A Tribute to Leslie Scalapino

Cara Benson, Elizabeth Bryant & Cathy Wagner:

Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We invited those who knew her and/or her work to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her/her writing as tribute. What follows here and over the course of the week is what came. We are grateful to know that her writing will live on in the world, in us, and will continue to be written and spoken about.

You can see Day 1 of 4, and more to come, at delirious hem.

Leslie Scalapino Online Books

Four complete books by Leslie Scalapino are now available to download as PDFs. Head to Charles Bernstein's blog for a list and links.

Leslie Scalapino Tribute

Stephen Mooney:

We have compiled a small tribute to Leslie Scalapino, to mark her loss, and the brilliant scene of her writing.

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Tribute to Leslie Scalapino

Leslie Scalapino's writing placed inside/outside events together with/in spacetime. Reading Leslie Scalapino is/as an altering act/event. We honor her passing and celebrate her not ever passing. We invite you to write alongside/simultaneously to/of/on her work for a special issue of Delirious Hem, http://delirioushem.blogspot.com/. We are especially interested in critical appreciations and analyses (in any style or format) of passages from Leslie Scalapino's work. The Barbara Guest Memory Bank, http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal//bg_memorybank/bg_memory.html, edited by Lauren Shufran for the Summer 2007 issue of How2, might serve as a model, as might the Alice Notley Constellation (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprcevents/alicenotley.html) edited by Carol Watts. Poems, images, personal memorials, and short essays are also welcome.

Submissions required by Sunday 1st August 2010.

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Poetry is

In his ongoing video art work of “speaking portraits,” poet/artist George Quasha puts an impossible, but unavoidable, question before poets of all kinds and in many places: what is poetry? In response poets let us in on their private space of poetry definition. This intimate view of speaking faces, each filling the screen, shows how different it is for poets/artists to say what poetry or art is than for others (critics, historians, philosophers, viewers). For a particular poet, poetry may not only be an object, a thing historically defined, but something close to the core of one's life, perhaps even a singular event. Here we gain unique access to its nature in the person speaking.

via Ron Silliman