Subscribe to RSS Feed John Bennett was interviewed about his reading preferences in OSU’s OnCampus:
http://oncampus.osu.edu/article.php?id=2107
Bennett Interviewed
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Textimagepoem Blog Archive
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
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John Bennett’s New Books
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.
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Frederic Tuten: Selected Readings
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.
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Bourguignon lectures
We would like to call your attention to two upcoming lectures on campus:
- Erika Bourguigon, OSU emeritus professor of Anthropology, will speak at 4 PM on Tuesday, April 22 on “Ecstasy, Collective Joy, Possession and Exorcism, or the Uses and Abuses of Anthropology.” Hosted by the Center for Folklore Studies, the lecture will be held in 311 Denney Hall. For more information see the Center’s Special Events page. (The topic is directly related to her work done in Haiti. Photos taken by Paul Bourguigon while the Bourguignons were in Haiti in the 1940s were highlighted in our posting of February 27, 2008.)
- The Department of Anthroplogy will be offering the annual Paul H. and Erika Bourguignon Lecture in Art and Anthroplogy on Thursday, May 15, 6-7 PM, in room 002 of the Psychology Building. William Saturno, assistant professor of archaeology, Boston University, will present “Painted Walls, Sacred Stories: Art and Myth of the Early Maya Kings.”
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John Bennett at the Beinecke Library
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
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Mona Lisa program on National Geographic channel
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.
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HAITI 1947-1948
The Paul-Henri Bourguignon Haiti Photo Collection webpage has been added to the Rare Books & MSS webpage. It includes a broad sampling of the extensive collection of photos taken by artist Paul-Henri Bourguignon and Erika Bourguignon, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at OSU. The photos, accompanied by commentary from Prof. Bourguignon, are an invaluable resource for the study of Haitian history, society, culture, economy, ecology, and other matters. Take a look at http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/bourguignon/index-bourguignon.html
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Frederic Tuten Coming to OSU in May
Frederic Tuten, noted novelist and teacher of creative writing, will be visiting Ohio State the first week of May (details to come later). Mr. Tuten’s literary archives are part of the Contemporary American Literary Manuscripts of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library. As noted, details about the visit will be forthcoming. In the meantime, you can view Mr. Tuten’s career at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Tuten .
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Everything Lost: The Latin American Notebook of William S. Burroughs
Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library are the General Editors of William S. Burroughs’ Everything Lost, recently released by the Ohio State University Press. See the OSU Press notice at http://osupress.blogspot.com/2008/01/burroughs-everything-lost.html
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