Friday, May 4, 4-6pm The Graduate Center, CUNY Dana Ward is the author of This Can’t Be Life (Edge Books), Typing ‘Wild Speech’ (Summer BF Press), The Drought (Open 24hrs), &, with the artist Paul Coors, I Want This Forever (Perfect Lovers Press). He lives in Cincinnati, edits Cy Press, & works as an advocate [...]
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Rethinking Autobiographies: Dana Ward & John Coletti in Conversation
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Published on February 23, 2012 10:40 pm.A Conversation: Robert Grenier & Ramsey Scott
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Published on February 23, 2012 10:28 pm.Thursday, March 8, 3:30-5pm The Graduate Center, CUNY, Rm 5409 Poet, essayist, and drawing poem text artist Robert Grenier, a leading figure in the Language Writing movement, attended Harvard College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught literature and creative writing at U.C. Berkeley, Tufts, Franconia College, New College of California, and Mills College. [...]
Epic Animalia: A Reading & Conversation with Anne Waldman & Jeffrey Yang
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Published on February 23, 2012 9:15 pm.Thursday, March 8, 7-9pm CUNY Graduate Center, Rm 5414 Anne Waldman was born in Millville, New Jersey, in 1945. Recently deemed a “counter-cultural giant” by Publisher’s Weekly, Waldman is a poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist. From 1966 until 1978, Waldman ran the St. Mark’s Poetry Project in New York, and in 1974, together [...]
THE NOVEL AS A FORM OF POETRY CRITICISM: A Conversation with Ben Lerner
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Published on November 2, 2011 1:40 pm.Friday, November 18, 2011 7:30PM in The Skylight Lounge @ The CUNY Graduate Center (5th Avenue, b/w 34th & 35th) This event will feature a talk by the poet, novelist, and National Book Award finalist, Ben Lerner, concerning his recent novel, Leaving the Atocha Station (Coffee House Press, 2011), followed by a short conversation, moderated [...]
PLEASURE & ABASEMENT IN POETICS: A Conversation between Wayne Koestenbaum & Ariana Reines
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Published on November 2, 2011 1:19 pm.Thursday, November 3, 2011 6:30PM @ the CUNY Graduate Center, Rm. 5409 (5th Avenue, b/w 34th & 35th)
Tangled Spaces: Poets Writing Motherhood
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Published on September 28, 2011 11:35 am.Thu Sep 29, 2011, 4:00pm | Martin E. Segal Theatre Meena Alexander, Kimiko Hahn, Nicole Cooley, Lee Ann Brown, Tina Chang, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Idra Novey, Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, Rachel Zucker, Cate Marvin, Erica Hunt How do we theorize a poetics of motherhood? Attentive to divergent experiences of motherhood and using the maternal as a field that hovers outside neat categorization, this symposium will investigate [...]
Revels Reading Spring 2011
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Published on May 13, 2011 12:54 pm.GC Poetics Group’s bi-annual Revels Reading. Grad Center writers share their work Friday from 5:00-6:00 pm in Room 4409 of the Graduate Center. This round’s line-up featured fiction, poetry, hybrids, translations, and more. ****STARRING**** Kyle Waugh Andrew Statum Sara Jane Stoner Leah Souffrant Rainer J. Hanshe Louis Bury faculty member Ammiel Alcalay And hosted by Margaret Carson
The GC Poetics Group Showcase Showdown 2011
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Published on May 2, 2011 2:20 pm.Grad Center Poets Ana Božičević Tonya Foster Tim Peterson Jason Schneiderman moderated by Leah Souffrant Join us on Tuesday, May 3 at 6:00 pm in room 5414 of the Graduate Center for the upcoming Showcase Showdown. This event features a panel discussion, interrogation, reading, recitation, celebration of GC student writing, featuring GC writers. ***The [...]
April 29 Friday Forum: Retallack & Richardson
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Published on April 24, 2011 1:38 pm.“Imagining a Language”: Joan Retallack & Joan Richardson in Conversation Friday, April 29, 4PM @The CUNY Graduate Center, Room 4406 (34th Street @ 5th Avenue) co-sponsored by the English Department and The GC Poetics Group Free & Open to the Public Joan Retallack is the author of eight books of poetry, including Memnoir, How To [...]
BARGE: Detouring the Everyday a Talk/Performance/Workshop with David Buuck
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Published on March 22, 2011 2:23 pm.Thursday, March 24, 2011 5:00PM to 8:30PM Room 5417 @ CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street) free! open to the public! BARGE – the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics – has organized several (de)tours, actions, and installations in and around the San Francisco Bay Area, investigating regional sites and spaces that are underrepresented [...]
