<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>What with it being spring semester and all, there is a new slate of WGCP activities ahead of us. Our first session is coming up quick--we wil be meeting Friday, January 21 at 3 PM in Room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center. The focus of our discussion will be Jack Spicer's After Lorca, which is contained in My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer. We have bought 16 copies of this book and they can be found at the main office of the Whitney Humanities Center. These are free to members of the group, though we do ask that you only take one if you believe you can attend that session. And if you are going to grab a copy, 'd recommend doing so sooner rather than later because they tend to disappear quickly.</div><div><br></div><div>Spicer is an important figure in post-war avant-garde poetry and his influence and importance have only continued to grow in recent years. After Lorca is a collection that engages questions of form, tradition, translation, and voice in important ways. Later this week, I'll send some links to useful secondary material about Spicer and that book.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, I'll paste here the dates of our sessions for the coming semester. This info can also be found at our blog: <a href="http://wgcp.wordpress.com/">http://wgcp.wordpress.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>WGCP Meeting</strong><br>Friday, January 21, 3 p.m.<br>Readings: <em>After Lorca </em> By Jack Spicer</div><div><br></div><div><p><strong>WGCP Meeting</strong><br>
Friday, February 4, 3 p.m.<br>
Readings: <em>Sea Change</em> By Jorie Graham</p><p><strong>WGCP Meeting</strong>, <strong>Jorie Graham Visit</strong><br>
Friday, February 18, 3 p.m.<br>
Readings: <em>Sea Change</em> By Jorie Graham</p><p><strong>WGCP Meeting: a Discussion of the correspondence of Robert Creeley,<br>
led by editor Kaplan Harris</strong><br>
Friday, March 25, 3 p.m.<br>
Readings: TBA<br>
Location: Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street (<a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brbleduc/Guidelines_Seminar_Room.pdf">Beinecke Class Visitor Guidelines</a>)</p><p><strong>WGCP Meeting</strong><br>
Friday, April 15, 3 p.m.<br>
Readings: <em>Red Rover</em> by Susan Stewart; essays TBA</p><p><strong>WGCP Meeting</strong>: <strong>Susan Stewart Visit</strong><br>
Friday, April 29, 3 p.m.<br>
Readings: <em>Red Rover</em> by Susan Stewart; essays TBA</p></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>And finally I wanted to provide news about a forthcoming book to be published by a former WGCP core member who has gone out into the world. Micah Mattix, a former Yale fellow, is about to publish a book on Frank O'Hara that seems to be of specific interest to members of our group.. "Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying I." The book is due out any day and info is available here: <a href="http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=">http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=</a>^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=1611470463&thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Happy new year,</div><div>Richard Deming, Co-coordinator</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">The Working Group
in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics meets every other Friday </span>at 3.00 PM in room
116 at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University to discuss problems
and issues of contemporary poetry within international alternative and
/or avant-garde traditions of lyric poetry. All are welcome to attend.</div><div> </div></body></html>