New Yipes: Readings by Bruce Andrews and Brandon Downing

Sun, Jan 29
7-9PM
$4

BRANDON DOWNING:
Books by filmmaker, writer, and photographer Brandon Downing include
The Shirt Weapon (Germ, 2002) and Dark Brandon (Faux Press, 2005).
Originally from the Bay Area, Downing has lived in New York City
since 2000, where he works as a designer of print media and museum
exhibits.
BRUCE ANDREWS:
Bruce Andrews was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April Fools Day,
1948. He is the author of several dozen books of poetry and
performance scores, most recently, Lip Service (Coach House Press,
2001), a recasting of Dante's Paradiso. Jacket 22, online at http://
jacketmagazine.com, contains a symposium on this book. The Millennium
Project, a thousand-page sequence, is online on Craig Dworkin's
Eclipse site (eclipse.princeton.edu).His essays on poetics are
collected in Paradise & Method: Poetics & Praxis (Northwestern
University Press, 1996); more recent essays (on & by) are in the
Aerial 9 anthology Bruce Andrews: Contemporary Poetics as Critical
Theory (Edge Books, 1999) and on Andrews's author page at the
Electronic Poetry Center (epc.buffalo.edu/authors/andrews). He
is the former co-editor, with Charles Bernstein, of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E
(1978-1982; reprinted online at Eclipse) and The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book
(Southern Illinois University Press, 1984).Andrews has taught
Political Science at Fordham University since moving to New York City
in 1975 --with a focus on global capitalism, U.S. imperialism, the
politics of communication, conspiracy theory, and covert politics. In
New York City, he has also been involved in a long series of
collaborative multi-media theatrical projects and performances. As
composer, sound designer & live mixer, since the mid 1980s, he has
been Music Director for Sally Silvers & Dancers.

The New Yipes Reading Series transpires at 21 Grand the third Sunday
of every month, except this one.

Venue:

21 Grand
416 25th St. (at Broadway)
Oakland
510-444-7263
http://www.21grand.org

http://www.21grand.orp/map.html

Additional Info:


http://www.newyipes.blogspot.com/