Posted on January 24, 2023
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro; The Greensboro Review; The Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures; and The Kohler Foundation will host a poetry reading by Stuart Dischell on Thursday, March 30th at 7:00 PM in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. The reading will celebrate the release of , Andalusian Visions, a collaborative book with poetry by Professor Dischell, photography by Cyril Caine, and translation into French and original music by Laurent Estoppey. The event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing.
Photographer-director CYRIL CAINE began his artistic career as an actor in numerous plays, TV host, and director for French television. His ground-breaking project on disfigurement, “Entre-Sort,” presents a visual protest against normative ideas about beauty. His work has been presented in numerous exhibitions, magazines and television channels in the United States, Russia, United Kingdom, Japan, Brazil, and China. He has taught photography and documentary courses at the Catholic University of Lille.
STUART DISCHELL is the author of Good Hope Road, a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues, Dig Safe, Backwards Days, Children With Enemies, The Lookout Man, and the pamphlets Animate Earth and Touch Monkey as well as the chapbook Standing on Z. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Agni, The New Republic, Slate, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and anthologies including Essential Poems, Hammer and Blaze, Pushcart Prize, and Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems. A recipient of awards from the NEA, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
Swiss saxophonist and composer LAURENT ESTOPPEY lives in Greensboro, works mostly between USA and Switzerland, and devotes himself mostly to music and arts of today. Numerous collaborations with composers have led him to create at least three hundred works but also to open him to the composition world. Now his musical activity is divided between written music and improvisation, and it occurs throughout Switzerland, many European countries, but also in the Americas, Russia and South Africa. Beside having founded and developed numerous chamber music groups, Estoppey is a member and artistic director of Swiss ensemBle baBel and Collapss (music, dance, poetry, visual arts in Greensboro, nc). His discography includes more than thirty recordings.
ANDREW SAULTERS is the Publisher, Editor, and Book Designer of Unicorn Press. Founded in 1966 in Santa Barbara, CA, Unicorn Press moved to Greensboro, NC in 1973. Saulters currently serves as a lecturer in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in publishing and editing.
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Watch the short film Cyril Caine produced in response to Andalusian Visions here:
