A Poetry Reading with Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Jeff Russell

For the first lecture event of the semester Professor Fred Moten has invited Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Jeff Russell to give a poetry reading at the Department of Performance Studies! Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a poet, scholar/critic, and collagist, and author of the long poem Drafts. Jeff Russell is a poet based in Durham, North Carolina, By The Time This Reaches You, is his first book of poetry. Ken Taylor of selva oscura press will moderate a conversation with Rachel and Jeff following the reading. We hope you can join us for this special event.

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is author of the long poem Drafts (1-114/115) complete from Coffee House Press this May, and of the on-going Traces, with Days, a grouping of books located deep in our current quarter century. This includes the recent Daykeeping, published by Selva Oscura Press. Her Selected Poems 1980-2020 was published by Chax. She has written extensively on both feminist and objectivist poetics, including essays in The Pink Guitar and Blue Studios, and critical studies in gender and modernism. Her considerable work on Objectivist poetry and poetics includes her pioneering editing of The Selected Letters of George Oppen.Among several awards are a residency at Bellagio, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and a year at the National Humanities Center. Her poetry has appeared in French, Italian,and Russian books and elsewhere in Portuguese, Spanish, and German. Website is www.rachelblauduplessis.net; all Drafts are available recorded at www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/DuPlessis.php

Jeff Russell is a poet living in Durham, Northa Carolina. He studied Creative Writing at the University of Arizona and Classical Chinese Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. By The Time This Reaches You is Jeff’s first book of poetry. Selections of this work have been published in Miracle Monocle, Entropy, Tilted House, Dream Pop, and Denver Quarterly—FiVES. He is on the advisory board for Jackleg Press. Multi-voiced recordings of this work are available at jeffwrussell.bandcamp.com.

Ken Taylor is the author of seven published works and three plays. Most recently: "found poem(s)" with Ed Roberson (Ken's photos, Ed's poems) from Corbett vs. Dempsey. He is the founder of selva oscura press, which he edits with Fred Moten.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

721 Broadway, Richard Schechner Studio, Room 612, 721 Broadway, New York, United States