{"id":36,"date":"2017-05-17T18:51:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T18:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/andreaactis\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2024-09-01T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T20:48:18","slug":"writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/andreaactis\/writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing + Presentations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong>
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Books<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grey All Over <\/em>(Brick Books, 2021)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essays, Interviews, & Reviews<\/strong>

“Death is a UFO,” foreword to Robin Lassiter’s Earth: A Love Story<\/em> (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“HARD PARTS WITH ZERO EMBELLISHMENT,” exhibition text for Paul Kajander’s Iso Kokko<\/em>, Franz Kaka Gallery (June 2022) <\/a>

Interview by Mieke de Vries for the Victoria Festival of Authors (September 2021)<\/a>

“Poetry as Incantation: Talking with Andrea Actis,” by Nada Alic, The Rumpus<\/em> (July 23, 2021)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUnder the Cover: Grief and Poetry in Grey All Over<\/em>,\u201d All Lit Up<\/em> (March 25, 2021)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA \u2018Book Behind Which No Part of Me Could Hide,\u2019\u201d Open Book<\/em> (March 10, 2021)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNotes on \u2018Seriousness\u2019,\u201d World Picture <\/em>9 (Summer 2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018But sometimes a sign\u2019s all you need\u2019: A Conversation with Susan Bee & Charles Bernstein,\u201d The Capilano Review <\/em>3.12 (Winter 2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018Exquisite Hybridizations\u2019 and the Gentrification of Forms,\u201d The Poetic Front<\/em> 3 (2010)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review of Phyllis Webb and the Common Good: Poetry \/ Anarchy \/Abstraction <\/em>by Stephen Collis, The Rain Review of Books<\/em> 16 (Spring 2009)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018alive and watching\u2019: Sharon Thesen and the Eighth Type of Ambiguity,\u201d The Capilano Review<\/em> 3.5 (Summer 2008)
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Literary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Whole Seriousness,” The Capilano Review <\/em>3.48 (Winter 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Soul Ash,” The Capilano Review <\/em>3.41 (Summer 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cC-Span Lean Cuisine,\u201d Fence <\/em>(Winter 2015)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow to Poem a Skin,\u201d PELT <\/em>I (Summer 2012)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDescription of a Struggle,\u201d The Capilano Review <\/em>3.7 (Winter 2009)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cchoose your toast and publish post,\u201d The Capilano Review <\/em>3.6 (October 2008)

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PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn the Seriousness of Aisha Sasha John.\u201d Critical Ethnic Studies Association Fourth International Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, June 21-24, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c(Soma)tic Praxis: CAConrad and the Renaturalization of Poetry.\u201d American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, March 17-20, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow Should a Person Be Angry?\u201d Silence and Documentation Conference, SFU Department of English, Vancouver, BC, July 11-12, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLaura (Riding) Jackson and the Renaturalization of Judgment.\u201d American Comparative Literature Association\u2019s Annual Meeting, New York University, New York, NY, February 23-25, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cthe 1 thing hummingbirds \/ & humans both eat\u201d: Eco-Ability in Donato Mancini\u2019s Buffet World<\/em>.\u201d Conference on Ecopoetics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 22-24, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPragmatism within the Boundaries of Mere Seriousness.\u201d Pre-circulated seminar paper for \u201cRecoiling from Spectacle,\u201d Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, NV, October 17-20, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2018my kind of seriousness\u2019: On Laura Riding and the Antinomies of American Poetry.\u201d Poetry Communities and the Individual Talent, University of Pennsylvania Department of English, Philadelphia, PA, April 13-14, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRobert Fitterman\u2019s This Window Makes Me Feel <\/em>and the Politics\/Poetics of Horizontality.\u201d American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 29-April 1, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAmbiguity, the Wager, and Bridges of Commitment in Camus and Beauvoir.\u201d Association for the Study of Law, Culture & the Humanities Annual Conference, Brown University, Providence, RI, March 19-20, 2010.

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RECENT POETRY READINGS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading: Andrea Actis, Danielle LaFrance, and Dorothy Trujillo Lusk. Griffin Art Projects. North Vancouver, February 16, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poetry Reading: Actis, Bridgman, Smith. The Paper Hound Bookshop. Vancouver, April 3, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third Friday Reading Series. Poetry reading with Tiziana La Melia. People\u2019s Co-op Bookstore, Vancouver, November 17, 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PUBLICATIONS Books Grey All Over (Brick Books, 2021) Essays, Interviews, & Reviews “Death is a UFO,” foreword to Robin Lassiter’s Earth: A Love Story (2023) “HARD PARTS WITH ZERO EMBELLISHMENT,” exhibition text for Paul Kajander’s Iso Kokko, Franz Kaka Gallery (June 2022) Interview by Mieke de Vries for the Victoria Festival of Authors (September 2021) … <\/p>\n

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