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Women Poets at Barnard Fall 2004 Reading Series Opens October 5 with Ann Lauterbach and Christine Hume
Ann Lauterbach and Christine Hume |
New York, NY-- The fall Women Poets at Barnard series opens on Tuesday, Oct. 5 with Ann Lauterbach and Christine Hume, winner of the 1999 Barnard New Women Poets Prize. The reading will take place at 7 P.M. in Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd floor, Barnard Hall (West 117th Street and Broadway). The series is made possible by the Riggio Foundation. All readings are free and open to the public.
Ann Lauterbach is the David and Ruth Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College and co-directs the Writing Division of its M.F.A. Program. Lauterbach has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation. Her books include If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin, 2001) and Before Recollection (1987).
Christine Hume, winner of the 1999 Barnard New Women Poets Prize, is the author of the critically acclaimed Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004) and Musca Domestica (Beacon 2000). Hume has received grants from the Colorado Council on the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Fund for Poetry, and the Wurlitzer Foundation. She teaches at Eastern Michigan University.
The second reading of the season on Wednesday, Nov. 3 , will feature Tracie Morris, a multi-disciplinary poet who has worked in theater, dance, music and film, and Charles Bernstein, a faculty member of the Univesity of Pennsylvania who has written 22 books of poetry. The reading also will begin at 7 p.m. in the James Room, 4 th floor, Barnard Hall.
Morris, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, focuses on the intersection of written poetry, spoken word, and music. Her sound poetry was featured in the 2002 Whitney Biennial and she is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and the Creative Capital Fellowship. Her publications include Intermission and Chap-T-her Woman . "Poetry has infinite possibilities," says Morris. "I just want to present a few more."
Bernstein's books include the pamphlet World on Fire (2004), With Strings (2001), and Republics of Reality:1975-1995 (2000). "In sounding language," Bernstein has written about poetry readings, "we sound the width and breadth and depth of human consciousness ....We stutter tunes with no melodies, only words." He teaches English at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Contact: Petra Tuomi, ptuomi@barnard.edu or 212-854-7907
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