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.

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

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.

Goodby will be doing research in the Poetry Collection’s Dylan Thomas Collection. He is Senior Lecturer at Swansea University in Swansea, Wales, and the author of several books including Irish Poetry Since 1950: From Stillness into History and Uncaged Sea.

When: December 11, 2012–6pm
Where: The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, 420 Capen Hall, UB North Campus

Against the Grain website: oldfirstward.com

Reading poster: Tim-Bohen

Monday, August 6, 2012
4:00 to 6:00 pm
The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries
University at Buffalo
420 Capen Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260

At 4:00 pm on Monday, August 6 in the Poetry Collection, George Hochfield will be reading from his translations of the Italian poets Umberto Saba (1883-1957) and Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936). A Professor of English, Emeritus in the UB Department of English, Dr. Hochfield is the author of Henry Adams, An Introduction and Interpretation (1962); the editor of Henry Adams’s The Great Secession Winter of 1860-61 and Other Essays (1958) and Selected Writings of the American Transcendentalists (1966, 2004); and the translator of Giampiero Carocci’s The Officers Camp (1997), Claudio Piersanti’s Luisa and the Silence (2002), and (with Leonard Nathan) Umberto Saba’s Songbook: The Selected Poems of Umberto Saba (2008). He is currently preparing a volume of poems by Pirandello.

A reception will follow. This event is free and open to the public.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0322/1224313702151.html

Here is a photograph from the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce Collection of Joyce playing the guitar in 1915:

http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/LIB-PC004/id/44/rec/1

And here are links to recent performances after the guitar’s restoration:

http://www.irishtimes.com/indepth/slideshows/joyce-guitar/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AN9YRPPIWY

More photographs from the Poetry Collection’s James Joyce Collection are available online at the UB Libraries’ digital collections site: http://digital.lib.buffalo.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/LIB-PC004