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Earth's Daughters presents Perry S. Nicholas & Max Wickert The Gray Hair Reading Series $5  Perry S. Nicholas is an English professor at Erie Community College North. He was nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize, in 2006 and 2007, by Skyline Magazine. In 2006, he won the Skyline Winter Poetry Bash Contest for his poem "Comealong." His poem "Santorini" appeared in the spring 2007 edition of Feile-Festa, and "Metrics" is in the winter 2008 edition of Language and Culture. His poem "March Sonnet" is online at Not Just Air. His first book-length collection, The River of You, was released in 2009 (FootHills Publishing). He has new poems forthcoming in New York Quarterly and Chautauqua Literary Journal. |
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UB Poetics Program Poets Theater presents Konrad Steiner & Jen Hofer The Cinema Cabaret FREE Film with live narration by performance poets from San Francisco, Los Angeles, & Buffalo Writers' engagement with popular cinema has long been limited in the popular imagination to the industry of screenplay writing leading to film production. Recently an inversion of this mode of production has captured the imaginations of poets and audiences. Using a form of live film narration inherited from practices in Japan and Korea during the silent film era, scenes from popular films are shown muted and re-narrated live with new language. These hybrid performances are satirical, critical, poetic, and analytic ways of "talking back" to the talkies. Konrad Steiner (SF) and Jen Hofer (LA) will present some background and conceptual framing about this new take on the movies and perform their own work along with writer/performers from Buffalo who will premier their own live cinema narrations. |
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Hallwalls & Talking Leaves...Books presents Mark Nowak FREE 
A poetry reading by the author of Coal Mountain Elementary (Coffee House Press, 2009)A singular, genre-defying treatise from one of America's most innovative political poets, Coal Mountain Elementary remixes verbatim testimony from the surviving Sago, West Virginia miners and rescue teams, the American Coal Foundation's curriculum for schoolchildren, newspaper accounts of mining disasters in China, and full-color photographs of Chinese miners by renowned photojournalist Ian Teh. "Coal Mountain Elementary is an imaginative and shocking reminder of what it means, in the most human and poignant terms, to be a miner, whether in this country or in China, or for that matter anywhere in the industrial world. It is also a tribute to miners and working people everywhere. |
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UB Poetics Program presents Black Took Collective Live Feed from the Black Unconscious FREE  Live Feed from the Black Unconscious is a live in-person multimedia performance presenting the Black Took Collective’s explorations of black unconscious. Co-founded in 1999 by Duriel E. Harris, Dawn Lundy Martin, and Ronaldo V. Wilson at Cave Canem—a retreat for African American poets—Black Took Collective performs and writes in hybrid experimental forms, embracing radical poetics and critical theories of race, gender, and sexuality. Their manifesto Call for Dissonance—Black Took Collective first appeared in FENCE, Fall/Winter 2002 and was reprinted last year in A Best of Fence Anthology: The First Nine Years (University Press of New England, 2009). |
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Earth’s Daughters Magazine presents Ann Goldsmith & Elaine Chamberlain Gray Hair Reading Series $5  Ann Goldsmith is the author of No One Is the Same Again, a prize-winning book of poems published by the Quarterly Review of Literature. She has a full-length book of poetry, The Spaces Between Us, forthcoming from Outrider Press. Her poems have been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including Traffic East (2006). She was a runner-up in the 1996 Orillia International Poetry Festival; twice a finalist in the "Discovery"/The Nation national poetry competition; winner in 1984 of a WNY Writers-in-Residence Award from Just Buffalo, and one of "Five New Voices" selected in the Second Biennial Burchfield Competition in 1983. In 1985–86 she served on the poetry panel for the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Goldsmith has served as WNY coordinator for ALPS, a statewide poetry-in-the-schools organization. |
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Just Buffalo, Hallwalls, & International Institute present Salman Rushdie Babel Kleinhans Music Hall $35 general, $10 students, $100 patrons  Worldwide bestselling author of Midnight's Children and final author in 2009-2010 season of Babel.
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PEN World Voices presents Sofi Oksanen (Finland) & Tommy Wieringa (Netherlands) A "Babel Extra" event! Albright Knox Art Gallery Auditorium FREE  Finnish author Sofi Oksanen will read from Purge, her first novel to be translated into English. Dutch author Tommy Wieringa will read from Joe Speedboat, also his first novel to be translated into English. The readings will followed by a Q&A session with the authors and book signing by Talking Leaves...Books. Sponsored by PEN World Voices and Grove/Atlantic Publishers, in conjunction with Babel—a collaborative project of Just Buffalo Literary Center with Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, the International Institute, and Talking Leaves...Books, with additional support from UB Humanities Institute, UB Department of English, riverrun, Canisius College Contemporary Writers Series, and Ethnographic Dreamworlds at Buffalo State College.Grove/Atlantic's page for Purge Grove/Atlantic's page for Joe Speedboat |
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Talking Leaves...Books presents Howard Frank Mosher FREE 
Novelist Howard Frank Mosher will read from his new novel Walking to Gatlinburg and present a slide show entitled Transforming History into Fiction: the Story of a Born Liar. He'll sign copies of the new novel and of his previous work. Talking Leaves and Hallwalls hosted Mosher a couple of years ago to an enthusiastic audience for a reading and screening of the independent film Disappearances, drawn from his novel of the same name. Walking to Gatlinburg, set in 1864, follows northern Vermonter Morgan Kinneson as he tries to track down his brother Pilgrim, a doctor who has gone missing from the Union Army. Magical and wonderfully strange, the novel is both a thriller of the highest order and a heartbreaking odyssey into the heart of American darkness, where history, race, nature, politics, love, and survival flow.
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