[New York, NY]

Hybrid Poetics & Institutional Interventions: Reading & Conversation with Jill Magi
March 23, 2015, 6:30 pm
at CUNY Graduate Center

Jill Magi works in text, image, and textile and is the author of Threads (Futurepoem), Torchwood (Shearsman), SLOT(Ugly Duckling Presse), Cadastral Map (Shearsman), and, most recently, LABOR (Nightboat). She also just completed a monograph, available as an e-book, on textimage hybridity called Pageviews/Innervisions: a textimage theory and curriculum. Jill ran Sona Books for ten years, she was a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council writer-in-residence, and an artist in residence with the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn. She has taught at the City College of New York, The Eugene Lang College, Goddard College, and the MFA programs at School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College Chicago. In 2013 she accepted a post in Abu Dhabi for New York University where she occasionally teaches poetry workshop, and, more regularly, a course on expository writing through the study of textiles in culture, art, and science. You can view her web-site here: www.jillmagi.netIn late 2008, Jill Magi began LABOR (Nightboat, 2014) through her exploration of the Tamiment Library & NYU Wagner Labor Archive's holdings with no goal in mind. The resulting book is a daring hybrid work of fiction, poetry and archival research, exploring the labyrinthine relationship between individual and institution -- the oft-dissonant counterpoints between workplace and worker, security and contingency, agency and regulation, the archive and the unaccounted. Please join the GC Poetics Group in a reading with Magi from LABOR -- we'll follow with an open conversation centered around the question: what kind of possibilities for institutional critique does the hybrid text offer for both writer and readers? In preparation for the event, CUNY has made a PDF excerpt from LABOR available here. You can also read more about the text on Jill's website, and there is also an excerpt available through the June 2013 of The Brooklyn Rail. More event information here.