1/31, 7:30 pm IPRCThe Switch is pleased to present Jennifer Karmin of Chicago and Portland's own A.M. O'Malley.<br />
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<b>When:</b> Saturday, January 31, doors at 7 pm, reading at 7:30 sharp. FREE<br />
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<b>Where:</b> IPRC, 1001, SE Division, PDX<br />
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<b>Jennifer Karmin’s</b> multidisciplinary projects have been presented across the U.S., Cuba, Japan, Kenya, and Europe. A founding curator of the Red Rover Series, she is author of the text-sound epic <i>Aaaaaaaaaaalice</i>. Her poetry is widely published, most recently in <i>I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women</i>, <i>The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing</i>, the Iraq War chronicle<i> 4000 Words 4000 Dead + Revolutionary Optimism: An American Elegy</i>, and as Bernadette Mayer’s assistant on <i>The Helens of Troy, NY</i>. She teaches creative writing to immigrants at Truman College and has been a Visiting Writer at Naropa University, Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts, plus a myriad of sites. In 2015, she returns to Cuba for a collaboration that will be part of the Havana Biennial. Here is her <a href="http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/2009/09/jennifer-karmin-bernadette-mayer-on.html" target="_blank">neutrino poem</a>, with Bernadette Mayer.<br />
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<b>A.M. O'Malley</b> has been writing and publishing on various planes since 1998. Ms. O’Malley left home at 17 years old and began her own odyssey, zigzagging across the United States, working as a waitress, bartender, a community organizer, a Kirby vacuum salesman, a maid, canvasser and through it all she was writing and reading and making zines. She has recently been published in <i>The Newer York, Jerkpoet, Poor Claudia, Phenome, UnShod Quills, The Burnside Review and The Portland Review</i>. Her work also appears in the forthcoming anthology <i>Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity</i> edited by Carter Sickels for Ooligan Press. She is a Literary Arts Writers in the Schools teaching artist, a Young Audiences Teaching Artist Studio graduate, a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant recipient and winner of the 2014 Skidmore Prize. In 2012, Ms. O’Malley started a writing and publishing program at the Columbia River Correctional Institution and goes there every Tuesday night to teach writing to incarcerated men. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon. Find her work <a href="http://www.inknode.com/users/amomalley" target="_blank">HERE</a>, <a href="http://poorclaudia.org/phenome/a-m-omalley/" target="_blank">HERE</a>, and <a href="http://vimeo.com/47385214" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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