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Title: |
Pierre Joris and Dan Giancola at Writing with Whitman Poetry Writing Workshops |
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at Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center |
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Date: |
April 6, 2013 |
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Time: |
6:15 PM
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| Admission: | Admission: Single Workshop $15.00 per person; Series of 6 Workshops $60.00 per person. |
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Location: |
Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center |
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Street Address: |
246 Old Walt Whitman Road |
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Huntington Station, NY 11746 |
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Description: |
Pierre Joris and Dan Giancola at Writing with Whitman Poetry Writing Workshops at Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center in Huntington Station, Long Island, New York.
Pierre Joris
Pierre Joris has moved between the US, Europe and North Africa for 50 years, publishing over 40 books of poetry, essays and translations. In 1992 he returned to the Mid-Hudson valley and teaches poetry and poetics at the State University of New York, Albany. He lives with his wife, the performance artist and singer Nicole Peyrafitte, in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn since 2008. Just out is Cartographies of the In-between: The Poetry and Poetics of Pierre Joris, edited by Peter Cockelbergh, with essays by, among others, Mohamed Bennis, Charles Bernstein, Nicole Brossard, Clayton Eshleman, Allen Fisher, Christine Hume, Regina Keil-Sagawe, Abdelwahab Meddeb, Jennifer Moxley, Carrie Noland, Alice Notley, Marjorie Perloff and Nicole Peyrafitte (Literaria Pragensia, Charles University, Prague, 2011). Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited, introduced and translated by Joris came out in early 2012 from Black Widow Press. Forthcoming in late 2012 are Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj (poems) from Chax Press; Diwan Iffrikya: An Anthology of North African Writings from Prehistory to Today, co-edited with Habib Tengour from the University of California Press.
Dan Giancola
Dan Giancola is the author of six poetry collections, including Powder and Echo: Poems About Long Island's Role in the American Revolutionary War (Canio's Editions, 1991), Part Mirth, Part Murder (Street Press, 2007), and most recently Data Error (Street Press, 2012), which Lucas Hunt has written "is an unflinching record of a disturbance that gradually turns into a bacchanalia of gleeful language, but only after careful, measured deliberation". Some of Giancola's prose has appeared in The Southampton Press, Sag Harbor Express, and The New York Times. Most recently, Giancola has reviewed poetry collections for the East Hampton Star. Dan Giancola lives in Mastic and teaches English at the Riverhead campus of Suffolk County Community College. He regularly reads his poetry in libraries, museums, bookstores and gin-mills across Long Island. Mr. Giancola will be conducting a poetry writing workshop as part of the Writing with Whitman series from 3-5 PM in the Interpretive Center.
Participants will write three new poems at this upbeat and friendly workshop and receive useful suggestions for both revisions and performance. The workshop is for poets at all levels including those who are new to the form.
Fee for the workshop includes admission to the 6:15PM "Meet the Poets" reception and the 7:00PM poetry reading, Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance, featuring Philip Asaph and internationally acclaimed poet Anne Waldman.
This event is the first of six writing workshops as part of the 2013 Writing with Whitman series being led by accomplished poets.
The event will be held in the Interpretive Center overlooking the Birthplace of America's Good Gray Poet Walt Whitman.
Writing with Whitman is the companion series to Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance, a reading series featuring performances by some of the most intriguing figures in contemporary literature on the national scene, paired with respected voices on the regional scene. The series is hosted by Walt Whitman Birthplace Writer-in-Residence George Wallace. |
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Contact: |
631-427-5240 |
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