The Fourth Dimension: A Poetry Reading

Join as we celebrate the attempts of Picasso and his contemporaries to represent the fourth dimension in their work, where all aspects of our three-dimensional universe are experienced simultaneously: inside, outside, above and below all at once. The evening will include readings of new and original work as well as fresh translations of Picasso’s friend, poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire.

This event is part of our Thursday Nights @ the Museum series. Join us every Thursday from Jan. 23 – May 1 for concerts, films, and free talks in the Longmont Museum’s Stewart Auditorium.

Learn more about our other Thursday Night programs. 

The Museum galleries are also open late on Thursday nights. Explore the Picasso exhibit with extra hours from 5 – 9 pm before your program.

Eric Baus is the author of five books of poetry: How I Became a Hum (Octopus Books, 2020) The Tranquilized Tongue, (City Lights 2014), Scared Text, winner of the Colorado Prize for Poetry (Center for Literary Publishing, 2011), Tuned Droves (Octopus Books, 2009), and The To Sound, winner of the Verse Prize (Wave Books, 2004). He is also the author of several chapbooks, most recently The Rain Of The Ice (Above/Ground Press 2014) and Euphorbia (Above/Ground Press 2019). His poems have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, and Finnish. He is a graduate of the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Denver as well as the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He teaches literature and creative writing at Regis University’s Mile High MFA program in Denver, which he co-directs with poet Andrea Rexilius.

Julie Carr is the author of 14 books of poetry and prose, most recently, Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) and Underscore, (Omnidawn Books, 2024). Her co-translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Excess-The Factory and The Book of Skies, were published by Commune Editions (2018) and Pamenar Press, respectively (2024). Overflow, a trilogy, will be published sequentially over subsequent years.

Carr 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.  With Tim Roberts she is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver.

Jennifer Pap teaches French and Francophone Studies at the University of Denver.  As well as teaching literature and language to DU students, she has published research on a number of French writers and artists, including Guillaume Apollinaire and his dialogue and friendship with Pablo Picasso. She is also a literary translator, and in collaboration with Julie Carr has translated Apollinaire’s 1913 volume of poems Alcools. Carr and Pap have also published translations from the original French of works by Leslie Kaplan: The Book of Skies (Pamenar Press, 2024) and Excess-The Factory (Commune Editions, May 1, 2018). Pap has also published her own translation of Leslie Kaplan’s Disorder: A Fable (AK Press, 2020) and her translation of Kaplan’s Miss Nobody Knows is soon to be published by Tripwire.