B R U N A presented the third event in the MUTTER COURAGE program, an occasional reading series + conversation space curated by YANARA Friedland.
For this event, Denver-based poet JULIE Carr read from Real Life: An Installation, her new book, which takes up economic inequality, gendered violence, and losses both personal and national. At this special event she also interacted with video collaborations from Reallifeaninstallation.com, a project which features 36 hypothetical installations actualized in digital space by artists of diverse backgrounds and artistic practices, including Amaranth Borsuk, Edwin Torres, Erin Espelie, K.J. Holmes, Gesel Mason, Amir George, Kelly Sears, and others. This is poetry at the crossroads between the real and the supernatural, the actual and the imaginary. To read excerpts, visit The Elephants.
ABOUT JULIE CARR
Based in Denver where she lives with TIM Roberts and their three children, JULIE is the author of seven books of poetry and two works of prose including Objects from a Borrowed Confession, Think Tank, RAG, Surface Tension, 100 Notes on Violence, among others. A former dancer, she now collaborates regularly with dance-artist K.J. Holmes. With TIM Roberts she is the co-director of Counterpath, an independent literary press and a bookstore/gallery/performance space/community garden in Denver. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in the English department and the Intermedia Arts Writing and Performance Ph.D. where she teaches courses in poetry and poetics.
ABOUT MUTTER COURAGE
MUTTER COURAGE is an occasional reading series and conversation space curated by YANARA Friedland, which invites writers at the corner of poetic, embodied, and intersectional practices to share their work with the B R U N A community. MUTTER COURAGE refers to the name of the main character in Berthold Brecht’s eponymous play. A relentless maker in a war-torn world, MUTTER COURAGE inspires this series, which unfolds in expressions of courage in voice.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We acknowledge that the activities of B R U N A take place on the sacred and ancestral home of the Lummi and Nooksack peoples. We are grateful for their loving stewardship of the land and its inhabitants, and intend to be good guests and neighbors as we recognize their sovereignty and rich cultural practice + heritage. We set this intention first by making acknowledgments and then by practicing reciprocity. We are grateful to be able to share this space (both physically and culturally) with indigenous communities from here and elsewhere.
B R U N A is made possible with support from the Whatcom Human Rights Task Force.