NONSITE || Jonathan Skinner: Poetics of the Third Landscape

[Apologies for the garbled version of this announcement that went out earlier today...]

Jonathan Skinner (poet, scholar, publisher of ecopoetics journal & Field books, etc.) will give a variety of readings and talks at different  sites in San Francisco from Thursday through Saturday,  March 11, 12 & 13. The nonsite presentation, Poetics of the Third Landscape, will take place on Saturday,  from 3-5 at 935 Natoma St., San Francisco between 10th and 11th Streets and between Mission and Howard. (A close walk from the  Civic Center BART station). I think you will welcome and find provocative his imaginative & critical awareness of disparate convergences of poetry, literature, art and eco-scholarly work as each of these disciplines works to make a useful  interface with urban, rural and virtual landscapes.

A visit to the nonsite Workbook page:

www.nonsitecollective.org/workbooks/critecol/skinner


will  provide a  'must read' introduction to Skinner's presentation, including  a bibliography and a number of quite useful, down-loadable essays by other writers and poets on addressing approaches to defining "landscape". In addition to raising the larger question of where language and writers may live well as a critical and vital members of the landscape, Jonathan raises some specific questions for the nonsite audience  to engage during the presentation.

In addition to the nonsite presentation, Skinner will be reading at and for the SF State Poetry Center with Juliana Spahr  on  March 11:
 
  * 3:30 pm @ the Poetry Center, HUM 512, SFSU, free
    * 7:30 pm @ the Green Arcade, 1680 Market (at Gough), free

On Friday, March 12, at 8 pm, he will lead a discussion after the screening of IMMORTAL CUPBOARD: In Search Of Lorine Niedecker

    Artists' Television Access
    992 Valencia Street
    San Francisco