Danny Snelson will perform with his expanded translation: my Dear coUntess. This labyrinthine cut-up translates a turn-of-the-century letter to Lord Kelvin as penned by the disembodied soul of Alfred Jarry. Using costumed readings of a dozen source texts as his idiosyncratic dictionary, Snelson translates this lost epistle with a full arsenal of improvisational tools. Directly interfacing with these rhythms, Snelson will use the poem as an instrument to re-tune his compositional sources. The poem has been featured on Drunken Boat and is forthcoming in print from Patrick Lovelace Editions. 

Danny Snelson is an editor, writer, and archivist living in Brooklyn, New York. His online work can be found at UbuWeb, PennSound and Eclipse. Gallery screenings and performances at Ontological Hysteric Theater, Gallery D21 Leipzig, CRG Gallery New York, the Subtext Reading Series, The Poetry Project, and free103point9 Transmission Arts. He is the founder of Aphasic Letters (with Phoebe Springstubb) and No Input Books (with James Hoff).