Name: CONTEXT COLLAPSE: Ryan Ruby & Bianca Stone
Start: 2024-11-13T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-13T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Flow Chart Space

CONTEXT COLLAPSE: Ryan Ruby & Bianca Stone

The Flow Chart Foundationexplores the interrelationships of various art forms with a focus on the language of inquiry known as poetry as guided by the legacy of American poet John Ashbery and promotes engagement with his work.Through programs for both general and scholarly audiences, focusing on Ashbery's work as well as innovative work by other artists of various kinds, The Flow Chart Foundation explores this mission toward deepening participation with Ashbery’s art and maintaining the Ashbery Resource Center, exploring his work as an inspirational and generative force, and encouraging the creation of new work.

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Poets Ryan Ruby & Bianca Stone reading and in conversation on poetry, history, and legacy, celebrating the publication of CONTEXT COLLAPSE.

Flow Chart Space

Celebrating the publication of <a href="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-context-collapse?srsltid=AfmBOoo4ATf5a-avgnNyJ04SyBdckwGpCRC67JJv5Bu2p6JXIOGolt8c" title="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-context-collapse?srsltid=AfmBOoo4ATf5a-avgnNyJ04SyBdckwGpCRC67JJv5Bu2p6JXIOGolt8c" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Context Collapse </a>(Seven Stories Press) by Ryan Ruby, poets Ryan Ruby (in from Berlin) and Bianca Stone will read from their work and join in a conversation about poetry, legacy, and history.Join us for this special event at the Flow Chart Space!This event will also be <a href="https://wavefarm.org/radio/partner-streams/schedule/4rgeqz" title="https://wavefarm.org/radio/partner-streams/schedule/4rgeqz" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">livestreamed</a> through partner station WGXC/Wave Farm ("radio for open ears").

On <a href="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-context-collapse?srsltid=AfmBOoo4ATf5a-avgnNyJ04SyBdckwGpCRC67JJv5Bu2p6JXIOGolt8c" title="https://www.sevenstories.com/books/4657-context-collapse?srsltid=AfmBOoo4ATf5a-avgnNyJ04SyBdckwGpCRC67JJv5Bu2p6JXIOGolt8c" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Context Collapse</a>:Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom.Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet—from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily introducing academic discourse, media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology, and heterodox economics into his blank verse study of poetry, Ruby traces the always delicate dance between poets, their publishers, and their audiences, and shows how, time and time again, the social, technological, and aesthetic experiments that appear in poetic language have prefigured radical changes to the ways of life of millions of people. It is precisely to poets to whom we ought to turn to catch a glimpse, as Shelley once put it, of the “gigantic shadows futurity casts on the present.”_________<a href="https://www.ryanruby.info/fiction" title="https://www.ryanruby.info/fiction" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ryan Ruby</a> is a writer and translator from Los Angeles, California. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Bookforum, the New Left Review and elsewhere. His debut novel The Zero and the One (Twelve Books 2017) subsequently appeared in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and France. He is the author of a book-length poem, Context Collapse (Seven Stories 2024), a Finalist for the 2020 National Poetry Series and a Semi-Finalist for the 2020 Tomaž Šalamun Prize. He is currently at work on a nonfiction narrative book about Berlin called Ringbahn for Farrar Straus, and Giroux. He is the recipient of the 2023 Silvers Prize for Literary Criticism from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation and the 2019 Einstein Fellowship from the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. He has translated Roger Caillois and Grégoire Bouillier from the French for Readux Books. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Chicago, he lives in Berlin, where he is on the faculty of the Berlin Writers' Workshop and has been an Affiliate Fellow of the Institute for Cultural Inquiry.<a href="https://bianca-stone.com/" title="https://bianca-stone.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Bianca Stone</a> is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022) which won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the <a href="https://ruthstonehouse.org/" title="https://ruthstonehouse.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Ruth Stone House</a>, where she is editor-at-large for ITERANT magazine and host of Ode &amp; Psyche Podcast.

Toward opening new possibilities for discovery, thought, and connection, The Flow Chart Foundation explores poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of poet John Ashbery and promotes engagement with his work.Flow Chart Foundation programs and resources inspire creative thinking, exploration, and transformation.Through events, exhibitions, and installations that showcase innovative art by creators across disciplines, we feature new work that reflects and engages transformative values, showcasing contemporary artists from a diversity of cultural, ethnic, gender-identified, age, ability, economic, and aesthetic viewpoints. We do so online, through our Flow Chart Space, and with partner organizations dedicated to serving our local community. We also celebrate Ashbery and his art as an inspirational and generative force, inviting engagement with his work through the Ashbery Resource Center, a special collection library and online resource that provides opportunities for deep exploration and scholarship.Poetry provides a powerful conduit for examining, questioning, and resisting the status quo. By featuring generative, exploratory work that defies simple consumption, we expand our ability to question, to speak, to think, to dream, to accomplish. The Flow Chart Foundation offers new ways to discover and enjoy poetry. Our programs feature the work of artists who help us challenge assumed perceptions of ourselves, one another, and the world. We strive to offer inviting means for productively engaging with poetry and enjoying it. We love artistic work often thought of as “challenging”—as confronting it challenges us to be more engaged with our world.

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