Poetry at Beinecke Library

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 2008 — Subject to Change
(check WGCP Minutes Archive for latest information)

WGCP Meeting: Tim Young Visit (Associate Curator,
Modern Books and Manuscripts Collection, Beinecke Library)
Friday, January 25, 3pm
Readings: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France by Blaise Cendrars
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); texts available at WHC: translation by Ron Padgett, “The Futurist Moment” by Marjorie Perloff

WGCP Related Event
January 25, 5-6:30pm
Exhibition Opening Reception: Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book
Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street

WGCP Meeting
Friday, February 15, 3pm
Readings: Charles Bernstein, Shadowtime (Green Integer) &
Charles Bernstein Reading at Beinecke Library, October 2007 (MP3)

WGCP Related Event
Friday, February 22, 2pm
Marjorie Perloff, “Constraint, Concrete, Citation: Refiguring History in Charles Bernstein’s Shadowtime”
Sponsored by the Yale University Department of English
LC Hall 319, 63 High Street

WGCP Related Event
Thursday and Friday, March 13 & 14
Conference: Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book
Details: Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book
Sponsored by the Yale Collection of American Literature & the Arts of the Book Collection

WGCP Meeting
Friday, March 28, 3pm
Readings: Torques (Salt Publishing) by Rachel Blau DuPlessis; About Rachel Blau DuPlessis

WGCP Meeting: Rachel Blau DuPlessis visit
Friday, April 11, 3pm
Readings: Torques (Salt Publishing) by Rachel Blau DuPlessis; About Rachel Blau DuPlessis

WGCP Meeting: John Cayley visit
Friday, April 25, 3pm
Meeting location: Room 38, Beinecke Library, 121 Wall Street
Readings: Posted to List-Serv and available at WHC; About John Cayley

WGCP Meeting: Ravi Shankar and editors of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Friday, May 2, 3pm
Meeting location: Room 001, William L Harkness Hall (100 Wall Street)
Readings: TBA

WGCP Meeting
Friday, May 9, 3pm
Readings: TBA

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Past Meetings and Events:
WGCP Readings and Minutes Fall 2007

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