EventsThe New Social Environment#1096

Publishing-in-Transit: Counterpath

Featuring Julie Carr, Tim Roberts, Edwin Torres, and Cole Swensen

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Counterpath Co-Founder and Associate Director Julie Carr, Co-Founder and Director Tim Roberts, and poet Edwin Torres join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation and reading.

In this Talk

Julie Carr

Julie Carr’s most recent books are Underscore; Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West; Real Life: An Installation; Climate, co-written with Lisa Olstein; and the essay collection, Someone Shot My Book. Carr was a 2011-12 NEA fellow, is a Professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder in English and Creative Writing and is chair of the Women and Gender Studies department. She has collaborated with dance artists K.J. Holmes and Gesel Mason. With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver.

Tim Roberts

Tim Roberts is the author of Drizzle Pocket and The Reaganites, and is a longtime University Press editor. In 2006, with Julie Carr he founded Counterpath, which has published over 100 titles, hosted over 400 events and performances, and distributed over $2 million of food at the Counterpath food bank (started in 2019). His current project is an offshoot and imprint of Counterpath, np:, which enacts institutional critique via an effort to initiate new scholarly presses and by publishing university-critical projects.

Edwin Torres

Edwin Torres’s poetry collections include; Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing] (Roof Books, American Book Award winner), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave Books), Ameriscopia (University of Arizona Press), and editor of The Body In Language: An Anthology (Counterpath Press). Fellowships include; 2024 NYSCA Individual Artist Commission, Arts Mid-Hudson, and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts. Anthologies include New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archives, Poets In The 21st Century: The Poetics of Social Engagement, and Aloud: Voices from The Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He’s an adjunct poetry professor at Columbia University and is currently living in Beacon, NY.

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Cole Swensen

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Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨