Friday, Nov 13
PolyPerformance Series
Easy Chair Coffee Shop
7-9 PM
Upcoming dates:
December 11th
The PolyPerformance Series was founded in the Fall of '09 by Virginia Tech MFA students Katherine "KMA" Sullivan and Megan "The Meerkat" Moriarty, and welcomes performers of all kinds: writers, musicians, sword eaters, etc.
We look for people who would like to read/perform:
1-5 poems
up to 5 pages of a short story
1-3 songs (original or cover)
up to 5 minutes of some other type of creative endeavor
We’re also looking for an audience, so come support the performers!
Series events are held once or twice each month at:
Easy Chair Coffee Shop
801 University City Blvd
Blacksburg, VA 24060
http://easychaircoffeeshop.com/
If you have any questions, or would like to sign up in advance in order to ensure a spot, email Megan Moriarty (meganmoriarty@vt.edu), or Katherine Sullivan (kmasullivan@vt.edu). We’ll also have a sign up sheet at each event.
Also, join us at our FaceBook page: search "PolyPerformance Series"
Wednesday, Feb 17
Taije Silverman
Shanks 370/380
12:15 -1:15
Taije Silverman’s poems have appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, Five Points, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. The recipient of the 2005–2007 Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, as well as residencies from the MacDowell Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she is now Assistant Visiting Professor at Ursinus College, outside of Philadelphia. Her first collection of poems, Houses Are Fields, was published by LSU Press in 2009, and selected as the debut book in their Sea Cliff Series. Thrice nominated for the Puschart Prize, she has received the Anais Nin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and her book has just been translated into Italian. Her own translations of Italian poetry are forthcoming in Pleiades.
Taije Silverman’s debut collection chronicles her family’s devotion and dissolution through the death of her mother. Ranging in style from measured narratives to fragmented lyrics that convey the ambiguity of loss, these poems both arc into the past and question the possibility of the future, exploring the ways in which memory at once sustains and fails love. Ultimately the poems are elegies not only to one beloved mother, but to the large and diffusive presences of Keats, Mandelstam, a concentration camp near Prague, a coming-of-age on a Greek island, and the nearly traceless particles of neutrinos that--as with each detail toward which the poet lends her attention—become precious as the mother departs from her position at the center of the world. Furious, redemptive, and deeply immediate, Houses are Fields is a beautifully moving first book.