Welcome to the third and final episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.
Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.
Today's talk, entitled “The 'O' of Wonder: A Syzygy,” traces a history of wonder in the western poetic tradition from Homer to Milton to Ronald Johnson. It was recorded and presented in partnership with Counterpath at the University of Denver, September 18, 2015. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit the Bagley Wright Lecture Series website or click here.
Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here.
Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
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Welcome to the second episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.
Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.
Today, we’ll hear "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink," recorded at Seattle Arts and Lectures, December 1, 2015. This lecture examines the question of likeness in Emily Dickinson's similes and Gertrude Stein's portraits as a way of thinking about social identity and difference in modern American poetry. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit this page at BWLS website, here.
Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here.
Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive CC BY NC
Welcome to the first episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.
Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.
Today, we’ll hear a recording of “The Unsignificant,” given October 2, 2015 at New York University. This lecture considers W. H. Auden's poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” in relation to Peter Brueghel's painting “The Fall of Icarus,” and references a number of artworks. To view a gallery of these works, visit the Bagley Wright Lecture Series website or click here.
Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here.
Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
CC BY NC
Welcome to the fourth and final episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.
Today we'll hear “Is That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up?” given December 9, 2021, in partnership with Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom.
Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is outMay 7 from Wave Books, and is available here.
Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Portland Literary Arts for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the third episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.
Today we'll hear “Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip),” given June 24, 2021, in partnership with the Naropa University, via Zoom.
Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Naropa University for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the second episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege, and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.
Today we'll hear "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise,” given February 18, 2021, in partnership with the University of Buffalo, via Zoom.
Click here to view the Bruce Kurland paintings discussed in this talk.
Lisa Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the first episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast. Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.
Today we'll hear “White Whales, White Males, Whitehead,” given October 7, 2020, in partnership with The Poetry Project, via Zoom. There are two brief moments where the recording goes fuzzy. Transcriptions of those moments are below:
~40.18: "I was the perfect candidate to catalogue that collection."
~54:00 "'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound to nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.'" Lisa Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here. Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.
Today we'll hear "Poetry and Photography," given March 9, 2016, in partnership with Yale University. This talk includes many references to the aesthetics of photographers with whom Zucker identifies or does not identify. As accompaniment to this lecture, we offer the following list–by no means comprehensive–with links to some of these photographers' works.
book review of Robert Frank's The Americans, at Lens Culture
Henri Cartier-Bresson, at the International Center of Photography
Edward Weston, at Weston Gallery
Roger Fenton's Valley of the Shadow of Death at Public Domain Review
The Dead of Antietam, by Mathew Brady and associates
William Eggleston at Eggleston Art Foundation
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.
Today we'll hear “The Poetics of Motherhood,” given November 15, 2016, in partnership with UC Berkeley.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the third episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.
Today we'll hear “A Very Large Charge: The Ethics of 'Say Everything' Poetry,” given February 5, 2016, in partnership with New York University.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the second episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.
Today we'll hear “What We Talk About When We Talk About the Confessional, and What We SHOULD Be Talking About,” given January 28, 2016, in partnership with the University of Arizona Poetry Center.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the first episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.
Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.
Today we'll hear “The Poetics of Wrongness: an Unapologia,” given November 14, 2016, in partnership with Seattle Arts & Lectures. A quick note about this lecture–just prior to beginning, Zucker gives a nod the timing of writing this talk. She is speaking about having written it 16 months prior to the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, and to the fact that she is now giving this talk, about a week after his election.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings–for example, you can read a transcript of the Q&A that followed this lecture, here.
Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the fifth & final episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear “Read Red / Red Read: Putting Violence Down in Poetry,” a collaborative performance with Val-Inc, given in person at the Ace Hotel Brooklyn in partnership with BOMB magazine, November 9, 2021.
Douglas Kearney has long engaged the conflation of violence and entertainment in U.S.American culture, from badman folklore to postcards of lynchings. Still, there are questions that haunt. What are the ethics of representing violence? How might poetic aesthetications of brutality transform, reinscribe, or abet violence? Through a versioned series of essayistic vignettes presented in collaboration with SoundChemist, Val-Inc, Kearney entangles his encounters with violence as a reader, poet and performer.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is available here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven of the podcast includes lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear “You Better Hush: Blacktracking A Visual Poetics.” This talk was originally given March 31, 2021, at Seattle Arts & Lectures, via Zoom.
Aretha and the Iceman, J-Dilla, Susan Howe, and a bird that becomes a fish only to become a bird, flower, then a bird again meet up in this lecture about visuality/visibility (Evie Shockley) and the textual/textural. Poet Douglas Kearney will discuss what draws him to visual poetry, the disruptive pleasure of collage’s cut, recognition as a strategy that places reading in tension with looking, and the genealogy of a threat from a spiritual to 1990s gangsta rap.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming, and is available for purchase here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the third episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear "Red Read / Read Red: Depictions of Violence in Poetry." This talk was originally given March 24, 2021, at Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom.
Douglas Kearney has long written about the conflation of violence and entertainment in U.S. American culture, from badman folklore to postcards of lynchings. Still, there are questions that haunt. What are the ethics of representing violence? How might poetic aestheticizations of brutality transform, reinscribe, or abet violence? Through a series of vignettes in which Kearney entangles his encounters with violence as a reader and his own attempts to put it down on the page, the poet investigates what compels him about the subject.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming in November, and is available for preorder here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the second episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. Today we'll hear "#WERWOLFGOALS." This talk was originally given October 8, 2020, at Washington University in St. Louis, via Zoom.
Douglas Kearney discloses the nexus of lycanthropy, a poetics of prepositions, the catharsis hustle, and cinematic special effects in this lecture of private and public myths/truths.
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming in November, and is available for preorder here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Welcome to the first episode of Season Seven of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.
Season Seven is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Douglas Kearney during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer. We begin with Kearney’s talk, "I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading." This talk was originally given September 25, 2020, at Cave Canem, via Zoom.
While reading from early drafts of Patter, a collection about miscarriage, infertility, and making a Black family in the U.S., Douglas Kearney’s relationship to audiences at poetry gigs changed. Informed by stand-up, improvisational music, and artists from Nina Simone to the Black Took Collective, Kearney began engaging the time between poems—the banter—to activate the imaginative space of association, mess, and discomfort he pursues in his written work: live. This lecture will get into the tension between pain and its performance, comedians’ ideas of “killing” and dying,“ along with tips on how to sprint into a stone wall without getting hurt much.
There are two brief moments where the audio cuts out in this recording. At around nine minutes, Kearney says, "'Miscarriages' were the sum of the takeaway that I couldn’t, then shouldn’t, make anyone feel what I had felt. And why? I would love to say that it would be to avoid cruelty…”. At around fourteen minutes, after "Just pay me for writing the damn poem!" Kearney continues, "Banter is of unknown etymological origins...".
Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.
Douglas Kearney's book based on his BWLS lectures, Optic Subwoof (Wave Books, 2022) is forthcoming in November, and is available for preorder here.
Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions
from the Free Music Archive
Matthew Dickman’s lecture “Making The Black Dog Sit: A Look at Suicide Through Poetry” is a personal talk about Dickman’s experience with suicide and turning to poetry to better understand the act of suicide.
This talk was originally given June 29, 2016, at the Hugo House, Seattle, WA.
Judy Halebsky's "From Haiku to Collage" engages the teachings of Basho and how the aesthetic practice of haiku has shaped her work in lyric and free-verse poetry. You can read Halebsky’s accompanying notes for this talk here.
This talk was originally given February 28th, 2016, at the Hugo House in Seattle, WA.
Tyehimba Jess discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Olio (Wave Books, 2016). This talk was given March 4, 2018 in conjunction with Seattle Arts Lectures. Jess talks about the genesis and stories behind the poems in Olio, which revisits the biographies of African American creatives from the Civil War until WW1, including Scott Joplin, Blind Boone, Sissieretta Jones, Blind Tom, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Edmonia Lewis, Henry Box Brown, and others, and provides an opportunity to discuss history, form, geometry, resistance, and resilience via this incredibly multifaceted work. Anastacia-Reneé joins him in conversation for the Q&A.
