[Brooklyn]

[SOLD OUT] Seminar: "Let Me Tell You What I'm Doing Here: a Manifesto Lab" (Robert FItterman)
October 1, 2012, 7:00 pm
at Ugly Duckling Presse Workshop

This is the first of UDP's Seminar Series, where we invite our authors to lead seminars of whatever kind they desire. This seminar is FULL. For more information on upcoming seminars, visit our SEMINARS page. What are you up to as a poet, writer or artist? How would you define that? Who or what is your work in dialog with? This class is designed as a seminar/writing lab/workshop where we develop strategies for articulating what we do as culture makers through reading and writing other poet/artist statements. Some of the statements or manifestos might include: Marinetti, Tzara, Loy, Mayakovsky, Breton, Picabia, Masotta, Rainer, Bernstein & Andrews, De Campos, Goldsmith, Hartung Zuckerman, Pussy Riot and others that participants will contribute. Together we will discuss these manifestos and artists’ statements, create our own pieces based on these models (lab), and present our own works within an articulated context. Works in any medium welcomed.       Robert Fitterman was born in 1959 in Creve Coeur (broken heart), Missouri. He is the author of 10 books of poetry, including 4 installments of his ongoing poemMetropolis: Metropolis 1-15 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000), Metropolis 16-29 (Coach House Books, 2002), and Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edge Books, 2004) and, forthcoming, Sprawl: Metropolis 30A (Make Now Books). Also forthcoming is rob the plagiarist (Roof Books)—a collection of essays, conceptual writing, and other writings generated by plagiarism and appropriation. Several of his books are collaborations with visual artists, including war, the musical with Dirk Rowntree (Subpress Books) and The Sun Also Also Rises with Nayland Blake (No Press). He lives in NYC with poet Kim Rosenfield and their daughter Coco. He teaches writing and poetry at NYU and in the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies.