CURRENT SHOW: Normal 0 ANGLO-SAXON HALLOWEEN OPEN-MIKE!
This will be a fun time to inaugurate San Diego’s newest mead-hall with Anglo-Saxon decorations, share some old-fashioned fellowship, and catch a good scare for Halloween!
After ten years of travelling and reciting poetry through 32 states, I have now returned home to San Diego, established my own recording studio downtown, and adopted the following thoroughly tongue-in-cheek titles:
----MARK MINER---
San Diego’s Municipal Poet;
Custodian of the Underground Ways;
Your Connection to the World of Heroic Poetry!
Consider this my Loft-Warming/Return to San Diego Party!
You are invited to descend the stairs to a raw, urban basement space, right under the trolley tracks, which by the power of art will become, for one scary night, a proper Anglo-Saxon mead-hall.
SCHEDULE:
Noon-6pm:
OPEN HOUSE for Arts and Culture.
Help bring the Anglo-Saxon vibe to the space by making (paper) “tapestries.” Butcher paper, poster markers and paints will be provided. Do your own interpretation of images from the Bayeux tapestry, Faversham brooch, fancy pieces from the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire hordes, etc.
Practice calligraphy by copying Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Materials and models provided. You can’t spell “wynn” (joy) without a wynn-rune, so practice your runes. Hook your a and e together in a ligature.
Rehearse your “party-pieces” for the evening festivities. I will be glad to help you pull your piece together.
Any materials, ideas, images, books, and enthusiasm YOU bring will be appreciated!
My project will be to do a 6’x3’ tapestry illustrating the Anglo-Saxon riddle describing the lusty young Anglo-Saxon warrior, the dark-haired Welsh slave-woman, and the churning of butter . . .
A good selection of books on Anglo-Saxon arts and culture will be available from San Diego’s downtown library.
6-7pm
DINNER: Beef & Barley stew, Bread.
Count on a visit from him who flew through the air on buzzing wings; who was put in a tub for six months; who binds strong men and and foot and takes away their wits.
7pm-9pm ANGLO-SAXON OPEN MIKE. Let’s get this GEBEORSCIP started!
Plan on contributing something in Old English or a modern English translation. Mitchell & Robinson’s Guide to Old English contains many interesting pieces, andis a good place to start. Caedmon’s hymn, Saint’s Lives, Biblical narrative done into Anglo-Saxon, conversion of the pagans to Christ (or vice-versa!) etc. For the main event, help me out by reciting BEOWULF. I have dual-language, illustrated scripts (Old English on the left, Modern English on the right) which I have used all over the country. Going around the circle, a volunteer reads the first ten lines or so in Modern English. Then I do the same in Old English. Then we get the next ten lines in Modern English, followed by same lines in Modern English. This format has shown itself to work very well over the years.
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Shows/workshops/plays, etc are listed in INVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Future shows are ABOVE THE LINE.
October 2011 Beowulf at 1150 7th Ave.
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Aug 2011 Returned permanently to San Diego, established my own recording studio.
June 2011 San Diego, CA. Ovid's Centauromachy at La Jolla Public Library. (Riford Branch)
May 2011 Seattle, WA. Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Shoreline Public Library.
Mar 2011 Spokane, WA. Gave pedagogical paper on: "The pitch-accent in Ancient Greek: A slide-whistle lecture." for CAPN.
Jan 2011 San Antonio, TX. Directed Aristophanes's Thesmophorizausae for SORGLL at the APA meeting.
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Oct 2010 Seattle, WA. Performed Beowulf at the Shoreline Public Library.
Jul 2010 San Diego, CA. Gave paper on "Loveless in the library," an account of themes from Plato's Phaedros appearing in Yun Kouga's manga Loveless for the Comics Arts Conference (a subgroup of the SD ComiCon)
Jun 2010 Pittsburgh, PA. Hosted Reading of Homer's Odyssey Book X, "Circe's Island," for Anthrocon.
May 2010 Seattle, WA. Public speech at Hugo House literary center, on the role of heroic poetry in facilitating the recovery of the damaged male image.
May 2010 Dr. Caroline Vout of Cambridge U reviews Warren's A Defense of Uranian Love in the Times Literary Supplement of 28 May 2010: "This edition makes the text widely available for the first time, with its classical citations translated by Mark Robert Miner. His conversation with the editor, Michael Matthew Kaylor, invigorates the prose, adding a subtlety which is lacking in William Armstrong Percy III’s passionate foreword."
Apr 2010 Featured performer for Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honor Society, at Virginia Tech. Hosted workshops on Cat. 64, & Vergil'sAeneid Bk. I. Gave performance of Aeneid. Bk. I.
http://department.monm.edu/classics/ESP/Nuntius/84-2.Nuntius.pdf
Scroll down to page 8 to see the poet in action!
Mar 2010 Oklahoma City, OK. Hosted SORGLL workshop on performing the parabasis on Aristophanes's Knights for CAMWS. (The Anapestic Tetrameter Catalectic is a tricky meter!)
Jan 2010 Anaheim, CA. Delivered paper at SORGLL panel on "Heterodyne versus Homodyne accents in Vergils's Aeneid." for APA meeting.
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Oct 2009 Wilmington, DE. Hosted SORGLL workshop on "Chorodidaskalizing Pindar Ol. 1" for CAAS. (The scaffolding and preparatory exercises for this event were so well-constructed that a young lady who came in with no Greek background at all was competently reciting Pindar by the end of it!)
Jul 2009 Pittsburgh, PA. Hosted reading of the Homeric Batrachomyomachia and Semonides's "Females of the Species" for Anthrocon
Apr 2009 Minneapolis, MN. Hosted a SORGLL round-table reading of the Aeneid, Book I at CAMWS.
=====
(As filed on my 2008 tax form, I grossed $9,050 in poetic receipts for my touring in 2008, against expenses of $17,000. This is as close as I ever came to making a profit as a touring poet!)
Sep 2008-Nov 2008 Toured reciting Vergil's Aeneid, Book I, in WY, UT, MD, VA, IN, NE, CO, WA, IA, AZ.
Aug 2008 Atlanta, GA. Finished translating Greek and Latin selections for Dr. Kaylor's reprinting of Edward Perry Warren's A Defense of Uranian Love.
Jul 2008 Pittsburgh, PA. Hosted reading of Svadilfari, (Old Norse) Aesop's fables (Greek)(Incl. the Ass in the Lion's Skin) and Menelaos and the Seals (Odyssey Book IV) for Anthrocon.
March-May 2008, Recited from Ovid's Metamorphoses in OK, TX, CA, OR, MT.
Jan 2008 Chicago, IL. Hosted reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses at APA. Enacted role of Cyclops' hand in CAMP's production of Euripides's Cyclops.
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Jul 2007 Pittsburgh, PA, Anthrocon. Hosted reading of "Math Fab Mathonwy" in Med. Welsh.
April 2007 Claymont Mansion, WV. Instructor for SORGLL's intensive workshop on poetry reading.
March-May 2007, Recited the Iliad, Book I, in WV, OH, IN, IL, MN, IA, OK.
Jan 2007. San Diego, CA. APA meeting. Hosted SORGLL workshop on Catullus 64, Cybele & Atthis. Played Hercules in CAMP's production of Aristophanes's Birds.
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Jun 2006-Aug 2006 Athens, GA. Recorded John Traupman's Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency.
Mar 06 Claymont Mansion, WV. Instructor for SORGLL's intensive workshop on poetry reading.
Jan 2006 Montreal, Canada. Played Father Time in CAMP's production of Thespis for the APA annual meeting.
====
Sep 2005-Dec 2005 Athens, GA. Recorded Readings from Wheelock's Latin in John Keane's studio. This 4-CD package has now (Sep 2011) sold more than 5,000 units.
Apr-Jun 2005 Toured reciting the Iliad, Book I, in VA, PA, RI, NH, ME, MA.
Feb 2005 Oxford University Press released the Audio-CD, Athenaze, Ch. 1-5, to accompany Athenaze I by Maurice Balme and Gil Lawall. This recording features the Restored Pronunciation as described by W. S. Allan in Vox Graeca, and implemented by Dr. Stephen Daitz, and represents a significant step forward in promoting the correct pronunciation of Ancient Greek.
====
Jan 1995. Recited the Iliad Book I at the San Diego's Villa Montezuma, inviting the APA to attend. Met Professor Daitz for the first time. I had an "oral poetry" moment in that performance, where I cut from "Autar Achilleus" to "Autar Odysseus," thus skipping 100 lines.
The 1990's were my years of poetic apprenticeship in San Diego. I did many shows around town, in many venues, (coffeeshops; high schools; colleges; open-air amphitheaters, beaches) gaining confidence and poise. My initial four pieces were: Homer's Iliad, Book I; Vergil's Aeneid, Book I; Beowulf, the Fight with Grendel; and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the first section.
This will be a fun time to inaugurate San Diego’s newest mead-hall with Anglo-Saxon decorations, share some old-fashioned fellowship, and catch a good scare for Halloween!
After ten years of travelling and reciting poetry through 32 states, I have now returned home to San Diego, established my own recording studio downtown, and adopted the following thoroughly tongue-in-cheek titles:
----MARK MINER---
San Diego’s Municipal Poet;
Custodian of the Underground Ways;
Your Connection to the World of Heroic Poetry!
Consider this my Loft-Warming/Return to San Diego Party!
You are invited to descend the stairs to a raw, urban basement space, right under the trolley tracks, which by the power of art will become, for one scary night, a proper Anglo-Saxon mead-hall.
SCHEDULE:
Noon-6pm:
OPEN HOUSE for Arts and Culture.
Help bring the Anglo-Saxon vibe to the space by making (paper) “tapestries.” Butcher paper, poster markers and paints will be provided. Do your own interpretation of images from the Bayeux tapestry, Faversham brooch, fancy pieces from the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire hordes, etc.
Practice calligraphy by copying Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Materials and models provided. You can’t spell “wynn” (joy) without a wynn-rune, so practice your runes. Hook your a and e together in a ligature.
Rehearse your “party-pieces” for the evening festivities. I will be glad to help you pull your piece together.
Any materials, ideas, images, books, and enthusiasm YOU bring will be appreciated!
My project will be to do a 6’x3’ tapestry illustrating the Anglo-Saxon riddle describing the lusty young Anglo-Saxon warrior, the dark-haired Welsh slave-woman, and the churning of butter . . .
A good selection of books on Anglo-Saxon arts and culture will be available from San Diego’s downtown library.
6-7pm
DINNER: Beef & Barley stew, Bread.
Count on a visit from him who flew through the air on buzzing wings; who was put in a tub for six months; who binds strong men and and foot and takes away their wits.
7pm-9pm ANGLO-SAXON OPEN MIKE. Let’s get this GEBEORSCIP started!
Plan on contributing something in Old English or a modern English translation. Mitchell & Robinson’s Guide to Old English contains many interesting pieces, andis a good place to start. Caedmon’s hymn, Saint’s Lives, Biblical narrative done into Anglo-Saxon, conversion of the pagans to Christ (or vice-versa!) etc. For the main event, help me out by reciting BEOWULF. I have dual-language, illustrated scripts (Old English on the left, Modern English on the right) which I have used all over the country. Going around the circle, a volunteer reads the first ten lines or so in Modern English. Then I do the same in Old English. Then we get the next ten lines in Modern English, followed by same lines in Modern English. This format has shown itself to work very well over the years.
===========================================================
Shows/workshops/plays, etc are listed in INVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER. Future shows are ABOVE THE LINE.
October 2011 Beowulf at 1150 7th Ave.
=================================================================================
Aug 2011 Returned permanently to San Diego, established my own recording studio.
June 2011 San Diego, CA. Ovid's Centauromachy at La Jolla Public Library. (Riford Branch)
May 2011 Seattle, WA. Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Shoreline Public Library.
Mar 2011 Spokane, WA. Gave pedagogical paper on: "The pitch-accent in Ancient Greek: A slide-whistle lecture." for CAPN.
Jan 2011 San Antonio, TX. Directed Aristophanes's Thesmophorizausae for SORGLL at the APA meeting.
=====
Oct 2010 Seattle, WA. Performed Beowulf at the Shoreline Public Library.
Jul 2010 San Diego, CA. Gave paper on "Loveless in the library," an account of themes from Plato's Phaedros appearing in Yun Kouga's manga Loveless for the Comics Arts Conference (a subgroup of the SD ComiCon)
Jun 2010 Pittsburgh, PA. Hosted Reading of Homer's Odyssey Book X, "Circe's Island," for Anthrocon.
May 2010 Seattle, WA. Public speech at Hugo House literary center, on the role of heroic poetry in facilitating the recovery of the damaged male image.
May 2010 Dr. Caroline Vout of Cambridge U reviews Warren's A Defense of Uranian Love in the Times Literary Supplement of 28 May 2010: "This edition makes the text widely available for the first time, with its classical citations translated by Mark Robert Miner. His conversation with the editor, Michael Matthew Kaylor, invigorates the prose, adding a subtlety which is lacking in William Armstrong Percy III’s passionate foreword."
Apr 2010 Featured performer for Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honor Society, at Virginia Tech. Hosted workshops on Cat. 64, & Vergil'sAeneid Bk. I. Gave performance of Aeneid. Bk. I.
http://department.monm.edu/classics/ESP/Nuntius/84-2.Nuntius.pdf
Scroll down to page 8 to see the poet in action!
Mar 2010 Oklahoma City, OK. Hosted SORGLL workshop on performing the parabasis on Aristophanes's Knights for CAMWS. (The Anapestic Tetrameter Catalectic is a tricky meter!)
Jan 2010 Anaheim, CA. Delivered paper at SORGLL panel on "Heterodyne versus Homodyne accents in Vergils's Aeneid." for APA meeting.
===
Oct 2009 Wilmington, DE. Hosted SORGLL workshop on "Chorodidaskalizing Pindar Ol. 1" for CAAS. (The scaffolding and preparatory exercises for this event were so well-constructed that a young lady who came in with no Greek background at all was competently reciting Pindar by the end of it!)
Jul 2009 Pittsburgh, PA. Hosted reading of the Homeric Batrachomyomachia and Semonides's "Females of the Species" for Anthrocon
Apr 2009 Minneapolis, MN. Hosted a SORGLL round-table reading of the Aeneid, Book I at CAMWS.
=====
(As filed on my 2008 tax form, I grossed $9,050 in poetic receipts for my touring in 2008, against expenses of $17,000. This is as close as I ever came to making a profit as a touring poet!)
Sep 2008-Nov 2008 Toured reciting Vergil's Aeneid, Book I, in WY, UT, MD, VA, IN, NE, CO, WA, IA, AZ.
Aug 2008 Atlanta, GA. Finished translating Greek and Latin selections for Dr. Kaylor's reprinting of Edward Perry Warren's A Defense of Uranian Love.
Jul 2008 Pittsburgh, PA. Hosted reading of Svadilfari, (Old Norse) Aesop's fables (Greek)(Incl. the Ass in the Lion's Skin) and Menelaos and the Seals (Odyssey Book IV) for Anthrocon.
March-May 2008, Recited from Ovid's Metamorphoses in OK, TX, CA, OR, MT.
Jan 2008 Chicago, IL. Hosted reading of Ovid's Metamorphoses at APA. Enacted role of Cyclops' hand in CAMP's production of Euripides's Cyclops.
=====
Jul 2007 Pittsburgh, PA, Anthrocon. Hosted reading of "Math Fab Mathonwy" in Med. Welsh.
April 2007 Claymont Mansion, WV. Instructor for SORGLL's intensive workshop on poetry reading.
March-May 2007, Recited the Iliad, Book I, in WV, OH, IN, IL, MN, IA, OK.
Jan 2007. San Diego, CA. APA meeting. Hosted SORGLL workshop on Catullus 64, Cybele & Atthis. Played Hercules in CAMP's production of Aristophanes's Birds.
====
Jun 2006-Aug 2006 Athens, GA. Recorded John Traupman's Conversational Latin for Oral Proficiency.
Mar 06 Claymont Mansion, WV. Instructor for SORGLL's intensive workshop on poetry reading.
Jan 2006 Montreal, Canada. Played Father Time in CAMP's production of Thespis for the APA annual meeting.
====
Sep 2005-Dec 2005 Athens, GA. Recorded Readings from Wheelock's Latin in John Keane's studio. This 4-CD package has now (Sep 2011) sold more than 5,000 units.
Apr-Jun 2005 Toured reciting the Iliad, Book I, in VA, PA, RI, NH, ME, MA.
Feb 2005 Oxford University Press released the Audio-CD, Athenaze, Ch. 1-5, to accompany Athenaze I by Maurice Balme and Gil Lawall. This recording features the Restored Pronunciation as described by W. S. Allan in Vox Graeca, and implemented by Dr. Stephen Daitz, and represents a significant step forward in promoting the correct pronunciation of Ancient Greek.
====
Jan 1995. Recited the Iliad Book I at the San Diego's Villa Montezuma, inviting the APA to attend. Met Professor Daitz for the first time. I had an "oral poetry" moment in that performance, where I cut from "Autar Achilleus" to "Autar Odysseus," thus skipping 100 lines.
The 1990's were my years of poetic apprenticeship in San Diego. I did many shows around town, in many venues, (coffeeshops; high schools; colleges; open-air amphitheaters, beaches) gaining confidence and poise. My initial four pieces were: Homer's Iliad, Book I; Vergil's Aeneid, Book I; Beowulf, the Fight with Grendel; and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the first section.