"Carl Rakosi's determined honesty and
reductive rhetoric with its ungainsayable
plainsong have made a measure for
all conduct of words in the attempt to
find an active poetry in the fact
of lives without power."--Robert Creeley
THE KELLY WRITERS HOUSE
presents
conversation with
CARL RAKOSI
on the occasion of his 99th birthday
via live audiocast
7 PM (eastern time), Wednesday, October 30,
| co-moderated by
| Tom Devaney & Al Filreis
With great pleasure we invite you to join us for a reading and conversation
with Carl Rakosi, who will come to us telephonically from his home in San
Francisco. The program will be audiocast live worldwide. You can participate
by coming to the Kelly Writers House at 3805 Locust Walk in Philadelphia,
where an audience will converse directly with Rakosi by an amplified phone
connection. That conversation will be audiocast, and thus you can also join
us, wherever you are, by making a simple connection to the web. Audiocast
participants will be able to pose questions for Carl Rakosi via email or by
phone.
If you intend to participate, please write to
< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
and be sure to indicate if you will attend at the Writers House or will
participate from a distance through the audiocast.
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For more about Rakosi's life and work and this event, see:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~wh/rakosi.html
Carl Rakosi began publishing his poetry in the 1920s. His work was published
by Ezra Pound and others in magazines assoicated with a group of writers now
known as the "Objectivists." His _Collected Poems_ (1986) and _Collected
Prose_ (1983) were both published by the National Poetry Foundation at
Orono, Maine. His _Poems 1923-1941_ (published by Sun and Moon Press) won
the PEN Center USA West award in 1996. Carl Rakosi lives in San Francisco.
Tom Devaney is a poet and Program Coordinator at the Kelly Writers House. Al
Filreis is Class of 1942 Professor of English at Penn and Faculty Director
of the Kelly Writers House.
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