POG
presents
poet Anselm Hollo and painter Michael Cajero
Saturday, April 26, 7pm
Dinnerware Gallery, 135 East Congress
Admission: $5; Students $3
Additional Event: “Innovative Poetry: Life Outside the Box,” a talk by Anselm Hollo followed by discussion: Friday, April 25, 2pm, UA English Department, Modern Languages Building 451; this event is free and open to the public. (For directions, or advice about parking, phone POG at 615-7803 or email pog@gopog.org.) Co-sponsored by Arizona Quarterly and the UA Poetry Center.
Anselm Hollo was born in Helsinki, Finland, and was educated there and in the U.S. In his early twenties, he left Finland to live and work as a writer and translator, first in Germany and Austria, then in London, where he was employed by the BBC's European Services in their Finnish Program from 1958 to 1967. Translations into Finnish from that time include Allen Ginsberg's Howl and John Lennon's In His Own Write.
For the last thirty years, Hollo has lived in the United States, teaching creative writing and literary translation at numerous colleges and universities, including SUNY Buffalo, The University of Iowa, and The University of Colorado. He is now Associate Professor in the Graduate Writing and Poetics Department at The Naropa Institute.
Hollo has published more than thirty-five books and chapbooks, most recently Corvus (Coffee House Press, 1995) and AHOE (Smokeproof Press, 1997). He has also translated many contemporary Finnish poets, among them Paavo Haavikko and Pentti Saarikoski, as well as fiction, plays, and poetry from the German, French, Swedish, and Finnish.
Hollo's honors and awards include the New York State Creative Artists' Public Service Award (1976), a National Endowment for the Arts Poet's Fellowship (1979), the P.E.N./American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for Poetry in Translation (1981), the American-Scandinavian Foundation Award for Poetry in Translation (1989), Fund for Poetry Awards for Contributions to Contemporary Poetry (1989, 1991), The Finnish Government Prize for Translation of Finnish Literature (1996), and a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry 1995-1996 (1996).
(excerpted from http://www.cyberpoems.com/abtans-h.html)
Michael Cajero. It was back in grad school, at Kent State University, thatCajero first came under the spell of the ephemeral. He had been doing regular two-dimensional paintings, applying pigment to the flat surfaces of cloth or paper, when he started hearing about process art and arte povera. These two schools emphasized what Cajero calls the "physicality of materials" and "raw forms," giving equal value to such highly prized media as oils and marble and mass-marketed goods. Cajero started experimenting with junk materials designed not to last--masking tape and cheap wrapping paper and newsprint. He twisted them into sculptural forms and spattered them with paint.
After picking up a master's in painting, sculpture and art history, Cajero came back home to his native Tucson. Immersed once again in the folkloric imagery of the Hispanic Southwest, he began to see that the materials of arte povera would make a perfect marriage with the icons of Mexican folk art. Mexican artists of necessity have long used cheap, transitory materials for their works--bread, sugar, clay--and Cajero mimicked this practice by using paper and tape to make Mexicanesque skeletons and dancers and musicians. Over the years Cajero, who teaches regularly at Pima College, the Tucson Museum of Art and the UA, has taken these folkloric figures into new territory. In 1992, the 500th-year anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the New World, Cajero filled an entire room in the University of Arizona Museum of Art with giant "light altars" chronicling the disasters of the Spanish Conquest.
(excerpted from http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/1999-09-09/review.html)
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. We also thank the following POG donors: Patrons Roberta Howard, Tenney Nathanson, Liisa Phillips, Austin Publicover, and Frances Sjoberg; Sponsors Barbara Allen, Chax Press, Alison Deming, The Jim Click Automotive Team, Elizabeth Landry, Stefanie Marlis, Stuart and Nancy Mellan, Sheila Murphy Associates, and Tim Peterson; Silent Auction Partner Zia Records.
for further information contact POG: 615-7803; pog@gopog.org; www.gopog.org