THE FOURS by Barbara Beck Jennifer K Dick Michelle Noteboom and Lisa Pasold

The Fours: out today! 

 

 

The 8th, and newest, chapbook in the collaborative 8-hand series by Barbara Beck, Jennifer K Dick, Lisa Pasold and Michelle Noteboom.

We shall brunch-read in celebration of this very YELLOW thus bright for summer newest installment in this project.

Process and history note: 

Born out of the 3:15 experiment, having decided to take a twist by all writing each year for 10 days at same time what we call "prewrites". This is basicallythe step where the 3:15 experiment by Lee Ann Brown, Bernadette Mayer, Jen Hofer and Danika Dinsmore stopped. They then gathered their shared writings from the same time together, each author in their own zone. We wanted to overlap the work somehow. SO, we decided to take the pre-writes as base material. 

So, once completed, we give this naked, unedited material to each other. Then, using the writings of all 4 of us, we each "orchestrate" from that 4 new poems, adding, subtracting, rearranging, playing across our four voices, thoughts, observations from a shared time though while we were in different spaces. Language from all of us, which arose in a shared time, coalesceses into these poems. 

Then, in our annual, each time a bit different design--to match some element of the project--we make our DoItYourselfEditions chaps for the celebratory brunch sortie where we share the fruits of our collaboration with any and all of you who are around. That celebration is nigh--as in, FOURs so 4pm today!

The history of these: We began with THE MIDNIGHT POEMS (and an evening of cocktails with brief reading at midnight). We have also done The 13s, The Solstice poems (21), Aquatic 7s, The Elevens, High Noon, and a hors séries one for an Art Show by Kate Van Houten "of a certain order". More to come!

Afterlife now out from Angel House Press

Limited edition Angel House Press, Canada, chapbook written in a combination of English and French. Available for purchase at http://angelhousepress.com/index.php?Chapbooks

" Engager une réflexion sur le langage avec une intrication audacieuse  - et rare -  de l'anglais et du français, au travers de la légende mythologique de Dibutade, voilà le projet poétique d'Afterlife. Dans une écriture kaléidoscopique, Jennifer K.Dick s'attache avec virtuosité à interroger ce qui fait trace et ce qui nous trace, nous forme, nous silhouettes humaines. Un livre tout en "point d'ombrelumière". " --Virginie Poitrasson, auteure d'Il faut toujours garder en tête une formule magique 

"The ideal creator: Jennifer K Dick articulates the inventor/invented myth of Dibutade in delicate charcoal words that revel in the limits of language". -Lisa Pasold, author of Any Bright Horse.

"The echoing question of the mark that language leaves on us all and makes of us all is celebrated here in Dick's lyrical recall of the invention of drawing, while her English/French parallel enacts the question of presentation vs representation in yet another way. The parts all come together in a marvelous tumult, endlessly breaking down and endlessly rebuilding." —Cole Swensen, author of On Walking On. 

Comme Un n°9 and Lucky Thirteen collaborative chapbook launches!

Come if you are free--very excited about these events:

June 17th at 17h for reading, visit gallery at 16h on:

June 18th we will be happily celebrating the LUCKY 13 collaborative chapbook by Lisa Pasold, Barbara Beck, Michelle Noteboom and Jennifer K Dick.

JKD participats in Angel House Press's April National Poetry Month Canada 2017: A Celebration of Women

Amanda Earl, editor and publisher of Angel House Press, Canada launched the 2017 site today, Aprl 1 2017. Every day for 30 days in April, a new poem, video-poem, collage, book art, comic, or visual poem will be published. The work will remain on the site until February 28, 2018.
I hope you will keep your eye on the site, and check out my own work which will appear there this month. I am very pleased to have been selected for this project, as I know that Amanda's sites for National Poetry Month attract an increasing number of submissions every year.

General press announcement for the project, as written by Amanda Earl: 

"AngelHousePress presents NationalPoetryMonth.ca 2017: A Celebration of Women

From April 1 to April 30, 2017, NationalPoetryMonth.ca will feature poems, video poems, visual poems, book art and collages from contributors from Canada, USA, France, Ireland and Japan. These poems by women-identifying poets celebrate and acknowledge women's creativity, courage, friendship, love, triumph over adversity, persistence, resilience and strength.

Visit NationalPoetryMonth.ca daily in April for a new poem."

Thank you to both Amanda Earl and to Angel House Press for continuing to bring me fabulous work to read and see from Canada, and of course for including me in this project, and as one of your authors.

In June 2017 my  chapbook "Afterlife" will appear from Angel House Press, Canada's chapbook series, as well.