December 1, 2009
12:30 PM
Auditorium Eastern Michigan University Student Center

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Writer and visual artist Yedda Morrison combines photography, sculpture, and text in thought-provoking installations. Her books include Girl Scout Nation (Displaced Editions, 2008), My Pocket Park (Dusie Press, 2007), Co (Collaboration with Bruce Andrews, Roof Books, 2006) and Crop (Kelsey Street Press, 2003). From 1998-2005 Morrison co-edited Tripwire: a Journal of Experimental Poetics and Visual Art. Represented by Republic Gallery in Vancouver, BC, she has exhibited her visual work in the US and Canada. Morrison was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and is currently living and working in Montreal. (more…)

Saturday, November 28, 2009 at 7PM
Arnold J. Kemp and Kim Hunter
Fall ’09 literary series curated by Tyrone Williams

Artist and writer, Arnold J. Kemp has lived and worked in New York City, San Francisco and, most recently, in Portland, Or. where he is Chair of the Master’s of Fine Arts in Visual Studies program. His work has been collected and exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Studio Museum in Harlem and at the at the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art’s Time-Based Art Festival, where he has also acted as a curator of exhibitions. Kemp was the Associate Curator at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from 1993 - 2003. His writing has appeared in Callaloo, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Agni Review, Mirage #4/ Period(ical), River Styx and Nocturnes.

Detroit born poet, Kim Hunter has been a factory worker, a security guard, a middle school teacher and a street-level, outreach worker. He has served as Poet-in-Residence in branches of the Detroit Public Library, Boysville (a facility for adjudicated youth) in Monroe, Michigan and Crosman Alternative High School in Detroit (under the auspices of the Inside/Out program). Hunter has read with such artists as Kathy Acker and Gil Scott Heron. His work has appeared in a variety of journals including Triage, Hipology, MetroTimes, Dispatch, Graffiti Rag and +R (Plus D’art). Past Tents Press published Hunter’s first collection of poems, borne on slow knives, in 2001. Hunter makes his living by working for the man as a regional media team leader for the U.S. Census Bureau, and helps run the Woodward Line monthly poetry series.

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The Ship of Fools
A multi-media contemporary performance — spanning genres from folk
to rockabilly to electronica — based on a 15th century text by Sebastian Brant
featuring: Alexander Hacke (Einsturzende Neubauten)
& Danielle de Picciotto (Love Parade)

Friday December 11, 2009
Doors 8pm, concert 9pm

The Music Gallery
197 John Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 1X6
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Issue #5 of textsound journal is live! Exercise your brain with Heike Fiedler, Ken Cormier, Chad Lietz, Anne Tardos, Angela Carr & Michèle Anderson, Stephanie Sherriff, Karl Petrunak, Home Items, Laura Goldstein, Tom Orange, and m loncar & Area C.
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