Typescript of two early poems by Barbara Guest

'Escape' and 'The Inhabitants'

Barbara Guest

For transcriptions of these poems, please visit “Three Poems by Barbara Guest.”

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LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein
Three poems by Barbara Guest

June 15, 2011

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About this feature

Curated by Charles Bernstein to accompany the 2011 publication of his 1995 LINEbreak interview with the poet at Jacket2, this collection brings together two early Barbara Guest poems, written around 1945, as well as “Multiplicity,” published just once previously in The Iowa Review and read by Guest during the 1995 interview.

Preface

Charles Bernstein

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More Barbara Guest

Erica Kaufman discussed Guest's The Location of Things as part of the feature, “Poetry in 1960, a Symposium,” and Jacket editor John Tranter catalogued the poet’s appearances in the magazine as part of his 2012 commentary series, “Under the Horizon.” Guest’s poem “Roses” was discussed in PoemTalk podcast #24, which you can find on PennSound’s Barbara Guest author page, alongside many readings, interviews, and talks from 1977 to 2004, as well as a 2006 tribute to the poet at the St. Mark’s Poetry Project and a pair of 2007 interviews with Hadley Guest about her mother.

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Five pieces from 'The Confetti Trees'

To Kenneth

Homage

Barbara Guest reads from 'The Red Gaze'

Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser in conversation with Elisabeth Frost and Cynthia Hogue

LINEbreak: Barbara Guest in conversation with Charles Bernstein

Three poems by Barbara Guest

Typescript of two early poems by Barbara Guest

The technological poetics of Thomas Weatherly

Lauri Scheyer (Ramey)

Thomas Weatherly’s literary productivity during the last stage of his life is an important chapter of work. His last years of truly phenomenal creative output also reveal the limitations that still prevail in the ways literary value is often measured and respected, especially in scholarship on African American writers.

December 4, 2019

Emails to Lauri Scheyer (Ramey), 2005–2014

Tom Weatherly

Note: Below are excerpts from four emails written to Lauri Scheyer (Ramey) between 2005 and 2014, including reflections on Weatherly’s writing process, friends and enemies, family, aging, poetic form, teaching, and first arrival in New York (during which “I rewrote [Allen Ginsberg’s] Howl; Kaddish a great poem didn’t need revision”). Sometimes it feels as if we heard in these emails a speaking voice, fragments of an ongoing conversation constructed of anecdote, reminiscence, description, opinion.

December 4, 2019