The Art of Outrage « michael leong's poetry blog

The Art of Outrage

I’ll be reading some poems this Friday as part of The Art of Outrage conference at Fordham University at the Lincoln Center Campus: “The conference will include a day’s worth of reasonable, temperate, diplomatic discourse on the topic of literary, historical, and political outrage.” Details below…

10:45-11:45 Session B
2B Polartics: Outrage and the Limits of Literary Form
Room: 1018, Lowenstein
Moderator: Liz Porter
 Yassine Belkacemi (Columbia University), “‘E Pluribus,
Pluribus:’ Constructing Outsider Nationalism in American
Short Fiction”
 Owen Coggins (University of London), “Radical Noise:
Transgressive Aesthetics, Politics…Mystics?”
 Michael Leong (Rutgers University), “Northern Gateway:
Towards a Poetics of Linguistic Outrage”
 Richard Klin & Lily Prince (Author/ William Paterson
University), “Something to Say: Thoughts on Art and Politics”

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~ by Michael Leong on October 12, 2011.

Posted in Art of Outrage
Tags: Lily Prince, Owen Coggins, Richard Klin, Yassine Belkacemi

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Michael Leong

Michael Leong’s poetry career began in the sixth grade when he won his first and only poetry prize in Mr. Harrison’s class for a haiku about a snake. Since then, he has received degrees in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College, Sarah Lawrence College, and Rutgers University and has published poems in journals such as Hotel Amerika, Interim, jubilat, Lana Turner, Marginalia, Opium Magazine, Pindeldyboz, Tin House, and Verse Daily. He is the author of two volumes of poetry, e.s.p. (Silenced Press, 2009) and Cutting Time with a Knife (Black Square Editions, forthcoming), as well as a translation of the Chilean poet Estela Lamat, I, the Worst of All (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). His recently completed manuscript, The Philosophy of Decomposition/Re-composition as Explanation, was a semifinalist for the 2011 Sentence Book Award and was published as a limited edition chapbook by Delete Press in 2011. He currently lives in New York City.

Contact: michael.c.leong@gmail.com

Books:

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*e.s.p.* (Silenced Press, 2009)

[ “smart, witty poems that are deceptively philosophical!” -Eileen Tabios ]

[ "Leong goes his own way: Open to trying out all kinds of modes and methods, he is beholden to no one." -John Yau ]

["He’s got a wonderful sense of humor, combined with a magician’s ease and the biggest wand in three counties." -Kevin Killian]

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*I, the Worst of All* (blazeVOX [books], 2009) by Estela Lamat, translated by Michael Leong

["Leong's translation of Lamat's book...should be read." -Johannes Göransson, Exoskeleton]

[“Recalling the poetry of Ginsberg, Lamat knows how to set words free.” -Handbook of Latin American Studies]

Chapbooks:

*THE PHILOSOPHY OF DECOMPOSITION / RE-COMPOSITION AS EXPLANATION* (Delete Press, 2011)

*The Hoax of Contagion* (Naissance, 2010)

["Michael Leong puts the oooh! into Oulipo in this constraint-based suite of pieces." -Naissance]

*Midnight's Marsupium* (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010)

[Editor’s Pick of 2010, Stride Magazine]

*The Great Archivist's / Cloudy Quotient: Experiments with N+7* (Beard of Bees Press, 2010)

["...what particularly satisfies about Leong's book is that the 'cover version' poems he produces, almost without exception, are really kind of beautiful and interesting in their own right, and go way beyond wacky or quirky into something rather pleasing and oddly profound." -Chris Goode]

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