I’m excited that Rae Armantrout is coming to LA on May 12th not only to read and talk to my undergraduate class in “American Poetry Since 1945” but also to give a reading and Q & A to all who are interested just minutes after the class. A real trooper!
If you are interested to coming to this and need help negotiating the wilds of UCLA parking or need information about public transportation and how to get to Humanities 193, please let me know!
One of my favorite poets in the Auden tradition, the “Irish” poet Paul Muldoon. I haven’t been up on his work for a long time but I’m sure he’s up to something clever and interesting.
Beckman Institute Auditorium
A writer of dazzling invention and resourceful wit, Paul Muldoon has been called by The Times Literary Supplement “the most significant English-language poet born since the Second World War.”
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the European Prize for Poetry, and the Griffin International Prize for Excellence in Poetry, he is currently poetry editor of the New Yorker and Howard G. B. Clark ’21 Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Creative Writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.
This event is free and open to the public.
Beckman Institute Auditorium is located on Michigan Avenue south of Del Mar Boulevard.
This looks like a really great event that I just found out about this morning. I’ve been meaning to see most of these writers for a long time! The website states:
What are the relationships between feminism, poetry and power? In a reading and performance, five American poets will define, discuss, question, subvert, celebrate and explode their varied feminist poetics.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014 : 7:00pm
The Ray Stark Family Theatre
School of Cinematic Arts 108
University Park Campus
Book signing to follow. Admission is free. Reservations required. RSVP at the links below beginning Monday, March 3, at 9 a.m.
USC Students, Staff and Faculty: To RSVP, click here.
General Public: To RSVP, click here.
via Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Continue reading Friends, Bitches, Countrymen: Contemporary Feminist Poetics Visions and Voices
The Poetic Research Bureau presents…
BRIAN BLANCHFIELD & MATIAS VIEGENER
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm
Poetic Research Bureau @ 951CKR
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles
Brian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry–Not Even Then (University of California Press) and, newly, A Several World (Nightboat Books)–as well as a chapbook: The History of Ideas, 1973-2012 (Spork Press). He is at work on a collection of nonfiction, half cultural semiotics half dicey autobiography, forthcoming from Nightboat next year. He lives in Tucson.
Matias Viegener is a writer, artist and critic who lives in LA and teaches at CalArts. His work has been seen at LACMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ars Electronica, ARCO Madrid, the Whitney, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Machine Project, MOCA Los Angeles, and internationally in Mexico, Colombia, Germany, and Austria. He is a co-founder of Fallen Fruit (2004-2013), the author of the new book, 2500 Random Things About Me Too, and the editor of the forthcoming I’m Very Into You, the correspondence of Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark. In 2013 he received a Creative Capital award.
Peter Gizzi is the author of Threshold Songs, The Outernationale, Some Values of Landscape and Weather, Artificial Heart, and Periplum. His honors include the Lavan Younger Poet Award from the Academy of American Poets and fellowships in poetry from the Fund for Poetry, The Rex Foundation, Howard Foundation, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
This series of readings is organized and hosted by Stephen Yenser, poet and professor at UCLA and author of A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large and Blue Guide.
Links:
Peter Gizzi’s website
Interview with Peter Gizzi by Robert N. Casper
ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE.
Parking is available under the museum for a flat fee of $3 after 6PM.
Poetry is supported, in part, by the UCLA Department of English and Friends of English.
All Hammer public programs are free and made possible by a major gift from the Dream Fund at UCLA.
Generous support is also provided by Susan Bay Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, the Simms/Mann Family Foundation, The Brotman Foundation of California, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and all Hammer members.
Kevin Young is the author of Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels, winner of a 2012 American Book Award, and Jelly Roll: A Blues, a finalist for the National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. His book The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, was a New York Times notable book for 2012, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism, and winner of the PEN Open Award. His new volume of poems is Book of Hours.
Chris Nealon is the author of two books of literary criticism, Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall, and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century, as well as two books of poems, The Joyous Age and Plummet, and a recent chapbook, The Dial. His next book of poems, Heteronomy, will be out from Edge Books later this year. He teaches in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Washington, DC.
Daniel Tiffany is the author of a chapbook, along with nine volumes of poetry and literary theory, most recently including My Silver Planet: A Secret History of Poetry and Kitsch (Johns Hopkins University Press) Neptune Park (Omnidawn). His poems have appeared in the Paris Review, Poetry, Tin House, Boston Review, Fence, New American Writing, jubilat, Verse, Lana Turner, and other magazines. Tiffany has also published translations of texts by Sophocles and the Italian poet Cesare Pavese, as well as Georges Bataille’s pornographic tale, Madame Edwarda. He has been awarded the Chicago Review Poetry Prize, a Whiting Fellowship, and the Berlin Prize in 2012 by the American Academy.
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Doors open 7pm
Reading at 7:30pm
The Poetic Research Bureau @ 951 CKR
951 Chung King Rd
Chinatown, Los Angeles
