Small Font Size Large Font Size Donate now to support Slought Foundation!

Study Programs Symposia Seminars | Roundtables Performances Publications Exhibitions | Installations Donate General Info About the Foundation Slought Radio Slought Bookstore Announcement List What's On Slought Foundation | New Futures for Contemporary Life





"Yellow and...: A Response to the Poetry of Marjorie Welish"

Norma Cole

Download Audio (30 min)
Press Kit



Event Date: Friday, April 05, 2002
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
Conference on Marjorie Welish Series | Organized by Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté

Caption: Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003



Norma Cole is a poet, painter and translator. Her most recent poetry publication is Spinoza in Her Youth (Omnidawn Press, January 2002). SCOUT, a text/image work, is forthcoming from Krupskaya Editions in CD-ROM format. Among her poetry books are MARS, MOIRA and Contrafact. Current translation work includes Danielle Collobert’s Journals, Fouad Gabriel Naffah’s The Spirit God and the Properties of Nitrogen, Anne Portugal’s Nude and Crosscut Universe: Writing on Writing from France. She has edited special issues of both Chain and Avec magazine, and with Stacy Doris co-edited a translation issue of Raddle Moon. Cole has been the recipient of a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Award, Gertrude Stein Awards, as well as awards from The Fund for Poetry. “Poetics of Vertigo,” Cole’s George Oppen Memorial Lecture, won the Robert D. Richardson Non-Fiction Award. Cole and Boston photographer Ben E. Watkins won the Purchase Award for their photo/text collaboration, "They Flatter Almost Recognize." Other collaborations include A Library Book with poet Michael Palmer, We Address with painter Amy Trachtenberg, and Catasters, a text/paste up collaboration with visual artist Jess. Residencies include the Center for Poetry and Translation at Djerassi, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, the Fondation Royaumont in France, Louisiana State University, the Kootenay School, the Naropa Institute, and Brown University. She teaches at San Francisco State University, the University of San Francisco and is on the faculty of the MFA program at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. A Canadian by birth, Cole migrated via France to San Francisco where she has lived since 1977.

Creative Commons License
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. You are free to copy, distribute, display, and perform the work under the following conditions: a) Attribution. You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor; b) Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes; c) No Derivative Works. You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.

To Cite this Page using MLA Style:

Norma Cole. "Yellow and...: A Response to the Poetry of Marjorie Welish." Slought Foundation Online Content.
[05 April 2002; Accessed 20 November 2008]. <http://slought.org/content/11002/>.



Browse Online Content at Slought Foundation...

401 projects with 278 hours of recorded audio are accessible online from this website. The following is a random selection:

North (2001) by John Boskovich

From Gift to Game: Prizes in Contemporary Culture
Détente: Russian Contemporary Art in Video Format
Citiness and Literariness: Architecture Dejeuner with Lindsay Bremner
Beyond the Act: After the Biennale
The Day You'll Love Me (El Día Que Me Quieras)
Vancouver 1963: Reading








Contact Us | Press Room | Terms of Use | Donate Online Today

© 2008-2009 Slought Foundation | An independent affiliate of the University of Pennsylvania