Rae Armantrout
at the University of Chicago
January 2010

Charles Bernstein & Yunte Huang
discussing Charlie Chan:
The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective
& His Rendezvous with American History
at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop

George E. Lewis:
Improvisation as a Way of Life

Fred Wah
introduced by Josephine Park

Fred Wah reading

Lisa Robertson
introduced by Julia Bloch

Robertson reading

Compliments of PennSound
from North of Invention

Nicole Brossard
introduced by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

Brossard reading

Compliments of PennSound
from North of Invention

Talking with ROVA
with Derk Richardson & Konrad Steiner

M. NourbeSe Philip
introduced by Janet Neigh

Philip reading

Compliments of PennSound
from North of Invention

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Johanna Drucker
at the School of Visual Arts
(thanks to PennSound)

The 1960 Symposium

Both video & audio of all two hours & 20 minutes

With Al Filreis, Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman,
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Chris Funkhouser, Erica Kaufman,
Judith Goldman, Kristen Gallagher, Danny Snelson,
Michael S. Hennessey, Charles Bernstein & Mel Nichols

Since these two points come up in the Q&A, it’s worth noting that Henry Rago, the editor of Poetry, died on May 26, 1969. I was thinking that his 14-year tenure with the journal began in 1952. It began in 1955. And the exact statement by Creeley is “There is nothing quite so abrupt and even pleasant as rape — ask any woman.” It appears in his essay on Franz Kline in the Winter 1954 Black Mountain Review & was reprinted in A Quick Graph but is cut from the essay in the 1989 UC Press edition of Collected Essays. Thanks to Al Filreis & Rachel Blau DuPlessis for running down the details, and to Clayton Eshleman for originally noting the discrepancy.

Nels Cline on John Coltrane
with Larry Ochs on sax
(registration required)