21c Museum, in collaboration with Sarabande books, presents A Celebration of Cuban Poetry, November 7th 2011. Against the backdrop of the Cuba Now Exhibition at 21c Museum, which features artwork by over 90 contemporary Cuban artists, Cuban poet Marta Miranda will read her work in both Spanish and English. Jeremy Dae Paden will join her with a tribute to famed Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas, whose work has served as the inspiration behind Hugo Moro’s La Capilla de Los Palos, currently on display at 21c Museum. Music by Alberto Abril and Luis Orlando Lopez.

Monday November 7, 2011
7:00PM
Free and open to the public

It’s the week after Derby; you’re in a haze. You wish the fun would never end. Do not fear! We’re bringing in reinforcements, so come down for the finest coffee in town and be entertained by four performances we’ve lined up to keep the good times coming your way.

The three poets featured this Wednesday are Matt Hart, Peter Davis, and Michael Schiavo who will all be reading lovely words from their latest books. Schiavo will be joining us from Vermont, Hart from Cincinnati and Davis is a Hoosier, crossing the river just for us. Their will be songs for your ears by Kirby Gann and fine espresso by Brittany Jarboe Jennings.

Join us this Wednesday, May 11th at 7:00pm for flow of words and coffee, like wild horses kept at bay.

Quills Coffee
930 Baxter Avenue
Louisville, KY

Death-Defying Acts, a collection of persona poems, tells the story of one summer on the road with a small-time circus, weaving together the stories of performers living on the fringe of society. Their voices, including a jaded lion tamer and her favorite lion, a fortune teller with a cruel streak and a Magic 8 Ball, a patient tattoo artist, and the midway’s omniscient photo booth, echo back and forth as the poems talk to one another, examining the tension between public and private, the need for authentic human connection and the desire for self-determined lives.

Thursday May 20, 2010
7:00pm – 9:00pm

Carmichael’s
2720 Frankfort Avenue
Louisville, KY

Goldberg had a modernist literary style that may superficially look uncomplicated. She writes in a poem about her own style that “lucid and transparent / are my images”. Although she sometimes chose to write poems that do not rhyme (especially in her later period), she always respected questions of rhythm; moreover, in her “antique” works (e.g., the set of love poems The Sonnets of Therese du Meun, a false document about the love-longings of a married French noblewoman for a young tutor), Goldberg adopted complex rhyming schemes. A very elaborate style that she sometimes used was the thirteen-line sonnet.
Loneliness and the breakdown of relationships are common themes in her poetry, with a tragic intonation that some say originates in her own loneliness. Her work is deeply rooted in Western culture (for instance, the Odyssey) and Jewish culture. Some of her most well known poems are about nature and longing for the landscape of her homeland (and not Israel as many presume). For example:

My homeland, a poor and fair land
The Queen has no home, the King has no crown
And there are seven days of spring-time a year
All the rest are rain and chill.

Monday, April 26, 2010
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Free and open to the public

Full disclosure: I know the person leading this class (he’s my cantor). He is wonderful and if you attend this event I guarantee you will love him and have a great time.

Congregation Adath Jeshurun
2401 Woodbourne Avenue
Louisville, KY 40205

Music
Lucky Pineapple and the Lucky Pineapple Dancers

Performance
Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble

Radio Play
A new installment of the Kory Kreme, Adventure, Suspense, Mystery, Cowboy, Indian Hour (written by Sean Daniels)

Poetry
by Brett Eugene Ralph

Interview
with Will Russell, owner of Why Louisville

Art
Photography by Laura Hartford

THE LATE SEATING AT ACTORS
January 29, 2009
Performance, music and art for $10 cheap plus cash bar in the theatre

Order tickets online or call call 502-584-1205

the poetry edition
April 17, 2009 at 10:30 p.m.

The Late Seating at Actors presents a variety of work by local artists including spoken word poets, visual artists, a video project, a radio play project
and a tongue-in-cheek send off on teenage poetry.

PERFORMANCE
Spoken Word performed by Marlo Brown
Special guests from the InKY Reading Series: Nickole Brown, Mitchel L. H. Douglas and Erin Keane

New Installment of The Kory Kreme Adventure, Mystery,
Suspense, Cowboy, Indian Hour
a radio play project by Sean Daniels

Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble
In honor of (Bad) Poetry Month, Le Petomane
will create something new and singular with your bad,
bad poetry. Think of it as artistic recycling.
There will (probably) be songs, dance, dramatic interpretation.

VIDEO
Flour Dirt & Dreams
a performance installation by Lauren Argo performed by Lauren Argo and Samantha Westervelt

VISUAL ART
inspired by poetry
Philip Allgeier
Anessa Arehart
Dan Evans
Patrick Jilbert
Joe Welsh
Brad White
Matt Dobson

MUSIC
Whistle Peak

TICKETS: $10
Call 584-1205

The InKY Reading Series is excited to celebrate National Poetry Month with readings by Danville poet Lisa Williams and Indianapolis poet Chris Forhan on Friday, April 10 at the Rudyard Kipling in Old Louisville. Nashville-based singer/songwriter Korby Lenker will also perform. InKY performances are free and open to the public, and Carmichael’s Bookstore will be selling the featured books and related items.

In honor of National Poetry Month, InKY will distribute pocket-sized versions of poems by Williams and Forhan as part of the Academy of American Poets initiative “Poem in Your Pocket Day.” (More information: http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/406)

Lisa Williams is the author of Woman Reading to the Sea, which won the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and The Hammered Dulcimer, which won the May Swenson Poetry Award. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2004. She received her M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, where she was awarded a Henry Hoynes fellowship in poetry. Williams’ poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Orion, The Missouri Review, Measure, Virginia Quarterly Review and other magazines, Best American Poetry 2009, and The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to Present. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she is Associate Professor of English at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.

Chris Forhan is the author of the poetry collections The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars and Forgive Us Our Happiness, as well as two chapbooks, x and Crumbs of Bread. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2008, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, Poetry, Paris Review, and many other journals and anthologies. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the Samuel French Morse Prize, and the Pushcart Prize, he teaches creative writing at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Our musical guest in April will be Nashville-based singer/songwriter Korby Lenker.

Friday April 10, 2009
Open mic at 7:00
Music at 7:30
Featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY

The Anne and William Axton Endowment, in conjunction with the University of Louisville English Department, the Student Activities Board, the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities, the Louisville Film Society, and the Derby City Film Festival, is pleased to present:

The Soul that Grows in Darkness: A Festival of Film and Verse

Putting the Auteur Back in Author

A Poetry Reading by Wayne Miller and Laurence Goldstein

Thurs., April 9, 7:30pm

Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library, Belknap Campus

Wayne Miller is the author of two poetry collections: The Book of Props
(Milkweed, 2009) and Only the Senses Sleep (New Issues, 2006). He is also coeditor of the anthology New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008) and translator of Moikom Zeqo’s I Don’t Believe in Ghosts. The recipient of five Poetry Society of America awards, the Bess Hokin Prize and a Ruth Lilly Fellowship, he teaches at the University of Central Missouri and edits Pleiades. His long poem “What Night Says to the Empty Boat: Notes for a Film in Verse” is included in his most recent volume.

Laurence Goldstein is the author of three books of literary criticism, most recently
The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History, four books of poetry, most recently
A Room in California, and the editor or coeditor of eight other books, most recently
Writing Ann Arbor. He is Professor of English at the University of Michigan and editor of Michigan Quarterly Review.

Dangerous Glamour:
Poetry, Movies, and the Public Imagination A Talk by Laurence Goldstein

Friday, April 10, 3:30pm

Room 300, Bingham Humanities, Belknap Campus

Goldstein has explored, with both scholarly insight and a filmgoer’s appreciation, the developing confluence of American poetry and film. This culminated in the 1995
publication of The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical Study, which Philip French called “a discerning book, combining criticism and social history. It satisfies scholarly
standards while appealing to general readers.” Goldstein begins with Vachel Lindsay’s infatuated gaze (directed toward the starlet Mae Marsh) then maps American poetry in the cinema century — up through Jorie Graham’s treatment of Lolita in “Fission.”

The Big Show: Three Collaborative Poetry Films
and Jean Cocteau’s First Film, The Blood of a Poet

Fri., April 10, 7:30pm

Floyd Theatre, Student Activities Center, Belknap Campus
Louisville filmmakers Steven Matthews and Chad Thomas, will premiere films featuring the poetry of two University of Louisville students, Jake Snider and John David
Baumgarten. The filmmakers and poets will be available for questions following the screening. Following these films, Jean Cocteau’s Le Sang d’un poète (The Blood of a Poet) will be screened. A landmark of surrealist cinema, Cocteau’s first film (1930, 55 min., 16mm film) attempts to reveal the inside of a poet’s mind, using a panoply of trick effects and extraordinary juxtapositions to do so.

Cocteau’s Orpheus and Testament of Orpheus

Sat., April 11, 6:00 and 8:00pm

Floyd Theatre, Student Activities Center, Belknap Campus

Considered by many to be Cocteau’s best film, Orphée (Orpheus, 1949, 95 min., 35mm film) is based on the ancient myth in which Orpheus (Jean Marais) descends into the
underworld to rescue his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), from death. In the film that completes the cycle, Le Testament d’Orphée (Testament of Orpheus, 1959, 80 min., 35mm film), Cocteau plays an 18th-century poet who travels in time. Both films will be followed by a Q & A hosted by The Louisville Film Society.

Film on Poets, Poets on Film: The San Francisco Renaissance

Tues., April 21, 7:00 and 9:00pm

21C Museum Hotel, 700 W. Main St.: (502) 217-6300

Brought to you by the Louisville Film Society, this collection of nine shorts feature some of the biggest names in the San Francisco poetry scene and the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E School of Poetry. The program includes interviews and/or images of: Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, George Barker, James Broughton, Bruce Andrews, Charles Bernstein, Jack Hirschman, Etheridge Knight, and Ezra Pound. Films by: Alexis Krasilovsky, Henry Hills, James Broughton, Joel Singer, Rudy Burckhardt, and Willard Maas. LFS will screen the films twice.

All events are free and open to the public.

This April, in honor of (Bad) Poetry Month, The Late Seating (property of Actors Theatre of Louisville, all rights reserved, void where prohibited by law) has asked Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble to create something new and singular–but first we need your help.

We need your bad, bad poetry.

Remember that journal you kept in middle school? The one with the sketches of horses and the Grim Reaper on the outside? Remember the time Mom thought she’d make some extra cash mailing in verses to Hallmark? Or when you answered the “we need your songs/poems” ad in the Music City News?

Now is the time to dig them out of mothballs and send them our way, so that Le Petomane may transform your refuse into genius, your dross into comedy gold. Think of it as artistic recycling. There will (probably) be songs, dance, dramatic interpretation – we won’t know until you send us your poetic gems.

The Guidelines:

• The poetry must be something you have the right to use and not something copyrighted by anyone else.
• Any length or style is fine (but be aware that we may edit for time).
• Please don’t write wacky bad poetry for us. You know the real stuff when you find it and so do we. The stuff trucker wives post online.
• E-mail said bad poetry to TheLateSeating@ActorsTheatre.org.
• You agree to the fact that if used, your poem will be quoted anonymously, and it may very well be the butt of a joke. And it may not be used at all. That’s the way this works.

The Show:
Come on April 17 to find out if your poem was chosen–and that will be your prize. Or penalty. Depends on your attitude, we guess.

January 9, 2009: resolve to read

Featuring performances by:
Kelly Moffett is the author of Waiting for a Warm Body to Fill It, a collection of poems published by Cinnamon Press in 2008. Her work has appeared in the Laurel Review, Hubbub, Phoebe, and New Writing, among others. She directs the creative writing program at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, Kentucky.

Mickey Hess lives and writes in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where he teaches at Rider University. He is the author of the memoir Big Wheel at the Cracker Factory and the collections One Thousand Pound Locket and El Cumpleanos de Paco. His stories, essays, and critical articles have been published in journals and magazines ranging from Punk Planet and McSweeney’s to Critical Studies in Media Communication, and he served as editor of the Greenwood Press anthology Icons of Hip Hop: An Encyclopedia of the Movement, Music, and Culture.

Our musical guest in January will be Louisville singer/songwriter Adam Moseley.

Friday January 9, 2009
Open mic at 7:00
Music at 7:30
Featured readers at 8:00
Free

The Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street
Louisville, KY