11AM-12:15PM 鈥 Hyde Art Gallery (Building 25) (Please note change of venue from Griffin Gate.)
ZINE FEST featuring Margarat Nee of Grrrl Zines-a-Go-Go
Photo 漏 Margarat Nee
The do-it-yourself literary journal, or 鈥渮ine,鈥 is the vanguard to revolution, promoting
visual and cultural literacy, and creating avenues for resistance, advocacy, and change.
Don鈥檛 miss Margaret Nee of San Diego鈥檚 own Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go for this engaging and
important workshop and discussion on zines!
About the Author and Event
Founded in 2002 by Elke Zobl, the all-women Grrrl Zines Network group is based in Southern California and facilitates workshops in campuses and community venues such as Hillcrest LGBT Centre, San Ysidro Public Library, SDSU, Cal Poly SLO, California State San Marcos, Hillcrest Book Faire, Portland Zine Symposium, Mobilivre-Bookmobile, the S/he Collective, and San Diego Indymedia. From their website: "Creating and not just consuming culture, writing, images, and ideas is central to the power of zines. More and more of our activities are mediated and shaped for us, rather than created by us. Making choices is central to developing creative skills. In today鈥檚 culture it can feel like we have to consciously separate ourselves from the mainstream in order to have real choices, and zine culture provides a community of other do-it-yourself experimenters to make contact with. Zines also provide a place to practice both individual and collaborative creativity. The skills of each are unique, and our culture does not provide adequate forums to really explore either. Collaboration is a skill that is given short shrift in our hierarchical and competitive society. Zines are one way to practice the give and take that collaboration entails, as you work with others to create a collective expression." Although the group鈥檚 aim is to foster the empowerment of young women through the production of fanzines and self-published works, this LAF event is open to participants of any gender identity.
Margarat Nee holds a MFA degree from UCSD and has been involved in various community arts projects before joining GZAGG. She published her first zine, OYA: a feminist rag, in the mid 1990s and has since created Dogrrrl and the popular Radical Pet, and has collaborated on other zines such as From the Ground Up. In addition to owning her her own business, The Art of Dog, Nee is also certified as a Vibrational Sound Therapy Practitioner. Along with SDSU Special Collections archivist and librarian Kim Schwenk, Nee co-directs Girl Zines-a-Go-Go.
Resources
Links
- Margarat Nee official website: margaratnee.com
- Kim Schwenk blog: kimschwenk.wordpress.com
- Grrrl Zines-a-Go-Go official website:
- Grrrl Zines Network:
- Radical Pet zine:
- The Art of the Dog (Margarat Nee): theartofdog.com
- Earth, Song & Energy--Vibrational Sound Therapy with Margarat Nee:
- San Diego Zine Fest: sandiegozinefest.com
SELECTED ON-LINE ARTICLES
- "About Elke Zobl." Grassroots Feminism Network.
- Combs, Seth. 鈥淟ocal Zines Live on with Grrrl Zines A Go-Go.鈥 San Diego CityBeat 13 January 2016.
- "Getting To Know Your Local Zinesters: Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go." Interview with Margarat Nee and Kim Schwenk. LA Zine Fest 4 January 2012. lazinefest.com/2012/01/04/getting-to-know-your-local-zinesters-grrrl-zines-a-go-go
- Melnick, Meredith. "Anatomy of a Zine: When Magazines Go Indie." Time 3 September 2011.
- Rios, Carmen. "Zine Supreme #8: Kim Schwenk." Interview. Argot Magazine 18 December 2016.
- Sherman, Pat. "Display Chronicles Self-Publishing 'Zine' Pioneers." Contact. San Diego Union-Tribune 13 February 2009.
- Zobl, Elke. "From Grrrl Noire to Cyclette and Grrrl Zines A-Go-Go: A Grrrl Zinester at Her Best." Interview with Kim Schwenk. Grrrl Zines Network September 2006.
SELECTED ON-LINE VIDEO
- "Grrrl Zines-A-Go-go!" Posted 22 Feb. 2012 by makeaneffort88. YouTube. Duration: 00:14:55. [not Closed Captioned]
Jump to the top of the page.7-8:15PM 鈥 Griffin Gate (Student Center, Building 60) 鈥 reading and book signing
poet ADA LIM脫N
This event is supported in part by a grant it has received from WACC, the World Arts and Cultures Committee of 小优传媒
About The Author
Poet Ada 尝颈尘贸苍 is the author of four books of poetry, including Lucky Wreck, This Big Fake World, and Sharks in the Rivers. Among her most celebrated works is her collection, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Edition), named one of the Top Ten Poetry Books of 2015 by The New York Times. Bright Dead Things was also a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award in Poetry and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Kenyon Review's Lisa Higgs writes of Bread Dead Things, "尝颈尘贸苍, in not fearing the part of her that wants to be unsettled, allows readers
to let go of what binds them to their own confining spaces. Reading Bright Dead Things is a pleasure, not because the book in its weaving from discomfort to near-comfort
is easy, but because by the end, we can believe that living any style or form of life
is enough, no matter its final shape." Poet Nikky Finney, a National Book Award winner,
gives praise for Bright Dead Things: 鈥淎da 尝颈尘贸苍 doesn't write as if she needs us. She writes as if she wants us. Her
words reveal, coax, pull, see us. In Bright Dead Things we read desire, ache, what human beings rarely have the heart or audacity to speak
of alone鈥攚ithout the help of a poet with the most generous of eyes.鈥
尝颈尘贸苍's other books include Lucky Wreck (Autumn House Press 2005), This Big Fake World (Pearl Editions 2005), and Sharks in the Rivers (Milkweed Edition 2010). She serves on the faculty of Queens University of Charlotte Low Residency M.F.A program, and the 24Pearl Street online program for the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. She also works as a freelance writer splitting her time between Lexington, Kentucky and Sonoma, California.
Resources
BOOKS/CHAPBOOKS BY ADA LIM脫N
| Bright Dead Things. Milkweed Editions, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-57131-471-0 |  |
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Lucky Wreck. Autumn House Press, 2005. ISBN 1-932870-08-3 |
| 99垄 Heart. Big Game Books, 2007. |  |
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Sharks in the Rivers. Milkweed Editions, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-57131-438-3 |
| This Big Fake World. Pearl Editions, 2005. ISBN 978-1-888219-35-7 |  |
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What Sucks Us In Will Surely Swallow Us Whole. Cinematheque Press, 2009 |
ANTHOLOGIZED WORKS
- Five Poems (鈥淢iles Per Hour,鈥 鈥淭he Firemen are Dancing,鈥 鈥淐enterfold,鈥 鈥淭he Different Ways of Going,鈥 鈥淪electing Things for Vagueness).鈥 When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women. Ed., Andrea Hollander Budy. Autumn House Press, 2009. ISBN 978-1932870268
- 鈥淢ystery Birds: Five Ways to Practice Poetry.鈥 Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook. Ed. Joshua Marie Wilkinson. University of Iowa Press, 2010. 261-262. ISBN 978-1587299049 鈥
AUTHOR RESOURCES
- Official blog:
- Official website:
- Autumn House Press (Publisher):
- Milkweed Editions (Publisher):
- Poets.org:
- Poetry Foundation:
- Facebook:
- Twitter:
- Wikipedia:
- YouTube:
SELECTED VIDEO [CC]
Captions and transcripts available.
鈥淎da 尝颈尘贸苍 in Conversation.鈥 Posted 14 October 2010 by Marie Bullock. Duration: 00:02:56.
鈥淎da 尝颈尘贸苍 Reads 鈥楳arketing Life for Those of Us Left.鈥欌 Posted 15 October 2010 by Marie Bullock. Duration: 00:02:52.
鈥淎da 尝颈尘贸苍 Performs 鈥楾he Echo Sounder.鈥欌 Posted 22 April 2011 by UrbanaPoetrySlam. Duration: 00:05:42.
鈥淎da 尝颈尘贸苍 Performs 鈥楬igh Water鈥 in February 2011.鈥 Posted 9 April 2011 by speakeasynyc. Duration: 00:05:42.
鈥淩ich Fahle Interviews Ada Limon on Bright Dead Things at 2016 AWP." Posted 5 April 2016 by PBS Books. Duration: 00:14:54.
鈥2015 National Book Awards Finalists Reading.鈥 Posted 30 November 2015 by NationalBook. Duration: 00:06:15.
SELECTED ON-LINE POEMS
- 鈥淎fter His Ex Died.鈥 Virginia Quarterly Review Online Fall 2017.
- 鈥淐谤耻蝉丑.鈥 The New Yorker 8 June 2009.
- 鈥凄辞飞苍丑别补谤迟别诲.鈥 Guernica 1 October 2011.
- 鈥淔ifteen Balls of Feather.鈥 Diode Poetry Journal 3.1 (Fall 2009).
- Five Poems (鈥淭he Tree of Fire,鈥 鈥淐ower,鈥 鈥淲ork,鈥 鈥淒rift,鈥 鈥淭he Saving Tree鈥). Thrush Journal December 2011 (Inaugural).
- 鈥淕濒辞飞.鈥 Nerdy Talks Book Blog 11 April 2017.
- 鈥淗ow To Triumph Like a Girl.鈥 Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts 25.2 (Summer/Fall 2013).
- 鈥淗ow To Triumph Like a Girl.鈥 Women鈥檚 Voices For Change 29 May 2016. (Includes author notes and poem commentary by WVFC Poetry Editor Rebecca Froust.)
- 鈥淭he Lost Glove.鈥 Slate 11 May 2004.
- 鈥淢辞飞颈苍驳.鈥 Words For the Year 12 December 2016.
- 鈥淎 New National Anthem.鈥 BuzzFeed 2 December 2016.
- "翱惫别谤箩辞测别诲.鈥 Harvard Review 7 June 2010.
- 鈥淥惫别谤辫补蝉蝉.鈥 The New Yorker 4 December 2017.
- 鈥淧rologue: This Big Fake World.鈥 Pearl Magazine 2005. pearlmag.com/bigfakeworld.htm
- 鈥淭he Rewilding.鈥 The American Poetry Review 43.6 (November/December 2014).
- 鈥沦别谤惫颈肠别.鈥 BuzzFeed 31 March 2016.
- 鈥淪tate Bird.鈥 The New Yorker 2 June 2014.
- Three Poems (鈥淢arketing Life For Those of Us Left,鈥 鈥淭o the Busted Among Us,鈥 and 鈥淪omeplace Like Montana鈥). Dream The End.
- Three Poems (鈥淧lay It Again,鈥 鈥淭he Wild Divine,鈥 and 鈥淭he Story of a Horse鈥). Hoppenthaler鈥檚 Congeries. Connotation Press December 2010.
- Three Poems (鈥淭he First,鈥 鈥淭he Russian River,鈥 and 鈥淭his Practice鈥). The Scrambler: An E-Zine 10 (May 2007).
- Three Poems (鈥淲e Are Surprised,鈥 The Noisiness of Sleep,鈥 鈥淭orn鈥). Compose Journal Fall 2013.
SELECTED PROSE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- Akbar, Kavi. 鈥淎da 尝颈尘贸苍.鈥 Interview. Divedapper 18 May 2015.
- Chaney, Candace. 鈥淎fter Leaving New York, Poet Ada 尝颈尘贸苍 Finds Quieter Life in Lexington Suits, Her and Her Work.鈥 Books. Lexington Herald Leader (Lexington, Kentucky) 1 September 2013. kentucky.com/entertainment/books/article44441979.html
- 鈥淐oastal Craft: Ada 尝颈尘贸苍.鈥 Interview. Tin House 28 November 2016.
- Moore, Beth. 鈥淔lying High (and Low) with Ada 尝颈尘贸苍.鈥 Mass Poetry 2017.
- Sheridan, Lorna. 鈥淐atching Up With a Grad: Ada 尝颈尘贸苍 鈥 Poetry in Motion.鈥 Sonoma News 25 March 2014. (Includes 鈥淥verjoyed鈥 by Ada 尝颈尘贸苍.)
- Spece, Joseph. 鈥淢icro-Micro: Ada 尝颈尘贸苍鈥檚 鈥楽ervice.鈥欌 Review. Sharkpack Poetry 5 April 2016.
- 鈥淭he Rumpus Poetry Book Club Chat with Ada 尝颈尘贸苍.鈥 The Rumpus 15 September 2015.
- Windsor, Suzannah. 鈥淎n Interview with Poet Ada 尝颈尘贸苍.鈥 Compose Journal 24 April 2014.
- Wright, Jeffrey Cyphers. "Review of Ada 尝颈尘贸苍鈥檚 Sharks in the Rivers.鈥 The Brooklyn Rail 7 December 2010.
SELECTED ON-LINE ESSAYS/ARTICLES BY ADA LIM脫N
- 鈥淢issing America: On Leonard Cohen.鈥 Asterix Journal 7 January 2017.
- 鈥淲hy Poetry Helps.鈥 Guernica 11 April 2011.
SELECTED ON-LINE AUDIO
- Five Poems from Bright Dead Things (鈥淎daptation,鈥 鈥淭he Last Move,鈥 鈥淢owing,鈥 鈥淩elentless,鈥 and 鈥淔ield Bling鈥). Audio. Poets & Writers, Org.
- Three Poems (鈥淭he First,鈥 鈥淭he Russian River,鈥 and 鈥淭his Practice鈥). Audio. The Scrambler: An E-Zine 10 (May 2007).