<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Poetics seminarians,<div><br></div><div>Marjorie Welish will be joining us on Friday Oct 9 for a discussion of her work. We have just made available an interview between Welish and Judith Goldman, as well as Welish's piece that was a recent George Oppen memorial lecture. The interview especially is useful, touching on a number of issues raised during out initial engagement with her latest book.</div><div><br></div><div>These are available through a link found here:</div><div><a href="http://wgcp.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/additional-readings/">http://wgcp.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/additional-readings/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also, 9 more copies of Welish's <i>Isle of Signatories</i> have arrived. These are found at our boxes in the main reception area of the Whitney Humanities Center. Also, copies of Peter Gizzi's Outernationale have arrived and are at the same place. People should grab a copy of that as well. However, as ever, we ask that only people who think that it is probable that they'll make one if not both sessions devoted to Gizzi should take copies.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, I wanted to note two upcoming events that are related to the WGContemporary Poetics. On Oct 8 at 12.20 the poet and translator Cole Swensen (a frequent visitor to our sessions) will be reading at the Yale Art Gallery. Information is available here: </div><div><a href="http://calendar.yale.edu/events/yuag/CAL-2c9cb3cc-235de35f-0123-a9b2f56c-00004df3bedework@yale.edu/">http://calendar.yale.edu/events/yuag/CAL-2c9cb3cc-235de35f-0123-a9b2f56c-00004df3bedework@yale.edu/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also on Friday Nov 12th and Sat the 13th at the Beinecke Library, there will be a conference on Italian and Russian futurism. Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University, will provide the keynote address: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">The Audacity of Hope: Futurist Aura and National Difference in the Early Manifestos.</span></div><div><i><br></i></div><div> Paolo Valesio of Columbia University, one of the WGCP's members-at-large will speak on <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; ">The 'Venice Preserved' by F.T. Marinetti</span></div>
Paolo Valesio, Columbia University<div><br></div><div>A program of events and registration is available here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/futurism/index.shtml">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/futurism/index.shtml</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And as a reminder: the Working Group in Contemporary poetics <span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and </span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Poetics meets every other Friday at 3.00 PM in room 116 at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University to </span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">discuss problems and issues of contemporary poetry within international alternative and /or avant-garde traditions of</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">lyric poetry. All are welcome to attend.</span></font></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">Onward,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;">Richard Deming, Minister of Information</span></div></body></html>