Poem Present - Readings (video)

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Offen Poetry Prize Reading is a new series that pairs poets from The University of Chicago's undergraduate literary community with an established author in order to make long-lasting professional connections. This inaugural reading features Ilya Kaminsky and V. Joshua Adams.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ann Lauterbach, the David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature; Faculty, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; and the University of Chicago's Sherry Poet-in-Residence, 2012-2013, reads her poetry as a part of the The Pearl Andelson Sherry Memorial Poetry Reading and Lecture series. Ann Lauterbach has published several volumes of poetry, including Many Times, but Then (1979), Before Recollection (1987), Clamor (1991), And, for Example (1994), On a Stair (1997), If in Time (2001), Hum (2005), and Or to Begin Again (2009), which was a finalist for the National Book Award. As described by Thomas Fink in the Boston Review: “Lauterbach has found new forms for expressing the continuousness of change: its ways of summoning and disrupting intimacy, of evoking and subverting the position of perceptions and the framing and decentering play of language itself.” In addition to poetry, Lauterbach has published a book of essays, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (2005). She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. For more than 15 years, she has taught at Bard College and codirected the Writing Division of the MFA program. She has also taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, Columbia University, Princeton University, and the University of Iowa.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Nikola Madžirov, poet, essayist, and translator, reads from his many works. He is one of the most powerful voices of the new European poetry. Born in a family of Balkan Wars refugees in 1973 in Strumica, R. Macedonia, he has written poetry that has been translated into thirty languages and published in collections and anthologies in US, Europe and Asia.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ben Lerner, poet, critic, and professor at Brooklyn College, reads from his work and discusses the craft of poetry as part of the University of Chicago's Poem Present Reading and Lecture series. He focuses on the alienation of modern life and the limitations of communication.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Rae Armantrout does a reading of her poetry as part of the "Poem Present" Series

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Geoffrey O'Brien reads poetry as part of the "Poem Present" series.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Mary Ruefle delivers a lecture as part of the "Poem Present" series.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Mary Ruefle reads poetry as part of the "Poem Present" series.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Poet and author Jennifer Moxley delivers delivers a lecture as part of the "Poem Present" Series.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Arda Collins, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition as well as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Poetry Prize, reads selected poems as part of the "Poem Present"series.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by J.H. Prynne and Keston Sutherland as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2009 The University of Chicago.

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If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by J.H. Prynne as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2009 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007), and Speak Low (FSG, 2009). He is also the author of Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004) and the translator of Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Lambda Book Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was elected a Chancellor in 2006. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Carl Phillips is the author of ten books of poetry, most recently Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems 1986-2006 (FSG, 2007), and Speak Low (FSG, 2009). He is also the author of Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004) and the translator of Sophocles's Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). His awards and honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Lambda Book Award, the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry, the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Library of Congress, and the Academy of American Poets, to which he was elected a Chancellor in 2006. Phillips teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Alan Shapiro as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Jim Powell as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by Devin Johnston as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by Kenneth Fields as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Devin Johnston as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Susan Wheeler as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by Susan Wheeler as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Adam Zagajewski as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2007 The University of Chicago. Adam Zagajewski lives in Krakow and Chicago.His collections in English translation include Tremor (1985), Canvas (1991), Mysticism for Beginners (1997), Another Beauty (2000), and the anthology Without End (2002). Among his books of essays are Solidarity, Solitude (1986, tr. 1989) and Two Cities (1991, tr. 1995). Zagajewski also edited Polish Writers on Writing (Trinity University Press, 2007). His most recent collection of poems, Eternal Enemies, will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ed Roberson's seventh book of poetry, "City Eclogue" was published spring 2006, Number 23 in the Atelos series. His collection, "Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In" was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; his book "Atmosphere Conditions" was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Award for best book of 2000. He was a recipient of the Lila Wallace Writers Award. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2004 and 2005, Callaloo, Hambone and The Chicago Review and many other journals. He is currently Visiting Artist at Northwestern University for the 2007 Fall quarter and will teach workshops in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago as a Visiting Professor in Winter and Spring 2008.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Susan Howe's most recent books are The Midnight published by New Directions, and Kidnapped from Coracle Press. Two CDs in collaboration with the musician/composer David Grubbs, Thiefth, and Souls of the Labadie Tract, were released on the Blue Chopsticks label in 2005 and 2007. Her critical study, My Emily Dickinson (1986) is being re-issued by New Directions this fall, along with a new collection of poems titled Souls of The Labadie Tract. She held the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Poetry and the Humanities at the State University New York at Buffalo, until her retirement this spring. She lives in Guilford, CT and is the 2007 Sherry Memorial Visiting Poet at The University of Chicago

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Leslie Scalapino's It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 was recently released by University of California Press at Berkeley. Wrote Robert Creeley: "I hesitate to introduce any such term as 'meditation' or 'reflection,' because this work is not apart from its thinking and/or composition, so to speak-and that, among other things, constitutes its exceptional value. I find the whole work to be a deeply engaging preoccupation with, and articulation of, what life might be said, factually, to be. But not as a defined subject, nor even a defining one-but as one being one. That is an heroic undertaking, or rather, place in which to work/write/live. Its formal authority is as brilliant as any I know." Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre fiction-poetry-criticism and plays, including recently Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems and Writings 1989 and 1999-2006 (Green Integer), Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan University Press), The Tango (Granary Press), Orchid Jetsam (Tuumba), and Dahlia's Iris-Secret Autobiography and Fiction (FC2 Publishers).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Rosmarie Waldrop (born August 24, 1935) is a contemporary American poet, translator and publisher. Born in Germany, she has lived in the United States since 1958. She has lived in Providence, Rhode Island since the late 1960s. Waldrop is Coeditor and Publisher with her husband Keith Waldrop of Burning Deck Press, as well as the author or coauthor (as of 2006) of 17 books of poetry, two novels, and three books of criticism. Rosmarie Waldrop has given readings and published in many parts of Europe as well as the U.S. She has received numerous awards and fellowships and was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2006.Keith Waldrop is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, and has translated the work of Claude Royet-Journoud, Anne-Marie Albiach, and Edmond Jab~A"s, among others. A recent translation is Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal (2006). He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and teaches at Brown University. The French government has named him Chevalier des arts et des lettres.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas, is a native of New Orleans. Professor Lombardo's publications are primarily literary translations of Greek poetry, including Homer's Iliad (Hackett, 1997; reviewed in the New York Times, 7/20/97; recipient of the Byron Caldwell Book Award; performed by Aquila Theatre Company at Lincoln Center, 1999); Homer's Odyssey (Hackett, 2000,a New York Times Book of the Year); and translations of Plato, Hesiod, Callimachus, and of Sappho, which was a finalist for the 2003 Pen Literary Award for translation; and most recently Virgil's Aeneid, also a finalist for a Pen award and reviewed in the New York Review of Books (April, 2007). He also maintains an interest in Asian philosophy and has co-authored a translation of Tao Te Ching. He is now working on a translation of Dante's Inferno, and on an anthology of Zen texts.Professor Lombardo has given dramatic readings of his translations on campuses throughout the country, as well as at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution, the Chicago Humanities Festival and on C-SPAN and National Public Radio. He has recorded and released award-winning audio books (Parmenides Press) of his Homer translations.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. David Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawings (the last two from Abrams) and the first study of Piet Mondrian's much tabooed flower studies. He has translated books from French and Spanish and recently edited a book on aesthetics: Uncontrollable Beauty. Born in l947, David received his degrees from Columbia and Cambridge Universities, but before he was fifteen he had put together many privately printed volumes of poetry. At fifteen he met Frank O'Hara, corresponded with John Ashbery, and was collaborating with Kenneth Koch and many painters of the so-called New York School. A tenured art historian at William Paterson University, Shapiro has won National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, been nominated for a National Book Award, and been the recipient of numerous grants for his work.Recent books of poetry include A Burning Interior (Overlook Press, 2002) andNew and Selected Poems (1965-2006) (Overlook Press, 2007).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Jim Powell and Ralph Johnson as part of the Poem Present series at the University of Chicago. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Joanna Klink as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Mary Jo Bang as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by Mary Jo Bang as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A poetry reading by Tom Pickard, Chicago Review Reader, as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2005 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A Poetry Reading by David Shapiro as part of the Poem Present Series. Shapiro has written over twenty volumes of poetry and prose, including the first book on John Ashbery, the first book on Jim Dine's painting, the first book on Jasper Johns' drawings (the last two from Abrams) and the first study of Piet Mondrian's much tabooed flower studies. He has translated books from French and Spanish and recently edited a book on aesthetics: Uncontrollable Beauty. A tenured art historian at William Paterson University, Shapiro has won National Endowment for the Humanities and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, been nominated for a National Book Award, and been the recipient of numerous grants for his work.Recent books of poetry include A Burning Interior (Overlook Press, 2002) andNew and Selected Poems (1965-2006) (Overlook Press, 2007).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Leslie Scalapino's It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems, 1974-2006 was recently released by University of California Press at Berkeley. Wrote Robert Creeley: "I hesitate to introduce any such term as 'meditation' or 'reflection,' because this work is not apart from its thinking and/or composition, so to speak-and that, among other things, constitutes its exceptional value. I find the whole work to be a deeply engaging preoccupation with, and articulation of, what life might be said, factually, to be. But not as a defined subject, nor even a defining one-but as one being one. That is an heroic undertaking, or rather, place in which to work/write/live. Its formal authority is as brilliant as any I know." Scalapino is the author of thirty books of poetry, inter-genre fiction-poetry-criticism and plays, including recently Day Ocean State of Stars' Night: Poems and Writings 1989 and 1999-2006 (Green Integer), Zither & Autobiography (Wesleyan University Press), The Tango (Granary Press), Orchid Jetsam (Tuumba), and Dahlia's Iris-Secret Autobiography and Fiction (FC2 Publishers).

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. A lecture by Forrest Gander as part of the Poem Present series at The University of Chicago. Copyright 2004 The University of Chicago.

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. Ed Roberson's seventh book of poetry, "City Eclogue" was published spring 2006, Number 23 in the Atelos series. His collection, "Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In" was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; his book "Atmosphere Conditions" was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Award for best book of 2000. He was a recipient of the Lila Wallace Writers Award. His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2004 and 2005, Callaloo, Hambone and The Chicago Review and many other journals. He is currently Visiting Artist at Northwestern University for the 2007 Fall quarter and will teach workshops in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago as a Visiting Professor in Winter and Spring 2008.

Frank Bidart was educated at the University of California at Riverside and at Harvard University, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. His first volume of poetry, Golden State (1973), was selected by poet Richard Howard for the Braziller Poetry series. Bidart's early books are collected in In the Western Night: Collected Poems 1965-90 (1990). His recent volumes include Star Dust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), Music Like Dirt (2002), and Desire (1997), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic's Circle Award. He is also the co-editor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems (2003). His honors include the Wallace Stevens Award, the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Writer's Award, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Shelley Award of the Poetry Society of America, and The Paris Review's first Bernard F. Conners Prize for "The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" in 1981. In 2007, he received the Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Bidart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2003. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has taught at Wellesley College since 1972.