The Beinecke Library / Whitney Humanities Center Working Group in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics meets every other Friday at 3:00pm in room 116 at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University, 55 Wall Street (the corner of Church and Wall); schedule changes and special group meeting times and locations will be noted below.
Tentative WGCP Schedule, Spring 2009 — Subject to Change
(check WGCP Minutes Archive for latest information)
WGCP Meeting: Joan Retallack Visit
Friday, January 16, 3pm
Readings: Memnoir, essays
WGCP Meeting
Friday, February 6, 3pm
Readings: Forrest Gander poems and essays, TBA
WGCP Related Event: Susan Howe and David Grubbs Performance
Tuesday, February 10, 4pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Readings Series
WGCP Related Event: Peter Cole, Poetry Reading
Wednesday, February 11, 5 pm
Whitney Humanities Center, 55 Wall Street, room 208
Co-sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center, the Department of English,
and the Slifka Center
WGCP Meeting: Forrest Gander Visit
Friday, February 20, 3pm
Readings: Forrest Gander poems and essays, TBA
WGCP Meeting
Friday, March 27, 3pm
Readings: Selections from Jacques Roubaud, TBA
WGCP Meeting: Jacques Roubaud Visit
Monday, March 30, 3pm
Meeting at Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Readings: Selections from Jacques Roubaud, TBA
WGCP Meeting
Friday, April 10, 3pm
Readings: Selections from Michel Deguy, TBA
WGCP Related Event: G. E. Patterson and Jennifer Moxley, Poetry Readings
Thursday, April 23, 4:00 pm
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature Readings Series
WGCP Meeting: Steve Evans Visit
“The Poetics of Phonotextuality”
Friday, April 24, 3pm
Readings & Recordings: TBA
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Past Meetings and Events:
WGCP Readings and Minutes 2007-2008
La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France by Blaise Cendrars discussion with Tim Young Visit (Curator, Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection, Beinecke Library)
Readings: on line texts: Original Frech text (PDF), translation by Tim Young (PDF), “The Great War and the European Avant-Garde” by Marjorie Perloff (PDF), “The Futurist Moment” by Marjorie Perloff (PDF), Meeting Minutes
Charles Bernstein, Shadowtime (Green Integer)
Charles Bernstein Reading at Beinecke Library, October 2007 (MP3); Meeting Minutes
Torques (Salt Publishing) by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
About Rachel Blau DuPlessis; Meeting Minutes
John Cayley and Digital Poetry
About John Cayley; Meeting Minutes
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Meeting Minutes
Rosmarie Waldrop, Curves to the Apple
Discussion Meeting Minutes & Visit Meeting Minutes
Rachel Tzvia Back, On Ruins and Return,
and selections from Led by Language: the Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe (University of Alabama Press)
Discussion Meeting Minute & Visit Meeting Minutes
Christian Bök, Eunoia, Xenotext (work in progress), interview with Stephen Voyce in Postmodern Culture
Discussion Meeting Minutes & Visit Meeting Minute ; Christian Bök Reading MP3
Marianne Moore discussion with Patricia Willis, Curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature at Beinecke Library — Readings: “Marriage,” “Poetry,” and “A Modernist Epithalamium” by P.C. Willis
