Janice Lee's Blog, page 16
November 8, 2015
cien minutos de recuerdos / Nov 8
“Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memorias de mis Putas Tristes
the Bluebird Reading series presents,
for a final reading before a long hiatus (of sorts),
a special evening of re-coding our history,
in remembrance and honor of Gabriel García Márquez.
cien minutos de recuerdos
para Márquez
one hundred minutes of memories
for Márquez
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Please join us for a 100-minute long reading of work inspired by Gabriel García Márquez, as told by 9 Los Ángeles storytellers, with short interludes accompanied by 1 Los Ángeles son jarocho.
Amanda Yates Garcia
Gloria Enedina Alvarez
Iris De Anda
Janice Lee
Mandy Kahn
Marytza K.Rubio
Melora Walters
Natashia Deón
Zoë Ruiz
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the music of Lilly Flor Del Valle
hosted by Jessica Ceballos
**re-coding = literature as a decoding instrument, then read, translated, processed and retold from where our memories live, but never die. ghosts inhabit these [re-coded] spaces.
(under the stars) at avenue 50 studio
November 8, 2015
reading will start promptly at 6pm
as always free, but donations appreciated
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the Bluebird Reading series is a component of
Avenue 50 Studio’s literary arts programming.
Avenue 50 Studio
www.avenue50studio.org
September 29, 2015
Vermin on the Mount / Oct 30
Sesshu Foster / Andrea Kleine / Janice Lee / Allan Macdonell / David Ulin
Hosted by Jim Ruland
Friday, October 30, 2015
7:30PM
BOOK SHOW
5503 N. Figueroa, Los Angeles, CA
September 9, 2015
Send Your Writing!
I’m asking for writing and taking submissions for a few different projects:
MINI-SYLLABI (ENTROPY):
It is fall and I am looking for mini-syllabi or reading lists on any topic. A mini-syllabus might consist of a brief description or introduction to the topic and a short reading list that gathers stories, texts, and/or films related to that category or topic. Other topics might include pigs, polar bears, virtual reality, Peruvian literature, Scandinavian literature, translation, eco-poetry, insect poetics, food, slowness, capitalism, water, Muppets, pop culture, whiskey, Japanese feminist poetry, summer solstice, zodiac poetry, clocks, video games, asemic writing, trees, the Singularity, South African history, plastic, the apocalypse, sunsets, the color blue, heat, Texas, floods, montage, human evolution, heartbreak, black holes, birds, sculpture, the alphabet, road trips, etc, etc, etc.
Submit a short description and reading list of 5-12 texts/films/books to share with others.
Email: janice@entropymag.org
LONG TAKES (ENCLAVE):
The substance of cinema is therefore an endless long take, as is reality to our senses for as long as we are able to see and feel (a long take that ends with the end of our lives); and this long take is nothing but the reproduction of the language of reality. In other words it is the reproduction of the present.
— Pier Paolo Pasolini, “Observations On the Long Take”
Please submit writings, essays, musings, reflections, fictional vignettes, responses, or other texts written about or through a filmic long take. #LONGTAKE
More info and the call for submissions here.
Email: janice@entropymag.org
THE BIRDS (ENTROPY):
An invitation for writing and personal stories relating to birds. Stories involving loss, being lost, stories involving birds, changing relationships to writing and being written, to writing practice, to self, to the sky. Submissions of personal and poetic essays related to the birds. Essays on birds, a bird, a particular species of bird, all birds, your bird.
Please email submissions directly to: janice@entropymag.org.
See the series so far: The Birds.
#FINALPOEMS (ENCLAVE):
A call for submissions. All poems submitted will be included. Because one yet wants to believe that poetry can still be about the catastrophe and beauty of one’s own heart, and the generous giving away of those words to another.
If the world were to end next week, what is the final poem you write, the final poem you give away generously, treacherously, genuinely, fearfully, necessarily, beautifully?
That tomorrow it may very well all end, and we would know to bear the pain as the day rose and broke.
That the present is undying yet death awaits us all.
That words can still connect and touch, that we still know how to offer to others a piece of our soul.
That space yet expands and we know when to keep breathing and when to stop.
That poetry can yet be given and received, from one human being to another.
Send your #finalpoems to janice@entropymag.org to be published until the world ends, at Enclave.
See the series so far: #FINALPOEMS
FANZINE:
I am looking for personal essays, writings on film, and other thoughtful essays for FANZINE. Publications are paid.
Email me directly: janice@entropymag.org
September 1, 2015
Small Press Traffic: JANICE LEE & MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI / Oct 18
OCTOBER 18, 2015
a reading & conversation with JANICE LEE & MAGDALENA ZURAWSKI
@ Small Press Traffic
Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia St (at 21st) SF
Doors open at 5pm, readings begin 5:30.
Please consider becoming a member of SPT. Members get into all readings free! Non-member admission is $6-10. No one turned away for lack of funds.
August 4, 2015
Beat Me With a Selfie Stick! Reading@Book Show / Aug 12
8PM, Wednesday, August 12
BOOK SHOW
5503 North Figueroa St
Los Angeles, California 90042
A spectacular literary event featuring Henry Hoke, Sara Finnerty, Jeremy Hight, William Lessard, Saehee Cho and Janice Lee reading their work!
July 17, 2015
Reconsolidation Book Release at Skylight Books / Sept 23
Stay tuned for more details and updates.
Reconsolidation Book Release
Skylight Books
1818 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA
7:30PM, September 23, 2015
June 14, 2015
May 18, 2015
Faultline Launch / June 10
The MFA Programs in Writing at UC Irvine presents:
f a u l t l i n e
JOURNAL OF ARTS AND LETTERS
Wednesday / June 10, 2015 / 6 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
Join Faultline for the launch of our brand new issue! Listen to readings by contributors Janice Lee, Michael du Plessis, Teresa Carmody, Christopher J. Adamson, and Caleb True. Then, stick around for wine and refreshments, as well as a chance to meet the authors and buy the new issue.
Free and open to the public.
Faultline Launch / June 10, 2015
The MFA Programs in Writing at UC Irvine presents:
f a u l t l i n e
JOURNAL OF ARTS AND LETTERS
Wednesday / June 10, 2015 / 6 PM
Humanities Gateway 1030
Join Faultline for the launch of our brand new issue! Listen to readings by contributors Janice Lee, Michael du Plessis, Teresa Carmody, Christopher J. Adamson, and Caleb True. Then, stick around for wine and refreshments, as well as a chance to meet the authors and buy the new issue.
Free and open to the public.
