Tuesday 23 February 2021, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Free
On February 23 1821, a young English poet died of TB in Rome. Uncelebrated by the literary establishment during his lifetime, John Keats is today one of English literature’s most beloved figures, famed for the beauty of his poems, his lively, philosophical correspondence and the ineffable poignancy of his short life.
Two hundred years to the day after Keats’ death, The Poetry Society welcomes a circle of poets and Keats scholars to reflect on his enduring place in our literary imaginations in an evening of poetry, thought and discussion.
L-R: Ruth Padel, Nicholas Roe, Will Harris, Lucasta Miller, Sarah Wootton, Richard Marggraf Turley, Rachael Boast, Laila Sumpton
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John Coltrane (1926-1967) pictured in Germany in 1963; photo taken by Hugo van Gelderen; (public domain) (left); Michael S. Harper (1938-2016) photo courtesy of Rachel Harper (right)
“Trane was searching for a particular tone on his horn; he had what he thought was a perfect embouchure, but his teeth hurt constantly, so he searched for the soft reed which would ease the pain,” writes American poet, Michael S. Harper, in the essay entitled, ‘Don’t They Speak Jazz’. Continuing on about the iconic ‘modern’ jazz musician, John ‘Trane’ Coltrane, Harper writes: “After searching for a year, each session killing his chops, he gave it up completely; there was no easy wa
BARRY, CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? You and I have been friends for almost forty years now.
We’ve donned hip waders and walked together in the whitewater of your beloved McKenzie River. We’ve walked the woods and hills of the Goldstream Valley. One snowy afternoon, in the crepuscular winter light, as we hiked up the mountain above Cynthia’s and my house, you told me at length about your idea for a sprawling book that would somehow encompass the whole earth with the same intensity and specificity as
Arctic Dreams. A few years later, while you were working on that book,
December 23, 2020
Wesleyan University Press authors Hafizah Geter, Rae Armantrout, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers were recently longlisted for awards from PEN America.
Un-American, published by Wesleyan University Press, is longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award.
Hafizah Geter’s debut poetry collection,
Un-American, is longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award. The PEN Open Book Award honors a work of fiction, literary nonfiction, biography/memoir, or poetry written by an author of color. The award was created by PEN America’s Open Book Committee, a group committed to racial and ethnic diversity within the literary and publishing communities.
Geter’s collection moves readers through the fraught internal and external landscapes linguistic, cultural, racial, familial of those whose lives are shaped and transformed by immigration. The daughter of a Nigerian Muslim woman and a former Southern Baptist Black man, Geter charts the history of a Black family of mixed citizenships thro
BERKELEY, Calif. – At its annual convention in early November, the American Musicological Society awarded the prestigious Lewis Lockwood Award to Dr. Maria Sonevytsky for her book “Wild Music: Sound and Sovereignty in Ukraine,” published in October 2019 by Wesleyan University Press as part of its Music/Culture series.
Dr. Maria Sonevytsky
The Lockwood Award “honors each year a musicological book of exceptional merit published during the previous year in any language and in any country by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career who is a member of the AMS or a citizen or permanent resident of Canada or the United States.” Dr. Sonevytsky is currently an assistant professor of music (ethnomusicology) at the University of California, Berkeley.