Hey guess what? the coolest show of the semester is happening this saturday on 12-05-09 with some undergraduate writers sharing their stuff, spreading the love, maybe getting into a poetry vs fiction fight or two. It’s going to be cool and fun listenin’.
More info to come on a) the Dec. 5 show, b) Purple Cow in spring10, c) decorating big spaces with (bad usually) poems.
love,
purplecow
Saturday’s Nov. 14 show featured Laura and Nathan reading some of their favorite short story writers. I suppose we were inspired by the fiction VOX reading with Andy Jameson, Patrick Denker, and John Dermot Woods this past week. Nathan starts us off with a Shirley Jackson classic “The Lottery,” then Laura reads a selection from Lydia Davis’s Collected Stories, and Nathan rounds us off with “Clay,” a James Joyce story from The Dubliners. We then finished the show by playing a recording of the interview Purple Cow had with visiting poet Ed Roberson. You can listen to that interview, here on our new Interviews page!
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On Nov. 7 Purple Cow featured the work of poet Ed Roberson in anticipation of his upcoming reading here at UGA, today at 4:30pm in the Park Hall Library room 261.
Voiced by UGA graduate and undergraduate students: Sarah Dutcher, Khaled Khlifi, Christopher Nelms, Caleb Beckwith, and Purple Cow hosts Claire, Laura, and Nathan, Roberson’s poems were accompanied by some tracks off Sonny Sharrock’s album “Black Woman,” Sir Richard Bishop’s album “Polytheistic Fragments,” John Fahey’s “Yellow Princess.” Rounding out the show were two poems by Nathaniel Mackey set music by Don Cherry from his album “Mu.” Thanks to all of our readers who brought these Roberson’s poems to life, and to our listeners, we bring you a recording of Saturday’s show:
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Here’s some more info stolen off the English Dept.’s homepage about the upcoming reading by Ed Roberson: Thursday , November 12 at 4:30PM
“Poet Ed Roberson will read from his work at 4:30 p.m. in the Park Hall Library, Room 261. Born in 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Roberson has published eight volumes of poetry, the most recent of which are The New Wing of the Labyrinth (Singing Horse, 2009) and City Eclogue (Atelos, 2006). His collection Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In was a winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize; his book Atmosphere Conditions was a winner of the National Poetry Series and was nominated for the Academy of American Poets’ Lenore Marshall Award. He is a recipient of the Lila Wallace Writers’ Award and the Poetry Society of America’s Shelley Memorial Award. Retired from Rutgers University, he currently lives in Chicago, where he has taught at Columbia College, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. Sponsored by the Lanier Chair. Free and open to the public. Please address any questions to Andrew Zawacki (zawacki@uga.edu) and Jed Rasula (rasulaj@uga.edu).”
Purple Cow has the privilege to interview Roberson about his poetics and perspective on writing, poetry, and life. The interview will be recorded and posted online (on the soon-to-be minted Interviews section) and available to everyone.
See you all at the reading…
This Saturday’s show will be a mini-anthology reading of Ed Roberson’s work since he’ll be visiting UGA (yes!) and giving a reading on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 7pm! We’ve got some great undergrad readers lined up, including Christopher Nelms, Khaled Khlifi, Sarah Dutcher, and the Purple Cow hosts! We’ll be reading a selection of poems from Roberson’s works, The New Wing of the Labyrinth (Singing Horse, 2009), City Eclogue (Atelos, 2006), and When Thy King Is a Boy (Univ. of Pittsburgh, 1970). Tune in and listen to the Roberson mini-marathon and get excited about his upcoming reading!
In other related poetry-news, friend of the show and previous Purple Cow special guest Seth McKelvey will be having his Thesis Presentation: The Skeleton Keyhole, Tuesday, Nov. 10, 4pm-6pm in Park Hall room 265. Find more information about this ridiculously cool reading here! Also, listen to Seth as special guest on the cow, again.
Also, there’s a book launch party at CINE celebrating the release of Sabrina Orah Mark’s Tsim Tsum & John Dermot Woods’s The Complete Collection of People, Places, & Things on Friday, November 6th @ 7PM with Blake Butler opening! Gotta highlight the VOX Reading with John Woods on November 10, to read at CINE at 8 PM.
Purple Cow will soon upload the recent VOX Reading Series event at Athica and will also upload the edited version of last Saturday’s show. In the near future, the Cow will be having a visit or two by the Stillpoint staff, more info on that to come!
All for now! Check out these really amazing things going on around town, and listen to the Ed Roberson celebration on Saturday!
*Tune in Saturday to hear this most awesome of lines, in addition to many others.
