<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Friends,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Before giving a short account of our up coming activities, I would like to congratulate Richard Deming for having won the 2009 Norma Farber First Book award. That book is called _Let's Not Call It Consequence_ (Shearsman, 2008). For more information please visit <a href="http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com">http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com</a>/</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Congratulations Richard!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Now, yet again, onward ... </div><div><br></div><div>On Friday, 27 March, 3pm-5pm, the working group in contemporary poetics will meet at WHC116 to discuss select poems and prose works by Jacques Roubaud in English translation. </div><div><br></div><div>On Monday, 30 March, 3pm-5pm, the WGCP will convene a special session at the Beinecke Library (rm?) with Jacques Roubaud (in English). Directly following our conversation, Jacques Roubaud will give a brief reading at the Yale Bookstore (in Frenglish), sponsored by Cécil Cohen of the World Languages Center. The meetings and readings are open to all.</div><div><br></div><div>The readings selected for these sessions are numerous, but short. After providing a short lists (in descending priority) of what to read for our 27 March meeting and thereafter, I will briefly outline some of the context behind those selections. The second and third group of suggested readings will follow under separate cover. Additional links are provided at the bottom of this email. </div><div><br></div><div><div>A. READINGS: short list</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">First group (poems and poetics)</span></div><div><br></div><div>EXCHANGES IN LIGHT (stay tuned for note signaling availability of this volume at the WHC 116) </div><div>CIRCLES IN MEDITATION (prose poems)</div><div>COMPOSE, CONDENSE, CONSTRAIN (essay)</div><div>POETRY&ORALITY (essay)</div><div><br></div><div></div></div></div></body></html>