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Just a few weeks ago, there was a big international poetry festival in Copenhagen – REVERSE 2014 – amongst many other participating poets and scholars were Steven Zultanski (US), Vanessa Place (US),...
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Talk on Conceptual Writing for Reverse Festival
by Steven Zultanski As far as I can tell, there are basically two kinds of conceptual writing. The first is what most people refer to when they use the term: a kind of poetry in which an idea, often an...
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Playing Divya Victor’s Race Card
by Vanessa Place Divya Victor’s Race Card is a Brechtean event score, designed to settle some scores at that. The first portion of the piece consists of instructions for the audience to use the color...
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How subjectivity found a new subject
by Robert Fitterman So for this talk I’m going to assume reframing practices in poetry—conceptual writing or what I’ve called radical appropriation—as a starting point. Even though there has been a lot...
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# ABCs of Dmitry Prigov
by Natalie Fedorova A. Series of ABCs written by Moscow poet, artist, and performer Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov from 1980 – to 2007 will be in the focus of my today’s talk. Prigov wrote 120 such works,...
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WHY WRITE IN SEVERAL LANGUAGES?
In September 2015 the international poetry festival REVERSE took place for the second time in Copenhagen. As for the 2014 festival I was moderating a panel – in 2014 the overarching theme was...
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The Polyglot Poetics of John Skelton’s Speke Parrot
by Eugene Ostashevsky The text I will speak about is Speke Parott (or “Speak, Parrot”), a 520-line satire by the English poet John Skelton, the poet-laureate of Henry VIII, composed mainly in 1521. The...
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Head to tongue through revolving doors
by Cia Rinne Langue et style sont des forces aveugles; l’écriture est un acte de solidarité historique.[1] Why write in different languages. This is a question I have frequently been asked. My texts...
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Laudatio for Uljana Wolf, Copenhagen on September 26th 2015
by Yoko Tawada In German, people talk about a “word treasure.” Words that we know and that know us are precious treasures. Among these, there are words that sit heavily on the stomach or are carved...
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Why write in many languages?
by Uljana Wolf For my talk on “Why write in many languages“ I want to focus on the translingual poetry of LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, whose poems continue to be a source of inspiration, confusion,...
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