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This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Victoria Chang, one of Flow Chart’s favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “Paean to Place” by Lorine Niedecker. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group. Whether already…
Join the Flow Chart Foundation for VEXATIONS; A mother and daughter journey together through a strange speculative world—an immersive performance of Annelyse Gelman’s award-winning, book-length poem combining text, music, images, and field recordings. Vexations (University of Chicago Press), winner of the 2022 James Laughlin Award, is a surreal, glitchy meditation on empathy, ecology, and precarity. Throughout…
OPENING: OCTOBER 4 – 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM, Featuring Life of Augustin Fresnel
Robert Savage, an extraordinarily gifted composer, died of AIDS in 1993 at the age of 42. John Ashbery’s collection April Galleons, written during the height of the AIDS epidemic, was published in 1987. Prior to this, Savage house sat for Ashbery and his partner David Kermani. When they asked the young composer if he would…
[above L to R: Eric M.B. Becker, Kathleen Heil, John Keene, Yasmine Seale, and Yolande Schutter] Literary translation is already a special and frequently under-recognized art form. Translating poetry offers additional challenges. We will present brief readings of poetry written in Arabic, French, German, and Portuguese—in their original languages and as translated into English—followed by…
Announcing the launch of THAT TIME OF YEAR, a new reading series at Spotty Dog Books, Hudson, NY. Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 7pm Featuring writers Cat Tyc, Andrea Kleine, and Laura van den Berg Please join us for the launch of THAT TIME OF YEAR, a new reading series at Spotty Dog Books, 440…
Come to the Flow Chart Space for a reading by poets Dawn Lundy Martin and Ariana Reines on the occasion of INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE LOVERS being released by Nightboat Books, a taught, tender collection of poems woven with sadness and loss dealing with aging, attachments, and the precarity of life. Don’t miss these two stunning…
Get ready to dive deep into THE INTIMACY: a first person plural performance! Join the Flow Chart Foundation for an immersive prosopography, a theatrical exploration of our tenuous human connections and our layered solidarities. THE INTIMACY uses a slippery, shifting first-person plural to tell the story of a leftist choreopolitical collective as it coheres, grows, incorporates, and…
CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE: with Brian Teare FREE ONLINE POETRY WORKSHOP and READING THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 3–4pm (ET) FREE on Zoom Brian Teare leads a thinking-and-reading-through of “Bone Dust” by Oliver Baez Bendorf, followed by a short reading of his own work. This free, participatory event (on Zoom) features Brian Teare, one of our favorite poets, leading…
This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Farnoosh Fathi, one of The Flow Chart Foundation’s favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group reading-through/thinking through of “Untitled I” a by Joan Murray. Neither explicitly teaching nor explaining, our special guest poet will serve as your expert tour-guide to explore this featured poem as a group. Whether already well-versed…