[Yale-readings] April 5, 4pm: Susan Howe at Beinecke

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Susan Howe, Poetry Reading &
Performance with Musician David Grubbs
Thursday, April 5th, 4:00pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series
Contact: nancy.kuhl at yale.edu<mailto:nancy.kuhl at yale.edu> ;  http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/2012/03/22/susan-howe-reading/

Poet Susan Howe, winner of the 2011 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, and musician David Grubbs will perform a collaborative piece based on Howe's award-winning volume That This.   This is the third collaborative work Howe and Grubbs have created together; they performed their second collaboration, "Souls of the Labadie Tract," at Beinecke Library in 2009 (see a description of the event here:  http://beineckepoetry.library.yale.edu/2009/01/21/performance-souls-of-the-labadie-tract/).

Poet Susan Howe is the author of numerous books of poems including: That This (winner of the 2011 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry awarded by the Yale University Library), Souls of the Labadie Tract, The Midnight, Pierce-Arrow, and Singularities. Musician David Grubbs has made many solo records, played in a number of groups (Squirrel Bait, Bastro, Gastr del Sol, Red Krayola, Wingdale Community Singers), and frequently collaborates with writers and artists. He is an Associate Professor in the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He teaches in Brooklyn College's MFA program in Performance and Interactive Media Arts (PIMA) and Brooklyn College's MFA program in Creative Writing, and is a member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM).

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