February 23, 2014
Stephanie Strickland & Alan Bernheimer
Sunday, February 23
7:00 pm -- please note earlier starting time
Glyph Café and Art Space
804 NW Couch (North Park Blocks)
Portland, Oregon
503-719-5481
$5 suggested donation
Stephanie Strickland's seventh book of poems, Dragon Logic, was published by Ahsahta in 2013. Other books include True North and The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil. She has also collaborated on nine electronic poems. V: WaveTercets / Losing L'una, a new edition of her 2002 Penguin volume, will appear in 2014 from SpringGun with accompanying app for iPad. A member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Literature Organization, she co-edited Electronic Literature Collection Volume 1. For more information on her work you can visit her web site here.
Alan Bernheimer's most recent book is The Spoonlight Institute (Adventures in Poetry, 2009), which, Stephanie Young writes, "Brings me very close to the frayed hem of shared speech acts, ways of thinking. Brings me, with generosity and delight and some sadness, to the eroded edges of things, including words." Bernheimer's recent work has appeared in TRY!, Big Bell, Dreamboat, and Sal Mimeo. He grew up in NYC and emigrated in the late 1970s to the Bay Area, where he was active in Poets Theater and produced a poetry radio program on KPFA. He maintains an ongoing portrait gallery on flickr of poets reading, is a board member of Small Press Distribution, and has translated a memoir by surrealist Philippe Soupault.
Burning Briar Scanning Tunnel
there is a zombie at the wheel
who finds acceptable all risk
( his flesh looks like mine )
a crinkle monkey in the swamp
mind tricky and brisk
( his moves feel like mine )
headless mannequin draped
white print snakeskin dress
( pale fakery filling me with dread )
a boneless man used up
by apparatchik juggernaut
( scrivener like me )
the one who hoped to poach
cockroach strategy adrift
( like me time-amnesic overreaching )
cord-cut all beyond the call
to heal or heel fold molt
( wormhole crush crash course )
Stephanie Strickland
from The Spoonlight Institute
Brightness has fallen from my
interior air
with false starts galore and
imitation empathy
for the ethereal hacker
syncing feeling to digital
hugeness
angry and owl shaped
in the diaphanous mirror
that undiscovers solitude
in a crowd of countryside
an emotional Chihuahua
mincing perfectly toward
nothing in particular
Alan Bernheimer