Ethereal Society of Poetry and Allison Grimaldi Donahue
Rebirth and Decay: Poems25 February 2024
Turin
Poetry reading group, h. 18:30
Rebirth and Decay: Poems is a reading group of Ethereal Society of Poetry. For the occasion, ESP invited Allison Grimaldi Donahue, an American poet and translator based in Bologna, to curate a collection of poems on rebirth and decay. The theme has been interpreted as the constant process in which beings, human and non-human, find themselves: an ontological state of becoming Other that never ceases. It essentially contains all that constitutes life as it is. The approach of spring has prompted a reflection on the states of nature, on the growing pains each year reproposes, as if to remind us that we too aren’t finished.
Poems will be read that reflect this ongoing plastic process, in its beauty but also in its violence. The poems presented, all North American, were written by: Robert Creeley, Mary Ruefle, Etel Adnan, Frank Lima, Alice Notley, James Schuyler, Fanny Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Kimberly Alidio, Norma Cole, William Carlos Williams. The workshop will conclude with a writing time.
Ethereal Society of Poetry (ESP) is a project conceived by Davide La Montagna and Deborah Martino, born from the desire to raise awareness, promote, and make poetry accessible through collective and participative readings.
Rebirth and Decay: Poems is the fifth event of Vibrant Natures. On Decay and Rebirth and will be in italian. The next event is on Sunday, March 2nd, h. 15 at Almanac Inn, Via Reggio 13, Turin, with Micro regali di strada, workshop by Noura Tafeche in response to Soukaina Abrour's exhibition.
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Ethereal Society of Poetry
Ethereal Society of Poetry (ESP) is a project conceived by Davide La Montagna (Italy, 1992) and Deborah Martino (Italy, 1997), born from the desire to raise awareness, promote, and make poetry accessible through group readings. ESP is conceived as a meeting platform in the form of presentations, readings, conversations, or roundtables open to all, to take place in a free and safe environment.
Allison Grimaldi Donahue (USA, 1984),
writer and translator.
Allison Grimaldi Donahue works in text and performance exploring modes in which language and text can move between individual and collective experience. She employs participatory writing methods to build improvised communities of writers and translators, investigating the ways in which language is useful and useless, meaningful and a receptacle. She lives in Bologna and she is author of Body to Mineral (Publication Studio Vancouver, 2016) and On Endings(Delere Press, 2019) and translator of Blown Away by Vito M. Bonito (Fomite, 2021) and Self-portrait by Carla Lonzi (Divided, 2021). Recently she has presented her work at Sonnenstube Lugano, Short Theatre, Rome, MACRO, Rome, MAMbo, Bologna, Fondazione Giuliani, Napoli.
Rebirth and Decay: Poems is part of Vibrant Natures. On Decay and Rebirth, a project realized by Almanac Inn, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, and Orti Generali.
The project is supported by Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Fondazione CRT and Regione Piemonte.
