Jessica Grim
Poetry Reading
Wed, Jan 21, 4 pm; CFA
Screening Room
Once co-editor of Big Allis
magazine and member of Vaudeville Without Organs performance art
ensemble, Jessica Grim is the author of numerous collections of poetry
including The Inveterate Life, Locale & Fray.
The Poetics
Program Presents
Wed, Jan 28, 4 pm; CFA
Screening Room
A reading of works in process.
Charles
Alexander
Poetry Reading &
Exhibition
Mon, Feb 9, 12:30 pm;
Poetry/Rare Books Collection
Charles Alexander is a poet, book artist, editor &
the executive director of Chax Press. He is the author of arc of light /
dark matter, Etudes: D & D & Near or Random Acts is
forthcoming in 2004.
Keith
Sanborn
Writers Making Film
Wed,
Feb 11, 4 pm; CFA Screening Room
Keith Sanborn, a NYC-based media artist, theorist, & curator, will present
Guy Debord’s films Society of the Spectacle & Refutation of all
judgments, whether in praise or hostile, which have up to now been brought on
the film called Society of the Spectacle. Guest
curated by Caroline Koebel.
Melissa Ragona,
Kyle Schlesinger & Thom
Donovan
Multi-media Poetry Event
Fri, Feb 13, 8 pm; Just
Buffalo’s Hibiscus Room, $4, $3 student, $2 members
Melissa Ragona is a poet &
installation artist working on a book-length manuscript From Radio Ear to
Granular Voice: The Sound of Experimental Film. Kyle Schlesinger is a poet,
bibliographer & printer. Thom Donovan’s poetry has recently appeared in Aufgabe
& Antennae.
David Gray
Chair of Poetry & Letters Candidates
Every Wed, Feb 18 – March 10,
4 pm; CFA Screening Room
Please join us for this special
series of readings by candidates for the David Gray Chair of Poetry &
Letters.
Lucie
Brock-Broido
Poetry Reading: Thurs, March
11, 4 pm; Location TBA
Discussion: 7 pm; Clemens 583
Lucie Brock-Broido, Director of Poetry
at Columbia, is the author of The Master Letters & Trouble in
Mind. Curated by Tim Dean.
Ammiel
Alcalay & Nick Lawrence
Discussion with Alcalay: Wed,
March 24, 12:30 pm; 438 Clemens
Poetry Reading: 8 pm; Just
Buffalo’s Hibiscus Room $4, $3 student, $2
members
Ammiel Alcalay is a poet,
translator, critic & scholar. His latest work, from the warring factions,
is a book length poem dedicated to the Bosnian town of Srebrenica. Nick
Lawrence’s poetry & prose have recently appeared in Grand Street, Talisman,
Object, Lyric&, Mirage, & Ecopoetics.
Jean Genet,
Germaine Dulac & Antonin Artaud
Writers Making Film
Wed,
March 24, 4 pm; CFA Screening Room
16mm Film Screening of Jean Genet’s prison love poem Un Chant D’Amour
& The Seashell & the Clergyman directed by Germaine Dulac &
written by Antonin Artaud. Guest curated by Caroline Koebel.
Nicole Markotic, Erin
Mouré & Lisa Robertson
Innovative Canadian Women
Writing
Talk & Panel Discussion:
Wed, Mar 31,
4 pm; Poetry/Rare Books
Collection
Poetry Reading: 8 pm; Rust
Belt Books
Nicole Markotic is the author of
Yellow Pages, & Minotaurs & Other Alphabets. Erin Mouré
is the author of eleven books of poetry, among them Search Procedures
& Furious. Lisa Robertson is the author of Debbie: An Epic &
The Weather.
John Taggart
Poetry Reading
Wed, April 7, 4 pm; CFA
Screening Room
Editor of the essential Maps
journal & author of Songs of Degrees: Essays on Contemporary Poetry and
Poetics, Taggart’s most recent book of poetry is When The Saints. A
new book, Pastorals, is expected out this Spring.
Stephen
Rodefer
Poetry Reading & Slide
Show
Fri, April 9, 8 pm; Just
Buffalo’s Hibiscus Room
Stephen Rodefer is the author of
numerous volumes of poetry & currently lives in Paris, where he is pursuing
a career as a painter.
Allen
Grossman
Poetry Reading: Thurs, April
15, 4 pm; Location TBA
Discussion: 7 pm; Clemens 583
Allen Grossman is the author of 14 books
of poetry & poetics, most recently Sweet Youth. Facilitated by Tim
Dean.
Lisa Jarnot
& Jonathan Link
Poetry Reading
Fri, April 16, 8 pm; Just
Buffalo’s
Hibiscus
Room $4, $3 student, $2 members
Lisa Jarnot is author of Some
Other Kind of Mission, Ring of Fire & Black Dog Songs.
Jonathan Link is Managing Editor at Slope Editions.
Andrew Levy
Poetry Reading
Wed,
April 21, 4 pm; CFA Screening Room
Andrew Levy is the author of Ashoka,
Paper Head Last Lyrics & Elephant Surveillance to Thought
among many other titles. With Bob Harrison, he edits Crayon.
Ed Roberson
Reading & Conversation
Fri,
April 23, 8 pm; Just Buffalo’s Hibiscus Room $4, $3 student, $2 members
Ed Roberson is the author of Atmosphere
Conditions, Just In/ Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected
Work & Voices Cast Out To Talk Us In.