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Speaking of Olson: Kate Colby, Amanda Cook and Kate Tarlow Morgan
November 10, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Women’s Work on Charles Olson
Kate Colby is author of seven books of poetry, including The Arrangements (Four Way Books, 2018). A book of literary essays, Dream of the Trenches (Noemi Books, 2019), is forthcoming. Fruitlands won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America in 2007. She has received awards and fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, the Dodd Research Center at University of Connecticut and Harvard University’s Woodberry Poetry Room, where she was the 2017-2018 Creative Fellow. Her poems have recently appeared in A Public Space, The Boston Review, Columbia Poetry Review, PEN America and the DIA Readings in Contemporary Poetry Anthology. She lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
She will read an essay, The Bind, concerning Olson, pigment, proprioception, Vitruvian Man, phenomenology, Huysmans, caves and locked-in syndrome.
Amanda Cook lives in Gloucester with her husband, James, and children Abigail and Samuel. She sees writing as an integral part of life. She knits, spins yarn, plays fiddle, feeds people and dances when she pleases. She teaches and works at the Gloucester Writers Center. Her book, Ironstone Whirlygig, was published by Bootstrap Press in 2017. She is currently working on Letter to Maximus, a poem-by-poem reaction to Olson’s Maximus poems..
She will be reading from Letter to Maximus.
Kate Tarlow Morgan, choreographer, author, and teacher is editor-in-chief of Currents Journal for the Body-Mind Centering Association, and editorial consultant for Lost & Found Poetics Document Initiative at C.U.N.Y-Center for Humanities. As sole archivist of The Rhythms FundamentalsÒ, based on the study of human and animal natural movement, Kate teaches in local area schools and studios. Her book of NYC-based essays and stories, Circles & Boundaries, (Factory School) was published in 2011. The Gloucester Writers Center has been recent home to Kate’s “dance-formation” events including Bluesuit (2010); Fishglove (2011); The Proprioception Panel (2012); Invisible Stories (2013); An Evening with Monsieur Teste (2014); and A Letter from a Friend (2016)—all performances inspired by poets and writers of the 20th c., including Charles O.
Kate Tarlow Morgan’s written work is a compedium of years of movement exploration and the myopic inter-studies with favorite poets and teachers to arrive at a mere outline of what might be the real body in one of Charles Olson’s poems.