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October 25 to November 24, 2017

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Dia Beacon

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24/11/2017 09:00 24/11/2017 23:45 America/New_York Member Holiday Shopping Days Through December 4, 2017, members receive a 30% discount on all Dia publications and a 20% discount on other items purchased online or at the Dia:Beacon bookshop. Gift memberships are also 10% off and include a complimentary Dia journal. Exclusions apply.  Gift memberships must be purchased either over the phone at 212 293 5602 or in person at Dia:Beacon or Dia:Chelsea to receive this special rate. Not valid online.     Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY FREQ=DAILY; Member Holiday Shopping Days

Poetry Reading

Jen Bervin and Bernadette Mayer


Dia Chelsea

Readings in Contemporary Poetry

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14/11/2017 18:30 14/11/2017 23:45 America/New_York Jen Bervin and Bernadette Mayer Event DetailsTuesday, November 14, 2017, 6:30 pmDia:Chelsea535 West 22nd Street, 5th FloorNew York City  Readings in Contemporary Poetry curator, Vincent Katz provided an introduction for the evening's reading. Free for Dia members; $10 general admission; $6 admission for students and seniors Advance tickets are no longer available. Walk up tickets will be sold based on availability. Jen Bervin is a visual artist and poet whose research-driven interdisciplinary works weave together art, scholarship, text, textiles, science, and life. She has published ten books including The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems (2013) with Marta Werner and Silk Poems (2017), a poem written nanoscale in the form of a silk biosensor with Tufts University’s silk lab. Bervin is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities residency at Northwestern University, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation residency, an Asian Cultural Council fellowship, and a Creative Capital grant. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Power Plant in Toronto, and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan, and can also be found in more than thirty international collections. from Silk Poems, Research Sampler  A “book” of silk is a measure forty feet long, annotatedon the selvage of ancient cloth. Other measuresof silk include ells and aunes, mommies andpiculs.  The earliest human function of silk fabrics was wrappingchildren’s bodies in the tomb. Inventory: a bundleof bright silk yarn thirty feet long in her hand.A billion-foot-long silk yarn for climbing to heaven. Bernadette Mayer is the author of over twenty-seven collections of poetry including most recently Works and Days (2016), Eating the Colors of a Lineup of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer (2015), and The Helens of Troy (2013), as well as countless chapbooks and artist books. She has received grants from Creative Capital, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Guggenheim Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts. She is also the recipient of a 2014 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. From 1980 to 1984, she served as the director of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, and has also edited and founded 0 to 9 journal and United Artists books and magazines. She has taught at the New School in New York City, Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, Long Island University, College of Saint Rose in Albany, and Miami University. Living in Tents of Farinaceous Grain This year I’ve pitched a polenta tentthe tentpoles reinforced artichoke spaghettiI eat oatmeal, then run barefootdown to the widened kinderhook to seeif the blue heron will answer my whistle It’s raining so hard my ponchodoesn’t protect me adequately so like a whizkidI visualize, then drink the iced-coffee creekWhere, in the wink of an eye, I drown Rising from the dead I joineveryone else who did that & we sing              dear fucking sun I aim              to shine / on all sentient beings                       like youexcept those who own private property,  amen     Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Jen Bervin and Bernadette Mayer

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