> Live Webcast tomorrow evening/night Wednesday 17 October,
> PhillyTalks 19: ALLEN FISHER / KAREN MAC CORMACK
>
> Reading 6:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (is that 11 p.m. or midnight,
> British Summer Time?)
> Discussion 7:00 pm
> WEBCAST LIVE from the Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia
>
> The FISHER / MAC CORMACK exchange for their PhillyTalks event,
> is now available at http://phillytalks.org (go to "library").
>
> Pre-event responses to their exchange by
> Matt Hart and Marjorie Welish TBA.
>
> Post-event response by Rob Holloway to be published - together with
> responses gathered before, during and after the event's live
> manifestation - as a PT19 Supplement.
>
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>
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> information, please email Aaron Levy: [log in to unmask] or
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>
> Allen Fisher was born in England in 1944 and has been writing poetry
> since 1962. A performer, painter, publisher and editor (Aloes Books, New
> London Pride and Spanner), he has produced over one hundred and twenty
> chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation. He is
> Professor of Poetry & Art and Head of Art at the University of Surrey
> Roehampton; examples of his Fluxus installation work are in the Tate
> Gallery collection. He regularly exhibits his paintings and drawings.
> His last retrospective was in 1993. The next one-person show is
> projected for 2003. His books include: Bavuska (1969), Place Book One
> (1974), The Apocalyptic Sonnets (1978), Poetry for Schools (1980),
> Brixton Fractals (1985), Breadboard (1994). Equipage published Ring
> Shout and Wild Honey Sojourns in 2000. Spanner published Watusi and
> Woodpecker in 2001.
>
> Karen Mac Cormack's At Issue is forthcoming from Coach House Books
> (Toronto). Sections from Implexures were printed as a chapbook by
> housepress (Calgary, 2001), and the chapbook Multiplex from Wild Honey
> Press (Bray, Ireland, 1998) features her work and that of Ron
> Silliman's. Mac Cormack is author (with Alan Halsey) of Fit To Print
> (Coach House Books/West House Books, Toronto/Sheffield, 1998), The
> Tongue Moves Talk (Chax Press/West House Books, Tucson, Hay-on-Wye,
> 1997), Marine Snow (ECW Press, Toronto, 1995), Quirks & Quillets (Chax
> Press, Tucson, 1991), Quill Driver (Nightwood Editions, London, Ontario,
> 1989) and Straw Cupid (Nightwood Editions, Toronto, 1987). She is
> featured on a 1996 LINEbreak audio program available at
> http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/.
>
> "PhillyTalks" is made possible thanks to the generous financial support
> of The Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, and to the
> work of the House's volunteers and staff. Special thanks to Miles
> Champion, Tom Devaney, Al Filreis, Teresa Leo, John MacDermott and Jeff
> McCall.
>
> - Louis Cabri & Aaron Levy
>
> ----(forwarded by request)----