Flow Chart Foundation News Today

This month: Rollie McKenna, Michael Hambouz, Alina Tenser, Pearl Cowan, and much more.

POET, CRITIC, AND ARTIST Marjorie Welish is a demandingly reflexive and independent conceptualist who has been striving to outwit her own restless intellect since the late 1970s

CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE with Monica Youn - Free online poetry workshop This free, participatory event (taking place via Zoom) features Monica Youn, one of The Flow Chart Foundation’s favorite poets, leading an intimate, virtual group thinking-and-reading-through of “The Hell Poem” by Shane McCrae, followed by a short reading of her own work.

Mandana Chaffa is founder and editor-in-chief of Nowruz Journal, a periodical of Persian arts and letters and a finalist for the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses’s Best Magazine/Debut; and an editor-at-large at Chicago Review of Books. Her writing appears in a wide array of publications, and she serves on the board of the National Book Critics Circle and is also the

“It’s very simple,” said Jeffrey Lependorf, FCF’s executive director. “We take clips of films, remove dialogue and sound, and then neo-benshi artists create new dialogue. They might lip-synch it, do

At “Flow Chart Cabaret Cinema,” hosted by Hudson Hall on July 30, poet-performers revive the art of neo-benshi.

Virtual Literary Conference: Taking Care in Writing, Publishing & Building Community (Day 2) - CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE: SCHEDULE, BIOS, PANEL DESCRIPTIONS As  COVID sweeps across the planet and through our lives, we continue to confront our vulnerabilities, both public and private. Hard truths about our nation are in sharp focus. How do we carve out purpose, chart a meaningful course, through troubling times that don’t seem to end?