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Working with the UB Libraries Digital Collections team, the Poetry Collection has added 63 more photographs to the James Joyce Digital Collection. These include photographs of Joyce, his family, Paris apartment, the 1949 La Hune exhibition, and such figures as Holbrook Jackson, Augustus John, Italo Svevo, Philippe Soupault, John Sullivan and others.

Complete details about the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce Collection can be found in the collection’s online catalog. Prints are also for sale in the Library store.

NOW EXTENDED THROUGH MAY 15, 2013!

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, presents:

The Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection
An exhibition featuring selections from the Reichert Frost Collection

January 31 through May 15, 2013
Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
The Kaveeshwar Gallery
501 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

Victor E. Reichert (1897-1990) was rabbi of the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1938 to 1962 and shared a long friendship with the American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). In 1946 Reichert invited Frost to present a sermon, and in 1960 he was instrumental in awarding Frost an honorary Doctorate at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Victor Reichert was an avid Frost collector, and his collection passed to his son Dr. Jonathan Reichert, Professor Emeritus from the UB Department of Physics, who donated it to the Poetry Collection. The Reichert Frost Collection features many signed and inscribed publications by Frost, a Frost manuscript, letters, photographs, audio recordings, and ephemera, as well as many Frost-related items from other critics.

A digital collection and select images from the Reichert Frost Collection are available through the Poetry Collection and the UB Libraries store: library.buffalo.edu/robertfrost.

UB Anderson Gallery presents “New Poets, New Books,” poetry reading of both new and long-time poets

In celebration of the exhibition Transmutation: Photographic Works by Carl Chiarenza, the “New Poets, New Books” event will feature Buffalo-based poets, including UB alumni or students, who will present work from their newly published books of poetry. This event will introduce a number of emerging poets to a larger audience. Chiarenza’s hauntingly beautiful black and white abstract photographs will be on view, and at 1pm the artist will provide a tour of his work, following a few introductory remarks by exhibition curator, artist and photography historian Robert Hirsch.

Poetry Reading and Exhibition Tour
Saturday, February 9, 2013, from 1pm to 5pm

Schedule of events:
1pm to 2pm: Carl Chiarenza, Artist-in-Residence and Fanny Knapp Allen Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Rochester, will provide a tour of his photographs.

2pm to 3pm: Readings by Carl Chiarenza of his own poetry, as well as a poem composed by his daughter, followed by readings from poets Michael Basinski, Edric Mesmer, Claire Gay and Lauren Gay.

3pm to 4pm: Audiences will have the opportunity to enjoy refreshments and peruse poetry books from five presses: BlazeVOX (Geoffrey Gatza); Buffalo Ochre Papers (Edric Mesmer); Habenicht Press (David Hadbawnik); POPpress (Issac Johnson, Claire Gay, and Lauren Gay); and PressBoardPress (Patrick Riedy, Michael Koh, and Letson Williams). Additionally, the books of poetry and exhibition catalogs will be available for purchase.

4pm to 5pm: Poets David Hadbawnik, Geoffrey Gatza, Isaac Johnson, Patrick Riedy and Letson Williams will present their works.

The event is sponsored by UB Art Galleries, the Poetry Collection of the University Libraries and the Mildred Lockwood Lacey Fund for Poetry as administered by the Poetry Collection. This event is free and open to the public.

UB Anderson Gallery is located near Kenmore and Englewood avenues at 1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, New York. www.ubartgalleries.org

For more information, contact:

Ginny O’Brien
Curator of Education, UB Art Galleries
716.829.3754
ginny@buffalo.edu

To mark the 50th anniversary of the death of Robert Frost, NPR’s Morning Edition featured Jonathan Reichert’s recent gift of his father Victor E. Reichert’s Robert Frost Collection to the Poetry Collection.

More information on the Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection is available from the UB Reporter.

The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, University at Buffalo, presents:

The Victor E. Reichert Robert Frost Collection
An exhibition featuring selections from the Reichert Frost Collection

January 31 through March 29, 2013
Monday through Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
The Kaveeshwar Gallery
501 Capen Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260

Victor E. Reichert (1897-1990) was rabbi of the Rockdale Avenue Temple in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 1938 to 1962 and shared a long friendship with the American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). In 1946 Reichert invited Frost to present a sermon, and in 1960 he was instrumental in awarding Frost an honorary Doctorate at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Victor Reichert was an avid Frost collector, and his collection passed to his son Dr. Jonathan Reichert, Professor Emeritus from the UB Department of Physics, who donated it to the Poetry Collection. The Reichert Frost Collection features many signed and inscribed publications by Frost, a Frost manuscript, letters, photographs, audio recordings, and ephemera, as well as many Frost-related items from other critics.

A digital collection and select images from the Reichert Frost Collection are available through the Poetry Collection and the UB Libraries store: library.buffalo.edu/robertfrost.