David Michael Wolach
The Evergreen State College / Bard College
For the latest information on David's teaching and writing, check out his blog
TEACHING Fall 08: Experiments in Text: Building Alternative Writing Communities Winter 08: Evergreen Presents Spring 08: Monstrous Possibility
PRESS: A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference / Photo Gallery (courtesy of Tom Orange) / Reviews
David Michael Wolach, originally from Detroit, teaches creative writing and philosophy, specializing in Wittgenstein, Adorno, philosophy of language and music, and literary theory. He also teaches as a visiting poet in Bard College's Workshop in Language & Thinking. Prior to coming to Evergreen, Wolach did his graduate work in philosophy at Columbia University. After receiving his degrees he served as a union organizer in New York City for six years.
David's books include Fractions of M (Trainwreck Press, 2008), The Transcendental Insect Reader (Stormy Petrel, 2008), Acts of Art/Works of Violence (SSLA/U. of Sydney, forth. 2009), and Prefab Eulogies (forth. 2009). The recipient of a Broadside Press Poet's Award and a Peralta Press Editor's Prize for New Fiction, he was recently nominated for a Story South Award and named a finalist in Glimmer Train's Fiction Open. Beyond teaching, David serves as one of the managing editors of Wheelhouse Magazine, a left arts and politics quarterly.
David's work is often collaborative and uses a combination of media (audio, text, and video). If you would like to work with him on his ongoing poetry project The Empty Set: Columns and Layers in Sound, feel free to contact him. If you would like to participate in our ongoing literary series, PRESS (see below), contact him. If you would like to learn more about any of his courses, contact him. If you would like him to take care of your cat while you are out of town, contact him. If you would like him to perform any other tasks, do not contact him.
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P R E S S:
A Cross-Cultural Literary Conference
@ The Evergreen State College
May 24-25 2008
Keynote speakers will include: experimental playwright, poet and activist Rodrigo Toscano (author of To Leveling Swerve), Gertrude Stein Prize-Winning writer Mark Wallace (author of Temporary Worker Rides a Subway), poet Laura Elrick (author of Fantasies In Permeable Structures), novelist and columnist Randall Kenan (author of Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the 21st Century), poet and film theorist Tung-Hui Hu (author of Mine) poet Leonard Schwartz (author of Gnostic Blessing), poet and essayist Kristin Prevallet (author of Shadow Evidence Intelligence and Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art), John Bellamy Foster (Editor of The Monthly Review ) and many others.
This year’s theme is “Activism & the Avant-Garde.” We are seeking papers, prose, poetics, groups of poems, and any hybrid text-based work that would advance discussion of at least one of the central questions posed at this conference: 1) Where is the intersection between political resistance and the Avant-Garde, both historically and now? 2) What is the function (if any) of “non-mainstream” literary work—and what do we mean by “non-mainstream”? 3) How has non-mainstream writing evolved recently? Any work that addresses literary matters in relation to commercialism and the economics of particular literary landscapes, imperialism, ethnography, feminism, postcolonialism, translation, globalization, web technology, or particular writers and/or small presses is especially welcome. All writers awarded panel and/or workshop spots will have their work published as part of an anthology.
To Submit : Deadline for Submissions is May 1, 2008. See our website for guidelines < http://www.evergreen.edu/writingcenter/press/submission.htm >
To Attend : Press is open to the public. See our website for further details.
WEBSITE: http://www.evergreen.edu/writingcenter/press
Questions, Comments, Submissions? Visit our website or email us at languageholiday@gmail.com (Professors David Michael Wolach or Elizabeth Williamson)
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