ecopoetics
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The Poetry Center presents Jared Stanley and Steven Seidenberg, reading and in conversation. Jared Stanley reads unpublished poems, "Civilian" (previously published by the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, 2017, and forthcoming in Harvard Review), and work from Ears (Nightboat Books, 2017). Steven Seidenberg reads an extended excerpt from Situ (Black Sun Lit, 2018). The reading is followed by a conversation with the audience.
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The Poetry Center presents Maria Damon, delivering what was the 29th annual George Oppen Memorial Lecture. Damon takes up the consideration of the making of works other than poems, by persons other than poets, as pursuing a poetics that gets denied serious study. Taking potter and writer M. C. Richards' statement "Poets are not the only poets" (Centering: in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person, Wesleyan University Press, 1964) as title of her talk, Damon moves from her being drawn to both "micropoetries" and "macropoetries" in her study and writings into a reading of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as an instance of confounding of human and animal voices, with the poem's reiterated "who... who... who..." as sounding that borders on that of the beast.
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The Poetry Center presents Mazza Writer in Residence Phoebe Giannisi, reading and in conversation with Eleni Stecopoulos. Giannisi reads from Homerica (tr. Brian Sneeden, World Poetry Books, 2017), and other work, incorporating an original video into her performance, with the poem presented on-screen in English, accompanied by a live recitation of the original poem in Greek. Eleni Stecopolous introduces Giannisi, and leads the discussion afterwards, which includes responses to audience questions. The Mazza Writer in Residence program is supported by the Sam Mazza Foundation.