Keats Birthday Party
Oct 27th, 2009
featuring Professor Susan Wolfson,
birthday cake, and poems!
Hinds Library
Cate Marvin
Nov 30th, 2009
author of FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN
editor of LEGITIMATE DANGERS
Library Auditorium
Poetics Colloquium
Oct 20th, 2009
9:00 am - 7:30 pm.
Centenary College
400 Jefferson Street, Hackettstown
Full day of Panels and workshops
Free, but reservation requested.
Mark Doty
Oct 19th, 2009
Centenary College
400 Jefferson Street,
Hackettstown
Reading and reception
Free, but reservation requested.
C.P.Cavafy: Collected and Unfinished Poems
Sep 30th, 2009
Daniel Mendelsohn
Labyrinth Books, Princeton
Labyrinth Books, Princeton
Ark
by Katie Ford
We love the stories of flood and the few
told to prepare in advance by their god.
In that story, the saved are
always us, meaning:
whoever holds the book.
From Colosseum (Graywolf), copyright 2008 Katie Ford
Sonya Posmentier writes:
I’ve chosen this poem from Katie Ford’s Colosseum in honor of hurricane season. Ford’s book is one of a few recent poetry collections responding to Hurricane Katrina—see also, Ray McDaniel’s Saltwater Empire and Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler. In different ways, these books all engage the question of whose experience is this, or whose story is this to tell. Ford’s beautifully compressed poem seems to ask not only about who gets to tell the story, but who gets to read it. The poem binds the speaker-poet and the reader into an empowered “We.”
What does the conclusion of the poem suggest about the power of holding “the book”? It’s hard not to picture Prospero, here. Is this about literacy–either in a literal sense or in some broader cultural sense?
What do you think about Ford’s turn to the universal, on the one hand (“stories of flood”) and, on the other, to the particular biblical story implied by the title? What does it mean to contextualize Katrina in this way?
Events
Nov 30th 2009 4:30 PM
Cate Marvin
author of FRAGMENT OF THE HEAD OF A QUEEN
editor of LEGITIMATE DANGERS
Library Auditorium
Dec 7th 2009 4:30 PM
Fred Moten & Evie Shockley
a Reading and Conversation
Graduate Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
McCosh 40
Dec 16th 2009 4:30 PM
Student Readings
Althea Ward Clark Reading Series
Lewis Center for the Arts
(Stewart Film Theater)
185 Nassau St
Althea Ward Clark Reading Series
Lewis Center for the Arts
(Stewart Film Theater)
185 Nassau St
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