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Poetry Events in April

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Wednesday, April 1st     

Reading by Tracy K. Smith

6:00 PM, Labyrinth Books

 

Friday, April 3rd, and Saturday, April 4th

Decreations: A Graduate Symposium on the Work of Anne Carson

Schedule and Locations

 

Wednesday, April 8th

Susan Stewart: “Wordsworth’s Ruins” (18th c. and Romantic Studies Colloquium)

4:30 PM, 40 McCosh Hall

 

Thursday, April 9th

Poetry Reading by Devin Johnston and Robert Adamson

4:30 PM, Chancellor Green 105

 

Friday, April 10th

Slam Poetry Performance with Kit Yan

5:00 PM (doors open at 4:30), Wilson Black Box Theater

 

Wednesday, April 15th

Reading by John Yau and Rachel Kushner

4:30 PM, Berlind Theater at McCarter Theater Center

 

Friday, April 17 – Saturday, April 18

Program in Latin American Studies Colloquium: Poetry, War, and Citizenship: The 70th Anniversary of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s A Rosa do Povo

Begins Friday 2:oo P.M, 216 Aaron Burr Hall

Talks in Portuguese. Discussion in Portuguese, Spanish, or English. Event Details.

Wednesday, April 22nd

Department of German Lecture Series: Christoph Konig: “How to Modernize Hermeneutics?” Readings of Rilke’s Late Poems”

4:30 PM, East Pyne 205

 

Thursday, April 23rd

Pierre Joris reads his translations of Paul Celan

4:30 PM, Chancellor Green 105

 

Thursday, April 23rd

The Year of the Long Poem: Evie Shockley on the Contemporary Long Poem: “Seeing the Future: The ‘Colorblind’ Present and Blackness Past.”

4:30 PM, Hinds Library, McCosh Hall

 

Monday, April 27th

Jennifer Scappettone presents “Street Linguistics and Phrasebook Pentecosts in LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs: Tuning to the “Clusterf*ck of Tongues”

12:00 PM, Mathey Private Dining Room

(Email osxr@princeton.edu for a pdf of the paper)

 

Monday, April 27th

Poetry Reading by Jennifer Scappettone and Craig Dworkin

4:30 PM, McCosh 40

 

Wednesday, April 29th

Discussion of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen with Kinohi Nishikawa

4:30 PM, Rocky/Mathey Classroom

In one breath I wake

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When you go away

by W.S. Merwin ’48

When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
Showing the black walls
The clock goes back to striking the same hour
That has no place in the years

And at night wrapped in the bed of ashes
In one breath I wake
It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth
I remember that I am falling
That I am the reason
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy

 

In 2009, W.S. Merwin, who graduated from Princeton in 1948, became one of only eight poets ever to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. Merwin has said he felt like a “misfit” at Princeton, where he studied with R.P. Blackmur and John Berryman.