green_space
By Joe Hall & Jake Reber
green_spaceMar 29, 2022
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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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
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/
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/
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.
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/
Danika Stegman LeMay & Vincent James Perrone read at green_space 5/8/22
Danika Stegeman LeMay & Vincent James Perrone--lakewise traveling--read at green_space in Buffalo on 5/8/22. Thanks to them for making the trip and thanks to everyone who came and helped them feel welcome. About Stegeman LeMay & Perrone:
Danika Stegeman LeMay’s work has appeared in 32 Poems, Afternoon Visitor, Concision, Forklift, OH, Harpy Hybrid Review, Leavings, and Word for/ Word, among other places, and is forthcoming in Blue Arrangementsand APARTMENT. Her video poem, “Then Betelgeuse Reappears” was an official selection for the 2021 Midwest Video Poetry Festival. She received her MFA in creative writing from George Mason University. Danika’s debut collection of poems, Pilot (2020), is available from Spork Press. Her website is danikastegemanlemay.com.
Vincent James Perrone is the author of the poetry collection, Starving Romantic (11:11 Press, 2018), the microchap, Travelogue For The Dispossessed (Ghost City Press, 2021), and a contributor to the novel, Collected Voices in the Expanded Field (11:11 Press, 2020). His recent work can be found in Storm Cellar, The Indianapolis Review, Heavy Feather Review, and Olney Magazine. He is the poetry editor of The Woodward Review and lives in Detroit.
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/
Jay Besemer - Simple Machines, Co-creating the Future
Jay Besemer’s outlook on being with the world, changing through language, and negotiating the event while foregrounding the needs of the body feel absolutely essential. green_space is delighted to present our interview with Jay. And a surprise reading of the poem (“The Wound”) that saved Joe from the pandemic.
co-creating the future / Cocteau Twins / an openness to being changed / Dr. Who / the love of machines / Katherine McKittrick / mycelial nets of citation / accessibility and negotiating parameters / writing as offloading cognition / foregrounding the needs of the project, foregrounding the needs of the body
Find Jay Besemer at www.jaybesemer.net/
& on Twitter @divinetailor
Interview transcript forthcoming.
Visit our simple palace: http://greenspacegreen.space/
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.
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
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.
Kenning JP García
Donald Goines, The Diary, Serialized Sparks, Belle & Sebastian, Zero Waste, Blaxploitation, Blue Collar Life, Afro-absurdism, Fuzzy Texts, No Fucking Meaning, Idea Centers, Minimize All This Foolish Symbolism, Gundam Kenning, If You’re Teaching Sally Rooney and Put on the Pogues I Don’t Know
Kenning JP García answers 10 questions for green_space.
García’s new book WITH, out on RLYSRSLIT
https://rlysrslit.bigcartel.com/product/with-by-kenning-jp-garcia
Danika Stegeman LeMay
green_space #1 recording – Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, Travis Sharp, & Allison Cardon
Ryan Kaveh Sheldon