<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Camerados--</div><div><br></div><div>the minutes from our last session, a dynamic conversation led by Hilary Kaplan about the poet Angelica Freitas as well as the process of translation, is forthcoming. However, I wanted to send a note that alerted people to the plethora of events over the next 7 days that involve friends of WGCP, past visitors, or work that touches on the group's interests and activities. The first event is tomorrow!</div><div> Maybe it is isn't a thousand stars, but there is a lot to take in. Information on these can be found at our blog: <a href="http://wgcp.wordpress.com/">http://wgcp.wordpress.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thus,</div><div>Richard</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>_____</div><div><p style="text-align: center;">Ann Lauterbach</p><p style="text-align: center;"><em>The Given and the Chosen</em></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Tuesday, October 12, 6pm</b></p><p style="text-align: center;">Yale School of Art: Sculpture Building, Studio 204</p><p style="text-align: center;">1156 Chapel Street</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br></p><p style="text-align: center;">Lauterbach is the author of several poetry collections, including <em>Or to Begin Again</em>
(Penguin, 2009), which was nominated for the National Book Award, and
which takes its name from a sixteen-poem elegy inspired by both <a href="http://www.poets.org/lcarr">Lewis Carroll</a>‘s Alice and <a href="http://www.poets.org/tseli">T. S. Eliot</a>‘s <a href="http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/18993">The Wasteland</a>. She is also the author of <em>Hum</em> (2005), <em>If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000</em> (2001), <em>On a Stair</em> (1997), <em>And for Example</em> (1994), <em>Clamor</em> (1991), <em>Before Recollection</em> (1987), and <em>Many Times, but Then</em> (1979), as well as a book of essays, <em>The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience</em>.</p></div><div><br></div><div>-----------------------------</div><div><h5 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: bold; font-style: inherit; font-size: 14px; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 20px; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); "><i>Yale C2 Distinguished Lecture Series</i>: David Cope, Dickerson Emeriti Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz</h5><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><b>Wednesday, October 13</b><br>October 13, 2010, 5 p.m. Distinguished Lecture: Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Room 102 (63 High Street)<br>October 14, 2010, 4:30 p.m. Master's Tea: Saybrook College (Master's House, 90 High Street)<br>Free Admission</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 16px; "><br></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">Distinguished Lecture Title: Burning Issues<br>Tea Title: A Conversation With David Cope</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">For more information about David Cope, please visit:<a href="http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(42, 110, 187); ">http://artsites.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/</a> </div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; ">------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 32, 78); font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The Graduate Poets’ Reading Series presents: Matthea Harvey</span></strong><b><br><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thursday, October 14 at 7:00, Linsly-Chittenden 317, 63 High St.</span></strong></b><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; ">Matthea Harvey has published three collections, most recently, Modern Life (Graywolf Press, 2007), which earned her the 2009 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award, and a New York Times Notable Book. Her first children’s book, The Little General and the Giant Snowflake, illustrated by Elizabeth Zechel, is forthcoming from Tin House Books. Matthea is a contributing editor to jubilat, Meatpaper and BOMB. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence and lives in Brooklyn. She earned her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She currently lives in Brooklyn and teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.<br> <br><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Books will be for sale at the reading (cash or check only).</span></strong><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; ">Any questions, please contact Justin Sider (<a href="mailto:justin.sider@yale.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">justin.sider@yale.edu</a>).</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; ">--------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "><p style="text-align: center;">Bill Berkson<br>
<em>Divine Conversation:<br>
Art, Poetry, & the Death of the Addressee<br>
</em>Yale School of Art<br>
36 Edgewood Avenue, Room 204<br><b>
Monday, October 25<br>
6 pm</b></p><p>Bill Berkson is the author of more than sixteen poetry collections, including <em>Serenade, Fugue State</em>, and his 1960s collaborations with Frank O’Hara,<em> Hymns of St. Bridget & Other Writings</em>. A selection of his criticism, <em>The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003</em>,
appeared from Qua Books in 2004. He was the Distinguished Mellon
Lecturer for 2006 at the Skowhegan School of Art. His most recent
publication is <em>Gloria</em>, a set of new poems accompanied by etchings by Alex Katz (Arion Press).</p></div></div></body></html>