[New-Poetry] Wallace Steven Birthday Bash, Sat. Oct. 6th, with James Longenbach

[Anny Ballardini]

Happiest BirthDay!
Please have a piece of cake for me, ! Thank you, Anny
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  From: JforJames at aol.com 
  To: finnegan_james at yahoo.com 
  Cc: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu 
  Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:35 PM
  Subject: [New-Poetry] Wallace Steven Birthday Bash, Sat. Oct. 6th,with James Longenbach


  (I apologize, if you rec'd this announcement more than once. JF)
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  12th Annual 'Wallace Stevens Birthday Bash'
  Saturday October 6th, 2007, 6:30 P.M.
  Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford, CT

  Reception begins at 6:30 P.M.

  Featured Speaker-
  JAMES LONGENBACH
  "An Examination of Wallace Stevens in a Time of War"

  "The pressure of the contemporaneous from the time of
  the beginning of the World War to the present time, 
  has been constant and extreme.  No one can have lived
   apart in happy oblivion." -Wallace Stevens 

  James Longenbach is the author of three books of poems, 
  most recently Draft of a Letter, and of several works of literary 
  criticism, including Wallace Stevens: The Plain Sense of 
  Things.  His poems and essays have appeared in the New 
  Yorker, the New Republic, the Paris Review, and the New York 
  Times Book Review.  Recently the Bain-Swiggett Professor of 
  Poetry at Princeton University, he is currently the Joseph H. 
  Gilmore Professor of English at the University of Rochester.  
  He also teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for 
  Writers

  After Program: serving Birthday Cake and Champagne!

  Ticket: $35 per person; send check payable to:  
  Hartford Public Library, 500 Main Street, Hartford CT 06103.
  Or call to reserve your tickets at the door: 860-695-6360.

  Supported by the Connecticut Center for the Book at Hartford Public Library 
  with help from The Friends & Enemies of Wallace Stevens.

  For more information, contact
  James Finnegan, 860-508-2810
  jforjames at aol.com    

  NOTE: Another Stevens related event...

  SECRETARIES OF THE MOON
  Event Type: One Book for Greater Hartford
  Date: 10/18/2007
  Start Time: 6:30 PM
  End Time: 7:45 PM

  Description: Join Beverly Coyle for an evening exploration of 
  the relationship between Hartford's Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 
  Wallace Stevens and Cuban poet and editor Jose Rodriguez 
  Feo as interpreted in the many letters between the two men 
  spanning the years 1944-54. Presenter Beverly Coyle, a 
  playwright and a member of the Yale Divinity School faculty, is 
  co-editor of the book, "Secretaries of the Moon, the Letters of 
  Wallace Stevens and Jose Rodriguez Feo." This Hartford 
  History Center program is being held in conjunction with the 
  library's 2007 One Book showcasing the novel, oeDreaming in 
  Cuban by Christina Garcia. 

  Library: Downtown
  Contact: Brenda Miller
  Contact Number: 695-6347
  Presenter: Beverly Coyle


  --
  NOTE: Another Stevens related event...

  SECRETARIES OF THE MOON
  Event Type: One Book for Greater Hartford
  Date: 10/18/2007
  Start Time: 6:30 PM
  End Time: 7:45 PM

  Description: Join Beverly Coyle for an evening exploration of 
  the relationship between Hartford's Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 
  Wallace Stevens and Cuban poet and editor Jose Rodriguez 
  Feo as interpreted in the many letters between the two men 
  spanning the years 1944-54. Presenter Beverly Coyle, a 
  playwright and a member of the Yale Divinity School faculty, is 
  co-editor of the book, "Secretaries of the Moon, the Letters of 
  Wallace Stevens and Jose Rodriguez Feo." This Hartford 
  History Center program is being held in conjunction with the 
  library's 2007 One Book showcasing the novel, oeDreaming in 
  Cuban by Christina Garcia. 

  Library: Downtown
  Contact: Brenda Miller
  Contact Number: 695-6347
  Presenter: Beverly Coyle







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