New Century Poetics: A Poetry Colloquium at Centenary College of New Jersey.
October 19 & 20, 2009.
Featuring Poet Mark Doty, winner of the National Book Award.
http://www.centenarycollege.edu/cms/en/gates-ferry-lectures/
It was a great time. I especially enjoyed sitting at the "grown-up table" with Basil King, Michael Heller, Burt Kimmelman, Mark Weiss, Paul Sohar and Mark Lamoreux. I regret that the memory in my camera ran out before Paul Sohar read his poem, which was the best of the night.
I'm sorry that I couldn't keep myself from breathing at inconvenient times during the reading and that my hands were very shaky. I'm not a professional videographer.
If you enjoyed these videos, please let me know:
Basil King is a painter/poet, born in England before World War II and living in Brooklyn since 1968. He attended Black Mountain College as a teenager and completed apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist in San Francisco and New York. For the past three decades he has taken his art “from the abstract to the figure, from the figure to the abstract.” His books include Mirage: a poem in 22 sections, Warp Spasm, Identity, 77 Beasts/Basil King’s Beastiary, Talisman#36/37, In the Field Where Daffodils Grow, Short Stories.
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Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry – Musaics, First Lif, The Pond at Cape May Point, Somehow, and There Are Word; his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009. For over a decade he was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona, as well as scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry.
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Jared Harel's poems have been published or are forthcoming in such literary journals as the New York Quarterly, California Quarterly, Barrow Street, Notre Dame Review, The Portland Review, and Rattle. He was recently awarded First Runner-up in the 2009 BOA Editions “A. Poulin Jr. Book Prize.” A graduate of Cornell’s MFA program, he currently lives in Astoria, Queens and teaches creative writing and composition at Centenary College.
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Mark Weiss has published six books of poetry, most recently As Landscape. He edited, with Harry Polkinhorn, the bilingual Anthology Across the Line: The Poetry of Baja California. His translations include Stet: Selected Poems of JosĂ© Kozer; The San Antonio Notebook, by Javier ManrĂquez; and Gaspar Orozco's Notes from the Land of Z. The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry is due from UC Press November 1st. He lives at the edge of Manhattan's only forest.
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BJ Ward's books include Gravediggers Birthday and Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, both published by North Atlantic Books. His work has been featured on National Public Radio, New Jersey Network, and the web site, Poetry Daily, as well as in publications such as Poetry, TriQuarterly, and The Literary Review. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He teaches at Warren County Community College.
Poem Name: Thanksgiving
More: http://www.bjward.net/
Michael Heller has published eight volumes of poetry, most recently Eschaton. His critical work includes a collection of essays on George Oppen and a mixed-genre meditation on the work of the painter Max Beckmann. His poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. His many honors include the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America, a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fund for Poetry.
More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Heller_(poet)
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I have more videos, of Carlos Hernandez Pena and a few others that I haven't uploaded yet. If and when I get permission from these poets, I will upload their videos.
Warm Regards,
Erik B. Anderson
The King of Funny Faces
Independence Township, New Jersey
Established 1782
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