<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><b> </b></font></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Times"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times">Wednesday, November 13, 2013</font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(30, 63, 245); font-family: Times; font-size: large; ">Basil & Martha Winston King + Janet Passehl </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times">The Infinite Well 123 Court Street, New Haven, CT </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times">7:30 p.m. (free parking)</font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times">Martha King was born Martha Winston Davis in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1937, attended Black Mountain College briefly as a teenager and married the painter Basil King in 1958. She’s lived in New York City since then working as an editor and science writer (mainly for the Multiple Sclerosis Society) until 2011. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times">Her recent books are Imperfect Fit: Selected Poems, Marsh Hawk, 2004, and North & South, a collection of short stories, Spuyten Duyvil, 2006. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times">She edited a zine, Giants Play Well in the Drizzle, from 1983 to 1993, co-curates a prose reading series with Elinor Nauen at the Side Walk Café on Avenue A, and blogs irregularly at <a href="http://www.blog.basilking.net/">http://www.blog.basilking.net</a>. Current on line publications include --Jacket #40, BlazeVox, Spring 2011, EOAGH, November 2011, Construction, December 2011, BlazeVox, Spring 2013, Big Bridge, Spring 2013</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times">Basil King is a painter/poet, born in England before World War 2 and living in Brooklyn since 1968. He attended Black Mountain College as a teenager and for the past four decades he has taken his art “from the abstract to the figure, from the figure to the abstract.” He began to write in the 1980’s and since then practices both arts. His books include Warp Spasm, Identity, mirage: a poem in 22 sections, 77 Beasts/Basil King’s Beastiary and Learning to Draw/A History. Sections of this ongoing work have also been featured in several chapbooks. He most recently exhibited his visual art at Poets House, New York City, March-June 2010. He is honored to be both the subject and narrator of a 2012 documentary film Basil King: MIRAGE by the artists Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5" size="4" face="Times"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1e3ff5"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Times">
</font><div class="column"><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Times">Janet Passehl was born in 1959 in Braintree, Massachusetts and grew up in Connecticut.
She received a BA in studio art from Central Connecticut State University in 1986, with
supplemental studies at Yale University and the International School of Art in Todi, Italy.
Her folded ironed cloth sculptures have been exhibited at the Drawing Center in New
York, Thomas Rehbein Gallery in Cologne, Tegnerforbundet in Oslo, and forthcoming in
a historical survey of artists working with cloth, at the Wolfsburg Museum in Wolfsburg,
Germany. Her works on paper have been exhibited and collected in the US, Germany and
Denmark. In January, 2013, her cloth work was featured in Imagistic, a writing and art
project in Cardiff, Wales. In this project, her work provided inspiration for fiction writer
and Imagistic founder Carole Burns, and poet Philip Gross. Janet’s art can be seen at
<<a href="http://janetpassehl.com/">janetpassehl.com</a>>
</font></p><p><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" face="Times">For twenty-two years, Janet has worked as Curator of the LeWitt Collection, a private
collection of contemporary art made or collected by Sol LeWitt. In July 2010, she
received and MFA in creative writing from Stonecoast Writer’s Program at the
University of Southern Maine. Her poems have been published in Court Green 8 (The
Frank O’Hara Dossier), Arsenic Lobster, Calibanonline issues 7 and 11
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><a href="http://calibanonline.com/">http://calibanonline.com</a>. </span>Janet is currently shopping around her manuscript Clutching
Lambs, while working on two manuscript-length poems, Glazed blind cushion not mercy,
and Housebook. </font></p>
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