Eileen Myles, author of more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction, articles, plays and libretti, gives a reading/talk on her new book The Importance of Being Iceland: Travel Essays in Art. She will be joined by writers and GC doctoral candidates Corey Frost and Erica Kaufman. Corey Frost is the author of My Own Devices, a collection of travel stories, and Erica Kaufman is the author of Censory Impulse.

Friday October 2nd, 2009 6:30 pm, Room TBA
Event followed by informal reception.  Cosponsored by The Center for Humanities

The Argotist Online has an interview with David Meltzer about ROCKPILE on the road, a touring collaboration that will be coming to the Grad Center on November 9.

The GC Poetics Group had an open meeting tonight, 9/11, at the Graduate Center, the first of the fall semester. There were a dozen members in attendance, a bottle of wine and some crackers were dispatched, and a long list of exciting upcoming events was discussed.

It was agreed, as well, that this blog space should be opened up to the group membership in general for announcements, suggestions, musings, debates, or even poetry. If you have something you want to add, you can do so yourself – just write to us (gcpoetics@gmail.com) and we’ll set you up with a blog user account.

This Saturday and Sunday: two days of books and readings from New York’s small press scene, at the 3rd annual Boog City Festival’s Small Press Fair. A number of current and former Grad Center writers will take part, including Ammiel Alcalay, Karen Weiser, Erica Kaufman, Tim Peterson, and Corey Frost.

The schedule is at http://welcometoboogcity.com/bc59.pdf.

September 12th and 13th, 2009, 12-8:30PM at Unnameable Books, 600 Vanderbilt Ave. in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn.

September 24th-25th
Belladonna* celebrates ten years of publishing and supporting the feminist avant-garde with a two-day conference on feminist poetics and activism. The conference launches on Thursday, September 24, with panels focusing on radical language processes and political thought, culminating in keynote performances by Kathleen Fraser, Erica Hunt, and Eileen Myles. On Friday, September 25, we will continue the conversation with a broad spectrum of panels focusing on a variety of topics including: the body as discourse, ecopoetics, multilingualism, exile and language, and writing from marginalized positions. The conference will conclude with a performance/collaboration between Carla Harryman, Catriona Strang & Christine Stewart, Sally Silvers, Lila Zemborain & Cecilia Torino. Other panelists and presenters include: Caroline Bergvall, Dodie Bellamy, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs, Zhang Er, Jeanne Heuving, Ann Lauterbach, Joan Retallack, Anne Waldman, Renaldo Wilson, and many others.
Onsite registration required. See http://belladonnaconference.blogspot.com for a complete schedule and registration information, or contact belladonnaseries@gmail.com.
The GC Poetics Group is proud to co-sponsor this event with Belladonna and with Center for the Study of Women and Society, the Ph. D. Program in English, and the Center for Humanities.