New Poems in Colorado Review

I am happy to be included in the current issue of Colorado Review! You can buy the journal here.

Reading with Poet James Richardson Wordsmiths Reading Series

   Friday, February 17, 2012

   7:30pm until 9:00pm

The Orangery @ Bucks County Community College

James Richardson is the author of six books of poetry and two books of criticism, including, most recently, By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms, which was a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award. Recipient of the 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Robert H. Winner, Cecil Hemley and Emily Dickinson Awards of the Poetry Society of America, Richardson has recent poems and aphorisms in Slate, The New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry Daily, and The Best American Poetry, among other anthologies. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Princeton University.

All readings are free and open to the public and sponsored by the college Cultural Affairs Committee and Department of Language and Literature.

For the complete Spring 2012 schedule, visit: www.bucks.edu/news/culture/wordsmiths/

Contact:
Chris Bursk
burskc@bucks.edu

Dave Venditto
venditto@bucks.edu

Book News

Happily, my first book of poems has been selected for publication in Parlor Press’ Free Verse Editions series (http://www.parlorpress.com/freeverse/index.html). Publication is scheduled to take place the Fall of 2012.

Ornamentation and Essence in Modernist Poetry

Read an abstract and order a copy of my dissertation on the poetry of H.D., Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein here.

Chapterhouse Reading with hassen and Adrianne Kalfopoulou

On April 23, 2011, I had the pleasure of reading with hassen and Adrianne Kalfopoulou as part of the Chapterhouse Reading Series in Philadelphia, curated by Ryan Eckes and Stan Mir. Thanks to all who came and listened! Find information on the series here. Read an interview with hassen here.

A Selection from "The frame of forever..."

On March 16, 2011 a series of my poems were performed in a composition entitled “The frame of forever….” The composer, Norman David, directed and played with his ensemble, The Eleventet, for the world premiere, which took place at Plays and Players Theater in Philadelphia. Recording information to follow.

Throwing out candles (little ones)

Throwing out candles

And wax into it

If you were here we’d throw a big one into that flame

Though it’s ironic, you’d say drink the alcohols

So I’d sit in your shadow or near to it

And drink the flame myself

In the flame or near to it

In the flame which is my wish

As a tree for thought and the readymade of it

The bargain comes next

However plump

                          (first published in MiPOesias: The David Trinidad Edition)

You lie in a told tree sure

And the books of elders beside it

You lie in a told tree sure

And the books of elders beside it

The books of elders in the told tree

And the books of elders beside it

Beside it the told tree

And the books of elders beside it

Beside it the books of elders

The told tree beside it

You lie in a told tree sure

And the books of elders beside it

Fall Poems

My poems on the Kelsey Street Press blog.