the Poetry Center
presents
two readings by poets
ELENI STECOPOULOS and ROBERT KOCIK
Thursday MARCH 13, 2008
3:30 pm @ the Poetry Center
HUM 512, San Francisco State University
7:30 pm @ the Unitarian Center
1187 Franklin (at Geary), San Francisco
admission: $5
Eleni Stecopoulos, author of Autoimmunity (Taxt, 2006), studied literature and Hellenic Studies at Princeton, creative writing at U. Virginia, poetics and anthropology at SUNY Buffalo. She is completing two projects: Idiopathic: Visceral Poetics and the Chronic Syndrome of the West (criticism/memoir) andEarth Also is a Private Language, a book-length poem about the island of Evvia (Euboea), its geothermal springs and ancient healing sanctuaries, and family stories from the island. She is guest-curator for the Poetry Center's special afternoon-length program The New Asklepion: Poetics and Healing, taking place March 15, with Eric Greenleaf on Balinese trance-healing ritual and Robert Kocik on "prosodic" building in relation to the ancient Greek dream-healing sanctuary.
Robert Kocik, poet, essayist, artist, design/builder, lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he directs the Bureau of Material Behaviors. He is currently developing a building based on "prosody" and poets' imagined relevance to our society. With the choreographer Daria Fain, he has initiated the Prosodic Body-an aesthetics or artscience based on prosody as the bringing forth of everything. His publications include: Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2001), and Rhrurbarb (Field Books, 2007).
***and****
the Poetry Center
presents
The New Asklepion Poetics and Healing
curated by Eleni Stecopoulos
with ERIC GREENLEAF and ROBERT KOCIK
Saturday MARCH 15, 2008
2:00-6:00 pm @ the Unitarian Center
1187 Franklin (at Geary), San Francisco
admission: $5
The New Asklepion. Under the holistic sign of the ancient healing sanctuary, we initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue among those who work at intersections of poetry, dream or altered consciousness, and healing. This special afternoon-length program is guest-curated and introduced by Eleni Stecopoulos, and features presentations by, and public conversations with writer-practitioners Eric Greenleaf and Robert Kocik.
Eric Greenleaf, Balinese Healing of the Visible and Invisible Worlds, a presentation in three parts, with original videos: 1) Ayurvedic Healing: The Interior Mantram as Medicine; 2) The Balian Ketakson: Healing in Trance in the Ancestors' Voices; 3) Community Trance Rituals: Healing While Possessed by the Gods. A clinical psychologist and author of The Problem of Evil: Disturbance and its Resolution in Modern Psychotherapy, Eric Greenleaf directs The Milton H. Erickson Institute of the Bay Area. He does research on trance and healing in Bali, teaches internationally, and trains therapists and Feldenkrais Practitioners in hypnotic communication.
Robert Kocik, Designing a Prosodic Building: The Missing Science of Health, Homelessness of Poetry, and Livelihood of Poets. "What, exactly, do words heal? Under what circumstances? The asklepian sanitarium serves as initial focal point for the designing of a prosodic building because it specifies at once a potent function of words, the corresponding role of a language practitioner, as well as the architectural space in which this language function was carried out. I'll focus, in particular, on the 'abaton' and the amphitheater-place of the secluded, epiphanic word and the public, cathartic word, respectively."Poet, essayist, artist, design/builder, Robert Kocik lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he directs the Bureau of Material Behaviors. He is currently developing a building based on "prosody" and poets' imagined relevance to our society. With the choreographer Daria Fain, he has initiated the Prosodic Body-an aesthetics or artscience based on prosody as the bringing forth of everything. His publications include: Overcoming Fitness (Autonomedia, 2001), and Rhrurbarb (Field Books, 2007).�
Full details at: http://www.sfsu.edu/~poetry
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