Dear cris,

I was unaware of the Amber Sparks date, sorry. Did I miss it somehow on the list? Are there others I'm unaware of? That probably best leaves the week of Nov 5-8--but when will Writers Harvest be? Or last week of November., maybe 28 or 29  or first week of December 3-6?

Dear Jody. I really appreciate your offer. She would be driving herself and staying with family in Hamilton, so your logistics will be easier. When it's determined that she can come, I'll give you my copy of the book, and we can both get in touch with her, okay?

Thank you, both. God bless us everyone,

Tiny David

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Hi all,

Jody is happy to do anything necessary to host Lyn. We'll go ahead. We just need to find a date. We have Amber Sparks for September 27th and also Shane Book on September 12

rushing with a broken comp (that overheats and has a broken track pad . . o groan . hence my more than usually garbled emails).

But we do have a great program coming together now.

cris



On Aug 20, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Schloss, David Mr. wrote:

> Thank you, Cathy.
>
> Actually this request has just been conveyed to Margaret and Brian and Jody, I think, through CW listserv.
>
> With opt out option method: I shall go ahead and invite Lynn Watson IF no one objects, this week. Ok, cris? I imagine it's ok with Keith.
>
> David
>
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> From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Cathy Wagner [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 4:11 PM
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>
> Hi David, it looks to me as if in Eric's absence there's a
> decision-making vacuum on the fiction side. I advise this: write cris
> and ask him to write in his director capacity to Margaret and Brian
> and Jody saying he plans to invite Lynn unless they have other plans
> for the dates you suggest. If they say no, ok, and if they say
> nothing, set it up.Not sure you'll get anywhere otherwise... Good
> luck!
>
> On Aug 20, 2012, at 3:38 PM, "Schloss, David Mr." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Good news, Keith, about reviews. Thanks.
>>
>> N.B., In light of this schedule, I'd add that Lynn Watson, MU Novella Contest First Runner Up in 2010 for A River So Long (Luminis Books 2012), has asked to read sometime, for free (I'd consider $150-200) no food, gas or lodging added. The fiction staff never gave a definite opinion to my requests about this.., September seems clear and there's only one other fiction reading this fall.
>>
>> FYI: UC readings this fall: All at 4 on Fridays in Elliston Room, UC Langsom Library, I believe. There may be other (fiction) writers added: these are all poets.
>>
>> Sept 7:  Jedediah Berry/ Jennifer Clarvoe
>> Sept 26: James Longenbach (poet, critic)
>> Nov 2:  Judson Johnson / Jennifer Habel
>> Nov 30: Tracy K. Smith (prize-winner)
>>
>> I have been advised NOT to participate in such things as retreats, so hope to see you all at some less "official" departmental events.
>>
>> David
>> ________________________________________
>> From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tuma, Keith W. [[log in to unmask]]
>> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2012 1:25 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: a little background on our readers .
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>> I might add (as a way of building audience) that Peter Manson's Mallarmé translation is the first Miami University Press publication to be reviewed in a national newspaper: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/15/stephane-mallarme-poems-in-verse-review
>>
>> If all goes well (cross fingers), it might also soon be the first MUP publication to be reviewed in  The Financial Times and the London Review of Books.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> From: "Cheek, Christopher F. Dr." <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> Reply-To: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 11:49:57 -0400
>> To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
>> Subject: a little background on our readers .
>>
>> we aer still trying to finalize Shane Book . .
>>
>> meanwhile for your syylabi or class announcements . . .
>>
>> ___________________
>>
>>
>>
>> August 29th Rob Halpern.
>>
>> Rob Halpern is the author of two books of poems, Rumored Place <http://www.krupskayabooks.com/halpern.htm> (Krupskaya 2004), which was nominated for a California Book Award, and Disaster Suites<http://www.palmpress.org/disastersuites.html>(Palm Press 2009), as well as several chapbooks, including Weak Link (Slack Buddha 2009) and Imaginary Politics (TapRoot Editions 2008). His new project, Music for Porn, is forthcoming next year (Nightboat Books). With Taylor Brady, he also co-authored the book length poem Snow Sensitive Skin<http://www.atticusfinch.org/brady-halpern.htm>(Atticus/Finch 2007), soon to be reissued by Displaced Press in an expanded edition.
>> In his poetry, Halpern's writing activates a lyric voice shot-through with linguistic debris and media fallout. In the confusion of our current geo-political conflicts, his poems make the fatal abstractions of crisis audible—finance, militarization, war—by implicating the lyric voice in the materialization of those abstractions. The short lyric poems that compriseDisaster Suites, for example, formally register the rhythms and affects of everyday life—longing and rage, lust and disgust—as they collide with the representations of many devastating events, from Hurricane Katrina to the war in Iraq.
>>
>> In addition to writing poetry, Halpern is an essayist and a translator, as well as a scholar of modern culture and contemporary writing. His essay on Baudelaire's prose poems recently appeared in Modernist Cultures<http://www.js-modcult.bham.ac.uk/currentissue.asp>. A new essay entitled “Realism and Utopia: Writing, Sex, and Politics in New Narrative” will appear in Journal of Narrative Theory. Currently, he’s co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer, together with Kathleen Fraser, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the second of which, “Commitment or the Crisis of Language,” can be found in the Review of Contemporary Fiction<http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/book/?GCOI=15647100467800> with an essay of his own on Perec.
>>
>> His poetry and narratives also appear in a range of reviews, anthologies, zines, and journals. Most recently these include: The Poetic Front<http://journals.sfu.ca/poeticfront/index.php/pf>, The Swan’s Rag, Chicago Review, Bay Poetics, James White Review, Galatea Resurrects,Abraham Lincoln, P-Queue, Gam, Submodern Fiction, EOAGH, War and Peace, Switchback, Crayon, /nor, Vanitas, Little Red Leaves, West Wind Review, Aufgabe, Wheelhouse, Try!, and New American Writing. His essays can be found in Biting the Error: Writers Explore Narrative (Coach House Books), No Gender: The Work of kari edwards<http://www.belladonnaseries.org/books.html>(Belladonna / Litmus Press, 2009), ON: Contemporary Practice<http://www.oncontemporaries.org/1/index.htm>, andJacket Magazine<http://jacketmagazine.com/39/perelman-halpern.shtml>. Audio files of Halpern’s readings and talks are archived at PennSound<http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Halpern.php>.
>>
>> Halpern received his Ph.D. in Literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2006), where he wrote a dissertation on the prehistory of literary modernism in nineteenth-century France. He’s held faculty positions at Bard College, San Francisco Art Institute, and San Francisco University. He's also an active participant in the Nonsite Collective<http://nonsitecollective.org/info>, whose commitment to self-organized pedagogy and collaboration across disciplines models some of the outreach and community work we seek to initiate in our program.
>>
>>
>> October 8-9th Tricole tri-lingual translation event with:
>>
>> Peter Manson is a pre-eminent Scottish poet whose Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé was published bby Miami Univeristy Press in March this year. An announcement on the Poetry Foundation’s esteemed Harriet blog opined:
>>
>> Thrilling news: Scottish poet Peter Manson’s English translations of Poésies of Stéphane Mallarmé are at last available from Miami University Press. We pointed to a few of the translations months ago, remarking that Manson had been working on the “posthumously published (1899) Poésies for over ten years.” As Jerome Rothenberg wrote at the time: “In his current Mallarmé project, [Manson] restores a sense of poetic power and dis-ease often missing in other works of translation—a reminder too of Mallarmé’s central place among the poètes maudits of the later nineteenth century.”
>>
>> Long overshadowed by Mallarmé’s theoretical writings and by his legendary visual poem “Un coup de Dés jamais n’abolira le Hasard,” the Poésies are lyrics of a uniquely prescient and generative modernity. Grounded in a scrupulous sounding of the complex ambiguities of the original poems, Manson’s English translations draw on the resources of the most innovative poetries of our own time — these may be the first translations really to trust the English language to bear the full weight of Mallarméan complexity. With The Poems in Verse, Mallarmé’s voice is at last brought back, with all its incisive strangeness, into the conversation it started a hundred and fifty years ago, called contemporary poetry.
>>
>> Matvei Yankelevich‘s translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies, including OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern) and Night Wraps the Sky: Writings by and about Mayakovsky (FSG).  His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook) and received praise from the TLS, the Guardian, the New York Times, and elsewhere. He edited a portfolio of Contemporary Russian Poetry and Poetics for the magazine Aufgabe (No. 8, Fall 2009) and has written essays on Russian-American poetry for Octopus magazine online. He teaches at Hunter College, Columbia University School of the Arts (Writing Division), and the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. At Ugly Duckling Presse, he designs and/or edits many and various books, is the editor of the Eastern European Poets Series, and a co-editor of 6×6. He lives in Brooklyn.
>>
>> Jennifer Scappettone’s is an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. Her research and teaching interests span the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on comparative global modernism; the history and presence of the avant-garde; poetry and poetics; the evolution of cities, geographies of modernity; literatures of travel, migration, and displacement; barbarism, polylingualism, and other futures of language in global contexts; translation; Italian culture and its echo in others; gender studies and feminist praxis; relations between literary and other arts; and art history, visual culture, and aesthetics. Uniting these inquiries is a desire to limn the effects of perceived alterations in the coordinates of space, time, and attention and of ruptures of historical identity—whether sought out or imposed—on Anglo-American and European languages and literary genres. She was the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Rome Prize Fellow in Modern Italian Studies for 2010-11, working for the year at the American Academy in Rome.
>>
>> Her published translation work includes:
>> Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli, editor and translator (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
>> Guest editor, Aufgabe 7, featuring work by 13 contemporary Italian poets and several critical pieces (2008)
>>
>> October 18th. Chrsitopher Nealon.
>>
>>
>> Christopher Nealon teaches American literature, aesthetic theory (especially the history and theory of poetry), and the history of sexuality. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1997, and taught at UC Berkeley from 1996 to 2008.
>>
>> He is the author of Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Historical Emotion before Stonewall (Duke, 2001), and The Matter of Capital: Poetry and Crisis in The American Century (Harvard, 2011), as well as two books of poems, The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions, 2004) and Plummet (Edge Books, 2009).
>>
>> October 25th. Ismet Prcic.
>>
>> “Ismet Prcic has taken apart the complexities of war, love, family, and home and scattered them across a novel that is as heartbreaking as it is beautiful. SHARDS is an original work of art, brutal and honest, and absolutely unforgettable.”
>> -- Dinaw Mengestu, author of How to Read the Air
>>
>> Ismet Prcic’s debut novel, SHARDS, is a harrowing war story, a stunningly inventive coming-of-age tale, and a heartbreaking saga of a splintered family.
>>
>> In SHARDS, a young Bosnian, also named Ismet Prcic, has fled his war-torn homeland and is now struggling to reconcile his past with his present life in California. He is advised that in order to move forward, he must write everything down. The result is a great rattlebag of memories, confessions, and fictions: sweetly humorous recollections of Ismet’s childhood in Tuzla appear alongside anguished letters to his mother about the challenges of life in this new world. As Ismet’s foothold in the present falls away, his writings are further complicated by stories from the point of view of another young man—real or imagined—named Mustafa, who joined a troop of elite soldiers and stayed in Bosnia. When Mustafa’s story begins to overshadow Ismet’s new-world identity, the reader is charged with piecing together the fragments of a life that has become eerily unrecognizable, even to the one living it.
>>
>> SHARDS grew out of Ismet Prcic’s own experience of leaving his family behind in war-torn Bosnia. Just as Prcic was about to be drafted into the Bosnian army, his theater troupe was invited to perform at the Fringe Festival in Scotland. While in Scotland, he and a few other members of the troupe simply “disappeared.” Prcic ended up in Croatia, where he eventually secured papers to come to the United States as a refugee. He found his way to Los Angeles, where he stayed with an uncle until going off on his own, enrolling in junior college and eventually earning degrees at UC San Diego and UC Irvine. He currently lives in Portland, Oregon.
>>
>> November 13th. Susana Gardner.
>>
>> Susana Gardner is the author of the full-length poetry collections HERSO (Black Radish Books, 2011) and [ LAPSED INSEL WEARY ] (The Tangent Press, 2008). She has published several chapbooks, including Hyper-Phantasie Constructs (Dusie Kollektiv, 2010) and Herso (University of Theory and Memorabilia Press, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in many online and print publications including Jacket, How2, Puerto Del Sol, and Cambridge Literary Review among others. Her work has also been featured in several anthologies, including 131.839 slög með bilum(131,839 keystrokes with spaces) (Ntamo, Finland, 2007) and NOT FOR MOTHERS ONLY: CONTEMPORARY POEMS ON CHILD-GETTING AND CHILD-REARING (Fence Books, United States, 2007). She lives in Zürich, Switzerland, where she also edits and curates the online poetics journal and experimental kollektiv press Dusie.