[Njcea] Poetry Colloquium at Centenary College

[Kimmelman, Burt]

New Century Poetics: a Poetry Colloquium

Centenary College of New Jersey (directions  and contact info at the bottom of this message)

October 19-20, 2009

Monday October 19, 2009
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Reading by Mark Doty - Little Theater

with an interview by Jared Harel
9:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Reception and book signing - Seay Front Parlours

Tuesday October 20, 2009

9:30 am - 7:30 pm

Workshops and panels scheduled throughout the day.

9:00 am - 9:20 am   Sign in at the Seay Building


9:30 am - 11:30 am  Workshops and Panels:

Workshops    by reservation only

Using Man-Made Things as Metaphors - Rotunda Rooms
with Robert Carnevale, poet and poetics instructor

Blues Poetics: From Lyrics to Verse - Seay Front Parlours
with Jared Harel, poet and Centenary College poetry instructor


 Panels

The Art of Poetry & Poetry of Art: Ekphrasis in the Contemporary Poem - Ferry 12
Burt Kimmelman, NJIT, poet and scholar
Basil King, poet and artist
Corinne Robins, Pratt Institute, poet and art historian
Michael Heller, poet and writer
Mark Lamoureux, CUNY, poet and publisher of Cy Gist Press
Therese Halscheid, poet and writer

Resources and Publication Options - Ferry Recital Hall
Peter Murphy, local poetry organizer and poet
Melissa Hotchkiss, co-editor of Barrow Street, teacher, poet
Suzanne Parker, Brookdale CC, poet
Ken Ronkowitz, Passaic County CC, poet and online publisher
Mark Tursi, editor of Double Room, publisher of Apostrophe Books


11:45 am - 1:00 pm - Seay Front Parlours
Round Table with Mark Doty: Poetry's Role in Contemporary Culture Moderated by Mary Newell, Director of Writing at Centenary College.


1:00 pm - 2:30 pm  Lunch on your own

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm  Workshops and Panels:

Workshops     by reservation only

Practicing Poetry - Rotunda Rooms
with Sally Dawidoff, NY poet and teacher.

How to Read a Poem - President's Dining Room
with Suzanne Parker, Brookdale CC, poet.

Panels

Poetics of Place: New Jersey, the West, and Other Habitats of the Mind - Seay Front Parlours
Angela Elliott, Centenary College Professor and Poet-in-Residence
Betsy Andrews, poet
Marcella Durand, poet
Adele Kenny, poet
Madeline Tiger, poet
BJ Ward, poet, Warren County CC faculty

Experimenting with Forms - Ferry 12
Melissa Hotchkiss, "Form into Process"
Lorna Blake
Kristin Prevallet, "We Sit Like Hot Stones: The Performance of Mourning"
Laura Hinton, "Mourning and Multi-Media Poetics"
Mark Tursi, prose poetry
Tiphanie Yanique, prose poetry; performance

Poetry and Translation: Bridging the Discontinuities - Ferry Recital Hall
Edward Foster, editor of Talisman, poet, essayist, Stevens Institute
Carlos Hernandez Peña, bi-lingual writer, editor
Ravi Shankar, poet, Assoc. Professor, editor of Drunkenboat.com and a Norton anthology of Asian and Middle Eastern poetry
Paul Sohar, poet, translator of Hungarian poetry
Mark Weiss, poet, translator, and editor


5 pm - 6 pm  Open discussion with Mark Doty - Seay Front Parlours

6:30 pm  Readings by participant poets - Seay Front Parlours


About the Presenters

Betsy Andrews is the author of the book-length poem New Jersey, as well as She-Devil and In Trouble. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in publications ranging from PRACTICE to the Yemeni newspaper Culture. She was also awarded a 2007 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

Robert Carnevale's poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Paris Review and the New Yorker. He served as Assistant Coordinator of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Poetry Program. He and Carol Ueland received a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Translation Fellowship. He currently teaches writing and literature at Drew University and Kean University.

Sally Dawidoff's poems have appeared in diverse publications, most recently River Styx and the anthology Best New Poets 2009. She has been an NEA fellow and this year was an Artist in Residence at Headlands Center. She teaches poetry workshops in New York.

Marcella Durand's recent books are Traffic & Weather, AREA, and The Anatomy of Oil. Her poems and essays have appeared in Conjunctions, The Canary, Denver Quarterly, NYFA Current, and other journals. She has written and presented on the intersections of poetry with ecology and astronomy, and is the 2009 Poetry Artist Fellowship recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Angela Elliot, Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Centenary, is an internationally recognized Pound scholar who has been published in books and journals in both the U.S. and U.K. She has presented papers in Italy, England and Canada, as well as across the United States. As a poet, she publishes and gives readings.

Edward Foster is a widely published critic, essayist, editor, and poet. He is the founding editor of Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Talisman House, Publishers, and co-editor of Contemporary Turkish Studies. He has been awarded by institutions including NJ Historical Commission, NJ State Council on the Arts, the Fulbright Commission, NEA, and NEH. Foster is a Professor of History and Associate Dean for Administration at the Stevens Institute of Technology. His latest book of poetry, The Beginning of Sorrows, is due out in October.

Therese Halscheid is the author of three poetry collections, Powertalk, Without Home, and Uncommon Geography, which won a 2007 Finalist Award for the Paterson Poetry Book Prize. She received a Greatest Hits Award from Pudding House and a 2003 Fellowship for Poetry from the NJ State Council of the Arts. She a visiting writer in schools through NJ State Council on the Arts.

Jared Harel's poems have been published or are forthcoming in such literary journals as the New York Quarterly, California Quarterly, Barrow Street, Notre Dame Review, The Portland Review, and Rattle. He was recently awarded First Runner-up in the 2009 BOA Editions "A. Poulin Jr. Book Prize." A graduate of Cornell's MFA program, he currently lives in Astoria, Queens and teaches creative writing and composition at Centenary College.

Michael Heller has published eight volumes of poetry, most recently Eschaton. His critical work includes a collection of essays on George Oppen and a mixed-genre meditation on the work of the painter Max Beckmann. His poetry and criticism have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. His many honors include the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Prize of the Poetry Society of America, a New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Fund for Poetry.

Laura Hinton is the author of a poetry book, Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub) and a critical book, The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911. She is also the co-editor of We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics; and publishes critical essays, poet interviews, and reviews. A Professor of English at the City College of New York, she coordinates the InterRUPTions reading series and edits a chapbook series under the aegis of Mermaid Tenement Press.

Melissa Hotchkiss's first book of poems, Storm Damage, was published by Tupelo Press in 2002. Her poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous publications such as The American Poetry Review, Free Inquiry, LIT, New Virginia Review and the anthology Poets for Palestine. Melissa is a co-editor of Barrow Street Press and has taught at various institutions including New York University, Centenary College, and the University of Rhode Island.

Adele Kenny is the author of 23 books of poetry & nonfiction. Her poems, reviews and articles have appeared in several books and anthologies. She is the recipient of various awards, including poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council. A former professor of creative writing in the College of New Rochelle's Graduate School, she is currently founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor of Tiferet.

Burt Kimmelman has published five collections of poetry - Musaics, First Lif, The Pond at Cape May Point, Somehow, and There Are Word; his volume of poems titled As If Free is forthcoming in 2009. For over a decade he was Senior Editor of Poetry New York: A Journal of Poetry and Translation. He is a professor of English at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the author of two book-length literary studies: The "Winter Mind": William Bronk and American Letters and The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages: The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona, as well as scores of essays on medieval, modern, and contemporary poetry.

Basil King is a painter/poet, born in England before World War II. He attended Black Mountain College as a teenager and completed apprenticeship as an abstract expressionist in San Francisco and New York. For the past three decades he has taken his art "from the abstract to the figure, from the figure to the abstract." His books include Mirage: a poem in 22 sections, Warp Spasm, Identity, 77 Beasts/Basil King's Beastiary, Talisman#36/37, In the Field Where Daffodils Grow, Short Stories.

Mark Lamoureux's first full-length collection, Astrometry Orgonon was published by BlazeVOX books in 2008. In addition to being the author of 5 chapbooks, his work has been published in Fence, Jubilat, Denver Quarterly, Conduit, Lungfull!, Carve Poems, and many others. In 2006 he started Cy Gist Press, a micropress focusing on ekphrastic poetry. He teaches composition in the CUNY system.

Suzanne Parker's poetry has appeared in numerous journals including Rattapallax, Cider Press Review, and others.   She has won a number of awards and been a finalist and semi-finalist for four national poetry book awards.  Her creative non-fiction is published by the University of Wisconsin Press in the travel anthology Something to Declare.  Suzanne co-directs the creative writing program at Brookdale Community College.

Peter E. Murphy is the author of Stubborn Child and Thorough & Efficient, both from Jane Street Press. Recipient of a 2009 Poetry Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts, he teaches at Richard Stockton College, directs the annual Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway in Cape May, Live Free & Write in New Hampshire, Vision, Valley & Revelation in Wales and other programs for poets, writers and teachers.

Mary Newell is the Director of Writing and an Assistant Professor of literature and writing at Centenary College of New Jersey. She has taught poetics, poetry writing, and creative non-fiction at Fordham University and Centenary College. In addition to a few poetry publications, she has written and presented on contemporary poetics, literature and the environment, and cognitive approaches to literature.

Carlos Hernandez Pena was a co-editor of the US1 Worksheets magazine and from 2005 to 2008 organized Voices at the Princeton Public Library, a bilingual program of poetry from around the world. The title poem of his first book, Moonmilk and Other Poem, was nominated for a Pushcart prize. A native of Mexico, he writes prose in his mother tongue and is currently at work on a collection of short stories.

Kristin Prevallet's most recent book is a lyric essay called I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time. Her previous collections are Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation and Image-text Projects, Perturbation, My Sister and Shadow Evidence Intelligence. Her collaboration with the musician Esfand Poumand is featured on Bowery Poetry Club Records Live! She received a 2007 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in poetry.

Corinne Robins is an art critic, poet, and art historian. She is the author of The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-81 and of five previous poetry collections, most recently Facing It Again: New and Selected Poems. She teaches art criticism at Pratt Institute and is a professor emeritus at the School of Visual Arts. She runs the Poets For Choice reading series at Ceres Gallery NYC.


Ken Ronkowitz is the owner/editor of poetsonline.org, a monthly online poetry magazine and web site for poets. His own work has been published in magazines including English Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Roadmap, Prague and the anthology, The Paradelle. He is currently the Director of Writing at Passaic County Community College and an adjunct professor at NJIT.

Ravi Shankar is Associate Professor and Poet-in-Residence at Central Connecticut State University and founding editor of the international online journal of the arts, Drunken Boat. His poetry collection, Instrumentality, was named a finalist for the 2005 Connecticut Book Awards. He has also published a collaborative chapbook, Wanton Textiles, with Reb Livingston, and is the co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from Asia, the Middle East and Beyond.



Paul Sohar has added nine books of translations, poetry ("Homing Poems," Iniquity Press 2005) and prose ("True Tales of a Fictitious Spy," Synergebooks, 2006) to his numerous magazine credits (Chelsea, Grain, Kenyon Review, Poem, Rattle, etc.). He collaborated with Michael Sawyer on a musical "G-d Is Something Gorgeous" as the lyricist (produced in Scranton PA, 2004).



Madeline Tiger's recent collections of poetry are Water Has No Color, Mary of Migdal, and My Father's Harmonica. Recent poems appear in The Journal of NJ Poets, Anti-Lawn, and the forthcoming anthology, The XY Files. She teaches in the New Jersey State Council on the Arts Writers-in-the-Schools program and in the Dodge Foundation poetry programs.


Mark Tursi is the author of Shiftless Days and The Impossible Picnic. He is one of the founding editors of the literary journal Double Room, as well as Apostrophe Books, an innovative press devoted to publishing poetry that intersects philosophy and cultural theory. He is an Assistant Professor of literature and creative writing at New Jersey City University.

Bj Ward's books include Gravedigger's Birthday and Landing in New Jersey with Soft Hands, both published by North Atlantic Books. His work has been featured on National Public Radio, New Jersey Network, and the web site, Poetry Daily, as well as in publications such as Poetry, TriQuarterly, and The Literary Review. He has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and two Distinguished Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He teaches at Warren County Community College.

Mark Weiss has published six books of poetry, most recently As Landscape. He edited The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry and, with Harry Polkinhorn, the bilingual Anthology Across the Line/ Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California. His translations include Stet: Selected Poems of José Kozer; The San Antonio Notebook, by Javier Manríquez; and Gaspar Orozco's Notes from the Land of Z. Among his current projects are translations of a booklength poem by Luis Cortes Bargalló and a collection of the short stories of Eliseo Diego.

Tiphanie Yanique's story collection "How to Escape from a Leper Colony" will be published by Graywolf Press in March 2010. Tiphanie is a fiction writer, poet and essayist. She is the winner of a Pushcart Prize, the Kore Press Fiction Prize, The Academy of American Poets Prize, a Fulbright Scholarship in writing and the Boston Review Fiction Prize. She is a professor of Creative Writing and Caribbean Literature at Drew University. She is from the Virgin Islands and commutes between St. Thomas and Brooklyn, New York.

For more information please contact:
Joseph Pascale, Senior Editor: pascalej at centenarycollege.edu
Mary Newell, Faculty Adviser: newellm at centenarycollege.edu
or call the Prism at (908) 852-1400 ext. 4669

http://www.centenarycollege.edu/

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