[Wgcp-whc] Friday--John Koethe 3-5 PM

Tue Dec 4 22:39:17 EST 2012

Dear fellow Poeticians,

I write to remind everyone that we will have our last session of the semester this Friday from 3 PM-5 PM in room B04 of the Whitney Humanities Center.  This room is located in the basement, at the end of the hall.  Our session will be devoted to the work of poet/philosopher John Koethe--specifically his most recent book, ROTC Kills.  The author himself will be joining us for that conversation.  As ever, this discussion is open to anyone who might be interested.  First time visitors are always welcome. I circulated a list of questions drawn from our previous session on Koethe's work.  If you missed those and need them again, feel free to email me directly (richard.deming at yale.edu). Also, I'm attaching to this email a relatively brief essay about Koethe's work (from 2001) by Andrew Kaphe originally printed in the Chicago Review.Friday's conversation will be very generative and provocative--is there a better way to end the semester?

Here is his bio:

John Koethe was born in San Diego in 1945 and received an A.B. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Harvard in Philosophy. He has taught since 1973 at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, from which he will retire at the end of 2009 as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy. He has published nine books of poetry, most recently ROTC Kills (2012), North Point North: New and Selected Poems (2002), Sally's Hair (2006), and Ninety-Fifty Street (2009), all from HarperCollins; two books of philosophy, The Continuity of Wittgenstein's Thought (1996) and Scepticism, Knowledge, and Forms of Reasoning (2005), both from Cornell University Press; and a book of literary essays, Poetry at One Remove. He has received the Frank O'Hara Award for Poetry, the Kingsley Tufts Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the NEA. He was the first Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, and has been a Fellow at the American Academy of Berlin and the Elliston Poet in Residence at the University of Cincinnati. He spent the spring semester of 2010 as the Bain-Swiggett Professor of Poetry at Princeton.

And a link to a reading he gave at U of Chicago can be found here: http://www.wbez.org/episode-segments/poem-present-john-koethe-reading-his-work

And as it is the end of the semester there are other events happening that are of interest to people on this list. To keep this list "low flow" I'll bundled the various announcements I have been asked to pass along.  I paste word of two upcoming events below.  Then below that is word of a kickstarter campaign led by our very own Ravi Shankar and regarding an upcoming publication by Drunken Boat, of which Ravi is editor.

Avanti,
Richard Deming, Group Coordinator

The Grad Poets Reading Series Presents:
A Poetry Reading with Juliana Leslie
Thursday, December 6
7pm in LC 317

Juliana Leslie was born in Cooperstown, New York. The author of More Radiant Signal (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and three chapbooks, Leslie is currently finishing a PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She will read from her just-released second collection,Green Is for World (Coffee House Press), which was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Ange Mlinko.

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BEINECKE VISITING FELLOW TALK

What Will Lettrism
Turn Out to Be? 

Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Beinecke Library, Room 39 

Published in 1954, Maurice Lemaître’s What is Lettrism?sought to define a movement that had been making headlines in Paris for nearly a decade. No arena of avant-garde experimentation seemed beyond its reach. Poetry, music, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture—the Lettrists announced a new approach to all of them. And in fact the creative energy unleashed by the movement rippled across postwar Europe (and well beyond) for decades to come. Yet today Lettrism is virtually unknown. Beyond a small coterie of initiates, combatants, and connoisseurs, it is remembered at best as a "precursor" of Situationism, or perhaps an esoteric form of Concrete Poetry. Now finishing a two-month fellowship at Beinecke, Frédéric Acquaviva will reveal some of the discoveries from his first plunge into the massive archive of Maurice Lemaître, acquired by Beinecke in 2009, as he discusses his continuing struggle to define Lettrism’s legacy in the tweny-first century, a task that has kept him busy for more than fifteen years.

Frédéric Acquaviva is a French composer living in Berlin. Working with authors such as Pierre Guyotat and Jean-Luc Parant, Frédéric composes experimental music and sound installations that focus on the possibilities of the voice. He is a specialist in the history of Lettrism and sound poetry and has orchestrated and produced the symphonies of Isidore Isou, Gabriel Pomerand, and Maurice Lemaître. In the last two years, Frédéric curated a major exhibition on Gil J Wolman, I am Immortal and Alive, at Barcelona’s MACBA, the first Parisian retrospective on Lettrism, Bientôt les Lettristes (with Bernard Blistène) in the Passage de Retz, and Specters of Artaud: Language and the Arts in the 1950s (with Kaira Cabanas) at the Reina Sofia in Madrid. He has written monographs on Jacques Spacagna and Bernard Heidsieck, and produced Radio/Phonies, a show on various artists and poets, including Henri Chopin, Marcel Hanoun, Pierre Albert-Birot, and Otto Muehl, for France Culture.

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Drunken Boat [http://www.drunkenboat.com<http://www.drunkenboat.com/>], international online journal of the arts, is publishing its second book in 2013: "The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry," a collection of micro-essays by Guggenheim-fellow and award-winning poet Lisa Russ Spaar who wrote many of the pieces as The Chronicle of Higher Education's Arts and Academe Poetry blogger.  We are convinced that in the right hands, this book could turn general readers and diverse groups of folks with curious intent back onto poetry, not to mention invigorate those who already love and linger over poems. Drunken Boat is currently raising funds to promote this book so I encourage you to support/share the following link about the book. Every little bit makes an immense difference:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1721544611/the-hide-and-seek-muse-annotations-on-contemporary

Lisa writes essays on a wide range of contemporary poets, including all of the ones listed below, and the essays become a kind of cultural commentary, expressing how in the strictures and measures of verse global and social diplomacy is waged and consumer culture critiqued. The book has already been celebrated by novelist Ann Beattie, who says "I loved every minute of reading this book!" The book should be out and available by March 2013 and you can preorder at [editor at drunkenboat.com<mailto:editor at drunkenboat.com>]. Thanks you for your support and best wishes for the end of the year.

Warmly,
Ravi 

POETS
Kazim Ali ~ Debra Allbery ~Talvikki Ansel ~ Jennifer Atkinson ~ David Baker ~ Jill Bialosky ~ Suzanne Buffam ~ Jennifer Chang ~ Ye Chun ~ Michael Collier ~ Randall Couch ~ Stephen Cushman ~ Kate Daniels ~ Kyle Dargan ~ Claudia Emerson ~ Monica Ferrell ~ David Francis ~ Gabriel Fried ~ Alice Fulton ~ Rachel Hadas ~ Brenda Hillman - Edward Hirsch ~ Jane Hirshfield ~ Mark Jarman ~ Laura Kasischke ~ Jennifer Key ~ L. S. Klatt ~ Joanna Klink ~ Hank Lazer ~ Paul Legault ~ Willie Lin ~ Maurice Manning ~ Cate Marvin ~ Heather McHugh ~ Erika Meitner ~ Carol Muske-Dukes ~ Amy Newman ~ Meghan O'Rourke ~ Eric Pankey ~ Kiki Petrosino ~ Carl Phillips ~ John Poch ~ Bin Ramke ~ Srikanth Reddy ~ Michael Rutherglen ~ Mary Ann Samyn ~ Philip Schultz ~ Sarah Schweig ~ Allison Seay ~ Ravi Shankar ~ Ron Slate ~ R. T. Smith ~ Larissa Szporluk ~ Mary Szybist ~ Brian Teare ~ William Thompson ~ David Wojahn ~ Charles Wright

BLURBS

For people who are a bit wary of poetry, this is the perfect antidote: the poems are amazing, and so are Lisa Russ Spaar’s short essays in the "Hide-and-Seek Muse".  There’s a sense of clarity about everything here (not that things aren’t complex; not that Lisa’s analyses aren’t fascinating constructs themselves, insightful and inspiring, though not intimidating.)  I’d think anyone who cares about an inner reality that might be somehow communicated – nailed; set free; amplified; questioned -- would embrace the chance to read poems that elucidate so muchabout the mind and the heart, and to understand better the urges embodied in the process of constructing a poem, which always speaks from its structure of restraint.  I loved every minute of reading this book.

                                                                       --Ann Beattie

Lisa Spaar has an intense and generous spirit.  She loves poetry and honors the people who read and write it.  Reading her you remember once again that there’s no such thing as a bad poem or a bad reader. Time will tell which ones were better and best.  Meantime people keep writing and reading, so Lisa follows many roads, some less traveled than others.  She has a wonderful eye for the wildflowers everywhere.

                                   --Jerome McGann

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