Join us for a reading with Joseph Lease, Emily Carr &
Evan Karp, + a performance of "After Frost"
This event will begin promptly at 7:30pm; please arrive on time.
Beverages and snacks will be served.
+ Come early for Bites Off Broadway: amazing food outside on the Studio One Lawn, 5:30-8:30pm
Joseph Lease, photo by Laird Hunt
Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press, 2011) and Broken World (Coffee House
Press, 2007). Lease’s
poems "'Broken World' (For James
Assatly)" and "Send My Roots Rain" have been selected for Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (Second
Edition). "'Broken World' (For James Assatly)" was also selected for The Best American Poetry 2002. The Academy of American Poets
anthologized Lease’s poem “True Faith” on poets.org, and emailed the poem to
70,000 subscribers. Marjorie
Perloff wrote: “The poems in Joseph Lease’s Broken
World are as cool as they are
passionate, as soft-spoken as they are indignant, and as fiercely Romantic as
they are formally contained. Whether
writing an elegy for a friend who died of AIDS or playing complex variations on
Rilke’s Duino Elegies (“If I cried out, / Who among the angelic orders would /
Slap my face, who would steal my / Lunch money”), Lease has complete command of his poetic materials. His poems are spellbinding in their
terse and ironic authority: Yes,
the reader feels when s/he has finished, this is how it was—and how it is. An exquisite collection!”
Michael Bérubé called Broken
World “remarkably inventive and evocative work from Joseph Lease, one of the
finest poets writing today.” Of Testify, Sheila Murphy wrote: “Lease is the
master of tenderness, crafting a deeply felt synthesis that is as potent in its
specificity as it is accurate in its intuitive musicality. . . Lease’s singular use of anaphora,
the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase for a specific effect, achieves
perfection as it sings or cries its musical reality in repeated chant-like
fragments that become in their aggregate more whole than any more traditional
construction would allow . . .”
Lease was born in Chicago,
and attended Columbia University, Brown University, and Harvard University. He
has received The Academy of American Poets Prize, The Henry Evans Fellowship in
Poetry, and Fellowships and grants in poetry and poetics from Columbia
University, Harvard University, Brown University, and California College of the
Arts. He is a Professor of Writing and Literature at California College of the
Arts and a member of the Advisory Board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of
Poetry and Poetics.
Emily Carr
Emily Carr
directs the Low-Residency MFA at OSU-Cascades. She is passionate about the
rediscovery of Mississippi poet besmilr brigham, the sexual politics of meat,
the limits of Achilles’ honesty and the problem of Chaucer’s spring, unposted
love letters, cannibal chickens and a ship too late to save the drowning witch.
Emily has been a finalist in seven national poetry competitions, most recently
the National Poetry Series. She is the author of two full-length collections of
poetry, directions for flying
(Furniture Press 2010) and 13 Ways of
Happily: Books 1 & 2 (Parlor Press 2011) and some lovely chapbooks from
horseless press, Little Red Leaves Textile Series, and dancing girl press. Her
third full-length poetry collection, Up
The Shinbone Superlatives, is forthcoming from horseless press in 2014.
Evan Karp
puts words on paper in a way that feels good to him. He does not care about
poetry as such, nor about fiction, and believes all overtly political art is a
contradiction. He also feels if something is not important enough for you to
learn by heart you shouldn't publish it. New and improved, Evan's lived in the
Bay Area for four years without a job, writing regularly for the San Francisco
Chronicle, SF Weekly, KQED, and SF Arts, as well as contributing articles to
the Guardian UK, BOMBlog, The Rumpus, The Bay Citizen, and elsewhere. He's the
founder and Executive Director of Quiet Lightning and the founding editor of
Litseen.com, and his ideas and feelings may be found in Eleven Eleven,
Vertebrae, OmniVerse, and Dusie (some of which he does not have memorized).
Tobey Kaplan
"After Frost", a mixed-media performance with text by poet Tobey Kaplan and choreography by choreographer/dancer
Nan Busse, + music by Julianne Moscovitz & others:
Tobey Kaplan, a poet originally from New
York City, with degrees from Syracuse and San Francisco State Universities, has
been teaching in the San Francisco Bay Area for over thirty years. Her
honors include: Dorland Mountain Colony Fellow, and Affiliate Artist at the
Headlands Center for the Arts, as well the recipient of a Bay Area Award (New
Langton Arts, 1996). A full-length volume appeared Across the Great Divide
(Androgyne, 1995), and her poems are contained in numerous publications, most
recently East Bay Monthly April 2012, Omnidawn Feature February 2010, Turning
A Thought Upside Down (Scarlet Tanager 2012)and The Berkeley Poets
Cooperative: A History of the Times (Hip Pocket Press, 2013). She also has a
position at a Native American social service agency encouraging those she works
with to write, tell stories and continue with some kind of formal education.
Coming quite late to dance following 20 or
so years as a visual artist, Nan Busse
has danced for many years primarily with local choreographer, Danny Nguyen.
Having also performed with Christine Germaine & Dancers, Vangie King, Amy
Lewis, Axis Dance Co. and participated in Deborah Hay's "Solo Performance
Commission Project", her focus has turned increasingly over the past
couple of years to creating her own work solo and with the likes of the fine
performers with whom she’ll be performing at Studio One, and whose efforts are
inestimable.
Classically trained musician, Julianne Moscovitz, has performed
alternative music for decades and accompanied various traditional and
non-traditional art presentations and performances. Julianne currently
serves as Director of Performing Arts and Music at Castlemont High School in
Oakland.
Other "After Frost" performers include:
Other "After Frost" performers include:
Dan Bruno-waltz
Cynthia Berrol-performer
Cynthia Berrol-performer
Gustav Davila-performer
Leslie Egashira -performer
Cathy Broder-waltz
Paul
Lynch- musician
Peggy DeCoursey-performer 
