Skooler
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Conversations with Writers
- Delirium's Library
- Dialogic
- Poems and Poetics
- QueerJoe's Knitting Blog
- Rewords
- TRACY KEITH FLEMMING
- X Poetics
| Industry | Education |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Poet |
| Location | Oakland, Ca, United States |
| Introduction | The 95 Cent Skool is a 6 day long experimental seminar that will be offered in Oakland, California, July 26-31, 2010. It is convened by Joshua Clover and Juliana Spahr. It will explore the possibilities of poetry writing as part of a larger social practice, at a distance from the economic and professional expectations of institutions. We believe a dozen people sitting around a table can’t ruin poetry, but that costs, professional context, mythologies of individual genius, and client/service-based models can — and in our own experiences teaching in pay-to-play writing programs, often do. Our concerns in these six days begin with the assumption that poetry has a role to play in the larger political and intellectual sphere of contemporary culture, and that any poetry which subtracts itself from such engagements is no longer of interest. “Social poetics” is not a settled category, and does not necessarily refer to poetry espousing a social vision. It simply assumes that the basis of poetry is not personal expression or the truth of any given individual, but shared social struggle. We are the 95 Cent Skool students. |
| Interests | reading books, writing poetry, walking around the bay area in the summer, bars, knitting |
| Favorite Movies | The Battle of Algiers, Donnie Darko, Motorcycle Diaries |
| Favorite Music | Blues, Jazz, Punk, New Wave, Indie Rock |
| Favorite Books | This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, Madonna Anno Domini: Poems |