"Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" Fall 2000 Poetry and Prose Series

"Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" Fall 2000 Poetry and Prose Series

University at Buffalo

All readings are open to the public and free of charge unless otherwise designated.

Jorie Graham

Poetry Reading

4 p.m., Sept. 6, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, UB North Campus

Graham's "The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974-1994" won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. She also is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Her most recent book is "Swarm." Graham is Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University.

Jacqueline Osherow

Poetry Reading (Poetry Committee Reading)

4 p.m., Sept. 11, Poetry/Rare Books Room, 420 Capen Hall, UB North Campus

Osherow's most recent book is "Dead Men's Praise." She is the director of creative writing at the University of Utah.

David Foster Wallace

Prose Reading

8 p.m., Sept. 15, "Just Buffalo at Allen Hall," Allen Hall, UB South Campus, $6 general public, $5 students, $4 members of Just Buffalo

David Foster Wallace, author most recently of "Infinite Jest," is one of the most innovative and provocative novelists writing in America today.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Poetry Reading

4 p.m., Sept. 20, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Berssenbrugge's ravishing work has been collected as "The Heat Bird," "Sphericity," "Empathy" and "Four Year Old Girl."

Nick Piombino

Poetry Reading

4 p.m., Sept. 27, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Talk: "Boundary of Theory"

12:30 p.m., Sept. 28, 438 Clemens Hall, North Campus

Piombino's most recent book is "Theoretical Objects," a startling reinvention of poetics in his aphoristic, psychoanalytically informed essays.

Peter Ramos

Roberto Tejada

Poetry Reading

8 p.m., Sept. 28, Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St., Buffalo

Ramos and Tejada are students in UB's Poetics Program. In the '90s, Tejada edited the influential Mexico-based journal Mandorla.

Nicole Brossard

Poetry Reading

4 p.m., Oct. 4, Screening Room 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Lecture: "Silence and an Human Voice: Vital Material for a Future"

12:30 p.m., Oct. 5, 438 Clemens Hall, North Campus

Poet, essayist and novelist, Brossard is considered the most acclaimed Quebecois writer of our time. Recent books in English translation are "Installations and Picture Theory."

Samuel R. Delany

Carl Dennis

Prose and Poetry Reading

4 p.m., Oct. 11, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Two of UB's own prize-winning faculty members in a special Poetics-Program tribute.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry Reading

4 p.m., Oct. 18, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

An inspirational force in American poetry and an unrivaled voice of social and gender justice, Rich's most recent collection is "Midnight Salvage."

Lourdes Vázquez

Bilingual Poetry Reading

8 p.m., Oct. 19, Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St., Buffalo

Puerto Rican writer Vázquez's published poetry collections include "The Broken Heart."

Bruce Mannheim

Talk: "Linguistics and Poetics"

3:30 p.m., Oct. 24, 540 Clemens Hall, North Campus

Lecture: "An Implicit Poetics: The Inca and Their Descendants"

4 p.m., Oct. 25, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Bruce Mannheim co-edited "The Dialogic Emergence of Culture" with Dennis Tedlock. A linguistic anthropologist, he teaches at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Language of the Inca since the European Invasion."

Raymond Federman

Lecture: "The Imaginary Museum of Samuel Beckett"

4 p.m., Oct. 31, 930 Clemens Hall, North Campus

Prose Reading

4 p.m., Nov. 1, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Raymond Federman

Prose reading in French of "Aunt Rachel's Fur"

5:30 p.m., Nov. 2, 930 Clemens Hall , North Campus

Federman returns to Buffalo with a new edition of "Twofold Vibration." His poem "Loose Shoes" is can be see in the UB Electronic Poetry Center.

Larry Bell

Artist's Slide Talk

4 p.m., Nov. 8, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Bell's luminous glass-box minimalism has compelled the attention of art viewers for 40 years.

Carolyn Kizer

The Oscar Silverman Annual Poetry Reading

8 p.m., Nov. 10, 250 Baird Hall, North Campus

Kizer won the Pulitzer Prize for "Yin" in 1984; her most recent collection is "Harping On: Poems 1985-1995."

Tatiana de la Tierra

Roberto López

Bilingual Poetry Reading

8 p.m., Nov. 9, Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St., Buffalo

López and de la Tierra are UB graduate students.

Caroline Bergvall

Poetry Performance

8 p.m., Nov. 10, Steel Bar, 511 Tri-Main Building, Buffalo

Bergvall is director of performance writing at the Dartington College of the Arts (UK) and author, most recently, of "Goam Atom and Eclat."

Dominique Fourcade

Bilingual Poetry Reading

4 p.m., Nov. 15, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Talk: "Toute Arrive: Mallarmé and Manet"

12:30 p.m., Nov. 16, 438 Clemens Hall

In 1998, Fourcade was awarded the highest prize for French poetry, the Grand Prix National de Poésie. His books in translation include "Xbo" and "Click Rose.On line: From All Sides Beautiful."

Simon Cutts

Erica Van Horn

Talk: "Strategies for Publishing"

12:30 p.m., Nov. 28, 438 Clemens Hall, North Campus

Cutts is a poet and publisher of legendary Coricle Books. "A Smell of Printing" is forthcoming from Granary. Van Horn is a writer and book artist, whose current medium is envelope interiors.

Arakawa

Madeline Gins

Reading and Talk

4 p.m., Nov. 29, Screening Room, 112 Center for the Arts, North Campus

Arakawa and Gins have collaborated on "Reversible Destiny," a transformational architectural project recently presented at New York's downtown Guggenheim Museum.

name, UB undergraduate literary publication

Poetry Readings and Presentations

8 p.m., Dec. 1, Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St., Buffalo

8 p.m., Dec. 2, Cornershop, 82 Lafayette Ave., Buffalo

A celebration of UB's undergraduate literary magazine

"Just Buffalo at Allen Hall" presents Alice Notley and Anselm Berrigan

8 p.m., Dec. 8, Allen Hall, South Campus, $6 general public, $5 students, $4 members of Just Buffalo Literary Center.

Alice Notley's books include "Mysteries of Small Houses" and "The Descent of Allette." Anselm Berrigan's include "They Beat Me Over the Head with a Sack" and "Integrity & Dramatic Life."