bringing science into art and art into science
May 8, 2003 7PM
Friends and family are invited to Dactyl Foundation to remember Gerrit, read his work, and say a few words.
Program: Neil Grayson, John Ashbery, Susan Baran, Marc Cohen, David Lehman, Maggie Paley, Bill Sullivan, John Wells, Tom Breidenbach, Audrey Ushenko, and Ellen Banks. Continue reading “Memorial for Gerrit Henry”
March 22 2003
7-9pm
Book release party for Victoria N. Alexander’s “Naked Singularity”.
December 7 – 21 2002
Front Hall Book Fair Limited editions, hand-made, Poetry and Literary Fiction.
Open reading Dec 6th 6-8pm.
Friday Oct. 25, 2002
Croatian-born Novakovich has published numerous works of fiction, including, Yolk and Salvation and Other Disasters. He received the Whiting Writer’s Award (1997), Guggenheim Fellowship (1999), two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships (1991 and 2002), and a fellowship at The New York Public Library’s Center for Scholars and Writers in 2001/02. Novakovich also teaches in the English Department at Penn State University.
Continue reading “Josip Novakovich, reading with introduction by Victoria N. Alexander”
September 12 2002
7:30
A poetry reading by John Ashbery and Gerrit Henry.
May 22nd 2002
Antioch Review fund-raiser with readings by Katherine Vaz and Henry Van Dyke.
May 21 2002
Antioch Review readings with James Purdy and Jeffery Renard Allen.
The New York Times METRO review by Susan Guerrero, published Monday, June 3, 2002, read as follows:
Jeffery Renard Allen, an author, was reading one of his short stories aloud at a benefit for the Antioch Review at the Dactyl Foundation on Grand Street in SOHO when the dreaded happened – a cellphone rang and rang.
The cellphone have-nots in the audience looked around, their stares wildly disapproving. The haves looked guilty as they scrambled for purses and dived into their backpacks. To no avail. The phone kept ringing. Mr. Allen gamely kept reading. Everyone looked at everyone else. It was hard to concentrate on the story, steamy as it was. A couple of people double checked.
Suddenly Mr. Allen stopped in midsentence, having finally identified the culprit cellphone. “I’m sorry,” he said. “It’s mine.”
May 17 2002
Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, ed. Mark Wallace and Steven Marks. 26 essays on contemporary avant garde poetries. Book release & panel discussion with Charles Borkhuis,Lee Ann Brown, Jeff Derksen, Jeff Hansen, Bill Howe, Andrew Levy, Eileen Myles, Leonard Schwartz, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans, Gary Sullivan, & Elizabeth Willis
May 14, 2002
Poetry reading with Meena Alexander celebrating the release of Illiterate Heart with introduction by Tricia Lin.
May 4-25 2002
An exhibition of hand-colored etchings and poetry by Archie Rand and John Yau (Meritage Press) Also celebrating the release of My Heart Is That Eternal Rose Tattoo (Black Sparrow),Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin) by John Yau, Simply Separate People by Lynn Crawford, edited by John Yau (Black Square), Me with Animal Towering by Albert Mobilio, edited by John Yau (Black Square); and Bayart by Pascalle Monnier, translated by Cole Swensen, edited by John Yau (Black Square).
Feb 22 2002
Discussion with poet-critics Michael Davidson and John Taggart.
December 15 – 21 2001
Poetry Book Fair and readings.
Sunday, September 23 2001
Laird Hunt, The Impossibly (Coffee House Press).
May 10 2001
Book party with The Figures: On the Nameways (Vol.2) by Clark Coolidge, My Terza Rima by Michael Gizzi, Push The Mule by John Godfrey, Savage Baggage by Roger Mitchell, The Drift of Things by Terence Winch, Roof: Christophe Tarkos: Ma Langue est Poetique–Selected Writings, Vocoder by Judith Goldman, Free Will by Craig Watson, Pen Chants By Lissa Wolsak.
April 4 2001
Antioch Review 60th Anniversary Celebration.
Feb 6 2001
Publication party celebrating Edizioni Mazzotta’s monograph on Norman Bluhm.
December 15-22, 2000
BookFair will sell limited editions and hand-made bindings of poetry and literary fiction.
December 6, 2000
A reception for Your Name Here and Other Traditions by John Ashbery.
November 28, 2000
A poetry reading of works by Carter Ratcliff and Kenneth Koch.
Nov 16 2000
A poetry reading of works by John Yau and Vincent Katz.
October 19 2000
The Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities presents
Gad Hollander’s the palaver transcription, poetry screening
an experimental video utilizing voices, text, images, and ambient sound
derived from the book, The Palaver, by Gad Hollander & Andrew Bick.
October 16 2000
Murmur journal, reception, volume ii includes works by Ashbery, Fletcher, Hollo, Ni Dhomhnaill, and Ramsdell.
August 12 2000
Reception and Sign-up 7:00 pm
Scheduled Poets 8:00 pm
Jill Bernstein, Desiree Gordon, and James Parker
A film short by “Cory” 8:45
Open Mic 9:00 pm
Refreshments will be served
May 12 2000
A book party for The Figures Press and Roof Press.
April 4 – 6, 2000
Chaos in literature, science and art. Sponsored by Pfizer Corporation &Herbert Lee Grayson Foundation Panel Discussion:
Tuesday, April 4th & Wednesday, April 5th, 6pm
Angus Fletcher, CUNY on Spenser’s “Mutability Cantos”and the poetry of John Ashbery
Thursday, April 6th, 6pm John Ashbery, Bard College, poetry reading
Jim Crutchfield, Santa Fe Institute, on the physics of chaos
Joan Richardson, CUNY, on science & poetry
Angus Fletcher, CUNY, respondent
In history, chaos is anarchy, mutability, disorder, chance, indeterminacy, flux, non-linearity, entropy, irrational thought, creativity, destructive emotion and the primal source of all that is.
April 4-6 2000
Retrodiction –The History of Chaos in Literature, Science and Art.
Retrodiction is a series of audio recordings designed for an Internet experience with visual, musical, interactive, and educational components. The series will explore the concept of chaos and the fundamental question: Do things happen by chance? or does nature govern by fixed laws? The goal is to increase public understanding of science through fiction, poetry, and philosophical writings. The project is a collaborative effort among Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, the Santa Fe Institute, and the Art and Science Laboratory. Continue reading “Retrodiction”
Mar 30 2000
Reception for the Antioch Review with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein.
March 16th 2000
St. Paddy’s Jam 2000, a poetry reading featuring Colum McCann, Tom Kelley and friends.
March 14th 2000
A reading from The Letters of Alphaville by Raphael Rubinstein.
February 10th 2000
A poetry reading of works by Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and Krysia Jopek.