{"id":3415,"date":"2017-11-27T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T18:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=3415"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:17:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:17:47","slug":"celebrating-poetry-john-ashbery","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/event\/celebrating-poetry-john-ashbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Poetry of John Ashbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/attention-equals-life-9780199972128?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Epstein<\/a>, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University, will give a talk on \u201cFence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/03\/arts\/john-ashbery-dead-prize-winning-poet.html\">John Ashbery<\/a>\u00a0and the Poetics of Middle Age\u201d\u00a0this Thursday\u00a0at\u00a0<strong>4:30pm<\/strong>\u00a0in Stewart Commons 104. While still a graduate student in 1996, Professor Epstein presented a paper on Frank O\u2019Hara and film in the National Poetry Foundation (NPF) Conference on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/npfconferences.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/08\/1950s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Poetry &amp; Poetics of the 1950s<\/a>. He\u2019s presented frequently at NPF conferences since and is the author of two studies of post-1945 poetry,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/beautiful-enemies-9780195181005?lang=en&amp;cc=us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beautiful Enemies<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/attention-equals-life-9780199972128?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Attention Equals Life<\/a>, both from Oxford University Press. Candidates in the Master\u2019s degree program are especially encouraged to attend Epstein\u2019s presentation. His talk is co-sponsored by the English Department, the National Poetry Foundation, and the McGillicuddy Humanities Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3422 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-801x1024.gif\" alt=\"Ashbery-Celebration-Poster\" width=\"801\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-801x1024.gif 801w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-235x300.gif 235w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-768x982.gif 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-105x134.gif 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-317x405.gif 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-423x541.gif 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-634x811.gif 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-846x1082.gif 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-951x1216.gif 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/11\/Ashbery-Celebration-Poster-1268x1621.gif 1268w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,801px\" \/>We\u2019ll be back in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imrccenter.com\/find-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">same space<\/a>\u00a0at\u00a0<strong>8pm<\/strong>\u00a0to hear recordings and live readings of Ashbery\u2019s poems. If you\u2019d like to participate in the evening event, please write to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:english.chair@maine.edu\">english.chair@maine.edu <\/a>with a short list of the Ashbery poems (or other texts) you\u2019d like to read. You\u2019ll find a copy of his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/loa.org\/writers\/239-john-ashbery?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgN6Wup3f1wIVWbnACh02NQZOEAAYASAAEgLpfvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Collected Poems<\/a>\u00a0in the Wicks Reading Room.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/ongoing-programs\/mhc-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3069 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red-300x225.png\" alt=\"MHC Symposium poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red-105x79.png 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red-317x238.png 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red-423x317.png 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red-634x476.png 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/276\/2017\/02\/MHC-Symposium-final_cream_red.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,300px\" \/><\/a>Part of the MHC&#8217;s\u00a0year-long exploration of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mhc\/ongoing-programs\/mhc-symposium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">humanities approaches to aging across the ages.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Epstein, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University, will give a talk on \u201cFence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal:\u00a0John Ashbery\u00a0and the Poetics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":893,"featured_media":3418,"template":"","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-3415","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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