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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal">Dear Friends,</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">We are now at the beginning of a new semester and a new
academic year and it is time once gain for the Yale Poetics Group to spring to
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>This will be an especially
lively semester with a strong series of visitors and some additional readings
on campus that would interest people on this list. Moreover, our first two
visitors are two of the youngest that we have invited to campus. We’ll be very
cutting edge that way.</p><p class="MsoNormal">We will have three visitors to the WGCP this term.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The first two can be announced: Ben
Lerner and Claudia Rankine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As
soon as the third is finalized, I’ll announce that as well. As is our standard
practice, we will devote a session to discussing recent work by upcoming
visitors in advance of their arrival so that our conversation with the
respective writers can be as engaging and productive as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>As part of a inter-group collaboration,
these first two visitors are also being brought to campus to read by the
Graduate Student Poetry Series, run by our very own Justin Sider and Sarah
Stone. Thus, we will have multiple opportunities to get a sense of the work not
only on the page but live and in person as well.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The initial dates that we will meet are as follows:</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">9/16—discussion of Ben Lerner’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Mean Free Path</i></p><p class="MsoNormal">9/30—visit by Ben Lerner</p><p class="MsoNormal">10/21—Discussion of Claudia Rankine’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Don’t Let Me Be Lonely</i></p><p class="MsoNormal">11/11—visit by Claudia Rankine </p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">As is our usual policy, the WGCP will buy 16 copies of the
books to be discussed and will distribute them on a first-come, first served
basis. Lerner’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Mean Free Path</i> is
expected to arrive early next week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>When these appear, I will let people know when and where they can get a
copy. I’ll also give more of an introduction to Lerner and his work in that
email.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Our meetings on the dates above (all Fridays) are scheduled from
3-5 pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We meet in Rm 116 of the
Whitney Humanities Center on Yale Campus at 55 Wall Street (the corner of
Church and Wall).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Here are the scheduled readings that will be of related
interest to members of this list.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Rae Armantrout, Poetry Reading</span></strong><br>
Wednesday, September 14th, 4:00 pm<br>
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street<br>
<em><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Yale Collection of American Literature
Reading Series<o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Ben Lerner, Reading</span></strong><br>
Thursday, September 29th, 7:00 pm<br>
Linsley-Chittenden 317, 63 High Street<br>
<em><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Grad Poets Reading Series</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Dan Beachy Quick, Poetry Reading</span></strong><br>
Thursday, November 3rd, 4:00 pm<br>
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:
minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Claudia Rankine, Reading</span></strong><br>
Thursday, November 10th, 7:00 pm<br>
Linsley-Chittenden 317, 63 High Street<br>
<em><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">Grad Poets Reading Series</span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And of course we have a blog: <a href="http://wgcp.wordpress.com/">http://wgcp.wordpress.com/</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Since this is a new year, I do encourage people to spread
the word about the WGCP to anyone who might be interested.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Remember:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">The Working Group
in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics meets every other Friday<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">at 3.00 PM in room
116 at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">discuss problems
and issues of contemporary poetry within international<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">alternative and
/or avant-garde traditions of lyric poetry. All are welcome to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">attend.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt">My fellow conveners,
Jean-Jacques Poucel and Nancy Kuhl, join me in welcoming everyone back—and greeting
new members.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:13.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Unswervingly yours,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Richard Deming, Group Coordinator</p>
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