Dustin Luke Nelson - CV
PROFESSIONAL WORK:
2016-2018 - News Writer, Thrillist, NYC/Minneapolis
2015 - Director of Marketing, St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn
2008-2015 - Director of Marketing, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
2007-2014 - Founding Editor, InDigest Magazine, Inc.
RESIDENCIES
2014 - Artist-in-Residence, USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway
SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS:
2015 in the office hours of the polar vortex, full length poetry collection, Robocup Press, Los Angeles, CA
2015 “Curtis and Rebecca,” (a play) FENCE Magazine
2015 “[untitled],” 2015 Best American Experimental Writing
2014 Four Poems, Paper Darts
2014 from “in the office hours of the polar vortex,” The Newer York’s Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature
2014 “It, Collected,” (a play) The Economy
2014 Three Poems, The Nervous Breakdown
2014 42 Miles Press Poetry Award Finalist
2013 “Movie Trailer for Today…,” Gobbet Magazine
2013 Abraham Lincoln Centos, 3:AM Magazine
2013 Two Poems, Evergreen Review
2014 "Bombs," Revolver
2013 GIF poems, Stat®rec
2013 Abraham Lincoln (chapbook), Mondo Bummer Books, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Court Dogs” (after Pussy Riot), Tarpaulin Sky
2012 “Today I Will Be A Compensated Spokesperson,” Opium
2012 “The Argument Is As To Whether Or Not…,” METRO Twin Cities
2012 Steve Irwin (pamphlet), Greying Ghost Press, Salem, MA
2012 “Abraham Lincoln,” Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology
2012 “Abraham Lincoln,” in 21 Love Poems Anthology (Hell Yes Press)
2012 National Poetry Series Finalist
2011 Two Poems, Shampoo
2011 Three Poems, Minnetonka Review
2011 “Everything Oz,” H_NGM_N
SELECTED VIDEO WORK
2015 "Untitled," Short Film Biennial, "Insomnia Dyslexia"; Ljubljana, Slovenia (subsequent events in Zagreb, Croatia and Maribor, Slovenia) [password: cloud]
2015 "Telegram," Lighthouse Movie Theater, ongoing screenings before feature films; Dorset, UK
2015 "Play Godzilla," Icebox Project Space; Philadelphia, PA [password: cloud]
2014 "STRIKE TWO," Washington Project for the Arts exhibition "Strange Bedfellows"; Washington D.C.
2014 "Play Godzilla," Altered Esthetics Film Festival; Minneapolis, MN
2014 "Tuba Player," Filmpoem Festival; Antwerp, Belgium
2014 "STRIKE TWO" (90-minute performance film), Gauss PDF; online
2013 "Bits, Collected," Lit Crawl NYC; New York City, NY
2013 "B4," Artists in Storefronts; Minneapolis, MN
2013 "It Happens When You Remark on the Shape...," O, Miami Poetry Festival screening at Spring Break Gallery; Miami, FL
2008 "Alongside Sympathetic Neurons," Twin Cities Dance Film Festival, in collaboration with choreographer Mandy Herrick; Minneapolis, MN
2007 "The Waste Land," The Shoebox Gallery; Minneapolis, MN
2007 "Ex Voto," Flaming Film Festival; Minneapolis, MN
PERFORMANCES / HAPPENINGS / ACTIONS:
2015 Work performed in Emotive Fruition as a part of a NPR/Radio Lab special presentation; Botanic Lab, NYC
2015 Work performed in Emotive Fruition All Stars event; Botanic Lab, NYC
2015 “BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN” performance piece with a live score by Morricone Youth at Flux Factory; New York, NY
2014 POETRY & PROJECTIONS 2; Lit Crawl NYC, New York, NY
2014 “Applause,” performance piece; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2014 “I Was Distracted, But I’m Better Now,” public art; St. Paul Public Library St. Paul, MN
2014 Work performed as a part of the experimental theater and poetry program, Emotive Fruition; Botanic Lab NYC, New York, NY
2013 POETRY & PROJECTIONS, Lit Craw NYC; New York, NY
2013 “Bits, Collected,” poetry performance work; Loft 594, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Work performed at experimental theater and poetry program Emotive Fruition; Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
2012 “The Last Reading on Earth, Ever: An Online Event For the Mayan Apocalypse,” InDigest; online
2011 Celebrating Nabokov event; Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
2010 WikiLeaks Centos publication and reading, InDigest; Global Online and New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC READINGS AND TALKS:
2015 Fence Magazine Launch Event; New York City
2015 AWP 2015 Presentation, "The Digital World Has Made Performers of Us All"; Minneapolis, MN (later published by the Walker Art Center as a part of the #Superscript15 Conference)
2014 Newer York Literary Madhouse for Brooklyn Book Festival; New York City
2014 New York Poetry Festival; New York City
2014 Microlights Reading; Milwaukee, WI
2014 Super Gallery Reading; Minneapolis, MN
2014 The Disagreement; Brooklyn, NY
2014 Boog City Reading; New York City
2013 Solaris Marathon Reading with Marina Abramovic Institute; Brooklyn, NY
2013 New York Poetry Festival; New York City
2013 HOWL Arts Festival; New York City
2013 The Soundtrack Series storytelling series; New York City
2013 "Abraham Lincoln" reading at KGB Bar; New York City
2012 New York Poetry Festival; New York City
2012 The Soundtrack Series storytelling series; New York City
2010 No, Dear Launch Reading; Brooklyn, NY
2009 Monkeybicycle Launch Reading; New York City
And over 70 other readings with organizations like Three Rooms Press, Five Quarterly, Atlas Review, Volume One Brooklyn, Hangman, Scrubadub and others.
SELECTED PROJECTS:
2014-15 "New York Garbage," a digital cataloguing of garbage in New York City, online
2015 Live comedy podcast play "The Locals"
2014 Timesify web app, winner of the 2014 New York Comedy Hack Day
2013 "Are You MN Enough?", produced and wrote one episode for Twin Cities Public Television
2011-13 Produced and wrote the web video series "Goecachers"
2009-11 Live podcast and radio show Radio Happy Hour, toured the U.S. and aired on Minnesota Public Radio
2009-10 Curated the film series Deeper Into Movies; Le Poisson Rouge, New York City
TEACHING
2015 Host free public poetry book club at Astoria Bookshop
2014-15 Poetry mentor for the PEN Prison Writing Program
2014 Guest teacher with Soundfly online school for musicians
2013 Volunteer with 826 NYC
2007 Wings writing program at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2004-2006 The Lab/The Poetry Lab, teaching in St. Paul Public Schools
EDUCATION:
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN — Bachelor of Fine Arts (English, Film Studies)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2016-2018 - News Writer, Thrillist, NYC/Minneapolis
2015 - Director of Marketing, St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn
2008-2015 - Director of Marketing, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC
2007-2014 - Founding Editor, InDigest Magazine, Inc.
RESIDENCIES
2014 - Artist-in-Residence, USF Verftet, Bergen, Norway
SELECTED POETRY PUBLICATIONS:
2015 in the office hours of the polar vortex, full length poetry collection, Robocup Press, Los Angeles, CA
2015 “Curtis and Rebecca,” (a play) FENCE Magazine
2015 “[untitled],” 2015 Best American Experimental Writing
2014 Four Poems, Paper Darts
2014 from “in the office hours of the polar vortex,” The Newer York’s Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature
2014 “It, Collected,” (a play) The Economy
2014 Three Poems, The Nervous Breakdown
2014 42 Miles Press Poetry Award Finalist
2013 “Movie Trailer for Today…,” Gobbet Magazine
2013 Abraham Lincoln Centos, 3:AM Magazine
2013 Two Poems, Evergreen Review
2014 "Bombs," Revolver
2013 GIF poems, Stat®rec
2013 Abraham Lincoln (chapbook), Mondo Bummer Books, San Francisco, CA
2012 “Court Dogs” (after Pussy Riot), Tarpaulin Sky
2012 “Today I Will Be A Compensated Spokesperson,” Opium
2012 “The Argument Is As To Whether Or Not…,” METRO Twin Cities
2012 Steve Irwin (pamphlet), Greying Ghost Press, Salem, MA
2012 “Abraham Lincoln,” Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology
2012 “Abraham Lincoln,” in 21 Love Poems Anthology (Hell Yes Press)
2012 National Poetry Series Finalist
2011 Two Poems, Shampoo
2011 Three Poems, Minnetonka Review
2011 “Everything Oz,” H_NGM_N
SELECTED VIDEO WORK
2015 "Untitled," Short Film Biennial, "Insomnia Dyslexia"; Ljubljana, Slovenia (subsequent events in Zagreb, Croatia and Maribor, Slovenia) [password: cloud]
2015 "Telegram," Lighthouse Movie Theater, ongoing screenings before feature films; Dorset, UK
2015 "Play Godzilla," Icebox Project Space; Philadelphia, PA [password: cloud]
2014 "STRIKE TWO," Washington Project for the Arts exhibition "Strange Bedfellows"; Washington D.C.
2014 "Play Godzilla," Altered Esthetics Film Festival; Minneapolis, MN
2014 "Tuba Player," Filmpoem Festival; Antwerp, Belgium
2014 "STRIKE TWO" (90-minute performance film), Gauss PDF; online
2013 "Bits, Collected," Lit Crawl NYC; New York City, NY
2013 "B4," Artists in Storefronts; Minneapolis, MN
2013 "It Happens When You Remark on the Shape...," O, Miami Poetry Festival screening at Spring Break Gallery; Miami, FL
2008 "Alongside Sympathetic Neurons," Twin Cities Dance Film Festival, in collaboration with choreographer Mandy Herrick; Minneapolis, MN
2007 "The Waste Land," The Shoebox Gallery; Minneapolis, MN
2007 "Ex Voto," Flaming Film Festival; Minneapolis, MN
PERFORMANCES / HAPPENINGS / ACTIONS:
2015 Work performed in Emotive Fruition as a part of a NPR/Radio Lab special presentation; Botanic Lab, NYC
2015 Work performed in Emotive Fruition All Stars event; Botanic Lab, NYC
2015 “BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN” performance piece with a live score by Morricone Youth at Flux Factory; New York, NY
2014 POETRY & PROJECTIONS 2; Lit Crawl NYC, New York, NY
2014 “Applause,” performance piece; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2014 “I Was Distracted, But I’m Better Now,” public art; St. Paul Public Library St. Paul, MN
2014 Work performed as a part of the experimental theater and poetry program, Emotive Fruition; Botanic Lab NYC, New York, NY
2013 POETRY & PROJECTIONS, Lit Craw NYC; New York, NY
2013 “Bits, Collected,” poetry performance work; Loft 594, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Work performed at experimental theater and poetry program Emotive Fruition; Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY
2012 “The Last Reading on Earth, Ever: An Online Event For the Mayan Apocalypse,” InDigest; online
2011 Celebrating Nabokov event; Le Poisson Rouge, New York, NY
2010 WikiLeaks Centos publication and reading, InDigest; Global Online and New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC READINGS AND TALKS:
2015 Fence Magazine Launch Event; New York City
2015 AWP 2015 Presentation, "The Digital World Has Made Performers of Us All"; Minneapolis, MN (later published by the Walker Art Center as a part of the #Superscript15 Conference)
2014 Newer York Literary Madhouse for Brooklyn Book Festival; New York City
2014 New York Poetry Festival; New York City
2014 Microlights Reading; Milwaukee, WI
2014 Super Gallery Reading; Minneapolis, MN
2014 The Disagreement; Brooklyn, NY
2014 Boog City Reading; New York City
2013 Solaris Marathon Reading with Marina Abramovic Institute; Brooklyn, NY
2013 New York Poetry Festival; New York City
2013 HOWL Arts Festival; New York City
2013 The Soundtrack Series storytelling series; New York City
2013 "Abraham Lincoln" reading at KGB Bar; New York City
2012 New York Poetry Festival; New York City
2012 The Soundtrack Series storytelling series; New York City
2010 No, Dear Launch Reading; Brooklyn, NY
2009 Monkeybicycle Launch Reading; New York City
And over 70 other readings with organizations like Three Rooms Press, Five Quarterly, Atlas Review, Volume One Brooklyn, Hangman, Scrubadub and others.
SELECTED PROJECTS:
2014-15 "New York Garbage," a digital cataloguing of garbage in New York City, online
2015 Live comedy podcast play "The Locals"
2014 Timesify web app, winner of the 2014 New York Comedy Hack Day
2013 "Are You MN Enough?", produced and wrote one episode for Twin Cities Public Television
2011-13 Produced and wrote the web video series "Goecachers"
2009-11 Live podcast and radio show Radio Happy Hour, toured the U.S. and aired on Minnesota Public Radio
2009-10 Curated the film series Deeper Into Movies; Le Poisson Rouge, New York City
TEACHING
2015 Host free public poetry book club at Astoria Bookshop
2014-15 Poetry mentor for the PEN Prison Writing Program
2014 Guest teacher with Soundfly online school for musicians
2013 Volunteer with 826 NYC
2007 Wings writing program at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2004-2006 The Lab/The Poetry Lab, teaching in St. Paul Public Schools
EDUCATION:
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN — Bachelor of Fine Arts (English, Film Studies)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Lukas Hall, “Five Poets Who Do The Internet Right,” Runestone Magazine, May 18, 2015, http://bit.ly/1Q3Sawk
- Jason Diamond, “23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013,” Flavorwire, August 1, 2013. http://bit.ly/1pUNcos
- Kelly Engebretson, “Emerging Lit,” University of St. Thomas Alumni Magazine, February 27, 2014. http://bit.ly/1o7OPDF
- Staff, “An Interview With Video Artist Dustin Luke Nelson,” Peripheral Arteries, September 2014
- Amy Gustafson Carlson, “Walker’s Open Field Event Will Go For Record 2 Hours Of Applause,” Pioneer Press, June 23, 2013. http://bit.ly/UCK9ct
- Laura Holoway, “Applause is What We Make Together,” Walker Art Center Blog, June 24, 2014. http://bit.ly/1o0ezzm
- Tom Johnson, “When You Clap For Two Hours Things Start To Change,” Stubble Magazine, June 27, 2014. http://bit.ly/1mlkAbA
