James Schuyler: A Morning For The Poet

Saturday, November 4^th, 9:00am – KJCC Center, NYU

Darragh Park, “Portrait of James Schuyler,” 1991, pencil on vellum, 12 x 9 inches. Private collection, courtesy of Raymond Foye.

When you read this poem you will have to decide

Which of the “yous” are “you.”

—The Morning of The Poem

Please join us for a morning of short talks to celebrate James Schuyler’s centenary. Talks will range across many different aspects of Schuyler’s life and writing, and speakers will include those who knew the poet alongside younger writers. Free entry, all welcome. More details to follow soon.

Register here (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/james-schuyler-a-morning-for-the-poet-tickets-717220986277?aff=oddtdtcreator).

This event is part of the three-day program Always More Roses: James Schuyler at 100. With special thanks to our co-organisers and co-presenters at Dia and to our sponsors: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Turtle Point Press, and the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium and Some Contemporary Poetries at NYU.

We also hope to see you at It Goes, It Goes: James Schuyler Centenary Celebration at Dia Chelsea and Hymn To Life at the Poetry Project.

Speakers:

Tom Carey — Introductions

Stephanie Burt — Did Schuyler Write Love Poems?

Rona Cran — “(the heart / thumps) in / disposable houses”: James Schuyler’s Contingent Homes

Jeff Dolven — Gentle Letdowns

Andrew Epstein — “Subtle and Suppressed”: James Schuyler’s Elegy for Frank O’Hara

Tonya Foster — Being, and Hymns to It

Peter Gizzi — James Schuyler: Anthropologist of His Nervous System

Kamran Javadizadeh — How Is a Poem Like a Phone Call: On James Schuyler and the Phatic Function

Nathan Kernan — Presenting Jane: The Summer of 1952

John Koethe — James Schuyler, Darragh Park and The Morning of the Poem

Simon Pettet — James Schuyler’s Art Writings: A Personal Recollection 

Emily Skillings — Giving Up the Poem: Teaching and Writing through Schuyler’s Digressions

Tracie Morris — James Schuyler writing: A paler blue

Joseph Valente: “Still Current After All These Years: Ulysses, #METOO, and the Trials of Leopold Bloom”

It is our pleasure to invite you to the first of the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium’s 2022 events at NYU–a lecture in celebration of the centenary of the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses by Professor Joseph Valente (University at Buffalo) entitled “Still Current After All These Years: Ulysses, #METOO, and the Trials of Leopold Bloom.”

The lecture will take place at NYU’s King Juan Carlos Center Auditorium next Wednesday 9 March at 5:00pm (EST), and will be broadcast simultaneously via Zoom: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98425720832.

We consider it a particular privilege to host Professor Valente, who is UB Distinguished Professor of English and Disability Studies at the University at Buffalo. The author and co-author of several books, including James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Negotiating Sexual and Colonial Difference, The Myth of Manliness in Irish Nationalist Culture, 1880–1922, and, most recently, The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable, Professor Valente is also the editor of an annotated edition of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and, with Marjorie Howes, of Yeats and Afterwords: Christ, Culture, and Crisis. He is currently at work on a monograph entitled Autism and Moral Authority in Modern Literature, as well as book-length studies on “Samuel Beckett and the Degeneration of Form” and another on the subject of “Irish Shame.” In addition, Professor Valente has published over 70 articles and book chapters and has remained at the cutting edge of Joyce scholarship since his work on the author first appeared. 

On the occasion of this, the centennial of Ulysses, we are especially eager to hear him speak in a contemporaneous key on Joyce, who has been as integral to Valente’s work as Valente’s work has been to Joyce Studies. It promises to be a fantastic talk, and we very much look forward to seeing you there!

Lecture: Black Graphics and The Subject of Ekphrasis

Join us for a conversation with Evie Shockley, award-winning poet and Professor of English at Rutgers University, as she shares with us part of her current project investigating the ways Black poets and visual artists negotiate cultural production in an era of colorblindness by creating work at the intersection of text and image.

Please register for this online event here.

Book launch: Claude McKay, Romance in Marseilles

On Friday February 21st at 3pm the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium will host the official launch of Claude McKay’s novel Romance in Marseilles. The event will take place in NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House at 1 Washington Mews, NY 10003.

The queerest and most cosmopolitan of McKay’s novels, written during his exile and abandoned during the Great Depression, the publication of Romance in Marseille is a cause for celebration!

We will celebrate the book’s release with readings and discussion from its editors, Gary Holcomb (Ohio U) and William J. Maxwell (Washington U St. Louis), and invited respondents Jesse McCarthy (Harvard) and Ernest J. Mitchell (Harvard).

If you have any questions about this event please email david.hobbs@nyu.edu.

Guest lecture: Jahan Ramazani (& respondents)

On Thursday November 7th at 7pm the Modern & Contemporary Colloquium, in collaboration with the Postcolonial, Race, and Diaspora Studies Colloquium, and Comparative Literature’s Poetics & Theory Program, will welcome Jahan Ramazani of the University of Virginia. Ramazani will deliver a talk from his next essay collection, which explores reading modern and contemporary poetry during the “transnational turn.” The talk will take place in Room 106 of 244 Greene St (Event Space, Department of English).

Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His previous books are Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2013); A Transnational Poetics (2009), winner of the 2011 Harry Levin Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association; The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001); Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (1990).

If you have any questions about this event please email david.hobbs@nyu.edu.

Guest lecture: Rachel Galvin

 

On Friday April 12th at 12pm the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium, in collaboration with the NYU Certificate Program in Poetics and Theory and the Cultures of War and Post-War Research Collaborative, will host Rachel Galvin of the University of Chicago. Her lecture will take place in Room 222 of 19 University Place, New York NY10003. The lecture will be entitled ‘Gertrude Stein, Pétain, and the Politics of Translation.’

If you have any questions about this event please email richard.porteous@nyu.edu.

Transnational Poetics: Aestheticism and Decadence at the Fin de Siècle

 

The Modern and Contemporary Colloquium is very pleased to announce its co-sponsorship of a one-day symposium, to be held at NYU Liberal Studies and Department of English on Monday May 14th, starting at 10am on the 6th floor of 726 Broadway (NY 10003), entitled ‘Transnational Poetics: Aestheticism and Decadence at the Fin de Siècle.’

Works-in-progress session: on conditions at the boundary

 

On Tuesday March 27th at 4pm the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium and Cordilleras will co-host an NYU graduate student works-in-progress session in Room 805 of 244 Greene St.. The work in this session meditates on conditions at the boundary: the liminal, the littoral, the coast; windows, passages and passing; the border, the nation, the human. The session will feature three panelists:

Kat Addis, “From ‘civill’ ‘Sapies’ to ‘negros of small price’: the Spaces of Enslavement in John Hawkins’ trans-Atlantic Voyages.”

Mercedes Trigos, “From the Border(lands): The Window in Nella Larsen’s Passing.”

Zane Koss, “Coastal Flows: Situating Vancouver Poetry in the Americas.”

Please join us! All are welcome, and wine will be provided. If you have any queries about this event please direct them to richard.porteous@nyu.edu.

Guest lecture: Rachel Blau DuPlessis

 

On Thursday March 22nd at 6.30pm the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium will host its first guest speaker of the Spring 2017 semester, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Professor Emerita at Temple University. The lecture will take place in the Event Space (Room 106) of 244 Greene St., New York NY 10003. The lecture will be entitled ‘Writing Over: Beginning Modernism All Over Again.’ We are very grateful to the NYU Cultures of War working group for co-sponsoring this event.

Professor Blau DuPlessis is both a poet and a critic. Her talk will discuss the challenges facing authors and interpreters of long poems in the aftermath of modernism, drawing on her background as a critic to highlight the problems she confronted in Drafts.

The talk will be followed by responses from the scholars Michael Golston (Columbia), Diana Hamilton (Baruch), Josh Schneiderman (CUNY), and Mark Scroggins (Florida AU).

Wine will be provided. If you would like a copy in advance of Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s ‘Draft 61,’ which responds explicitly to Ezra Pound’s Cantos, and/or a copy of two relevant short essays from her collection Blue Studios, please email richard.porteous@nyu.edu.

Guest lecture: Joshua Bennett

On Thursday October 5th at 6.30pm the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium, in collaboration with the Post-Colonial, Race & Diaspora Studies Colloquium, will host its first guest speaker of the Fall 2017 semester, Joshua Bennett of the Harvard Society of Fellows. The lecture will take place in Room 102 of 19 University Place, New York NY10003. The lecture will be entitled ‘Revising the Wasteland: black anti-pastoral and the end of the world.’

Dr. Bennett’s talk will explore the continuities in 19th and 21st century black poetics, paying special attention to the work of James Monroe Whitfield and Philip B. Williams. The talk will be followed by responses from scholars Kesi Augustine, Kate McIntyre, Sonya Posmentier, and Simone White. It is the first of two events co-hosted by MACC and PCRDC this autumn.

If you have any questions about this event please email david.hobbs@nyu.edu.