‘Writing’ Category Archives
Jan
Upcoming Readings and Events
by admin in Books, Hope, Teaching, Writing
JANUARY 31 HOPE COLLEGE VISITING WRITERS SERIES
3:30 Herrick Room Q and A
7 pm Winants Graves Hall Reading
Contact: Sarah Baar, baar@hope.edu
FEBRUARY 3 SHORELINE VISION KEYNOTE SPEAKER
2:30 Bookselling and Conversation
3:15 – 4:15 Speech
Watermark 920 Muskegon
TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7 HASP KEYNOTE SPEECH
9 am arrival Haworth Center Conference Center
Contact Kathy Beal pkbeal@sbcgolbal.net
THURSDAY FEBURARY 9 HAIR: TEXT AND IMAGE: poetry reading
6:30-8:30 pm
Hair: Text & Image
CHRYSTOPH MARTEN
511 West 25th Street, # 608.
February 9 – March 3rd, 2012
Opening: Thursday, Feb. 9th, 6:30-8:30 pm
Elaine Sexton 212-462-9585 / elainesexton1@gmail.com
Chrystoph Marten 212-414-1422
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 15 HASP HOPE COLLEGE .
| 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
9:30 coffee 10 am speech Booksales: Sally Hoekstra |
HOPE COLLEGE
Maas Conference Room Contact: Elliot Tanis 616.395.7377 tanis@hope.edu |
FRIDAY MARCH 2 “The Personal, Political, Provocative” The Sun Magazine
ASSOCIATED WRITING PROGRAMS
10:15 am Empire Ballroom Palmer House Hilton Chicago
National Conference
Chicago, IL
Contact: Molly Herboth
919-942-5282
TUESDAY MAY 1 Reading and Signing
| 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
author event. |
ROCHESTER HILLS PUBLIC LIBRARY
500 Olde Towne Road Rochester, MI 48307-2043 Contact: Ellen Kieta 248-650-7124 ellen.kieta@rhpl.org |
Jan
Hair Show!
by admin in Writing
Hair: Text & Image
CHRYSTOPH MARTEN
511 West 25th Street, # 608.
February 9 – March 3rd, 2012
Opening: Thursday, Feb. 9th, 6:30-8:30 pm
CHRYSTOPH MARTEN’s gallery will host a site-specific reading, book-launch, and exhibit of artwork on the subject of hair in an exhibit space that also serves as a salon. “HAIR” is a hand-bound, limited-edition chapbook of texts and images (art, poetry, and prose) from Cover Story, an imprint of Q Avenue Press. A selection of poems will be exhibited as prints. Featured art includes photographs by Paola Ferrario, Helen Verbanz, John Kramer, and reprints of woodcuts (of samurai hair) by Beatriz Inglessis.
At Feb. 9th, 7:00 sharp, ten of these 19 contributors will read from their work: Roger Mitchell, Heather Sellers, Nin Andrews, Elizabeth Macklin, Ross Gay, Elaine Sexton, Scott Hightower, Sarah Van Arsdale, Curtis Bauer, Kate Lutzner, Cynthia Nadelman, Ron Slate, Charles Flowers, Robin Messing, Marion Brown, Patrick Rosal, Sarah Salm, Nell Regan, and Babs Davies.
A FREE e-book edition of “HAIR” will go live Feb. 9th.
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* Marten, a hair stylist, counts numerous artists as clients, often exhibiting art in his Chelsea space. His work with prominent artists includes binding the hair of two people together for Marina Abramovic’s 2009 retrospective at MOMA.
For More Information:
Contact:
Elaine Sexton 212-462-9585 / elainesexton1@gmail.com
Chrystoph Marten 212-414-1422
Jan
Annie Leibovitz
by admin in Books, Diary, Hope, Teaching, Writing
I watched a documentary on Annie Leibovitz Annie Leibovitz last night and I want all my students to watch it. It’s a portrait of
becoming an artist.
So so so so good.
Two things she said that I really want to help my students, and myself, keep at the very center of our process this semester:
1. You don’t know what you are going to get until you get there. You can’t plan your art. You have to go to the place (for writers, that is the dream space) and notice what is there.
2. The small things are the things that end up “making” the piece. You have to keep an eye for the tiny things, and you never can know where they will be or what they will be, or even that you have them when you happen upon them. You often aren’t going to know, for a long time, what you have.
It’s this kind of eye towards mystery, and this patience with not knowing, that I’m trying to teach. And practice.

Heather Sellers is a writer, an artist, and a yoga student. She blogs about cycling, the writing life, love, teaching, and books.