[Wgcp-whc] WG/CP--April's Agenda (April is the fullest month)

[richard.deming at yale.edu]

Dear Friends of Poetry,

the minutes from our Gleize discussion are still forthcoming (so sorry for the
delay) but I did want to give a seperate e-mail giving a sense of the events to
come as we'll be especially active over the next two weeks.

Friday April 7th--we will meet at our usual time and place to discuss the work
of Ann Lauterbach.  Lauterbach is the author of 7 books of poems and is one of
the most compelling poets of her generation.  The recepient of numerous grants
and awards--including a Guggenheim and a Macarthur-- Lauterbach is the David
and Ruth Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature Copies at Bard
College.

Copies of her recent books of poems, Hum, and her book of essays on art and
poetics, Night Sky, have been distributed to the group.  In terms of the
essays, we might best put most of our attention to her essay on "the whole
fragment," as that speaks most directly to her own poetics.

Monday April 10th--the group will meet for a special session from 10-Noon.  We
will be joined by Jean-Marie Gleize for a discussion of his work, Ponge, and
contemporary poetry in France. Glieze will be on campus as part of his visit to
the French department for whom he will be giving a reading.  We are temendously 
fortunate to have such a rare visit by Gleize.  Note that we will not be meeting
in our usual room.  Instead  we will meet in Room 208 of the Whitney Humanities
center.

I'll provide his bio: Born in 1946, Jean-Marie Gleize is a professor of French
literature at the École Normale Supérieure of Letters and Social Sciences.
Writer, Series Director ("Niok,? Al Dante), Founder and Director of the
review Nioque, from Al Dante Editions, he has published many books of poetry,
including Etats de la main mémoire (1979), Donnant lieu (Lettres de casse,
1982), Instances (Collodion, 1985), Léman, Le principe de nudité intégrale,
and Les chiens noirs de la prose (Seuil, ?Fiction et Cie,? 1990, 1995 and
1999 respectively). He is also the author of several essays, including Poésie
et Figuration (Seuil, 1983) and A noir: Poésie et littéralité (Seuil, 1992).

Friday, April 14th--we will have another special session (though in our usual
room 116 of the WHC, and from 3-5, as usual).  This time we will be joined by
Ann Lauterbach for a conversation about her work.  One can view her author page
at http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/lauterbach/  This will provide links to poems,
essays, and recordings of her reading.

As you can see, The Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics is taking
full advantage of the lengthening days, warmer weather, and increased energy
that April brings.

Also, below I will paste information of a one time seminar that is being offered
elsewhere that is, more or less, a show and tell of materials relating to Black
Mountain College being offered by a curator from UConn.  This is of marked
interest to the reserach of a number of members.


Thus,
R. Deming, Group Secretary and Cruise Director

> In celebration of April '06 as National Poetry Month, Manchester Community
> College is pleased to offer the following poetry
>
> courses:
>
>
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> LIVE AND LETTERS OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN POETS
>
>
>
> Black Mountain College in the 1950s was a place of innovation, where
> artistic energies came together to ignite a post-World War II "avant-garde
> reawakening." The writers that emerged from this experimental college
formed
> an affinity with one another and a common identity forged by the
> unconventional ideas of their teacher, Charles Olson. Their work as
writers
> and publishers of nontraditional forms of poetry gave rise to new notions
> about poetic language, self-expression, and postmodernism, and altered the
> literary landscape of the 20th century. How did these poets create? How
did
> their ideas influence one another? Join us as we read the work and
personal
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> letters of Black Mountain poets, including Olson, Robert Duncan, Edward
> Dorn, and Robert Creeley. Materials from the archival collections of their
> personal papers-housed at the Dodd Research Center, University of
> Connecticut-will be used. Together we will explore how these poets'
>
> written conversations shaped their thoughts, passions, and work.
>
> CRN #11874 1 Saturday, 4/8, 1-4 p.m. MCC Bldg. V5 V151 Fee: $25
>
> Instructor: Melissa Watterworth received her master's of library and
> information science from Simmons College in Boston. She is a member of the
> Society of American Archivists and the New England Archivists. She serves
as
> the curator of Literary, Natural History, and Rare Books Collections at
the
> Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut.
TO MORE INFORMATION, AND TO REGISTER, PLEASE CALL MCC'S CONTINUING EDUCATION
OFFICE AT (860) 512-2800 OR VISIT http://www.mcc.commnet.edu
<http://www.mcc.commnet.edu/> (FOLLOW "FORM DEPOT" TO "CONTINUING EDUCATION"
TO "REGISTRATION FORM")