Monday, April 15, 2013, 3pm,

@ the Graduate Center, Rm 5409

Don Mee Choi was born in S. Korea and came to the U.S. as a student in 1981. Her poems have appeared in The Asian Pacific American Journal, Hawaii Pacific Review, disorient journalzine, and Gargoyle. The Morning News is Exciting (Action Books, 2010) is her first book. She also translates contemporary Korean women poets; her most recent is All the Garbage of the World, Unite! by Kim Hyesoon (Action Books, 2011). She is a recipient of a 2012 Lucien Stryck Asian Translation Prize, a 2011 Whiting Writer’s Award, a Daesan Translation Grant, a Korea Literature Translation Institute Translation Grant, an American Literary Translators Association Travel Fellowship, and has served as poet-in-residence at the Henry Art Gallery. She holds a BFA and an MFA from the California Institute for the Arts and a PhD in Modern Korean Literature and Translation from Union Institute and University. She lives in Seattle, where she is an instructor in adult basic education at Renton Technical College.

Thursday, April 4, 2013, 6-8pm

@ the Graduate Center, CUNY, Rm 5414

Maggie O’Sullivan born 20th July, 1951 Lincolnshire, England to Irish Catholic parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970′s and is involved in numerous performance/workshop presentations, courses and residences. Between 1973 and 1988 she worked for BBC-TV, latterly as a researcher and production assistant on arts documentary films, notably the award-winning Arena series. For the last 16 years, she has lived on the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.

You can learn more about Maggie O’Sullivan, as well as read samples of her writing and view images of her visual artwork, on her website: http://www.maggieosullivan.co.uk/index.html

Thursday, March 21, 2013, 6-8pm

@ the Graduate Center, CUNY, Rm 5409

Simon Pettet is an English-born poet and long-time resident of New York’s Lower East Side. He has compiled and edited Selected Art Writings (1998) of the poet James Schuyler, as well as Schuyler’s uncollected poetry, Other Flowers (2011), and has collaborated with photographer-filmmaker Rudy Burckhardt on Conversations about Everything and Talking Pictures. Pettet’s Selected Poems (1995) is still available from Talisman House, as is his 2006 collection, More Winnowed Fragments, as well as Hearth (2008), his collected poems.

Ignacio Infante will discuss After Translation: The Transfer and Circulation of Modern Poetics Across the Atlantic (Fordham University Press, 2013), which rethinks the theoretical paradigm of Anglo-American “modernism” based on the transnational, interlingual, and transhistorical features of the work of key modern poets writing on both sides of the Atlantic— namely, the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa; the Chilean Vicente Huidobro; the Spaniard Federico Garcia Lorca; the San Francisco–based poets Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Robin Blaser; the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite; and the Brazilian brothers Haroldo and Augusto de Campos.

Ignacio Infante (Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University) is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish at Washington University in St. Louis. His main fields of research include modern poetry, modernist and avant-garde poetics, Peninsular cultural studies, transatlantic literary studies, comparative literature, and translation theory.  He has also published two literary translations, Una ola (Barcelona: Random House Mondadori, 2002)—a translation into Spanish of John Ashbery’s A Wave, and Cómo viven los muertos (Barcelona: Random House Mondadori, 2003)—a translation of Will Self’s How the Dead Live.

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 the poetics of the maternal self and body through the experiences of women of color, adoptive mothers and single mothers.
Panel discussion with poets Meena Alexander, English, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kimiko Hahn, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Erica Hunt, independent scholar. Moderators: Nicole Cooley, Creative Writing and Translation, Queens College; Leah Souffrant, English, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Followed by a poetry reading with Meena Alexander, Lee Ann Brown,Tina Chang, Nicole Cooley, Marcella Durand, Betsy Fagin, Kimiko Hahn, Erica Hunt, Cate Marvin, Idra Novey,Tracy K. Smith, Leah Souffrant, Karen Weiser, and Rachel Zucker.

4:00: Panel Discussion
5:30: Reception
6:00: Poetry Reading

co-sponsored by the Poetics Group. Image (c) Jennifer Wroblewski.

http://centerforthehumanities.org/events/tangled-spaces-poets-writing-motherhood

Events Spring 2011

February 24: Chris Kraus : Where Art Belongs 6:30 in the James Gallery
February 25: Susan Howe in conversation with Stefania Heim – at 5:30 in the
James Gallery
March 23: Jonathan Mayhew, David Shapiro and Mark Statman in conversation about
Federico García Lorca’s poetic afterlife in English translation. 7:00 in the
Segal Theater
March 24: Workshop with David Buuck
April 29: Joan Richardson and Joan Retallack in conversation
May: Revels Reading by GC students and faculty

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TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice

This series of talks on queer poetics, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. For more information, visit the Tendencies website.

Spring 2011 Schedule:

March 9 – Christopher Nealon, Ana Bozicevic, Gregory Laynor & Astrid Lorange
March 28 – Barbara Hammer, Maggie Nelson, and Janlori Goldman
April 4 – Jack Halberstam, Rob Halpern, and Brenda Iijima
May 9 – Mary Baine Campbell, Ronaldo Wilson, and Paul Foster Johnson