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TWO NEW ENGLAND EVENTS 1. POETRY READING BY MICHAEL HELLER THE GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER Wednesday, September 25^th at 7:30 PM at the Gloucester Writers Center, 126 East Main Street, Gloucester (Michael Heller will also be in residence at the Gloucester Writers Center from the afternoon of September 22^nd until the morning of September 28^th .) 2. THE OBJECTIVIST CONSTELLATION & BEYOND Poetry Reading and talk on october 1^st 2013 Seminar & Recording Session with Michael Heller. Introduced by Patrick Pritchett Almost since he began publishing his poetry in the late nineteen-sixties, Michael Heller has been thinking and writing about the Objectivist poets, in particular George Oppen whom he knew and corresponded with for nearly 20 years.His presentation will focus on the powerful and rigorous contribution of their work and its influence on contemporary poetry, including his own.He will also read from his most recent publication, /This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010/. _Woodberry poetry __room__, lamont library, __room__330, __harvard____university___ -- Home page: michaelhellerpoetry.com Recent books: This Constellation Is A Name: Collected Poems 1965-2010 (Nightboat Books, 2012);Beckmann Variations & Other Poems (Shearsman, 2010); Eschaton (Talisman, 2009); Speaking the Estranged: Essays on the work of George Oppen (Salt, 2008); Uncertain Poetries: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics (Salt, 2005); Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2003). Available at bookstores, SPD and at Amazon.com Collaborations with the composer Ellen Fishman Johnson: This Art Burning and other poetry, Benjamin (a music-theater work based on the life of Walter Benjamin), go to: http://www.efjcomposer.com/efjcomposer/Welcome.html and for excerpts visit Ellen's Youtube videos at: http://www.youtube.com/user/efjcomposer Michael Heller PennSound page: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Heller.php