https://gogogogo.info gabrielle octavia rucker Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:49:33 +0000 https://gogogogo.info en https://gogogogo.info/Gabrielle-Octavia-Rucker Fri, 03 Apr 2020 05:06:34 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/Gabrielle-Octavia-Rucker Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer & editor from the Great Lakes currently living on the Gulf Coast.They are the sole operator and practitioner of The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics. Their debut poetry collection, Dereliction, is currently available via The Song Cave. selected poetry editorial press cv 💌 email: offlinegab@proton.me https://gogogogo.info/poetry Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:52:45 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/poetry Of the Lucky You Are Chosen, CARA (2025) Brainfood, Poets House (2025) Two Poems, o bod (2023) Womack & Womack, Lit Hub (2023) Quietly Waiting For My Angel to Emerge, Moth-Like from Her Box,Apogee, (2022) Butter Sunday,Annulet: A Journal of Poetics (2022)I Don’t Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao—,Poets.org (2021)Two Poems,The Recluse # 18 (2020) https://gogogogo.info/press Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:10:05 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/press FUNCTIONALLY BRB & Now That I’m Older: Briefly in Fragments,San Sariffe, (2024) Review of Dereliction by Angie Sijun Lou, THE WHITNEY REVIEW Of New Writing Issue 002 Winter 2023/2024 The Page’s Turn: Praise for Gayl Jones’ Butter, Gabrielle Octavia Rucker’s Dereliction, and Evie Shockley’s suddenly we by Sarah Jane Cervenak, ASAP Journal (2023) Kaleidoscope of the Uncanny: Dereliction by Layla Benitez-JamesSalamander, (2023) issabop + on Dereliction by sadé powell, Poetry Project Newsletter #273, (2023) Episode 112, Commonplace Podcast  (2023) On the Power of Decentering Human Experience in Poetry,Lit Hub (2023) Review of Dereliction by JFK Randhawa, o bod magazine (2022) Review of Dereliction, Publisher’s Weekly (2022) https://gogogogo.info/editorial Wed, 27 Jul 2022 15:09:23 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/editorial streamline reflections, courtesy of noise canceling headphones: on Deli Radio,Recess: Critical Writing (2025) Echo Punctuations: on Edgar Garcia’s Boundary Loot,Common Place (2024) Review of Leah Shirley’s DANCER at Sibyl, New Orleans, Burnaway (2024) Interview w/ Artist Sheree Hovsepian, Cultured (2022)What can I know by fisting this soil?: A conversation w/ Precious Okoyomon,CURA (2022)Translation in Movement: An interview w/ Cherrie Yu,Dance Lawyer (2021) Shadow Puppetry: An interview w/ Nia DaCosta,GARAGE (2020) Interview w/ Comunidade Indigenas en Liderazgo (CIELO),Vogue(2020) https://gogogogo.info/cv Sun, 25 Aug 2024 02:49:33 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/cv curriculum vitae EDUCATION Plymouth-Canton Educational Park, Canton, MI, 2009 BOOKS Dereliction, The Song Cave, 2022 AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS Lammy Award for Bisexual Poetry (Finalist), Lambda Literary, 2023 Emerge-Surface-Be Fellow, Poetry Project, 2020 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, 2016 GUEST LECTURES Rhode Island School of Design, Spring 2025 New York University, Spring 2024 Brown University, Spring 2024 Portland State University, Fall 2023 WORKSHOPS & TEACHING Visiting Faculty/Critic, Image Text M.F.A at Cornell University, 2025 Spectacle, Presence & Poetry, The School for Poetic Computation 2024 Revise, Rered, Retell, The Seminary of Ecsatic Poetics, 2024 Bedside Table Bibliomancy or Collaborative Efforts in Divination, Vocational Poetics, 2024Visiting Faculty, The Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, 2023 Poetry & Objects, The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics, 2023 Jazz as Communication, The Warman School, 2022 Me, Myself & I: Meditations on Thresholds, & Selves, The School for Poetic Computation, 2022 Just Poetry, The Warman School, 2022 Who Drives the Pen?, The Poetry Project, 2022 Present Ecopoetics, Catapult 2021 Intuitive Writing Through Asemic Practice, The School for Poetic Computation, 2021 SELECT PUBLICATIONS Echo Punctuations: on Edgar Garcia’s Boundary Loot, Common Place, 2024 Leah Shirley’s DANCER at Siby Gallery, Burnaway, 2024 “On Suzanne Césaire”, Black Computational Histories, School of Poetic Computation, 2023 “On the Power of Decentering the Human Experience Through Poetry”, Literary Hub, 2023 Dykes Day (Guest Editor), Hermetic State, 2022 “Butter Sunday”, Annulet: A Journal of Poetics, 2022 “I Don’t Say Goodbye, I Only Say Ciao—”, Academy of American Poets, 2021 “Narrative Divination Through Choreography”, Dance Lawyer, 2021 “Translation in Movement, Dance Lawyer, 2021 “Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO)”, Vogue Magazine, 2020 “Scattering as Behavior Towards Risk”, Same Page, 2020 AUDIO/VISUAL WORK The Mask of Prosperity, University of Illinois-Chicago’s Gallery 400, 2024 Postponed: Guitar w/ Justin Allen , Issue Room Project, 2020 Silent Reading Hour, Montez Press Radio, 2019-2021 Laws of Another Universe, Sundance Film Festival, 2018 PERFORMANCES & PANELS Infinite Rehearsal w/ Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Carter Mathes & Shannon Mathes, Rivers Institute of Contemporary Art & Thought, 2025 New Works w/ Imani Elizabeth Jackson, Poets House, 2025 Segue Panel on Environmental Justice, New Orleans Poetry Festival, 2024 Elemental Reading Group (curated by Farhia Tato), Art Gallery of York University, 2023 Herman’s Lounge: A Night of Rhythm & Prose, The Poetry Foundation, 2023 A Rural Inquiry, New Orleans Poetry Festival, 2023 Where have I heard you before?, Dweller Electronics, 2023 In awe of geometry & mornings, White Columns Gallery, 2021 Zong!Global, Organized by M. NourbeSe Phillip, 2020 Doomsday Story Hour, CUE Art Foundation, 2020 Language + Power: Reimagining Value in the Arts Industry, Picture Room, 2019 Morse Code: What Hath God Wrought, Picture Room, 2019 To Be Expressed: A Screening & Workshop w/ Adepero Oduye, Pioneer Works, 2019 Escape & Resurrection, CHROMA, 2018 Screaming Into The Void: Presence & Erasure in Contemporary Black Writing, The New School, 2016 LIBRARY & READING ROOM CURATION Aspen Art Museum, 2021 Women’s Prison Association, 2020 Studio Museum Harlem, 2019 LA Art Book Fair, 2019 https://gogogogo.info/ecstatic-seminary Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:57:21 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/ecstatic-seminary The Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics is a non-traditional learning space for the poetically inclined run by Gabrielle Octavia Rucker.  Classes happen infrequently and are birthed through whim and positive obsession. To date, the Seminary has taught over 400 poets and artists. praxisfrequently asked questions cv 💌 email: offlinegab@proton.me https://gogogogo.info/faq Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:41:42 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/faq I’m not a professional writer, can I take your workshops? Yes! The Seminary is open to learners of all backgrounds & levels. Interdisciplinary perspectives and practices are joyfully welcomed. How do I know if the Seminary of Ecstatic Poetics is for me? A few clues that you might enjoy the Seminary: Grad school burnt you out and broke your heart; you don’t have a college degree; sharing ideas and parallel play is how you make friends and connections; you want to practice participating in and co-creating non-hierarchical learning spaces; traditional poetics is cool but you wanna experiment; etc… Do you record your classes? I very, very rarely record my classes as I find it limits the participation of those in attendance. If needed, I am happy to record for those who have accessibility needs.How do you price your classes? I try my best to keep my classes as affordable as possible and price workshops based on what I myself would be able to reasonably afford as a freelance/independent artist. Most, if not all, classes are sliding scale in nature. Do you offer payment plans?Yes. If you need a payment plan please reach out via email. Do you accept trades?I’m open to trades! If you’d like to suggest a trade please email me. What is your payment policy? Payment is due in full at least 24 hours before the date of class. Payment is due in full to receive the Zoom link for class. Do you offer refunds? I do not offer refunds but I do offer a credit for the amount you have already paid to any future class I may offer during that current calendar year. While this policy may not be ideal, it is the best I can offer.I signed up for a workshop! When should I expect an email from you?Emails for registered participents usually go out 2 weeks before the date class is scheduled to start. If you signed up for class and have not gotten an email from me check your spam folder! Are there any other non-traditional learning environments you would recommend?Yes! The Poetry Project, The Warman School, The School for Poetic Computation, Poetry Field School, Vocational Poetics, Invisible College… (this list will be periodically updated) https://gogogogo.info/praxis Wed, 31 Jan 2024 17:15:46 +0000 gabrielle octavia rucker https://gogogogo.info/praxis   poetic (adj.) — from Latin poeticus, from Greek poiētikos "pertaining to poetry," literally "creative, productive," from poiētos "made," verbal adjective of poiein "to make" practitioner (n.)— 1540s, "one who acquires knowledge from actual practice;" … has as a secondary meaning, "One who uses any sly or dangerous arts" heal (v.)— Old English hælan "cure; save; make whole, sound and well," from Proto-Germanic *hailjan, literally "to make whole"                                    poetic practitioner = one who makes whole through practice; a believer that language arts is foundational to the healing arts.                                    I am not a teacher in the formal sense but rather the traditional. I identify poetic ingredients (qualities) and combine them as I feel is most helpful, healing, and thought-provoking for myself and others. This practice translates to something that vaguely resembles the role of a teacher though I am very openly disinterested and suspicious of academia and the parameters that define it i.e shame, competition, binary forms, formality, ableism, status quo, class politics, eugenics, and the like. What I am interested in: close reading, experimentation, following the path of confusion, interdisciplinary approaches, automatic (intuitive) knowledge, slow knowledge, liminal knowledge, restorative knowledge, plainspeaking, self directed chaos, genuine disagreement, joyful collaboration, citation, generosity, parallel play, surrealism, cosmology, magical objects, abandonment, etc.