Reading Series
UnAmerican Activities Series
UnAmerican Activities is a poetry reading series held simultaneously in New York and the UK. The series connects audiences and readers on both sides of the Atlantic via live audio (and video) link. In the interval between readings, live video portals are opened in both venues so the audiences can converse. UnAmerican Activities is organized by Ian Heames, Luke McMullan and Sophie Seita.
Location NYC: Page Poetry Parlor, 435 W 22nd Street, 3.30pm
Location Cambridge: Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, 9 West Road, Cambridge, 8.30pm
Location London: Lock-Keeper's Cottage, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, 8.30 pm
UnAmerican Activities 8
26 April 2015
The last in the series. Poetrs reading in NEW YORK: Wendy Lotterman Holly Melgard Mat Laporte Julie Ezelle Patton in LONDON: Frances Kruk Timothy Thornton Nat Raha Held at the Lock-keepers Cottage, Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS and at Torn Page / Page Poetry Parlor, 435 W22nd St, between 9th & 10th Avenue, in…
UnAmerican Activities 7
12 October 2014
A reading by Sean Bonney in London and Erica Hunt in New York City.
UnAmerican Activities 6
25 May 2014
Live from Page Poetry Parlor, NYC, and the Lock-keeper's Cottage, QMUL, this recording of Susan Howe and Peter Manson was made on 25 May 2014.
UnAmerican Activities 5
13 April 2014
Virtual Cabaret II
UnAmerican Activities 4
17 November 2013
The fourth unAmerican Activities event happened on Sunday, November 17th, with live audiences in New York (Page22) and Cambridge (Judith E Wilson Drama Studio), and was also broadcast on WKCR FM New York (89.9FM, and online here: http://tunein.com/radio/WKCR-FM-899-s30119/) a few weeks later. The readers were Allen Fisher (Cambridge) and Steve McCaffery (New York). Ken Edwards and Peter Jaeger contributed short essays on…
UnAmerican Activities 1
UnAmerican Activities is a poetry reading series held simultaneously in New York and Cambridge. The series connects audiences and readers on both sides of the Atlantic via live audio (and video) link. In the interval between readings, live video portals are opened in both venues so the audiences can converse. UnAmerican Activities is organized by Ian Heames, Luke McMullan and…
UnAmerican Activities 2
Reading Two At unAmerican Activities #2, Virtual Cabaret, ten poets, five in New York and five in Cambridge, gave short readings, alternating between the two venues. Events in this format will punctuate the Series, as a quick-fire alternative to the usual programme of two poets, one at each venue, each reading from their own work and the work of others. The Virtual…
UnAmerican Activities 3
For unAmerican Activities #3, Abigail Child read in New York and Wendy Mulford read in Cambridge. Abigail also showed two of her recent short films: 'ELSA merdelamerdelamer' (2013) and ‘If I Can Sing a Song about Ligatures’ (2009, with Nada Gordon). A seven-strong choir also performed a piece by Michael Parsons based on Wendy Mulford’s poem 'Nevrazumitelny'.