<html><head><base href="x-msg://29/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Dear Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>First, it does seem that the Robertson books are all taken. However, I would be able to get people a pdf of Nillig, if they write me directly.</div><div><br></div><div>Second, this coming week will have a number of events that should be of interest to people on this list because the events are largely connected to WGCP members.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thursday, past WGCP visitor Christian Bök will be on campus for two events. The first is run by our very own Kevin Holden and includes two other frequent WGCP guests, Cole Swensen and Susan Howe:</div><div><br></div><div>THE OBJECT OF POETRY<br><br>A panel with Christian Bök, Susan Howe,<br>Cole Swensen, and Shanxing Wang<br>February 21st at 2 pm<br>Room 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center<br><br>for information, contact <a href="mailto:kevin.holden@yale.edu">kevin.holden@yale.edu</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>++++</div><div><br></div><div>Then later that evening Bök performs at the Yale Art Gallery in conjunction with our very own Jennifer Gross's astonishing Société Anonyme exhibition. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="content_title_time margin_top_25"><h1> <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4">Performance, Sound and Furies: A Performance of Die Ursonate and Other Lautgedichten
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Christian Bök, Professor of English, Calgary University, Alberta, Canada
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Contemporary poet Christian Bök
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century modernists along with his own poetry in the Gallery lobby.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>Visit the special exhibition The Société Anonyme: Modernism for
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<a href="http://artgallery.yale.edu" target="_blank">Yale University Art Gallery</a>, <a href="mailto:artgalleryinfo@yale.edu">artgalleryinfo@yale.edu</a>, <nobr>203-432-0600</nobr>
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However, given space limitations, it is important that you RSVP if you are interested in attending this event.</nobr></div><div><nobr><br></nobr></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Feb 16, 2013, at 3:02 PM, Kuhl, Nancy wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Friends—Please join us if you can…please RSVP if you plan to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Nancy<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Small Press Reading Room at Beinecke Library</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Friday, February 22, 3-4pm</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">An open-house style opportunity to read and handle recent publications by Fence Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, Les Figues, Mud Luscious, Poetry Society of America Chapbook Prize Series, Wave Books, Flying Object, Litmus Press and others. Come survey the state of the art in alternative literary publications and contemporary poetry and prose at the Beinecke Library.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Please RSVP using the following form: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dFpuN0psZjlkdFVEVFMwNkREdmRJbFE&usp=sharing" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsNIJqX-_na6dFpuN0psZjlkdFVEVFMwNkREdmRJbFE&usp=sharing</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">Co sponsored by the Yale Lit and Yale Collection of American Literature<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">For more information, contact Nancy Kuhl: <a href="mailto:nancy.kuhl@yale.edu" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">nancy.kuhl@yale.edu</span></a> or <a href="tel:203.432.2966" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">203.432.2966</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); ">About visiting the Beinecke Library classrooms: <a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/teaching-beinecke/seminar-room-use-guidelines" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; "><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); ">http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs-events/teaching-beinecke/seminar-room-use-guidelines</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; ">Note: All visitors are asked to leave their belongings, including coats and hats, in the lockers and racks on the main floor. Please do not bring food or drink into the library. Yale affiliates should bring their Yale ID downstairs with them in order to sign in.</span><span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"> </font></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, our very own Katie Yates had her reading series make the local news:</div><div><br><a href="http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/poetry_boaz/#.UR4ewTz6Cjs.email">http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/poetry_boaz/#.UR4ewTz6Cjs.email</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>With anticipation, </div><div>Richard Deming, WGCP Coordinator </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br></body></html>