The Twenty-Ninth Annual
WALLACE STEVENS BIRTHDAY BASH
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 2:00pm
Center for Contemporary Culture
Hartford Public Library

Featuring guest speaker—

CHARLES BERNSTEIN
“Ocular Proof”

Charles Bernstein’s collections of essays include: Pitch of Poetry (U. of Chicago, 2016), Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions (Chicago, 2011), My Way: Speeches and Poems (Chicago, 1999), A Poetics (Harvard, 1992). His books of poetry include Topsy-Turvy (Chicago, 2021) The Course, with Ted Greenwald (Roof Books, 2020), Near/Miss (Oct. 2018), Recalculating (Chicago, 2013), All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems (FSG, 2010), Girly Man (Chicago, 2006), With Strings (Chicago, 2001), and Republics of Reality: 1975 – 1995 (Sun & Moon, 2000). In 2019, he was awarded the Bollingen Prize for American Poetry. His libretto Shadowtime, for composer Brian Ferneyhough, was published in 2005 by Green Integer; it was performed as part of the 2005 Lincoln Center Festival. Bernstein is the editor of several collections, including: American Poetry after 1975 (Duke University Press / special issue of boundary, 2009), Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word (Oxford, 1999), The Politics of Poetic Form: Poetry and Public Policy (Roof, 1990), and the poetics magazine L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, whose first issue was published in 1978. He is editor of the Electronic Poetry Center and co-director (with Al Filreis) of PennSound.

Program: This festive and illuminating event will begin with a reception of wine and hors d’oeuvres, followed by Charles Bernstein’s presentation, and will conclude with a book signing, birthday cake and champagne!

Suggested donation $10* per person to benefit…

Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103

RSVP—
Jim Finnegan
jforjames@aol.com
860-508-2810

*Completely optional; no one turned away.

This event is presented by—
Friends and Enemies of Wallace Stevens (stevenspoetry.org)
and Hartford Public Library (hplct.org)