{"id":717,"date":"2012-10-27T17:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/?page_id=717"},"modified":"2023-08-24T19:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T02:37:44","slug":"aboutme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pyriformpress.com\/ellenredbird\/aboutme\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"I<\/p>\n

language is \u2014 musical \u2014 both figurative and material \u2014 in diaphragm gesture airwaves print imagination \u2014 connective \u2014 skewed \u2014 multiplying \u2014 collaborative \u2014 keen-edged \u2014 hazy \u2014mistranslatable \u2014 playful \u2014 exploratory<\/p>\n

sense making \u2014 generating sense \u2014 is as powerful as it is absurd<\/p>\n

I have things to say \u2014 trans snowmelt lens \u2014 that can’t be said without the resonant spaces \u2014 between contradictory or layered elements of experience \u2014 pigeons \u2014 that poetry performs<\/p>\n

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\"Ellen<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n

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\"Pigeon<\/p>\n

\"Also\"<\/p>\n

photo adventure bird enthusiast<\/p>\n

queer liquid<\/p>\n

visual designer<\/p>\n

hsp (highly sensitive pigeon)<\/p>\n

age 3: had imaginary friends who lived in the mirrors<\/p>\n

halloween costumes: octopus \u2014 conceptual neuron \u2014 fossil bed \u2014 white board with pens \u2014 mer-mouse \u2014 trans-species genderbending ladybug<\/p>\n

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\"Bio\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ellen Redbird is a poet, playwright, spoken word performer, teacher, and small press publisher.<\/p>\n

Born in 1975, in Santa Barbara, California, she began seriously writing poetry at age nine.<\/p>\n

She earned a B.A. in literature from the College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, winning two poetry awards. She went on to earn an M.F.A. in Writing & Poetics from Naropa University, winning two awards for service to the Naropa community. Studying performance with Anne Waldman and ecology literature with Jack Collom are two highlights of her time at Naropa.<\/p>\n

In 2000, Redbird founded Pyriform Press<\/a>, publishing handbound books. She edits the journal Nerve Lantern: Axon of Performance Literature<\/em><\/a>, 2001 to present.<\/p>\n

Her seven years of teaching experience includes conducting poetry writing workshops for children and adults.<\/p>\n

Her poems and performance texts have appeared in journals, including Negative Capability<\/em><\/a>, Singapore Poetry<\/em><\/a>, Tarpaulin Sky<\/em><\/a>, Chain<\/em>, Bombay Gin<\/em>, Spectrum<\/em>, For Immediate Release<\/em>, and Score<\/em>. Redbird is a contributor to the compendium, kari edwards<\/del>: NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards<\/em> (Litmus Press \/ Belladonna Books, 2009).<\/p>\n

She wrote, produced, directed, designed, and publicized Verve of Verge: a puzzle play<\/em><\/a>, which was performed in Goleta, CA, 2010, raising donations for the local Pacific Pride Foundation. A scene from Verve of Verge<\/em> was previously produced by Magus Magnus and directed by Enoch Chan for the Yockadot Poetics Theatre Festival in Alexandria, Virginia, 2007.<\/p>\n

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\"whitespace\"<\/p>\n

\"Temporary<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t stand by my words \u2014 I swim among them, looking over their heads and diving between their legs.  I am a whirl of mismatching pieces.  Why should words be any more static than the self?  Where is word except in mental movement \u2014 in relationships made and broken continually, awkwardly, messily, generatively?  I am a piece of a mismatched whirl.  Why should words tread water in one place? \u2014 that\u2019s just shark bait.  Even if I stood, the sea floor would move beneath me.  This has been written but is not writing.<\/p>\n

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“Temporary Manifesto” was previously published in the online journal <\/em>For Immediate Release, 2002.<\/em><\/p>\n

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