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HOW(ever) & How2: Feminist Lineages, Archives and Interventions

Illustration accompanying "AMELIA EARHART, excerpts from a work-in-progress" by Maureen Owen, published in HOW(ever) Vol. 1, No. 2 (October, 1983)
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Please join us for an evening celebrating the legendary, intertwined feminist experimental poetry / inter-genre journals HOW(ever) and How2! This event will explore issues of feminist archive-making, gender and poetics writ large, and perspectives on modes of collaborative practice and publishing. A conversation will take place between Susan Gevirtz, an original member of the HOW(ever) editorial collective and contributor to How2, as well as Judith Goldman and Bianca Messinger, who are both part of the in-progress HOW(ever) & How2 Digital Archive Project, an open-access, scholarly re-issuing of the journals. 

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Running from 1983-1992, HOW(ever) was a print literary journal that appeared as a 16-page newsletter in 24 issues, while How2, the born-digital “daughter” serial following HOW(ever), was an online journal usually featuring 100+ literary and scholarly items, with 15 issues put out from 1999-2009. Unique in spanning three decades, and both print and digital contexts, these groundbreaking publications had an explicit premise: to connect women as writers and readers of experimental poetry to each other in a non-hierarchical, collective-minded, expansively participatory literary community—using the journals as platforms for highly active, creative, and intellectual interchange regarding innovative approaches to poetics as inflected by gender, as well as by class and race. They are extraordinary, fascinating documents of a number of major women writers from early stages in their careers, as well as repositories of intergenerational affiliation and exchange between established and emerging poets.

Published and edited by feminist experimentalist poet, critic, and educator Kathleen Fraser, HOW(ever) had many distinguished co-editors and guest editors, including Myung Mi Kim, Susan Gevirtz, Beverly Dahlen, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Adelaide Morris, and Chris Tysh, among others. Also published by Kathleen Fraser, How2’s managing editors included Ann Vickery and Redell Olsen, with guest editors Renee Gladman, Jeanne Heuving, and Sawako Nakayasu, among others. Distinguished contributors across the journals include Barbara Guest, Dodie Bellamy, Rae Armantrout, Susan Howe, Lyn Hejinian, Nicole Brossard, Norma Cole, Rosmarie Waldrop, Alice Notley, Marjorie Welish, Leslie Scalapino, Joan Retallack, Etel Adnan, Harryette Mullen, Hoa Nguyen, Tisa Bryant, Jen Bervin, Elizabeth Willis, Carla Harryman, Brenda Hillman, Robert Glück, Juliana Spahr, Bhanu Kapil, Caroline Bergvall, Evie Shockley, Eileen Myles, among many others.

WHEN
Saturday, November 16 | Doors at 7 pm, Event & Livestream at 7:30 pm
Saturday, November 16, 2024
7:00 pm

WHERE

Et al.
2831a Mission St, SF

NOTES ON ACCESsIBILITY

Et al.'s exhibition spaces are on the ground floor; the entrance and bathrooms are wheelchair-accessible.

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Susan Gevirtz

Susan Gevirtz’s recent books of poetry include Burns (Pamenar), Hotel abc (Nightboat) and Aerodrome Orion & Starry Messenger (Kelsey Street). Her critical books are Narrative’s Journey: The Fiction and Film Writing of Dorothy Richardson (Peter Lang) and Coming Events (Collected Writings), (Nightboat). “The Guides,” an excerpt from her manuscript Guide School, is forthcoming as a chapbook from Antiphony Press. Gevirtz works with Prison Renaissance and Operation Restoration as a writing mentor to incarcerated people. In 2004 she and Siarita Kouka, Greek poet/restorer of maritime antiquities, founded the Paros Symposium, an annual translation and conversation meeting of Greek and Anglophone poets. She is based in San Francisco.

Judith Goldman

Director of the HOW(ever) & How2 Digital Archive Project and contributor to How2, Judith Goldman is author of four books of poetry, as well as articles on contemporary poetry and poetics; her creative work has recently appeared in The Brooklyn Rail and The Chicago Review. In 2019-2020, she collaborated on a multi-media installation Open Waters [Northwest Passage + Open Polar Sea + Arctic Plastic] that was exhibited at the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY. Poetry features editor for Postmodern Culture, Goldman is associate professor in English at SUNY, Buffalo and director of the Poetics Program. 

Bianca Messinger

Bianca Rae Messinger is a poet and translator living and working in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of the chapbooks The Love of God (Inpatient Press, 2016) and parallel bars (Center for Book Arts, 2021) and translator of In the Jungle There is Much to Do (comunidad del sur [mauricio gatti], Berlin Biennale, 2020) among others. Her book pleasureis amiracle is forthcoming from Nightboat books.


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