[Wgcp-whc] Wg/Poetics--Requests for Articles for Dictionary on Creative Women to be published in France from Adelaide Russo

Adelaide M Russo frruss at lsu.edu
Sat Sep 1 11:28:04 EDT 2007


Dear Members of the Group in Contemporary Poetics,
I am back in Baton Rouge.  Busy summer and busy academic year ahead.  The program for the Fall looks wonderful and I will keep up from afar, but may be in Connecticut some Friday afternoon.  Who knows?
I would like to find a members of the group who would be willing to write an encyclopedia entry for a forthcoming "Dictionnaire des Créatrices" that Les Editions des Femmes will be publishing.  I am the North American editor and plan to have entries on Rosemarie Waldrop, Susan Howe and her sister Fanny, etc.  The articles can be written in English.  We have translators and can be of various lengths. Of course, I know at least one member who might want to write directly in French. I would like contributions from every one of  astute members on the Group WGCP.  Please suggest your favorite women writers (we are not limited to poets)  and I will send you the information on format, etc.  if you would like to do more than one entry or have names to suggest,  I would be delighted to hear from you.
Adelaide Russo
Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature
Louisiana State University


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Subject: [Wgcp-whc] Wg/Poetics--fall agenda and 1st meeting
 
Dear All,

A new academic year is dawning and I write to let everyone know what the Whitney
Humanities Center Working Group in Contemporary Poetics has planned for the
coming semester.  I first
want to remind everyone that the archives of the minutes for past meetings are
stored online http://mailman.yale.edu/pipermail/wgcp-whc/

The schedule of meetings and what the group will be reading is available here:

http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/working-group-in-contemporary-poetry/wgcp-schedule-and-readings/


But let me also paste all the events here.  As you'll note, this list also
includes readings at the Beinecke by poets of particular interest to our group.
********************
WGCP Meeting
Friday, September 14, 3pm
Readings: Rosmarie Waldrop, Curves to the Apple, others TBA

Rosmarie Waldrop Visit
Friday, September 21, 3pm
Readings: Rosmarie Waldrop, Curves to the Apple, others TBA

WGCP Meeting
Friday, September 28, 3pm
Readings: Rachel Tzvia Back, On Ruins and Return, and selections from Led by
Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (University of Alabama Press)

Rachel Tzvia Back Visit
Friday, October 5, 3pm
Readings: Rachel Tzvia Back, On Ruins and Return, and selections from Led by
Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (University of Alabama Press)

WGCP Related Event
Tuesday October 16th, 4 pm
Charles Bernstein, Poetry Reading Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

WGCP Meeting
Friday, October 19, 3pm
Readings: Christian Bök texts TBA

WGCP Related Event
Thursday, November 1, 4pm
Christian Bök Reading at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Sponsored by the Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection

Christian Bök Visit
Friday, November 2, 3pm
Readings: Christian Bök texts TBA

WGCP Related Event
Thursday, November 15th, 4 pm
Graham Foust & Elizabeth Robinson Poetry Reading at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall
Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series

Marianne Moore discussion with Patricia Willis, Curator of the Yale Collection
of American Literature at Beinecke Library
Friday, November 30, 3pm
Readings: TBA
Meeting Location: Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street

WGCP Meeting
Friday, December 7, 3pm
Readings: TBA



As you'll note our first meeting is slated for Sept 14.  We will be reading
Curves to the Apple by Rosmarie Waldrop (New Directions), who will join us for
a discussion of her work on 9/21.  This book reprints three of Waldrop's most
important collections--Reproduction of Profiles, Reluctant Gravities,and Lawn
of Excluded Middle.  We will also read a handful of essays from her recent
collection of essays, Dissonance (U of Alabama Press). We have ordered 12
copies of Curves and these are available for free to group members (on a first
come, first served basis).  These can be picked up at the office of the Whitney
Humanities Center--below the mailboxes you'll see some slots.  In one of those
slots you'll find photocopies of Waldrop's essays.  Some copies of Curves are
there and the rest are in a marked box on the floor, directly below our slot.
I ask that whoever picks up the last copy e-mails me if he/she can.  We cannot
buy extra copies of the book but we can provide more photocopies of the essays
as needed.  Curves as also available at Labyrinth and at Yale's Sterling
Library.


Waldrop is one of the most important figures in avant-garde writing in the
United States.  She is the
author of countless books (17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of
criticism Wikipedia informs me) and is the much celebrated translator of Edmond
Jabes, Oskar Pastior, and numerous others.  She also runs (with her husband,
Keith) Burning Deck, a press
of inestimable influence and importance in the modernist/avant garde tradition.

A link to her biography from the Dictionary of Literary Biography is
here:http://thirdfactory.net/archive_waldrop.html
A useful interview is here: http://www.conjunctions.com/webcon/cooperman.htm

It will be a full semester with a number of exciting, thought-provoking guests. 
Be sure to spread word to anyone who might be interested in what we are about. 
The group is open to anyone interested in collegial, generative, open
discussions of poetry and poetics in the experimental, avant garde,modernist
tradition.


And so,
Richard Deming, Group Secretary and Co-Coordinator


The Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics meets every other Friday
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.










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