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July 16, 2018
Plant Perspectives: A Reading and Discussion @ Beyond Baroque / July 27
8PM, Friday, July 27
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90291
Writer, curator, and editor Janice Lee leads a multi-disciplinary reading and discussion on the knowledge gained from trees, and the importance of that knowledge to language and creativity. Featuring noted poet and homeopath Amanda Ackerman; herbalist and medicine-maker Saewon Oh; and farmer, chef, and poet Stephen Alton Lewis.
About the Artists:
Janice Lee is the author of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Press, 2010), Daughter (Jaded Ibis, 2011), Damnation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2013), Reconsolidation (Penny-Ante Editions, 2015), and most recently, The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016). She is Founder/Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Publisher at Civil Coping Mechanisms, and Assistant Editor at Fanzine.
Amanda Ackerman is an essence practitioner, writer, and teacher living in Los Angeles. She graduated from CalArts with an MFA in creative writing. Her first book, The Book of Feral Flora, was released in 2016. She weaves her literary background into intuitive readings, and her practice will often deeply examine and explore the stories we carry psychically and energetically.
Saewon Oh is an herbalist and friend of the flora who attended the Ohlone Center for Herbal Studies and the Gaia School of Healing. Her work engages healing dialogues with nature, our bodies, and the environment. She offers herbal consultations, teaches workshops, and is also the founder of Sun Song, a line of herbal teas, potions, and locally made flower essences.
Stephen Alton Lewis is a farmer, chef, and poet based in Venice, California.
Sea-Witch vol. 3: Mare Piss Superkill PDX Release Party / July 24
6PM, Tuesday, July 24
Yale Union
800 SE 10th Ave
Portland, Oregon 97214
A release party in Portland for Sea-Witch v.3: Mare Piss Superkill by Møss Høpe Ångel! Sea-Witch is a reality-bending, cross-genre book series about queerness, mental illness, magic, capitalism, anal sex & meteors. It’s a contemporary transgender mythology that focuses on the life of a girl monster named Sara who lives inside a witch-god called Sea-Witch.
June 10, 2018
Porochista Khakpour @ Powell’s / July 23
Monday, July 23 @ 7:30 PM
Powell’s City of Books
1005 w. burnside st.
portland, or 97209
Porochista Khakpour with Janice Lee, Cari Luna, Karen Russell, Leni Zumas
More details TBA
Porochista Khakpour @ Powells / July 23
Monday, July 23 @ 7:30 PM
Powell’s City of Books
1005 w. burnside st.
portland, or 97209
Porochista Khakpour with Janice Lee, Cari Luna, Karen Russell, Leni Zumas
More details TBA
home school field day #2 @ Reed College / June 23
Saturday, June 23
2 PM – 8 PM
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, Oregon 97202
In collaboration with Diné artist Kevin Holden and home school—a pop-up art school based in Portland, OR—with support from black apotrope, the Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College is proud to present home school field day #2, a day-long feast of sound, music, performance, poetry, and video screenings, modeled after a school field day.
The home school field day series takes place in former and current educational institutions as a platform for questioning and reimagining the methods, purposes, and dynamics that connect art and education. field day #2 orients itself around medium-nonconforming, medium-agnostic, and medium-antagonistic gestures and practices in performance.
A merchandise table with printed matter, wearables, and other editions will be available! The merch table includes a cassette published on the occasion of field day #2, with sound work by participants of both field days, produced in collaboration with deepwhitesound, an international online label of experimental sound co-founded by DB Amorin.
Food with vegan options and other refreshments will be served. As with all home school events, field day #2 will be recorded and archived online for distance learning.
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POETRY
Demian DinéYazhi´
Bart Fitzgerald
Janice Lee
Julian Smuggles
PERFORMANCE
Maxi Miliano
Melanie Stevens
manuel arturo abreu
n-prolenta
Keyon Gaskin
SOUND PERFORMANCE
Indira Valey
Kevin Holden
Jamondria Marnice Harris
Chloe Alexandra
Tazha World
Amenta Abioto
WORKSHOPS
MODUS: explores the overlap between asemic writing and graffiti
Roland Wu: leads a workshop on hospitality and the limits of cinema
SPECIAL EDITION
Elliot Jerome Brown Jr. creates an edition of balloons featuring calligraphy by Jade Novarino
PHOTO STUDIO
Gameboyphoto: a collaborative traveling photo studio run by Daniel Akselrad, Erik Goyenechea, and Alex Bahr, will provide a photo booth built from a vintage reverse-engineered Game Boy camera accessory.
May 24, 2018
Loggernaut Reading Series: SPACE / June 1
SPACE
prose and poetry by
Robert Lashley
Janice Lee
Cari Luna
7:30pm
Friday, June 1st, 2018
Mother Foucault’s Bookshop
523 SE Morrison St
Portland, OR 97214
ROBERT LASHLEY is the author of the poetry collections The Homeboy Songs and Up South. A 2016 Jack Straw Fellow, Artist Trust Fellow, and nominee for a Stranger Genius Award, his poems have been published in Feminete, The Seattle Review Of Books, NAILED, GRAMMA, and The Cascadia Review. He lives in Bellingham, WA.
JANICE LEE is the author of KEROTAKIS and Daughter, two experimental novels; Damnation, a book-length meditation on the films of Hungarian director Béla Tarr; Reconsolidation, a lyrical essay reflecting on the death of Lee’s mother; and The Sky Isn’t Blue, a collection of travel essays inspired by Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space. She teaches at Portland State University.
CARI LUNA is the author of The Revolution of Every Day, which won the Oregon Book Award for Fiction. A fellow of Yaddo and Ragdale, her writing has appeared in Guernica, Salon, Jacobin, Electric Literature, Catapult, The Rumpus, PANK, and elsewhere. She lives in Portland.
April 15, 2018
Corporeal Writing Workshop: Memory Space: On Inherited Trauma & the Failure of Language / May 5 & 6
More info at Corporeal Writing website
Workshop Leader: Janice Lee
When:
5/5/18: 1:00 – 4:00
5/6/18: 1:00 – 4:00
Where: The Corporeal Center; 510 SW 3rd Ave, Portland, OR 97210
Cost: $225
How do we reconcile personal experience with historical fact? How do we reconcile history with memory? How do we reconcile truths with other truths? How does writing open up space while processing trauma or grief?
We will explore the articulation of personal experience, identity, and trauma (both lived & inherited) and look at the relationship of personal history & identity with aesthetics & narrative.We will explore how the presence of unresolved corporeal history and the impossibility of articulation or expression leads to new encounters in language and narrative via various aesthetic writing practices.
Questions will include how history and accuracy intersect in individual creative work, how emotional and real violence intersect with aesthetic contradiction, how the limits and failures of language allow for reaching beyond traditional narrative structures, how lived experience intersects with individual identity, how memories of trauma are constructed and reconstructed, how trauma and memory might be disruptive to identity and narrative, and aesthetic relationships and ethical questions related to writing trauma and personal experience.
April 11, 2018
The Accomplices: Publishing & Community Collaboration @ CalArts / April 27
Friday, 4/27, 4pm
CalArts
24700 McBean Pkwy, Valencia, CA 91355
BB4, Room G
inter/subject presents:
Chiwan Choi and Janice Lee of THE ACCOMPLICES:
Publishing, Literary Organizations, and Community Collaboration
Chiwan Choi (Writ Large Press, 90X90LA) and Janice Lee (Entropy, Civil Coping Mechanisms) will visit CalArts to discuss their independent literary/arts organizations, and the history of their collaborative work as The Accomplices. (Panel followed by Q&A with audience.)
The Accomplices is made up of Writ Large Press, Entropy, and Civil Coping Mechanisms — three independent publishing entities with common goals of publishing vital and exciting literature, building and participating in community, and contributing and promoting good literary citizenship.
April 2, 2018
Masatsugu Ono in Conversation w/ Janice Lee / April 26
Powell’s Books on Hawthorne
3723 se hawthorne blvd / portland, or 97214
In Lion Cross Point (Two Lines), celebrated Japanese author Masatsugu Ono (winner of Japan’s prestigious Akutagawa Prize) turns his gentle pen to the mind of 10-year-old Takeru, who arrives at his family’s home village amid a scorching summer, carrying memories of unspeakable acts against his mother and brother. At once a subtle portrayal of a child’s sense of memory and community, an empowering exploration of how we find the words to encompass our trauma, and a spooky Japanese ghost story, Lion Cross Point is gripping and poignant, reminiscent of Kenzaburo Oe’s best work. Ono will be joined in conversation by Janice Lee, author and Assistant Professor of Fiction at Portland State University.
March 26, 2018
Whitenoise Project 12: Shawl / Imarisha / Lee / April 20
Friday, April 20 at 7 PM – 9 PM
Miles Post 5
8155 NE Oregon St.
Portland, OR 97213
Nisi Shawl, Walidah Imarisha and Janice Lee will be exploring the question of what it means to be a visionary for your community. We’ll be talking about sci-fi, speculative fiction, alternative history, and how talking about these things can lead to bringing about a more just and beautiful future!
