[Wgcp-whc] next session--10/16 with Dan Beachy-Quick

[Richard Deming]

Dear Friends,

On Friday, October 2, the WGCP met for our first of two sessions devoted to Dan Beachy-Quick’s latest collection of poems, gentlessness.  I am attaching a set of questions that arose from that compelling and generative discussion of the work.  It should give everyone an idea of what was covered.  The conversation circulated around the tension and affinities between tradition and experimentation, between private and the personal, and issues of how these poems challenge notions of subjectivity that draw upon lyric traditions while also complicating them.  

The questions I am attaching will serve as prompts for our next session, Friday October 16th from 3 PM - 5 PM in room B04 of the Whitney Humanities Center.  The poet himself will join us that day for an organic, collegial dialogue about his work.  We look forward to seeing you at the next session  And do feel free to invite any interested parties. The WGCp is open to everyone, even first time visitors.

I’ll paste below word of two upcoming events that might be of interest (one happening today!).


Onward, ever,

Richard Deming, Group Coordinator 



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Subject: TODAY: The Bagley Wright Lecture Series presents Srikanth Reddy
 
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Today, October 7, at 4:00pm in LC 211, Srikanth Reddy will present "The O of Wonder: A Syzygy" as part of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry. In this talk, Reddy traces a history of wonder in the Western poetic tradition from Homer to Milton to Ronald Johnson. This event is free and open to the Yale community.

Srikanth Reddy is the author of two books of poetry–Facts for Visitors (2004), and Voyager (2011)–both published by the University of California Press. A book of criticism, Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. He has received fellowships and awards from the Asian American Writer’s Workshop, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Creative Capital Foundation, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and the doctoral program in English at Harvard University, Reddy is currently an Associate Professor of English a the University of Chicago. 

The Bagley Wright Lecture Series seeks to provide mid-career poets with the opportunity to explore in depth their own thinking on the subject of poetry and poetics, and to create lasting works of criticism and poetics that will help current practitioners in the art of poetry, along with scholars and general readers, to more fully understand poetry as it is written and read in our time.

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Please join us for a poetry reading by Andrew Motion on Thursday, October 15 at 4:30 p.m. in LC 211. 
 
Andrew Motion is President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England and co-founder of The Poetry Archive. His latest project is Poetry By Heart.
 
The Customs House is the latest collection from the former Poet Laureate. The book is in three sections, and opens with a sequence of war poems, Laurels and Donkeys, which draws on soldiers’ experiences from the First and Second World wars, through to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
The Customs House follows hard on the heels of his acclaimed sequel, Silver ~ Return to Treasure Island (Jonathan Cape), in which Long John Silver’s daughter and Jim Hawkins’ son return to the scene of their fathers’ adventures.
 
Andrew Motion’s poetry has received the Arvon/Observer Prize, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. He was knighted for his services to literature in 2009 and was UK Poet Laureate from 1999 until 2009. He now lives in Baltimore, MD where he is currently a Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University.
 
 
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