[Wgcp-whc] Jan Wagner poems; next session 10-12, and a reading on Weds

[Richard Deming]

Dear Poeticians,

as promised, I am sending via email a swath of poems by Jan Wagner, both in the original German and in translation.  Also included are a short essay as well as a note by one of his translators about the process of translating. These will be the basis of our next session, which will be on Oct 12 from 3-5 PM in room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center.  Then Wagner himself will join us for a conversation about his work and contemporary German poetry on October 26.  Below I will paste Wagner's official bio.

And why not?  Here's a video of Wagner reading (auf Deutsch, natürlich): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErFZM2nWOpA

Jan Wagner was born 1971 in Hamburg and has been living in Berlin since 1995. He is a poet, a translator of Anglo-American poetry (Charles Simic, James Tate, Simon Armitage, Matthew Sweeney, Jo Shapcott, Robin Robertson, Michael Hamburger, Dan Chiasson and many others), a literary critic (Frankfurter Rundschau, Der Tagesspiegel and others) and has been, until 2003, a co-publisher of the international literature box Die Aussenseite des Elementes („The Outside of the Element“). Apart from numerous appearances in anthologies and magazines, he has published the poetry collections Probebohrung im Himmel („A Trial Drill in the Sky“; Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2001), Guerickes Sperling („Guericke’s Sparrow“, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004), Achtzehn Pasteten (“Eighteen Pies”, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2007) and Australien (“Australia”, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2010) and, as translator and editor, collections of selected poems by James Tate, Der falsche Weg nach Hause („The Wrong Way Home“, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2004), Matthew Sweeney, Rosa Milch (“Pink Milk”, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008) and Simon Armitage („Zoom!“, 2011). With the poet Björn Kuhligk he edited the comprehensive anthologies of young German language poetry Lyrik von Jetzt. 74 Stimmen („Poetry of Now. 74 voices“, Dumont Verlag, Cologne 2003) and its sequel Lyrik von Jetzt zwei. 50 Stimmen (Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2008) and co-operated on the book Der Wald im Zimmer. Eine Harzreise (“A Forest Inside the Room. A Journey Across the Harz Mountains”, Berliner Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2007), an hommage to Heinrich Heine. A selection of his essays, Die Sandale des Propheten. Beiläufige Prosa (“The Prophet’s Sandal. Incidental Prose”), was published 2011 by Berlin Verlag. For his poetry, which has been translated into thirty languages, he has received various scholarships (2002 in the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben, 2004 as Heinrich-Heine-resident in Lüneburg, 2008 as „writer-in-residence“ at Oberlin College, Ohio/USA, and 2011 in the German Academy in Rome/Villa Massimo, among others) and literary awards, most recently the Alfred Gruber Award (2004), the Mondsee Poetry Award (2004), the Anna-Seghers-Award (2004), the Ernst-Meister-Award for Poetry (2005), the Arno-Reinfrank-Award (2006), the Wilhelm-Lehmann-Award (2009), the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis of the city of Tübingen (2011) and the Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis (2011).

This will be an exciting opportunity to talk with this rising star of international poetry.



Also, I wanted to pass on word about a reading curated by our very own Katie Yates that is occurring this Weds (an open mic precedes the main event, readings by two friends of WGCP).

Onward,
Richard Deming, WGCP coordinator 



 

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 October 3rd, 2012 at

7:30 – 8:00pm           Open readings (bring your own poems to share)

8:00 – 9:00pm         Readings by Michael Kelleher and Deborah Poe

Michael Kelleher is the author of Human Scale and To Be Sung (Blaze Vox). He moved with his family to New Haven this year to work at the Beinecke Library as Program Director for the Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes.

Deborah Poe is a professor of English at Pace University and founder and curator of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit at Mortola Library.  She is the author of the poetry collections the last will be stone, too(2013), Elements (2010), and Our Parenthetical Ontology (2008),

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..."

Refreshments will be served but feel free to bring your favorites

NO ALCOHOL PLEASE.

FREE PARKING AVAILABLE



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