Language Garden with Jared Stanley

Language Garden with Jared Stanley
Saturday, July 15
6:30pm
at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden

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Language Garden
A Season of Readings, Workshops, & Living Matters to take place in the Future Garden

Installment no. 5 (a perfume):

Writing alongside the smell of it
A Workshop with Jared Stanley

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Open to all writers, poets, artists, kindred spirits.

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

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”Smelling can be intense, repellent, disgusting, powerfully fragrant, redolent, comforting. Smells create dense interactions between, say, memory and the environment, home, the comfort of another’s body. Some cultures have worked very hard to control the sources of strong smells: plumbing, the automobile and gardens are technologies that in part resulted from a desire to control assaults on the olfactory sense. So, in the spirit of interacting with the banished and the powerful let’s smell some things. Through a set of guided exercises, we’ll write alongside the smells of the garden, trying to focus our noses on both specific smells and on the riotous medley that comes our way.”

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David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden
1911 7th Ave., Los Angeles, CA

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Jared Stanley is a poet who often works with artists and sometimes writes in prose. He is the author of four collections of poetry: So Tough (forthcoming from Saturnalia in 2024), EARS, The Weeds, and Book Made of Forest. Born in Arizona, Jared grew up in Northern California and lives in Reno, Nevada, where he teaches at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Language Garden is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, and Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.