Poetry Forums and Events: Fall 2008
Monday, September 22
6:30 p.m., room 510. $5.
Poetry Forum: Lydia Davis, author of Varieties of Disturbance: Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: finalist for the 2007 National Book Award), and Almost No Memory. Davis has won many of the major American writing awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship for fiction, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. She has translated Proust and others from the French and has written six collections of original work.
Moderated by David Lehman, Poetry Coordinator, The New School’s MFA Writing Program.
Best American Poetry 2008 edited by Charles Wright
Thursday, September 25
7:00 p.m., free
Tishman Auditorium, Johnson Building, 66 West 12th Street
David Lehman, series editor of The Best American Poetry and poetry coordinator of the New School’s MFA program, will introduce poets chosen by Charles Wright for the 2008 volume, the 21st edition of the acclaimed annual anthology. Readers include John Ashbery, Charles Bernstein, Ciaran Berry, Laura Cronk, Richard Howard, D. Nurkse and Meghan O'Rourke.
Monday, October 27
6:30 p.m., room 510. $5.
Poetry Forum: James Tate and Dara Wier
Pulitzer Prize-winner James Tate (who served as guest editor of the Best American Poetry 1997) is the author of a new book of poems, The Ghost Soldiers. Dara Wier’s most recent book is Remnants of Hannah. Moderated by David Lehman, Poetry Coordinator, The New School’s MFA Writing Program.
Wednesday, November 5
6:30 p.m., room 510. $5.
Poetry Forum: Ed Ochester, author of Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New, and editor of the anthology: American Poetry Now. Ochester is the long-time editor of the celebrated Pitt Poetry Series. Moderated by David Lehman, Poetry Coordinator, The New School’s MFA Writing Program.
Wednesday, November 19
6:30 p.m., room 510. $5
Poetry Forum: Vincent Katz, author of Black Mountain College: An Experiment, is a poet, writer, art critic, and translator. Katz will read and comment on the poets of Black Mountain School, such as Charles Olson, Robert Creeley and Robert Duncan.
Moderated by David Lehman, Poetry Coordinator, The New School’s MFA Writing Program.
Wednesday, December 10
6:30 p.m., room 510. $5
Poetry Forum: Andrey Gritsman is the author most recently of the book of poems Picese and is the editor and publisher of the on_line international poetry magazine Interpoezia. A native of Moscow, Gritsman lives in the New York City and works as a physician. Gritsman will read his translations of Pasternak, Akhmatova, Blok, and Tsvetaeva. He will also read Mayakovsky’s “Brooklyn Bridge” in the original and David Lehman will read his translation. Moderated by David Lehman, Poetry Coordinator, The New School Writing Program.
Sponsored by the New School Writing Program.
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