Written Arts Program Presents

A Reading by Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg has been a dominant presence in American poetry and poetics for half a century. His poetry has always sought in the deepest realms of human experience to bring a clear word. His poems are marvels of colloquial immediacy and prophetic intensity. His explorations of ethnopoetics resulted in such game-changing anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred, Shaking the Pumpkin, and America: A Prophecy, as well as studies and translations of Native American poetries. His commitment to exploring the world of Jewish experience produced his remarkable Holocaust-minded poems in the books Poland 1931 and Khurbn and other Poems, as well as A Big Jewish Book and Exiled in the Word; and he was the first translator of Paul Celan. Besides continuing his own work, he has edited (with Pierre Joris '69) the first volumes of that immense anthology of modern poetics, Poems for the Millenium.

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For more information, call 845-752-4454, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://writtenarts.bard.edu.

Time: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bitó Conservatory Building

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