Paris 2022: What We Talk About When We Talk About The New York School

The inaugural meeting of the Network for New York School Studies (NNYSS) will be held on Wednesday 20 April 2022 at Université Gustave Eiffel (Champs sur Marne). 9:45 am-5 pm, room 3V071, third floor, Bâtiment Copernic, 5 Bd Descartes, 77454 Champs-sur-Marne. 

How to get to Université Gustave Eiffel.

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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The inaugural meeting of the NNYSS will conclude with a poetry reading at Michael Woolworth’s atelier, located off the Place de la Bastille, 2, rue de la Roquette, Cour Février, 75011 Paris, at 7:30 pm. How to get to Michael Woolworth’s atelier. 

The Alice Notley Poets & Critics Symposium will be held on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 April 2022 at Université Gustave Eiffel.

What We Talk About When We Talk About The New York School

The inaugural symposium of the Network for New York School Studies (www.nnyss.org) will feature short talks, close-readings, interdisciplinary discussions, presentations of archival work, joint presentations, work-in-progress, artistic responses, and other conventional or unconventional responses to a variety of New York School poetry, art, and writing. Together, we will explore the place of New York School poetry, both in its emergent moment, and since:

• how did New York School poetry define itself in its moment?
• what has it come to mean?
• who are its artists and poets?
• what “schools” or movements has it influenced?
• how did / does it sit within broader New York / American / global writing and culture (including film, music, and art)?
• what can be said of 3rd and 4th generation New York School writing?
• what do we talk about, now, when we talk about the New York School?

The event will be informal, inclusive, conversational, interdisciplinary, and intersectional. It will conclude with a poetry reading in the evening (poets TBC).

This event is organized by Rona Cran (University of Birmingham) and Yasmine Shamma (University of Reading) and hosted by Olivier Brossard (Université Gustave Eiffel.)

If you would like to attend, please email r.cran@bham.ac.uk.