Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Portfolio Opportunity #16: Robert Kelly @ the Anthology Film Archives

"If there is an answer here / I solve it by studying the shadows / (which are the same color as skin / clothes house wood sky) / and taking them to be the subtle / footprints of everywhere. Here / is everything the light refuses." - from An American Dish

Robert Kelly

Portfolio Opportunity #15


Check after the jump for portfolio opportunity #15

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

(LAST MINUTE) Portfolio Opportunity #11: Salon on Barbara Guest

Barbara Guest (Text) and June Felter (Illustration). From Musicalities. The text reads "patient exercise of drawing a visible number / chromatically the body unfolds / a formal delicacy"

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Make-Up Classes, "On the Bowery" Screenings


The following is the times that I have made available for us to meet for a make-up screening of "On the Bowery."


All sessions will take place in room 242 on the second floor of the library. 


Attendance to one of these sessions is required.


Monday, 3/28, 9:30-11:30
Tuesday, 3/29, 11:00-1:00
Friday, 4/1, 1:00-3:00


If you are unable to attend any of these sessions, please let me know, and we'll work something out; otherwise, you will be marked as absent if you do not attend.

ALL SCREENINGS HAVE BEEN CANCELED DUE TO THE LIBRARY'S INABILITY TO PLAY REGION-2 DVDS.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

CLASS CANCELED TOMORROW, 3/18


DUE TO PROF. DODSON'S ILLNESS, CLASS IS CANCELED TOMORROW

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Kenneth Koch

Katz, Alex. "Portrait of a Poet: Kenneth Koch." 1970.


O what a physical effect it has on me
To dive forever into the light blue sea
Of your acquaintance!
- Kenneth Koch

Friday, March 11, 2011

Portfolio Opportunity #10: O'Hara Poems

Rivers, Larry. Detail from "The Studio". Oil on canvas. 82-1/2 x 193-1/2 in. 1956.

Monday, February 28, 2011

Frank O'hara

"Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac"
— Frank O'Hara
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Friday, February 25, 2011

Rudy Burckhardt's "Money" and "The Climate of New York" and Portfolio Opportunity #6

Rudy Burckhardt, Coca-Cola Goddess. 1947 gelatin-silver print, 8¼ x 9½ inches.Copyright: Estate of Rudy Burckhardt, courtesy Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Portfolio Opportunity #5: Exquisite Corpse

Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray, and Yves Tanguy (1927)

Portfolio Opportunity #5: Write an Exquisite Corpse Poem with Your Group

(Note: Your groups should be solidified by class on Friday.)


Portfilio Opportunity #4 & Notes on 2/18: Image, Metaphor, and Symbol

from Calligrammes, Guillaume Apollinaire