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Frank Styles: May 2014
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Kevin McNeilly on Poetry, Music, Improvisation and Other Things. Nicole Mitchell: Afrofuturism Now (Audio). Gave a keynote address at “Jazz, Race and Politics: A Colloquium” co-presented at the 2012 TD Vancouver International Jazz Festival by Coastal Jazz and the Improvisation, Community and Social Practice. Which she composed as an homage to Octavia Butler. She also performed a brief flute solo (at about the 36 minute mark in the recording). The audience for her talk included Ajay Heble, Tomeka Reid.
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Memory and Mirrors: June 2011
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Musings on memory, memoir, culture. Thursday, June 2, 2011. Meditating on Meditation and Meditating on Writing. When I booked into the retreat, I had no idea what I was getting into; I was just seeking a quite place where I could rest, recharge, read, eat healthy foods, and maybe. Disease of our epoch. For nine days, I ate healthy vegetarian meals, I slept, waking up to the sound of birds and nothing else, and participated in the daily yoga and meditation practice. After just a couple of days, I bega...
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Memory and Mirrors: January 2011
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Musings on memory, memoir, culture. Sunday, January 30, 2011. Getting Over It" and Writing Memoir. Both my parents' deaths were very much an "unfinished business", without any real closure, and I am writing a memoir about my mother; this has left me, for the last two years of working on this book, to meditate almost daily on the nature of "getting over it"—that common place and common sense phrase that resonates as absurd, false and grotesque in my mind. When my mother died, I was living in Vancouver, BC...
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Memory and Mirrors: October 2010
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Musings on memory, memoir, culture. Thursday, October 28, 2010. The Scorn About Memoir, Again. What is it about memoir that prompts many intelligent and learned people (who should know better) to poo-poo it? I saw just one more example of this when I attended a public interview with Leslie Marmon-Silko. Journalism, or socially relevant essays); or, better still, they just write fiction. Now, I am the greatest lover of fiction around; and I must confess that I read a great deal more fiction than I do non-...
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Science Fiction Feminisms (Spr 13): January 2013
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Science Fiction Feminisms (Spr 13). Thursday, January 24, 2013. Really enjoyed meeting you all today! Looking forward to our next week! For our next class, please read the following story online, and also the essay I will be sending to you on email. Please look for the email and bring a copy of that essay with you to the next class. A print out of this may be helpful to you too! Click the pics for links.]. Oh, and don't forget to bring in your list of violated assumptions! CAMPUS OPEN TH 24 JAN! Looking ...
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KP's Books: Coming up: "Lunch Poems @ SFU" series
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KP's Amazon Profile Page. KP's Bookstore on Lulu. Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Coming up: "Lunch Poems @ SFU" series. If you're in the Vancouver, BC area and enjoy poetry, check out the new "Lunch Poems @ SFU" series. The SFU Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver will be hosting lunchtime readings every month featuring well-known as well as up-and-coming poets. The April "Lunch Poems @ SFU" reading features Wayde Compton. The inaugural event of the series in March featured Vancouver's Poet Laureate Evelyn Lau.
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Memory and Mirrors: Life Gets in the Way...and the Ghost of Christmases Past and Present
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Musings on memory, memoir, culture. Sunday, December 12, 2010. Life Gets in the Way.and the Ghost of Christmases Past and Present. It's been so long since my last post, as the overwhelming burden of life just got in the way: putting together an MFA application, gathering transcripts, filling in forms, choosing writing samples, and having to condense all the mistakes and triumphs of my life and my future goals in a 500 word statement (who thought of that? As if all these bad memories were not enough, my m...
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Memory and Mirrors: Catching Breath
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Musings on memory, memoir, culture. Sunday, January 1, 2012. In the last month of the last year, ill health forced me to take a long absence from my writing projects—except for journal writing, the only kind that didn't require too much in the way of editing or paying attention. For three entire weeks in December, I was breathless; not the emotional-intellectual kind like in Godard's namesake film, but the literal, asthmatic kind. And then one day you find yourself out of breath. And that makes you feel.
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Memory and Mirrors: January 2012
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Musings on memory, memoir, culture. Sunday, January 1, 2012. In the last month of the last year, ill health forced me to take a long absence from my writing projects—except for journal writing, the only kind that didn't require too much in the way of editing or paying attention. For three entire weeks in December, I was breathless; not the emotional-intellectual kind like in Godard's namesake film, but the literal, asthmatic kind. And then one day you find yourself out of breath. And that makes you feel.
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