Rain Taxi Reading Series
Rain Taxi sponsors a reading series as a further demonstration of its commitment to literary culture. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
FORTHCOMING 2010 EVENTS
April 29: Howe & Grubbs | May 14: Midwestern Poetry
FREE VERSE: Susan Howe and David Grubbs
Thursday, April 29 at 7:00 pm
Walker Art Center, McGuire Theater
1750 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis
Join us for a unique Free Verse event as poet Susan Howe and musician David Grubbs collaborate live on stage! Each an artistic luminary in their own right, Howe and Grubbs have created two astonishing projects together, Theifth and Souls of the Labadie Tract—which, as Bennett Simpson described in Artforum International, are “neither traditional recitation nor music-with-words . . . in Howe’s imagination, the past becomes a very current stake, [and] Grubbs’s sonic architecture is a striking accompaniment to the text.” An evening of language art and sound art that is not to be missed!
photo by Joe Kremer
Susan Howe is the author of numerous books of poems, including Souls of the Labadie Tract, The Midnight, Pierce-Arrow, and The Nonconformist’s Memorial, as well as the critical studies The Birth-Mark and My Emily Dickinson. Her work is renowned for its deft layering of history and myth; as a Rain Taxi review put it, “words are artifacts Howe arranges and rearranges, fighting the impulse to impose order on a chaotic historical record.”
photo by Thatcher Keats
David Grubbs was a founding member of three groundbreaking groups (Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol) and has since released ten solo records. He has also recorded with The Red Krayola and The Wingdale Community Singers, and frequently collaborates with writers, artists, and filmmakers. He is an assistant professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College and director of graduate programs in Performance and Interactive Media Arts.
Co-sponsored by Rain Taxi Review of Books and The Walker Art Center. Admission is free, but tickets are required: free tickets are available at the Hennepin Lobby desk starting at 6 pm.
A Celebration of Midwestern Poetry
Friday, May 14
co-sponsored by the Poetry Society of America
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