CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE

CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE is a free, participatory virtual series (taking place via Zoom) features some of our favorite poets leading intimate, virtual group reading-thinking-and-reading-through workshops, usually on single, “challenging” poems. The poets—neither explicitly teaching nor explaining—serve as expert tour-guides for us to explore each featured poem as a group. Whether already well-versed in the “close reading” of poems or having never been quite sure you’ve been "getting it," CLOSE READINGS IN A VIRTUAL SPACE provides a friendly gathering space for us to take a refreshing deep dive into poetry. Each event lasts about an hour and concludes with a brief reading by our special guest poet.

Tan Lin leads a thinking-and-reading-through of Alice Notley

On Thursday, May 2, 2024, Tan Lin led a thinking-through of a section of Descent of Alette by Alice Notley followed by a short reading of his own work.

Tan Lin is the author of over 13 books. He is the recipient of a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant for Poetry, a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant. 7 Controlled Vocabularies received the Association for American Studies Award for Poetry/Literature. A novel, Our Feelings Were Made by Hand is forthcoming from Coffee House in 2025.

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Bianca Stone leads a thinking-and-reading-through of Larry Levis

On Thursday, April 18, 2024, Ron Silliman led a thinking-through of "Ghazal" by Larry Levis followed by a short reading of her own work.

Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), The Möbius Strip Club of Grief (Tin House, 2018), Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Octopus Books and Tin House, 2014) and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick (New Directions, 2012). Her work has appeared in many magazines, including The New Yorker, The Atlantic and The Nation. She teaches classes on poetry and poetic study at the Ruth Stone House (501c3) where she is editor-at-large for Iterant magazine and host of Ode & Psyche Podcast.

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t. liem led a thinking-and-reading-through of Sawako Nakayasu

On Thursday, March 24, 2024 at 3–4pm (ET)— t. liem led a thinking-through of “Morning Song” by Sawako Nakayasu followed by a short reading of their own work.

t. liem is the author of Slows: Twice (Coach House 2023), and Obits. (Coach House, 2018), which was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, and won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award as well as the A.M. Klein Prize. Their writing has been published in Apogee, Plenitude, The Boston Review, Grain, Maisonneuve, Catapult, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and elsewhere. They live in Montreal, Tio’Tia:ke, unceded Kanien’kehá:ka territories.

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Rachelle Rahmé led a thinking-and-reading-through of John Ashbery

On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 3–4pm (ET)—Rachelle Rahmé led a thinking-and-reading-through of John Ashbery’s "Sleeping in the Corners of Our Lives" followed by a short reading of her own work.

Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American scholar interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. She was the recipient of the Poetry Project's 2021-2022 ESB Fellowship, and her poems and translations have been published in Fonograf, Fieldnotes, the tiny, and The Brooklyn Rail, among others. Rahmé holds a Masters in Philosophy from NSSR. She is currently an MFA Candidate in Literary Arts at Brown University.

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Funto Omojolla led a thinking-and-reading-through of Myung Mi Kim

On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 3–4pm (ET)—Funto Omojola led a thinking-and-reading-through of Myung Mi Kim's "[accumulation of land]," followed by a short reading of their own work.

Funto Omojola is a poet, performer, and visual artist. They have done projects with the Poetry Project, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and their work has been supported by A.I.R Gallery, Cave Canem Foundation, MASS MoCA and Millay Arts. Omojola’s first book is forthcoming from Nightboat Books in 2024. They live in New York.

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Mark Wunderlich led a thinking-and-reading-through of Diane Seuss

On Thursday, January 25th, 3–4pm (ET)—Mark Wunderlich. led a thinking-and-reading-through of Diane Seuss’ "Young Hare”, followed by a short reading of his own work.

Mark Wunderlich is the author of four books of poems, the most recent of which is God of Nothingness, published by Graywolf Press. His other books include The Earth Avails, which received the Rilke Prize, Voluntary Servitude, and The Anchorage, which received the Lambda Literary Award. He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and elsewhere, and his work has been widely anthologized. He is Executive Director of the Bennington Writing Seminars graduate writing program and lives in Catskill, New York.

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Installations & Exhibitions

Flow Chart Space

The Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson, NY) features artwork at play with language—more information on exhibitions can be found here.

March 2024 – April 2024: “if recopying is to author”

New Paintings, Fabric Works, and Books by Jill Magi

Exhibition viewing on Saturdays March through April, 11am – 5pm

“if recopying is to author” presents new paintings, fabric works, and books by Jill Magi. “If recopying is to author” is a line from artist/poet Jill Magi’s poetry collection, SPEECH (Nightboat 2019). It also reveals the poetics underpinning the exhibited sequence of paintings, embroideries, hand-weavings, and handmade books. In both her poetry and visual work, Magi’s method is to copy and recopy, juxtapose, and enjamb. This revives the western pre-modern definition of writer as scribe and text as a drawn line that moves, where what’s centered is the physical endurance of writing a page to be read aloud, communally, and presented as a field to wander through rather than a map with a fixed arrival point. In her studio practice, Magi also copies and recopies physical gestures, moving them from one medium to another. For example, a mark made via action painting becomes a pattern for an embroidery; the checkered grid of strip-weaving becomes a template for hand-lettered banners; a bound book gathers handmade weavings rather than paper pages. Presented together, the works—seemingly endlessly citational—foster and celebrate “textility,” a disposition where concerting with materials, words, and humans is privileged over adhering to blueprints, genre boundaries, and pre-set messaging. To this end, Magi will preside in the space for a number of Saturdays (all but March 16th), copying and recopying the texts of others, including John Ashbery, as well as other guest poets (stay tuned for announcements!) who will join Magi in the space, resulting in a new fabric work whose form will invite disruption and emerge over the course of late winter into spring.The exhibition opened on Saturday, March 2nd with a special reading by Jill Magi with poet and Nightboat Books publisher Stephen Motika at 3pm. Video can be found below under “Readings and Performances”

The exhibition opened on Saturday, March 2nd with a special reading by Jill Magi with poet and Nightboat Books publisher Stephen Motika at 3pm.

Jill Magi is a poet and artist based in southern Vermont after eleven years living in and learning from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. She has had solo exhibitions at Abu Dhabi’s 421 gallery (formerly known as Warehouse421), Grey Noise gallery in Dubai, Tashkeel in Dubai, the Southern Vermont Arts Center, and the New York University Project Space in Abu Dhabi. She is the author of six full-length books of poetry, and her handmade books are collected by the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection. Jill has held residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Brooklyn Textile Arts Center, and her visual work is in the permanent collection of Art Jameel and in private collections in Boston, New York, Kentucky, and elsewhere. For ten years she ran Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press, and she is a co-founder of JARA Collective, an Emirates-based publishing project. For her work in publishing, she was named as among the most inspiring authors in the world by Poets & Writers magazine. A dedicated educator, Jill has taught writing, art, cultural studies, and theory for over twenty-five years at public and private universities, small liberal arts colleges, and art schools. She is currently at work on a dissertation at the European Graduate School: a poetics that reframes “literature” and “experimental poetry” via textile practices, specifically, and via textility, more broadly.

Stephen Motika is the author of the book of poems, Western Practice, and the chapbooks Arrival and at Mono, In the Madrones, and Private Archive. He is the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman and coeditor of Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday. His articles and poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, At Length, BOMB, the Brooklyn Review, the Constant Critic, Eleven Eleven, Maggy, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Poets & Writers, Poets.org, and Vanitas, among other publications. He has held residencies at the Lannan Foundation, Marfa, TX; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace; Millay Colony for the Arts; and ZK/U in Berlin, and taught at the Indiana University Writers Conference, Lehman College of the City University of New York, Naropa University, and the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He is the director and publisher of Nightboat Books.

OF THE SIGN: Paintings/Artists Books/Provocations by Marjorie Welish

November 2023–January 2024

This exhibition—“Of the Sign”—featured the work of artist and poet Marjorie Welish, including selections from an ongoing series of diagrammatic works that address the questions: “Can the sign of barrier tape be an actual prohibition that shifts to that of permission? What is the semiotic of this undoing and remaking?” The show also included artist books and a set of “provocations” created for the exhibition. A video of an event featuring Welish in conversation and in performance with musician David Grubbs can be found in the 2023 Events Archive.

Text Kitchen Workshops

Readings & Performances

Anne Waldman + Gerard Malanga—conversation and poetry

Saturday, May 5th, Second Ward Foundation

On May 4th, 2024, The Flow Chart Foundation, in collaboration with Second Ward Foundation, presented poets Anne Waldman and Gerard Malanga in conversation and reading their work.

Archived audio livestream from WGXC/Wave Farm.

Internationally recognized and acclaimed poet Anne Waldman has been an active member of the “Outrider” experimental poetry community, a culture she has helped create and nurture for over four decades as writer, editor, teacher, performer, magpie scholar, infra-structure curator, and cultural/political activist. Her poetry is recognized in the lineages of the Beat, New York School, and Black Mountain trajectories of the New American Poetry. But has raised the bar as a feminist, activist and powerful performer. She has read in the streets as well as numerous larger venues such as the Dodge Literary Festival in the USA and the Jaipur Literature Festival in India, the T.S. Eliot Memorial Foundation at Harvard University, and continues to teach poetics all over the world. She remains a highly original “open field investigator” of consciousness, committed to the possibilities of radical shifts of language and states of mind to create new modal structures and montages of attention. Her work is prophetic, multidisciplinary, energetic, passionate, panoramic, fierce at times.

She was one of the founders and directors of The Poetry Project at St. Marks, working there for twelve years. She also co-founded with—Allen Ginsberg and Diane di Prima—the celebrated Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, the first Buddhist inspired University in the western hemisphere. She is the author of more than 60 books, including the mini-classic Fast Speaking Woman, published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books in San Francisco; a new collection of essays, interviews, letters, and poems entitled Bard, Kinetic (Coffee House Press, 2023); as well as her classic, Vow to Poetry. Penguin has published her books over many years, including Manatee/Humanity, Marriage: A Sentence, and Trickster Feminism.

Recent publications include Rues du Monde, English and French (Apic Press, Algeria 2024), Para Ser Estrella a Medianoche, English and Spanish, (Arrebato Libros, Madrid 2021), New Weathers: Poetics from the Naropa Archive, co-edited with Emma Gomis (Nightboat, 2022), and The Velvet Wire with No Land (Granary Books, Forthcoming 2024).For more info: annewaldman.org / naropa.edu

Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, and archivist. He worked closely with Andy Warhol from 1963-70, helping Warhol create his most important paintings, publications, and films. In 1969 they co-founded Interview magazine, and it was during this time that Malanga again started taking pictures. The New York Times called him “Andy Warhol’s most important associate.”

Malanga appeared as a “superstar” in dozens of Warhol classics including Vinyl, Bitch!, and Camp, which coincided with his own movies like Andy Warhol, Portraits of the Artist as a Young Man (1964–65) In Search of the Miraculous (1967), and Preraphaelite Dream (1968). His photographs have appeared in countless books and magazines, including the New York Review of Books, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Lid, The New York Times, and The New Yorker, among others.

Two full-length books of Malanga’s photography have been published: Resistance to Memory (Arena Editions, 1998) with a preface by Ben Maddow, and Screen Tests Portraits Nudes 1964-1996 (Steidl, 2003). He also compiled the first photographic study of voyeurism, Scopophilia: The Love of Looking (Alfred Van Der Marck Editions, 1985).

Malanga’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Poetry, Raritan, Yale Review, Harvard Review, Southwest Review, Partisan Review, and The New Yorker. He is the author of 14 books of poetry spanning a 50-year period, including Cool & Other Poems (2019) and The New Mélancholia & Other Poems (2021). A new collection, Odie Is Being Called Back & Other Poems is forthcoming from Bottle of Smoke Press in 2024.

Gerard Malanga’s Secret Cinema, a monograph documenting his movies and notes on film, is forthcoming from the Waverly Press in 2024. Malanga recently completed his memoirs, In Remembrance of Things Past.

In 2023, the Republic of France by an Order of Decree through the Ministry of Culture awarded Malanga the Chevalier of Arts and Letters, in recognition of his lifelong contributions to poetry and photography. For more info: gerardmalangaofficial.com

Jill Magi and Stephen Motika—“if recopying is to author” Exhibition Launch

Saturday, March 2nd, Flow Chart Space

On Saturday, March 2nd, Jill Magi and legendary poet/publisher of Nightboat Books, Stephen Motika, had a conversation the occasion of “if recopying is to author” New Paintings, Fabric Works, and Books by Jill Magi at the Flow Chart Space.

Jill Magi is a poet and artist based in southern Vermont after eleven years living in and learning from Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. She has had solo exhibitions at Abu Dhabi’s 421 gallery (formerly known as Warehouse421), Grey Noise gallery in Dubai, Tashkeel in Dubai, the Southern Vermont Arts Center, and the New York University Project Space in Abu Dhabi. She is the author of six full-length books of poetry, and her handmade books are collected by the University at Buffalo Poetry Collection. Jill has held residencies with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Brooklyn Textile Arts Center, and her visual work is in the permanent collection of Art Jameel and in private collections in Boston, New York, Kentucky, and elsewhere. For ten years she ran Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press, and she is a co-founder of JARA Collective, an Emirates-based publishing project. For her work in publishing, she was named as among the most inspiring authors in the world by Poets & Writers magazine. A dedicated educator, Jill has taught writing, art, cultural studies, and theory for over twenty-five years at public and private universities, small liberal arts colleges, and art schools. She is currently at work on a dissertation at the European Graduate School: a poetics that reframes “literature” and “experimental poetry” via textile practices, specifically, and via textility, more broadly.

Stephen Motika is the author of the book of poems, Western Practice, and the chapbooks Arrival and at Mono, In the Madrones, and Private Archive. He is the editor of Tiresias: The Collected Poems of Leland Hickman and coeditor of Dear Kathleen: On the Occasion of Kathleen Fraser’s 80th Birthday. His articles and poems have appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, At Length, BOMB, the Brooklyn Review, the Constant Critic, Eleven Eleven, Maggy, the Poetry Project Newsletter, Poets & Writers, Poets.org, and Vanitas, among other publications. He has held residencies at the Lannan Foundation, Marfa, TX; Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace; Millay Colony for the Arts; and ZK/U in Berlin, and taught at the Indiana University Writers Conference, Lehman College of the City University of New York, Naropa University, and the Stonecoast MFA Program at the University of Southern Maine. He is the director and publisher of Nightboat Books.

January at the U.S. Capitol: Mark Nowak & Stacy Szymaszek

Friday, January 12th, Flow Chart Space

This event featured Stacy Szymaszek presenting a talk on birds of prey—along with images of her drawings—as a prelude to Mark Nowak reading from “Winter,” an abcedarian poem confronting the January 6th insurrection, which features a great number of birds of prey throughout the text. The reading was following by a conversation between Mark and Stacy.

Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and …AGAIN (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He recently edited Coronavirus Haiku (Kenning Editions, 2021), guest-edited the “Why We Write” issue of Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2021), and wrote an introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022). A native of Buffalo, Nowak is founding director of the Worker Writers School (https://www.instagram.com/workerwritersschool/).

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Pasolini Book (2022), and Famous Hermits (2023). Her most recent chapbook, Three Novenas, was published by auric books in 2022. She is the recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in poetry. From 2007-2018 she was the Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in NYC. She currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley.

Mark Nowak’s books include Shut Up Shut Down, Coal Mountain Elementary, Social Poetics, and …AGAIN (forthcoming), all from Coffee House Press. He recently edited Coronavirus Haiku (Kenning Editions, 2021), guest-edited the “Why We Write” issue of Michigan Quarterly Review (Fall 2021), and wrote an introduction to Celes Tisdale’s When the Smoke Cleared: Attica Prison Poems and Journal (Duke University Press, 2022). A native of Buffalo, Nowak is founding director of the Worker Writers School (https://www.instagram.com/workerwritersschool/).

Stacy Szymaszek is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently The Pasolini Book (2022), and Famous Hermits (2023). Her most recent chapbook, Three Novenas, was published by auric books in 2022. She is the recipient of a 2014 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, and a 2019 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in poetry. From 2007-2018 she was the Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in NYC. She currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley.

Discussions & Gatherings

Creating the Collection: Treasures & Stories from the Ashbery Resource Center

Saturday, May 11th, Flow Chart Space

A panel discussion on the Ashbery Resrouce Center exhibition at The Flow Chart Foundation's Flow Chart Space, featuring a conversation between three Flow Chart Foundation trustees: Ashbery Estate Executor and bibliographer David Kermani and poets (as well as close Ashbery friends) Dara Barrois/Dixon and Eugene Richie, moderated by Archivist Nina Boutsikaris.

David Kermani was born in Albany, NY in 1946. An Iranian-American, he received a BA from Brown University (American Civilization), and an MA (Middle East Languages and Cultures) and MLS (specializing in archival management) from Columbia University. He was Director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York from 1977 until 1982, when he joined his family’s oriental rug business in upstate NY. Soon after meeting John Ashbery in 1970, he began work on a comprehensive bibliography of Ashbery’s work, including his writing about art, which was published in 1976; he has managed Ashbery’s business affairs for many years. He has been on the Board of Friends of Olana (now The Olana Partnership), serving as Treasurer, Vice-President, and President. Along with Dara Wier, James Tate and Ashbery, he was a founding member of The Flow Chart Foundation in 1998, helping to develop the Ashbery Resource Center and its online catalogue as a continuation of the earlier bibliography, and the “Created Spaces” concept. [Board member since 1998]

Dara Barroir/Dixon was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised south of New Orleans in Naomi, Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Her thirteen books include the In the Still of the Night, You Good Thing, and Reverse Rapture, awarded The Poetry Center and American Poetry Archives Book Award in 2006. Fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and Massachusetts Cultural Council and Lannan Foundation Fellowship have supported her work. Her poems are included in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. Limited editions include (X In Fix) and The Usual Ratio Between Banality and Wonder in Rain Taxi’s Brainstorm series. With James Tate, she rescued The Lost Epic of Arthur Davidson Ficke: The Author’s Annotations, Commentary, and Note of Reference for a Millennium’s Teardrop. She's held the Richard Hugo Chair at the University of Montana, and The Louis Rubin Chair at Hollins University and been a poet-in-residence at University of Texas, Emory University and the University of Utah; she served as the Associated Writing Program's President in the early 1980s. She is a member of the University of Massachusetts Amherst poetry faculty, director and co-founder of the Juniper Initiative for literary arts and action and the Juniper Summer Institute and Workshops, editor and publisher of factory hollow press and publisher of the literary journal jubilat, she lives and works in North Amherst, Massachusetts. [Board member since 1998]

A cofounder, with the poet Rosanne Wasserman, of the nonprofit Groundwater Press, Eugene Richie is Director of Creative Writing in the Pace University English Department, in New York. He has published five collections of poems and three books of translations, as well as articles and reviews, on translation and on the work of various poets. He has edited Ashbery’s Selected Prose (University of Michigan Press / Carcanet, 2004) and, with Wasserman and Olivier Brossard, three bilingual collections of Pierre Martory’s poems, translated by Ashbery: The Landscape Is behind the Door (Groundwater, 1990); Oh, Lake / Oh, lac (Artery Editions, 2008); and The Landscapist (Sheep Meadow / Carcanet, 2008), a London Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and a National Book Critics Circle Award poetry finalist. With Wasserman, he also edited Ashbery’s Collected French Translations (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Carcanet, 2014), a London Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation and a finalist for the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. [Board member since 1998]

Nina Boutsikaris is a creative writer and archivist who earned her MSLS in Archival Management at Simmons University. She is the author of the memoir I'm Trying to Tell You I'm Sorry: An Intimacy Triptych, winner of the 2021 Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award for Creative Nonfiction, and Small Press Distribution Bestseller. Her essays have been published in numerous literary magazines, anthologized in The Best of Brevity: Twenty Groundbreaking Years of Flash Fiction, and twice named Notable Essays by the Best American Essays series. She has taught at The University of Arizona, The New School, Catapult, and Gotham Writers Workshop. As an archivist she is interested in helping to facilitate "archive Interventions," or relationships between the arts, lives, and the archives.

MODERN POETRY: Diane Seuss reading and in conversation with Jeffrey Shotts

Tuesday, March 19th, Zoom

On Tuesday, March 19th, we presented poet Diane Seuss on the occasion of her newest collection, MODERN POETRY, reading and in conversation with Graywolf Press poetry editor Jeffrey Shotts.

This event was made possible by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and through support from Friends of The Flow Chart Foundation.

Diane Seuss is the author of five books of poetry, including frank: sonnets, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the PEN/Voelcker Prize, and a finalist for the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Still Life With Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Four-Legged Girl, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open, winner of the Juniper Prize. She was a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and in 2021 she received the John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Michigan. Photo credit: Gabrielle Montesanti

Jeffrey Shotts joined Graywolf in June 1996. He completed an M.F.A. in Poetry at Washington University in Saint Louis and rejoined Graywolf in 2002. He is currently a Poetry Editor for Post Road and is on the advisory boards of the Literary Arts Institute at the College of Saint Benedict, and a national advisory board member of Essay Press and Whit Press. He has served as an adviser and on informational panels for the Bush, MacArthur, Poetry, and Vilcek Foundations, as well as the Minnesota State Arts Board. A published poet, essayist and critic, Shotts has taught or lectured on poetry and editing at a variety of colleges and universities across the country.

BUNNY! Poetry of V. R. "Bunny" Lang—a reading and discussion

Thursday, March 12th, Zoom

In recognition of the Violet Ranney "Bunny" Lang (1924–1956) Centennial, and the publication of The Miraculous Season: Selected Poems of V.R. "Bunny Lang," edited and with an introduction by Rosa Campbell (Carcanet, 2024), we invited writer/scholar Rosa Campbell will read from the collection and be joined in conversation by poet/writer Alexa Winik.

This event welcomed us to (re-)discover and discuss an important and too long overlooked figure of the New York School, a founder of Cambridge's The Poets Theatre, an accomplished playwright, and a poet.

Rosa Campbell lives in Edinburgh, and is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of St Andrews, where she also teaches modern and contemporary literature. Her poetry has appeared in various places, including Oxford Poetry, fourteen poems, Perverse, Ambit, Gutter and SPAM. Her first book, Pothos, a memoir-ish lyric essay about grief and houseplants, was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2021. She tweets as @rosaetc.

Alexa Winik (she/her) is a Canadian-born poet and writer living in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of the chapbook Close River (Magma) and her poetry and essays can be found in various places, including The Ampersand Review, The Awst Press, The Poetry Review, The Adroit Journal, Gutter, and Footprints: an anthology of new ecopoetry (Broken Sleep Books). In 2020, her hybrid sequence 'Winter Stars Visible in December' won the 2020 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award in Poetry, presented by the Writers' Trust of Canada.

Auctions & Galas