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* Mayer Symposium Photos

Posted on April 5th, 2011 by robert. Filed under Pictures, Spring.




* A Bernadette Mayer Symposium in Buffalo, April 1st, 2011

Posted on March 18th, 2011 by robert. Filed under Live, Spring.


Pilgrimage to Buffalo this April Fool’s Day to celebrate the amazing life & work of the one and only Bernadette Mayer. Modes of Love and Reason: A Bernadette Mayer Symposium will feature critical talks by scholars Stephen Cope (Bard College), Lee Ann Brown (St. John’s University), Caitlin Newcomer (Florida State University), Deborah Poe (Pace University), Sam Truitt (Station Hill Press), and Joey Yearous-Algozin (SUNY-Buffalo); a roundtable of contemporary poets CAConrad, Dorothea Lasky, and Brenda Coultas discussing their own elective affinities with Mayer; and a keynote address by art critic Liz Kotz (Words to Be Looked At). Bernadette Mayer herself will take the stage at 8 p.m. for a reading.

Click thru the poster above for the complete schedule and program. Thanks to Chicago illustrator & consummate correspondent Grace Tran for re-lettering the beautiful Joe Brainard drawing from A Golden Book of Words.

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