SPRING POETRY AND PROSE JANUARY 25 - APRIL 26, 1995 AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, BUFFALO (AMHERST CAMPUS) JORIE GRAHAM Poetry Reading Weds., Jan. 25, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Graham's books include Erosion, The End of Beauty, Region of Unlikeness, and, most recently, Materialism. A recent recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, Graham teaches at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. CHRIS MARKER FILMS Film Screening Weds., Feb. 1, 4-6pm, CFA Screening Rm We will be screening three of the independent French filmmaker's most important films -- The Train Rolls On (1971, 32 min.), a documentary-portrait of Alexander Medvedkin; La Jetee (1962, 28 min.), neo-science fiction, set in a ruined France after World War III; and Letter from Siberia (1958, 62 min.), an early documentary. In French with English subtitles. WELCH EVERMAN MAUREEN OWEN Poetry and Prose Reading Weds., Feb. 8, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Everman's novels include The Harry and Sylvia Stories and, forthcoming, The Adventure and Other Harry and Sylvia Stories, both from Sun & Moon. A 1988 Ph.D. from UB, Everman teaches at the University of Maine, Orono. Owen is author of eight books of poetry, including Untapped Maps, Imaginary Income and Amelia Earhart. Editor of Telephone magazine and books, and former coordinator of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, she lives in Connecticut. PETER NICHOLLS Lecture "Narrative Returns: Aspects of Contemporary Poetics" Tuesday, Feb. 14, 3:30PM, 436 Clemens Hall Peter Nicholls is author of Modernisms: A Literary Guide, out this spring from University of California Press; and Ezra Pound: Politics, Enconomics, and Writing. He is Reader in English and American Literature at the University of Sussex (UK). RAE ARMANTROUT DOUGLAS MESSERLI Poetry Reading Weds., Feb. 15, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Lecture by Douglas Messerli "Poetry/Prose: What's the Difference" Thurs. Feb. 16, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Armantrout's books include Precedence, Necromance and just out, Made to Seem. She teaches at UCSD. Messerli's books include Along Without and, in press, The Walls Come True. He is publisher of Sun & Moon Books. FANNY HOWE MARLENE NOURBESE PHILIP Poetry and Prose Reading Weds., Feb. 22, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Lecture by Marlene Nourbese Philip "Ignoring Poetry" Weds. Feb. 22, 12pm, 438 Clemens Hall Howe is a novelist and poet whose works since 1986 include Saving History, The End, The Quietist, Famous Questions, The Vineyard, The Deep North and The Lives of the Spirits. She is a professor at UCSD. Philip is a poet, novelist, and lawyer who lives in Toronto. She is author of She Tries Her Tongue, poems, and Frontiers: Essays and Writings in Racism and Culture. LAURA MORIARITY CHARLES ALEXANDER Poetry Reading Weds., March 1, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Talk by Charles Alexander "Words, Space, Design, Context, Meaning" Thurs., March 2, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Moriarity is the author of L'Archiviste, Like Roads, and Rondeaux. She directs the American Poetry Archive at San Francisco State. Alexander's books of poetry include Hopeful Buildings and arc of light/dark matter. A book artist, he is director of the Minnesota Center for Book Arts and publisher of Chax press. RIC CADDEL PETER MIDDLETON Reading by Two British Poets Weds., March 8, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Lecture by Ric Caddel "Basil Bunting" Tuesday, March 7, 4pm, 438 Clemens Hall Lecture by Peter Middleton "Why So Much Talk in Contemporary Novels?" Thurs., March 9, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall Caddel's collections of poetry include Ground, Against Numerology, and Uncertain Time. Editor of the forthcoming Complete Poems of Basil Bunting, Caddell is Director of the Bunting Centre at Durham University. Middleton is a poet and critic, who teaches at the University of Southampton, England. His most recent book is The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture (Routledge). JOSE KOZER McNulty Chair Perspectives on Translation #5 Lecture (in English) "Poetry: A Figure in Rags" Tuesday, March 21, 4pm, 930 Clemens Hall Bilingual Poetry Reading (tr. by Jorge Guitart) Weds., March 22, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm One of the Spanish-speaking world's most original and prolific poets, Kozer was born in Havana and lives in New York City, where he teaches at Queen's College. CONVERGENCE OF SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES Internet Technologies And Scholarly Resources Conference Fri., March 24, 9am-4pm, at The University Inn, 2401 N. Forest Rd, Amherst Focussing on the Net's impact on scholarly and scientific research and writing, the conference includes Mosaic, Electronic Poetry Center, Internet radio, and other demonstrations as well as a RIF/T Poetry reading. More info: 645-2946 or lolpoet@acsu.buffalo.edu. CHRISTIAN PRIGENT Bilingual Poetry and Prose Reading Weds., March 29, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Lecture "What Use Poetry?" Thurs., April 20, 12:30pm, 438 Clemens Hall French poet, novelist, and critic, Prigent is also editor of TXT. He is a visiting professor of French at UB from 3/20 to 4/23. MARJORIE PERLOFF Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture "Witt -- Watt: The Language of Resistance / The Resistance of Language" Weds., April 5, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm One of the most influential critics of twentieth-century European and American poetry, Perloff's books include The Futurist Moment, The Poetics of Indeterminancy, The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell, and most recently Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media. President of the American Comparative Literature Association, she is Patek Professor of Humanities at Stanford. LYDIA DAVIS Prose Reading Weds., April 12, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Davis's new novel The End of the Story is just out from Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, which has also published a collection of her prose works, Break It Down. Davis is also the acclaimed translator of Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and other French writers. She teaches in the M.F.A. program at Bard. MICHAEL ONDAATJE Prose Reading Weds., April 19, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm Michael Ondaatje is a celbrated novelist and poet who lives in Toronto. His most recent novel, The English Patient, won the Booker Prize. His other books include in The Skin of the Lion, Coming through Slaughter and the Collected works of Billy the Kid; three collections of poems, The Cinnamon peeler, Secular Love and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. STEVE LACY & IRENE AEBI Concert Weds., April 19, 8pm, Calumet Arts Club, 54 W. Chippewa, Buffalo Lacy is widely recognized as the finest soprano saxophonist in jazz. He is also the most prolific songwriter in all of jazz, having collaborated with a great number of poets to make an impressive collection of jazz art songs. Aebi, vocalist, is well known for her work with Lacy and his group. ATMOSPHERE READING Friday, April 21, 4pm, CFA Screening Room A poetry reading from the Spring issue of Atmosphere, the UB Literature Society's journal of undergraduate writing. PAUL AUSTER Prose Reading Weds., April 26, 4pm, CFA Screening Rm One of the most celebrated American novelists of the time, Auster's newest book is Mr. Vertigo, from Viking-Penguin. His other book books include Leviathan, The Music of Chance (directed on film by Philip Haas), Moon Palace, In the Country of Last Things, City of Glass, as well as a memoir, The Invention of Solitude. A noted translator, Auster edited The Random House Dictionary of Twentieth Century Poetry. All events are free and open to the public. Note our move to the Center for the Arts (CFA). "Wednesdays at 4 PLUS" is a Poetics Program production sponsored, in part, by the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities (Robert Creeley); the James H. McNulty Chair, Department of English (Dennis Tedlock); the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, Department of English (Charles Bernstein); the Melodia E. Jones Chair in French, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures (Raymond Federman), and by The Poetry/Rare Book Collection (Robert Bertholf); and curated in association with Professor Susan Howe (Department of English). The Poetics Program Fellowships are co-sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Letters and the Provost. 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. For further information call (716) 645-3810 or contact us at dunlap@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu.