Alumni Day/DeCurtis celebration: photos
Here are a few photos taken today at our Alumni Day open house and our event celebrating Anthony DeCurtis’s 20 years of teaching.
Here are a few photos taken today at our Alumni Day open house and our event celebrating Anthony DeCurtis’s 20 years of teaching.
The late Bob Lucid (Bob hired me, mentored me & later secured 3805 Locust Walk as a site for what become the Writers House) spoke in stunning, seemingly aimless periodic sentences. This photo was taken just after I interviewed him as the Writers House turned 10 years old in 2006....
Sent to me by an avid ModPo participant who cares a good deal about the underlying ideas of teaching and learning that create the collaborative ModPo vibe: from a now-defunct Canadian journal, these tenets. I especially resonate with the idea of a “temporary, collectively held space.”
I’m thrilled to have received my copy of Karren Alenier’s new collection of poets’ responses to Stein’s “Tender Buttons.” I was excited by the project when I read it in manuscript (thus my ecstatic blurb). I send out congratulations to Karren—a long-time citizen of ModPo—and all the contributors.
A new interview with me about ModPo (conducted by Ann Cefola) has now been published in Fast Flesh Literary Journal, issue #4 (“Conscious”). The interview can be found here: https://www.fastflesh.net/modpo
The essay was commissioned by Derek Beaulieu as he prepared to celebrate 25 years of No Press and housepress. I have now received a copy of a book, entitled Paper and Thread, edited by Derek, which includes my essay about Fred Wah along with contributions by Kyle Schlesinger, Charles Bernstein,...
My brilliant former student (class of 1987) Jeff Martinek has been a professor at Iowa Wesleyan for many years—and recently won a teacher-of-the-year award. A local newspaper covered the commencement speech he gave to the graduating class. He recalled his Penn graduation in Franklin Field. From his speech: “It was...
I was invited by Rob McLennan to contribute an essay to a festschrift for Pattie McCarthy. I chose to write about her book Wifthing. Here is the essay:
Review of 1960 by Rob Baxter: Al Filreis’s 1960: When Art and Literature Confronted the Memory of World War II and Remade the Modern, is a compendium of the belated responses of fiction, poetry, history, painting, sculpture, film television and every medium of art and communication to the language defying...
Recording of my interview with Jennifer Egan last night (November 15, 2022). We talked about her terrific new novel, The Candy House. I’m particularly interested (no surprise) in her narrative and formal experiments, beginning with (in the opening minutes) a chapter in which she creates a second-person narration in tweet-length...