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SUMMARY:A SPECIAL EPISODE OF POEMTALK: PIERRE JORIS; JEROME ROTHENBERG
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Al Filreis\, PoemTalk features a roundtable close reading of poetry recordings in the PennSound archive. This special episode of PoemTalk\, filmed in front of an audience\, will feature poems by Pierre Joris (1946–2025) and Jerome Rothenberg (1931–2024)\, who were longtime collaborators and dear friends of the Kelly Writers House. The episode indeed will be one way for the PennSound\, PoemTalk and Kelly Writers House community to express our deep admiration for the poetic achievements of these two cherished colleagues.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-special-episode-of-poemtalk-pierre-joris-jerome-rothenberg/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
CATEGORIES:Philadelphia
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SUMMARY:A poetry reading by Therí Pickens and Yolanda Wisher
DESCRIPTION:co-sponsored by: The Creative Writing Program\, the Department of Africana Studies\, and the Department of English \nhosted by: Herman Beavers \nrsvp: register here to attend in person \nAbout the Authors: \nTherí Alyce Pickens creates powerful\, ground-breaking\, award-winning scholarship in the fields of Arab American Studies\, Black Studies\, Comparative Literature\, and Disability Studies. She wrote Black Madness :: Mad Blackness (Duke University Press 2019)\, a theoretical tour-de-force which fundamentally shapes Black Disability Studies. Her editorial work ushered in new conversations about Black Disability Studies in two major journals: African American Review (2017) and College Language Association Journal (2021). Her first monograph\, New Body Politics: Narrating Black and Arab Identity in the United States (Routledge 2014) brought together Arab and Black American literary and cultural production through the lenses of Black feminism and Disability Studies. In another editorial project\, Arab American Aesthetics (Routledge 2018)\, she curates a discussion about what makes artistic production uniquely Arab American. \nProfessor Pickens’s public writing refuses to diminish or pre-masticate the complexities of our world for a wider public. Her work has appeared in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Black Girl Nerds\, The Counter\, Inside Higher Ed\, and Ms. Magazine. She is a sought-after podcast guest who brings wit\, excitement\, and humor to podcasts including Busy Being Black\, Contemporary Black Canvas\, New Books Network\, The Cipher\, and the MoMA Podcast. \nAlongside her scholarship\, Professor Pickens is a poet\, whose first collection\, What Had Happened Was\, will debut in 2025 from Duke University Press. She is a proud alum of Margaret Porter Troupe Arts (2006)\, Community of Writers (2017\, 2020)\, Kenyon Writers’ Retreat (2018)\, Colgate Writers Workshop (2019)\, Bread loaf – Sicily (2019)\, Hurston/Wright (2023)\, VONA (2023)\, and Rutgers’ University Poets and Scholars Retreat (2023). Her poetry has been published or is forthcoming from Prairie Schooner\, The Journal\, Diode\, Black Renaissance Noire\, Omnium Gatherum Quarterly\, Langston Hughes Review\, The Madison Review\, and Cane: A New Critical Edition. \nIn addition to Professor Pickens’s research\, she coaches with the National Council for Faculty Development and Diversity. She also runs her own developmental editing and sensitivity reading business: Inquiry Editing\, LLC. \nA poet\, musician\, educator\, and curator\, Yolonda Wisher is the author of Monk Eats an Afro. She was named inaugural Poet Laureate of Montgomery County\, Pennsylvania\, in 1999 and third Poet Laureate of Philadelphia in 2016. A Pew and Cave Canem Fellow\, Wisher received the Leeway Foundation’s Transformation Award in 2019 for her commitment to art for social change. In 2022\, she was named a Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Artist Fellow. \nWisher’s writing has been published in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series\, The New York Times\, and most recently\, the anthologies Keystone Poetry: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania and This Is The Honey: An Anthology Of Contemporary Black Poets. Wisher’s commissioned poetry/spoken word is part of several public artworks and performances including Eight Eight Time (2025) by Kendrah Butler-Waters\, Terry Klinefelter\, Suzzette Ortiz\, and Sumi Tonooka; Ascendance (2024) by Nina Cooke John; The Frances Suite (2022) by Ruth Naomi Floyd\, and For Philadelphia (2018) by Jenny Holzer. Wisher performs and records a blend of poetry and song with her band Yolanda Wisher & The Afroeaters. \nWisher taught high school English for a decade\, co-founded the youth-led Germantown Poetry Festival\, and served as Director of Art Education for Philadelphia Mural Arts. Wisher is an artist-in-residence in Jefferson University’s Humanities & Health program\, teaching poetry to first-year medical students\, staff\, and patients. She is also a lead artist for Healing Verse Germantown\, a poetry and public art project that engages Germantown residents in writing poetry in response to gun violence. \nWisher’s curatorial projects include Declaration House (2024)\, The Re-Emancipation of Social Dance (2024)\, Love Jawns: A Mixtape (2019)\, Stellar Masses (2018)\, Outbound Poetry Festival (2017)\, Yolanda Wisher’s Rent Party (2017)\, and City of Poetry (2016). She is the senior curator at Monument Lab\, a public art\, history\, and design studio in Philadelphia.
URL:https://poetry.princeton.edu/event/a-poetry-reading-by-theri-pickens-and-yolanda-wisher/
LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Output: a celebration of computer-generated text
DESCRIPTION:Conversations about computer-generated text often omit the long history of work in this area\, tending to focus instead on the more recent launch of ChatGPT in 2022. The anthology Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953–2023 aims to correct this omission by gathering\, celebrating\, and contextualizing over seven decades of English-language pieces produced by generation systems and software. Join us for presentations of computer-generated texts and other experimental outputs by anthology editors Lillian-Yvonne Bertram and Nick Monfort\, along with anthology contributors Jim Carpenter\, Steve McLaughlin\, and Syd Zolf. \nAbout the Authors: \nConsidered an emerging leader in the field of AI writing and literature\, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram is co-editor of the newly released anthology Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953-2023\, published by The MIT Press and Counterpath. Bertram also recently published the AI-written chapbook A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content\, winner of the DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press Chapbook Prize. Bertram’s most recent book of poetry is Negative Money (Soft Skull Press\, 2023)\, which was a finalist for the New England Book Award. Their previous book\, Travesty Generator (Noemi Press\, 2019)\, won the 2018 Noemi Press Poetry Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s 2020 Anna Rabinowitz prize for interdisciplinary work\, was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry\, and was a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Their other books include Personal Science (Tupelo Press\, 2017); a slice from the cake made of air (Red Hen Press 2016); and But a Storm is Blowing From Paradise (Red Hen Press\, 2012)\, chosen by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2010 Benjamin Saltman Award. They are a 2024 Foundation for Contemporary Art grant recipient and they direct the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland College Park. \nJames Carpenter designed his ETC poetry generation system while a member of the affiliated faculty of the Wharton School. Submitting his system’s work under the name Erica T. Carpenter\, he had her poetry accepted for publication in numerous literary magazines and journals. Steve McLaughlin used ETC to generate the poems for the Issue 1 hoax\, which made a lot of people mad and made others laugh. He has also published three literary novels\, No Place to Pray\, Nineteen to Go\, and Honeyed Words and Bitter\, as well as a couple of dozen short stories\, including in the Chicago Tribune Printers Row\, and Fiction International–all of which he wrote without digital assistance (except for half a paragraph in No Place to Pray\, which he adapted from one of Erica’s published pieces. Which people can’t possibly hold against him because it wasn’t word for word). \nSteve McLaughlin is a writer and bookseller in Philadelphia. His projects include the hoax poetry anthology Issue 1 (2008\, with Jim Carpenter) and the 57-volume pun collection Puniverse (2014). He currently runs Iffy Books\, a bookshop/workshop space focused on DIY technology\, privacy\, and activism. \nNick Montfort‘s work includes ten computer-generated books (in print from seven presses)\, the collaborations The Deletionist and Sea and Spar Between\, and more than fifty individual digital projects. His latest poetry book\, All the Way for the Win\, is composed entirely of three-letter words. His MIT Press books include The Future and two co-edited volumes\, The New Media Reader and Output: An Anthology of Computer-Generated Text\, 1953–2023. He’s a professor at MIT\, principal investigator in the University of Bergen’s Center for Digital Narrative\, and directs a lab/studio\, The Trope Tank. He lives in New York City. \nSyd Zolf‘s most recent books are No One’s Witness: A Monstrous Poetics (Duke UP\, 2021) and a selected poetry\, Social Poesis (WLU Press\, 2019). Honors include a Pew Fellowship in the Arts\, a Trillium Book Award for Poetry\, and finalist for several other prizes. Zolf’s sixth full-length book of poetry\, Neutrøis\, will be published by Coach House Books in early 2027. They teach at the University of Pennsylvania.
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LOCATION:The Kelly Writers House\, 3805 Locust Walk\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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