Podcasts about cedar sigo

In this episode, we discuss the importance not only of amplifying queer rights, but the ways in which queer activism can work to advocate for the liberation of all, with Pride month events this year donating proceeds to efforts for Palestinian liberation and relief funds. One such event in Austin this year is Sunbird Fest, an arts and education festival organized by Austin community members in solidarity with Palestine happening June 20-23, all proceeds will go toward humanitarian relief in Gaza. More information including the complete list of fundraisers, how they are vetted, and how Sunbird Festival is handling proceeds here. Considering themes of liberation, we take a close look at the work of three queer poets whose work we admire, Host's very own m. mick powell (author of threesome in the last Toyota Celica & other circus tricks,) Destiny Hemphill, and Cedar Sigo. 

City Lights in conjunction with Naropa University and Nightboat Books present Anne Waldman with Emma Gomis, joined by Alan Gilbert, Cedar Sigo, and Eleni Sikelianos, celebrating the publication of "New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive," edited by Anne Waldman with Emma Gomis and published by Nightboat Books. This event was originally broadcast via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. You can purchase copies of "New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive" directly from City Lights here: https://citylights.com/story-anthologies/new-weathers-poetics-from-the-naropa-a/ Anne Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, literary curator, cultural activist, has been a prolific and active poet and performer many years, creating radical hybrid forms for the long poem, both serial and narrative, as with "Marriage: A Sentence," "Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble," "Manatee/Humanity," and "Gossamurmur," all published by Penguin Poets. She is also the author of the magnum opus "The Lovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment" (Coffee House Press 2011), a feminist “cultural intervention” taking on war and patriarchy which won the PEN Center 2012 Award for Poetry. Recent books include: "Voice's Daughter of a Heart Yet To Born" (Coffee House 2016) and "Trickster Feminism" (Penguin, 2018). She has been deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publishers Weekly for her ethos as a poetic investigator and cultural activist, and was awarded the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation for Lifetime Achievement in 2015. She has also been a recipient of numerous honors for her work including The Shelley Award for Poetry (from the Poetry Society of America), a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Elizabeth Kray Award from Poets House, NYC in 2019. She was one of the founders of the Poetry Project at St Mark's Church In-the-Bowery, and its Director a number of years and then went on to found The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with Allen Ginsberg and Diana di Prima in1974 and went on to create its celebrated MFA Program. She has continued to work with the Kerouac School as a Distinguished Professor of Poetics and Artistic Director of its Summer Writing Program. During the global pandemic she and co-curator Jeffrey Pethybridge have created the online “Carrier Waves” iteration of the famed Summer Writing Program. She is the editor of "The Beat Book" and co-editor of "Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action," and "Beats at Naropa" and most recently, "Cross Worlds: Transcultural Poetics." She is a Chancellor Emeritus of the Academy of American Poets. Emma Gomis is a Catalan American poet, essayist, editor and researcher. She is the cofounder of Manifold Press. Her texts have been published in Denver Quarterly, The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Entropy, and Asymptote among others and her chapbook "Canxona" is forthcoming from b l u s h lit. She was selected by Patricia Spears Jones as The Poetry Project's 2020 Brannan Poetry Prize winner. She holds an M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she was also the Anne Waldman fellowship recipient, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in criticism and culture at the University of Cambridge. To learn more about the other participants, visit: https://citylights.com/events/on-new-weathers-poetics-from-the-naropa-archive/ This event was made possible by support from the City Lights Foundation: citylights.com/foundation

Today's poem is The Studio by Cedar Sigo. This episode was originally released on February 21 2022.

by Cedar Sigo

Today's poem is The Studio by Cedar Sigo.

A tribute to Diane di Prima, marking one year since her passing in October 2020, with Hanif Abdurraqib, Garrett Caples, Jeanne di Prima, Sheppard Powell, Cedar Sigo, Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, Wendy Trevino, and Jenny Jo Wennlund. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. This event was sponsored by the City Lights Foundation and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Purchase books by Diane di Prima direct from City Lights Bookstore: https://citylights.com/author/diane-di-prima/ City Lights events calendar: https://citylights.com/events/

A memorial tribute to Michael McClure with readings and remembrances by Russ Tamblyn, CAConrad, Margaret Randall, Forrest Gander, George Herms, Henry Kaiser, Jerome Rothenberg, Cedar Sigo, Garrett Caples, Paul Nelson, Lyn Hejinian, Andrew Schelling, Amy McClure, Jane McClure, and Joanna McClure. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Maravelis. Michael McClure (1932-2020) was an award-winning American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he was one of the five poets who participated in the Six Gallery reading that featured the public debut of Allen Ginsberg's landmark poem "Howl." A key figure of the Beat Generation, McClure is immortalized as Pat McLear in Jack Kerouac's novels The Dharma Bums and Big Sur. He also participated in the 60s counterculture alongside musicians like Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. He taught for many years at California College of the Arts and lived with his wife, Amy, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Sponsored by the City Lights Foundation.

Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today we'll hear "Shadows Crossing: Tones of Voice Continued," originally given October 24, 2019 at the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today we'll hear "A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and the Open Chamber,” originally given April 24, 2019 at the University of San Francisco. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today's we'll hear "Not Free From the Memory of Others: A Lecture on Joanne Elizabeth Kyger." This talk was originally given at Poets House on November 8, 2017. Click here to read "The Wind at Night," an essay by Sigo on the BWLS blog. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today's talk is called "Becoming Visible," and was originally given as part of the APRIL Festival of independent literature, March 20, 2016, at the Hotel Sorrento in Seattle, Washington. Click here to read Sigo's essay on the BWLS blog, "Like Someone in Love: Late Night Thoughts for David Meltzer." Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo, beginning with today's talk: "Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation." Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. This talk was originally given at the Poetry Foundation, May 16, 2019. Read a brief essay by Sigo, "Return to Graffiti Land," here on the BWLS blog. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

WATV launched Bay Area Bookseller Voices this past spring, a new series of virtual events in which we partnered with our beloved booksellers to curate readings with authors of their choosing. In this episode, we had the honor of collaborating with the historic City Lights Bookstore of San Francisco to celebrate local luminary Alli Warren and the release of her new collection, Little Hill. Warren was joined by special guest Cedar Sigo, who was raised on the Suquamish reservation near Seattle, Washington, and is the author of over 7 books of poetry, including the soon to be published Guard The Mysteries.

Day two of two: a weekend of events celebrating the 20-volume milestone of the City Lights Spotlight Series. Hosted by Garrett Caples (Series Editor). With readings by Andrew Joron, Cedar Sigo, Will Alexander, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Lisa Jarnot, Alli Warren, John Coletti, Elaine Kahn, Edmund Berrigan, and Sophia Dahlin. In September 2020, City Lights is publishing the next two volumes in the Spotlight Poetry Series: No. 19, Facing You by acclaimed Nigerian-American poet Uche Nduka, and No. 20, Natch, the debut collection of Bay Area queer poet Sophia Dahlin.

by Cedar Sigo

Recorded by Cedar Sigo for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on April 30, 2020. www.poets.org

Cedar Sigo pays tribute to the poet Joanne Kyger, who died in March of 2017. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Wednesday Reading Series Angela Carr's most recent book of poetry is Here in There (BookThug 2014). Her other poetry books are Ropewalk (2006) and The Rose Concordance (2009). She has also published a few chapbooks, including “Risk Accretions” in Handwerk. Currently, she teaches creative writing and poetry at The New School for Liberal Arts. In addition, she is a translator (French to English). Her book-length projects include Jean A. Baudot's 1964 poetry experiment, The Writing Machine. Her translation of Québécoise poet Chantal Neveu's Coït was also published by BookThug (2012). Selections from Carr's poetry have been translated into French, Spanish, Portuguese, Slovene and German. Originally from Montréal, Angela Carr now lives in New York City. Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest and studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute. He is the author of eight books and pamphlets of poetry, including Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), Stranger In Town (City Lights, 2010), Expensive Magic (House Press, 2008), and two editions of Selected Writings (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 and 2005). He lives in San Francisco.

Language Arts (Wave Books 2014) by Cedar Sigo is a departure and then reintroduction to form on avant garde’s terms. In addition to disparate explosions of imagery, Cedar trains the ear for surprise of sound and a prosody that was born of childhood prayer, exposure to native tongue, and an understanding of musical composition. You enter a foreign landscape and exit much wiser.     Kiss the lights and they change out over the Stardust Cities are huge machines for sorting poets Starting down the cellophane-enfolded hills Even cast off lines have their own pull and rhyme. (Excerpt from “After Self-Help”) His love of poetry extends far beyond his own written word. I was impressed by the wealth of knowledge he drew upon in our talk, let alone in the creation of his verse. There is a reverence that any listener would find endearing and ensures us that our art is in the hands of a master. And I tell you, the sonnet never looked so good. Just like his poems, our conversation was full of surprises and revelation. From identity poetics to poets in translation, Cedar was candid and engaging. He invites readers into his inner world via the page and keeps them there with twists and unexpected turns. He is effortless. I invite you to listen to our exchange, hear his work, and purchase Language Arts so that you may return to it time and time again, discovering something new with each read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Language Arts (Wave Books 2014) by Cedar Sigo is a departure and then reintroduction to form on avant garde’s terms. In addition to disparate explosions of imagery, Cedar trains the ear for surprise of sound and a prosody that was born of childhood prayer, exposure to native tongue, and an understanding of musical composition. You enter a foreign landscape and exit much wiser.     Kiss the lights and they change out over the Stardust Cities are huge machines for sorting poets Starting down the cellophane-enfolded hills Even cast off lines have their own pull and rhyme. (Excerpt from “After Self-Help”) His love of poetry extends far beyond his own written word. I was impressed by the wealth of knowledge he drew upon in our talk, let alone in the creation of his verse. There is a reverence that any listener would find endearing and ensures us that our art is in the hands of a master. And I tell you, the sonnet never looked so good. Just like his poems, our conversation was full of surprises and revelation. From identity poetics to poets in translation, Cedar was candid and engaging. He invites readers into his inner world via the page and keeps them there with twists and unexpected turns. He is effortless. I invite you to listen to our exchange, hear his work, and purchase Language Arts so that you may return to it time and time again, discovering something new with each read. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices