[Yale-readings] King / Passehl Reading November 13, 2013

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Basil & Martha Winston King + Janet Passehl
The Infinite Well 123 Court Street, New Haven, CT
7:30 p.m. (free parking)

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.
Her recent books are Imperfect Fit: Selected Poems, Marsh Hawk, 2004, and North & South, a collection of short stories, Spuyten Duyvil, 2006.

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 http://www.blog.basilking.net.  Current on line publications include --Jacket #40, BlazeVox, Spring 2011, EOAGH, November 2011, Construction, December 2011, BlazeVox, Spring 2013, Big Bridge, Spring 2013


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.


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 <janetpassehl.com<http://janetpassehl.com>>

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 http://calibanonline.com. Janet is currently shopping around her manuscript Clutching Lambs, while working on two manuscript-length poems, Glazed blind cushion not mercy, and Housebook.



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