poet Nathaniel Tarn

poet/artist Janet Rodney

Dinnerware Gallery

210 N. Fourth Avenue

Admission $5; students $3

and

a discussion with Nathaniel Tarn

Sunday, March 7, 2pm

at Dinnerware

Nathaniel Tarn writes: “One subject I am always interested in is the question of simplicity/complexity in poetry and the sociological factors involved in creating each. I am genuinely interested in peoples' ideas about this so that an interactive seminar would be best for me.” You might want to look at Tarn’s essay “Regarding the Issue of ‘New Forms’” before the discussion. [this temporary link has been removed; please email pog@gopog.org for further information]

(Admission: $5; students $3)

Nathaniel Tarn: As poet, essayist, translator, and editor, Nathaniel Tarn has published some twenty-five books, among them The Beautiful Contradictions, Lyrics for the Bride of God, a Selected Poems: 1950-2000 published just over a year ago by Wesleyan, a celebrated translation of Pablo Neruda's The Heights of Macchu Picchu, and an anthology of his collected essays in literary and cultural criticism, Views from the Weaving Mountain. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the Guinness prize, the Wenner Gren fellowship, a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Fellowship, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship.

Janet Rodney: poet, prose writer and visual artist Janet Rodney is the author of Orphydice, Atitlan / Alashka (with Nathaniel Tarn), and the meditative memoir The Book of Craving.  Rodney was raised in Europe, the United States, and Taiwan, then spent fifteen years in Spain as a journalist, editor, translator, and interpreter. She is a lay nun in the Zen Buddhist tradition and proprietor of Weaselsleeves, a fine letterpress studio.