Millay Colony Fall Reading at Poets House, NYC




Join us for a reading featuring new work and bon mots from esteemed and bedazzling poets Anthony Madrid, Michael Robbins and Susan Wheeler. Then walk up the curvacious stairway at Poets House to sample autumnal wines, eat some delicious snacks and talk the evening while watching the moon rise over the Hudson River.

ADMISSION IS FREE. JOIN US!!

Wednesday, October 24

7:30 pm

Poets House

10 River Terrace

NY, NY 10282

ANTHONY MADRID lives in Chicago. His poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Boston Review, Fence, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Lana Turner, LIT, Poetry, Washington Square, and WEB CONJUNCTIONS. His first book is called I AM YOUR SLAVE NOW DO WHAT I SAY (Canarium Books, 2012). 

MICHAEL ROBBINS is the author of Alien vs. Predator (Penguin, 2012). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He reviews books regularly for the London Review of Books, Poetry, The New York Observer, the Chicago Tribune, and several other publications. He received his PhD in English from the University of Chicago.

SUSAN WHEELER is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Meme from the University of Iowa Press, and a novel, Record Palace, published by Graywolf Press. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she teaches at Princeton University and lives in the New York area.



Deadline for Applications: October 1!

Each year Millay Colony invites 52 visual artists, writers and composers for a colony residency. Residents are chosen anonymously by a panel of jurors in each discipline. The application process is competitive and based solely on on the merit of the artist statement and work sample. Past jurors and their bios can be viewed on our Juries page. An article on the jury process can also be found in our Spring 2008 newsletter.

The Millay Colony for the Arts is pleased to announce that, starting this year, we are adding three new offerings to our roster of artist residencies on its pastoral upstate New York/Berkshire area campus. While continuing to offer month-long residencies to visual artists, writers and composers, the Millay Colony is now offering three new ways to spend time as a resident: Two-week Residencies in the month of September, Virtual Residencies and Group Residencies.

The Millay Colony accepts residents on the basis of artistic merit. Our admissions policy does not discriminate with regard to race, sex, sexual preference, religion, marital status, disability or nation of origin.

http://www.millaycolony.org/apply

Millay Alum Mauro Zamora's New Show

Parallax View
PLM associates
September 7 – 30, 2012
Vox Populi Gallery
319 North 11th Street

Gallery Talk:
Sunday, September 16th, 3pm with Paddy Johnson, Artfagcity

Special Performance September 23rd, 2pm:
by Ina Polis, PLMA's Davenport Predator Material Transfer
Agreement/Discussion with Mary Ebeling, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Drexel University 

Working in a multidisciplinary practice that includes graphic design, drawing, video, and installation, artists Anita Allyn & Mauro Zamora probe the dark side of international business practices. Posing as PLM Associates, Allyn & Zamora’s fictional private contracting firm provides end-capital solutions for wealthy individuals, multinational corporations and governments. PLM Associates helps clients assert their dominance in the market while taking advantage of the current political climate.

For their first exhibition Allyn and Zamora offer the boardroom as a loci of abstraction, where campaigns, schemes, meetings and covert planning take place. PLM associates' boardroom serves as a defunct stage where the visuality of corporate rhetoric plays out in secret. Through this project Allyn & Zamora reflect corporate rhetoric and values to call attention to the impermeable facade of the capitalist structure while highlighting a rupture of capitalism itself.

Workshop Wrap-Up

Today is the last day of the Workshop Retreat with Tracie Morris, Generating Sound in Poetry. What an extraordinary time it has been. Smart, sweet, relaxed, illuminating, magnificent. Thank you to Tracie for bring her effervescent, patient and brilliant teaching to our humble campus...

Tracie began the class with body work and breathing techniques and guided everyone skillfully through a range of poetics and performance modalities, sound poems, song and more...it was an amazing class. Our thanks to Tracie and all the participants for transforming our space with their voices, their ideas, their hard work and brilliant performances.

We had some delicious walks and great (blue) moon watching...

And gracious thanks to Chef Donna for amazing vegan meals and fresh fruit and vegetables. The gardens overfloweth...

With xoxox to all. Come back soon...

Tracie Morris Workshop Retreat at the Colony

Generating Sound in Poetry with Tracie Morris
August 30 to September 2 2012

In this course we will explore the relationship between body, page and voice. At the end of the course students can present page-based or space-based work to the community.

We'll be doing physical exercises and writing. The workshop is not restricted to any one medium and a cross-disciplinary approach is welcomed.

Tracie Morris is an multidisciplinary poet, performer and scholar and works extensively as a sound artist, writer, bandleader and actor. Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and the New Museum. She holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Dr. Morris is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. Her poetry book, TDL: To Do w/ John(2012) is published by Zasterle Press. Rhyme Scheme, a longer poetic manuscript is published by Chax Press for publication in 2012. She is also developing two audio projects: The Tracie Morris Band and sharpmorris, a collaboration with composer Elliott Sharp. 

http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops

Millay Alum Darren Francis McManus in Upcoming Show

Millay Alum Darren Francis McManus has seven pieces in the upcoming exhibit CHROMA: a group show exploring color, pattern and texture in contemporary art.
The opening reception is on SATURDAY, JULY 7th from 6 to 11 pm at Parlor Gallery in Asbury Park, NJ. Parlor Gallery stays open until 11pm every first Saturday of the month in honor of “First Saturday Asbury Park” and is located on the “arts bloc” at 717 Cookman Ave., Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712. For more info, visit their website: www.parlor-gallery.com

Poetry Chapbook Winner Gets A Week at the Colony!

From our Cultural Partners, The Center for Book Arts:

The Center for Book Arts is proud to announce that the winner of our 2012 Poetry Chapbook Competition is V. Penelope Pelizzon, from Willimantic, Connecticut. Her manuscript Human Field was chosen from a pool of over 300 submissions, to be produced this summer in an edition of 100, hand bound and letterpress printed.

 

2012 judge Phillis Levin has this to say about Pelizzon's work:

"The imaginative range of Human Field is vast, the method of its maker both subtle and bold—marrying bravado of spirit to maturity of vision. It is thrilling to behold such protean shapes of feeling and thought, to hear the voices inside a voice whose lines achieve a clarity that gives us access to mystery."

Along with the publication of her chapbook, and the reading in September, Pelizzon will have the opportunity to spend a week at the Millay Colony in Austerlitz, New York as one of their Winter Shakers. The Millay Colony generously promotes the development of writers, visual artists, and composers by providing a retreat for creative work.

There will be a celebratory reading at the Center in NYC on Wednesday, September 12th to honor Pelizzon, as well as our two Honorable Mentions, False Idols by Rob Stephens of Tallahassee, Florida and Women of Troy by Susan B.A. Somers-Willett of Austin, Texas. Along with printing the winning chapbook, The Center will also print up limited-edition broadsides of a poem by each of the honorable mentions, and a special edition by this year's judge, Phillis Levin. All of the published works will be available at the reading in September. 

Congrats!

V. Penelope Pelizzon’s Nostos (Ohio University Press, 2000), won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She is also co-author of Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (Ohio State University Press, 2010), a study of the relations among sensation journalism, photography, and film between 1927-1958. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals including Poetry, FIELD, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, Ploughshares, and Fourth Genre, and her writing has received awards including an Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Pennsylvania Council for the Arts Grant, a John N. Wall Fellowship in Poetry at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the "Discovery"/ The Nation Award.

Millay Alum Michael Velliquette Studio News

Click on the image to see the full deets!

Millay Alum Caitlin Scholl in the Northcountry!

Saturday June 9

7:30 pm
FREE

RSVP

If you are in the Northcountry, please come by! Readings, music, and video art combine for this group performance, featuring some wonderful NYC-based writers/performers who you really shouldn't miss. More details and performer bios on the Upper Jay Arts Center event page here.

Millay Alum Liz Ainslie @ Bushwick Open Studios

Ab/Ob/Ob

a group show of diverse media including non-objective and image-based abstract painting and drawing, photographic collage, photography that employs the miniature sets, and sculpture made from found and experimental materials. The show features artists whose work function primarily in negotiating the terrain between abstraction, observation, and object over systems, processes or concept. 

Liz Ainslie's studio will also be open at the same location.

June 2 noon-7pm
June 3 noon-7pm
83 Meserole St. #302
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Artists:
Liz Ainslie
Liz Atzberger
Maanik Singh Chauhan
Sarah McDougald Kohn
Kelly McRaven
Desiree Leary
Elisa Lendvay
Mike Olin
Joe Protheroe
James Reeder
Allyson Smith

BOS listing: http://artsinbushwick.org/bos2012/directory/?listing=5297
Rated #1 on the BOS Map

Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/396683203708282/

Alum Suzanne Onodera Exhibit in Ithaca

SUZANNE ONODERA

A Selection of New Work

June 1 - July 2, 2012

CAP ArtSpace

---

Opening Reception Friday June 1, 5pm - 8pm
in conjunction with First Friday Gallery Night.
Join us for wine and catered delectables from
Ithaca's own The Piggery.

CAP ArtSpace 171 The Commons, Ithaca, NY
607.273.5072
ArtSpace hours: Monday - Saturday 9am-5, Sunday Noon-5

Poet In Residence Claire Donato at Germantown High School

Claire Donato with Germantown English teacher Stacy Dore

Students writing!!!

Rapt attention

Above are just a few photos from the day spent accompanying the truly amazing poet Claire Donato in her role as visiting poet at the Germantown High School. We at the Millay Colony began this program last year in an effort to extend our gifts to the larger community. If we are able to support all these incredible artists, why shouldn't the surrounding areas benefit from this?

So, with some generous funding from the Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation, we were able to bring Claire back up to Millay for a mini-retreat and a few days in school. What followed was the best kind of poetic mayhem! Students were engaged, lively, and making their own versions of Shakespeare's sonnets with pens, markers, and white-out.

Students will be making books of the work created in class, and there will be a culminating presentation in May. More photos to follow as well as a report from Claire and examples of student work in our Spring Newsletter.

Hi there lovely readers,

Here are some photos of our first workshop of the year, From the Office of Recuperative Strategies...with Rachel Levitsky & Christian Hawkey...it was amazing...

We met at the offices of Trisha Brown Dance Company, who beyond generously let us use their gorgeous, airy loft space for our Weekend Workshops (thanks to one and all for this lovely sharing of resources!!). The workshop began with an exercise: we partnered off and alternated staring at our partner while they shut their eyes and being stared at by them while we shut ours. From this place of self-consciousness and heightened noticing, we began our two-day conversation, writing workshop and think tank...

At all times, Rachel & Christian guided us, but also let our individual worlds and personhoods and thoughts and questions and projects and feedback flourish and form the class. Each discussion was deeply nourishing and felt like the tip of a large mountain to be scaled...it was extraordinary.

We did several writing exercises, shared work and talked through angles for projects we are working on, thinking about, stuck in (c'est moi!) or just imagining...

I'll share one part of one hand-out that Rachel & Christian gave us, from C.A. Conrad's "The Right to Manifest Manifesto":

"The aim of (Soma)tic poetry and poetics is the realization of two basic ideas: (1) everything around us has a creative viability with the potential to spur new modes of thought and imaginative output. (2) The most vital ingredient to bringing sustainable, humane changes to out world is creativity. This can be enacted on a daily basis. "

Onward!

Our next workshop will be Frances Richard "Critical Writing as Creative Process" and if you don't already know it, Frances is brilliant and the class will open doors onto ways to write in around and on topics one may be nervous to approach with language...fear no more...

xox

April is here....

and so is the first batch of 2012 residents!

Winter Shakers season was wonderful and, as always, particular to the unique individuals and groups who join us for varying lengths of time. Also, it is when the juries gather, upkeep is kept up, and we are able to host some unusual programs.

One highlight worth particular mention is our Poet in the Schools Program. The first year we worked with Teachers & Writers Collaborative to bring Adam Wiedewitsch up to the area for a week stay at the Colony and an in-school unit at Germantown High School. This year we brought up Millay alum Claire Donato who led an inspiring and seriously cool unit on collage, erasure, and handmade poems.

Claire will be back to the Germantown High School in May for a culminating presentation with everyone who participated. Meantime, teachers, administrators and students alike are busy making books of the inventive work created during Claire's visit.

More details and photos to follow!

Weekend Workshop in NYC with Rachel Levitsky and Christian Hawkey

A Workshop from the Office of Recuperative Strategies with Rachel Levitsky and Christian Hawkey

April 14 & 15 AND performance/documentation on April 28

In this workshop, Christian Hawkey and Rachel Levitsky, co-founders of the Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS) will share their research into strategies that intervene and repurpose the brutality of technocapitalism's obsession with speed, newness, able-bodiedness, originality, and innovation. Our focus as a class will be to encourage a memory-based politics that draws on poetic thought to invent new fields of vitality, desire, and dwelling. A wide range of recuperative strategies and media will be supported in this workshop (bring all ideas and projects in process!), including such practice-based interventions as archive investigation, field-research and recording, digital sampling, and the realignment of author/reader, subject/object positions. Writers of all genres are welcome. Participants will be sent an advance list of links to existing recuperative strategies and supportive texts. The workshop will document research and creative production and will conclude with a performance!

+The Office of Recuperative Strategies (OoRS) is a mobile organization that explores ways to affirm and promote the cultural reuse, perversification, reanimation, revivication and reparation of extinct, endangered, correctable cultural phenomena.

Christian Hawkey has written two full-length poetry collections (The Book of Funnels and Citizen Of, both from Wave Books), four chapbooks, and the cross-genre book Ventrakl (2010, Ugly Duckling Presse). In 2006 he received a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award. In 2008 he was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Fellow. He translates contemporary German poetry, and with the German poet Uljana Wolf he translates the Austrian writer Ilse Aichinger. His own work has been translated into over a dozen languages.

Rachel Levitsky is the author of Neighbor (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), Under the Sun (Futurepoem Books, 2002), and DEARLY (A+Bend Press, 1999). Her book The Story of My Accident Is Ours is forthcoming from Future Poem Books. In 1999, Rachel started Belladonna* as a reading series at the Bluestockings Women's Bookstore. She is now a founding member of the Belladonna* Collaborative.

This is a Millay Colony for the Arts Weekend Workshop at the Trisha Brown Studios in Manhattan. These two-day/eight-hour workshops offer intensive sessions with some of the most exciting teaching artists around.

Weekend Workshop Schedule: We will begin each four-hour class at 11:30 AM with coffee, tea and a lot of ideas about a lively, focused, smart writing and art practice. Total workhop time is eight hours or sixteen hours for a double class. Lunch is served at each class and the day ends at 3:00 PM.

Weekend Fees: $350 for the full three dates.

To Apply: Send a letter of introduction including a brief bio with a $50 deposit. Also include a work sample (10 pages of writing or links to online work). Applicants will be accepted on a first-come first-serve basis.

Send to: The Millay Colony for the Arts, 454 East Hill Road, Austerlitz, NY. Attention: Workshops. Make checks payable to The Millay Colony for the Arts. For more information contact Caroline Crumpacker at 518-392-4144 or director@millaycolony.org. http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops

Workshop Location: Trisha Brown Dance Studios, 465 Greenwich St., New York, NY 10013

Millay Alumni Good News & Updates

We will be posting here more regularly the news and notes from alumni. What better way to start than with a huge congrats to Julia Dault (July, 2011) for her work being pictured in the NY Times today! She is part of the New Museum's second Triennial exhibit "The Ungovernables" opening this Wednesday.

Click here for the image. Here for The Week Ahead in NY Times.
And here for the New Musuem.

The photo above is of one of the many unique table decorations designed by Julia and fellow resident Heidi Jensen for the Colony's Summer Party last July. All the words were Edna's!

Millay Colony at AWP - Join Us!

AWP. Chicago. A cluster of tables and lit mags and poets writers performers jamming the joint. Yep. We'll be there....

Come visit us at table R5. If alumnae want to join us for a spell, please do! We'll have good cheer to share.

UPDATES for 2012 Workshop Schedule

At the Colony:

The Beauty of the Image with Carole Maso
May 30 to June 2

In this class, we will discuss how to access and use resonant emblems from one's life and transform them into fictive shapes of meaning, urgency and beauty. We will work on making our own forms, exploring various literary, musical, philosophical and visual modes in order to get close to our subjects.

Generating Sound in Poetry with Tracie Morris
August 30 to September 2

In this course we will explore the relationship between body, page and voice. At the end of the course students can present page-based or space-based work to the community.

We'll be doing physical exercises and writing. The workshop is not restricted to any one medium and a cross-disciplinary approach is welcomed.


At Trisha Brown Studios in Soho:

Recuperative Poetics Workshop with
Rachel Levitsky and Christian Hawkey
April 14 & 15 AND April 28 & 29

Critical Writing as Creative Practice with
Frances Richard
May 5 & 6

New Writing: Poetry Workshop with
Patricia Spears Jones
June 16 & 17

www.millaycolony.org/workshops

2012 Workshop Season Announced!

The Millay Colony for the Arts offers four-day retreat workshops on Colony's sylvan setting. Each class includes twelve hours of workshop time, all meals, and ample time to work, ruminate and explore our lush natural surroundings. Private bedrooms and spacious private studios are available for all participants.

These workshops offer artists a chance to delve into their work, explore new ideas, meet extraordinary teaching artists and collaborate with others while spending intense work-time on our gorgeous campus. Fragrant with blueberries, thyme, and wildflowers, the quiet loveliness of our campus provides uninterrupted calm and inspiration—the perfect retreat for creativity and relaxation.

We also offer a program of Weekend Workshops at the lovely Trisha Brown Studio in Manhattan. These two-day/eight-hour workshops offer intenstive sessions with some of the most exciting teaching artists around. Lunch included both days.


New Writing with Carole Maso
May 30 to June 2 2012

Workshop Details Coming very soon!

Carole Maso is the author of ten books including the novels The Art Lover, AVA, The American Woman in the Chinese Hat and Defiance; prose poems, Aureole and Beauty is Convulsive; a book of essays, Break Every Rule; and a memoir, The Room Lit By Roses. She is Professor of Literary Arts at Brown University and she lives in the Hudson River Valley. She says of her work, "I believe my books, darkly imagined, deeply emotional, are no less accessible than others, and require only a certain faith and willingness to surrender in order to be entered. My desire is to create spacious fields of narration in which the reader might feel alive and vibrant and possible and free."


Generating Sound in Poetry with Tracie Morris
August 30 to September 2 2012

In this course we will explore the relationship between body, page and voice. At the end of the course students can present page-based or space-based work to the community.

We'll be doing physical exercises and writing. The workshop is not restricted to any one medium and a cross-disciplinary approach is welcomed.

Tracie Morris is an multidisciplinary poet, performer and scholar and works extensively as a sound artist, writer, bandleader and actor. Her installations have been presented at the Whitney Biennial, Ronald Feldman Gallery, the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning and the New Museum. She holds an MFA in poetry from Hunter College and a PhD in Performance Studies from New York University. Dr. Morris is an Associate Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. Her poetry book, TDL: To Do w/ John (2012) is published by Zasterle Press. Rhyme Scheme, a longer poetic manuscript is published by Chax Press for publication in 2012. She is also developing two audio projects: The Tracie Morris Band and sharpmorris, a collaboration with composer Elliott Sharp.

During the months of April, May and June 2012 we will offer weekend workshops with Rachel Levitsky and Christian Hawkey, Frances Richard and Patricia Spears Jones at Trisha Brown Studio in NYC. Details coming soon...

For more information and to apply: http://www.millaycolony.org/workshops