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The Rattapallax/PEN World Voices Literary Film Feast
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Join
us for an exciting Festival first -- a program of literary
short films and documentaries curated by Ram Devineni
and copresented by Rattapallax. The roster of
films includes an animated version of Sylvia Plath's
classic poem "Mirror Talk," Sherman Alexie's
"49?," a tribute to writer/composer Paul Bowles,
selections of literary films from Brazilian musician
and poet Arnaldo Antunes, and interpretations of Gertrude
Stein poems by hip-hop artists Jean Grae and DJ Spooky.
The evening will conclude with a screening of Antonello
Faretta's "Nine Poems in Basilicata" and an
onstage conversation between Faretta and the subject
of the film, Beat poet John Giorno, who was also the
subject of Andy Warhol's 1963 film Sleep.
Tuesday,
April 29, 2008 from 6-9pm at Goethe-Institut,
1014 Fifth Ave., New York City. FREE. [ more
info ]
Sponsored
by Rattapallax and PEN World Voices: The New York Festival
of International Literature. This event was funded in
part by Experimental Television Center, New York State
Council on the Arts, and Poets & Writers, Inc. through
public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs.
PEN
WORLD VOICES is a festival of international literature
featuring 170 writers, 51 countries, and 82 events coming
to venues across New York City, April 29-May 4th, 2008.
Don't miss six days of exciting literary exchange with
conversations, panel discussions, readings, film screenings,
a translation slam and a cabaret night! For a complete
schedule of events, go to: http://www.pen.org/festival
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John
Giorno's
book You Got to Burn to Shine, poems, and deeply
personal memoirs include stories of his relationship
with Andy Warhol (Giorno was the star of Warhol's first
film, Sleep, in 1963), of being a Tibetan Buddhist,
and of his understanding of death in the age of AIDS.
Giorno Poetry Systems, begun in 1965, innovated the
use of technology in poetry, working with electronic
and multimedia, creating new venues, and connecting
poetry with new audiences.
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Antonello
Faretta is a photographer, director, and film producer
who has collaborated with such directors as Abbas Kiarostami,
Marco Bellocchio, Saverio Costanzo, and Babak Payami.
He has directed numerous films, including Lei lo
Sa, Da Dove Vengono le Storie?, Silenced Thoughts, and
Just Say NO to Family Values. In 2004, he founded the
Atelier del Cinema di Potenza and the Potenza International
Film Festival, which he also directs, and for which,
in 2006, he received the prestigious Targa per Meriti
Culturali from the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano.
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Rattapallax @ The Mercantile Library Center for Fiction
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Friday
May 2, 2008 at 6:30 pm. The
Mercantile Library Center for Fiction, 17
East 47th St., NYC. (btw. 5th and Madison). FREE.
The
Mercantile Library Center for Fiction is dedicated
to celebrating and supporting the creation and enjoyment
of the art of fiction. This event is sponsored by Poets
& Writers, Inc. through public funds from the New York
City Department of Cultural Affairs. Introduction by
Martin Riker with Dalkey Archive Press and Ram Devineni
with Rattapallax. To RSVP: info@mercantilelibrary.org
or 212-755-6710
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James
Ragan
is the author of five books of poetry including In
The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World
Sholdering "I", The Hunger Wall
and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor
of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Collected Poems. Director
of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the
University of Southern California, he is a former NEA
grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He
has read his poetry for four heads of state including
Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in
Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices.
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Flavia
Rocha
is a Brazilian poet, journalist and translator
living in Brazil. In Sao Paulo, she worked as a staff
reporter for magazines Casa Vogue, Carta Capital,
República, Valor Econômico and Bravo!, and
was a contributor for other publications, including
MTV magazine, Vogue and Sabor. She has
an M.F.A program in Writing at Columbia University.
Her first collection of poetry, The
Blue House Around Noon was released by
Travessa dos Editores in 2005.
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Peter
Selgin's first book of short stories, "Drowning
Lessons" won this year's Flannery O'Connor Award and
will be published by the University of Georgia Press
in the Fall of 2008. His children's book, "S.S. Gigantic
Across the Atlantic" (Simon & Schuster, 1999), was a
Scholastic Book Club selection and won the Lemme Award
for Best Children's Book, 2000. In addition, he is an
award winning fiction writer, play-writer, and illustrator
with work appearing in the "New Yorker," "Time-Out New
York", "Poets & Writers," "The Wall Street Journal",
and many other publications.
Meredith
Brosnan was born in Dublin, but lives in New York
City since 1984. His work has appeared in "The Williamsburgh
Bugle," "Sound Collector Audio Review," "the Brooklyn
Rail" and "YETI." "Mr. Dynamite," a novel, was published
by Dalkey Archive Press in 2004.
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Rattapallax @ Experimental New Music Video Series ]
Friday
May 2, 2008 at 10:00 pm. Collective:
Unconscious, 279 Church St. in Tribeca, NYC.
XMV
- eXperimental Music Video is a monthly video night
being presented at Collective: Unconscious in Tribeca,
New York City. From shorts to features, from psychedelic
to abstract imagery, from minimmalism to edgy pop, and
even live performances and dynamic video; XMV runs the
gambit of what to expect and not to expect in experimental
video and experimental music. Rattapallax is screening
their poetry films that night.
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These
program are supported, in part, by public funds from
the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New
York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endownment
for the Arts. Litwalks is funded by the New York Council
for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National
Endowment for the Humanities and public funds from the
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Any views,
findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in
this program do not necessarily represent those of the
New York Council for the Humanities or the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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