Poetry Reading - Exquisite Corpse
Date: Tue, July 29th 2008Additional Time Info: 7:00 p.m.
Event Tags: Literature & Lectures
Location: Gateway's Heliport Gallery
Gateway's Heliport Gallery PRESENTS
An Exquisite Corpse Poetry Reading
Gateway's Heliport Gallery presents poetry-with-art on Tuesday, July 29, 2008—featuring poets Karren L. Alenier, Christopher Conlon and JoAnne Growney reading from their work as part of Le Cadavre Equis exhibition. The Gallery will open at 7 pm with the start of reading at 7:30. Following the featured readers will be an open mic—inviting work on the Exquisite Corpse themes of body parts and surrealism and the game of putting together disparate parts. Open mic readers may read from their own work or the work of some other favorite poet. Gateway's Heliport Gallery is located at 8001 Kennett Street, Suite 3, Silver Spring, Maryland 20910. The program is free and open to the public.
Karren L. Alenier is author of five collections of poetry including Looking for Divine Transportation. Her latest book The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas documents her opera with William Banfield Gertrude Stein Invents a Jump Early On. She is currently working on her second opera about Jane and Paul Bowles.
Christopher Conlon is the author of three books of poems, the most recent of which is Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt (The Word Works, 2007), which focuses on the Lincoln assassination. He has also written a collection of stories, Thundershowers at Dusk, and his novel, Midnight on Mourn Street, is scheduled for publication in 2008. He teaches at the Nora School in Silver Spring, where he also hosts a popular quarterly reading series.
JoAnne Growney loves mathematics; her recent collection is My Dance is Mathematics (Paper Kite Press 2006). Engaged in a variety of collaborative activities—described at http://joannegrowney.com—she also teaches poetry at the Silver Spring Drop-In Center. She is an editor of Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics (AK Peters, Ltd, October 2008).
For more information phone :
Neil Joffe or John Landis Gateway Heliport Gallery at 301-562-1400