Wednesdays at 4 Plus FALL POETRY AND PROSE September 12 - November 29, 1995 AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO (AMHERST CAMPUS) Tim O'Brien Prose Reading Tues., Sept. 12, 8pm, Auditorium, Allen Hall (S. Campus) O'Brien's novels include If I Die in a Combat Zone Box Me Up and Ship (1973), National Book Award winner Going After Cacciato (1989), and two new books from Penguin -- Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods. The reading is sponsored by Talking Leaves Books and will be broadcast live on WBFO. Carla Harryman Poetry/Play Reading Weds., Sept. 13, 4pm, Center for the Arts (CFA) Screening Room Lecture/Demonstration "Poet's Theater" Thurs., Sept. 14, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Carla Harryman's genre-bending, mind-expanding plays, poems, essays, and fictions are collected in There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn: Selected Writings (City Lights), as well as Memory Play, Animal Instincts, Vice, and The Middle. She recently moved from Berkeley to Detroit and is teaching this year at UCSD. Fiona Templeton Performance "Recognition" Tues., Sept. 19, 8pm, Hallwalls Film (You -- the City) and Reading Weds., Sept. 20, 4pm, CFA Screening Room Lecture/Demonstration "Play True Be at Make Mean" Thurs., Sept. 21, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Fiona Templeton is a writer, director, performer, and installation artist. Her ingenious and original works have been hailed in the U.S., U.K., Spain, Germany, Holland, Scotland, and elsewhere. "Cells of Release," at the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, was her most recent site-specific performance. Books include You -- The City and London. Lucette Finas French Festival (Part I) Prose Reading (bilingual) Weds., Sept. 27, 4pm, CFA Screening Room Lecture "Mallarme's Art" Thurs., Sept. 28, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Lucette Finas is a distinguished French novelist and critic whose books include L'echec (1955), translated by Ralph Manheim as The Faithful Shepherd (Pantheon, 1963), and essay collections on Derrida (1973) and Bataille (1972). Her most recent collection of stories is Une mere a reparer. Luci Tapahonso McNulty Chair Residency Poetry Reading Weds., Oct. 11, 4pm, CFA Screening Room Talk and discussion Thurs., Oct. 12, TBA Luci Tapahonso's poetry collections include A Breeze Swept Through (1987), Secrets from the Center of the World (1989), and Saanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing (University of Arizona Press, 1993). She is a member of the Din(Navajo) tribe and an Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas. She is 1995 Frost Place Poet-in-Residence and has written two children's books, most recently Navajo ABC: A DinSchuster). Jean Fremon, Emmanuel Hocquard, Jacqueline Risset, Claude Royet-Journoud, French Festival (Part II) Poetry Reading (bilingual) Weds., Oct. 18, 4pm, CFA Screening Room Talk and Discussion: "An Encounter Between French and American Poets" Thurs., Oct. 19, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Four of France's most innovative writers: Jean Fremon is a novelist and poet whose most recent book is L'ile des morts. Emmanuel Hocquard's work in English includes Theory of Tables (tr. Michael Palmer) and Aerea in the Forests of Manhattan (tr. Lydia Davis) and Late Additions (tr. Rosmaire Waldrop and Connel McGrath, 1988). Jacqueline Risset's poetry collections include Sept passages de la vie d'une femme and in English The Translation Begins (tr. Jennifer Moxley); she was an editor of Tel Quel; her Dante translations won the Academie francaise prize. Claude Royet-Journoud's poetry collections in English include A Descriptive Method, Objects Contain the Infinite, and The Notion of Obstacle (tr. Keith Waldrop), and The Maternal Drape (tr. Charles Bernstein); with Hocquard he edited two major French anthologies of new American poetry. Michel Deguy French Festival (Part III) Lecture "Comme si - Comme ca" ["As If- Like That"] Tues., Oct. 24, 12:30pm, 930 Clemens Hall Poetry Reading (bilingual) Wed., Oct. 25, 4pm, CFA Screening Room Michel Deguy is one of France's most celebrated poets. Given Giving, his selected poems, has been translated by Clayton Eshleman and published by the University of California Press (1984). He is editor of Po&Sie and on the editorial board of Les temps modernes. Deguy is a professor at the University of Paris VIII. Lance Olsen Video Performance / Prose Reading Wed., Nov. 1, 4pm, CFA Screening Room Talk and discussion Thurs., Nov. 2, 10am, 438 Clemens Hall Lance Olsen's novels are Tonguing the Zeitgeist (Permeable Press), Live from Earth (Ballantine), and forthcoming, Burn. His critical works include Lolita: a Janus Tale, William Gibson, and Circus of the Mind in Motion: Postmodernism and the Comic Vision. He teaches at the University of Idaho. Barbara Tedlock Lecture "The Hidden Female Shamanic Tradition" Thurs., Nov. 9, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Tedlock's most recent book is The Beautiful and the Dangerous (Viking). Coeditor of American Anthropopogy, she is Professor of Anthropology at UB. David Wagoner Silverman Poetry Reading Fri., Nov. 10, 8pm, 250 Baird Hall Wagoner's books include Through the Forest: New and Selected Poems: 1977-87, Collected Poems: 1956-1976, First Light, and Landfall, and nine novels, including The Hanging Garden. He teaches at the University of Washington, where he edits Poetry Northwest. Thom Gunn "Committee for Poetry" Reading Tues., Nov. 14, 4pm, Room TBA Poet and MacArthur fellow Thom Gunn's Collected Poems were published last year by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, which has also issued Moly, and My Sad Captains. His other books include two collections of essays and memoirs: The Occasions of Poetry and Shelf Life. Steve McCaffery Poetry Reading Weds., Nov. 15, 4pm, CFA Screening Room Talk and discussion Thurs., Nov. 16, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Poet, essayist, critical theorist, and performance artist Steve McCaffery's books include Black Debt, Evoba, Ows Waif, Panopticon, Rational Geomancy: The Kids of the Book Machine (with bp nichol), and Theory of Sediment. North of Intention is his collection of critical writings. McCaffery lives in Toronto. ATMOSPHERE READING Poetry Reading Weds., Dec. 6, 4pm, CFA Screening Room A poetry reading from the Fall issue of Atmosphere, the UB Literature Society's journal of undergraduate writing. "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" is a Poetics Program production sponsored, in part, by the Melodia E. Jones Chair in French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (Raymond Federman); the James H. McNulty Chair, Department of English (Dennis Tedlock); the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, Department of English (Charles Bernstein), in cooperation with the Center for the Arts. The Silverman Reading is sponsored by the Oscar Silverman Fund; the Committee for Poetry Reading is sponsored by the Abbott Fund. This series is made possible, in part, by Poets & Writers, Inc., through a major grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund and a grant from the Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Design by Susan Bee. Coordinated by Charles Bernstein. 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