A Landscape Beyond the Brink of I:
Poetry, Music and Workshops in the Redwoods
Henry Miller Library, Big Sur September 8,9,10

Just as the fog lifts and those who know when to show
up in Big Sur arrive, poets will converge at the Henry
Miller Library for A Landscape Beyond the Brink of I,
a literary festival with poetry, music, and workshops
Sept. 8, 9, and 10.

Headlining the event Friday Sept. 8 is Beat poet
Joanne Kyger of Bolinas; Salinas poet Maria Garcia
Tabor headlines Sat. Sept. 9. Other featured readers
include Amalio Madueno of Taos and Antoinette Nora
Claypoole of Ashland on Friday. On Saturday, Danika
Dinsmore of Vancouver BC and Gwendolyn Alley of
Ventura, co-editors of between sleeps: the 3:15
experiment 1993-2005 with poets from the anothology
including Lee Anne Brown of NYC, Laynie Browne of
Berkeley, and Jen Hofer of Los Angeles performing with
jazz musicians Jeff Kaiser, Noah Phillips, and Rick
Walker. Open mic readings will round out each night's
events.

According to organizer Liz Collins, the title for the
weekend comes from the artist Helen Chadwick in her
book Enfleshings: "The solitary, repressive ego,
harnessed to language, is sovereign. Sense has
subjugated sensation. What if dangerous fluids were to
spill out, displacing logic, refuting a coherent
narrative, into a landscape beyond the brink of I."

Festivities begin Friday at 7pm with Pushcart Prize
nominated poet and founder of the now disbanded Taos
Poetry Circus' Mexican Bob's Poetry Camp, Amalio
Madueno reading from his new book Lost in the Chamiso
(Wild Embers Press 2006).

Following Madueno will be featured poet, diva Joanne
Kyger, who has been involved with almost every
innovative poetry tendency for over four decades,
including the Black Mountain School, the Beats, and
the San Francisco Renaissance. Her work can be
explored in books such as Strange Big Moon, The Japan
and India Journals: 1960-1964 (North Atlantic Books),
and As Ever: Selected Poems (Penguin). The evening
will conclude with a reading by the Wild Embers
Collective, including antoinette nora claypoole,
Amalio Madueno, and Ed Little Crow reading from their
new book La Puerta, Taos: The Art of Fetching Sky
(Wild Embers Press).


Saturday offers a small press book fair, two workshops
creek side beneath the redwoods behind the library,
and two concerts by new musician Jeff Kaiser and
friends. Pre-registration for workshops is suggested
and can be done online at the Henry Miller website.
Both workshops run three hours each.

The 9:30am workshop 'Rivers in Her Eyes, Writings
of/beyond Earth' will be taught by antoinette nora
claypoole, author of the underground classic Who Would
Unbraid Her Hair: the legend of annie mae. claypoole
is an educator, poet, editor of Wild Embers Press, and
activist for over two decades in Indian Country.

Danika Dinsmore and Jen Hofer will teach a 1:30pm
workshop 'Between Sleeps and Other Practical Writing
Experiments.' Dinsmore and Hofer hearken back to
Kyger's connection to the Beats through their
involvement with the 3:15 Experiment, begun thirteen
years ago at Naropa Institute's Jack Kerouac School of
Disembodied Poetics. The 3:15 Experiment challenges
writers and provides insight into the collective
sleeping/dreaming mind by asking writers to rise at
3:15 am for an entire month, across the globe, and
write together throughout August. Dinsmore, founder
of the experiment, is a screenwriter, poet, and
editor. Jen Hofer, a translator, educator, and poet,
as well as long time 3:15er, has six new books of
poetry and translation slated for release in the next
year.

Throughout the day Saturday a small press book fair
will be open to the public on the front lawn of the
library with selections from en theos press and wild
embers as well as others. During the book fair from
1-2pm and again from 4-5pm Jeff Kaiser, Noah Phillips,
and Rick Walker will perform experimental voice,
percussion, and electronics.

Saturday evening, poets from the 3:15 Experiment will
read from the recently released anthology between
sleeps: the 3:15 experiment 1993-2005; a collection of
writings from the middle of the night (en theos press
2006). Participating poets will include Gwendolyn
Alley, Danika Dinsmore, Jen Hofer, Lee Ann Brown,
Laynie Browne, Liz Collins, antoinette nora claypoole,
Amalio Madueno, Dawn-Marie Oliver and more. The 3:15
poets will be accompanied by experimental musicians
Jeff Kaiser, Noah Phillips, and Rick Walker in a call
and response format..

Sunday morning explore trails, dip in the Big Sur
River, or enjoy a leisurely brunch before returning to
the Henry Miller Library at 2pm for a 'living room
style' round robin reading wherein participating poets
and members of the community join together in a circle
to read poems and share voices to seal the weekend.

This event is sponsored by Poets & Writers Inc though
a grant it has received by the James Irvine
Foundation. More information and workshop registration
can be found at www.henrymiller.org/poetry
weekend.html

Schedule:

"A Landscape Beyond the Brink of I"
A WEEKEND OF EXPERIMENTAL POETRY & MUSIC
Poets from Vancouver, LA, SF, Taos, NYC & more!
THE HENRY MILLER LIBRARY, BIG SUR
Set. 8, 9, 10


FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8

7 pm Amalio Madueno, Taos
Lost in the Chamiso (Wild Embers, August 2006)

7:30 pm J O A N N E K Y G E R, Bolinas
In the lineage of the Black Mountain School and the
Beats, Kyger has been associated with nearly every
innovative poetry tendency for over four decades

8:15 pm Antoinette Nora Claypoole, Ashland
editor, Wild Embers, author, Rivers in Her Eyes

9 pm Open Mic


SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9

10am-4pm small press book faire

9:30am-12:30 pm 'rivers in her eyes' workshop
led by Antoinette Nora Claypoole

1-2pm pm Jeff Kaiser, trumpet and electronics, Noah
Phillips, prepared electric guitar and electronics

1:30 -4:30 pm 'between sleeps' workshop
led by Danika Dinsmore, Vancouver BC & Jen Hofer, LA

4-5pm pm Jeff Kaiser, Noah Phillips, & Rick Walker,
voice, percussion, electronics

7 - 8:15 pm 3:15 Collective
Gwendolyn Alley, Ventura; Lee Anne Brown, NYC; Laynie
Browne, Berkeley; Antoinette Nora Claypoole; Liz
Collins, Big Sur; Danika Dinsmore; Jen Hofer; Amalio
Madueno & Dawn-Marie Oliver, Seattle read from
between sleeps:the 315 experiment 1993-2005 in a call
& response format with Jeff Kaiser & Friends followed
by poems from individual 3:15 poets

8:30 pm Maria Garcia Tabor, Salinas

9pm Open Mic


SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10

2pm Poet's Living Room
Round robin style open reading

Limited space. Events free; workshops $36 each/$60
both.