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

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

Gots Love on Barrow Street

Taking a look at the contributors (including myself) in the latest ish of Barrow Street (10th Anniversary Issue) I couldn't help but think of the few degrees of separation such as Jackson Taylor who was my immediate boss while working at The New School and Teachers & Writers' Collaborative. Myself, Jared, and Adam, wrote a grant loosely based on the pedagogy of Marie Ponsot, then there's David Lehman who was my thesis adviser, Peter Moore, a former NS classmate of mine, Evan Glasson who came to my apartment a couple years back to look at a room for rent (he's rumored to have a nice jump shot too), the lovely Sharon Mesmer who I've known for a little while now, Mark Bibbins (who's classes and parties are the stuff of legends) and lastly, LIT co-hort, Nicole Steinberg. I think this is the third journal that Nicole and I have appeared in together... who's stalking who? Or maybe we both just have exquisite taste... nah words stalking words sounds much more sexy. Did I just use the word "sexy?" Yeah Saturday irony rules!

Since I Moved In vs. Gorgeous Feelings In The Divided Country

Thursday, November 6^th

Poets on Craft: Major Jackson and Suji Kwock Kim

6:30pm, 55 W 13^th, Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall (Free)

In association with the New School's Creative Writing Program, Cave Canem Foundation, North America's premier "home for Black poetry," will sponsor an evening of conversation and poetry with Major Jackson and Suji Kwock Kim. The program inaugrates Poets of Craft, a series focuing on the perspectives of poets whose work responds, however indirectly, to the experience of living and working as a minority artist in a Eurocentric culture. Poets on Craft is supported, in part, by The Greenwall Foundation; the New York Community Trust, Lila Wallace Theater Fund; and public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts. Additional funding is provided by The Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Pivotal Place: New York City. For more information, go to www.cavecanempoets.org

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Friday, November 7^th

Academy of American Poets Awards Ceremony

Readings by Eamon Grennan, Carl Phillips, Claudine Rankine, Jonathan Thirkield, Ellen Bryant Voight

7:00pm, 66 W 12^th St, Tishman Auditorium, Kaplan Hall (Free)

Celebrate contemporary poetry and the recipients of the premier collection of awards for poetry in the United States.

The night will include readings and presentations by Eamon Grennan, Carl Phillips, Claudine Rankine, Jonathan Thirkield, Ellen Bryant Voight, and many others. A reception will follow.

Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and The New School Writing Program.

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Help us say goodbye to our home of the past 3 years as we welcome featured readers MÓNICA DE LA TORRE (author of the new book Public Domain and Talk Shows) and SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE (author of the new collection That Gorgeous Feeling)! Joining them will be three marvelous MFA readers for a goodbye party that's sure to blow the roof off.

Admission is a mere $5, which gets you a free drink! Still the best deal in town!

Your pal,
Nicole


EARSHOT!

For one last time, find us at The Lucky Cat, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn!

Friday, November 7 @ 8 PM
$5 + 1 free drink
Hosted by Nicole Steinberg

Featuring:
MÓNICA DE LA TORRE (Public Domain, Talk Shows)
SUEYEUN JULIETTE LEE (That Gorgeous Feeling)
Farah Ghniem (New York University)
Paige Taggart (The New School)
Tom Treanor (Columbia University)

The Lucky Cat is located at 245 Grand Street in Brooklyn, between Driggs and Roebling. Visit their website for directions: http://www.theluckycat.com.

EARSHOT is a bi-monthly reading series, dedicated to featuring new and emerging literary talent in the NYC area. Visit http://www.earshotnyc.com for more information or e-mail NicoleSteinberg at earshotnyc@gmail.com.

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Single Poetry Reading Series, 8, Seeking Stable Attractive Poetry,
18-99, for Linguistic Recreation

Must be well-crafted, delight in obscure forms and enjoy windsurfing.


This Friday, November 7th, You Have A Date!

Take a Long Walk on the Beach With

Tim Peterson, Adam Tobin, David Carillo & Kate Broad!

Tim Peterson lives in Brooklyn and writes poetry, all the while
seeking out other complexly gendered individuals for companionship and
connection, hungry for articulations of reading and being read as
voiced experiences hunting you like a bluejay. SINCE I MOVED IN (Gil
Ott Award, Chax Press) was published in 2007. Tim edits EOAGH: A
Journal of the Arts.

Adam Tobin owns and operates Unnameable Books, a new and used
bookstore in central Brooklyn. He is author of Ode to Pumpsie Green &
Stretch Phillips (horse less press, 2005) and editor of The Weekly
Weakling (forthcoming), a series of occasional letterpress pamphlets.
You may have seen his older work in EOAGH or Fence or other
publications, but he hasn't really written much since he opened the
bookstore. He promises, however, to read at this reading at least one
poem you've never seen before.

David Carillo lives in West Hartford with his wife and dog. He is
working on his MFA in Creative Nonfiction at the University of
Pittsburgh and teaches English at the University of Connecticut at
Waterbury. He has poems forthcoming in nanomajority.com.

Kate Broad has lived in India and Brazil and currently resides in
Brooklyn, where she is a doctoral student in English at the City
University of New York Graduate Center. She has poems in Freshwater,
The Wellesley Review, and forthcoming in Karamu, and has won several
writing awards, including one from the Academy of American Poets. Kate
is working on her first full-length manuscript, Hard to Swallow.


Only at Pete's Candy Store
709 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
(718) 302-3770

"L" to Lorimer, "G" to Metropolitan.

FREE!

Visit http://www.multifariousarray.blogspot.com/ for links to their
work and email me for more information.

Thursday is Bestest Poetry Night

David Lehman and guest editor present this years edition of "best."

Thursday, September 20th, 2007 7:00 PM
THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2007
HEATHER McHUGH, guest editor of the 20th volume
of this celebrated series and series editor David Lehman
read their own work and introduce contributors including
Robert Pinsky, Alan Shapiro, Kazim Ali, Macgregor Card,
Sharon Dolin, Elaine Equi, Thomas Fink,
Matthea Harvey, and Meghan O'Rourke

The New School
Tishman Auditorium
66 West 12th Street (between 5th & 6th Ave)
New York, NY 10011
212.229.5353
Free
Books for sale by Mobile Libris

September starts with a Yelp

Well after spending all day and night at JFK I now find myself at my friend's house in Chicago sipping a cup of English Breakfast tea and looking forward to a completely empty day of relaxing and daydreaming- maybe even a little writing too!

September will soon be upon us and the are two amazing readings happening. The first one (T&W) I will moderate and it will also be Zach Miller's last east-coast reading for a while. The second one is the release party for LIT and CA Conrad (who I read with back in June) will be reading amongst other wonderfuls. All detailed info below:

Teachers & Writers Collaborative 2020 Visions
Thursday, September 6th 7pm- Free

Come out and celebrates the first Fall reading featuring Deborah Landau, Matthew Zapruder and Zach Miller!

It's free and there will be refreshments served after the reading so go aheand and mark your calanders now!

Deborah Landau's poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely and she has received two Pushcart Prize nominations. Her book, Orchidelirium, a National Poetry Series finalist, won the Anhinga Prize and was shortlisted for the Foreword Book of the Year Award. She co-curates the KGB Poetry Reading Series and directs the creative writing program at NYU


Matthew Zapruder is the author of two collections of
poetry: American Linden and The Pajamaist, selected by
Tony Hoagland as the winner of the 2007 William Carlos
Williams Award. He is also the co-translator of Secret
Weapon, the final collection by the late Romanian poet
Eugen Jebeleanu (Coffee House Press, 2007). He teaches
in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the New
School and works as an Editor for Wave Books. He lives
in New York City.

Zach Miller is a graduate of the New School MFA program for Creative Writing and has published in Red China, Agriculture Reader, and has poems forthcoming in Sea Legs.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
520 8th Ave, Suite 2020
A,C,E, 34th/Penn Station
www.twc.org

LIT 13 LAUNCH PARTY AND CELEBRATION!

Friday, September 7th, 6-10 PM
Wollman Hall @ The New School
66 West 12th Street, NYC, 10011

Featuring readings by...

CAROLINE CONWAY
ADAM GOLASKI
CACONRAD
TERESE SVOBODA

And a special talk/reading with ROBERT POLITO
on LIT 13 feature DETOUR: A Symposium on Edgar Ulmer's 1945 PRC Film Noir

There will be dancing!
There will be eating and drinking!
There will be oohs and aahs for LIT's spanking new design!
There will be cheers for LIT's new editors, Peter Bogart Johnson and Nicole Steinberg, and tears of sadness shed for our departing prose editor, Danielle Winterton!

It's going to be an emotional evening.

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Reader bios:

Caroline Conway edits the online journal RealPoetik. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The New York Quarterly, ology, luzmag, and the Outside Voices 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets. The first line of "Song for the Inanimate" is taken from Samuel Beckett's novel Malloy.

But at any rate. Adam Golaski was in our Brit Lit class. We both considered him to be one of the most pretentious people we'd run across at Emerson College so we used to share Golaski stories. In Brit Lit he was one of those fucking stereotypical tossers who wore the fucking corduroy or tweed jacket with the professor elbows and would read aloud whenever the professor wanted someone to read a selection of whatever poetry we were studying with the book held up in one hand and about 3 feet away from him as though The Norton Anthology of English Literature were Yorick's fucking skull itself. He says, "Google my name for some more pretentious bullshit."

CAConrad's childhood included selling cut flowers along the highway for his mother and helping her shoplift. He escaped to Philadelphia the first chance he got where he lives and writes today with the PhillySound poets (http://PhillySound.blogspot.com). Soft Skull Press published his book Deviant Propulsion in 2006. His book The Frank Poems is forthcoming in 2008 from CHAX Press. A small selection of The Frank Poems was translated into German in 2007 by Berlin poet Holger, and is now available as a bilingual edition chapbook from YPOLITA Press (http://theFRANKpoems.blogspot.com). He is the author of several other chapbooks, including (end-begin w/chants), a collaboration with Frank Sherlock.

Terese Svoboda has published nine books of prose and poetry, including Tin God (University of Nebraska Press, 2006). Her tenth, Black Glasses Like Clark Kent, a memoir, won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, and will be published in February 2008. Next spring she will teach fiction as the McGhee Professor at Davidson College and she will teach poetry at the Pan African Literary Forum in Ghana in July.

Robert Polito is completing a nonfiction book, Detours: Seven Noir Lives.


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LIT 13: available NEXT MONTH! Featuring poetry and prose by...

Kristin Abraham * Jennifer Frost Banks * Bridgette Bates * Aaron Belz * Jessica Bozek * Stephanie Brown * Mairéad Byrne * CAConrad * Caroline Conway * Wende Crow * James Cummins * Erinne Dobson * Noah Falck * Edwin Frank * Mary Gaitskill * Drew Gardner * Adam Golaski * Paul Hoover * Caitlin Horrocks * MC Hyland * Brian Kloppenberg * Joshua Land * Debra Liese * Dora Malech * Destanie McAllister * Jennifer Merrifield * Eugenio Montejo * Frank Montesonti * Carley Moore * Kirk Nesset * Matthew Pennock * David Pollock * Jessica Reed * Andrew Sage * Maureen Seaton * Kristine Snodgrass * Jason Stumpf * Terese Svoboda * Jackson Taylor * Urban Waite * Rob Walsh * Amanda Rachelle Warren * Derek White

Art by...

Brett Baker * Jeffre Dene

Plus a SPECIAL FEATURE on DETOUR, Edgar Ulmer's 1945 PRC Film Noir
Curated by ROBERT POLITO and featuring critical writing, reactions, and interviews by...

A.J. Albany * John Ashbery * Arianné Ulmer Cipes * Kent Jones * Guy Maddin * Greil Marcus * Geoffrey O'Brien * Robert Polito

So Long Fallen One

As many of you know Liam Rector took his life a few days ago. I had him while I attended The New School and he managed to make a lasting impression on me. He even appears in a poem of mine entitled, "Dear John," The New York Times write up is a little less gruesome than the details given in the New York Post.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/arts/17rector.html?ex=1345003200&en=8c7759dc51d87632&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The Enclave Wrap-up

The reading went well. I'm pretty sure it was the absolute nicest day thusly this summer so the fact that some people choose to spend it in a dark bar on Saturday afternoon is the mark of the devoted. All the readers did a nice job and it was a personal pleasure to read with CAConrad (another illadelph born OGP). I picked up and have already read his chapbook consisting of "Frank" poems. Good stuff. Odd. Wit and introspective intellect in the fuck-offish way- i.e. so perfect punk I felt new again.

Since I have such a long commute to work I've been reading the journals Lilies and Cannonball and Jubilat (which has a poem by David Sewell (also graduated from NS same year as I) and two poems by Prageeta). The new ish of BOMB has an amazing interview with the artist, Kristen Mamma Andersson- though my one fey knock would be that perhaps Christian Hawkey (yes the poet) did write a bit too much and I felt as if I read more about him than the subject of the interview... oh well

LIT launch party wrap- up and poem accepted

The LIT launch party was a good time. The funny thing about NS events is that the alcohol seems to either last forever or vanish in a blink- this party was one of them vanishing acts. First all the Brooklyn Lagers disappeared then all the cups and at one point I noticed a few people pouring white wine into empty soda cans. Wow! That's dedication or boredom at its best. Nonetheless it was good to catch Sampson Starkweather read and see so many people I don't know with copies of LIT in their hands. Have I told you how good ish 13 is going to be?

I saw Matthew Yeager (who I hadn't seen in ages) Malachi Black, Mark Bibbins, and met Peter Bogart Johnson's (current editor of LIT along with Nicole Steinberg, a good poet, and a very funny guy) wife, and then left the party with poets Daniel Meagers and Steve Roberts for a few more drinks. Both Steve and myself had work early the next morning so it ended up being a pleasant, yet early evening... sorry Dan!

Friday I got an acceptance email from Knock Journal (out of Seattle) that they will be publishing my "Birthday Poem" in their November issue- yeah for that! At sometime today I have to figure out where else I've submitted that poem so I can retract it- definitely my least favorite task- let's just say my submission spread sheet is a half-assed infrequently updated thing of a disaster!

If you were ever curious about New School Poets

a lot of them (myself NOT included) are reading this Saturday at The Bowery:


New School Poet Grads
Saturday May 19
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Bowery Poetry Club
FREE!
Featuring readings by: Adam Smith, Amy Lawless, Amy McDaniel, Angela Veronica Wong, Cate Peebles, Graeme Bezanson, Hayley Heaton, Kiely Sweatt, Liesel Tarquini, Maggie Wells, Meghan Punschke, Michael McDonough, Nick Adamski, Sarah Ruth Jacobs Hosted by Amy Lawless

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

3 Readings in May

Thesis Reading

Thursday, May 3rd : 6-10pm
The readings will be held in the Lang Center, 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor

Tuesday May 22nd 6:00PM GRADUATE POETS SERIES
Alissa Heyman & Sylvia Lee, hosts
$6.00 (gets you in the door + a house drink)
I will be reading with probably 3 other poets and will list them when I find out who they are.

Thursday May 24 7:00PM Teachers and Writers Meets Girls Write Now!
Teachers and Writers, 520 8TH Ave, Suite 2020
I'll be reading with fiction writer and fellow T/W'er Jared Hohl and poet/fellow T/W'er Adam Wiedewitsch plus 3 mentors from Girls Write Now. Bios and names forthcoming