[Yale-readings] REMINDER - Mark Jarman Reads Tonight (7:00, Founders Hall) at CCSU to Initiate the CT Poetry Circuit

[Nancy Kuhl]

Mark Jarman Reads Tonight (7:00, Founders Hall) at CCSU to Initiate the CT 
Poetry Circuit

>All Events are Free and Open to the Public
>and on the Central Connecticut State University campus
>1615 Stanley St., New Britain, CT 06050
>
> > Monday, November 8 - 7:00 pm - Founders Hall in Davidson
> > Connecticut Poetry Circuit presents Mark Jarman
> > Mark Jarman was born June 5, 1952, in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. He 
> earned a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974 and 
> an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1976. He is the author of 
> numerous collections of poetry: To the Green Man (Consortium, 2004); 
> Unholy Sonnets (2000); Questions for Ecclesiastes, which won the 1998 
> Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book 
> Critics Circle Award; The Black Riviera (1990), which won the 1991 Poets' 
> Prize; Far and Away (1985); The Rote Walker (1981); and North Sea (1978). 
> In 1992 he published Iris, a book-length poem.His poetry and essays have 
> been published widely in such periodicals and journals as American Poetry 
> Review, Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and 
> Southern Review. During the 1980s he and Robert McDowell founded, edited, 
> and published the controversial magazine The Reaper, selections from 
> which have been published in book form as The Reaper Essays (1996). A 
> collection of Jarman's own essays, The Secret of Poetry, was published in 
> 2000. He is also co-editor of Rebel Angels: 25 Poets of the New Formalism 
> (with David Mason; 1996). His awards include a Joseph Henry Jackson Award 
> and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John 
> Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He is a professor of English at 
> Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he lives with his 
> wife, the soprano Amy Jarman, and their daughters, Claire and Zoë.
> >
>Astragaloi
>by Mark Jarman
>
>We know there must be consciousness in things,
>         In bits of gravel pecked up by a hen
>To grind inside her coop, and spider silk
>         Just as it hardens stickily in air,
>And even those things paralyzed in place,
>         The wall brick, the hat peg, the steel beam
>Inside the skyscraper, and lost, forgotten,
>         And buried in ancient tombs, the toys and games.
>Those starry jacks, those knucklebones of glass
>         Meant for the dead to play with, toss and catch
>Back of the hand and read the pattern of,
>         Diversions to beguile the endless time,
>Never to be picked up again...They're thinking,
>         Surely, all of them. They are lost in thought.
>
>
>***************
>Ravi Shankar
>Poet-in-Residence
>Assistant Professor
>CCSU - English Dept.
>860-832-2766
>shankarr at ccsu.edu

Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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