WEDNESDAYS @ 4 PLUS
Fall 2004
State University of New York, Buffalo
(Amherst Campus)
Ulla Dydo
Talk: “I
am not I any longer when I see” (on Gertrude Stein’s Four In America)
Thurs.,
Sept. 9, 12:30 pm; 436 Clemens Hall
Dydo is co-author of Gertrude Stein: The Language
That Rises: 1923-1934. She is also the editor of A Stein Reader and co-editor of The
Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder.
Arundhati Roy
Talk /
Live Interview: “Another World is Possible: A Conversation with Arundhati Roy,”
hosted by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now
Thurs.,
Sept. 9, 8pm; Central Presbyterian Church (One Symphony Circle), $10
Arundhati
Roy is the author of The God of Small
Things and Power Politics. This
event is co-sponsored by Visions for a Better World.
THE POETICS PROGRAM PRESENTS
Poetry
Reading
Wed., Sept. 15, 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Students
affiliated with SUNY Buffalo’s Poetics Program read from works in progress.
Following
James Joyce: Dublin to Buffalo
A
Documentary Produced and Directed by Stacey Herbert and Patrick Martin
Mon.,
Sept. 20, Screenings at 12 pm and 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420
Capen Hall
Following James Joyce: Dublin to Buffalo is a Bloomsday Centenary documentary. The Poetry
Collection’s Joyce exhibition, A Centennial Bloomsday at Buffalo, runs
through Sept. 22nd.
Alan Filreis
Talk:
“Why Can’t Modernism and Communism Get Along?: Stevens’ ‘The Man with the Blue
Guitar’ and Its Detractors”
Thurs.,
Sept. 23, 12:30 pm; 436 Clemens Hall
Filreis’
books include Stevens and the Actual
World and Modernism from Right to
Left.
Le
Sexe Qui Parle III featuring Susan Howe
Gender
Week
Fri.,
Sept. 24; 120 Clemens Hall
2:30-3:45
pm: Student Poetry Reading
4:00-5:00
pm; Poetry Reading featuring Susan Howe
Howe
is a poet and critic, whose books include The
Midnight, Pierce Arrow, Kidnapped, and The Birthmark. Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo since 1989,
Howe was recently named the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry.
Raymond Federman
Prose
Reading
Wed.,
Sept. 29, 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books
Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Federman
is a novelist, poet, translator, critic, and scholar. His works have appeared
in many major literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad.
Margaret Fisher and Robert Hughes
Talk:
“The Music of Ezra Pound and its Relationship to His Literary Theories”
Fri., Oct. 1, 12:30 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Margaret
Fisher is the author of Ezra Pound’s
Radio Operas: The BBC Experiments, 1931-1933. Robert Hughes’s credits
include the sound recording Ego Scriptor
Cantilenae: The Music of Ezra Pound. Together they authored Cavalcanti: A Perspective on the Music of
Ezra Pound.
2nd Annual Buffalo
Indie Lit Luau
A
Celebration of the Literary Arts and Small Press Publishing Culture
Fri.&
Sat., Oct. 1 & 2, 9 am-4 pm; Medaille College
Bob Perelman
Poetry
Reading
Thurs., Oct. 7, 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Perelman
is the editor of Writing/Talks and sixteen books of poetry, most recently, Playing Bodies.
Myung Mi Kim
Poetry
Reading
Wed.,
Oct. 13, 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Kim is the author of five books of poetry, most recently, Commons, and has been a professor of English at SUNY Buffalo since 2002.
Taylor Brady and Stephen Ratcliffe
Reading the Shape of Sound: Aesthetics of
Aural Embodiment
Talk/Poetry
Reading
Weds.,
Oct. 20, 7-9 pm; Rust Belt Books (202 Allen St.)
Taylor
Brady is the author of Microclimates,
33549, and Is Placed/Leaves. Ratcliffe has published twenty books, including Portraits & Repetition and SOUND / (system).
Ammiel Alcalay, Ales Debeljak, &
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Balkan Poetry Festival
Talk: “On
Balkan Poetry and Poetics”
Fri.,
Oct. 22, 12:30 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Poetry
Reading
Fri.,
Oct. 22, 8 pm; Just Buffalo’s Hibiscus Room (2495 Main St., Suite 512)
Slovenian
poet Ales Debeljak is the author of The
Child and The City. Bosnian poet Semezdin Mehmedinovic is the author of Nine Alexandrias and Sarajevo Blues (translated by Ammiel
Alcalay). Ammiel Alcalay is a poet, translator, scholar, and the author of From the Warring Factions.
Ben Marcus
Exhibit
X Fiction Series
Tues., Oct. 26, 7 pm; Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (341 Delaware Avenue)
Ben
Marcus is the author of The Age of Wire
and String, Notable
American Women, and The Father
Costume.
Derek Beaulieu, Greg Betts,
& Rob McLennan
The
Exchange Rate Reading Series
Poetry
Reading
Fri.,
Oct. 29, 8 pm; 74 Cottage Street, Upper
Apt.
Marcella Durand & Jena Osman
Poetry
Reading
Tues.,
Nov. 2, 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Jena Osman is the author of four books of poetry and co-editor of Chain. Marcella Durand is the author of Western Capital Rhapsodies and former editor of the St. Mark’s Poetry Project Newsletter.
Matt Hart
Poetry
Reading
Thurs.,
Nov. 4, 8 pm; The Library at Huber Hall, Medaille College
Hart co-edits the literary journal/art object Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety.
Marilyn Hacker
Oscar
Silverman Annual Poetry Reading
Fri.,
Nov. 5, 7 pm; 250 Baird Hall
Hacker
is the author of several books of poetry, including Desperanto: Poems 1999-2002 and Selected
Poems, 1965-1990, which received the Poets’ Prize.
Brendan Lorber and Sasha
Steensen
Poetry
Reading
Fri.,
Nov. 12, 8 pm; The Hibiscus Room at Just Buffalo (2495 Main St., Suite 512)
Brendan
Lorber is the editor of lungfull magazine
and author of Corvid Aurora. Sasha
Steensen is the author of A Magic Book,
winner of the 2004 Alberta Prize from Fence Books.
Jalal Toufic
Flicker at Buffalo: Correspondences in New
Media, Film and Poetry
Talk:
“Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal”
Wed.,
Nov. 17, 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Film
Screening
Wed.,
Nov. 17, 8 pm; Squeaky Wheel (175 Elmwood Avenue)
Talk:
“The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster”
Thurs., Nov. 18, 4 pm; Poetry / Rare Books Collection, 420 Capen Hall
Jalal
Toufic is a writer, film theorist, and video artist. He is the author of (Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in
Films, Over-Sensitivity, Forthcoming, and Undying Love, or Love Dies. He has taught at California Institute
of the Arts, University of California at
Berkeley, and USC. He presently lives in Lebanon.