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Poet Transmit 20160414 (Audio)

Apr 14, 2016

Recorded at the Knockdown Center, 52-19 Flushing Ave, Queens, NY April 14, 2016. Participants include Mike Taylor, Erica Baum, Sophia La Fraga, Lanny Jordan Jackson, Shiv Kotecha, Bela Shayevich, and Ainsley Morse. Event curated with Ugly Duckling Presse. Event sponsored by Queens Museum and QI event programmer, Trans Pecos for the Queens International April-July, 2016. Documented event to be broadcast on E.S.P. TV's cable access program on MNN and screened continuously at Queens Museum in main atrium gallery as part of Queens International, 2016.

Radiocast (Running Order): Bela Shayevich and Ainsley Morse :Translation of a selection of Igor Kholin's diary, “Kholin 66”, Shiv Kotecha “Extrigue”, Lanny Jordan Jackson “Nerves Tears”, Mike Taylor : Part one, two and three, Erica Baum "Dog Ear" with Sophia La Fraga, Lanny Jordan Jackson, Shiv Kotecha, Bela Shayevich and Ainsley Morse: Translation of works by Vsevolod Nekrasov

Poet Transmit engages in the connections between poetry, transmission, and performance. The project was launched by artist/curator, Victoria Keddie as a way to explore textual practice and modes of transmission. Writer/artist Cat Tyc acts as co-curator in the Transmit, exploring the potential of poetic projection and how it exists in expanded fields of time.