Richard Foreman read from an onoing new work as part of the Segue series at Artists Space in New York. The reading was recorded in his SoHo loft about a week before the event on March 16, 2024. Jay Sanders, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Artists Space, gave the introduction:
We at Jacket2 regretfully share the news that beloved poet and critic Tyrone Williams passed away on Monday, March 11, at the age of 70. The author of numerous books, including c.c. (2002), On Spec (2008), The Hero Project of the Century (2009), Adventures of Pi (2011), Howell (2011), As Iz (2018), and washpark (with Pat Clifford, 2021), Williams had recently joined the SUNY-Buffalo faculty as David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters after a long teaching career at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
The loss of the wonderful, talented, groundbreaking, generous poet and literary citizen Lyn Hejinian has rocked the poetry world. Those who knew her personally — as many of us at the Writers House did — and those who have read and discussed her work (e.g. the experimental coming-of-age book-length prose poem, My Life), are already feeling the impact of the loss: we won’t be able to read new poems and new books by Lyn. It remains for us to read and re-read the astonishing writings she left us.
James Berger, whose books include The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity, Under the Impression, The Obvious Poems and the Worthless Poems, and The OBU Manifestos, is writing a new book to be titled “Naive and Sentimental Poetics.” I’ve happily prevailed upon Jim to share with Jacket2 readers an excerpt from this new work in draft.
Pataquerical Ballad, with Runa Bandyopadhyay
Pataquerical Ballad by Runa Bandyopadhyay and Charles Bernstein. A two-volume set, one in English and one in Bengali.
Richard Foreman at Segue / Artists Space
Richard Foreman read from an onoing new work as part of the Segue series at Artists Space in New York. The reading was recorded in his SoHo loft about a week before the event on March 16, 2024. Jay Sanders, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Artists Space, gave the introduction:
In Memoriam: Tyrone Williams (1954–2024)
We at Jacket2 regretfully share the news that beloved poet and critic Tyrone Williams passed away on Monday, March 11, at the age of 70. The author of numerous books, including c.c. (2002), On Spec (2008), The Hero Project of the Century (2009), Adventures of Pi (2011), Howell (2011), As Iz (2018), and washpark (with Pat Clifford, 2021), Williams had recently joined the SUNY-Buffalo faculty as David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters after a long teaching career at Xavier University in Cincinnati.
Remembering Lyn Hejinian
The loss of the wonderful, talented, groundbreaking, generous poet and literary citizen Lyn Hejinian has rocked the poetry world. Those who knew her personally — as many of us at the Writers House did — and those who have read and discussed her work (e.g. the experimental coming-of-age book-length prose poem, My Life), are already feeling the impact of the loss: we won’t be able to read new poems and new books by Lyn. It remains for us to read and re-read the astonishing writings she left us.
James Berger, “Naive and Sentimental Poetics”
Excerpt from a new book in draft
James Berger, whose books include The Disarticulate: Language, Disability, and the Narratives of Modernity, Under the Impression, The Obvious Poems and the Worthless Poems, and The OBU Manifestos, is writing a new book to be titled “Naive and Sentimental Poetics.” I’ve happily prevailed upon Jim to share with Jacket2 readers an excerpt from this new work in draft.