POG presents

Poet Dale Pendell

Saturday, January 15, 7pm

ORTSPACE, 121 East 7th Street

Admission: $5; Students $3

Dale Pendell is the author of Living with Barbarians, A Few Plant Poems, and the acclaimed Pharmako trilogy, including Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, & Herbcraft; Pharmako/Dynamis: Stimulating Plants; and Pharmako/Gnosis (publication expected in 2005).

Allan Ginsberg described the first volume of the trilogy as “an epic poem on plant humours, an abstruse alchemic treatise, an experiential narrative jigsaw puzzle, a hip and learned wild-nature reference text, a comic paean to cosmic consciousness, an ecological handbook, a dried-herb pastiche, a countercultural encyclopedia of ancient fact and lore that cuts through the present 'conservative' war-on-drugs psychobabble.”

Terence McKenna wrote that "Dale Pendell reactivates the ancient connection between the bardic poet and the shaman."

His poetry has appeared in many journals, and he was the founding editor of KUKSU: Journal of Backcountry Writing.  He has led workshops on ethnobotany and ethnopoetics for the Naropa Institute and the Botanical Preservation Corps, and has presented at the Mind States conference. His performance group, Oracular Madness, most recently appeared at Burning Man.

A software engineer as well as poet and student of ethnobotany, Pendell recently noted that “one of the things I’m trying to do is trace Gnostic wisdom tradition and higher spirituality through the western tradition. A lot of my practice and background has been through Buddhism, and more the vision quest, shamanistic religion, but I wanted to find a system of ideas and to ground it in the western tradition also going through Alexandria.”

Dale Pendell is in southern Arizona courtesy of Bisbee's Central School Project:

CONTACT: Michael Gregory, 432-5374, centralschlprjct@theriver.com

Friday, January 14, 2005, 7:30 PM

Author Dale Pendell

Central School Project, Poets Voice Series

43 Howell Ave in Old Bisbee

Admission: $6 ($4 students with ID)

DALE PENDELL READING AT CSP, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14TH

On Friday evening, January 14th, Dale Pendell will read from his own work in

the Poets Voice series at Central School Project, in Old Bisbee. The

performance will start at 7:30 pm in the auditorium of the historic

facility at 43 Howell Ave. and be followed by a public reception and

book-signing.

POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English. 

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