The Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry Podcast

Welcome to the third and final episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015. Srikanth Reddy's series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder. Today's talk, entitled “The 'O' of Wonder: A Syzygy,” traces a history of wonder in the western poetic tradition from Homer to Milton to Ronald Johnson. It was recorded and presented in partnership with Counterpath at the University of Denver, September 18, 2015. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit the ⁠Bagley Wright Lecture Series website⁠ or click ⁠here⁠. Reddy's book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Visit us at our website, ⁠bagleywrightlectures.org⁠, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "⁠⁠I Recall⁠⁠" by ⁠⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠⁠ from the ⁠⁠Free Music Archive⁠⁠ CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.   Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015. Srikanth Reddy's series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder. Today, we'll hear "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink," recorded at Seattle Arts and Lectures, December 1, 2015. This lecture examines the question of likeness in Emily Dickinson's similes and Gertrude Stein's portraits as a way of thinking about social identity and difference in modern American poetry. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit the BWLS website.   Reddy's book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠.  Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠ from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠ CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015. Srikanth Reddy's series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder. Today, we'll hear a recording of “The Unsignificant,” given October 2, 2015 at New York University.  This lecture considers W. H. Auden's poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” in relation to Peter Brueghel's painting “The Fall of Icarus,” and references a number of artworks. To view a gallery of these works, visit the Bagley Wright Lecture Series website or click here. Reddy's book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠. Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠ from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠ CC BY NC

Welcome to the fourth and final episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear “Is That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up?” given December 9, 2021, in partnership with Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom. Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is outMay 7 from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Portland Literary Arts for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear “Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip),” given June 24, 2021, in partnership with the Naropa University, via Zoom. Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Naropa University for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege, and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise,” given February 18, 2021, in partnership with the University of Buffalo, via Zoom. Click here to view the Bruce Kurland paintings discussed in this talk. Lisa Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Lisa Jarnot's autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip' and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth. Today we'll hear “White Whales, White Males, Whitehead,” given October 7, 2020, in partnership with The Poetry Project, via Zoom. There are two brief moments where the recording goes fuzzy. Transcriptions of those moments are below: ~40.18: "I was the perfect candidate to catalogue that collection." ~54:00 "'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound to nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.'" Lisa Jarnot's book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Rachel Zucker's lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art. Today we'll hear "Poetry and Photography," given March 9, 2016, in partnership with Yale University. This talk includes many references to the aesthetics of photographers with whom Zucker identifies or does not identify. As accompaniment to this lecture, we offer the following list–by no means comprehensive–with links to some of these photographers' works. book review of Robert Frank's The Americans, at Lens Culture Walker Evans, at artnet Henri Cartier-Bresson, at the International Center of Photography Edward Weston, at Weston Gallery Ansel Adams, at artnet Roger Fenton's Valley of the Shadow of Death at Public Domain Review The Dead of Antietam, by Mathew Brady and associates Robert Capa, at artnet Dorothea Lange, at MoMA William Eggleston at Eggleston Art Foundation Sally Mann Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Rachel Zucker's lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art. Today we'll hear “The Poetics of Motherhood,” given November 15, 2016, in partnership with UC Berkeley. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Rachel Zucker's lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art. Today we'll hear “A Very Large Charge: The Ethics of 'Say Everything' Poetry,” given February 5, 2016, in partnership with New York University. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Rachel Zucker's lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art. Today we'll hear “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking About,” given January 28, 2016, in partnership with the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Rachel Zucker's lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art. Today we'll hear “The Poetics of Wrongness: an Unapologia,” given November 14, 2016, in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. A quick note about this lecture–just prior to beginning, Zucker gives a nod the timing of writing this talk. She is speaking about having written it 16 months prior to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, and to the fact that she is now giving this talk, about a week after his election. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings–for example, you can read a transcript of the Q&A that followed this lecture, here. Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fifth & final episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear “Read Red / Red Read: Putting Violence Down in Poetry,” a collaborative performance with Val-Inc, given in person at the Ace Hotel Brooklyn in partnership with BOMB magazine, November 9, 2021. Douglas Kearney has long engaged the conflation of violence and entertainment in U.S.American culture, from badman folklore to postcards of lynchings. Still, there are questions that haunt. What are the ethics of representing violence? How might poetic aesthetications of brutality transform, reinscribe, or abet violence? Through a versioned series of essayistic vignettes presented in collaboration with SoundChemist, Val-Inc, Kearney entangles his encounters with violence as a reader, poet and performer. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is available here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Seven of the podcast includes lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear “You Better Hush: Blacktracking A Visual Poetics.” This talk was originally given March 31, 2021, at Seattle Arts & Lectures, via Zoom. Aretha and the Iceman, J-Dilla, Susan Howe, and a bird that becomes a fish only to become a bird, flower, then a bird again meet up in this lecture about visuality/visibility (Evie Shockley) and the textual/textural. Poet Douglas Kearney will discuss what draws him to visual poetry, the disruptive pleasure of collage's cut, recognition as a strategy that places reading in tension with looking, and the genealogy of a threat from a spiritual to 1990s gangsta rap. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming, and is available for purchase here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear "Red Read / Read Red: Depictions of Violence in Poetry." This talk was originally given March 24, 2021, at Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom. Douglas Kearney has long written about the conflation of violence and entertainment in U.S. American culture, from badman folklore to postcards of lynchings. Still, there are questions that haunt. What are the ethics of representing violence? How might poetic aestheticizations of brutality transform, reinscribe, or abet violence? Through a series of vignettes in which Kearney entangles his encounters with violence as a reader and his own attempts to put it down on the page, the poet investigates what compels him about the subject. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming in November, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear "#WERWOLFGOALS." This talk was originally given October 8, 2020, at Washington University in St. Louis, via Zoom. Douglas Kearney discloses the nexus of lycanthropy, a poetics of prepositions, the catharsis hustle, and cinematic special effects in this lecture of private and public myths/truths. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming in November, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. We begin with Kearney's talk, "I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading." This talk was originally given September 25, 2020, at Cave Canem, via Zoom. While reading from early drafts of Patter, a collection about miscarriage, infertility, and making a Black family in the U.S., Douglas Kearney's relationship to audiences at poetry gigs changed. Informed by stand-up, improvisational music, and artists from Nina Simone to the Black Took Collective, Kearney began engaging the time between poems—the banter—to activate the imaginative space of association, mess, and discomfort he pursues in his written work: live. This lecture will get into the tension between pain and its performance, comedians' ideas of “killing” and dying,“ along with tips on how to sprint into a stone wall without getting hurt much. There are two brief moments where the audio cuts out in this recording. At around nine minutes, Kearney says, "'Miscarriages' were the sum of the takeaway that I couldn't, then shouldn't, make anyone feel what I had felt. And why? I would love to say that it would be to avoid cruelty…”. At around fourteen minutes, after "Just pay me for writing the damn poem!" Kearney continues, "Banter is of unknown etymological origins...". Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming in November, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Matthew Dickman's lecture “Making The Black Dog Sit: A Look at Suicide Through Poetry” is a personal talk about Dickman's experience with suicide and turning to poetry to better understand the act of suicide. This talk was originally given June 29, 2016, at the Hugo House, Seattle, WA.

Judy Halebsky's "From Haiku to Collage" engages the teachings of Basho and how the aesthetic practice of haiku has shaped her work in lyric and free-verse poetry. You can read Halebsky's accompanying notes for this talk here. This talk was originally given February 28th, 2016, at the Hugo House in Seattle, WA.

Tyehimba Jess discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Olio (Wave Books, 2016). This talk was given March 4, 2018 in conjunction with Seattle Arts Lectures. Jess talks about the genesis and stories behind the poems in Olio, which revisits the biographies of African American creatives from the Civil War until WW1, including Scott Joplin, Blind Boone, Sissieretta Jones, Blind Tom, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Box Brown, and others, and provides an opportunity to discuss history, form, geometry, resistance, and resilience via this incredibly multifaceted work. Anastacia-Reneé joins him in conversation for the Q&A.

Matthew Rohrer's short lecture, “Poetry is Not a Symbol,” was co-presented by the Hugo House on May 17, 2017 in Seattle, WA. Read Rohrer's essay, "Instead of Trying So Much, Why Don't You Just Try a Little?" here.

Ange Mlinko's “Poetry at Sea” is a discussion of the paradox that for a certain strand of the poetic tradition, language is a complete conflation of the cerebral and the erotic: that it uses the bewilderment of meaning as a seduction strategy; and that this seduction is meant to tempt us to remain open to the possibility of transformation of our lives. This lecture was given Sept 8, 2016, at Hugo House in Seattle, WA. Read "'Oh, I will never get it!': Ange Mlinko on Not Knowing French" here.

In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. This fall we are sharing recordings of some of these events. Today's episode features a panel on Poetry & Non-Literary Influence, comprised of Timothy Donnelly, Terrance Hayes, & Matthew Zapruder. Thank you to the U of A Poetry Center for partnering with us. To view additional events from this conference, visit Voca, UAPC's audiovisual archive.

In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. This fall we are sharing recordings of some of these events. Today's episode features a panel on Poetry & Autobiography, comprised of Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Srikanth Reddy, & Rachel Zucker. Thank you to the U of A Poetry Center for partnering with us. To view additional events from this conference, visit Voca, UAPC's audiovisual archive.

In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. This fall we are sharing recordings of some of these events. Today: a panel on Poetry & Practice, comprised of Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, and Srikanth Reddy. Thank you to the U of A Poetry Center for partnering with us. To view additional events from this conference, visit Voca, UAPC's audiovisual archive.

In February of 2018, the Bagley Wright Lecture Series and the University of Arizona Poetry Center co-hosted a three-day conference called, "You Are Who I'm Talking To: Poetry, Attention, & Audience," featuring reading, talks, and conversations between the first six BWLS lecturers, Joshua Beckman, Dorothea Lasky, Timothy Donnelly, Srikanth Reddy, Rachel Zucker, and Terrance Hayes. Over the next few months we'll be sharing recordings of some of these events, beginning with this one: a panel on Poetry & Social Engagement. This panel is comprised of Terrance Hayes, Timothy Donnelly, former BWLS director Matthew Zapruder, and Rachel Zucker. Thank you to the U of A Poetry Center for partnering with us. To view additional events from this conference, visit Voca, UAPC's audiovisual archive.

In 2017, Geoffrey Nutter gave a workshop & reading from his then-new collection, Cities at Dawn, (Wave Books, 2016) in Seattle at Hotel Sorrento, in partnership with The Hugo House. Please enjoy this short reading by the author, in celebration of his now-new collection, Giant Moth Perishes, (Wave Books, 2021). Nutter's essay, "A Note on Concordances," is here.

In 2016, BWLS lecturer Srikanth Reddy gave a brief reading from his work-in-progress, Underworld Lit (Wave Books, 2020) in Seattle at Elliott Bay Books. Please enjoy this short reading by the author.

Hoa Nguyen's lecture, “Living Room,” considers the meaning and purpose of creative writing classes, and draws upon her extensive history of teaching poetics through deep reading and ‘living' with poets. This is a spacious talk, with lots of descriptions of images the listener gets to dream through. This lecture was given in Seattle, WA on April 21, 2016 in partnership with Hugo House. It begins with a dedication to her mother, Diệp Anh Nguyễn, whose life story is gestured toward throughout Nguyen's latest collection, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure (Wave Books, 2021). Read Nguyen's essay by the same name that accompanies this lecture, here.

Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today we'll hear "Shadows Crossing: Tones of Voice Continued," originally given October 24, 2019 at the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, Alaska. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today we'll hear "A Necessary Darkness: Barbara Guest and the Open Chamber,” originally given April 24, 2019 at the University of San Francisco. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today's we'll hear "Not Free From the Memory of Others: A Lecture on Joanne Elizabeth Kyger." This talk was originally given at Poets House on November 8, 2017. Click here to read "The Wind at Night," an essay by Sigo on the BWLS blog. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo. Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. Today's talk is called "Becoming Visible," and was originally given as part of the APRIL Festival of independent literature, March 20, 2016, at the Hotel Sorrento in Seattle, Washington. Click here to read Sigo's essay on the BWLS blog, "Like Someone in Love: Late Night Thoughts for David Meltzer." Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Four of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Cedar Sigo, beginning with today's talk: "Reality Is No Obstacle: A Poetics of Participation." Cedar Sigo's lectures plumb the particulars of influence, history, tone, and form to beget a singular ‘autobiography of voice.' Across these talks, Sigo explores his childhood on the Suquamish Reservation, his coming to poetry and the ‘dream of composition.' He pays homage to a glittering constellation of postmodernist and revolutionary teachers, artists, and peers, and builds enduring and pointed questions of agency, interdependence, lineage, and transformation. This talk was originally given at the Poetry Foundation, May 16, 2019. Read a brief essay by Sigo, "Return to Graffiti Land," here on the BWLS blog. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Cedar Sigo's book based on his BWLS lectures, _Guard The Mysteries_ (Wave Books, 2021) is forthcoming in June, and is available for preorder here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the sixth and final episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we'll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we'll hear Hayes give a talk called, “DIY For Langston Hughes,” on Knight's poem, "For Langston Hughes," and the crafting of political poems. This talk was originally given August 12, 2015, at Breadloaf. Terrance Hayes's book based on his BWLS lectures, _To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with The Life and Work of Etheridge Knight_ (Wave Books, 2018) is here. To view a few of Hayes's correlative drawings from the book, click here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we'll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we'll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Poetics of Liquid,” a revision of ideas of ancestry and influence. This talk was originally given May 5, 2015, at Seattle Arts & Lectures. Terrance Hayes's book based on his BWLS lectures, _To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with The Life and Work of Etheridge Knight_ (Wave Books, 2018) is here. To view a few of Hayes's correlative drawings from the book, click here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we'll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we'll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Poems from Prison,” on the relationship between Knight and prison and becoming a poet. This talk was originally given April 2, 2015, at the Poetry Foundation. Terrance Hayes's book based on his BWLS lectures, _To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with The Life and Work of Etheridge Knight_ (Wave Books, 2018) is here. To view a few of Hayes's correlative drawings from the book, click here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we'll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we'll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Three Acts of Love,” on three of Knight's love poems and the crafting of love poems. This talk was originally given March 13, 2015, at New York University. Terrance Hayes's book based on his BWLS lectures, _To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with The Life and Work of Etheridge Knight_ (Wave Books, 2018) is here. To view a few of Hayes's correlative drawings from the book, click here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes. Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we'll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. This week, we'll hear Hayes give a talk called, “Ideas of Influence,” on Knight's influences and general acts of imitation. This talk was originally given January 22, 2015, at the Library of Congress. To view a few of Hayes's correlative drawings, click here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Terrance Hayes's book based on his BWLS lectures, _To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with The Life and Work of Etheridge Knight_ (Wave Books, 2018) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Three of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to the lectures of Terrance Hayes, beginning with today's talk: “Turning Into Dwelling: The Space Between the Poet and the Poem.” Hayes's lectures circle the work and life of Etheridge Knight, a poet who has been a muse and mystery (and ghost mentor) for Hayes throughout his career. In each of the six lectures we'll hear this season, Hayes uses Knight to anchor his broad explorations of poems and poetics. “Turning Into Dwelling” is on Knight's mentee, Christopher Gilbert, and the importance of community. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Terrance Hayes's book based on his BWLS lectures, _To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with The Life and Work of Etheridge Knight_ (Wave Books, 2018) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fifth and final episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky. Today, we'll hear Dorothea Lasky give her lecture, “The Bees.” This lecture, the last in Lasky's book of poetry lectures, Animal, was recorded especially for this episode. Following the lecture, Lasky and podcast host/BWLS coordinator Ellen Welcker will have a brief wonder about bees, flies, pigs, and some of the ways we might live together better. Dorothea Lasky's lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, color, time, and meaning-making–considering, for example, the “I” as multiplicitous shape-shifter–in search of the wild power of poetry. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Thank you for listening--and stay tuned for Season Three: Terrance Hayes. Dorothea Lasky's book of collected BWLS lectures, Animal (Wave Books, 2019) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. This week, we'll hear Dorothea Lasky give her lecture, “The Beast: How Poetry Makes Us Human.” This lecture was given December 5, 2013, at the Library of Congress. Lasky's lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, color, time, and meaning-making, considering, for example, the “I” as multiplicitous shape-shifter in search of the wild power of poetry. Following this lecture, we'll hear a conversation on the innate magic of objects between Lasky and puppeteer Christopher Mullens. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Thank you to the Library of Congress for partnering with the Series for this event, and thank you for listening. Dorothea Lasky's book of collected BWLS lectures, Animal (Wave Books, 2019) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. Today we'll hear "On the Materiality of the Imagination.” This lecture was given November 21, 2013, at Seattle Arts and Lectures. Lasky's lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, color, time, and meaning-making, considering, for example, the “I” as multiplicitous shape-shifter in search of the wild power of poetry. Following today's lecture, we'll tune in to a conversation on the supernatural, between Lasky, paranormal investigator Vinny Carbone, and mystic artist and spiritual teacher, Lou Florez. To learn more about Vinny Carbone and his work, please visit his YouTube channel and his Instagram. To learn more about Lou Florez and his work, please visit his website, Instagram, and his nonprofit, Water Has No Enemy. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Thank you to Seattle Arts and Lectures for partnering with the Series for this event, and thank you for listening. Dorothea Lasky's book of collected BWLS lectures, Animal (Wave Books, 2019) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the second episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. Today, we'll hear “What is Color in Poetry, or Is It the Wild Wind in the Space of the Word?” This lecture was given September 20, 2013, at New York University. Lasky's lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, creativity, states of being, and meaning-making, considering, for example, the 'I' as multiplicitous shape-shifter in search of the wild power of poetry. Following the lecture, we'll hear a conversation on color, between Lasky and visual artist Tiffany Patterson. To learn more about Tiffany Patterson, please visit her website, here, and check out the BWLS blog to see the two paintings they discuss in this episode. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Thank you to NYU for partnering with the Series for this event, and thank you for listening. Dorothea Lasky's book of collected BWLS lectures, Animal (Wave Books, 2019) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Two of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. This season, we're listening to five lectures by Dorothea Lasky, and related conversations with experts in some of the subjects of Lasky's talks. Today we'll hear "Poetry and the Metaphysical 'I'.” This lecture was given October 10, 2013, at Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room. Lasky's lectures explore the non-linear and highly complex relationship between language, creativity, states of being, and meaning-making, considering, for example, the “I” as multiplicitous shape-shifter in search of the wild power of poetry. Following today's lecture, we'll consider some of these topics, in a brief conversation between Lasky and two amazing people: poet, ceremonialist, energetic herbalist and intuitive Danielle Vogel, and artist and intuitive Asher Hartman. To learn more about Danielle Vogel, visit her websites here and here. To learn more about Asher Hartman and his work, visit his websites here and here. For more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings, visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org. Thank you to the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard University for partnering with the Series for this event, and thank you for listening. Dorothea Lasky's book of collected BWLS lectures, Animal (Wave Books, 2019) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the third and final episode of Season One of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series podcast. This week, we'll hear Joshua Beckman give his lecture “Friendship, Porousness, and the Intimate Experience of Poetry.” This lecture was given May 22, 2014, at the Poetry Foundation. Joshua Beckman's Bagley Wright lectures attempt to articulate and conjure for the listener the private and shared experiences one can have through reading and listening to poetry. Beckman attends to imaginative reality as well as physical artifacts, including beloved dead poets, friendship as viewed through the lens of reading, the book-object, and his own writing process as seen through ‘the lives of the poems.' Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Thank you to the Poetry Foundation for partnering with the Series for this event, and thank you for listening. Please stay tuned-and subscribe-for Season Two, coming soon. Joshua Beckman's double-book set of collected BWLS lectures, Three Talks and The Lives of the Poems (Wave Books, 2018) is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions From the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

In celebration of Don Mee Choi's recent National Book Award for DMZ Colony (Wave Books, 2020), we wanted to share the following talk: On OCTOBER 17, 2017 Don Mee Choi gave a lecture based on her keynote address at the 2016 American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) conference, entitled “Translation is a mode=Translation is an anti-neocolonial mode.” This talk, now available as a pamphlet published by Ugly Duckling Presse, included discussion of Walter Benjamin's bread, Korean cornbread, warships, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence, and Kim Hyesoon's mirrors, among other things. Co-presented by the Hugo House, in Seattle, WA, this event took place at the Sorrento Hotel's Fireside Room. DMZ Colony is available here, and at independent bookstores everywhere.

Welcome to the second episode of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series podcast. This week, we'll hear Joshua Beckman give his lecture, “A Talk About Books.” This lecture was given October 16, 2014, at Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room, and was originally called "On the Porous Experience of the Book in Physical and Imagined Space." To view some of the archival images Beckman refers to in this talk, visit the BWLS blog. Joshua Beckman's Bagley Wright lectures attempt to articulate and conjure for the listener the private and shared experiences one can have through reading and listening to poetry. Beckman attends to imaginative reality as well as physical artifacts, including beloved dead poets, friendship as viewed through the lens of reading, the book-object, and his own writing process as seen through ‘the lives of the poems.' Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Thank you to the Woodberry Poetry Room for partnering with the Series for this event, and thank you for listening. Joshua Beckman's double-book set of collected BWLS lectures, Three Talks and The Lives of the Poems (Wave Books, 2018) is here. A transcription of the Q&A after Beckman's talk at the Library of Congress is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. In this episode, the first of three in a series, we listen to Joshua Beckman's lecture, "The Lives of the Poems," originally given May 8, 2014 at New York University, and then hear an interview between Beckman and Colin McDonald of Seminary Coop's Open Stacks podcast, originally aired April 22, 2018. Beckman's lectures attempt to articulate and conjure for the listener the private and shared experiences one can have through reading and listening to poetry. Beckman attends to imaginative reality as well as physical artifacts, including beloved dead poets, friendship as viewed through the lens of reading, the book-object, and his own writing process as seen through ‘the lives of the poems.' Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer's archive page, including selected writings. Thank you to New York University's Creative Writing Program for partnering with the Series for this event, to Seminary Coop and the Open Stacks podcast for permission to rebroadcast this interview, and to you for listening. Joshua Beckman's double-book set of collected BWLS lectures, Three Talks and The Lives of the Poems (Wave Books, 2018) is here. A transcription of the Q&A after Beckman's talk at the Library of Congress is here. Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC