>Dear friends and colleagues, I'll be presenting
>this seminar at the new POETS HOUSE in Lower
>Manhattan at 10 River Terrace, New York, NY
>10280. Dates and times below. For more
>information and precise directions, go to:
>http://poetshouse.org/aboutstaff.htm.
>
>
>On Modern Poetry: Public Seminars with Michael Heller
>In two round-table discussions, poet and critic
>Michael Heller explores major aspects of the
>origins and aesthetics of modern poetry. These
>seminars are a wonderful way for newcomers as
>well as poetry experts to map the broad and
>divergent landscape of modern American poetry.
>
>The Foundations of Modern and Contemporary Poetry with Michael Heller
>Saturday, February 20, 2:00–5:00pm
>$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets
>House Members; pre-registration is not required
>Readings for this first session will include the
>poetry and prose of Whitman, Dickinson, Pound,
>Frost, Williams and Stevens, with reference to
>the intellectual and cultural environment in which modern poetry arose.
>“No Ideas but in Things”: Developments,
>Diversities, Dispersions, Disavowals with Michael Heller
>Saturday, February 27, 2:00–5:00pm
>$10, $7 for students and seniors, free to Poets House Members
>Readings for this session include Zukofsky,
>Oppen, Moore, Niedecker, Harlem Renaissance
>poets, Olson, Black Mountain and Beat Poetry. We
>will discuss traceries, inflections and
>influences of the early modernist poets on the
>poetry that came after, with some reflections on
>shape and form in contemporary poetry.
>
>Michael Heller is a poet, essayist and critic.
>Among his many books are the poetry collections
>Eschaton, Exigent Futures: New and Selected
>Poems and In the Builded Place as well as the
>memoir, Living Root. His most recent critical
>book is Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the
>Work of George Oppen. He taught for many years at New York University.
>[]
>
>
>Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers
>(2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution
>(www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good
>bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The
>Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD,
>amazon.com and from ahadadpress at
>http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/.
> Speaking The Estranged: Essays on the Work of
>George Oppen (2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays
>on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (2005) and Exigent
>Futures: New and Selected Poems (2003) available
>at www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good
>bookstores. Survey of work at
>http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm
>Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman
>Johnson at
>http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html
>Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html
Eschaton (new poems) Talisman House Publishers
(2009) available at SPD, Greenfield Distribution
(www.gfibooks.com), www. amazon.com and good
bookstores. Two Novellas: Marble Snows & The
Study (ahadada press 2009) available from SPD,
amazon.com and from ahadadpress at
http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/162/41/.
Speaking The Estranged: Essays on the Work of
George Oppen (2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays
on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (2005) and Exigent
Futures: New and Selected Poems (2003) available
at www.saltpublishing.com, amazon.com and good
bookstores. Survey of work at
http://www.thing.net/~grist/ld/heller.htm
Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman
Johnson at
http://www.efjcomposer.com/EFJ/Collaborations.html
Recordings at http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.html
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