Wednesdays at 4 Plus
Fall
2001 Poetry and Prose September 12 – November 30
at
the State University of New York, Buffalo (Amherst Campus)
Lecture: "Pound, Olson, and Late Modernist
Didacticism"
Thurs., Sept. 20, 12:30pm; 438 Clemens Hall
Talk: "'Isn't the avant-garde always
pedagogical': Experimental Poetics and/as Pedagogy"
Fri., Sept. 21, 8pm; Rust Belt Books (202 Allen
Street, Buffalo)
Alan Golding is the author of a now-classic study of
the formation of the canon of American poetry, From Outlaw to Classic.
He has also published extensively on American poets throughout the 20th
century. A recent essay is on line at The Third Factory.
Talk:
"A Hand Writing"
Tues.,
Sept. 25, 3:30pm; 412 Clemens Hall
Poetry
Reading
Weds.,
Sept. 26, 4pm; CFA Screening Room
Cole
Swensen's recent books are Oh (Apogee Press, 2000), Try (University of Iowa Press, 1999), which won
the Iowa Poetry Prize and the San
Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award in 2000, and Noon (Sun &
Moon, 1997), which won their New American Writing Award. She is the director of
the creative writing program at the University of Denver. It's
Alive She Says is available as a "pdf" file from Duration;
see also recent work in Jacket, Windover,
and Facture.
Sponsored by the Poetry Society of
America. PHOTO OF
SWENSEN (300dpi/large file)
Poetry
& Prose Reading (Just Buffalo presentation)
Fri.,
Sept 28, 8 pm,;Allen Hall, UB South Campus ($4
members, $5 students/seniors, $6 general)
Rodriguez
is the author of Always Running: La
Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A., his celebrated memoir of coming of age in East Los Angeles. Poetry collections include Poems across
the Pavement, The Concrete River, and Trochemoche. For details call
716-832-5400.
McNulty
Chair/Center for the Americas Residency in Celebration of Rothenberg's 70th
Birthday
Poetry
Reading
Weds.,
Oct. 3, 4pm; CFA Screening Room
Talk:
"Poems for the Millennium"
Thurs.,
Oct. 4, 4pm; 438 Clemens Hall
Acclaimed poet and translator, editor of such ground-breaking anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred and Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern Poetry, pioneer in the fields of performance poetry and ethnopoetics, Rothenberg is a literary radical and a major force in American poetry. His most recent book from New Directions is Paradise of Poets. PHOTO OF ROTHENBERG (1976)(300dpi/large file).
Jones
Chair French Poetry Festival
Bilingual
Poetry Reading
Beck,
Darras, & Monnier: In Conversation
Weds.,
Oct. 10, 6pm; 930 Clemens Hall
The
new French poetry comes to Buffalo with an afternoon of the je ne sais pas that
sez it all and an evening of talk and thought. Philippe Beck
is a poet, essayist, and professor of philosophy; his first book in English, Selected
Poems, is due out this fall from Seeing Eye Books. Jacques Darras is a poet,
essayist, translator, and a major force in teaching the new American poetries
in France. Pascalle Monnier has had to cancel. Monnier's Bayart
is due this fall in English translation from Black Square editions; see John
Ashbery's translations of her work on p. 98 of The
Violence of the White Page. This program made possible with the support of French Cultural
Services of the French Embassy.
Poetry
Reading
Weds., Oct. 17, 4pm; CFA Screening Room
Conversation
Thurs., Oct. 18,
12:30 pm; 438 Clemens
Lauterbach's visit celebrates the publication of If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 from Penguin. Lauterbach, who received a MacArthur fellowship in 1993, is director of the graduate creative writing program at Bard. Some on-line essays are in Theory & Event, and Boston Review, which also has a review of On a Stair. PHOTO OF LAUTERBACH(300dpi/large file).
Thurs.,
Oct. 18 - Sun. Oct. 21 (ticketed events)
Readings
by Dodie Bellamy, Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück,
Kevin Killian, Eileen Myles, and Matthew Stadler. Event information available
at the EPC. Send all
inquiries to bstosuy@acsu.buffalo.edu.
Talk:
"Dickinson and Mallarmé"
Tues,
Oct. 23, 3:30pm; 412 Clemens
Fourcade's
Everything
Happens, translated by Stacy Doris, was published last year. In 1998,
Fourcade was awarded the highest prize for French poetry, the Grand Prix National
de Poesie. His books in translation
include Xbo and
Click Rose. On line: "From All
Sides Beautiful." Other Fourcade links in French: essay by Lionel
Destremau, and an interview.
If All of Buffalo Read the Same Book
Thurs.,
Oct. 25 – Sat., Oct. 27 (Just Buffalo Presentation)
Readings
and community discussion featuring poet Joan Murray and her book Queen of
the Mist, about Annie Taylor, who, in 1901, at age 63, became the first
person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel. For details call
716-832-5400.
Poetry
Reading
Weds.,
Oct. 31, 4pm; CFA Screening Room
Doris,
of New York and Paris, is the American author of two French books of conceptual prose, La vie de
Chester Steven Wiener écrite par sa femme, and Une Année á
New York avec Chester, and three books of poetry in "the American" – Kildare, Paramour (check out the
review at readme) and
Conference. She
has co-edited two journal anthologies of recent French poetry: Violence
of the White Page (1991, Tyuonyi 9/10) with Emanuel Hocquard,
and 21 New French Poets (1997, Raddle Moon 16) with Norma
Cole. Photo of Doris
(300dpi/large file)
Poetry Reading (followed by discussion)
Fri., Nov. 2, 12pm; 120 Clemens Hall
Myung Mi Kim moved to the United States from Korea at age
nine without knowing any English. She has subsequently developed one of the most
important voices in contemporary American poetry. Kim is the author of Under
Flag, The Bounty, and Dura. She is acting
chair of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University. Read also Mark Schechner’s
essay on Kim. On-line work includes an essay in How2,
and poems in How2
and not.
PHOTO
OF KIM(300dpi/large file).
Poetry
Reading
Weds.,
Nov. 7, 4pm; CFA Screening Room
Rodrigo
Toscano's books include Partisans
(O Books), The Disparities (Green Integer), and Platform (Atelos
Press). On-line works: The East Village, Arras,
Chain, Zyzzyva, Situation. Audio
file at UPenn.
Toscano works at the Labor Institute. PHOTO OF TOSCN0 (300dpi/large file).
Silverman
Poetry Reading
Fri.,
Nov. 9, 8pm; 250 Baird Hall
Pinsky's
poetry books include Jersey Rain, The Figured Wheel: New and
Collected Poems 1966-1996 and The Want Bone. His critical books
include The Sounds of Poetry and The Situation of Poetry. Pinsky,
a former US Poet Laureate, teaches in the graduate writing program at Boston
University.
Poetry
Reading
Weds.,
Nov. 14, 4pm; CFA Screening Room
Talk:
"What Anti-Colonial Poetry Has to Say about Language and Why It
Matters"
Thurs.,
Nov. 15; 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall
Spahr's
new book, Fuck
You-Aloha-I Love You, is due out this fall from Wesleyan. Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and
Collective Identity was published last year by Alabama. A graduate of UB's Poetics
Program, Spahr is coeditor of Chain and teaches at the University of Hawaii. PHOTO OF SPAHR
(300dpi/large file)
Poetry
Reading
Weds.,
Nov. 28, 4pm; CFA Screening Room
Conversation
Thurs.,
Nov. 29, 12:30pm; 438 Clemens Hall
A
major force in redefining the edginess of American poetry, Andrews's recent
books of poetry include Ex Why Zee, Divesture-A, Strictly Confidential, Tizzy Boost, I
Don't Have Any Paper So Shut Up (or, Social Romanticism), Executive
Summary, Getting Ready to Have Been Frightened, and, new from Coach
House, Lip
Service, available on-line from Coach House. His essays have been
collected in Paradise & Method. Photo (large
file); photo2
(large file).
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Poetry
Reading and Bazaar
Friday,
Nov. 30; 8pm Rust Belt Books (202 Allen, Buffalo)
Featuring
performances and objets d'art by Jordan Berry, Jeffrey Burghauer, Eric
Gelsinger, John Long, Brett Masteller, Ric Royer, Jessica Smith, Kevin
Thurston,
and Kathy Wiesensel.
All
Events are Free and Open to the Public (except as noted).
"Wednesdays at
4 PLUS" is a Poetics Program production sponsored, in part, by the James
H. McNulty Chair, Department of English (Dennis Tedlock); the Samuel P. Capen
Chair of Poetry and the Humanities (Robert Creeley); the David Gray Chair of
Poetry and Letters, Department of English (Charles Bernstein); the Melodia E.
Jones Chair in French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (Gerard
Bucher), Professor Susan Howe (Department of English); the Just Buffalo
Literary Center; the Poetry Society of America; and Poets and Writers (with
funding through a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts). The
series is produced with the cooperation of the Center for the Arts and the
Department of Media Studies, The Poetry and Rare Books Collection (Robert
Bertholf), and Talking Leaves Books. Series coordinator and web design: Charles
Bernstein. For further information call (716) 645-3810 or contact us at
Mdunlap@acsu.buffalo.edu. Visit our web site: writing.upenn.edu/epc/poetics for
updates and additional information.
