Thinking Its Presence Board Presents
Thinking Its Presence Board Presents
Reading Date: Friday, October 20, 2017
- "Notes Towards a Radioactive Sutra 2"
- "Baggage Claims"
- "dear story of a risk, 1878."
- "heritage"
- On KSMoCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art)
- On the University of Arizona M.F.A. Program and Tucson Writers
- "Vulvas in the Academy"
- Excerpt from "Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit"
- "October 1—The Dow Closes Down 9509"
- "Dear Melissa—"
- "The Easement"
- Excerpt from "State of Erasure: Arizona’s Place, and the Place of Arizona, in the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans"
- "My Father and I"
- Excerpt from "Biosphere 2: James D’Elia’s Duet"
- Excerpt from "The Legislation"
- Excerpt from "An ocean-like hush"
- "It Is Going to Rain"
- "The First"
- Movement and Breathing
- On Pacific Islander Visibility and Invisibility
- "A Love Letter to the Chamoru People in the Twenty-first Century"
"Notes Towards a Radioactive Sutra 2"-26813
By Vidhu Aggarwal; uncollected.
"Baggage Claims"-26815
Aggarwal, Vidhu. "Baggage Claims." Baggage Claims (exhibition catalog). Orlando: Orlando Museum of Art, 2017.
"dear story of a risk, 1878."-26817
Chen, Ching-In. Recombinant. Berkeley, CA: Kelsey Street Press, 2017.
"heritage"-26819
Chen, Ching-In. Recombinant. Berkeley, CA: Kelsey Street Press, 2017.
On KSMoCA (King School Museum of Contemporary Art)-26821
by Lisa Jarrett
On the University of Arizona M.F.A. Program and Tucson Writers-26823
by Farid Matuk
"Vulvas in the Academy"-26825
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Ensor, Hannah. "Vulvas in the Academy." PEN Poetry Series. PEN America, 9 Mar. 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Excerpt from "Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit"-26827
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Sabatini Sloan, Aisha. Dreaming of Ramadi in Detroit. 1913 Press, 2017.
"October 1—The Dow Closes Down 9509"-26829
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Briante, Susan. The Market Wonders. Boise: Ahsahta Press, 2016.
"Dear Melissa—"-26831
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Tolbert, TC. "Dear Melissa—." Poem-a-Day. The Academy of American Poets, 6 May 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
"The Easement"-26833
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Wilkinson, Joshua Marie. "The Easement." OmniVerse. Omniverse, n.d., web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Excerpt from "State of Erasure: Arizona’s Place, and the Place of Arizona, in the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans"-26835
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Shimoda, Brandon. "State of Erasure: Arizona’s Place, and the Place of Arizona, in the Mass Incarceration of Japanese Americans." The Margins. Asian American Writers' Workshop, 20 Jan. 2017. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
"My Father and I"-26837
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Gonzales, Sarah. "My Father and I." The Feminist Wire. The Feminist Wire, 2 Jul. 2014. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Excerpt from "Biosphere 2: James D’Elia’s Duet"-26839
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Burk, Wendy. "Biosphere 2: James D’Elia’s Duet." Poetic Field Reserach at Biosphere 2. Terrain.org, 5 Sep. 2014. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Excerpt from "The Legislation"-26841
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Phillips, Logan. "The Legislation." Dirtyverbs. Logan Phillips, 1 June 2014, web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Excerpt from "An ocean-like hush"-26843
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Ace, Samuel. "An ocean-like hush." Posit: A Journal of Literature and Art (12). Posit, Dec. 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
"It Is Going to Rain"-26845
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Zepeda, Ofelia. Jewed 'I-Hoi/Earth Movements. Tucson: Kore Press, 1997.
"The First"-26847
Read by Farid Matuk.
Annotation:
Fowler-Chapman, Teré. "The First." Fuck Art, Let's Dance. Nostrovia! Press, Dec. 2016. Web. 21 Dec. 2017.
Movement and Breathing-26849
by Lehua Taitano
On Pacific Islander Visibility and Invisibility-26851
by Lehua Taitano
"A Love Letter to the Chamoru People in the Twenty-first Century"-26942
Taitano, Lehua. "A Love Letter to the Chamoru People in the Twenty-first Century." A poem for Chamorus. Lehua M. Taitano, web. 21 Dec. 2017.
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Series: Thinking Its Presence
Sponsor(s): Thinking Its Presence, UA Poetry Center
Location(s): UA Poetry Center
At the 2017 Thinking Its Presence Conference, several members of the Thinking Its Presence Board—Vidhu Aggarwal, Ching-In Chen, Lisa Jarrett, and Lehua Taitano—read from or discuss their creative work. Board member Farid Matuk reads work from a selection of Tucson-based writers: Samuel Ace, Susan Briante, Wendy Burk, Hannah Ensor, Teré Fowler-Chapman, Sarah Gonzales, Logan Phillips, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Brandon Shimoda, TC Tolbert, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, and Ofelia Zepeda.
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