[Yale-readings] Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Keston Sutherland at Yale

[Kuhl, Nancy]

This coming Thursday and Friday, we will be visited by two extraordinary poet-critics, Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Keston Sutherland. Please join us for a series of discussions on their recent work, and to hear them read from it. You'll find event information below; contact david.gorin at yale.edu<mailto:david.gorin at yale.edu> for copies of the readings.

Keston Sutherland at the Working Group on Contemporary Cultures
Thursday, September 19th, 5:30 pm
Green Hall, 1156 Chapel St
Room G32 (in the basement)

Geoffrey G. O'Brien at the Working Group on Contemporary Poetics
Friday, September 20th, 3:00 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St
Room 116

Geoffrey G. O'Brien and Keston Sutherland poetry reading
co-hosted by WAVEMACHINE<https://www.facebook.com/groups/110601392436162/> and the Graduate Poets' Reading Series<http://english.commons.yale.edu/graduate_poets/>
Friday, September 20th, 8 pm
The People's Arts Collective
212 College St
join the reading on Facebook here<https://www.facebook.com/events/392824944176714/>

The Working Group on Contemporary Cultures will host Keston Sutherland for a discussion of his latest work, The Odes to TL61P-alongside a newly-translated passage from Adorno's Minima Moralia, Silvia Federici's short essay "Why sexuality is work," and two short essays Keston has written on the poetry of John Weiners and the spirit of revolution in the letters of Rosa Luxemburg respectively. A PDF with the readings (minus the Adorno, which is still forthcoming) and two interviews is available from david.gorin at yale.edu.

The Working Group on Contemporary Poetics will host Geoffrey G. O'Brien for a discussion of his latest work, People on Sunday. A PDF of poems from the book that Geoffrey has encouraged us to read, along with a recent interview are available from david.gorin at yale.edu.

On Friday evening, the two poets will read their work at an event hosted jointly by the Graduate Poets Reading Series, the WAVEMACHINE poetry series, and the People's Arts Collective of New Haven.

We hope you can join us for these events.

David Gorin, Josh Stanley, Justin Sider, Paul Franz, Caleb Smith, Richard Deming, and Kenneth Reveiz

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GEOFFREY G. O'BRIEN is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press. His most recent book, People on Sunday, was published this September by Wave Books. His chapbooks include Hesiod (Song Cave, 2010), and Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions, 2010). He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien (Minus A Press, 2012) and (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (Quemadura, 2006). O'Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.

KESTON SUTHERLAND is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry, most recently The Odes to TL61P (Enitharmon, 2013), and a book of criticism, Stupifaction: a radical anatomy of phantoms (Seagull, 2011). Sutherland is a Professor of Poetics at the University of Sussex, the editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID, and co-editor (with Andrea Brady) of Barque Press. He co-directs the Sussex Poetry Festival together with Sara Crangle and Daniel Kane. This year, he is visiting the University of California, Berkeley as the Holloway Poetry Fellow.

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