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Posts Tagged ‘poetry’

Neon Frontier on KZME 107.1FM: Reading Series Get National

 

People often have mixed feelings about readings. Readings can be long and boring, Or they can be performances, parties, political rallies, scenes.  Portland, like a lot of other cities, has a long history of underground readings through many cultural moments, from Ken Kesey’s Poetry Happenings to today, when Portland is on the national tour circuit.  I sat down with 90′s slam host Reuben Nisenfeld, Smalldoggies‘ Matty Byloos and Carrie Seitzinger, Bad Blood’s Zachary Schomburg, Literary Mixtape’s Erik Bader, and Loggernaut’s Erin Ergenbright, Jesse Lichtenstein and Paul Toutonghi on Portland series then and now.

Listen to the KZME podcast here.

Preview from Wordstock this Sunday: From Playboy to the Bible

From Playboy to the Bible: Adapting Writing for Screen and Image

New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, writer Mark Russell and filmmaker Andy Mingo sit down with writer Nora Robertson to discuss collaboration between writers and artists in visual mediums. Get a look at a sneak peek of Mingo’s adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s short story “Romance” that recently appeared in Playboy, images from Wheeler and Russell’s adaptation of the Bible, God Is Disappointed in You (Top Shelf in 2012), and Robertson’s poetry film with Jason Bahling, The Humble Egg. Wordstock, Oregon Convention Center, Sunday the 9th, 4PM, Oregon Cultural Trust Stage, presented by New Oregon Arts & Letters.

From God Is Disappointed in You:

God had but one rule: do not eat from the two magic trees which he’d planted at the center of the garden. Why he put them there to begin with is anyone’s guess. But, having received this cryptic admonition, Adam and Eve’s curiosity was piqued. And having a talking snake constantly coaxing them into eating from the trees certainly didn’t help. Eventually, they succumbed to temptation, eating the magical fruit and unlocking its secret power, which seemed to consist mostly of making them uptight about nudity.

Their blatant disregard for his one and only rule introduced God to a new sensation, one he would experience many times during his long association with human beings: God was pissed off. Furious, God evicted Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, forcing them to fend for themselves in the surrounding wilderness. To add to their misery, God also ordered them to become parents.

 

Sid Miller Launches Crow Arts Manor: Arts Education is a Right

I always love how the Tin House summer workshop lets you hear Steve Almond talk about sex writing, or Aimee Bender talk about the plot-driven plot, all for $15. Burnside Review editor-in-chief Sid Miller is founding a new writing/arts center, Crow Arts Manor, that will make it highly accessible to work with some of the city’s finest artists such as cartoonist Jesse Reklaw, fiction writers Monica Drake and Lidia Yuknavitch, poets Emily Kendal Frey (pictured below with Miller) and Zach Schomburg and Mercury journalist Marjorie Skinner to name a few. Similar to LA writing center Beyond Baroque, Miller would like “ongoing arts education to be a right, not a privilege.”

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LIVE at the Body Show Benefit: Voodoo Doughnut Contest

Brad Fortier, Matt Bors, Karl Kling, Danielle Fish, and Stumptown’s Tony Thayer eat doughnuts creatively in the Voodoo Doughnut Contest at the Body Show Benefit. Judged by Voodoo Doughnuts owner Tres Shannon, Shannon Wheeler, and Tiffany Lee Brown. The benefit was a premiere for The Body Show:The Humble Egg, an experimental short film by Nora Robertson and Jason Bahling about a kitschy 60’s cooking show for housewives that hurtles the host into a private world of tangential madness and repressed memories of her grandmother. Hosted by Mark Russell. Documentation by Karl Lind of In the Can Productions.

LIVE at the Body Show Benefit: The Voodoo Doughnut Contest from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.

The Body Show: The Humble Egg


A cooking show about boiling an egg leads to a surreal trajectory through Julia Childs territory.

A kitschy 60′s cooking show for housewives becomes the catalyst which hurls the host into a private world of tangential madness and repressed memories of her grandmother. The simple act of boiling an egg forces her to publicly contemplate a succession of images from the vaginal opening of a hen, to slaves working in salt mines, to the virgin-devouring snake god of Ghana. The seemingly non-sequitur imagery comes together as she remembers the horror and heartbreak of her grandmother being forced to assemble hundreds of deviled eggs for a Hollywood dinner party. Against this surreal backdrop, we are reminded that all food is ultimately an act of violence. Based on Robertson’s 2007 Pushcart Prize-nominated poem, “How to Boil an Egg.”

The Body Show trailer from Jason Bahling on Vimeo.

VIEW PRESSKIT HERE.

SCREENINGS
The Body Show Benefit, Someday Lounge, Portland, OR, Nov. 6th, 2010
Short Film Night, Someday Lounge, Portland, OR, December 15th, 2010
Arts in Bushwick Site Fest, Brooklyn, New York, March 5-6th, 2011

 

 

Q&A with Nora Robertson

Q: I’m a chicken farmer and see hens lay eggs all the time. What do the eggs symbolize?
A: I’ve known a lot of people who were wierded out by eggs. Maybe they had an unfortunate experience at a natural history museum, or working at a diner. It seems like it’s because they’re unable to ignore that an egg is a baby. I think it’s almost impossible to talk about how we go about getting and eating food without talking about violence. I’m really fascinated by the idea of the housewife who can keep her family safe through hygiene and home cooking, because I think it’s a lie.

Q: Where is this desert?
A: The desert was filmed on location in the Oregon dunes, which look amazingly like the Sahara if you just cut the Douglas fir trees out of the frame.

Q: What inspired all this?
A: A major inspiration for this piece was my grandmother, who was the wife of the president of Capitol Records during a time when they were producing the Beatles. She had George Harrison over for dinner once. She regularly had to host large dinner parties, and she had a lot of techniques for entertaining. She was a big fan of making things ahead and freezing them so that a big spread would still be homemade. The pressure to get things right must have been overwhelming.

 

 

ABOUT THE FILM
The poem that the Body Show: The Humble Egg is based on, “How to Boil an Egg,” is taken from a larger poetry collection, Body-making Cookery, that explores the many associations food has for us: personal history, politics, mythology, body image, desire. Gender, that reification. Food is almost never just food. It’s almost never just a way to keep our physical bodies going. Food, especially particular dishes, always has many connotations, and it’s my belief that when we take food into our bodies, we take all of those associations into the bodies of our selves. This is why people get offended when you don’t like the food where they come from, who they come from. By adapting this poem into a film, we explored certain iconic images of food and eating, our shared cultural notions of what is a wholesome way to feed ourselves.

 

 

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LIVE FROM THE PREMIERE
Our benefit cabaret and premiere screening was held at Someday Lounge in Portland, Oregon on November 3rd.  Performers included Arthur Bradford, B. Frayn Masters, Nathaniel Boggess, Margaret Malone, Gigi Little, and singer/songwriter Danielle Fish. A Voodoo doughnut-eating contest was judged by Shannon Wheeler, Tres Shannon, and Tiffany Lee Brown. Contestants included Brad Fortier, Matt Bors, Danielle Fish and Karl Kling. Sponsors included Voodoo Doughnuts, Bad Monkey Productions, Blackbird Wines, New Oregon Arts & Letters, She Bop, The Meadows and Pistils Nursery.  

LIVE at the Body Show Benefit: Nathaniel Boggess from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.

LIVE at the Body Show Benefit: B. Frayn Masters from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.

LIVE at the Body Show Benefit: Danielle Fish from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.

LIVE at the Body Show Benefit: Gigi Little from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.

LIVE at the Body Show Benefit: The Voodoo Doughnut Contest from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.

CREATIVE TEAM

Since moving to New York in 2010, Jason Bahling has premiered his latest experimental short video The Body Show with Nora Robertson, created a video installation for the 21st Biannual Electroacoustic Festival, worked as a gaffer and camera operator for two new screendances: one with Douglas Rosenberg and prolific choreographer Sally Gross; the other, an adaptation of Li Chiao-Ping’s “Pagoda,” set amongst the Wisconsin seasons. Jason recently performed in the piece “Spoken For” at the Raandesk Gallery and is currently exploring dimensions of color correction for film and video as a professional pursuit.
Nora Robertson writes fiction, poetry, reviews, and essays, which have appeared in such publications as Plazm, Redactions, Alimentum, Monkeybicycle, Citadel of the Spirit: Oregon’s Sesquicentennial Anthology, 2GQ, and Portland Monthly. Her recipe poem, “How to Boil an Egg,” was nominated by Redactions for the 2007 Pushcart Prize. Her performance work has been showcased in Portland in the Enteractive Language Festival, the Public Works series curated by 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts, Phase One: Words + Music, and Performance Works Northwest’s Alembic Series in Housebound; most recently, she produced and hosted the New Oregon Interview Series, which explores Portland’s evolving creative culture through interviewing the artists and culture makers themselves both live and for print. She lives in Portland, Oregon.
Mark Russell is a writer and cartoonist living in Portland, Oregon. His work has appeared in publications such as Bear Deluxe and the McSweeney’s website. He is the author of The Superman Stories, God Is Disappointed in You and also runs a small press called The Penny Dreadful.

 

 

John Jodzio, Becca Yenser, Jason Maurer and Myself at Reading Frenzy, Sept. 4th

You may think you’ve read enough stories about penniless gay clowns who can’t get over the loss of a dog, but — I assure you — you have not. John Jodzio is the best kind of modern fiction writer: a thematic traditionalist who feels totally new.  — Chuck Klosterman, author of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

A middle-aged masochist in love with a comatose man. A gay birthday clown lamenting the loss of his beloved dog. An amateur veterinarian keeping watch over his suicidal daughter. And a bikini model with a barnacle stuck to her butt cheek. These are just a few of the characters who populate the quirky, offbeat world of If You Lived Here You’d Already Be Home (Replacement Press, 2010) — a world that feels at once alien and strangely familiar. In these 21 brief, funny stories, John Jodzio documents his characters’ disappointment, frustration, and longing for a home that seems forever out of reach. By turns bleak and hopeful, cruel and tender, this is an exciting literary debut by a writer to watch, a writer with a unique and compelling voice.

Catch John on tour reading and signing at Reading Frenzy along with Becca Yenser, Jason Maurer and myself.  I’m excited to be reading a few numbers from my poetry collection Body Making Cookery, including “How to Boil an Egg” which the short film I’m making with Jason Bahling, The Body Show, is based on. Next Saturday the 4th, 921 SW Oak, 7-9PM, FREE.

Photo Fun with Dan Kvitka + Body Show cover art

I had a ton of fun yesterday doing a photo shoot for the cover art of the Body Show DVD with Dan Kvitka of Kvitka Photography who made me very comfortable by telling me that us girls get crazy with our obsessions about our figures and that the 60′s had it right — or right-er —  in terms of what was considered womanly.   Which made me think a little because that idea of womanliness is part of what I’m trying to talk about with this film, to hold up some of those 50′s or 60′s ideals about femininity and poke a little pin in the idea of the housewife keeping her family safe and well-fed, in the possibility of being completely hygienic.  The thing is that food and where it comes from is never completely safe.  It is messy and involves some sacrifice.  I think some of those old cooking shows and representations of the housewife from back then kind of gloss over that messiness of life and how it sustains itself.  I think part of what David Lynch does is show the underbelly of some of those mid-century types of ideas.

We got a lot of cool shots and now I have to pick one to make halftone for screenprinting.  I liked this profile shot even if it’s not right for the project.

The Body Show Benefit + shoot at home of Bad Monkey Productions

Very excited to announce that video artist Jason Bahling and myself are in the planning stages for our benefit screening and cabaret of our short film The Body Show adapted from my 2007 Pushcart Prize-nominated poem “How to Boil an Egg,” to be held at the Someday Lounge November 3rd. The film’s premise is a cooking show gone awry with a Julia Childs meets David Lynch sensibility.  Themes: food, sex and identity.  (more…)

Body Making Cookery LIVE in 2005

About five years ago I appeared in a line-up at Borders downtown and read from my then-new collection Body-Making Cookery which is still in progress (cue internal groan). The collection is all recipe poems and explores the associations food has for us, that food is almost never just a way to keep our bodies going, that it reminds us of other things like family, personal biography, history, body image, desire, mythology, religion. When we eat, it’s my belief that we don’t just take the food into our bodies, but all of these associations into the body of our self. I was experimenting with a persona, the housewife, which later morphed into cooking show host gone awry as explored in the short film The Body Show, a collaboration with video artist Jason Bahling to be released in November 2010. Here’s some footage of that evening those long years ago. I believe there was Huber’s and Spanish coffees after.

Body Making Cookery LIVE 2005 from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.

Monica Drake Reads for Walt Curtis Benefit

Portland poet Walt Curtis lost all his possessions in a fire in May and the week of June 1-7 was officially declared Walt Curtis Week by Mayor Sam Adams. Berbati’s hosted a literary extravaganza which included Tom Spanbauer, poet laureate Paulann Peterson, Matt Love, Leanne Grabel, Dan Raphael and pictured here is Monica Drake who opened with some anecdotes about Walt over the years, including seeing him at Satyricon when she was starting out and then later him yelling at her during readings that “Your mom is Barbara Drake!” Footage is pretty dark but her voice is worth watching for.

Monica Drake Reads at Walt Curtis benefit from Nora Robertson on Vimeo.