CARLA HARRYMAN, PATRICK DURGIN, POET'S THEATRE

Big Night, Halloween Edition, OCTOBER 30th, 8 pm

• Poetry by Carla Harryman
• Buffalo Poets Theater presents Harryman's Memory Play
• More poetry by Patrick Durgin
• Food by Geoffrey Gatza

Free for members of Just Buffalo, CEPA, WNYBAC, Big Orbit and UB Students with ID. Free food, cash bar.

Memory Play stars Morani Kornberg-Weiss, Robin Brox, Nava Fader, Tina Žigon, John Hyland, and Soma Feldmar, and is directed by David Hadbawnik.

Carla Harryman, is a poet, essayist, and playwright, known for genre-disrupting poetry, performance, & prose. She has published thirteen single-authored works, including Adorno's Noise (Essay Press, 2008). Open Box (Belladonna, 2007), Baby (2005), and Gardener of Stars (2001). She is co-editor of Lust for Life, a volume of essays on the novelist Kathy Acker and special issue editor of Non/Narrative forthcoming from the Journal of Narrative Theory. Her poets’ theater and interdisciplinary performance works have been performed nationally and internationally. She is currently working on a new play, “Romanian Play,” and a text/music collaboration with the Jon Raskin Quartet, which will be released as a CD in 2011. A frequent collaborator, she is co-contributor to the multi-authored experiment in autobiography The Grand Piano, a project that focuses on the emergence of Language Writing, art, politics, and culture of the San Francisco Bay area between 1975-1980. The Wide Road, a multi-genre collaboration with poet Lyn Hejinian is forthcoming from Belladonna. She lives in the Detroit Area and serves on the faculty of the Creative Writing Program at Eastern Michigan University. “Reading Carla Harryman,” a special feature on her work can be found in the most recent issue of HOW2.

Patrick F. Durgin teaches cultural studies, literature, and writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His latest publications include a hybrid genre collaboration with Jen Hofer, The Route (Atelos, 2008), and essays on "post-ableist" poetics in Contemporary Women's Writing and the Journal of Modern Literature; also, poems in Aufgabe and Jacket. He is concluding work on a critical monograph entitled Indeterminacies and Intentionalities: Toward a Poetics of Critical Values, as well as a play on the subject of failed bilingualism entitled PQRS: A Drama. As series editor and publisher, he has just finished work on The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater: 1945-1985, edited by Kevin Killian and David Brazil, recently published by Kenning Editions (2010).

Geoffrey Gatza, a Gulf War veteran, is a poet and the publisher of Blazevox Books. A former sous-chef at the Mansion on Delaware Ave., he has a degree from the Culinary Institute of America (C.I.A.)