What is “Poetic Research”?
Alternating Thursdays from 18:00 to 20:00, starting on the 13th of November
We meet in person at the CEP Reading Room (LB681)
In the twentieth century a poetry emerged that was inextricable from its poets’ diverse research practices. We will be reading the work of these poets with an eye to how their practices have changed poetic form and the limits of what a poem can say. Ezra Pound and Charles Olson are progenitors of this tendency in the United States, and we will read poets who have inherited their project, as well as others who’ve arrived at parallel positions. All are welcome, but if you would like to be a regular member please email matthewalexanderking@gmail.com.
On the 1st of October we will read Danny Hayward’s Pragmatic Sanction.
Previously we have read:
Susan Howe’s Singularities
Lorine Niedecker’s North Central
Kevin Davies’s The Golden Age of Paraphernalia
Nathaniel Mackey’s Whatsaid Serif
Will Alexander’s Across The Vapour Gulf
C. S. Giscombe’s Giscome Road
Juliana Spahr’s This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
Muriel Rukeyser’s U.S. 1
Selections from Clayton Eshleman’s Juniper Fuse
Veronica Forrest-Thomson’s On The Periphery and Language-Games
The Oval Window, in memory of J. H. Prynne
Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee
William Carlos Williams’s Paterson
Language by Jack Spicer
Clark Coolidge’s Research
“A” 1–9 by Louis Zukofsky
Caroline Bergvall’s Drift
Zong! as told to M. NourbeSe Philip by Setaey Adamu Boateng.