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<!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst">On Friday April 5, the WGCP met to discuss the work
of Alice Notley, specifically one of her latest collections, Culture of
One.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>We will meet again next
Friday, April 19<sup>th</sup> to continue our discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>At that session Notley will join us
herself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>That will be at our
regular time and location: 3 PM-5PM in room B04 of the Whitney Humanities
Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Notley will be giving a
reading at the Beinecke the day before, Thursday the 18<sup>th</sup> at 4 PM.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p>Below I will paste a series of questions that are
drawn from our recent conversation about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Culture
of One</i>. These questions will be sent to the poet herself and thus will
serve as a kind of framework for our next session.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>They will also serve to give people a general sense of the
discussion. I will attach to this email an essay entitled “The
Feminine Epic,” which is taken from Notley’s book of essays <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Coming After</i>. I will also attach an essay that was referred to in our last session, “The Poet as Fool and Priest” by Sigurd Burckhardt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Our thanks to Sharif Elmusa for bringing
this to our attention.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>And I
want to let people know that one of New York correspondents, the gifted poet
Meena Alexander will be on campus on April 23 to give a talk at 7.30. Here is
the info:</p>
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Unacknowledged Legislators of the World” </b>with <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
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Alexander is Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New
York. She has written award-winning poetry, essays, and novels,
including <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The Shock of Arrival:
Reflections on Postcolonial Experience, Illiterate Heart,</i> and
her autobiography <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Fault Lines</i>.
Previously, she has been Visiting Fellow at the Sorbonne, Frances
Wayland Collegium Lecturer at Brown University, Writer in Residence at the
Center for American Culture Studies at Columbia University, and Writer
in Residence at the National University of Singapore. In 2009, she
received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Literature from the South
Asian Literary Association.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</tbody></table><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p>And lastly, I just want to let people know that
Susan Howe will be giving an informal talk *roughly 15-20 minutes long) this
Monday 4 PM in the lobby of the Beinecke.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Here is the info:</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p>Join the Beinecke for a gallery talk and tea with
poet Susan Howe on Monday, April 15 at 4pm. Howe will speak briefly about the
fragment of Sarah Pierpont Edwards’ wedding dress
in the Jonathan Edwards
Papers and about the role it played in the development of her awarding winning
book <em><span style="font-family:Cambria;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin">That This</span></em>; Howe's notebooks are
also on display in the current exhibition, <a href="http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/exhibitions/hand-celebrating-manuscript-collections">By
Hand</a>.</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">All best to all,</p><p class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Richard Deming, Group Coordinator</p><div></div></p></body></html>