This week’s Throwback Thursday selection—for the last Thursday of October—is “The Clear Air of October,” from Robert Bly’s 1962 collection Silence in the Snowy Fields (also available in a special-edition minibook). . The Clear Air of October I can see outside the gold wings without birds Flying around, and the wells of cold water Without walls standing eighty feet…
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#tbt: from Gerald Vizenor’s “Hotline Healers”
by selliott •
Today’s Throwback Thursday post features Gerald Vizenor’s Hotline Healers (1997). At left: Gerald Vizenor reading from Blue Ravens at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum, October 18, 2014 Vizenor’s work, drawing upon the trickster tradition in Native American culture, is among the most radical in Native American writing today. Academics of all stripes (but particularly anthropologists), the champions…
#tbt: Ed Roberson, “All At Once” and Black Nature Poetry
by ojonathan •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Ed Roberson’s “All at Once,” from his 2010 collection To See the Earth Before the End of the World. Enjoy the poem, and a discussion of Roberson as a writer of “nature poetry”. All At Once Trees have whole streets of when they were planted plaqued with when…
#tbt: John Luther Adams and Experimental Music at Wesleyan
by agansley •
This week’s Throw-Back-Thursday post is dedicated to composer John Luther Adams. Below you’ll find a passage from his 2004 book, Winter Music: Composing the North. John Luther Adams, who received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music, for his symphony Become Ocean, is a widely praised composer, and author of two books published by Wesleyan: Winter Music and The Place Where You Go to Listen:…
#tbt: Harvey Shapiro, “Monday”
by sgerton •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Harvey Shapiro’s “Monday,” from his 1988 collection National Cold Storage Company: New and Selected Poems. On September 30th, Wesleyan released Shapiro’s posthumous collection, A Momentary Glory: Last Poems, edited by Norman Finkelstein. Shapiro wrote honestly about life, love, sexuality, aging, and death. . . Monday Everybody thinks the past is real. The window…
#tbt Rae Armantrout, & Paul Muldoon, for the New Yorker
by selliott •
Join us on The New Yorker‘s Sound Cloud to enjoy a reading and interview with Rae Armantrout, conducted by Paul Muldoon. Armantrout recalls and reads a Susan Wheeler poem, from the The New Yorker archives. Then she reads a poem of her own, before discussing her work with Muldoon. Wesleyan University Press will publish Armantrout’s next book, Itself, in…
#tbt: Kenneth Goldsmith’s “Page One” from DAY
by selliott •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Kenneth Goldsmith’s “’Page One’ from The Day,” published in Wesleyan’s anthology, American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics. The poem is from Goldsmiths book Day. Listen to Goldsmith read his poem here, at the book’s companion website. . “Page One” from Day “All the News That’s Fit to Print” The…
#tbt: Frances Chung, “For Li Po”
by sgerton •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Frances Chung’s “For Li Po” from Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple: The Poems of Francis Chung (2000). . For Li Po they read your poem still at the New School in Pound’s translation at West Lake your spirit mingles with Su Tung Po’s a willow path is named for you…
#tbt: Peter Gizzi, “Still Life with Automobile”
by sgerton •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is Peter Gizzi’s “Still Life with Automobile,” originally published in Periplum, and Other Poems. The poem is also found in Gizzi’s newest book In Defense of Nothing: Selected Poems 1987-2011. . Still Life with Automobile He was going to take it to the next town. Though the park was empty the pond bristled…
#tbt: John Ashbery, “White Roses”
by sgerton •
This week’s Throwback Thursday selection is John Ashbery’s “White Roses” from The Tennis Court Oath (1977). WHITE ROSES The worst side of it all— The white sunlight on the polished floor— Pressed into service, And then the window closed And the night ends and begins again. Her face goes green, her eyes are green; In…
