Please join us next Monday at 7pm in the CVA Gallery:
For the inaugural reading in The Pierre Bourdieu Memorial Reading Series
(see end of press release for more information about this series).
Kristy Odelius & Aaron Belz.
KRISTY ODELIUS is an Assistant Professor of English at North Park
University. Her work in a variety of venues, including Chicago Review,
Notre Dame Review, ACM, GutCult, La Petite Zine, Diagram, etc. Her poems
are anthologized in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century
(Cracked Slab Books). Her chapbook Bee Spit was published by dancing
girl press in December 2007
AARON BELZ, from St. Louis, is known nationally through his many
publications in journals like LIT, Fence, Court Green, Painted Bride
Quarterly, Black Clock, and Fine Madness, as well as through his series,
Observable Readings (http://observable.org) which has showcased more
than a hundred poets since 2003.
Of his first book, The Bird Hoverer (BlazeVOX, 2007), The Boston Review
writes, "These impressive, loopy poems are touched by a raw grace of
mind and nimble phrasing."
JACKET describes Belz as "a poet who has retained a sense of childlike
amazement. His eclectic reference points attest to a wide-eyed
fascination with the world. He commingles high and low culture, the
historical and the contemporary."
His second collection of poems, _Direction_, is forthcoming from Persea
Books. More information about Aaron Belz is available at http://belz.net.
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The "Pierre Bourdieu Memorial Readings Series" is so-named to
commemorate the contributions of this important sociologist to a
critical understanding of a range of phenomena specific to the field of
cultural production against which, in which, and through which social
actors such as writers, readers, students and professors create,
consecrate, fetishize, and disparage. Bourdieu's theories and
methodologies provide unusually perspicuous tools with which to correct
subtle and pervasive injustices in the field and to envision the
possibility of a community of friendly makers less beholden to the
illusions of aestheticism, the fetish of the author, and the
preciosity of writing -- for a closer, sparer, clearer relation to use,
wonder, kindness, being, love, world.
The "Pierre Bourdieu Memorial Readings Series" is associated with and
spiritually sponsored by MANDORLA: NEW WRITING FROM THE AMERICAS, a
magazine we are particularly proud to have here at ISU.
Gabriel
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Celebration ... is
self-restraint, is attentiveness, is
questioning, is meditating, is awaiting,
is the step over into the more
wakeful glimpse of the wonder -- the
wonder that a world is worlding
around us at all, that there are
beings rather than nothing, that
things are and we ourselves are
in their midst, that we ourselves
are and yet barely know who we are,
and barely know that we do not know this.
- Martin Heidegger
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