An early announcement (classes don’t begin until the 1st of June) but taking time out today to make our annual announcement regarding the Naropa Summer Writing Program – “Metabolic Thrum” (sic) – that’s the theme of the program this year.
“Do you sense it? That buzz of life underground, in the air, across water, a part of and beyond every element? That vibratory connection of all things from the pollinator to the flower, the musician to their instrument, the train to the track, the machine to the word. This is about the artistic intelligence in all things… tuned to the various frequencies and de/crescendos of Gaia and the people and places who call her home. What reactions must occur for our multi-organism to maintain life?
“The Metabolic Thrum” is about our mutual experience. To quote Patti Smith from an interview with Lisa Robinson 1/19/1979, “I feel a lot of anarchy, a lot of ecstasy, a lot of anger, sometimes paranoia, sometimes total madness, total abandon, and I hope to transmit these same energies, transmit them and have them transmit back to me.”
Our inquiries and innovations will seek answers for the repair, removal, regulation, and energy production of literature; a stasis between the anabolic and catabolic states to creative sustenance.
Three weeks of sessions:
Week One (June 1-6) – “Listening For Utopia” – Sound/Installation/Event”
Week Two (June 8-13) – “Emergent Ecologies” – “Ritual/Ecopoetics/Artistic Intellegences”
and Week Three (June 15-20) (in honor of Allen and of the Centennial) – “Queer Shoulder To The Wheel” – Lineage/Creative Activism/and An Allen Ginsberg Centennial”
Tongo Eisen-Martin, Caroline Bergvall, Cedar Sigo, CAConrad, Vincent Katz, Margaret Randall, Tony Trigilio, Steven Taylor & others
For full details – see here