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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Dear Members of the Group in Contemporary Poetics,<BR>
I am back in Baton Rouge. Busy summer and busy academic year ahead. The program for the Fall looks wonderful and I will keep up from afar, but may be in Connecticut some Friday afternoon. Who knows?<BR>
I would like to find a members of the group who would be willing to write an encyclopedia entry for a forthcoming "Dictionnaire des Créatrices" that Les Editions des Femmes will be publishing. I am the North American editor and plan to have entries on Rosemarie Waldrop, Susan Howe and her sister Fanny, etc. The articles can be written in English. We have translators and can be of various lengths. Of course, I know at least one member who might want to write directly in French. I would like contributions from every one of astute members on the Group WGCP. Please suggest your favorite women writers (we are not limited to poets) and I will send you the information on format, etc. if you would like to do more than one entry or have names to suggest, I would be delighted to hear from you.<BR>
Adelaide Russo<BR>
Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature<BR>
Louisiana State University<BR>
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From: wgcp-whc-bounces@mailman.yale.edu on behalf of richard.deming@yale.edu<BR>
Sent: Sat 9/1/2007 10:07 AM<BR>
To: wgcp-whc@mailman.yale.edu<BR>
Subject: [Wgcp-whc] Wg/Poetics--fall agenda and 1st meeting<BR>
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Dear All,<BR>
<BR>
A new academic year is dawning and I write to let everyone know what the Whitney<BR>
Humanities Center Working Group in Contemporary Poetics has planned for the<BR>
coming semester. I first<BR>
want to remind everyone that the archives of the minutes for past meetings are<BR>
stored online <A HREF="http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/wgcp-whc/">http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/wgcp-whc/</A><BR>
<BR>
The schedule of meetings and what the group will be reading is available here:<BR>
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<A HREF="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/working-group-in-contemporary-poetry/wgcp-schedule-and-readings/">http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/working-group-in-contemporary-poetry/wgcp-schedule-and-readings/</A><BR>
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But let me also paste all the events here. As you'll note, this list also<BR>
includes readings at the Beinecke by poets of particular interest to our group.<BR>
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WGCP Meeting<BR>
Friday, September 14, 3pm<BR>
Readings: Rosmarie Waldrop, Curves to the Apple, others TBA<BR>
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Rosmarie Waldrop Visit<BR>
Friday, September 21, 3pm<BR>
Readings: Rosmarie Waldrop, Curves to the Apple, others TBA<BR>
<BR>
WGCP Meeting<BR>
Friday, September 28, 3pm<BR>
Readings: Rachel Tzvia Back, On Ruins and Return, and selections from Led by<BR>
Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (University of Alabama Press)<BR>
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Rachel Tzvia Back Visit<BR>
Friday, October 5, 3pm<BR>
Readings: Rachel Tzvia Back, On Ruins and Return, and selections from Led by<BR>
Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (University of Alabama Press)<BR>
<BR>
WGCP Related Event<BR>
Tuesday October 16th, 4 pm<BR>
Charles Bernstein, Poetry Reading Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<BR>
Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series<BR>
<BR>
WGCP Meeting<BR>
Friday, October 19, 3pm<BR>
Readings: Christian Bök texts TBA<BR>
<BR>
WGCP Related Event<BR>
Thursday, November 1, 4pm<BR>
Christian Bök Reading at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<BR>
Sponsored by the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection<BR>
<BR>
Christian Bök Visit<BR>
Friday, November 2, 3pm<BR>
Readings: Christian Bök texts TBA<BR>
<BR>
WGCP Related Event<BR>
Thursday, November 15th, 4 pm<BR>
Graham Foust & Elizabeth Robinson Poetry Reading at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall<BR>
Street<BR>
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series<BR>
<BR>
Marianne Moore discussion with Patricia Willis, Curator of the Yale Collection<BR>
of American Literature at Beinecke Library<BR>
Friday, November 30, 3pm<BR>
Readings: TBA<BR>
Meeting Location: Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<BR>
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WGCP Meeting<BR>
Friday, December 7, 3pm<BR>
Readings: TBA<BR>
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As you'll note our first meeting is slated for Sept 14. We will be reading<BR>
Curves to the Apple by Rosmarie Waldrop (New Directions), who will join us for<BR>
a discussion of her work on 9/21. This book reprints three of Waldrop's most<BR>
important collections--Reproduction of Profiles, Reluctant Gravities,and Lawn<BR>
of Excluded Middle. We will also read a handful of essays from her recent<BR>
collection of essays, Dissonance (U of Alabama Press). We have ordered 12<BR>
copies of Curves and these are available for free to group members (on a first<BR>
come, first served basis). These can be picked up at the office of the Whitney<BR>
Humanities Center--below the mailboxes you'll see some slots. In one of those<BR>
slots you'll find photocopies of Waldrop's essays. Some copies of Curves are<BR>
there and the rest are in a marked box on the floor, directly below our slot.<BR>
I ask that whoever picks up the last copy e-mails me if he/she can. We cannot<BR>
buy extra copies of the book but we can provide more photocopies of the essays<BR>
as needed. Curves as also available at Labyrinth and at Yale's Sterling<BR>
Library.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
Waldrop is one of the most important figures in avant-garde writing in the<BR>
United States. She is the<BR>
author of countless books (17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of<BR>
criticism Wikipedia informs me) and is the much celebrated translator of Edmond<BR>
Jabes, Oskar Pastior, and numerous others. She also runs (with her husband,<BR>
Keith) Burning Deck, a press<BR>
of inestimable influence and importance in the modernist/avant garde tradition.<BR>
<BR>
A link to her biography from the Dictionary of Literary Biography is<BR>
here:<A HREF="http://thirdfactory.net/archive_waldrop.html">http://thirdfactory.net/archive_waldrop.html</A><BR>
A useful interview is here: <A HREF="http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/cooperman.htm">http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/cooperman.htm</A><BR>
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It will be a full semester with a number of exciting, thought-provoking guests.<BR>
Be sure to spread word to anyone who might be interested in what we are about.<BR>
The group is open to anyone interested in collegial, generative, open<BR>
discussions of poetry and poetics in the experimental, avant garde,modernist<BR>
tradition.<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
And so,<BR>
Richard Deming, Group Secretary and Co-Coordinator<BR>
<BR>
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The Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics meets every other Friday<BR>
at 3.00 PM in room 116 at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University to<BR>
discuss problems and issues of contemporary poetry within international<BR>
alternative and /or avant-garde traditions of lyric poetry. All are welcome to<BR>
attend.<BR>
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<A HREF="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke/">http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/readings-at-beinecke/</A><BR>
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