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poets

Michael Kelleher

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Tyrone Williams

Sunday afternoon

September 23 at 3 pm
 

Stone Ave. Gallery

2007 N. Stone Avenue. 
Admission $5; Students $3

Tyrone Williams is a poet, critic and professor.  Nathaniel Tarn describes his latest book of poetry, C.C. as an “uncommon rapture, a burning repetition of home truths, in resolutely future tense.” Williams is also the author of Convalescence, AAB, Futures, Elections, and Musique Noir.  Two new books, On Spec and The Hero Project of the Century are forthcoming.   He’s presently working on another book-length project for Atelos Press.  His poetry has been anthologized and published in many magazines. He has lectured and published critical essays and reviews on a wide range of subjects from poetics to hip hop to Black history to civil rights to globalization. Williams teaches literature and theory at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
 

Michael Kelleher is the author of two collections of poems, Human Scale (BlazeVOX Books, 2007) and To Be Sung (BlazeVOX Books, 2005). His poems and essays have appeared in Jacket, The Poetry Foundation Website, ecopoetics, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, The Buffalo News, Slope, and other venues, and he has read his work in the U.S. and Canada, and as part of the Encuentro del Poesia Del Lenguaje in Havana, Cuba in 2001. With Ammiel Alcalay, he edits the "OlsonNow"  blog, which is dedicated to the poetry and poetics of Charles Olson. He lives in Buffalo, NY, where he works as the Artistic Director of Just Buffalo Literary Center and as the editor of "In The Margins,"  the literary section of artvoice, Buffalo's alternative weekly.

from I Am Not Proud To Be Black by Tyrone Williams
 
“I wipe the spit from my face and read on.”
We want more than this attenuation,
singularity, launch windows
so narrow, so fleeting, so hard to reach in time.
We need more than just a book called How
but the book is everywhere we turn:
blue and his shopping cart of blueprints,
Trueblood in stitches—a howler—or a howl.

NUMBER CRUNCH by Michael Kelleher
 
Before the storm and after still
There was the war, the endless war,
And from my morning chair
I’d daily read the numbers of the dead
From my laptop computer
Connected wirelessly to the Worldwide Web
Where one could see the numbers unadorned
By ideology of any kind,
Numbers totaled at the bottom of the page
One upon another
In convenient columns measuring
The average number of deaths per day,
And I’d become accustomed to
Comparing totals of the dead in other wars
To totals of the dead in this one
And then comparing those
To totals of the dead from various
Natural and/or man-made disasters
Occurring at intervals throughout the year,
And finding in the absence of opinion
These numbers meant nothing,
Either in themselves or in relation to
One another, except
Insofar as they brought home
The ineluctable fact of death, repeated
Over and over, in case one should forget,
Which I rarely did, except to say
I wished the fucking war would end
So I could count on something else.

 

and coming up

October 27
David Gitin and Frank Parker
 
November 17
Maureen Owen and Tenney Nathanson
 
February 2  Pierre Joris and Cynthia Miller

(co-sponsored by Chax Press)
 
February 16 Rodrigo Toscano and TC Tolbert

March 15
Beverly Dahlen and Charles Alexander
 
April 12
Lewis Warsh and Laynie Browne
 
May 3
Leslie Scalapino and Matt Rotando
 
 

and:
 
November 2-5 2008
Norman Fischer (poetry reading, talk, meditation workshop)

        

 

POG events are sponsored in part by grants from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, Chax Press, and The University of Arizona Department of English. 

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