[Wgcp-whc] 1st session-1/21, Jack Spicer, also dates for this semester

[Richard Deming]

Dear All,

What with it being spring semester and all, there is a new slate of  
WGCP activities ahead of us.  Our first session is coming up quick--we  
wil be meeting Friday, January 21 at 3 PM in Room 116 of the Whitney  
Humanities Center.  The focus of our discussion will be Jack Spicer's  
After Lorca, which is contained in My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The  
Collected Poems of Jack Spicer.  We have bought 16 copies of this book  
and they can be found at the main office of the Whitney Humanities  
Center.  These are free to members of the group, though we do ask that  
you only take one if you believe you can attend that session. And if  
you are  going to grab a copy, 'd recommend doing so sooner rather  
than later because they tend to disappear quickly.

Spicer is an important figure in post-war avant-garde poetry and his  
influence and importance have only continued to grow in recent years.  
After Lorca is a collection that engages questions of form, tradition,  
translation, and voice in important ways. Later this week, I'll send  
some links to useful secondary material about Spicer and that book.


Also, I'll paste here the dates of our sessions for the coming  
semester. This info can also be found at our blog: http://wgcp.wordpress.com/



WGCP Meeting
Friday, January 21, 3 p.m.
Readings: After Lorca  By Jack Spicer

WGCP Meeting
Friday, February 4, 3 p.m.
Readings: Sea Change By Jorie Graham

WGCP Meeting, Jorie Graham Visit
Friday, February 18, 3 p.m.
Readings: Sea Change By Jorie Graham

WGCP Meeting: a Discussion of the correspondence of Robert Creeley,
led by editor Kaplan Harris
Friday, March 25, 3 p.m.
Readings: TBA
Location: Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street (Beinecke Class Visitor  
Guidelines)

WGCP Meeting
Friday, April 15, 3 p.m.
Readings:  Red Rover by Susan Stewart; essays TBA

WGCP Meeting: Susan Stewart Visit
Friday, April 29, 3 p.m.
Readings:  Red Rover by Susan Stewart; essays TBA



And finally I wanted to provide news about a forthcoming book to be  
published by a former WGCP core member who has gone out into the  
world.  Micah Mattix, a former Yale fellow, is about to publish a book  
on Frank O'Hara that seems to be of specific interest to members of  
our group.. "Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Saying I." The book is  
due out any day and info is available here: http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db= 
^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=1611470463&thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]


Happy new year,
Richard Deming, 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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