[Yale-readings] APHORISMS: A CONFERENCE ON SHORT WRITINGS, Sat. April 1, 10AM, Hartford Public Library

[Kuhl, Nancy]

APHORISMS: A ONE-DAY CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP ON SHORT WRITINGS

Saturday April 1, 2017, 10am to 4:30pm
Hartford History Center
Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street, Hartford CT

Opening talk—
JAMES GEARY
Celebrate the art of the aphorism with James Geary: His presentation will explore the witty power of aphorisms in literature and daily life through the lively juggling of words & ideas. Geary is the foremost contemporary authority on the aphorism.

JAMES GEARY is the deputy curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard and the former editor of the European edition of Time magazine. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller The World in a Phrase: A Brief History of the Aphorism, I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World, and Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists.

Presentations by three contemporary aphorists—

Alfred Corn: Concision, Concentration, Poetry
ALFRED CORN is the author of eleven books of poems, the most recent titled Unions (2015) and two novels, the second titled Miranda’s Book, which also appeared in 2015. He has published two collections of essays, The Metamorphoses of Metaphor and Atlas: Selected Essays, 1989-2007.  Fellowships for his poetry include the Guggenheim, the NEA, an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and one from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, Connecticut College, The University of Cincinnati, and UCLA.  In 2013 he was made a Life Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2015 he was a speaker at the opening of a new museum in Wuzhen, China, dedicated to the life and work of the painter and writer Mu Xin.  This past April Chamán Ediciones in Spain published Rocinante, a selection of his work translated in Spanish, and it is also scheduled for publication in Mexico. A new collection of essays titled Arks & Covenants will be published in 2017. This past October, Roads Taken, a celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alfred Corn’s first book All Roads at Once was held at Poets’ House in New York City, and next year he will be inducted into the Georgia Writers’ Hall of Fame.

Sharon Dolin: Sequencing the Whole Fragment
SHARON DOLIN is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Manual for Living (2016) and Whirlwind (2012) both from the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her other recent books are: Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press 2015 reissue) and Burn and Dodge, which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her aphoristic sequences have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, Fourth Genre, Hotel Amerika, The Kenyon Review online, and the Seneca Review, and her aphoristic sequence “French Flares” is forthcoming in Terrain. Selections of her aphorisms are in the anthology Short Flights as well as in the forthcoming Short Flights 2. The recipient of a 2016 PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant, she directs and teaches in Writing About Art in Barcelona each June.
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George Murray: The Aphorist as Undertaker
GEORGE MURRAY is the author of 9 books: six books of poetry, one book for children, and two books of aphorisms: 2010's bestseller Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms, and Quick: Aphorisms, to be published spring 2017. His work is widely anthologized and has appeared in magazines and journals around the world, including Brick (Canada), Contemporary Verse (Canada), Granta (UK), Hotel Amerika, Iowa Review, Jacket (Australia), London Magazine (UK), New American Writing, New Welsh Review (UK), The Ontario Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Pasture (New Zealand), Radical Society, etc. He teaches poetry at the University of Toronto as well as the University of British Columbia. The former Poetry Editor for the Literary Review of Canada, as well as NewPoetry, George lives in Newfoundland, where he is the poet laureate."

Aphorism Workshop—
Starting at 1:45 pm, James Geary will lead an interactive workshop on how to write aphorisms.

Group Reading—
3:30 pm, conference participants will have the opportunity to read their original aphorisms. Followed by a Q&A with the contemporary aphorists.

Conference is Free.

Jim Finnegan
jforjames at aol.com<mailto:jforjames at aol.com>
860-508-2810

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