Tag: Kevin Killian

Next week – Very Kevin: a celebration of Kevin Killian


The Poetry Club, Glasgow

Wednesday, October 28  •  7 PM – 9:30 PM [doors at 6:45pm]

An evening performance of poetry and poets theatre featuring a star-studded cast!

Kevin Killian (1952-2019) last visited Glasgow to read at The Poetry Club in 2018. To celebrate his extraordinary life, work and inspiration to generations of writers, three Scottish poets are teaming up with three Bay Area poets to host an evening of Killian’s poetry along with an exclusive performance of one of his plays. There will be readings and performances from writers, artists and students and an opportunity to browse some of his publications, courtesy of Burning House Books.

Kevin Killian was an American poet, writer, editor, and playwright. He was a co-founder of the Poets Theatre performance group in San Francisco and a leading writer in the New Narrative movement. You can find out more about Kevin’s life and work here.

This event is organised by Colin Herd and Nicky Melville (University of Glasgow) and Maria Sledmere (University of Strathclyde) along with visiting poets Lindsey Boldt, Andrew Kenower and Steve Orth.

Free tickets available here.

Lineup:


Lindsey Boldt

Leo Bussi

Rosa Campbell

Kirsty Dunlop

Carle Gent

Jane Goldman

Colin Herd

Andrew Kenower

Ian Macartney

Alex MacPhail

Nicky Melville

Conner Milliken

Iain Morrison

Steve Orth

Maria Sledmere

Corin Sworn

Schedule:

18:45 – Doors

19:00 – Event starts, short video screening

19:15 – Poets theatre performance

19:45 – Break

20:15 – Poetry readings

21:30 – Event finishes


Access: The Poetry Club is on the ground floor with an accessible toilet and bar located in the venue. Please email access@swg3.tv or call us on 0141 337 1731 with any enquiries. This will be a seated event; arrive early to secure a seat or if you need to reserve one for accessibility reasons, please email maria.sledmere[at]strath.ac.uk.

Meadow Fractals for A Soft Landing

Sam Williams’ project, A Soft Landing, is ‘an online resource inspired by the activity of communal gardens and city allotments. It is a space where volunteers are invited to share, learn, contribute and care for themselves and others, through the sharing of material that could be used for nourishment, growth, pleasure, education or healing’.

I like this website because it’s what I want from the internet, a place to share and graft and cut and paste, to nourish and discover something unexpected. You tend a little plot and see what grows from it. I used to live near Woodlands Community Garden and loved seeing the flora and fauna change throughout the seasons, people volunteering, pulling out weeds and planting. Something of A Soft Landing is in this spirit: you might get asked to respond or contribute, you might volunteer yourself. You never really know what might crop up in the meantime, which is why there’s a satisfying ethic to ‘checking back’.

I’m happy to find a home for an ongoing and incomplete series, Meadow Fractals, among the leaf matter and stems of other makers. It features a sestina after Kevin Killian (and isn’t the sestina the most fractal traditional form?), plus some weird and tessellating meadow illustrations done on an MS Paint simulator. Long live Paint. You can find the full selection at a-soft-landing.com (look for the dark grey tendrils).

In recent months, I’ve also been reading Sean Roy Parker’s Fermental Health substack, which has got me excited about blogging, and even food again. Do have a read! 🌱