Phenomenal Reading

On Its Way!

bmreed — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 19:12:57 +0000

Cornell University Press has begun promoting my forthcoming book Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. It should be out in August 2013!

Pop Life

bmreed — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:19:03 +0000

On Saturday 16 February I’m giving a paper titled “Bad Movies and Conceptual Poetry: Beyond the High/Low Divide.” It’s at 1:15pm, and it’s part of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Assocation annual conference in Albuquerque. Come hear me talk about such films as Kung Fu Panda, Alien vs. Predator, and Purple Rain!

By the Seashore

bmreed — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:10:01 +0000

It’s late notice, but if anybody’s in the neighborhood, I’m giving a paper titled “Now That’s Poetry: The Case of Vito Acconci’s ‘MOVE, REMOVAL (LINE OF EVIDENCE)’” today, 12 February 2013, at the University of California San Diego in the Michel de Certeau Room of the Literature building at 4:00 p.m. It’s part of a cool event called “Canonical Forms in Evolution” co-sponsored by the Music, Visual Arts, Chinese Studies, and Literature Departments at UCSD. My particular panel is called “Off Center” and it includes Jessica Pressman and Bob Perelman.

Seeing with the Mind’s Eye

bmreed — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 19:55:15 +0000

On November 3rd, the exhibition Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and it will be running through 3 February 2013. I have an essay in the book that accompanies the show; so do Roberta Bernstein (!) and John Yau (!!). I talk specifically about Johns’s paintings Land’s End and Periscope (Hart Crane).

Learning from Las Vegas

bmreed — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:54:22 +0000

I’m going to be attending this year’s Modernist Studies Association annual conference, which is in Las Vegas. The conference hotel is the Flamingo. And yes I will attend panels. Well, at least my own. If you’re in town & interested, I’ll be giving a paper titled “‘Some Old Dream of Kingship’: Christopher Brennan’s ‘The Wanderer’” (Aussie modernism ftw!) as part of the “Moving Spectacles: Modernism and Place” panel, 1:30-3:00 Saturday 20 October, in Red Rock V.

The Wildcard Bard

bmreed — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:13:08 +0000

Tonight (October 5th) at Hugo House on CapHill in Seattle I’m reading along with Kasey Mohammad and Heather McHugh as part of a benefit/silent auction to raise money for Caregifted. Should be a fun evening — come if you can! I’ll be doing several “covers,” including Dada sound poetry, as well as a few translations, including Jan Andrzej Morsztyn’s totally Goth-Baroque “Do trupa” (“To a Corpse”).

Speaking Soon in Germany

bmreed — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:59:58 +0000

I’m looking forward to the conference “Memory, the United States, and Transnational Poetics” (29-30 June 2012) at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. I’ll be giving the first keynote address, bright and early at 9:30am, titled “Personalizing the Alphabet: The New York School and the New Australian Poetry.” There will be twenty five other people giving papers, including Michael Golston, Heinz Ickstadt, Sabine Sielke, Kornelia Freitag, and one of my own students, Nadine Maestas.

Fall Convergence on Poetics

bmreed — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 23:52:04 +0000

At the end of September the brand new UW Bothell MFA Program in Creative Writing and Poetics will be hosting a conference that they’re calling the Fall Convergence. Looks like it’s going to be an amazing event. I’m going to be on a panel with Charles Altieri and Lyn Hejinian, woot!

Now on Amazon Too . . .

bmreed — Fri, 11 May 2012 23:03:30 +0000

You can now order my new book, Phenomenal Reading: Essays in Modern and Contemporary Poetics, from Amazon.com as well as directly from the University of Alabama Press.

See Me on Streaming Video

bmreed — Fri, 11 May 2012 22:59:36 +0000

Over at PennSound you can now watch my talk as part of the keynote panel at the April 2012 Univ. of Pennsylvania / Kelly Writers House conference “Poetry Communities and Individual Talent.” (Maria Damon, Craig Dworkin, and Steven Yao are also participants.) My part begins around 46:00 minutes into the panel, and I call my presentation “Preparing to Write about the International Reception of the New York School.”