[Wgcp-whc] Lehman session this Friday, Lisa Robertson 1st session 2/15

[Richard Deming]

Dear All,

I'm writing for two reasons.  First, a reminder that we are meeting this Friday from 3PM-5PM (in room B04 of the Whitney Humanities Center) to discuss the work of David Lehman (specifically his latest collection, Yeshiva Boys--and I can send a pdf to anyone interested).  The poet himself will be on hand to join our conversation, and given his wit, erudition, and general knowledge of the state of the art of poetry, this should be an especially lively and engaging conversation.  We hope to see everyone there.  And as ever, our sessions are open to any interested parties, so do be sure to spread the word to anyone who might want to come and join our discussion with this poet.

Also, we will meet again next Friday February 15th to discuss the work of Lisa Robertson.  We will concentrate on her latest collection: R's Boat and a book of essays, Nilling.  We should have copies of these available to distribute at the Lehman session this Friday.  Here is Robertson's bio (pulled from the Poetry foundation website):

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Lisa Robertson

 
Poet Lisa Robertson was born in Toronto in 1961. She lived for many years in Vancouver, where she studied at Simon Fraser University, ran an independent bookstore, and was a collective member of the Kootenay School of Writing, a writer-run center for writing, publishing, and scholarship. While in Vancouver, Robertson was also involved in Artspeak Gallery, an alternative gallery that connects the visual arts and writing; she is an honorary member of their board of directors. 
 
Robertson is known for working in book-length projects. Her subject matter includes political themes, such as gender and nation, as well as the problems of form and genre; she has written works that explore literary forms such as the pastoral, epic, and weather forecast. Her books of poetry include XEclogue (1993); Debbie: An Epic (1997), nominated for a Governor General’s Award; The Weather (2001), which Robertson wrote during her Judith E. Wilson fellowship at Cambridge University;The Men (2006); and R’s Boat (2010). Her architectural essays are collected in Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (revised ed. 2010), and she has published a work of prose essays, Nilling (2012). Robertson has been the subject of a special issue of Chicago Review and was the Holloway poet-in-residence at the University of California-Berkeley in 2006. In 2005 she was awarded the PIP Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative Poetry in English.
 
Robertson has taught at the University of California-San Diego, Capilano College, Dartington College of Art, the California College of Art, and the University of Cambridge. She holds no degrees and has no academic affiliation, and supports herself through free-lance writing on art, architecture, astrology, interior design, and food. She currently lives in France.

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Robertson will then join us on Friday March 1 (from 3PM-5PM in room B04 of the Whitney Humanities Center) for a conversation about her poetry and poetics.  She will be reading the night before as well: Thursday, February 28, 2013  at 7 PM in LC 317 as part of the Graduate Poets Reading Series 




http://www.northernpoetryreview.com/interviews/carmelo-militano/lisa-robertson.html
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/03/on-rs-boat-correspondence-with-lisa-robertson/

And here is a really extensive (and really the best) interview with Robertson by our Colorado correspondent, Julie Carr:

http://www.eveningwillcome.com/issue25-jcarr-p1.html


Robertson has become one of the most talked about poets of her generation and given that she is a Canadian living in France there aren't that many opportunities to have this kind of contact.  

Anon,

Richard Deming, WGCP Coordinator 
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