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NYSL: Poetry and the Blending of Voices NYSL: Brian Bartlett

Brian Bartlett
Poetry and the Blending of Voices
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 10:00 AM
Whitridge Room

 

Audio:
Poetry and the Blending of Voices

 

 

Poet Brian Bartlett reads from his most recent collection, The Watchmaker's Table, and talks about his experiments blending his voice with those of others in glosas, haiku sequences, sonnets about teaching, and found poems. He supplements his reading and commentary with a display of source books and documents for the found poems and recorded fragments of guitar music improvised for the haiku.

Brian Bartlett is the author of five collections and four chapbooks of poems, including Wanting the Day. He is the recipient of the 2004 Atlantic Poetry Prize. Since 1990, he has taught creative writing and literature at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia..


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