[Wgcp-whc] First session, this Friday

[Richard Deming]

Comrades,






Just a reminder that the WGCP will be roaring to life this Friday from 3-5 PM in Room 116 of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University (the corner of Church St and Wall St).  Our first session brings with it our first guest, Professor Michel Delville, a poet and one of the foremost experts on the prose poem genre, which will be the focus of our discussion.  Professor Delville will talk about a historical context for the genre, indicate the controversies and arguments surrounding it, and suggest a way of looking at the field as it currently stands.

Attached to an earlier email, you will find some of Delville's essays about the prose poem, including the introduction to his groundbreaking study, The American Prose Poem: Poetic Form and the Boundaries of Genre (U of Florida Press, 1998). These will serve as the basis for our discussion on 9/14. If you didn't receive those, email me and I can forward them to you. We will also look at his new collection of his own prose poems, Third Body.  

Here is a link to a very useful review by Marjorie Perloff of Delville's The American Prose Poem: http://marjorieperloff.com/reviews/delville-prose/

  Michel Delville is a writer and musician born in Liège, Belgium. He is the author of the groundbreaking study The American Prose Poem;as well as J.G. Ballard;Hamlet & Co (with Pierre Michel); Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (with Andrew Norris); Food, Poetry, and the Art of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde, and many other essays pertaining to comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies. He teaches literature at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. His awards as a writer and essayist include the SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize and the 2001 Alumni Award of theBelgianAmerican Educational Foundation. As a musician, he has recorded and toured extensively with various bands such asThe Wrong Object and Alex Maguire Sextet, as well as high-profile jazz and rock musicians including Elton Dean, Harry Beckett, Annie Whitehead and Ed Mann. He was recently signed to the New York-based label Moonjune Records. 

As always, our sessions are open to everyone, so do feel free to spread the word to anyone who might be interested. And remember, our log maintains a schedule of coming sessions: http://wgcp.wordpress.com/

Did I mention that there will be wine on Friday?


In solidarity,

Richard Deming, Coordinator






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