In anticipation to the series of activities we will have this semester of Spring 2010 with Margaret Randall, you can enjoy these samples from the mythical journal El Corno Emplumado, published by her and Sergio Mondragón during the sixties.  The activities will follow this schedule:

Monday, March 15 at 6:30 pm, The Skylight Room (9100) : Beats and Beyond.  Documenting the Poets of the 60’s
with Cecilia Vicuña, Melanie La Rosa, and Henry Ferrini.

Monday, March 22 at 6:30 pm, The Skylight Room (9100):  New Visions, New Activism, New American Poetry:  Margaret Randall in Conversation

Tuesday, March 23 at 6:30 pm, The Ph. D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages (4116):  Memory and Oral History:  A Personal Journey.  Organized by the Literary Theory Study Group and the Colombian Studies Group

These activities are possible thanks to the support of The Center for the Humanities, the Doctoral Students Council, the Lost and Found Project, and the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages.

Join poet and editor Annie Finch, along with contributors to the anthology Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form, for a lively discussion of how contemporary poets use and understand forms. The conversation, like the book, will juxtapose traditional formalism and Flarf, the American long poem and native Hawaiian poetry, rhyme in Paul Muldoon and textual variability in New Media poetry, Susan Howe and Lucinda Roy, jazz and Asian American poetics, and much more. Featuring Marilyn Hacker, Patricia Smith, Tyler Hoffman, and Stefania deKenessey. Presented by the Center for the Humanities and the GC Poetics Group. Moderated by Corey Frost.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010. 6:30 pm. At the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue New York, Rm. 9206.
Multiformalisms : Postmodern Poetics of Form. (Essays. Edited by Annie Finch and Susan M. Schultz. Textos Books.)

The Postcolonial Studies Group invites you to a special event to celebrate and discuss two new books: Lopamudra Basu (University of Wisconsin, Stout) and Cynthia Leenerts (East Stroudsburg University) will discuss their anthology Passage to Manhattan: Critical Essays on Meena Alexander, and Meena Alexander (Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY) will be present to discus her own Poetics of Dislocation.

March 26, 4-6pm

CUNY Graduate Center 4th floor English Lounge (4406),  365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016