My Calendar

Friday, September 15, 2006, 7 PM Café Edenborg, Stora Nygatan 35, Stockholm: reading together with J. O. Mallander

Saturday, September 16, 2006, 3 to 22 PM Klubb Ugglan, Närkesgatan 6, Stockholm: Launch for SuOmEI, a special Finland Issue of the Swedish poetry magazine, OEI that features a largish anthology of new Finnish poetry edited by me. A large number of Finnish, Finland-Swedish and Swedish poets will read in the event

Friday, September 28 to Tuesday, October 3, 2006, 3 PM Hosting Charles Bernstein's visit to Finland

Friday, September 28, 2006, 3 PM Turku Fair and Congress Center, Messukentänkatu 9-13, Turku: Press Conference on Runouden puolustus, a selection of poems and essays by Charles Bernstein (ed. by me, poEsia 2006)

Friday, September 28, 2006, 3 PM Kortteliravintola Kerttu, Läntinen pitkäkatu 35, Turku: Charles Bernstein reading

Saturday, September 29, 2006, 1 PM The Book Cafe at the Turku Fair and Congress Center, Messukentänkatu 9-13, Turku: launch for Runouden puolustus by Charles Berstein and Katkaistut haulikot by Jyrki Pellinen (poEsia)

Monday, October 2, 2006, 2 PM The University of Helsinki, Main Building, Room 12, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki: Charles Bernstein's lecture on "The Task of Poetics, the Fate of Innovation, and the Aesthetics of Criticism"

Friday to Saturday, November 10-11, 2006 A Nyhil Poetry Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, together with Derek Beaulieu, Christian Bök, Anna Hallberg, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Gunnar Wærness

Thursday, November 16, 2006 Poetry Cafe, London: A reading on the occasion of the publication of my Lake Onega and Other Poems (Salt Publishing). This event will be jointly organized by the Finnish Institute in London, the Poetry Society, and Salt

Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 10 AM to 2 PM The University of Helsinki, Main Building, Room 5, Fabianinkatu 33, Helsinki: A Seminar on Eeva-Liisa Manner's Poetry. I will talk on Manner's relation to T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and the International Modernism

Wednesday to Saturday, December 27 to 30, 2006 The Presidencial Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in Philadelphia, USA: "The Sounds of Poetry, The Poetry of Sounds". I'll be in a panel on "Poetic Sound in Translation", together with Yunte Huang, Sergio Bessa, Richard Sieburth, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Gordana Crnkovic. For more info on the Convention, click here