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READINGS AND LECTURES ARCHIVED BY POET
Robert ADAMSON
Reading: March 30, 2006 audio video
Lecture: March 31, 2006 audio video
“The Shadow of Doubt: Derivations in Contemporary Poetry”
Born in Sydney, Australia, Adamson has published fifteen collections of poetry, including Canticles on the Skin (1970), Theatre (1975), Where I Come From (1979), Selected Poems 1970-1989 (1989), The Brutality of Fact (1993), Waving to Hart Crane (1994), The Language of Oysters (with photos by Juno Gemes, 1997), Meaning (1998), and Black Water (1999). His new and selected collection entitled Mulberry Leaves is available internationally through Bloodaxe Books, and The Goldfinches of Baghdad is forthcoming in 2006 from Flood Editions. Adamson has also published three collections of ‘autobiographical fiction,’ including Zimmer’s Essay (with Bruce Hanford, 1974) and Words of State (1990). as well as Inside Out: An Autobiography (2004) The recipient of many awards and prizes – including the National Book Council’s Banjo Award, the New South Wales Literary Awards’ Kenneth Slessor Prize and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for poetry – Adamson was awarded the F.A.W. Christopher Brennan prize in 1994, for lifetime achievement in literature. Adamson has exerted a great influence on Australian poetry not only through his own work, but also through his activities as a publisher and editor - he manages and edits Paperbark Press along with his wife Juno Gemes and fellow writer and academic, Michael Wilding. From 1970 to 1985 he edited New Poetry magazine and he is also one of the 140 Australian poets to have found their way into the Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry edited by Ian Hamilton.
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Mary Jo BANG
Reading: February 24, 2005 audio video
Lecture: February 25, 2005 audio video
"The Whole, the Part and the Role of Repetition"
Mary Jo Bang is the author of Apology for Want, a debut collection of poems that won the 1996 Bread Loaf Bakeless Prize, The Downstream Extremity of the Isle of Swans , and Louise in Love , a winner of the Poetry Society of America's Alice Fay di Castagnola Award for a manuscript-in-progress. Individual poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing, The Paris Review, Fence, Best American Poetry (2001, 2004), and elsewhere. The recipient of numerous awards, including a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, a Discovery/The Nation Award, and a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, Bang is a poetry editor for Boston Review and a member of the permanent faculty of Washington University in St. Louis. Her fourth book, The Eye Like a Strange Balloon , was recently published by Grove Press.
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Dan BEACHY-QUICK
Reading/Lecture: March 1, 2007 audio video
Dan Beachy-Quick is associate chair of the MFA Writing Program at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has published three books of poetry: North True South Bright, Spell, and Mulberry . His poems, essays, and reviews appear widely. He is the recent recipient of a Lannan Foundation residency.
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Calvin BEDIENT
Reading: April 20, 2005 audio video
Lecture: April 21, 2005 audio video
"The Predicament of Modern Poetry"
Calvin Bedient is Professor of English at UCLA and the author of numerous critical studies and reviews on modern and contemporary poetry. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1964. Bedient is the author of Architects of the Self: George Eliot, D.H. Lawrence, and E.M. Forster (1972), Eight Contemporary Poets: Charles Tomlinson, Donald Davie, R.S. Thomas, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith, W.S. Graham (1974), In the Heart's Last Kingdom: Robert Penn Warren's Major Poetry (1984), and He Do the Police in Different Voices: The Waste Land and Its Protagonist (1986). He has published two books of poetry, Candy Necklace (1997) and The Violence of the Morning (2002). He is also an editor of the New California Poetry Series, published by the University of California Press.
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Caroline BERGVALL
Reading: February 6, 2007
Lecture: February 7, 2007
"Acts of Disappearance: writing-time and data loss"
Caroline Bergvall is a poet and text-based artist based in London, England. She was born in 1962 in Hamburg, Germany, and grew up in Geneva, Paris, New York, and Oslo. She received an L.L. from The University of Paris; an M.Phil. from University of Warwick; and a Ph.D. from Dartington College of Arts. Her books include Eclat (Sound&Language, 1996), Goan Atom, 1: Doll (Krupskaya, 2001). A selection has appeared in the Oxford Anthology of Modern British and Irish Poetry , ed. Keith Tuma (Oxford University Press, 2001). She is widely featured in magazines and on the net both in the US and Europe. She has developed audiotexts as well as collaborative performances and installations with artists in galleries and at festivals. Most recently, the sound-text installation Say:"Parsley" at the Liverpool Biennial (2004). Other recent outputs include: GONG (Belladonna, NY: 2004) and 8 Figs (Equipage, Cambridge: 2004), Eclat redesigned as a pdf book for ubuweb. Her collection FIG (Goan Atom, 2) was published with Salt in 2005. Her new CD, VIA, is published by Rock Drill. Her critical work is chiefly concerned with context-led writing and performance text practices. She was Director of Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts (1995-2000). She is currently Associate Research Fellow in Performance Writing at Dartington and is co-chair of the Bard College's MFA Writing Program (New York).
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Charles BERNSTEIN
Reading: November 30, 2006 audio video
Lecture: December 1, 2006 audio video
"The Task of Poetics, the Fate of Innovation, and the Aesthetics of Criticism"
Charles Bernstein is the author of 30 books of poetry and libretti, including Girly Man (University of Chicago Press, 2006), Shadowtime (Green Integer, 2005), With Strings (University of Chicago Press, 2001), and Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 (Sun & Moon Press, 2000). He has published two books of essays and one essay/poem collection: My Way : Speeches and Poems (University of Chicago Press, 1999); A Poetics (Harvard University Press, 1992); Content's Dream: Essays 1975-1984 (Sun & Moon Press, 1986, 1994; reprinted by Northwestern University Press, 2001) . With Bruce Andrews, he edited L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E , which was anthologized as The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (Southern Illinois University Press, 1984). . He is coeditor, with Hank Lazer, of Modern and Contemporary Poetics , a book series from the University of Alabama Press (1998 - ). Bernstein is editor of Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems (Library of America, 2006), Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford University Press, 1998); The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (Roof Books, 1990); 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium , a special issue of boundary 2 ; and Live at the Ear (Elemenope Productions, 1994), an audio poetry anthology. He is the co-author of A Conversation with David Antin (Granary Books, 2002). Anthology appearances include The Norton Anthology of Poetry; Poems for the Millennium ; The Best American Poetry 1992, 2002 , and 2004; and Great American Prose Poems, among others. Bernstein is Donald T. Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-founder and co-editor, with Al Filreis, of PENNsound; and editor, and co-founder, of The Electronic Poetry Center (epc.buffalo.edu). From 1990 to 2003, he was David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the State University of New York at Buffalo and Director of the Poetics Program, which he co-founded, with Robert Creeley. In 2002, he was appointed SUNY Distinguished Professor (the university's highest rank). In 2006, Bernstein was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Other prizes and fellowships include: The 1999 Roy Harvey Pearce / Archive for New Poetry Prize of the University of California, San Diego, the New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellowship in 1995 and 1990, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1985), among others. Bernstein is married to the painter, Susan Bee, and has two children: Emma and Felix. http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein.
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Frank BIDART
Public Conversation with Robert von Hallberg: November 19, 2007 audio video
Reading: November 20, 2007
audio video
Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.
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Michael BLUMENTHAL
Reading: February 1, 2007 audio video
Lecture: February 2, 2007 audio video
"The Road Not Taken-Twice: Of Courage and the Choice Between the Literary and the Legal Life"
Michael Blumenthal, formerly Director of Creative Writing at Harvard and a 1974 graduate of the Cornell Law School, is the author, most recently, of the memoir All My Mothers and Fathers (Harper Collins, 2002), and of Dusty Angel (BOA Editions, 1999), his sixth book of poems. His novel Weinstock Among the Dying won Hadassah Magazine's Harold U. Ribelow Prize for the best work of Jewish fiction in l994, and his collection of essays from Central Europe, When History Enters the House, was published in 1998. A frequent translator from the Germany (and, occasionally, French and Hungarian), he has lived in, and taught at universities in, Hungary, Israel, Germany and France, most frequently as a Fulbright Fellow. In 2004-2005, he held the Acuff Chair of Excellence in the Creative Arts at Austin Peay State University in Tennessee, and is now Darden Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at ODU for 2006-2007. He spends his summers in a small village near the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary, and occasionally teaches at the University of Western Michigan’s Summer Writing Program in Prague.
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Peg BOYERS
Reading: May 10, 2007 audio video
Lecture: May 11, 2007 audio video
"Confessions of an Imperialist Princess: the Poetics (the habit) of Conquest"
Peg Boyers was born in 1952 in San Tomé, Venezuela. She spent her first twelve years of school in twelve locations—including Havana, Cuba, Pakambaru, Indonesia, Venice, Italy and Tripoli, Libya— not to mention a year without any school at all and another achieved through correspondence courses while residing in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. When she landed in Saratoga Springs, NY for four consecutive years at Skidmore College she put down roots and stayed there. She teaches Creative Writing at Skidmore and is the Executive Editor of the quarterly, SALMAGUNDI.
Boyers' poems have appeared in The Paris Review , The New Republic , Slate, Ploughshares , Raritan , Daedalus , Notre Dame Review , Southern Review , Southwest Review , New England Review , Ontario Review , Partisan Review , The New Criterion , Michigan Quarterly Review , Guernica , and other magazines. She is author of two books of poems, HARD BREAD (University of Chicago Press, 2002) and HONEY WITH TOBACCO (University of Chicago Press, 2007).
Boyers has translated, from Spanish and Italian, such writers as Guillermo Cabrera Infante and Natalia Ginzburg. She has also conducted extensive published interviews with such writers as Ariel Dorfman and Natalia Ginzburg. She is the co-editor (with Robert Boyers) of THE SALMAGUNDI READER and THE NEW SALMAGUNDI READER, published, respectively, by the University of Indiana Press and Syracuse University Press.
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Andrea BRADY
In conjunction with Chicago Review’s ‘British Poets’ issue
Reading: April 5, 2007 video audio *
Lecture: April 6, 2007
*These recordings include an introduction by CR editor Joshua Kotin, complete readings by Peter Manson and Andrea Brady, and a reading by Keston Sutherland that unfortunately cuts off half way through. We apologize for the truncated reading. You can find complete recordings of readings by these poets at http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/meshworks/archive/miami/new-british-poets/.
Andrea Brady was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1974. She studied at Columbia University and then at the University of Cambridge, where she earned a PhD for a thesis on funerary elegy. She now teaches English literature at Brunel University, and has written on Civil War history, funerary ritual, the 17th-century poet Katherine Philips, and the American poet John Wieners. With Keston Sutherland she runs Barque Press, whose titles include 100 Days, an anthology of dissent against the Bush administration. Vacation of a Lifetime was published by Salt in 2001. It collects the chapbook Liberties with a long sequence, 'Seasonals', and other unpublished poems. A chapbook, Cold Calling, was published by Barque in 2004, and Embrace was published by Object Permanence in 2005. Andrea gava a reading in 2005 at the Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver and at the Centre Internationale de Poesie Marseille in May 2006, at a special event honouring Barque Press which she co-curated with Eric Giraud. She is currently working on a long verse essay and website project about Greek Fire, White Phosphorous, obscurity and illumination, on the Dispatx art collective website. Andrea is the Director of the "Archive of the Now" an online repository of over 60 poets reading their work.
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Robert CREELEY
Reading: April 1, 2004 audio video
Lecture: April 2, 2004 audio video
obert Creeley was born in Arlington, Massachusetts, on May 21, 1926. He attended Harvard University from 1943 to 1946, taking time out from 1944 to 1945 to work for the American Field Service in Burma and India. In 1946 he published his first poem, in the Harvard magazine Wake.Robert Creeley published more than sixty books of poetry in the United States and abroad, including If I Were Writing This (New Directions, 2003), Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 (2001), Life & Death (1998), Echoes (1994), Selected Poems 1945-1990 (1991), Memory Gardens (1986), Mirrors (1983), The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975 (1982), Later (1979), The Finger (1968), and For Love: Poems 1950-1960 (1962). He also published more than a dozen books of prose, essays, and interviews, including The Island (1963) and The Gold Diggers and Other Stories (1965). He edited such books as Charles Olson's Selected Poems (1993), The Essential Burns (1989), and Whitman: Selected Poems (1973). Creeley's honors include the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, a Rockefeller Foundation grant, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation. He served as New York State Poet Laureate from 1989 to 1991 and as the Samuel P. Capen Professor of poetry and humanities at the State University of New York, Buffalo. He was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 1999. On March 30, 2005, Creeley died at the age of 78.
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Mark DOTY
Reading: May 6, 2004 audio video
Lecture: May 7, 2004 audio video
Mark Doty is the author of seven books of poems, among them School of the Arts, Source, Sweet Machine, Atlantis, and My Alexandria. He has also published three volumes of nonfiction prose: Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Heaven's Coast and Firebird. Doty’s poems have appeared in many magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, The London Review of Books, Ploughshares, Poetry, and The New Yorker. Widely anthologized, his poems appear in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and many other collections. Doty has received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Whiting Writers Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. He is the only American poet to have received the T.S. Eliot Prize in the U.K., and has received fellowships from the Guggenheim, Ingram Merrill and Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Doty lives in New York City and in Houston, Texas, where he is John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the graduate program at the University of Houston.
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Clayton ESHLEMAN
Reading: January 18, 2007 audio video
Lecture: January 19, 2007 audio video
"Translations of Cesar Vallejo"
The poet Clayton Eshleman has been translating Cesar Vallejo's poetry since 1958, when he was a student at Indiana University. Clayton Eshleman apprenticed himself to poetry while in Kyoto, Japan, in the early 1960s, by committing to a translation Cesar Vallejo's European-based Poemas humanos . He received the National Book Award in 1979 and the Landon Translation Prize from the Academy of American Poets in 2002 for various Vallejo translations. Now he has revised and assembled all of his work on Vallejo as The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo , which the University of California Press has recently published, with a Foreword by Mario Vargas Llosa. Clayton Eshleman is primarily a poet. Black Sparrow Press published 14 collections of his poetry between 1968 and 2004. Eshleman has also founded and edited two of the most seminal literary magazines in the last half-century, Caterpillar (1967-1973) and Sulfur (1981-2000). He also spent over 25 years researching the origin of image-making via the Ice Age painted caves in southwestern France . This work culminated in Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld (Wesleyan, 2003). www.claytoneshleman.com
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Kenneth FIELDS
Reading: October 20, 2005 audio video
Lecture: October 20, 2005 audio video
Kenneth Fields' collections of poetry are The Other Walker, Sunbelly, Smoke, The Odysseus Manuscripts, Anemographia: A Treatise on the Wind, and, most recently, Classic Rough News (UofC). His current projects are a novel, Father of Mercies, and a collection of essays on Mina Loy, H.D., Yvor Winters, Janet Lewis, J.V. Cunningham, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Ben Jonson, Wallace Stevens, Jorge Luis Borges, Henri Coulette, and others. Fields is a Professor in Creative Writing and English at Stanford University.
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Peter FILKINS
Reading: April 10, 2006 audio video
Peter Filkins is a graduate of Williams College and Columbia University, where he received his M.F.A. in poetry. An Associate Professor in the Division of Languages & Literature at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Filkins has translated Ingeborg Bachmann's collected poems, Songs in Flight, which received an Outstanding Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. In addition he has translated Bachmann's novel fragments, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann, as well as a novel by Alois Hotschnig titled Leonardo's Hands. His own poems have appeared in two volumes, What She Knew and After Homer, and his poetry, translations, and reviews, have appeared in The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The New Republic, and numerous other publications. He is currently working on a translation of H. G. Adler's novel, Eine Reise, and his new collection of poems will be released by Zephyr Press in 2006.
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Michael FRIED
Reading: May 4, 2004 audio video
Michael Fried is James R. Herbert Boone Professor of Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. One of the most distinguished art historians of the 20th century, Dr. Fried is the author of books about 18th and 19th Century painting and literature, a very influential collection of art criticism, and several volumes of poetry. In the spring of 2002 he gave the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art. His publications on art include Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot; Art and Objecthood; Manet's Modernism; Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane; and Courbet's Realism. His volumes of poetry include To The Centre of the Earth, Powers, and The Next Bend in the Road (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
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William FULLER
Reading: October 30, 2003 audio video
Lecture: October 31, 2003 audio video
"A Restatement of Trysts"
William Fuller is an American poet who was born in 1953 in Barrington, Illinois. He received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia in 1983 and published his first full-length book, byt, with the Oakland-based O Books in 1989. His other books are The Sugar Borders (1993), Aether (1998), Sadly (2003), and Watchword (2006). His chapbooks include The Coal Jealousies (1987), The Central Reader (1998), Three Poems (2000), Roll (2000), Avoid Activity (2003), and Dry Land (2006). A biographical note published in Sadly calls attention to Fuller's twenty years of employment at The Northern Trust Company of Chicago.
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Forrest GANDER
Reading: October 7, 2004 audio video
Lecture: October 8, 2004 audio video
Born in the Mojave Desert in Barstow, California, Forrest Gander grew up in Virginia and spent significant periods in San Francisco, Dolores Hidalgo (Mexico), and Eureka Springs, Arkansas before moving to Rhode Island in 1982. He holds degrees in both English literature and geology. The author of five books of poetry, including Torn Awake and Science & Steepleflower , both from New Directions, Gander also writes literary criticism (The Nation, Boston Book Review , The Providence Journal , et al ) and translates. His most recent translations are No Shelter: The Selected Poems of Pura López-Colomé (Graywolf Press) and, with Kent Johnson, Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz (The University of California).
Gander's poems appear in many literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, and have been translated into Russian, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Dutch. He has received two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative North American Poetry, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from The Fund for Poetry and The Whiting Foundation. With poet C.D. Wright and their son, Brecht, Gander lives in Rhode Island where he co-edits the literary book press Lost Roads Publishers. As Professor of English and Comparative Literatures and Director of the Graduate Program in Literary Arts/Creative Writing at Brown University, he teaches courses on phenomenology and poetry, Asian-American poetry, and contemporary poetics.
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Allen GROSSMAN
Reading: November 4, 2004 audio video
Lecture: November 18, 2004 audio video
“On Communicative Difficulty in General and ‘Difficult' Poetry in Particular: The example of Hart Crane's “The Broken Tower”
Allen Grossman was born in 1932 in Minneapolis Minnesota. He attended Harvard with interruptions from 1949-1956 (B.A., M.A.). He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in 1960. From 1957 to 1991 he taught at Brandeis where he was the Paul E. Prosswimmer Professor of Poetry and General Education. In 1971 he was a visiting Professor in the Universitat HaNegev in Beersheba, Israel. In 1991 he became the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University where he now teaches in the English Department.
At Harvard he received the Garrison Award for Poetry and the Prize of the American Academy of Poetry. He has also received the Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Club, three Pushcart Prizes (1975, 1987, 1990), the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim (1982), and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (1985). In 1987 he received the Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize in Poetry of Wellesley College, and in 1988 the Sheaffer-PEN/Nex England Award for Literary Distinction. He is included in Scribner's Best Poems for 1988 (ed. Ashbery), 1991 (ed. Simic), 1992 (ed. Strand), and 1993 (ed. Gluck). In August 1989 he received a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship Prize to continue for a period of five years. In 1990, the Bassine Citation of the Academy of American Poets. In 1992 his book, The Ether Dome , was a National Book Critics Circle Award nominee. In 1993 he was elected Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Science.
His teaching has been primarily in the area of poetry, poetics, and general education. In 1979 he devised and put in place (with others) a General Education Program at Brandeis University and served for some years as Director in the Humanities Division of that program. In 1965 he received the A. B. Cohen Award for Teaching at Brandeis, and in 1982 the Brandeis University Distinguished Service Award. In 1987 he was the CASE Massachusetts State Professor of the Year and National Gold Medalist.
Grossman was the 2004 Sherry Memorial Poet at The University of Chicago.
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David GRUBBS
Performance with Susan Howe: November 8, 2005
“Thiefth”
Performance with Susan Howe: November 15, 2007
“Souls of the Labadie Tract”
David Grubbs is Assistant Professor of Radio and Sound Art in the Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College, CUNY. He has been called one of two “Best Teachers for an Indie-Rocker to Admire” in the Village Voice and “le plus Français des Américains” in Libération. Grubbs has released nine solo albums and played in numerous groups, including Gastr del Sol and the Red Krayola. He is currently completing the soundtrack for Anthony McCall's film installation Leaving.
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Durs GRÜNBEIN
Reading: February 15, 2007 audio video
Lecture: February 16, 2007 audio video
"The Poem and its Secret"
Durs Grünbein is the author of seven volumes of poetry, most recently Ashes for Breakfast (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006, tr. Michael Hoffman) and a collection of essays. His work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won at age 33. Grünbein's collections of poetry include Grauzone morgens and Schädelbasislektion . In 1995, he received the Peter Huchel Prize for Poetry. He has also published several essay collections and new translations of plays from antiquity, among them Aeschylus' The Persians , and Seneca's Thyestes . His work, which also includes contributions to catalogues and a libretto for opera, has been translated into many languages. He has lived in Berlin since 1985.
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Carla HARRYMAN
Reading: March 4, 2008
Performance of Memory Play: March 7, 2008 ( Presented by the Renaissance Society)
The author of more than ten books in a range of genres as well as numerous performance works, Carla Harryman’s recent publications include Open Box (Belladonna, 2007), Baby (Adventures in Poetry, 2006), Toujours l'epine est sous la rose (Ikko, 2006: tr. Martin Richet), and Gardener of Stars (Atelos, 2001). A collection of conceptual essays, Adorno's Noise, is forthcoming from Essay Press this spring. Recent performance pieces in Detroit, Montreal, Germany and Austria have featured bilingual choral improvisation and sound manipulation. She is also a participant in The Grand Piano collaboration, a ten-volume experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers originally identified with Language Poetry in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since her 1995 move out of the Bay Area, she has lived in Detroit. She currently teaches at Wayne State University, Naropa Institute, and the Bard College Milton Avery School of the Arts.
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Matthea HARVEY
Reading: April 10, 2008
Lecture: April 11, 2008
"If You Agree, Won't You Change The Title For Me?"
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine (Graywolf, 2004) and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form (Alice James Books, 2000). Her third book of poems, Modern Life, is forthcoming from Graywolf in 2007. Her first children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel, is forthcoming from Soft Skull. Matthea is a contributing editor to jubilat. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn.
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Robert HASS
In conjunction with the Around Zukofsky Conference
Reading: November 13, 2004 audio video
Born in 1941, Robert Hass is a native Californian whose poetry is well known for its West Coast subjects and attitude. Hass received his M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1971) in English at Stanford University and began teaching literature and writing at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1967. He went on to teach at his alma mater St. Mary's College of California from 1971 until 1989, when he joined the faculty at the University of California-Berkeley.
Hass's many honors include: the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first book Field Guide in 1973, the William Carlos Williams Award for his second book Praise in 1979, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry , and the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry for Sun Under Wood in 1996. Other books include Human Wishes and Praise ; Hass has also co-translated several volumes of poetry with Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet, Czeslaw Milosz, most recently Facing the River (1995); he is author or editor of several other collections of essays and translations, including The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa (1994), and Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (1984). In addition, Hass is chairman of the board of directors of River of Words's, an organization that promotes environmental and arts education in affiliation with the Library of Congress Center for the Book, and judges their annual international environmental poetry and art contest for youth. He is also a board member of International Rivers Network and was chosen as Educator of the Year by the North American Association on Environmental Education. Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997 and is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
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Lyn HEJINIAN
Reading: May 10, 2006 audio video
Lecture: May 11, 2006 audio video
"The Return of Interruption"
Poet, essayist, and translator, Lyn Hejinian is the author or co-author of fourteen books of poetry, including The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000), Happily (Post Apollo Press, 2000), Sight (with Leslie Scalapino, 1999), The Cold of Poetry (1994), The Cell (1992), My Life (1980), Writing Is an Aid to Memory (1978), and A Thought Is the Bride of What Thinking (1976). Description and Xenia, two volumes of her translations from the work of the contemporary Russian poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, have been published by Sun and Moon Press. In 2000, the University of California Press published a collection of her essays entitled The Language of Inquiry, and she was Guest Editor of The Best American Poetry 2004. From 1976 to 1984, Hejinian was editor of Tuumba Press, and since 1981 she has been the co-editor of Poetics Journal. She is also the co-director of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets. Other collaborative projects include a work entitled The Eye of Enduring undertaken with the painter Diane Andrews Hall and exhibited in 1996, a composition entitled “” with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian, a mixed media book entitled The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill created with the painter Emilie Clark (Granary Press, 1998), and the experimental film Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs, for which Hejinian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko wrote the script. Her honors include a Writing Fellowship from the California Arts Council, a grant from the Poetry Fund, a Translation Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and a Fellowship from The Academy of American Poets. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at the University of California.
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Susan HOWE
Performance with David Grubbs: November 8, 2005
“Thiefth”
Lecture: November 7, 2007 audio video
"Choir answers to Choir: Notes on Jonathan Edwards and Wallace Stevens"
Conversation with Marjorie Perloff: November 8, 2007
Performance with David Grubbs: November 15, 2007
“Souls of the Labadie Tract”
Susan Howe's most recent books are The Midnight published by New Directions, and Kidnapped from Coracle Press. Two CDs in collaboration with the musician/composer David Grubbs, Thiefth, and Souls of the Labadie Tract, were released on the Blue Chopsticks label in 2005 and 2007. Her critical study, My Emily Dickinson (1986) is being re-issued by New Directions this fall, along with a new collection of poems titled Souls of The Labadie Tract. She held the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Poetry and the Humanities at the State University New York at Buffalo, until her retirement this spring. She lives in Guilford, CT and is the 2007 Sherry Memorial Visiting Poet at The University of Chicago.
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Lisa JARNOT
Reading: February 12, 2004 audio video
Lecture: February 13, 2004 audio video
"The Opening of the Field"
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Lisa Jarnot was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967. She attended the State University of New York at Buffalo and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Since the mid-1990s she has lived in New York City. She has edited two small magazines (No Trees, 1987-1990, and Troubled Surfer, 1991-1992) as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New (American) Poetry (Talisman House Publishers, 1997). She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), Ring of Fire (Zoland Books, 2001 and Salt Publishers, 2003), and Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003). Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan is forthcoming from University of California Press and she recently completed a novel called Promise X. She teaches at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and at Brooklyn College, and has given lectures and readings throughout the United States and Europe.TOP
Ralph JOHNSON
Reading with Jim Powell: October 22, 2004 audio video
W. Ralph Johnson, is a distinguished professor emeritus of classics and comparative studies at the University of Chicago . Johnson's work is critically acclaimed. Reviewers note that his writings present refreshing interpretations of classical texts, and reveal new insights into these ancient writers and the value of their work to contemporary society. He has written numerous scholarly articles and reviews. He is a published poet and has also authored several books, including Lucretius and the Modern World (2000), Horace and the Dialectics of Freedom (1993), The Idea of Lyric (1982) and Darkness Visible: A Study of Vergil's Aeneid (1976).
Johnson earned both bachelors and masters degrees in Latin, and his Ph.D. in Cassics, all from the University of California at Berkeley . He taught classics at Berkeley and later at Cornell University, before moving to the University of Chicago in 1981, where he chaired the classics department from 1983-1988. He has been the John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor of Classics and Comparative Studies since 1989 and was appointed emeritus in 1998.
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Devin JOHNSTON
Reading: November 10, 2005 audio video
Lecture: November 11, 2005 audio video
"Creaturely"
Devin Johnston is the author of various works of poetry, including the collections Aversions (Omnidawn 2004) and Telepathy (Paper Bark Press 2001). Johnston's poetry has appeared in journals including Boston Review, Notre Dame Review, Verse, New American Writing, and Chicago Review, and he is also the author of Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (Wesleyan University Press, 2002). Johnston received his Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago and served as poetry editor for Chicago Review from 1995-2000. With Michael O'Leary, he now directs Flood Edition, independent press for poetry and short fiction based in Chicago. He is an Associate Professor of English at St. Louis University and is currently writing a book of essays on birds, pastoralism and poverty present in modern poetry.
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Pierre JORIS
Reading: April 13, 2004 audio video
Pierre Joris is a noted translator, poet, and essayist who has published widely. With Jerome Rothenberg he edited the monumental, award-winning, two-volume Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern & Postmodern Poetry, as well as pppppp: The Selected Writings of Kurt Schwitters, and Pablo Picasso: The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems. In late 2004, Green Integer reissued three volumes of his translations of Paul Celan and University of California Press brought out his Paul Celan: Selections. Other recent translations include Islam and Its Discontents, by Abdelwahab Meddeb and 4x1: Work by Tristan Tzara, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jean-Pierre Duprey & Habib Tengour. Joris has published over 20 volumes of poetry including, most recently, Poasis: Selected Poems 1986-1999 (Wesleyan University Press, 2001). In 2003 Wesleyan U.P also published his collection of essays, A Nomad Poetics. Joris often performs his work in collaboration with vocalist & visual artist Nicole Peyrafitte, most recently touring their multimedia show SumericaBachbones throughout Europe & the US. During fall 2003 he was Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He currently teaches poetry and poetics at SUNY-Albany.
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Vincent KATZ
Reading & Lecture: January 26, 2006 audio video
Vincent Katz is a poet, art critic, editor, translator and curator. He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Cabal of Zealots, Understanding Objects, Acid, Boulevard Transportation, Pearl, New York Hello!, A Tremor in the Morning, and Rooms. Several of these books were published in collaboration with artists, including Rudy Burckhardt, Alex Katz, and Tabboo!, and an artist's book in two volumes with James Brown. He has curated exhibitions of the work of Rudy Burckhardt for IVAM in Valencia, Spain, and the Grey Art Gallery in New York. He wrote the essay and interview for the first study of Francesco Clemente's portraits, and is the editor and one of the authors of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT, 2002). Katz has also published two books of translation: Charm, Translations from Latin of Roman Poet Sextus Propertius (Book I) (Sun & Moon Press, 1995) and, most recently, The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton, 2004).
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Joana KLINK
Reading: February 10, 2005 audio video
Lecture: February 11, 2005
Joanna Klink received an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University. She has held teaching fellowships at the University of Iowa, Johns Hopkins University, and Harvard University, where she won the Derek Bok Award for Distinction in Teaching. Her first book, They Are Sleeping , won the Contemporary Poetry Series through the University of Georgia Press and was published in 2000. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Boston Review , Ploughshares , and Open City . In September 2003, Joanna received a Rona Jaffe Writer's Award. She has been a permanent member of the poetry faculty of University of Montana-Missoula since the fall of 2001 and is currently working on a book about Paul Celan entitled You.
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Stanley LOMBARDO
Reading: February 28, 2008
Lecture: February 28, 2008
"The Practice of Translation"
Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, is a native of New Orleans. Professor Lombardo's publications are primarily literary translations of Greek poetry, including Homer's Iliad (Hackett, 1997; reviewed in the New York Times, 7/20/97; recipient of the Byron Caldwell Book Award; performed by Aquila Theatre Company at Lincoln Center, 1999); Homer’s Odyssey (Hackett, 2000, a New York Times Book of the Year); and translations of Plato, Hesiod, Callimachus, and of Sappho, which was a finalist for the 2003 Pen Literary Award for translation; and most recently Virgil’s Aeneid, also a finalist for a Pen award and reviewed in the New York Review of Books (April, 2007). He also maintains an interest in Asian philosophy and has co-authored a translation of Tao Te Ching. He is now working on a translation of Dante’s Inferno, and on an anthology of Zen texts. Professor Lombardo has given dramatic readings of his translations on campuses throughout the country, as well as at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Humanities Festival and on C-SPAN and National Public Radio. He has recorded and released award-winning audio books (Parmenides Press) of his Homer translations.
Nathaniel MACKEY
Reading: February 23, 2006 audio video
Lecture: February 24, 2006 audio video
"Notes on Splay Anthem"
Poet and novelist Nathaniel Mackey was born in 1947 in Miami, Florida. He received a B.A. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University. His books of poetry include Whatsaid Serif (City Lights Books, 1998); Song of the Andoumboulou: 18-20 (1994); School of Udhra (1993); Outlantish (1992); Eroding Witness (1985), which was selected for the National Poetry Series; Septet for the End of Time (1983); and Four for Trane (1978). His prose collections include Djbot Baghostus's Run (1993) and Bedouin Hornbook (1986). Mackey is also the author of Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing (1993). He is the editor of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000, with Carolyn Kizer, John Hollander, Robert Hass, and Marjorie Perloff) and Moment's Notice: Jazz in Poetry and Prose (1993, with Art Lange). He also edits the magazine Hambone. Strick: Song of the Andoumboulou 16-25, a compact disc recording of poems read with musical accompaniment, was released in 1995. Nathaniel Mackey is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets.
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Peter MANSON
In conjunction with Chicago Review’s ‘British Poets’ issue
Reading: April 5, 2007 video audio *
Lecture: April 6, 2007
*These recordings include an introduction by CR editor Joshua Kotin, complete readings by Peter Manson and Andrea Brady, and a reading by Keston Sutherland that unfortunately cuts off half way through. We apologize for the truncated reading. You can find complete recordings of readings by these poets at http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/meshworks/archive/miami/new-british-poets/.
Peter Manson (born 1969) is a contemporary Scottish poet. His books include For the Good of Liars (Barque Press 2006), Adjunct: an Undigest (Edinburgh Review 2005), Before and After Mallarmé (Survivors' Press 2005), Two renga (collaborations with the poet Elizabeth James, in the Reality Street Editions 4-pack "Renga+", 2002), Rosebud (Form Books 2002), Birth Windows (Barque Press 1999), me generation (Writers Forum 1997), iter atur e (Writers Forum 1995). Between 1994 and 1997, he co-edited (with Robin Purves) eight issues of the experimental/modernist poetry journal Object Permanence. In 2001, the imprint was revived as an occasional publisher of pamphlets of innovative poetry, and has so far published work by the poets J. H. Prynne, Keston Sutherland, Fiona Templeton and Andrea Brady. He was the 2005-6 Judith E. Wilson Visiting Fellow in Poetry at Girton College, Cambridge.
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Christopher MIDDLETON
Reading: February 17, 2006 audio video
Lecture: February 17, 2006 audio video
Christopher Middleton, poet, essayist, and translator, was born June 10, 1926, in Truro, Cornwall, England. He attended Merton College at Oxford, where he earned his B. A. degree in 1951 and his D. Phil. in 1954. He taught at Zurich University from 1952 to 1955 before accepting a lectureship in German literature at King's College, University of London. In 1966, Middleton accepted a professorship at the University of Texas at Austin in the department of Germanic languages and literature and was named the first David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Modern Languages in 1986. He retired in May 1998.
Middleton's essays are collected in the volumes Bolshevism in Art and Other Expository Writings (1978) and The Pursuit of the Kingfisher (1983). Middleton's translations of German literature include Robert Walser's The Walk and Other Stories (1957) and Jakob von Gunten (1969), Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (1969), Selected Poems of Hölderlin and Mörike (1972), and Elias Canetti's Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Felice (1974), as well as translations of the works of Gottfried Benn, Paul Celan, Günter Grass, Gert Hofmann, and Christa Wolf. Among Middleton's published books of poetry, there are Poems (1944), Nocturne in Eden (1945), Torse 3 (1962), Nonsequences (1965), Our Flowers & Nice Bones (1969), The Lonely Suppers of W. V. Balloon (1975), Pataxanadu and Other Prose (1977), Carminalenia (1980), Intimate Chronicles (1996), Faint Harps and Silver Voices (2000), The Word Pavilion (2001), and most recently, The Anti-Basilisk (2005). He has also published several books of short prose. Middleton has received various awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize.
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Alice NOTLEY
Reading: November 10, 2003 audio video
Lecture: November 11, 2003 audio video
“My Lines”
Alice Notley (born in 1945) is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A from Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1969. In the early 70s she became rooted in New York's Lower East Side, where she was an important force from 1976 through 1992. She is the author of over twenty books of poetry, and also the author of a book of essays on poets and poetry, Coming After. Alice Notley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In the spring of 2001 she received an Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. She edited and wrote a new introduction to her late husband Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets (Penguin, 2000). Recently, Notley edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (UC, 2005) with her sons, the poets Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan.
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Michael PALMER
Reading: October 23, 2006 audio video
Lecture: October 25, 2006 audio video
"In Company: On Artistic Collaboration and Solitude"
Born in Manhattan, poet and translator Michael Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. He has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for over thirty years and has collaborated with many visual artists and composers. His most recent collections are At Passages (New Directions, 1995), The Lion Bridge (Selected Poems 1972-1995) (New Directions, 1998), The Promises of Glass (New Directions, 2000), Codes Appearing (Poems 1979-1988) (New Directions, 2001) and Company of Moths (New Directions, 2005). A prose work, The Danish Notebook , was published by Avec Books in 1999. Among his awards, Palmer has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Lila Wallace – Reader's Digest Fund Writer's Award, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America and, in the fall of 2006, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at various universities in the United States and Europe, and his writings have been translated into more than twenty-five languages. Michael Palmer was the 2006 Sherry Memorial Poet.
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Tom PICKARD
Reading: November 9, 2004 audio video
Tom Pickard was born in Newcastle in 1946, left school at 14, and in 1964 organized with his wife Connie the Morden Tower poetry readings, “a Golden Bloomsday for the revival of British poetry in the 60s”. Called “the lyrical post-beat enfant terrible of the alternative poetry scene in 60s/70s UK,” he is credited with encouraging the British poet Basil Bunting to begin writing again. Pickard was a great supporter of American experimental poetry, and gained a reputation as something of an ally among such poets as Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsburg, and Charles Olson.
Pickard's most recent offering, Hole in the Wall: New & Selected Poems was published by Flood Editions in 2002. Hole in the Wall includes selections from every book Pickard has published over the past thirty-six years: High on the Walls (Fulcrum Press, 1967), The Order of Chance (Fulcrum Press, 1971), Hero Dust (Allison & Busby, 1979), Custom & Exile (Allison & Busby, 1985), Tiepin Eros (Bloodaxe, 1994), Fuckwind (Etruscan Books, 1999). A new volume of poems by Pickard will be published in September 2004 by Flood Editions.
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Jim POWELL
Reading with Ralph Johnson: October 22, 2004 audio video
Reading: November 17, 2005 audio video
Jim Powell is the author of It Was Fever That Made The World (University of Chicago) , A Victorian Connoisseur Of Sunsets and California Blue Indian Ghost Dance (Sage & Pennyroyal chapbooks), and the translator of Sappho: A Garland (Farrar Straus Giroux) and Catullan Revenants (a Booklyn chapbook). His poetry, translations and essays appear in magazines in America, England, and Australia, including Agni Review, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, The New Republic, Paris Review, Poetry, Slate, Threepenny Review, Tikkun, TriQuarterly, Verse, PN Review (England), Spazio Umano (Italy), Scripsi (Australia), Numbers (England), and Bateria (Germany), in anthologies, among them the Paris Review Anthology, the Norton Introduction to Literature, the Oxford Anthology of Classical Verse In English Translation, California Poetry, From the Gold Rush To the Present, and the Addison Street Anthology, and in translation into Italian and German. Powell's honors include a MacArthur Fellowship for his work as a poet, translator, and critic, the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines Younger Poets Prize, and a BABRA Translation Prize He has read his poetry and spoken at venues including the Academy Of American Poets, the 'Y' in New York, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and the Sante Fe Institute, and he has taught poetry and translation workshops and courses in English and comparative literature, Homeric Greek, and Latin. He is a fourth generation native of the San Francisco Bay region and a Berkeley resident. In 2005-2006, Powell was the Sherry Memorial Poet and a Visiting Professor in English (Autumn).
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ED ROBERSON
Reading: January 17, 2008 audio video
Lecture: January 18, 2008
audio video
Ed Roberson’s seventh book of poetry, “City Eclogue” was published spring 2006, Number 23 in the Atelos series. His collection, “Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In” was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; his book “Atmosphere Conditions” was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Award for best book of 2000. He was a recipient of the Lila Wallace Writers’ Award. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2004 and 2005, Callaloo, Hambone and The Chicago Review and many other journals. He is currently Visiting Artist at Northwestern University for the 2007 Fall quarter and will teach workshops in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago as a Visiting Professor in Winter and Spring 2008.
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Lisa ROBERTSON
Reading: November 16, 2006 audio video
Lecture: November 17, 2006 audio video
"Lastingness/ Reage:Arendt:Lucrece (an essay on reading)"
Born in Toronto, for many years Canadian writer Lisa Robertson lived in Vancouver, where she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, and Artspeak Gallery. Her books of poetry include XEclogue , (Tsunami, 1993/New Star 1999) Debbie: An Epic ( nominated for the Governor Generals Award for Poetry in 1998 ), The Weather( New Star Books, Canada/ Reality Street Editions, UK) and Rousseau's Boat (Nomados), which was recently awarded the bp Nichol chapbook award. In Spring 2006, Bookthug, in Toronto, published a new book of poems, The Men . She writes essays and collaborative texts for the visual arts, and these have been collected in the book Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture , (Clear Cut Press/ Coach House). During Fall 2006 she is Holloway writer-in-residence at University of California, Berkeley. She now lives in France.
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Leslie SCALAPINO
Reading: April 24, 2008
Lecture: April 25, 2008
"Poetics"
Leslie Scalapino’s It’s go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 was recently released by University of California Press at Berkeley. Wrote Robert Creeley: "I hesitate to introduce any such term as 'meditation' or 'reflection,' because this work is not apart from its thinking and/or composition, so to speak–and that, among other things, constitutes its exceptional value. I find the whole work to be a deeply engaging preoccupation with, and articulation of, what life might be said, factually, to be. But not as a defined subject, nor even a defining one–but as one being one. That is an heroic undertaking, or rather, place in which to work/write/live. Its formal authority is as brilliant as any I know." Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre fiction-poetry-criticism and plays, including recently Day Ocean State of Stars’ Night: Poems and Writings 1989 and 1999-2006 (Green Integer), Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan University Press), The Tango (Granary Press), Orchid Jetsam (Tuumba), and Dahlia’s Iris—Secret Autobiography and Fiction (FC2 Publishers).
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David SHAPIRO
Reading: September 27, 2007 audio video
Lecture: September 27, 2008 audio video
"My Teachers and the Structure of My Work : The New York School, Fairfield Porter and Meyer Schapiro"
David Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawings (the last two from Abrams) and the first study of Piet Mondrian's much tabooed flower studies. He has translated books from French and Spanish and recently edited a book on aesthetics: Uncontrollable Beauty. Born in l947, David received his degrees from Columbia and Cambridge Universities, but before he was fifteen he had put together many privately printed volumes of poetry. At fifteen he met Frank O'Hara, corresponded with John Ashbery, and was collaborating with Kenneth Koch and many painters of the so-called New York School. A tenured art historian at William Paterson University, Shapiro has won National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, been nominated for a National Book Award, and been the recipient of numerous grants for his work. Recent books of poetry include A Burning Interior (Overlook Press, 2002) and New and Selected Poems (1965-2006) (Overlook Press, 2007).
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Alan SHAPIRO
Reading: November 15, 2005 audio video
Alan Shapiro, fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has published eight books of poetry: Tantalus in Love (2005), Song and Dance (2002), The Dead Alive and Busy (2000), Selected Poems (2000), Mixed Company (1996), Covenant (1991), Happy Hour (1987), The Courtesy (1983), and After the Digging (1981). Shapiro is also the author of three books of prose: Vigil (1997), The Last Happy Occasion (1996), In Praise of the Impure: Poetry and the Ethical Imagination (1993). Poetry editor of the Phoenix Poets Series at the University of Chicago Press from 1994 to 2000, and co-editor of Greek Tragedy in New Translation at Oxford University Press, Shapiro published a translation of The Oresteia by Aeschylus, and is currently at work on a verse translation of The Trojan Women by Euripides. Shapiro has received numerous awards and honors, including two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, the O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington D.C., the Sarah Teasdale Award from Wellesley College, and an award in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was also a 1991 recipient of a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award. The William R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina, Shapiro has also taught in the MFA Creative Writing program at UNC, Greensboro, and at Northwestern University.
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Piotr SOMMER
Reading: May 8, 2008
Public Discussion with W. Martin: May 9, 2008
Piotr Sommer is a poet, essayist, and translator of Anglo-American poetry into Polish. He has published seven collections of his poems, two books of essays, and has translated John Ashbery, John Berryman, D. J. Enright, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Koch, Robert Lowell, Derek Mahon, Frank O'Hara, and Charles Reznikoff. Sommer's most recent book of poems in translation is Continued (Wesleyan University Press, 2005). He is editor for Literatura na Swiecie, a magazine of international writing. He lives outside Warsaw.
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Susan STEWART
In conjunction with the Around Zukofsky Conference
Reading: November 12, 2004 audio video
Poet and critic Susan Stewart was born in 1952. She received a B.A. in English and anthropology from Dickinson College, an M.A. in poetics from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. Stewart has published several collections of poetry, including Columbarium (University of Chicago Press, 2003) which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, The Forest (1995), and Yellow Stars and Ice (1981). Her collected essays on art, The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2004. Her other books of criticism include Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (University of Chicago Press, 2002), which won the Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa and the Truman Capote Award in Literary Criticism; On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection (1993); Crimes of Writing: Problems in the Containment of Representation (1991); and Nonsense (1989). She also co-translated Euripides' Andromache with Wesley Smith, and the poetry and prose of the Scuola Romana painter Scipione with Brunella Antomarini. She is the recipient of a Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award, two grants in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Pew Fellowship for the Arts, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. Susan Stewart is Professor of English at Princeton University where she teaches the history of poetry and aesthetics.
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Mark STRAND
Reading: October 16, 2003 audio video
Lecture: October 17, 2003 audio video
"A Case from the Annals of Translation"
Mark Strand was born on Canada's Prince Edward Island on April 11, 1934. He received a B.A. degree from Antioch College in Ohio in 1957 and attended Yale University, where he was awarded the Cook prize and the Bergin prize. After receiving his B.F.A. degree in 1959, Strand spent a year studying at the University of Florence on a Fulbright fellowship. In 1962 he received his M.A. degree from the University of Iowa. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Man and Camel (Knopf, 2006); Blizzard of One (1998), which won the Pulitzer Prize; Dark Harbor (1993); The Continuous Life (1990); Selected Poems (1980); The Story of Our Lives (1973); and Reasons for Moving (1968). He has also published two books of prose, several volumes of translation (of works by Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others), several monographs on contemporary artists, and three books for children. He has edited a number of volumes, including 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century (W. W. Norton, 2005), The Golden Ecco Anthology (1994), The Best American Poetry 1991, and Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers (with Charles Simic, 1976). His honors include the Bollingen Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the 1974 Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, and a Rockefeller Foundation award, as well as fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He has served as Poet Laureate of the United States and is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. A former Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at The University of Chicago, he currently teaches English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.
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Keston SUTHERLAND
In conjunction with Chicago Review’s ‘British Poets’ issue
Reading: April 5, 2007 video audio *
Lecture: April 6, 2007
*These recordings include an introduction by CR editor Joshua Kotin, complete readings by Peter Manson and Andrea Brady, and a reading by Keston Sutherland that unfortunately cuts off half way through. We apologize for the truncated reading. You can find complete recordings of readings by these poets at http://www.orgs.muohio.edu/meshworks/archive/miami/new-british-poets/.
Born Bristol UK, 1976, Keston Sutherland is the author of Neutrality, The Rictus Flag, and Antifreeze. He teaches English literature and critical theory at the University of Sussex. He is editor of Quid and the Quid CD series and is currently editing the complete critical prose of J.H. Prynne. He has published numerous essays on poetics, politics and philosophy. Keston's poetry has been translated into French, German, English and Chinese.
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Cole SWENSEN
Reading: April 19, 2007 audio video
Lecture: April 20, 2007 audio video
"New Fusion: The Dissolution of American Poetic Schools"
Cole Swensen has published ten volumes of poetry; the most recent is The Book of a Hundred Hands (U. of Iowa 2005). Her previous volume, Goest (Alice James Books, 2004) was a finalist for the National Book Award. Others include Such Rich Hour (U. of Iowa, 2001), and Try (U. of Iowa, 1999), which won the 1998 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2000 San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award. She has also been awarded a New American Writing Award from Sun & Moon Press for the book Noon, a National Poetry Series for New Math , and two Pushcart Prizes. Her next volume, The Glass Age , will be published by Alice James Books in spring 2007, and she has received a Creative Capital grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on her next collection, Ours: The Gardens of André Le Nôtre .
Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Conjunctions, Granta and other journals, while critical pieces have been included in journals and anthologies such as Civil Disobediences (Coffee House, 2004), American Poet (Poetry Society of America, 2003), Poésie #97 (2003), and Moving Borders (Talisman Press, 1998). Her reviews of contemporary poets have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Bloomsbury Review, Boston Review, Poetry Flash, and Rain Taxi . She also translates contemporary French poetry, prose, and art criticism. Books include Colonel Zoo, Art Poetic', and Future, Former, Fugitive by Olivier Cadiot; Natural Gaits and OXO by Pierre Alferi; Bayart by Pascalle Monnier, and The Island of the Dead by Jean Frémon, which won the 2004 PEN West Award for Literary Translation. She has received grants from the Association Beaumarchais and from the Direction du Livre et de la Lecture, and has participated in group translation projects at the Fondation Royaumont near Cantilly, at Reid Hall in Paris, and at Louisiana State University. She's the founder and editor of the small press La Presse, which specializes in contemporary experimental French poetry in translation. She teaches in the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, divides her time among Iowa, Washington DC, and Paris.
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James TATE
Reading with Dara Wier: March 29, 2007
Lecture with Dara Wier: March 30, 2007 audio video
James Tate won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 for his SELECTED POEMS. His newest book is RETURN TO THE CITY OF WHITE DONKEYS. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
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Jalal TOUFIC
Reading and Lecture: May 27, 2008
Jalal Toufic is a writer, film theorist, and video artist. He is the author of Distracted (Station Hill, 1991; 2nd ed., Tuumba, 2003), (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (Station Hill, 1993; 2nd ed., Post-Apollo, 2003), Over-Sensitivity (Sun & Moon, 1996), Forthcoming (Atelos, 2000), and Undying Love, or Love Dies (Post-Apollo, 2002). His videos and mixed media works have been presented in North America, Brazil, the Middle East and Europe, most recently at the 16th International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA) in a “Focus Jalal Toufic” program. He co-edited the special Discourse issue Gilles Deleuze: A Reason to Believe in this World, and edited the special Discourse issues Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee and Mortals to Death. Toufic has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, USC, and, in Amsterdam, DasArts and the Rijksakademie.
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Keith and Rosmarie WALDROP
Reading and Q&A: October 26, 2007 audio video
Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher with her husband Keith Waldrop of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author or coauthor (as of 2006) of 17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism. Rosmarie Waldrop has given readings and published in many parts of Europe as well as the U.S. She has received numerous awards and fellowships and was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.
Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jabès, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (2006). He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.
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Susan WHEELER
Reading: October 6, 2005 audio video
Lecture: October 7, 2005 audio video
"Mutant Vernaculars"
Susan Wheeler is the author of four collections of poetry, Bag ‘o’ Diamonds (1993, University of Georgia Press), Smokes (1998, Four Way Books), Source Codes (2001, Salt Publishing), and Ledger (2005, U of Iowa Press); and of Record Palace, a novel (2005, Graywolf Press). Her awards include the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in eight editions of the Scribner anthology Best American Poetry, as well as in The Paris Review, London Review of Books, Verse, Talisman, The New Yorker and many other journals. On the creative writing faculties at Princeton University and the New School’s graduate program, she has also taught at Columbia University, the University of Iowa, Rutgers, and New York University.
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Dara WIER
Reading with James Tate: March 29, 2007
Lecture with James Tate: March 30, 2007 audio video
Dara Wier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her ten books include the forthcoming, REMNANTS OF HANNAH 2006); REVERSE RAPTURE ( 2005); HAT ON A POND ( 2002) and VOYAGES IN ENGLISH ( 2001). Awards include the American Poetry Review's Jerome Shestack Prize, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Award. Her poems are included the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. A limited edition, (X IN FIX) (2003) is #10 in RainTaxi's brainstorm series. With James Tate, she rescued THE LOST EPIC OF ARTHUR DAVIDSON FICKE, THE AUTHOR'S ANNOTATIONS, COMMENTARY, AND NOTES OF REFERENCE FOR A MILLENNIUM'S TEARDROP(1999). Recent poems can be found in American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Conduit, The Melic, The Canary, Painted Bride Quarterly, Mississippi Review, slope, Seattle Review, Turnrow, Volt, Denver Quarterly, Octopus, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast and so on. She's been poet-in-residence at the University of Montana, University of Texas, Emory University and the University of Utah; she was the 2005 Louis Rubin chair at Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. She is a member of the poetry faculty and director of the MFA program for poets and writers at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Along with Lisa Olstein and Noy Holland she co-founded the Juniper Initiative for literary arts and action at the University of Massachusetts.
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C.K. WILLIAMS
Reading: April 19, 2006 audio video
Lecture: April 20, 2006 audio video
“Odd Endings”
C. K. Williams is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Singing (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003); Repair (1999), which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize; The Vigil (1997); A Dream of Mind (1992); Flesh and Blood (1987), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Tar (1983); With Ignorance (1997); I Am the Bitter Name (1992); and Lies (1969). Williams has also published five works of translation: Selected Poems of Francis Ponge (1994); Canvas, by Adam Zagajewski (with Renata Gorczynski and Benjamin Ivry, 1991); The Bacchae of Euripides (1990); The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. (Poems from Issa) (1983); and Women of Trachis, by Sophocles (with Gregory Dickerson, 1978). Among his many awards and honors are an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, a Pushcart Prize, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. Williams teaches in the creative writing program at Princeton University and lives part of each year in Paris.
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C.D. WRIGHT
Reading: March 3, 2005 audio video
Lecture: March 4, 2005 audio video
C.D. Wright has published ten volumes of poetry including Steal Away: New and Selected Poems ( Copper Canyon , 2002); Deepstep Come Shining (1998); Tremble (1996); Just Whistle (1993); String Light (1991), which won the Poetry Center Book Award; Further Adventures with You (1986); and Translation of the Gospel Back into Tongues (1981). She has also published two state literary maps, one for Arkansas, her native state, and one for Rhode Island, her adopted state. With poet Forrest Gander she edits Lost Roads Publishers, and she is a professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Wright is currently completing a work with photographer Deborah Luster entitled One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana . The project won the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She is also a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts, and awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts and the Lannan Foundation. In 1994 Wright was named State Poet of Rhode Island, and in 2004 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
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ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI
Reading: October 24, 2007 audio video
Adam Zagajewski, Professor in the Committee on Social Thought at The University of Chicago, lives in Krakow and Chicago. His collections in English translation include Tremor (1985), Canvas (1991), Mysticism for Beginners (1997), Another Beauty (2000), and the anthology Without End (2002). Among his books of essays are Solidarity, Solitude (1986, tr. 1989) and Two Cities (1991, tr. 1995), in addition to editing Polish Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press, 2007). His most recent collection of poems, Eternal Enemies, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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