![\"\"](\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/mccaffery.jpg\" "\\"Steve")
<\/p>\nWe have an amazing Spring 2012 Purple Blurb lineup, thanks to this academic year’s organizer, Amaranth Borsuk, and featuring two special events and readings by two leading Canadian poets who work in sound, concrete, and conceptual poetry. The Purple Blurb series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and MIT’s Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies. All events are at MIT and are free and open to the public.<\/b><\/p>\n
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Monday, March 19
\n5:30 PM
\n6-120<\/p>\n
Author of Carnival, The Black Debt, Seven Pages Missing<\/i>
\nProfessor and David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, SUNY Buffalo<\/p>\n
A central figure in Canadian avant-garde writing, Steve McCaffery\u2019s work
\nspans sound poetry, generative and iterative text, experimental prose,
\nperformance art, literary criticism, and visual poetics. A member of the
\nFour Horsemen sound poetry ensemble and a professor of English at SUNY
\nBuffalo, he is the author of over a dozen influential books of poetry,
\ntwenty chapbooks and four volumes of critical writing. His works include
\nCARNIVAL<\/i> panels 1 and 2, Panopticon, The Black Debt, North of Intention<\/i>
\nand Rational Geomancy: Kids of the Book-Machine<\/i> (with bpNichol). With Jed
\nRasula, McCaffery edited Imagining Language,<\/i> an anthology for MIT Press.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/openmic.jpg\" "\\"Open")
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Monday, April 9
\n5:30 PM
\n6-120<\/p>\n
Featuring Alexandra Chasin, Ari Kalinowski, and YOU<\/p>\n
Please join us for an open mic featuring\u00a0 D1G1T4L WR1T1NG for a variety of
\nplatforms, from immersive projections by Ari Kalinowski to generative
\nfiction for the iPad by Alexandra Chasin.<\/p>\n
Bring video art, interactive fiction, SMS poems, hypertext fiction and poetry, text generators, and any form of electronic literature you\u2019ve got up your sleeve! This event is co-sponsored by the Electronic Literature Organization.<\/p>\n
Alexandra Chasin is the author of Kissed By<\/i> (FC2), and Selling Out: The Gay Thursday, May 3 Professor of English, University of Calgary Christian B\u00f6k is the author of Crystallography<\/i> (Coach House Press, 1994), 1:00 PM – 7:00 PM Co-sponsored by the Mellon Foundation, SHASS, WHS, the Arts at MIT Visiting An afternoon of discussion with theorists and practitioners from MIT and Participants include:<\/p>\n Christian B\u00f6k (University of Calgary) We have an amazing Spring 2012 Purple Blurb lineup, thanks to this academic year’s organizer, Amaranth Borsuk, and featuring two special events and readings by two leading Canadian poets who work in sound, concrete, and conceptual poetry. The Purple Blurb series is supported by the Angus N. MacDonald fund and MIT’s Program in Writing and … <\/p>\n
\nand Lesbian Movement Goes to Market<\/i> (St. Martin’s). She teaches Writing at
\nLang College, The New School. Ari Kalinowski runs the Intermedia Poetry
\nProject.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/bok.jpg\" "\\"Christian")
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\n6:00 PM
\n6-120<\/p>\nChristian B\u00f6k<\/h3>\n
\nCo-sponsored by the Visiting Artist Series and WHS
\nAuthor of Crystallography, Eunoia<\/i> and The Xenotext.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nnominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut, and Eunoia,<\/i> a
\nlipogram that uses only one vowel in each chapter, which won the 2002
\nGriffin Poetry Prize and is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all
\ntime. He is also author of Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science<\/i>
\n(2001). His latest project, The Xenotext,<\/i> encodes a poetic text into
\nbacterial DNA that will produce proteins in response\u2014yielding another poetic
\ntext. B\u00f6k has created artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry\u2019s Earth:
\nFinal Conflict<\/i> and Peter Benchley\u2019s Amazon.<\/i><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/nickm.com\/post\/wp-content\/stuff\/unbound.jpg\" "\\"Unbound\\"")
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\nBartos Theater
\nFriday, May 4<\/p>\nUnbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book<\/a><\/h3>\n
\nArtist Program, and the MIT Communications Forum<\/p>\n
\nbeyond who are concerned with the shape of books to come.<\/p>\n
\nKatherine Hayles (Duke University)
\nBonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
\nRita Raley (UC Santa Barbara)
\nJames Reid-Cunningham (Boston\u00a0Athenaeum)
\nBob Stein (Institute for the Future of the Book)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"