A Tribute To Paul Violi

A Tribute to Paul Violi (1944-2011)
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12/02/2011 6:30 p.m.

Paul Violi was a distinguished poet and esteemed member of the New School faculty. Violi was a man of great integrity, a dear friend to many, a generous teacher, an inspiring poet. Widely admired by his peers, he is regarded as the most consistently inventive of the generation of poets inspired by Ashbery, Koch, and O’Hara. Violi taught poetry workshops and literary seminars for many years in the New School’s MFA and Riggio programs. His classes were popular and, in some cases, life changing.

With Kate Angus, Paul Auster, Star Black, Donna Brook, Billy Collins, Alex Crowley, Bob Hershon, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Mark Hillringhouse, Amy Lawless, Charles North, Ron Padgett, James Periconi, Michael Quattrone, Helen Schulman, David Shapiro, Tony Towle, Maggie Wells, and Bill Zavatsky. Hosted by Robert Polito, director, and David Lehman, poetry coordinator of the School of Writing.


You look like one Whom time has surprised, Though the perfect sense Of what is final, The inmost view From behind the past, Beyond the long slope,T he frost and tall grass, Is not new to you: You’ve played along With it once or twice On your violio. —“To Himself,” Paul Violi
Location:

Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Admission:
Free; no tickets or reservations required; seating is first-come first-served

A Tribute to Paul Violi (1944-2011)
Friday, December 2, 2011 6:30 p.m.

Paul Violi was a distinguished poet and esteemed member of the New
School faculty. Violi was a man of great integrity, a dear friend to
many, a generous teacher, an inspiring poet. Widely admired by his
peers, he is regarded as the most consistently inventive of the
generation of poets inspired by Ashbery, Koch, and O’Hara. Violi
taught poetry workshops and literary seminars for many years in the New
School’s MFA and Riggio programs. His classes were popular and, in
some cases, life changing.

With Kate Angus, Paul Auster, Star Black, Donna Brook, Billy Collins,
Alex Crowley, Bob Hershon, Jennifer Michael Hecht, Mark Hillringhouse,
Amy Lawless, Charles North, Ron Padgett, James Periconi, Michael
Quattrone, Helen Schulman, David Shapiro, Tony Towle, Maggie Wells, and
Bill Zavatsky.

Hosted by Robert Polito, director, and David Lehman, poetry coordinator
of the School of Writing.

You look like one Whom time has surprised, Though the perfect sense Of
what is final, The inmost view From behind the past, Beyond the long
slope,T he frost and tall grass, Is not new to you: You’ve played
along With it once or twice On your violio.
—“To Himself,” Paul Violi


Location:
Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnhold Hall, 55 West 13th
Street, 2nd floor

Get the new ish of Forklift, Ohio here

or if NYC/BK/NJ come to this reading and pick up a copy.

Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety Boog City presents d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
with Forklift, Ohio: A Journal of Poetry, Cooking & Light Industrial Safety (from Cincinnati)

Featuring readings from
Paul Violi - Darcie Dennigan - Justin Taylor - Evan Commander

and music from Jane Carver

Tue Feb 23 - 6 pm sharp - FREE
ACA Galleries
529 W. ...20th St., 5th Flr. NYC

Take C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
between 10th and 11th Aves.

Hosted by Matt Hart & Eric Appleby of Forklift, Ohio

Tight Finches Harpin' the Alter With Manhattan Lattes

TIGHT 5 is out featuring poems by Samuel Amadon, Stephanie Anderson, Nathan Austin,
Charles Bernstein, Anne Boyer,John Coletti,Justin Courter,Barbara Cully,Katherine Factor,John Gallaher,Jennifer Michael Hecht,Shannon Jonas,Katy Lederer,Andrew Lundwall
Carl Martin,K. Silem Mohammad,Charles North,Boyer Rickel,Christopher Rizzo,Ravi Shankar
Prageeta Sharma,Lytton Smith,Paul Violi,Dana Ward,Eve Zukor

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The issue of Harp & Alter is up too! Poetry by Kate Greenstreet, Jennifer Hayashida, Karla Kelsey, Justin Marks, Patrick Morrissey, Rob Schlegel, and Andrei Sen-Senkov, translated by Zachary Schomburg; prose by Roberta Allen, Stephen-Paul Martin, Joanna Ruocco, and David Wirthlin; Jared White on Brandon Shimoda and Michael Zeiss on Kafka; an excerpt from Lisa Jarnot's biography of Robert Duncan; and Michael Newton's gallery reviews.

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The summer issue of Sixth Finch is also live featuring poems by Julia Cohen, Matthew Yeager, Peter Davis, Adam Day, and lots more.

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Edible Manhattan has an article on New York finally catching on to drinking good coffee.

Viva Vive Violi

Tuesday, April 7th

Poetry Forum: Paul Violi

David Lehman, Moderator

6:30pm, 66 W 12th St, Rm 510, $5 (Free to NS Students and Alumni)


Paul Violi has taught in the New School's Writing Program since 2003. He has written eleven books of poetry, including Overnight, his most recent book. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies in the U.S. and abroad, including The Oxford Book of American Poetry and The Best American Poetry series. Violi has received prizes including the Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.


Praise for Paul Violi’s Overnight:

“Violi's poems are fearless--humor courts failure at every turn--and beautifully constructed. He is one of a handful of American poets worth making a detour to hear read aloud.”

--Boston Phoenix

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The interview with Paul Violi in this journal is pretty good stuff!

12th Street Reading

Faculty readers Shelley Jackson, Zia Jaffery, Paul Violi and Riggio students read from the magazine

Tuesday, May 13, 7:00 pm

The Union Square Barnes and Noble, 33 East 17th Street

FREE

Please come celebrate with the editors and contributors of 12th Street!

You've waited 58 years for this. . . The New School Writing Program is proud to announce of re-launch of The New School undergraduate literary magazine 12th Street, last published in 1950. The inside cover includes a work of art from the Spring 1949 issue but otherwise everything is new work by students currently enrolled in The Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy. 12th Street is made possible by the Leonard and Louise Riggio Writing and Democracy Initiative at The New School and will be nationally distributed by Barnes and Noble.

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There's no shortage of Matt Hart love in NYC/Brooklyn and I especially love the poem he has in Cutbank Issue 68. This is also a reading series that I don't get to attend nearly enough, but alas I'll be at a job fair tomorrow evening then going to see my friend play a little music so no BK travels for me but you should go and tell me all about it, okay?

Wed. May 14th

Matt Hart, with Amanda Nadelberg and Christopher Martin, 8PM,

Pacific Standard Bar , 82 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11217

Paul Violi and David Lehman at KGB- Oct 1st

David Lehman and Paul Violi Read at KGB
Monday, October 1st, 7:30pm
KGB Bar, 85 East 4th Street

The New School's Very Own and Very Wonderful Paul Violi and David Lehman will be reading at KGB this coming Monday. The event is FREE and will be hosted by Deborah Landau, Laura Cronk and Michael Quattrone.

Paul Violi's new collection of poems, his eleventh, is Overnight, from
Hanging Loose Press. He has won numerous awards, including the Zabel Award
from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and grants from The Ingram
Merrrill Foundation and The Foundation for Contemporary Arts.


David Lehman is the author of six books of poems, most recently When a Woman Loves a Man (Scribner, 2005). He initiated and remains series editor of The Best American Poetry series. He edited Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present, which appeared from Scribner in 2003 and is the editor of a new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. With Star Black, he founded the Monday Night Poetry Reading Series at the KGB Bar. He lives in New York City.

Paul Violi

Somehow Paul Violi remains one of the most underrated poets still writing. Me thinks his books should sell in the Billy Collins (Paul's close friend) digits or he should be at the least be as lauded as John Ashbery- okay at least a super-close 2nd to Ashbery? His new book, Overnight shows Violi to be in top wit + astounding intellect something rare in today's poetry. So since it's a sunny Monday morning here in New York city let's celebrate one of the finest:

Counterman


What'll it be?

Roast beef on rye, with tomato and mayo.

Whudduhyuh want on it?

A swipe of mayo.
Pepper but no salt.

You got it. Roast beef on rye
. . . You want lettuce on that?

No. Just tomato and mayo.

Tomato and mayo. You got it.
. . . Salt and pepper?

No salt. Just a little pepper.

You got it. No salt.
You want tomato.

Yes. Tomato. No lettuce.

No lettuce. You got it.
. . . No salt, right?

Right. No salt.

You got it. — Pickle?
No, no pickle. Just tomato and mayo.
And pepper.

Pepper.

Yes, a little pepper.

Right. A little pepper.
No pickle.

Right. No pickle.

You got it.
Next.

Roast beef on whole wheat, please,
With lettuce, mayonnaise and a center slice
Of beefsteak tomato.
The lettuce splayed, if you will,
In a Beaux Arts derivative of classical acanthus,
And the roast beef, thinly sliced, folded
In a multi-foil arrangement
That eschews Bragdonian pretensions
Or any idea of divine geometric projection
For that matter, but simply provides
A setting for the tomato
To form a medallion with a dab
Of mayonnaise as a fleuron.
And — as eclectic as this may sound —
If the mayonnaise can also be applied
Along the crust in a Vitruvian scroll
And as a festoon below the medallion,
That would be swell.

You mean like in the Cathedral St. Pierre in Geneva?

Yes, but the swag more like the one below the rosette
At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam.

You got it.
Next.


Paul Violi
Shiny Magazine
Number 13

Sunny days and MFA's

It's a new month and lots of happenings in May. I've been under-caffienated and listless as of late- to say nothing of my constant state of sleepy/sleeplessness...

Well, my good 'ol thesis is due tomorrow and yours truly will be a bit late in turning that in- i'm thinking June... is that reckless?

I have a 2nd interview today so soon i'll have to put on the button-up, the slacks, and v-neck sweater and head down to downtown bk...

Frederic Tuten is reading at T&W on Thursday and Paul Violi on Friday, but alas, I believe I'll be at The New School reading my thesis... so here's to sunny days and MFA's, pre and post graduation hangover and general life letdowns that lie ahead