[Wgcp-whc] 2nd Koethe book available, session this Friday, and 2 readings this week

[Richard Deming]

Dear Friends,

some reminders/announcements.  We will be meeting this Friday, Nov 9, from 3 PM -5PM in room B 04 the Whitney Humanities Center to discuss the work of poet/philosopher John Koethe. The focus of the discussion will be his new book of poems ROTC Kills. Copies of this book are available in room 116 of the WHC.  These are free for members of the group.  Also available are copies of Koethe's book of essays on poetry and poetics, Poetry at One Remove.  These books go quickly so don't delay in getting yours. 

Here is a review of ROTC KIlls from Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2012/09/rotc_kills_by_john_koethe_reviewed_.html

And here is a review of the book by former WGCP visitor John Yau: http://hyperallergic.com/59653/john-koethe-rotc-kills/

And below I'll paste word about a poetry reading happening this afternoon (including a WGCP member-at-large Anna Moschovakis) and a reading this Weds by our very own Christina O'Connor, Katie Yates, and Charles Douthat,

A full week of poetry to counteract last week's destruction.

Onward,
Richard Deming, WGCP Coordinator





Poetry Reading: Devin Johnston and Anna Moschovakis
Monday, November 5, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
 
Devin Johnston is the author of several collections of poetry, including Sources (2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, Aversions (2004) and Telepathy(2001). His prose writing includes the critical study Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (2002) and Creaturely and Other Essays (2009). A former poetry editor for the Chicago Review from 1995-2000, Johnston co-founded, and co-edits, Flood Editions with Michael O’Leary. He lives in St. Louis and teaches at Saint Louis University.
 
Poet, translator, and editor Anna Moschovakis is the author of two books of poetry, You and Three Others Are Approaching a Lake (Coffee House Press, 2011), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, and I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone (Turtle Point Press, 2006). Her translations from the French include Albert Cossery’s The Jokers (New York Review Books, 2010), Annie Ernaux’s The Possession (Seven Stories Press, 2008), and Georges Simenon’s The Engagement (New York Review Books, 2007). Her awards include fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Fund for Poetry, and a translation fellowship from Le Centre National du Livre. Since 2002, Moschovakis has been a member of the publishing collective Ugly Duckling Presse, in the capacity of editor, designer, administrator, and printer. She currently teaches at the Pratt Institute and at Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts at Bard College.

YOU ARE INVITED TO
A FREE Evening of Poetry brought to you by
Katie Yates and Infinite Well
 
123 COURT STREET DOWNTOWN NEW HAVEN
 
Wednesday November 7th, 2012 at
7:30 – 8:00pm         Open readings (bring your own poems to share)
8:00 – 9:00pm         Readings by Charles Douthat and Christina O’Connor
Charles Douthat’s first book of poems, “Blue for Oceans,” won the L.L. Winship/Pen New England Award as the best book of poetry published in 2010 by a New England writer. His poems have appeared online in Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, and in many magazines and journals. Three poems from “Blue for Oceans” were featured on Garrison Keillor’s “Writers Almanac.” Charles graduated from Stanford University in 1972. He practices law and works in New Haven, Connecticut. Learn more at charlesdouthat.com
Christina O’Connor, a member of the Yale Working Group in Contemporary Poetics, Christina is an eclectic writer of jazz-based lyric song.
Katie Yates is a mother and Adjunct Professor at St. John's University, Queens.  Her book poem for the house (Stockport Flats, 2011) acknowledges "I have lived in many houses. The first a house in Algeria (with Great Danes, a trip to Madrid where I was born.  The second in Malawi..."
FREE PARKING & Hot Tea AV

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