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Jay Besemer - Simple Machines, Co-creating the Future

green_spaceMar 29, 2022

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Chaun Webster - Other Suns
Feb 26, 202431:24
Laura Jaramillo - The Savage Detectives Is Real

Laura Jaramillo - The Savage Detectives Is Real

Jan 29, 202438:43
Olivia Muenz - Healthcare, The Systems That Kill Us, and Vibing Straight Through

Olivia Muenz - Healthcare, The Systems That Kill Us, and Vibing Straight Through

Machines, bureaucracy, health care, and the systems that kill us / TENS units / illness / Taoism, Buddhism, and the future / 5 year plans as antithetical to the human experience getting in the way of getting a job / the internet as primary third space / Tik Tok as creative platform / art as a way of being, process / everything we do is a form of art / dreams as involuntary vulnerability / Jung / dreamscapes / disability and sensuality, eroticism and illness / leaning into innuendo / hate noise / discerning what your desire is / the body articulating a desire which cannot be met / Sarah Manguso / Amy Hempel / there she is [the moon] / vibing straight through / birth readings / being blanketed by the night

 

https://www.oliviamuenz.com/

 

Olivia Muenz is a disabled writer from New York. She is the author of poetry collection I Feel Fine (Switchback Books, 2023), which won the 2022 Gatewood Prize, and chapbook Where Was I Again (Essay Press, 2022). She received a BA from New York University and an MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University where she won the Robert Penn Warren Thesis Award in prose. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New England Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry Daily, Michigan Quarterly Review, Gulf Coast, Conduit, Black Warrior Review, Pleaides, Massachusetts Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere, including being listed as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2023. Her writing has been supported by the Tin House Summer Workshop, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Zoeglossia. She lives in the Hudson Valley.

Jan 01, 202427:12
Laura Jaramillo, Sarah Sgro, & Marty Cain perform at green_space 4/1/23

Laura Jaramillo, Sarah Sgro, & Marty Cain perform at green_space 4/1/23

The Spring 2023 green_space (relocated from Chapin Parkway to a home on the West Side due to lightning). Our readers:


Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic. Born to Colombian parents in Queens, New York, she now lives in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.

https://laurajaramillo-poetfilm.squarespace.com/


Sarah Sgro is a PhD candidate in English at the University at Buffalo where she studies digital waste and co-leads the Palah Light Lab, a creative and critical community for queer and feminist new media. She is the author of If The Future Is a Fetish (YesYes Books, 2019) and received her MFA in poetry from the University of Mississippi.

http://sarah-sgro.com/


Marty Cain is a poet originally from Vermont. He is the author of three books of poetry and hybrid writing—most recently, The Prelude (Action Books, 2023). His individual works appear in Best American Experimental Writing 2020, Fence, Poetry Daily, Denver Quarterly, Sink Review, mercury firs, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Mississippi and a PhD from Cornell University, where he wrote a dissertation on rural poetic community. He is currently a postdoc within the Humanities Scholars Program at Cornell. He lives in Ithaca, New York, where he co-edits Garden-Door Press and performs with BOGMOM, a poetry + sound collective.

https://www.marty-cain.com/

Jun 15, 202358:26
Mike Corrao - Hopeless Tasks

Mike Corrao - Hopeless Tasks

how to cut every vegetable / cursed instagram page / art that provokes pain / tactile discomfort / creation as ritual sacrifice / hyper-presentness / interesting trash / repurposing ambient data collection / turning a technical-rational operation into an occulted enigma


Mike Corrao is the author of numerous works including Gut Text (11:11 Press), Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede (11:11 Press), Desert Tiles (Equus Press), and Smut-Maker (Inside the Castle). His work often explores the haptic, architectural, and organismal qualities of the text-object.
As an artist and designer, his work has been featured in the catalogs of 11:11 Press, Fonograf Editions, Apocalypse Party, Inside the Castle, and other presses. 
As an editor, he operates CLOAK.wtf.

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http://www.mikecorrao.com/

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Book Recs: INTRASPACE by Christina Jauernik and Wolfgang Tschapeller / Deleuzine Vol 1. Specifically the essay, SPILLS by Geiste Kincinaityte and Elain Tam / IMPERFECT ARCHIVING, ARCHIVING AS PRACTICE: FOR A LOVE OF SOFTNESS by Be Oakley at Genderfail Press / Vermis I by Plastiboo

Music Recs:  God’s Trashmen Sent to Right the Mess by Fievel is Glauque / I’m in your walls by death insurance / LP! By JPEGMAFIA / Aethiopes by billy woods / Haram by Armand Hammer / Absolutely by Dijon / Fireside Chat with Lucifer by Sun Ra / Space 1.8 by Nala Sinephro / Dollar Menu by Mach-Hommy

May 29, 202338:12
ava hofmann & Isaac Pickell perform at green_space 11/13/22

ava hofmann & Isaac Pickell perform at green_space 11/13/22

The Fall 2022 green_space in Chapin Parkway, Buffalo.

ava hoffman performed work from [ . . . ]

Ava Hofmann's digital chapbook, THE WOMAN FACTORY, was published by the Operating System in 2020. Her second full-length book, love poems / smallness studies,  is forthcoming in 2022. She also “edits” SPORAZINE, a magazine of  experimental writing written by trans people. Her Twitter is @st_somatic  and her website is www.nothnx.com.

Isaac Pickell performed new works and pieces from everything saved will be last.

Raised in Michigan near the back of his parents’ used bookstore,  Isaac Pickell is a biracial poet & PhD candidate at Wayne State  University in Detroit, where he teaches and studies the borderlands of  blackness and black literature. a graduate of Miami University's MFA  program, his work’s been featured in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter, you can find his newest stuff online at Perhappened, Protean Magazine, or Sixth Finch, his chapbook everything saved will be last (Black  Lawrence Press, 2021) and his forthcoming full-length debut from Black  Ocean in 2023. Isaac has taken a seat in all fifty states and has so  much to look forward to.

His dissertation, “Passing Over, Passing Through: Transgressive  Ambiguity Beyond the Colorline,” reimagines the literary and cultural  history of “passing” through its growth as a contextually bound cultural  phenomenon applied not only to race, but other socially constructed and  rigid categories which preoccupy the American landscape, including  gender, sexuality, and citizenship. by developing “passing” as a  critical lens for considering various representations of ambiguous  identity, Isaac hopes to promote analysis of other “category crises”  grounded in and sensitive to the ongoing story of racial passing.

https://www.isaacpickell.com/


Jan 14, 202341:16
Isaac Pickell - Agitated Into Questioning

Isaac Pickell - Agitated Into Questioning

sea lion whiskers, poetry as a feeling organ / agitated into questioning / mimesis / if time travel isn't true I don't want to be true / didn't do it for the 22,480/yr / 'pronouns of knowing' / C. Riley Snorton / I am the thinker that excites me most / theoretically-adjacent poetry / Rob Halpern / Kevin Latimer / thinking by seeking / Taylor Byas / terror of limitlessness and time / the precarity of the resource of life as source of meaning / hand-drawn infographics / we need to waste our energy and time, contend with the byproducts of our productivity / waste is something that happens, not something that is / before the production of wreckage / there is a cat, you're just a cat / it feels like a sunset all of the time / I want leisure to be everything / the Fermi Paradox / Froyo and other meritocracies / commuter who hugs tight to their well-soiled lane / machines are a miracle for anyone who gets to control them / poetry is going to have to sacrifice the page / poetry as 3-dimensional object / poet as prospective propagandist / the world is so fucked at this moment but in a way which is boring / Alice Phoebe Lou / Loving / Noname

Raised in Michigan near the back of his parents’ used bookstore, Isaac Pickell is a biracial poet & PhD candidate at Wayne State University in Detroit, where he teaches and studies the borderlands of blackness and black literature. a graduate of Miami University's MFA program, his work’s been featured in Black Warrior Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Fence, The Missouri Review, and Ninth Letter, you can find his newest stuff online at Perhappened, Protean Magazine, or Sixth Finch, his chapbook everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and his forthcoming full-length debut from Black Ocean in 2023. Isaac has taken a seat in all fifty states and has so much to look forward to.

His dissertation, “Passing Over, Passing Through: Transgressive Ambiguity Beyond the Colorline,” reimagines the literary and cultural history of “passing” through its growth as a contextually bound cultural phenomenon applied not only to race, but other socially constructed and rigid categories which preoccupy the American landscape, including gender, sexuality, and citizenship. by developing “passing” as a critical lens for considering various representations of ambiguous identity, Isaac hopes to promote analysis of other “category crises” grounded in and sensitive to the ongoing story of racial passing.

https://www.isaacpickell.com/

Dec 12, 202201:15:04
Joel Craig & Megan Kyle perform at green_space 8/26/22

Joel Craig & Megan Kyle perform at green_space 8/26/22

The Summer 2022 green_space in Chapin Parkway, Buffalo.

Megan Kyle brought us the sound installation Soggy Music

for any number of participants of any skill level, body of water,  hydrophone, and fixed media playback routed through Max patch

by Megan Kyle, electronics by Ethan Hayden

Buffalo-based oboist Megan Kyle performs as a soloist, improviser, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. She makes nonsense and sense of unfamiliar sonic experiences as a listener, performer, and teacher.

Megan is a member of the new music ensemble Wooden Cities, musical research group Null Point, voice/oboe duo Senso di Voce, and oboe/piano/violin/cello quartet The Evolution of the Arm. She teaches oboe at Houghton University, SUNY Geneseo, and SUNY at Buffalo.

Her most recent recording is an EP with The Evolution of the Arm called Telepathic Music Vol. 1, released this summer on Infrasonic Press.

Joel Craig came from Chicago to read poems as the sun set and wind blew. Here's Joel Craig:

Joel Craig is the author of Humanoid (2021) and The White House (2012), both from the Green Lantern Press. He co-founded and hosted the Danny’s Reading Series in Chicago from 2001-2015 and serves as an artistic associate for the Lit & Luz festival (litluz.org), an event series series of events featuring authors, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico in cultural exchange and conversation. Joel is also poetry editor for MAKE literary magazine. His poetry can be found in A Public Space, Boston Review, FENCE, and more recently in Fonograf Editions Magazine, and at Windfall Room.

green_space is a seasonal event series that takes place outdoors rain or shine or snow in Buffalo’s public space run by Jake Reber and Joe Hall. It is interested in readings in places that are unfussy and everyday. It is interested in what a reading can be without walls. 

Oct 24, 202237:45
Tim Liu - A Cosmic Library, The Other Who Comes

Tim Liu - A Cosmic Library, The Other Who Comes

A cosmic library / The unsayable / Rickie Lee Jones / akashic records / Devo / L’avenir / UMass / Derrida / David Berman / Space for feeling-states / poetry / Pavement / Hedonism / What is to come, someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected…that is the real future, the other who comes without my being able to anticipate their arrival / Grounding a reading / The machine and the divine / To rediscover through the detours of art those two or three great and simple images in whose presence their heart first opened / the unimaginability of the future / If it bores God, you’re f*cked

Timothy Liu (Liu Ti Mo) was born in 1965 in San Jose, California to immigrant parents from Mainland China. He is the author of twelve books of poems, including Of Thee I Sing, selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book-of-the-Year; Say Goodnight, a 1998 PEN Open Book Margins Award; and Vox Angelica, which won the 1992 Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. He has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry. His next book, Down Low and Low Down: Bedside Bottom-Feeder Blues, will be published in 2023.

Translated into ten languages, Liu’s poems have appeared in such places as Best American Poetry, Bomb, Kenyon Review, The Nation, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, The Pushcart Prize, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Yale Review. His journals and papers are archived in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. He is currently a Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz.

Liu is an intuitive reader of occult esoterica, including the Tarot and the I-Ching and the Akashic Records, and is available for private consultations.

https://www.timothyliu.net/

Sep 15, 202201:33:39
Danika Stegman LeMay & Vincent James Perrone read at green_space 5/8/22
Jun 20, 202238:37
Lindsay Lerman - Fallow Periods & Epistemic Play

Lindsay Lerman - Fallow Periods & Epistemic Play

Interview w/novelist Linsday Lerman--What Are You, Bataille, non-knowledge, fallow periods in the creative process, so much meaning in daily text threads, the possibility in communication, engagement with theory as a drug, touching a plant, the useless version of epistemic play, Brahms, waste is the way the universe functions, going cold-turkey on theory

Lerman's new novel What Are You here: https://www.clashbooks.com/new-products-2/lindsay-lerman-what-are-you-preorder

Find Lindsay Lerman at https://lindsaylerman.com/


May 30, 202226:54
Jay Besemer - Simple Machines, Co-creating the Future
Mar 29, 202201:02:03
Dana Venerable Reads at green_space 1/28/22

Dana Venerable Reads at green_space 1/28/22

Dana Venerable reads at green_space in the evening of 1/28/22 in the snowy parkway, temperatures in the single digits, vapor from our breath lettering the air / a collaborative work in dialogue with description, notation, dance, the interview, a shared movement through language, the connection of sound, what body of water matters to you and why, do you dance alone, do you think your body of water moves like you do? / un-dam every river / "You put your hand warmers in your boots?" / thank you to Dana, for this work, movement, language, being, and conversation.

Mar 04, 202217:35
Marty Cain - Between Identification and Alterity

Marty Cain - Between Identification and Alterity

The Wound is (Not) Real, Trembling Pillow Press, baby as thinker, poetry and primal sensory experience, The Preludes, Romanticism, Sophie Sieta, Provisional Avant-Gardes, weird archival shit, the material culture of skate, Kyle Beachy: The Most Fun Thing, playing snake on my Nokia phone, duality between identification and alterity, who am I being politically aware for?, waste as something capitalism cannot easily instrumentalize to create more things, nobody needs electric longboards, Joyous Shrub, Sunny Day Real Estate, the louder the drums the more they like it, writing is fucking awesome, its about meeting homies, Annulet, The Dogs Wake Me Up

Feb 10, 202248:07
Dana Venerable - Everyone Dances Alone

Dana Venerable - Everyone Dances Alone

Nella Larsen, Harmony Holiday, curating sound, grief, Milford Graves, dance and combat, attention to vibration, Ntozake Shange, the choreopoem, writing after dance, art as access to a different experience of time, time as a modality that dismantles, moving through my house, actively giving attention--Dana Venerable talks to green_space Dec 2, 2021.

Venerable's notes:

+ Harmony Holiday is working on a biography of Abbey Lincoln, not  Alice Coltrane--although she did write a piece about Alice in November  on her substack.

+ Ntozake Shange describes  and theorizes choreopoetry so beautifully, and I'm currently working on  writing down my own understandings of it, yet a general sense of what  the form is for the sake of this note includes artistic works that blend  dance, poetry, sound, and song, but also work to erase their divisions  as categories / genres.

+ The quote I was  referring to regarding restoration and behavior in thinking about  performance beyond and with understandings of repetition is as follows:  "...performance not only as restored behavior but also as behaved  restoration." This quote, a close-reading of Simone Leigh's Free People's Medical Clinic (FPMC) and what Alice Rayner ("Keeping Time") wrote about time within  performance are included within Soyica Diggs Colbert, Douglas A. Jones  Jr., and Shane Vogel's introduction in their edited text Race and Performance After Repetition. A huge shout out to artist and scholar Dr. Ariel Nereson for introducing me to this text!

+ A link to Frank Ocean's "Endless:" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHLFNoT64HQ&feature=youtu.be

+ The  only other note I wanted to add but didn't in reference to Omarion  memes is that people are and were using Omarion's name instead of  Omnicron, and he had to make a video statement that he was a musician  not a variant, which is hilarious to me (and he thought it was hilarious  too!). His recent dance moves were only the beginning of his virtual  presence, yet the ability for Omarion to dance and moonwalk in Timbs  will forever blow my mind. (note within note--see his music video for  the song "Touch")

+ My bad for overusing the word "fascinating" (!) I suppose I love that word and being fascinated.

Find Venerable's work here & here.

Jan 24, 202201:30:57
Kenning JP García
Dec 31, 202152:04
Danika Stegeman LeMay

Danika Stegeman LeMay

Danika Stegeman LeMay answers 10 questions for green_space.
Nov 22, 202155:05
green_space #1 recording – Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Travis Sharp, & Allison Cardon

green_space #1 recording – Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Travis Sharp, & Allison Cardon

Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Travis Sharpe, & Allison Cardon read for green_space on 13 Aug 21.
Aug 25, 202145:38
Ryan Kaveh Sheldon

Ryan Kaveh Sheldon

Ryan Kaveh Sheldon answers 10 questions for green_space.
Aug 24, 202139:39
Allison Cardon

Allison Cardon

Allison Cardon answers ten questions for green_space.
Aug 20, 202126:42