Lyn Hejinian Visits Poetry and Politics
February 6, 2013
In collaboration with the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research, Lyn Hejinian will give a talk entitled “The Avant-Garde in Progress” at 12:15 in 210 Humanities 1 on UCSC campus. Click here for more information on this event.
Then come join us at 5:30pm at the Felix Kulpa Gallery for a poetry reading with Lyn Hejinian, Keegan Finberg and Michael Dhyne.
Then come join us at 5:30pm at the Felix Kulpa Gallery for a poetry reading with Lyn Hejinian, Keegan Finberg and Michael Dhyne.
Lyn Hejinian
Lyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the Objectivists, Language Writing, Soviet Russian poetry, translation, small press publishing, and questions of aesthetics and ethics.
Her work includes the following books of poetry:Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books, 2008)Situations, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry, 2008)The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books, 2004)My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books, 2003)The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books, 2003)Slowly (Tuumba Press, 2002)A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000; Tuumba Press, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press, 2000)Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books, 1999)Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures, 1991)My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press, 1987)
Her non-fiction work includes The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000)Leningrad, written with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten (Mercury House, 1991). She has also published two translations: Description, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1990)and Xenia, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1994)
Her work includes the following books of poetry:Saga / Circus (Omnidawn Books, 2008)Situations, Sings (written with Jack Collom; Adventures in Poetry, 2008)The Lake (with Emilie Clark; Granary Books, 2004)My Life in the Nineties (Shark Books, 2003)The Fatalist (Omnidawn Books, 2003)Slowly (Tuumba Press, 2002)A Border Comedy (Granary Books, 2001) The Beginner (Spectacular Books, 2000; Tuumba Press, 2002) Happily (Post-Apollo Press, 2000)Sight (written with Leslie Scalapino; Edge Books, 1999)Oxota: A Short Russian Novel (The Figures, 1991)My Life (second version; Sun & Moon Press, 1987)
Her non-fiction work includes The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000)Leningrad, written with Michael Davidson, Ron Silliman, Barrett Watten (Mercury House, 1991). She has also published two translations: Description, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1990)and Xenia, poems by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Sun & Moon Press, 1994)
Keegan Cook Finberg
Keegan Cook Finberg is a PhD candidate in Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz. She works on twentieth and twenty-first-century poetry in English and French, especially avant-garde and experimental works. Her approach includes particular attention to poetry's relation to media, architectural space, and affect. She also co-directs the Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and Reading Series at UCSC. Her poetry has been published in Bone Bouquet (2012) and The Little Jackie Paper (2006). She is currently finishing up a poetry manuscript about bed bugs.
Michael Dhyne
Michael Dhyne is from Burlingame, CA and is currently an undergraduate student at UCSC studying Creative Writing.
February 29, 2011 at 4 and 7pm
A lecture by Craig Dworkin and poetry reading with Eireene Nealand and Craig Dworkin
Craig Dworkin
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), Parse (Atelos), The Perverse Library (Information As Material) and the editor of Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Consequence of Innovation (Roof), The Sound of Poetry/ The Poetry of Sound (U of Chicago Press), Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.
Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), Parse (Atelos), The Perverse Library (Information As Material) and the editor of Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Consequence of Innovation (Roof), The Sound of Poetry/ The Poetry of Sound (U of Chicago Press), Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito Acconci (MIT). He teaches at the University of Utah and curates two on-line archives: Eclipse and The UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.
Eireene Nealand
Eireene Nealand’s short stories, poems, and translations have been published in ZYZZYVA, Sidebrow, The Western Humanities Review, The St. Petersburg Review, and Tight magazine, among other places. Her work has won her an Elisabeth Kostova Foundation Fellowship to attend fiction seminars in Sozopol, Bulgaria, and an Ivan Klima Fiction Fellowship to study in the Czech Republic. She has degrees in political science and political theory from UC Berkeley and UCLA, and is currently a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, where she studies proprioception, a neurobiological phenomenon that allows us to see textures and shifts.
Eireene Nealand’s short stories, poems, and translations have been published in ZYZZYVA, Sidebrow, The Western Humanities Review, The St. Petersburg Review, and Tight magazine, among other places. Her work has won her an Elisabeth Kostova Foundation Fellowship to attend fiction seminars in Sozopol, Bulgaria, and an Ivan Klima Fiction Fellowship to study in the Czech Republic. She has degrees in political science and political theory from UC Berkeley and UCLA, and is currently a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz, where she studies proprioception, a neurobiological phenomenon that allows us to see textures and shifts.
Oct 28, 2011 at 7pm
A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran
and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry
Ronaldo Wilson
Read about his work at the Poetry Foundation
Read about his work at the Poetry Foundation
Lauren Shufran
Lauren Shufran is a second-year PhD candidate in the Literature Department at UCSC. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University, and is actively involved in Small Press Traffic, San Francisco's longest-running non-profit literary organization. Burrow was published by Hooke Press in 2006; recent work has appeared in Try!, P-Queue, Yellow Edenwald Field, and War and Peace.
Lauren Shufran is a second-year PhD candidate in the Literature Department at UCSC. She received her MFA from San Francisco State University, and is actively involved in Small Press Traffic, San Francisco's longest-running non-profit literary organization. Burrow was published by Hooke Press in 2006; recent work has appeared in Try!, P-Queue, Yellow Edenwald Field, and War and Peace.
Matt Landry
Matt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance, the Zhouli.
Matt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in Literature at UC Santa Cruz, where he studies modern aesthetic theory and poetry. He is the translator of two books, The Mills of Toulouse: a Case Study on the Origins of the Corporation and an ancient Chinese book on governance, the Zhouli.
2010-2011 Reading and Workshop Series
Each visitor gave a 2-hour lecture and workshop on campus and an evening reading at the Felix Kulpa Gallery in downtown Santa Cruz.
Bhanu Kapil reading with Sesshu Foster with Katherine Wheeler-Dubin
Lecture Title: Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979"
April 29, 2011
Joan Retallack reading with Crystal Salas and Maya Weeks
Lecture Title: Reciprocal Alterities, Questions of Poetics for Difficult Times
May 25, 2011
Brian Kim Stefans reading with Claire Davidson and Brian Merrill
Lecture Title: Lyric in the Time of the Data Base
November 12, 2010
Bhanu Kapil reading with Sesshu Foster with Katherine Wheeler-Dubin
Lecture Title: Performance and Narrative: Writing (not writing) a tragic scene: NOTES: towards the Southall Race Riot of 1979"
April 29, 2011
Joan Retallack reading with Crystal Salas and Maya Weeks
Lecture Title: Reciprocal Alterities, Questions of Poetics for Difficult Times
May 25, 2011
Brian Kim Stefans reading with Claire Davidson and Brian Merrill
Lecture Title: Lyric in the Time of the Data Base
November 12, 2010
2010-Conference: Reimagining the Poet-Critic:
Practice, Pedagogy, Poetics
Other Past Visiting Lectures and Readings
Lyn Hejinian
Joshua Clover: "Is Poetry Historical?"
Juliana Spahr: "The 90s"
K. Silem Mohammad: "Bad Form"
Michael Davidson: "Pregnant Men: Modernism, Reproduction, and Eugenic Futurity"
Nathaniel Mackey
David Marriott
David Lau
David Buuck
Joshua Clover: "Is Poetry Historical?"
Juliana Spahr: "The 90s"
K. Silem Mohammad: "Bad Form"
Michael Davidson: "Pregnant Men: Modernism, Reproduction, and Eugenic Futurity"
Nathaniel Mackey
David Marriott
David Lau
David Buuck
