Join the Libraries for a poetry reading and conversation relating to our current exhibit, "Writing the Modern World: Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Science and Technology in the United States"!
Three poets will read work by Stevens and Williams as well as their own work, reflect on those readings, and discuss the role of Williams and Stevens in their own work and the world of contemporary poetry.
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Alex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems, Love and Other Poems, which will be published by Copper Canyon Press in February of 2021, Together and by Ourselves, and Begging for It. His poems have been published in The New Yorker, the New York Times, The Paris Review, and Poetry. In addition to Columbia, he has taught writing at Princeton University, New York University, and Bennington College. Previously, he was the Senior Content Editor at the Academy of American Poets, where he edited the popular series Poem-a-Day and American Poets magazine. He lives in New York.
Terrance Hayes is the author of six poetry collections: American Sonnets for My Past And Future Assassin, a finalist for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and TS Eliot Prize; How to Be Drawn; Lighthead, winner of the 2010 National Book Award for poetry; Muscular Music, recipient of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award; Hip Logic, winner of the 2001 National Poetry Series, and Wind in a Box. His prose collection, To Float In The Space Between: Drawings and Essays in Conversation with Etheridge Knight, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. Hayes has received fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and Whiting Foundation, and is a professor of English at New York University.
Jennifer Soong works on literature from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, with a focus on poetry and poetics. Her dissertation Poetic Forgetting studies the relations between poets, poetry, and forgetting in the wake of a certain Modernist conception: that forgetting can constitute a creative principle and artistic practice. The project examines how various American poets, in the last 150 years, have been drawn to forgetting, but not as the mere rejection of a literary past or as a form of “negative,” apophatic poetics. From the “deliberate forgetting” of Gertrude Stein’s avant-garde, to the New York School poets’ investment in forgetting the future, the comic forgetting of Lyn Hejinian, and forgettability in Tan Lin’s ambient poetry, her dissertation carves a space for poetic forgetting distinct from forgetting’s traditional definitions as loss, suppression, erasure, and error. Jennifer is also the author of a collection of poetry Near, At (Futurepoem 2019) and the Poetry Editor at art/lit magazine Nat. Brut. Her poetry has appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, Social Text, DIAGRAM, Prelude, among others, and has been translated into Spanish.
Visit "Writing the Modern World" Lutnick Library's Rebecca and Rick White Gallery, or view online!
This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by Alan M. Klein '81 and Haverford Libraries.
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