The Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Working Group (CPPWG) reads poems. We read old books of poetry and new books of poetry, but mostly the newest ones. Our discussions are aimed at understanding what poets are producing now, and why their work looks (and sounds and feels) the way it does.
Fall 2012
September 10th, 5:00-6:30 (330 Wheeler, Department Lounge)
Backgrounds to Contemporary Poetry: Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book
September 24th, 5:00-6:30 (330 Wheeler, Department Lounge)
Backgrounds to Contemporary Poetry: The H.D. Book continued
October 8th, 5:00-6:30 (330 Wheeler, Department Lounge)
Emmanuel Hocquard, The Invention of Glass
October 22nd, 5:00-6:30 (330 Wheeler, Department Lounge)
Cole Swensen, Noise That Stays Noise: Essays
November 5th, 5:00-6:30 (330 Wheeler, Department Lounge)
Robert Duncan, The H.D. Book (Book 2)
November 19th, 5:00-6:30 (330 Wheeler, Department Lounge)
Javier Huerta, American Copia
December (Date & Time TBA)
Event with Holloway Poet
Spring 2013
January
Backgrounds to Contemporary Poetry: Jack Spicer, My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poems of Jack Spicer.
January
Jack Spicer, The House that Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
February Ecopoetics: Aase Berg, With Deer and Remainland
February Co-sponsorship with the Animal Studies Working Group of the Conference on Ecopoetics to be held at Berkeley, February 22nd-24th.
March Heather Christle, What is Amazing or The Trees The Trees
March Kamau Brathwaite, Elegguas
April John Beer, The Wasteland and Other Poems
April TBA: Book Discussion
May Blitz group reading
*Please email janelgregory@gmail.com and/or samiarahimtoola@hotmail.com if you would like be added to the mailing list. Our meetings often change times and locations (especially this semester) and email is the easiest way for us to inform members of changes. This group is open to participants both within and beyond the Berkeley community!*
