Organizing committee: Rona Cran (University of Birmingham), Yasmine Shamma (University of Reading), Olivier Brossard, Carmen Husti & Nedjima Hassaoui (Laboratoire LISAA, Université Gustave Eiffel)
Practical details and program in the poster links & posts below.
Organizing committee: Vincent Broqua (Université Paris 8), Abigail Lang (Université Paris Cité), Olivier Brossard, Carmen Husti & Nedjima Hassaoui (Laboratoire LISAA, Université Gustave Eiffel)
Practical details and program in the poster links & posts below.
When you walk into the Copernic building, you can either take the elevators to the third floor (the elevators are located behind the staircase below) or take the stairs up to the third floor.
Room 3.071 will be on your right as you reach the third floor (if you take the stairs) or right in front of you (if you take the elevators)
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Poetry reading with Alice Notley and Pascale Petit
Thus far, we have focused on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposiums and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.
Please note that the morning session of the first day is devoted to preparing the conversation with Alice Notley which will take place during the afternoon session and the second day.
Alice Notley will be joining the group at 2pm on Thursday 21 April.
As usual, we intend to address all aspects of our guest’s work as poet, prose writer, critic, and editor.
Please feel free to make suggestions as to particular books that you would like to discuss during the symposium.
Our Thursday afternoon session with Alice Notley will end at 5 pm, which will leave ample time for everybody to get to the poetry reading.
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If you would like to attend the symposium and are not already in touch with us, please contact us and we will send you information, instructions about and directions to the symposium:
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BIO
Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California in the Mojave Desert. She was educated in the Needles public schools, Barnard College, and The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. She has lived most extensively in Needles, in New York, and since 1992 in Paris, France. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, and of essays and talks on poetry, and has edited and co-edited books by Ted Berrigan and Douglas Oliver. She edited the magazine CHICAGO in the 70s and co-edited with Oliver the magazines SCARLET and Gare du Nord in the 90s. She is the recipient of various prizes and awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Award (for Mysteries of SmallHouses, which was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the Griffin Prize (for Disobedience), the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Prize (for Grave of Light, Selected Poems 1970-2005), and the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Prize, a lifetime achievement award. She is also a collagist and cover artist. Her most recent books are For the Ride and Eurynome’s Sandals. Forthcoming from Archway Editions is an artbook called Runes and Chords.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Publications by Alice Notley
Books of Poetry
Runes and Chords, New York: Archway Editions, Forthcoming.
Songs for the Unborn Second Baby, London: Distance No Object, 2021 (reissued).
At The Foot At The Belt Of The Raincoat: Five Hundred places, 2020.
For the Ride, New York: Penguin, 2020.
Eurynome’s Sandals, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France, Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2019.
Les Sandales d’Eurynome: Mont-Saint-Aignan, France: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2019.
Undo, Ottawa: above/ground press, 2018.
Certain Magical Acts, New York,:Penguin, 2016.
Benediction, Tucson: Letter Machine Editions, 2015.
Manhattan Luck, Oakland: Heart’s Desire, 2014.
Negativity’s Kiss, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2014.
Le Baiser de la Négativité, Mont-Saint-Aignan, France, Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2014.
Secret I D, Iowa City, Walla Walla: The Catenary Press, 2013.
Songs and Stories of the Ghouls, Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2011.
Culture of One, New York: Penguin, 2011.
Reason and Other Women, Tucson: Chax Press, 2010.
In the Pines, New York: Penguin, 2007.
Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005, Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006.
Alma, or The Dead Women, New York: Granary Books, 2006.
City of, Minneapolis: Rain Taxi, 2006.
From the Beginning, Woodacre CA: The Owl Press, 2004.
Bendall, Molly, and Alice Notley. The Antioch Review, vol. 55, no. 2, 1997, pp. 247–248.
Bloch, Julia. “Alice Notley’s Descent: Modernist Genealogies and Gendered Literary Inheritance.” Journal of Modern Literature, vol. 35, no. 3, 2012, pp. 1–24.
Dubois, Page. “‘An Especially Peculiar Undertaking’: Alice Notley’s Epic.” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, vol. 12, no. 2, 2001, pp. 86–97.
DuCharme, Mark. “Interview: Alice Notley.” Onthebus, vol. 4–5, no. 2–1 [10–11], 1992, pp. 284–95.
Foster, Edward. “An Interview with Alice Notley.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, vol. 1, 1988, pp. 14–35.
Foster, Edward. “An Interview with Alice Notley.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, vol. 23–26, 2001, pp. 526–35.
Hinton, Laura. “Down in the Dump: The Abject in Alice Notley’s Culture of One.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, vol. 3, no. 1, June 2019, pp. 127–37.
Hix, H. L. “Alice Notley’s Mythic Descent/Dissent.” Interlitteraria, vol. 13, no. 2, 2008, pp. 329–43.
Irwin, Mark. “Machine’s Corpse: Within the City’s Body.” Denver Quarterly, vol. 32, no. 1–2, 1997, pp. 125–33.
Johnson, Eleanor. “Critical Poetics: A Meditation on Alternative Critical Vernaculars.” Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, 2015, pp. 375–84.
Keelan, Claudia, and Alice Notley. “A Conversation: September 2002-December 2003.” The American Poetry Review, vol. 33, no. 3, May 2004, pp. 15–19.
Keelan, Claudia. “I Find Out Everything I Believe Through Writing: An Interview with Alice Notley.” Quo Anima: Spirituality and Innovation in Contemporary Women’s Poetry, edited by Jennifer Phelps and Elizabeth Robinson, University of Akron Press, 2019, pp. 58–75.
Lamm, Kimberly. “On Alice Notley’s In the Pines.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, vol. 36–37, 2008, pp. 23–27.
Lipkin, Elline. “Resist, Reframe, Insist: Alice Notley’s Poetics of Inclusion.” North American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Beyond Lyric and Language, edited by Lisa Sewell and Kazim Ali, Wesleyan University Press, 2020, pp. 108–28.
Macari, Anne Marie. “I Invented the Arts to Stay Alive: ‘Alice Notley’s’ Culture of One.” The American Poetry Review, vol. 42, no. 3, 2013, pp. 42–43.
Mccabe, Susan. “Alice Notley’s Epic Entry: ‘An Ecstasy of Finding Another Way of Being.’” The Antioch Review, vol. 56, no. 3, 1998, pp. 273–280.
McCabe, Susan. “Alice Notley’s Experimental Epic: ‘An Ecstacy of Finding Another Way of Being.’” We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics, edited by Laura Hinton et al., University of Alabama Press, 2002, pp. 41–53.
Nelson, Maggie. “Dear Dark Continent: Alice Notley’s Disobediences.” Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions, University of Iowa Press, 2007.
Notley, Alice, and Robert Dewhurst. “Alice Notley.” Bomb, no. 133, 2015, pp. 96–102.
Notley, Alice. “Doublings.” The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood, edited by Patricia Dienstfrey et al., Wesleyan University Press, 2003, pp. 137–43.
David Reckford. “Interview of Alice Notley”, Transatlantica [En ligne], 1 | 2019, mis en ligne le 01 juin 2020, consulté le 19 avril 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/13862 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.13862
Robbins, Amy. “Alice Notley’s Post-Confessional I: Toward a Poetics of Postmodern Witness.” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 41, 2006, pp. 76–90.
Roman, Christopher. “The Owl of the System: Alice Notley’s Queer Poetics in The Descent of Alette.” Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, 2015, pp. 211–23.
Sadoff, Ira. “Inside/Out.” The American Poetry Review, vol. 29, no. 2, Mar. 2000, pp. 9–12.
Scalapino, Leslie. “Pattern-and the ‘Simulacral.’” Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics, edited by Christopher Beach, University of Alabama Press, 1998, pp. 130–39.
Selinger, Eric Murphy. “That Awkward Glance.” Parnassus: Poetry in Review, vol. 21, no. 1–2, 1995, pp. 298–324.
Shamma, Yasmine. Spatial Poetics: Second Generation New York School Poetry. Oxford University Press, 2018.
Sikelianos, Eleni. “Eleni Sikelianos on Alice Notley.” Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, edited by Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008, pp. 217–27.
Zurawski, Magdalena. “Marxism for Single Mothers: Anne Boyer’s Garments against Women.” Polish Journal for American Studies: Yearbook of the Polish Association for American Studies, vol. 11, 2017, pp. 359–63.
The North American Poetry 2000-2020/2 Conference will be held from Wednesday 29 June to Saturday 1 July, 2022 in Paris (Institut Universitaire de France).
Details will be posted in due time on this website.
For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.
Thus far, we have focused on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposiums and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.
Please note that the morning session of the first day is devoted to preparing the conversation with Lyn Hejinian which will take place during the afternoon session and the second day.
Lyn Hejinian will be joining the group at 2pm on Thursday 13 February.
As usual, we intend to address all aspects of our guest’s work as poet, prose writer, critic, and editor.
Please feel free to make suggestions as to particular books that you would like to discuss during the symposium.
Our Thursday afternoon session with Lyn Hejinian should end by 6 pm, which will leave ample time for everybody to get to the poetry reading.
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Lyn Hejinian teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, where her academic work is addressed principally to modernist, postmodern, and contemporary poetry and poetics, with a particular interest in avant-garde movements and the social practices they entail. She is the author of over twenty-five volumes of poetry and critical prose, the most recent of which are Positions of the Sun, which was published in January, 2019 by the Brooklyn-based independent feminist literary collective and small press Belladonna, and Tribunal, published by Omnidawn books in the spring of 2019. Translations of her work have been published in Denmark, France, Spain, Japan, Italy, Russia, Sweden, China, Serbia, and Finland. She is the co-director (with Travis Ortiz) of Atelos, a literary project commissioning and publishing cross-genre work by poets, and co-editor (with Jane Gregory and Claire Marie Stancek) of Nion Editions. Other collaborative projects include a composition titled Qúê Trân with music by John Zorn and text by Hejinian; two mixed media books (The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill and The Lake) created with the painter Emilie Clark; the award-winning experimental documentary film Letters Not About Love, directed by Jacki Ochs; the multi-authored 10-volume work The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography (co-authored with Rae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Bob Perelman, Kit Robinson, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten [Detroit: Mode A, 2006-10])
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Bibliography
Principal literary works
Poetry/prose
Tribunal (Omnidawn,
2019)
Oxota: A Short
Russian Novel (Wesleyan University Press, 2019; revised from first
edition [The Figures, 1991])
Positions of the Sun (NY: Belladonna Books, 2019)
The Unfollowing (Omnidawn
Books, 2016)
My Life and My
Life in the Nineties (Wesleyan University Press, 2013)
The Book of a
Thousand Eyes (Omnidawn Books, 2012)
Saga / Circus (Omnidawn
Publishing, 2008)
The Fatalist (Omnidawn
Books, 2003)
Slowly(Tuumba Press,
2002)
A Border Comedy
(Granary Books, 2001)
The Beginner
(Spectacular Books, 2000; Tuumba Press, 2002)
Happily (Post-Apollo
Press, 2000)
The Cold of Poetry (Sun
& Moon Press, 1994)
The Cell (Sun
& Moon Press, 1992)
My Life
(second version; Sun & Moon Press, 1987)
My Life
(Burning Deck, 1980)
Writing is an Aid
to Memory
(The Figures, 1978; reprinted by Sun & Moon, 1996)
Volumes of collaboratively composed poetry/prose and mixed-media work
The Wide Road (written
with Carla Harryman; Belladonna, 2010)
Situations, Sings(written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry, 2008)
The Lake (with
Emilie Clark; Granary Books, 2004)
On Laughter: A
Melodrama (with Jack Collom; Baksun Books, 2003)
Chartings
(written with Ray Di Palma; Chax Press, 2000)
Sunflower (written
with Jack Collom; The Figures, 2000)
Sight
(written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books, 1999)
The Traveler and
the Hill and the Hill (a collaboration with Emilie Clark;
Granary Books, 1998)
Wicker (with
Jack Collom) (Boulder, CO: Rodent Press, 1996)
Individuals
(written with Kit Robinson; Chax Press, 1988)
Volumes of poetry translated and published in other languages
Mi Vide en Los
Noventa (My Life in theNineties),
tr into Spanish by Patricio Grinberg and Carla Chinski (Buenos Aires,
Argentina: Zindo & Gafuri, 2019)
Fatalisten (The Fatalist), tr.
into Danish by Alexander Carnera (Copenhagen: Det Poetiske Bureaus Forlag,
2018)
Pauza, rosa, chto-to
na bumage (A Pause, a Rose, Something on Paper / My Life), tr. into Russianby
Ruslan Miranov (Moscow: Hosorog No.
7, 2018)
Ma Vie (My Life), tr. into French by Maïtreyi and Nicolas Pesquès, (Dijon,
Presses du réel, 2016)
Gesualdo, tr. into Turkish by Uygar
Asan (Kadikoy, Turkey: Nod, 2015)
Minha Vida (My
Life), tr.
into Portuguese by Mauricio Salles Vasconcelos (Sao Paolo, Brazil: Dobra
Editorial, 2014)
Felizmente
(Happily), tr into Spanish by Gidi Loza (Playas de Rosarito,
Baja, California: Editorial Piedra Cuervo, 2013)
Mi Vida (My Life),tr. into Spanish by Tatiana Lipkes (Mexico City, Mexico: Mangos de
Hacha, 2012)
from My Life, tr.
into Japanese by Junichi Koizumi, Toshiro (Shige) Inoue, Mamoru Mukaiyama, and
Koichiro Yamauchi (Tokyo: Meltemia Press, 2012)
Mi Vida (My Life),tr. into Spanish by Pilar Vazquez and Esteban Pujals (Tenerife,
Spain: Acto Ediciones, 2011)
Gesualdo, tr.
into French by Martin Richet (Marseilles: Jacataqua, 2009)
Lentement
(Slowly), tr.
into French by Virginie Poitrasson (Paris, 2006)
Mitt Liv (My Life and My Life in the Nineties), tr. into
Swedish by Niclas Nilsson (Stockholm: Modernista, 2004)
Mit Liv (My Life), tr. into Danish by Jeppe
Brixvold with Line Brandt (Copenhagen: Borgen, 2001)
Jour de Chasse (The Hunt),
tr. into French by Pierre Alferi; (Paris: Cahiers de Royaumont, 1992)
Edited poetry volumes
(with Olivia Friedman) Ghosting Atoms: Poems and Reflections Sixty Years After the Bomb (Berkeley:
Consortium for the Arts and UC Regents, 2005)
Best American
Poetry 2004 (New York: Scribner’s, 2005)
Critical writing
Volumes of critical writing
The Language of
Inquiry
(University of California Press, 2000)
Two Stein Talks
(Weaselsleeves Press, 1995)
Leningrad,
written with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten (Mercury House,
1991)
Volume of critical prose translated and published in another language
Det öppna och det
säregna (The Language of Inquiry), tr.
into Swedish by Camilla Hammarström (Stockholm: Bokförlaget Lejd: 2016)
Edited volumes
(with Barrett Watten) Poetics Journal Digital Archive (ebook; Wesleyan University Press,
2015)
(with Barrett Watten) A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field,
1982-98 (University Presses of New England/Wesleyan University Press, 2013)
Translations
Volumes of translation
Description, poems
by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1990)
Xenia, poems
by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1994)
Other
Exhibition catalogues
In time;
catalogue text for Diane Hall, “in time” (San Francisco: Rena Bransten Gallery,
January 5-February 23, 2019)
Away at Home;
curator’s introduction to exhibition catalogue of new works by German
photographer Heike Liss (NY: CUE Art Foundation, spring 2006)
Work in other media
Visualart
Exhibition of Film Works (mixed media drawings), Kala
Art Institute (Berkeley), spring 2017
Two mixed media drawings, in “Poetry and its Arts: Bay
Area Interactions 1954-2004,” group exhibition at the California Historical
Society (San Francisco), curated by The Poetry Center (SF State University),
December 2004-April 2005
Two mixed media drawings, in “Poetry
Plastique,” group exhibition, Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), February 2001
“The Traveler and the Hill and the Hill,”
two-person exhibition, Museo Nazionale dell’Architettura, Ferrara (Italy),
May-June, 2000
“The Eye of Enduring,” painting and poetry
(a collaboration with Diane Andrews Hall); exhibition at Sherrill Haines
Gallery, San Francisco, 1995
Film
“Letters Not
About Love,” feature film directed by Jacki Ochs with script based on
correspondence between Lyn Hejinian and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (premier, South
by Southwest Film Festival, First Prize: Documentary, 1998)
Music
Text
for “Poetry and Playing,” CD by British avant-garde guitarist Derek Bailey
(2003)
“Que Tran,” music and poetry (a collaboration with
John Zorn); on cd (New Traditions in Far
East Asian Bar Band Music), Electra/Nonesuch 1997
AJI, Hélène. “The Stakes of Narrative in the Poetries of David Antin, Ron Silliman, and Lyn Hejinian: New Forms, New Constraints,” Revue française d’études américaines, 103.1 (2005): 79-92. –. “ ‘Life’ ‘Drafts’: Towards Two Non-Dogmatic Poetics,” Revue française d’études américaines, 147.2 (2016): 78-92.
ALTIERI, Charles. “What Is Living and What Is Dead in American Postmodernism: Establishing the Contemporaneity of Some American Poetry,” Critical Inquiry, 22.4 (1996): 754-89. –. “Lyn Hejinian and the Possibilities of Postmodernism,” Women Poets of the Americas: Toward a Pan-American Gathering, Cordelia Candelaria and Jacqueline Vaught Brogan (eds.), IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999.
CAZÉ, Antoine. “Alterna(rra)tives: Syntactic Spaces and Self-Construction in the Writing of Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino,” Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry, Diana von Finck and Oliver Scheiding (eds.), Würzburg: Könighausen & Neumann, 2007, 197-214. –. “ ‘The event is the adventure of that moment’: Hejinian Happenstance Happiness,” Lectures du Monde Anglophone, 2 Littérature et événement (2016).
DWORKIN, Craig Douglas. “Penelope Reworking the Twill: Patchwork, Writing, and Lyn Hejinian’s ‘My Life’,” Contemporary Literature, 36.1 (Spring 1995): 58-81. –. “Parting With Description,” American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language, Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr (eds.), CT: Wesleyan UP, 2001, 243-265.
EDMOND, Jacob. “ ‘A Meaning Alliance’: Arkady Dragomoshchenko and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics of Translation,” The Slavic and East European Journal, 46.3 (Autumn 2002): 551-64. –. “Locating Global Resistance: The Landscape Poetics of Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Lyn Hejinian, and Yang Lian,” Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 101 (May 2004), 71-98. –. “The Closures of the Open Text: Lyn Hejinian’s ‘Paradise Found’,” Contemporary Literature, 50.2 (Summer 2009), 240-72. –. “Lyn Hejinian and Russian Estrangement,” A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature, NY: Fordham UP, 2012, 72-94.
GOLSTON, Michael. “A=L=L=E=G=O=R=I=E=S: Peter Inman, Myung Mi Kim, Lyn Hejinian,” Poetic Machinations: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form, NY: Columbia UP, 2015, 101-44.
HINTON, Laura. “Postmodern Romance and the Descriptive Fetish of Vision in Fanny Howe’s The Lives of a Spirit and Lyn Hejinian’s My Life,” We Who Love to Be Astonished, Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue (eds.), AL: University of Alabama Press, 2002, 140-51.
HOFER, Jen and Rod SMITH (eds.). Aerial 10: Lyn Hejinian, DC: Aerial/Edge, 2015.
KELLER, Jim. “Language as Visible Vapor: Skywriting through Lyn Hejinian’s Happily,” Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary, Joan Retallak and Juliana Spahr (eds.), NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 224-232.
LEMARDELEY, Marie-Christine. “Lyn Hejinian : l’écriture à la limite,” Études anglaises, 61.2 (2008): 192-201.
MANNING, Nicholas. “Entre organisme et mécanisme : une façon désuète de penser la forme poétique contemporaine ?” Le Modèle végétal dans l’imaginaire contemporain, Inès Cazalas and Marik Froidefond (eds.), Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2014, 59-71.
NICHOLLS, Peter. “Phenomenal Poetics: Reading Lyn Hejinian,” The Mechanics of the Mirage: Postwar American Poetry, Michel Delville and Christine Pagnoulle (eds.), Liège: English Department, University of Liège, 2000, 241-52.
SHOPTAW, John. “Hejinian Meditations: Lives of The Cell,” Journal
X, 1.1 (1996): 57-83.
SPAHR, Juliana. “Resignifying Autobiography: Lyn Hejinian’s My Life,”
American Literature, 68 (1996): 139-59.
SWENSEN, Cole. “Re-membering Time in Hejinian’s My Life,” Revue française d’études américaines, 147.2 (2016): 93-99.
THOMAS, Chloé. “Déplacements du lyrisme dans
le poème autobiographique postmoderne My Life de Lyn Hejinian,” Revue
française d’études américaines, 145.4 (2015), 67-75.
TOMICHE, Anne. “ ‘We Do Not Encourage a
Nightingale’ : Avatars du rossignol romantique dans la poésie du vingtième
siècle,” Écrire l’animal aujourd’hui, Lucile Desblaches (ed.), Clermont-Ferrand:
Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2006, 135-51.
VICKERY, Ann. “Supporting a Scene: Tuumba Press,” Leaving Lines of
Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing, NH: University Press of
New England, 2000, 63-73.
9:45am-5pm, room 830 (8th floor of the Olympe de Gouges Building).
How to get there?
For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.
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Poetry reading with Dawn Lundy Martin, Marie de Quatrebarbes, and Maël Guesdon
Thursday 17 January, 7pm, atelier Michael Woolworth, 2 rue de la Roquette, Passage du Cheval Blanc, Cour Février, 75011 Paris France – M° Bastille. How to get there? For detailed instructions and directions, click HERE.
If you would like to attend the symposium and are not already in touch with us, please contact us and we will send you information, instructions about and directions to the symposium:
Thus far, we have focused on the writer’s own (creative and critical) work on the first day of the P&C symposiums and on broader issues of poetics and practice-based criticism on the second day. But there’s no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course.
Please note that the morning session of the first day is devoted to preparing the conversation with Dawn Lundy Martin which will take place during the afternoon session and the second day. Dawn Lundy Martin will be joining the group at 2pm on Thursday 17 January.
As usual, we intend to address all aspects of our guest’s work as poet, prose writer, critic, and editor. Please feel free to make suggestions as to particular books that you would like to discuss during the symposium.
Our Monday afternoon session with Dawn Lundy Martin should end by 6 pm, which will leave ample time for everybody to get to the poetry reading.
Dawn Lundy Martin is Professor of English in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of several books and chapbooks including: A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering (University of Georgia Press, 2007), selected by Carl Phillips for the Cave Canem Prize; DISCIPLINE (Nightboat Books, 2011), which was selected by Fanny Howe for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Candy, a limited edition letterpress chapbook (Albion Books, 2011); The Main Cause of the Exodus (O’clock Press 2014); and The Morning Hour, selected by C.D. Wright for the 2003 Poetry Society of America’s National Chapbook Fellowship. Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, was published by Nightboat Books in 2015 and won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry. Her latest collection, Good Stock / Strange Blood was published by Coffee House Press in 2017. Her creative nonfiction can be found in The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, and boundary 2. She is currently at work on a memoir.
In 2016, Martin co-founded, with poet Terrance Hayes, the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics (CAAPP) at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves as the center’s Director. A creative think tank for African American and African diasporic poetry and poetics, CAAPP brings together a diversity of poets, writers, scholars, artists, and community members who are thinking through black poetics as a field that investigates the contemporary moment as it is impacted by historical artistic and social repressions and their respondent social justice movements.
With Vivien Labaton, Martin also co-edited The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism (Anchor Books, 2004), which uses a gender lens to describe and theorize young activist work in the U.S. She is the co-founder of the Third Wave Foundation (New York), an organization, which was for 15 years the only young activist feminist foundation in the U.S. Martin continues her activist work in collaboration with foundations and activist organizations to research and strategize about protecting the lives and freedoms of women and girls. Using a intersectional lenses that bring together feminism with racial justice and LGBT rights, Martin works to provide analytical frameworks that assist philanthropic organizations in strategic philanthropy to level the playing field and animate social justice reforms.
Martin’s current creative-scholarly work operates in the intersecting fields of experimental poetics, video installation, and performance. Letters to the Future: BLACK WOMEN / Radical WRITING, co-edited with Erica Hunt, was published in 2018 by Kore Press. Her video installation work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. In 2016 she was awarded an Investing in Professional Artists Grant from the Pittsburgh Foundation and the Heinz Endowments. Martin has also written a libretto for a video installation opera, titled “Good Stock on the Dimension Floor,” featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and collaborated with architect Mitch McEwen on Detroit Opera House, a conceptual architecture project. She is the recipient of a 2018 NEA grant for Creative Writing. She is also a co-founder of the Black Took Collective, an experimental performance art/poetry group of three.
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Critical work
by Dawn Lundy Martin
“A Black Poetics: Against Mastery.” Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 44.3 (2017): 159–163.
“Black Took Collective: On Intimacy & Origin.” Among Friends: Engendering the Social Site of Poetry. Eds. Anne Dewey and Libbie Rifkin, Libbie. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2013. 211-237.
“Alien Eggs, or, the Poet as Mad Scientist.” Poets on Teaching: A Sourcebook.Ed. Joshua M. Wilkinson. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2010.26-28.
Hayes, Terrance, et al. “African American Experimental Poetry Forum.” Jubilat 16 (2009): 115–154.
Martin, Dawn Lundy. “Saying ‘I Am’ Experimentalism and Subjectivity in Contemporary Poetry by Claudia Rankine, M. Nourbese Philip, and Myung Mi Kim.” Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, U of Massachusetts, 20090101, p. 4679.
on Dawn Lundy Martin:
De’Ath, Amy. Decolonize or Destroy: New Feminist Poetry in the United States and Canada. Women: A Cultural Review 26.3 (2015): 285-305.
Poets and Critics symposiums are not conferences in the traditional, academic sense of the term; no formal papers are usually given. They are 2-day seminar-like discussions (preceded, in this particular case, by the event at the Beinecke Library on Thursday 11 October) in the presence of the invited poet. There is no specific preconceived program for the 2 days of the symposium: as the previous sessions of the program have shown, it seems important to let the conversation take its own course. Mini-papers (5 min) can however be given on specific topics, if you wish, to frame a specific question and open the discussion to include all aspects of Susan’s work: early and late poetry and essays, collaborations, teaching, radio shows… We may also close-read a passage collectively.
While the symposium may engage with all periods and aspects of Susan’s work, recommended reading includes her more recent publications: That This (2010); Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives (2014); The Quarry (2105); Debths (2017). Susan particularly singled out “Vagrancy in the Park” which she feels is a sort of summation of her essay writing and relates to the other essays, “Sorting Facts” and “The Disappearance Approach.” All three are reprinted in The Quarry. Please note you can access the essays by clicking on the links (“Sorting Facts” is password protected for JStor-members).
Thursday 11 October.Beinecke Library, Yale University
1:30-3:30 pm Beinecke Library, Yale University, New Haven.
We will go to the Beinecke Library (Yale). A selection of materials from Susan Howe’s literary archive will be on view along with materials from Beinecke collections that have figured prominently in Howe’s research and writing. Susan Howe will not be in attendance.
10am: 1st session: preparatory meeting at Pratt (room tba). Please note that Susan Howe will not be present for this first session, which is devoted to preparing the conversations with her. This is the occasion to list and define the points we would like to discuss with her over the course of the Friday afternoon and Saturday sessions.
Susan Howe will be joining the group at 2pm on Friday 12 October.
> 2-5 pm. Higgins Hall Auditorium, Pratt Brooklyn, School of Architecture
From her first book, Hinge Picture in 1974, to her most recent, Debths, which won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, Susan Howe has been a boundary-breaker in American poetry, creating a fusion of sound, typography, philosophy, and American history that is both fervently contemporary and grounded in a deep and nuanced understanding of American poetic traditions from Emerson onward. The author of over 30 books of poetry and prose, she has received the country’s highest poetic honors, including the Bollingen Prize in 2011, and the 2017 Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America.
