Please join us in 420 Capen at 3:30 this Wednesday, Nov 18 for a Small Press in the Archive presentation by Peter Tytell, a specialist in typescript forensics. Tytell, an expert witness and forensic document examiner, will present “CSI 101: Making typescript speak.” This event is free and open to the public.

Later in the semester Diane Ward will speak on “The Evolution of the Female Literary Patroness.”

Curated by Margaret Konkol, the Small Press in the Archive Lecture Series dedicates itself to the study of poetry outside the traditional literary historical plot. The lectures in this series draw on materials in the Poetry Collection in order to explore community/discourse formations, the status of ephemera and the making of genre, the conditions of literary production, transatlantic cross-pollinations in and between specific magazines, the careers of poets, the role of book art, and how the little magazine functions in the making of the avant-garde.

This catalog was published on the occasion of the exhibition Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection, June 13 through September 13, 2009, and contains essays by Joyce scholars Luca Crispi, Michael Groden, Oscar A. Silverman, and Sam Slote; galleries of Joyce’s family portraits and photographs from the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce Collection; a foreword by Michael Basinski, curator of the Poetry Collection; and an exhibition checklist.

Discovering James Joyce Authors: Michael Basinski, Luca Crispi, Michael Groden,Oscar A. Silverman, Sam Slote Editor: James Maynard Publisher: The Poetry Collection Pages: 112 Binding: Paperback Copyright: 2009 ISBN-13: 978-0-922668-23-6 Price: $30.00

Discovering James Joyce Closing Celebration

Saturday, September 12 – 6:00 to 8:00 pm

UB Anderson Gallery

Please join us this Saturday at the UB Anderson Gallery for a closing celebration of the exhibition Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection. The event will feature a roundtable discussion moderated by Damien Keane of Joyce and his works by Ronan Crowley, Megan Faragher, Al Kolodziejczak, Nick Morris, Justin Parks, Kate Soudant, and Tina Žigon; a presentation by Mark Shechner titled “Stephen Dedalus: Low Character”; and a reception. The last day for the exhibition in Buffalo is Sunday, September 13, and plans are being made to tour a version of it nationally. Exhibition catalogues will continue to be on sale in the Poetry Collection.

The Anderson Gallery is located near UB’s south campus, adjacent to the intersection of Englewood Ave and Kenmore Ave, on Martha Jackson Place. Directions and a map:

http://www.ubartgalleries.org/#?gallery=anderson&select=page&page=directions

Myung Mi Kim Book Launch

Wednesday, September 9 – 7:00 to 9:00 pm

UB Anderson Gallery

A celebration of Myung Mi Kim’s new book Penury (Omnidawn, 2009), featuring a reading by the poet. Afterward, curator of the Poetry Collection Michael Basinski will be giving a tour of the exhibition Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection.

On June 15, 2009, WBFO 88.7 FM aired the story “Behind the Doors of ‘Discovering James Joyce’” about the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce materials and the major exhibition that is now open at UB’s Anderson Gallery, “Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection.” Visit the WBFO website to listen to Joyce Kryszak interview those involved in the planning and installation of the exhibition.

Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection

A collaboration between the Poetry Collection, the University Art Galleries, and the School of Architecture and Planning, Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection presents rarely seen items from the James Joyce Collection.

Covering the span of his entire artistic life, the Joyce archive in the Poetry Collection is the largest and most distinguished in the world. Discovering James Joyce features a substantial selection of the writer’s notebooks, manuscripts, letters, publications, photographs, family portraits, and other significant Joyceana.

Location: UB Anderson Gallery

Address: One Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY

Dates: June 14 – September 13, 2009

Web site: http://library.buffalo.edu/jamesjoyce/exhibition/

The Poetry Collection has received a grant for $202,241 from the Preservation and Access Program of the National Endowment for the Humanities to reformat, catalog and make accessible 1,340 cassette and reel-to-reel audio recordings of poetry materials held in the collection.

The digitization and cataloging of these audio materials will further the Poetry Collection’s mission to promote the study of 20th- and 21-century poetry written in English.

For more information see the press release available here: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/9972.

The UB Poetics Program will present Poets Theater, rarely performed plays by poets from the UB Poetry Collection and beyond, this semester at the new Burchfield Penney Art Center, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo.

The lineup includes a performance of “The Origins of Old Son” by Robert Duncan at 7 p.m. March 5. Introduction by Dr. James Maynard, Visiting Assistant Curator of the Poetry Collection.

“The Origins of Old Son” is an important, unpublished work by Duncan, one of the few existing copies of which is housed in the UB Poetry Collection. The play, a comic parody of figures at Black Mountain College infused with Duncan’s characteristic wit, has not been produced since its premiere at Black Mountain in the mid-1950s.

Also being staged that night will be a number of other short plays, including rarely seen one-acts by the late poet Barbara Guest, a dramatic interpretation of excerpts from “Clairvoyant Journal” by Hannah Weiner and an original work by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz—“Alphabet Man”— fusing music, theater and animation.

Poets Theater will continue at 7 p.m. April 2 with a full-length staging of “Celebrity Hospital” by San Francisco-based poet and playwright Kevin Killian.

While there is no charge for admission to the Poets Theater, a fee of $7 for adults and $4 for students and seniors is charged to enter the Burchfield Penney museum. Museum members are free.

Poets Theater is supported by the Burchfield Penney Art Center and the David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters, the McNulty Chair, the Poetry Collection and the Graduate Poetics Group, all at UB.

February 2nd is the birthday of Irish writer James Joyce. To commemorate this date, the Poetry Collection of the University at Buffalo will host the closing event for our current in-house exhibition “James Joyce & His Literary Circles: Paris, Personalities, Presses.” This exhibit is the precursor to the upcoming major exhibition of the Poetry Collection’s holdings of rare Joyce material, “Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo
Collection,” which will premiere at UB’s Anderson Gallery in June.

Please accept this invitation to come and celebrate our exhibit. The event is open to the public, so please share this news with others who may appreciate Joyce. The Poetry Collection Curator Dr. Michael Basinski will host the event and will make remarks. Light refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served.

When: Monday, February 2, 2009, 3:30-6:30 p.m.
Where: The Poetry Collection – located in 420 Capen inside Capen Library on the North Campus.
Further information: 716-645-2917

Diane Marie Ward
Principal Poetry Cataloger
The Poetry Collection
Special Collections
University at Buffalo
716.645.2918 x 247
dward@buffalo.edu

Read “The Vorticist & Chancellor” by Dean Brownrout in the 10/9/08 issue of Artvoice at http://artvoice.com/issues/v7n41/framed/.