Sam Hamill, founder of Copper Canyon Press and principal founder of the international oraganization Poets Against War, will be in Columbus on October 29th and October 30th. There will be an event each evening: on October 29th there will be readings of central Ohio poets and on October 30th Sam Hamill and Eleanor Wilner will be the guest speakers.
More details will be forthcoming, but save the dates of October 29th and October 30th.
June 23rd, 2008
The Spring newsletter of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library is now available on our web site at: http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/newsletter/news08spr.pdf . Please take a look!
June 20th, 2008
The Rare Books & MSS Library has published a full-color illustrated catalog, VISUAL POETRY IN THE AVANT WRITING COLLECTION, Edited and Introduced by John M. Bennett, with additional introductions by Dr. Marvin Sackner, and Bob Grumman. 142 pages, profusely illustrated.
A PDF may be viewed at: http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avant/VisualPoetry.pdf
June 20th, 2008
John Bennett was interviewed about his reading preferences in OSU’s OnCampus:
http://oncampus.osu.edu/article.php?id=2107
May 19th, 2008
RBMS has received and loaded onto its website an archival version of Jim Leftwich’s blog, Textimagepoem, which is an extraordinary source for experimental and innovative poetry, visual poetry, mail art, and much more. See it at
http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/finding/TextImagePoemArchive.php
May 8th, 2008
John Bennett has published 4 books, the first 2 of textual poetry, the second 2 of visual poetry: L ENTES, Puhos, Finland/W. Hartford, CT: Blue Lion Books, 2008 (579 pp.); IN THE BENNETT TREE, co-author Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Brooklyn, NY: E Ratio Editions, 2008 (with transductions and essays on Bennett by St. Thomasino); EET, W. Hartford, CT: SmallChapbookProject-2, 2008; and DUH HUD, LaFarge, WI: Xexoxial Editions, 2008.
May 8th, 2008
Frederic Tuten, critically acclaimed novelist, will be reading from his works at 7:00 p.m. in the alphabet rooms (second floor) at the OSU Faculty Club. Please join us for the reception at 6:30 with the reading to follow.
April 29th, 2008
We would like to call your attention to two upcoming lectures on campus:
April 17th, 2008
John Bennett had some visual poetry on display at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, Jan-Mar 2008, in the exhibit “Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book”. Also on display was Vispologee, the Minnesota Center For Book Arts’ “Winter Book” for 2007, which Bennett co-edited, and for which he wrote the introduction. For further details cf: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/brblevents/brblexhibits.html
March 18th, 2008
Tuesday evening, March 18, the National Geographic channel will be airing a program entitled “How It Was: Secrets of Mona Lisa.” Included in their overview of the research on Leonardo’s famous painting will be Lillian Schwartz’s analysis. Her discovery, first published in 1987, was recently developed further in the book Monna Lisa: Il volto nascosto di Leonardo (Florence, 2007), published in both Italian and English with co-authors Renzo Manetti and Alessandro Vezzosi. The OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library is the home of the Lillian Feldman Schwartz archive.
March 17th, 2008
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