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Les Figues Press
Les Figues Press is an American non-profit literary press that publishes poetry, prose, visual art, conceptual writing, and translation. Based in Los Angeles, California, the press curates and hosts literary events, readings, performances, and art salons. Les Figues upholds a feminist criticality and editorial vision. Their stated mission is to create aesthetic conversations between readers, writers, and artists by publishing innovative/experimental and avant-garde styled work. History Les Figues Press was founded in January 2005 by Teresa Carmody, Vanessa Place, Pam Ore and Sarah La Borde. In December 2005, the press became incorporated as a nonprofit 501c3 organization. From 2005 to 2013, the press published the TrenchArt Series. The TrenchArt series was an annual series of four books with a collection of essays. The series was devoted to facilitating conversations about the craft and form of writing. In 2008, Alta Ifland's collection ''Voix de Glace/Voice of Ice'' won the Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanessa Place
Vanessa Place (born 1968) is an American writer and criminal appellate attorney. She is the co-director of the Los Angeles-based Les Figues Press. Place has also worked as an occasional screenwriter on television shows such as '' Law & Order: Special Victims Unit'' and '' Xena: Warrior Princess'' with producer Liz Friedman. Education Place earned a BA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MFA at Antioch University, and a JD at Boston University. Conceptual and performance art Place is associated with the Conceptual Art movement and has lectured and performed at events including at the Sorbonne in Paris, London's Whitechapel Gallery, and the Andre Bely Centre for Experimental Writing in St. Petersburg, and the Getty Villa in Los Angeles. In 2012, Place was the first poet to perform as part of the Whitney Biennial. In 2013, Place had her first solo art exhibition, ''The Lawyer is Present,'' a response to Marina Abramović's ''The Artist Is Present'', at the Boulder M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Hawkey
Christian Hawkey (born 1969), is an American poet, translator, editor, activist, and educator. Life and work Hawkey was born in Hackensack, New Jersey. He is the author of several books of poetry, including ''Sonne from Ort'', ''Ventrakl,'' ''Citizen Of'', ''The Book of Funnels'', and a number of chapbooks. His work has been translated into German Slovene, French, Swedish, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Dutch; and he translates several contemporary German poets including Daniel Falb, Sabine Scho and Steffen Popp, and Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. Hawkey completed graduate work at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he founded and edited the first 10 issues of the poetry journal ''jubilat''. He is an associate professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. He teaches in the English department, and the Writing for Publication, Performance, and Media Program. In 2012 he founded, with Rachel Levitskythe Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schindler House
The Schindler House, also known as the Schindler Chace House or Kings Road House, is a house in West Hollywood, California, designed by architect Rudolph M. Schindler. The house serves as headquarters to the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, which operate and program three Schindler sites, and is owned and conserved by the Friends of Schindler House. The Schindler House was a departure from existing residential architecture because of what it did not have; there is no conventional living room, dining room or bedrooms in the house. The residence was meant to be a cooperative live/work space for two young families. The concrete walls and sliding canvas panels made novel use of industrial materials, while the open floor plan integrated the external environment into the residence, setting a precedent for California architecture in particular. Inspiration After completing the Hollyhock House, Schindler and his wife Pauline vacationed in Yosemite in October 1921. Inspired by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
Q.E.D. or QED is an initialism of the Latin phrase , meaning "which was to be demonstrated". Literally it states "what was to be shown". Traditionally, the abbreviation is placed at the end of mathematical proofs and philosophical arguments in print publications, to indicate that the proof or the argument is complete. Etymology and early use The phrase ''quod erat demonstrandum'' is a translation into Latin from the Greek (; abbreviated as ''ΟΕΔ''). Translating from the Latin phrase into English yields "what was to be demonstrated". However, translating the Greek phrase can produce a slightly different meaning. In particular, since the verb also means ''to show'' or ''to prove'', a different translation from the Greek phrase would read "The very thing it was required to have shown."Euclid's Elements translated from Greek by Thomas L. Heath. 2003 Green Lion Press pg. xxiv The Greek phrase was used by many early Greek mathematicians, including Euclid and Archimedes. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aimee Bender
Aimee Bender (born June 28, 1969) is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal stories and characters. She is a 2011 recipient of the Alex Awards. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Bender received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at San Diego, and a Master of Fine Arts from the creative writing MFA program at University of California at Irvine. While at UCI she studied with Judith Grossman and Geoffrey Wolff. She received ArtsBridge scholarships and worked with mentor Keith Fowler to create writing programs for K-12 students in Orange County, California. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Southern California where she served as Director of the USC PhD in Creative Writing & Literature from 2012 to 2015. In the past she taught a class in surrealist writing at the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and was a senior artist at the non-profit theater workshop The Imagination Workshop, helping mentally ill and at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Winnette
Colin Winnette is an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. Early life and education Winnette grew up in Denton, Texas. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he earned an MFA in writing in 2012. Career Winnette's first novel, ''Revelation'', was published in 2011 by Mutable Sound Press while he was a graduate student. He has written five more works of fiction: ''Animal Collection'' (Spork Press 2012), ''Fondly'' (Atticus Books 2013), ''Coyote'' (Les Figues Press 2015), ''Publishers Weekly'' ''Haints Stay'' ( 2015), ''The Job of the Wasp'' ( |
Sina Queyras
Sina Queyras is a Canadian writer."From P.I. to poet, author has one varied resume; Teaching tops list for new writer-in-residence". ''Calgary Herald'', September 9, 2007. To date, they have published seven collections of poetry, a novel and an essay collection. Personal life Sina Queyras was born in Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation, Manitoba, Canada. Their growing up took place on the road on Anishinabe, Ininew, Oji-Cree, Dene, Dakota, Kootenai, Kitsumkalum, Kitselas and the Ts’msyen (Tsimshian) territories in Winnipeg, Kaslo, and Terrace, Western Canada. Sina also studied and lived in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, New York, Philadelphia, and Calgary where they were Markin Flanagan Writer in Residence. Life and career In 2005, while living in New York, they edited ''Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets'' for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press."Canadian poets storm America". ''The Globe and Mail'', July 30, 2005. They later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum (born February 14, 1972) is a Chinese American writer. She previously taught writing and literature in the Graduate MFA Writing program at Otis College of Art and Design until 2015. Bynum is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. Her brother is musician Taylor Ho Bynum. Fairy tales are a common theme in many of her works. Bynum describes fairy tales by saying, "they always walk that line between wonder and darkness." ''Madeleine is Sleeping'' was published by Harcourt in 2004, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her short stories, including excerpts from her new novel, have appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, Triquarterly, The Georgia Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and in Best American Short Stories. Her second novel, ''Ms. Hempel Chronicles'', was published in September 2008 and was a finalist for the PEN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas Kearney
Douglas Kearney (born 1974) is an American poet, performer and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California. His work has appeared in ''Nocturnes'', ''Jubilat'', ''Beloit Poetry Journal'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Poetry'', ''Pleiades'', ''Iowa Review'', ''Callaloo'', ''Boston Review'', ''Hyperallergic'', ''Scapegoat'', ''Obsidian'', ''Boundary 2'', ''Jacket2'', ''Lana Turner'', ''Brooklyn Rail'', and ''Indiana Review''.'' ''In 2012, his and Anne LeBaron's opera, ''Crescent City,'' premiered and received widespread praise. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota. Education Kearney attended Howard University as an undergraduate. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA (2004). Awards * 2000-2002 Cave Canem Fellowship * 2004 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Fellowship * 2004 & 2005 Callaloo Creative Writer's Workshop Fellowship *2006 Coat Hanger Award for poem ''Swimchant for Nigger Mer-folk'' * 2007 Returning Fellow fellowships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Divya Victor
Divya Victor is a Tamil American poet and professor, known for her poetry book ''Curb'' which won the PEN Open Book Award. __TOC__ Early life and education Divya Victor was born in Nagercoil, India. Victor earned her B.S. in English from Towson University, her M.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Temple University, and her Ph.D. in English at University at Buffalo (SUNY). Victor has taught at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Nanyang Technological University, which hosts Singapore's first Advanced Creative Writing Program. She has also served as the editor for Jacket2. She is currently based in East Lansing and is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University. Awards and recognition Victor's CURB, won the PEN America Open Book Award and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Her earlier book, Natural Subjects, won the Bob Kaufman Award. In 2012 she won the Mark Diamond Research Fund Award from the University at Buffalo. She has been a Riverrun Fellow at Universi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Located in Hollywood, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) is a nonprofit exhibition space and archive of the visual arts for the city of Los Angeles, California, United States, currently under the leadership of Sarah Russin. History In the mid-1970s, artists began living in large, inexpensive lofts built into the empty warehouses of downtown Los Angeles. LACE was initially located in the same area on Broadway, later moving to an industrial neighborhood near the Los Angeles River, and finally to Hollywood. Founded in 1978 by a group of thirteen artists and based upon principles of grassroots community organizing and social change, LACE committed from the start to presenting experimental works of art in all media, including the then-experimental media of performance art and video. In 1982, Joy Silverman was appointed the first executive director. LACE provided an early venue for artists like Laurie Anderson, Nancy Buchanan, Chris Burden, Gronk, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PEN American Center
PEN America (formerly PEN American Center), founded in 1922 and headquartered in New York City, is a nonprofit organization that works to defend and celebrate Freedom of speech, free expression in the United States and worldwide through the advancement of literature and human rights. PEN America is the largest of the more than 100 PEN centers worldwide that together compose PEN International. PEN America has offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. PEN America's advocacy includes work on Freedom of the press, press freedom and the safety of journalists, campus free speech, online harassment, artistic freedom, and support to regions of the world with challenges to freedom of expression. PEN America also campaigns for individual writers and journalists who have been imprisoned or come under threat for their work and annually presents the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award. PEN America hosts public programming and events on literature and human rights, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
