Silliman's Calendar

January 2012

January 1 in NYC
38^th annual New Year’s Benefit Marathon
with Thurston Moore, Jonas Mekas, Suzanne Vega,
Steve Earle, Eileen Myles, Robert Ashley,
Anselm Berrigan, Charles Bernstein, Corrine Fitzpatrick,
Daniel Kent, Denize Lauture, Donna Brook,
Dorothea Lasky, Barry Denny, Bob Hershon,
Brenda Coultas, Brett Price, Edmund Berrigan,
Elizabeth Devlin, Erica Kaufman, Filip Marinovich,
Foamola, Janet Hamill, John Coletti,
John Giorno, Josef Kaplan, Leopoldine Core,
Macgregor Card, Maggie Dubris, Marcella Durand,
Nathaniel Siegel, Nicole Peyrafitte, Patricia Spears Jones,
Pierre Joris, Secret Orchestra, Stephanie Gray,
Steve Dalachinsky, Steven Taylor, Susan Landers,
Taylor Mead, Tom Savage, Will Edmiston,
Yuko Otomo, Douglas Dunn, Kathleen Miller,
Bill Kushner, Ace Mcnamara, Alan Licht,
Alex Dimitrov, Amy King, Ana Božičević,
Anne Tardos, Arthur’s Landing, Basil King,
Betsy Fagin, Billy Lamont, Bob Hershon,
Bob Rosenthal, Brendan Lorber, Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers,
Bryn Kelly, CA Conrad, Christine Elmo,
Christopher Stackhouse, Church of Betty, Corina Copp,
David Freeman, David Henderson, Don Yorty,
Donna Brook, Drew Gardner, Dustin Williamson,
Ed Friedman, Edwin Torres, Elinor Nauen,
Elliott Sharp, Evelyn Reilly, Frank Sherlock,
Franklin Bruno, Genya Turovskaya, Gillian McCain,
Greg Fuchs, James Marshall, Jim Behrle,
John S. Hall , Judah Rubin, Judith Malina,
Katie Degentesh, Ken Walker, Kenny Goldsmith,
Kimberly Lyons, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Lenny Kaye,
Lonely Christopher, Mariana Ruiz Firmat, Mark Nowak,
Martha King, Matthew Abuelo, Miguel Gutierrez,
Mitch Highfill, Monica de la Torre, Nada Gordon,
Nick Hallett, Pamela Sneed, Poez,
Paul Legault, Penny Arcade, Peter Gizzi,
Reuben Butchart, Rickey Laurentiis, Sinan Antoon,
Susie Timmons, Ted Dodson, Ted Greenwald,
Todd Colby, Tom Carey, Tracey McTague ,
Tyler Burba, Wayne Koestenbaum, Will Yackulic,
Yoshiko Chuma, Joe Elliot, Nicole Wallace,
Arlo Quint, Stacy Szymaszek & more

January 1 – 8 in Puebla, Mexico
US Poets in Mexico
postponed for one year

January 3 in Philadelphia
Astrid Lorange & Megan Williams

January 5 in Brooklyn
Leigh & Sadie Stein

January 5 in Philadelphia
Aaron Birk

January 5 – 8 in Key West, FL
30^th annual Key West Literary Seminar
with Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem,
John Banville, Douglas Coupland,
Michael Cunningham, William Gibson,
Jennifer Egan, Joyce Carol Oates,
Janna Levin, Gary Shteyngart,
Dexter Palmer, George Saunders
& more

January 6 in Philadelphia
David Behrman

January 6 & 7 in Chicago
The Day Carl Sandburg Died

January 6-8 in New Bedford, MA
Moby-Dick Marathon

January 7 in NYC
Noah Eli Gordon & Marianne Morris

January 7 in Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Danielle Adair, Sissy Boyd, Amina Cain, and Allison Carter

January 8 in LA
Dangerous Ideas:
Political-Conceptual Art in LA
1974-81

January 11 in Brooklyn
An evening with Solid Objects

January 11 in Anchorage
Peggy Shumaker & Robin Child

January 12 in Amsterdam
Steve Reich

January 14 in NYC
David Lau & Lauren Spohrer

January 14 in London
A conference on Peter Riley

January 14 in Venice, CA
Poetry in Motion: McPoetry – Less is Better

January 14 – April 22 in Philadelphia
Zoe Strauss: Ten Years
+
Megawords

January 15 in Milwaukee
Bruce Dethlefsen & Mark Kraushaar

January 16 in London
Steve Reich

January 17 in Philadelphia
Diana Hamilton, Tarannum Laila, Kareem Estefan

January 17 in Los Angeles
Bang on a Can All Stars / red fish blue fish
perform Steve Reich

January 18 in London
Peter Jaeger:
John Cage’s Zen Poetics

January 18 in Paris
Kronos Quartet
perform Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11

January 20 in Ottawa
Cat Kidd & Kaie Kellough

January 20 in Venice, CA
Will Alexander

January 21 in NYC
Karen Mac Cormack & Steve McCaffery

January 21 in Philadelphia
David Behrman & ensemble

January 21 in Venice, CA
Harry E Northup & Lewis McAdams

January 25 in Metz, France
FASE = Four
Movements to the music
of Steve Reich

January 25 in Philadelphia
Melissa Gira Grant & Meaghan O’Connell

January 26 in NYC
Tony Towle & Jennifer Moxley

January 26 in Venice, CA
Ellen Maybe’s Poetry Rodeo

January 26 & 27 in Chicago
Ben Lerner

January 27 in Manchester, UK
Psappha Contemporary Music Ensemble
perform Steve Reich

January 27 in Venice, CA
Art Jarvinen,
Kathy Pisaro & the Formalist Quartet

January 26 – 29 in Cartagena, Columbia
Hay Festival Columbia

January 28 in Milwaukee
18^th Annual
Woodland Pattern Marathon Benefit
with Paul McComas, Lucille Rosenberg, Ethel Oliensis,
Mark Hunkel, Sally Tolan, Vijay Kulkarni,
Eloisa Gomez, Greg Flegel, Anne Reis,
Kathleen Klein, Ronnie Hess, C.X. Dillhunt,
Guy Yasko, James Roberts, Amy Prasad,
John Sierpinski, Cele Bona, Karen Haley,
Barb Tabak, Molly Snyder, Kim Suhr,
Robert Vaughan, Judith Zukerman, Sharon Foley,
Mary Steinert-Ng, Marjorie Pagel, Laurel Landis,
Eric Hansen, Aline Mohr, Emily Berthoff,
Joel Ottenstein, Janet Leahy, Katy Phillips,
Marsha Roberts, Nancy Rafal, Michael Farmer,
Cary Fellman, Earl Jude, Charlesetta Thompson,
Martha Kaplan, Kathleen Dale, Koshin/Bob Hanson,
Patty Paul, Ed Werstein, Tom Erickson,
Phyllis Wax, Helen Padway, Mark Zimmerman,
Kim Parsons, Marilyn Taylor, Raquel Lauritzen,
Suzanne Rosenblatt, Betty Priebe, Phyllis Berentsen,
Frank Berentsen, Janine Arseneau, Bill Seidler,
Lenore Lee, Maria Scott, Dale Ritterbusch,
Susanna Carlson, Eddee Daniel, Charles Rossiter,
Jeff Poniewaz, Antler, Bonnie Blackwell,
Lynn Fitzgerald, Lynn West, Vito Carli,
David Schaefer, Chris Austin, Steve Anderson,
Paul Enea, Elliot Lipchik, Steve Pump,
Barbara Wuest, Joan Miller, Sally Kuzma,
Susan Firer, Jim Hazard, JoAnn Chang,
Peter Goldberg, Reed Conway, Joshua David Lickteig,
Kimberly Blanchette, Sheryl Slocum, Steve Platt,
Nick Ramsey, Frank Berg, Richard Rose,
Jennifer Kraft, Anthony Brandl, Dirk Velvet,
Earl Karp, Steven Karp, Harvey Taylor,
Chuck Stebelton, Cathy Cunningham, Timur Gritsevskiy,
Mike Hauser, Robert J. Baumann, Karl Gartung,
Chuck Stebelton, Carl Bogner, Sara Caron,
Paul Drueke, Joe Riepenhoff, Marissa Wall,
Paul Vogel, David J. White, & many more