I’ve just gotten back from the very fun and stimulating Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (directed by the esteemed poetry scholar Alan Golding) which, this year at least, amply demonstrated that scholarly work devoted to the poets of the New York School … Continue reading
This weekend, the Bay Area Public School is hosting a big symposium on the work of Alice Notley in Oakland, California. The event features a great line-up of readers and speakers, including Notley herself, a keynote talk by Eileen Myles, … Continue reading
There are a couple of exciting events coming up featuring Bernadette Mayer, both in New York. First, this Friday, October 17, at the Poetry Project at St. Marks, there will be a 25th anniversary celebration of the terrific small press Tender Buttons, which … Continue reading
Each year at the American Literature Association’s annual conference, “The New York School Society” hosts a panel or two devoted to recent scholarship on the topic of the New York School. I always find it interesting to see what’s on offer, as … Continue reading
The poet Angela Ball is guest-blogging this week on the Best American Poetry blog, and she’s been posting about a graduate class she’s teaching this semester at the University of Southern Mississippi on the New York School Poets. Since I’m … Continue reading
There’s an upcoming conference being held in Belgium in November 2013 on the work of two very interesting poets, Alice Notley and Pierre Joris, and issues of nomadism, hybridity, translation, and transnationalism. The title of the seminar is “Moving Back … Continue reading
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