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visiting series features poets, artists, and scholars whose work
rethinks the mission and practice of poetry/poetics in the age of
media, globalization, and multilingualism. It explores poetry's
relations to a variety of issues and disciplines, including art,
architecture, digital media, science, music, history, ethics,
philosophy, anthropology, performance, linguistics, education, and
translation. It foregrounds poetics as a condition for social,
cultural, historical, and scientific
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Craig Dworkin
(University of Utah)
"The 'Pataphysics of New Media"
February 14, 2006 Tuesday, 3 PM
2635 South Hall,
UCSB |
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| Associate Professor of English at the University of Utah, Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (2003) and Strand (2005) and the editor of Eclipse Editions and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing. (More information)
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Jerome
Rothenberg
Poetry Reading and
Talking
Intro. by Suzanne Jill Levine
Feburary 3,
2004, 4-6 PM, 6020 HSSB, UCSB | |
| Professor of English and University of California Regents
Professor at UCSD, Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy
books of poetry and editor of seven major anthologies of traditional
and contemporary poetry, including Technicians of the
Sacred (tribal and oral poetry from Africa, America, Asia,
Europe, and Oceania), Shaking the Pumpkin (traditional
American Indian poetry), America a Prophecy (a radical
revision of the poetries of the North American continent co-edited
with George Quasha), Revolution of the Word (American
experimental poetry between the two world wars), A Big Jewish
Book (subtitled "Poems & Other Visions of the Jews from
Tribal Times to the Present"), and Poems for the Millennium
(two volumes, co-edited with Pierre Joris). He is the co-founder of
Ethnopoetics, a school of poetry and poetics that promotes
cross-cultural translation, multilingualism, and the ethics of
respect for the Other. (More
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Marjorie
Perloff
Screening the Page/Paging the
Screen:
Digital Poetics and the Differential
Text
Intro. by Porter Abbot
Feburary 24, 2004, 4-6
PM, 6020 HSSB, UCSB | |
| Sadie Denham Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita at
Stanford University, Marjorie Perloff has for decades been the most
articulate advocate for avant-garde and experimental poetry both in
the U.S. and the world. She is the author of more than twelve books,
including The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, The
Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound
Tradition, The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant-Guerre, and the
Language of Rupture, Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of
Media, and 21st-Century Modernism: The "New" Poetics.
Her new book, The Vienna Paradox, will be published by New
Directions in 2004. (More
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Charles
Bernstein
Making Audio Visible:
The Lessons
of Visual Language for the Textualization of
Sound
Intro. by William Warner
March 9, 2004, 4-6
PM, 6020 HSSB, UCSB | |
| Professor of English at University of Pennsylvania, Charles
Bernstein was the Director of the Poetics Program and David Gray
Chair of Poetry and Letters at SUNY-Buffalo in 1991-2003. A renowned
experimental poet and cultural critic, he is the author of over
twenty books of poetry and criticism, including The Sophist,
Content's Dream, A Poetics, My Way, Republics of Reality, and
With Strings. He is also the editor of The
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (with Bruce Andrews), The Poetics of
Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy, Close Listening:
Poetry and the Performed Word, and Poetry Plastique
(with Jay Sanders). Since 1998, Bernstein has been the
co-editor (with Hank Lazer) of the Modern and Contemporary Poetics
book series from the University of Alabama Press. He is also the
co-founder of Electronic Poetry Center. (More
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A Talk by Rob Wilson
(UC Santa Cruz)
"Worlding California Poetics"
April 19, 2004, Monday, 4 PM
6020 HSSB, UCSB |
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| Wilson has published poems and reviews in Bamboo Ridge journal since 1979, and in various other journals from Tinfish, Taxi, Manoa, and Central Park to New Republic, Ploughshares, Partisan Review and Poetry. He is a western Connecticut native who was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he was founding editor of the Berkeley Poetry Review.
He is at work on two collections of poetry: Ananda Air: American Pacific Lines of Flight; and Automat: Un/American Poetics, and still plays basketball, pool, and meditates (and prays), each day, in the great void of being and creative bliss. As Jack Kerouac put it in Dharma Bums, "Equally holy, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha!"
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Poetry Reading by Jeanne Heuving
May 17, 2004, Monday, 4 PM
6020 HSSB, UCSB |
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| Jeanne Heuving is an associate professor in the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program, University of Washington, Bothell and on the graduate faculty in the English Department, University of Washington, Seattle. Her debut cross genre work, Incapacity, is literature, biography, autobiography. Written at a time that has given rise to a plethora of autobiographies and memoirs, Incapacity performas an act of negativity, clearing and naming its space, its difficulty. She has published widely on twentieth century poetry and poetics, including the book Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore. She is presently at work on a critical project, The Transmutation of Love in Twentieth Century Poetry, and has just completed a new poetry manuscript, Concupiscence. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fulbright Foundation, and is on the editorial advisory board of the electronic journal HOW2 and is a member of the Subtext Collective in Seattle. |
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