7:00 PM: Join us for a visit from
critic, poet, writing program director, and professor
Jonathan Monroe
poetry reading
&
discussion on relations between "writing programs"
and "creative writing programs"
Kirsten Thorpe will
introduce the
program by reading briefly from her own poetry .
Jonathan Monroe will then begin by
reading some of his new poems .
Monroe will then initiate and lead a discussion on relations between
the idea of a writing program (where students typically study
"composition") and the idea of the "creative writing" program (where
students typically write and critique their own poems). If there is a
connection between the two, Monroe represents it: he directs one of the
finest writing programs anywhere, the Knight Writing Program at Cornell,
and is himself an experimental poet .
Jonathan Monroe also
. is professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell
. edited a now-famous double issue of _Diacritics_
on "Poetry, Community, Movement"
. is now finishing a new book titled "Poetry among the Discourses"
on the New Poetry and its relation to cultural criticism
Jonathan Monroe is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the
John S. Knight Writing Program at Cornell University. Author of _A Poverty
of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre_ (Cornell UP), he has
recently completed two books of poetry, _Hinge of Speech_ and
_Demosthenes' Dictionary_, and is currently completing a second critical
book entitled _Poetry Among the Discourses: Contemporary Poetry and
Cultural Criticism_. His critical work has appeared in a wide range of
publications, including Comparative Literature, Contemporary Literature,
Diacritics, The Stanford French Review, Studies in Romanticism, and
Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature. His poems, in verse and prose,
appear in recent issues of Epoch, Harvard Review, and Verse, and have
appeared previously in such journals as The American Poetry Review, Epoch,
Kiosk, Massachusetts Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, and
Verse. A special double issue he edited for Diacritics, "Poetry,
Community, Movement" (fall/winter 1996) features contributions by Charles
Bernstein, Rachel Blau Du Plessis, David Kellogg, Aldon Nielson, Ann
Lauterbach, Marjorie Perloff, Bob Perelman, and Rosmarie Waldrop. Twice a
Fellow in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, most
recently this summer, he is the editor of a special section for a double
issue of Poetics Today due out by the end of this year on new avant-garde
poetries.
He has just completed a piece on Joy Harjo and Rosmarie Waldrop called
"Untranslatable Communities, Productive Translation, and Public Transport"
(for an anthology of essays on experimental contemporary women's poetry).
This piece is from a book which is nearing completion called "Poetry Among
the Discourses: Contemporary Poetry and Cultural Criticism."