A Reading to Celebrate the Writings of UK poet Tom Raworth
Fri Apr 06, 2018
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wheeler Hall
Writer, artist, teacher, and publisher Tom Raworth was born in South London. He attended the University of Essex; in 1970, he earned an MA in the theory and practice of literary translation. As founder of Matrix Press and cofounder of Goliard Press, Raworth was instrumental in bringing an entire tradition of American poetry to English readers. Promoting the work of a number of poets associated with the Black Mountain School, including Edward Dorn, Robert Creeley, and Charles Olson, Raworth also published the poetry of Elaine Feinstein, Aram Saroyan, Anselm Hollo, and Zoltan Farkas.
Raworths own work has also been identified with the Black Mountain School. He has written over 40 collections of poetry, among them The Relation Ship (1969), winner of the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, and more recently Eternal Sections (1993), Tottering State: Selected Poems 19651983 (1984), the 500-plus page Collected Poems (2003), Writing: Poems 19802003 (2005), and Windmills in Flames: Old and New Poems (2010). John Olson has noted that in Raworths work words and lines are highly compressed: one perception immediately and directly slides to a further perception, and these perceptions accrue, multiply, ricochet and expand into a domain of accelerated cognition protean and variable as cumulonimbus, or gouache.
Raworths awards included the Cholmondeley Award, the Philip Whalen Memorial Award, and, in Italy, the Antonio Delfini Prize for Lifetime Achievement. He taught as a visiting lecturer at the University of Texas-Austin, the University of California-San Diego, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa; he also served as poet-in-residence at Kings College, Cambridge University. He lived in Brighton, England.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tom-raworth
The reading will feature:
Bruce Ackley (soprano saxophone)
Andy Berlin *
Alan Bernheimer
Miles Champion
Norma Cole
Clark Coolidge
Jean Day
Steve Dickison
Jennifer Dunbar Dorn *
Stephen Emerson
Rita degli Esposti *
Merrill Gilfillan *
Lyn Hejinian
Fanny Howe *
Alastair Johnston
Duncan McNaughton
Jim Nisbet
Armando Pajalich *
Gian Antonio Pozzi *
Kit Robinson
Claude Royet-Journoud*
David Southern *
Stephen Vincent
* Contributing via audio or pre-written text