NPF editorial assistant (and scholar in her own right) Malgorzata Myk has combed the internet for great links about the nine poets who will give keynote readings at the NPF Conference on The Poetry of the 1970s. We'll be sharing her finds in the days leading up to the Conference, so check back regularly.

Next up is Ann Lauterbach, who reads in the Minsky Recital Hall (in The Class of 1944 building) on Friday, June 13, 2008 at 8:00pm. Attendance is free and open to the public (though seating is limited).

You can learn more about Lauterbach at these sites:

EPC author page

Sound files at PennSound

Tim Peterson's interview with Lauterbach

Lauterbach's article "Slaves of Fashion" in Boston Review

"Tangled Reliquary" in Conjunctions

Sound File of Lauterbach's conversation with Charles Bernstein at Close Listening

Ohio State University Department of Art blog

Bio

Ann Lauterbach was born and grew up in Manhattan, where she studied painting at the High School of Music and Art. She received her BA from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) in English Literature, and went on to graduate work at Columbia University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Deciding to forego further academic degrees, she moved to London, where she lived for seven years, working variously as an editor (Thames and Hudson), a teacher (St. Martin’s School of Art), and as curator of the Literature Program at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Her early poems were published in England.

Returning to New York in 1974, Lauterbach worked in art galleries, including Max Protetch, Rosa Esman, and Joan Washburn. In the mid-1980s, she began to teach in the Writing programs at Brooklyn, Columbia, Princeton, Iowa, and at The City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and, starting in the 1990s, at Bard College. She has had residences at Yaddo, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Orlando, Florida. Lauterbach has published seven collections of poetry: Many Times, But Then (1979), Before Recollection (1987), Clamor (1991), And For Example (1994), On A Stair (1997), If in Time :Selected Poems 1975-2000 (2001) and Hum (2005), several chapbooks and collaborations with visual artists, including How Things Bear Their Telling with Lucio Pozzi and A Clown, Some Colors, A Doll, Her Stories, A Song, A Moonlit Cove with Ellen Phelan for the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, New York. She has written on art and poetics in relation to cultural value, notably in a series of seven columns for the American Poetry Review entitled “The Night Sky”; essays on sculptor David Smith’s writings and drawings, a collaborative work for sculptor Ann Hamilton’s “Whitecloth” catalogue for the Aldrich Museum, and the introductory essay to Joe Brainard’s “Nancy” drawings for The Nancy Book, published by Siglio Press (2008). Lauterbach is currently at work on a new collaboration for Ann Hamilton’s “Tower” at Steve Oliver’s ranch in Geyserville, California. This work-in-progress was the subject of a talk for the Beineke Library’s exhibition and conference “Metaphor Taking Shape: Poetry, Art, and the Book” at Yale in March 2008. A new book of poems, Or To Begin Again, will be published in April 2009 by Penguin.

A collection of Lauterbach’s prose writings, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience, published in 2005 by Viking, was re-issued as a Penguin paperback in spring 2008.

Lauterbach has been, since 1991, Co-Chair of Writing in the Milton Avery Gradute School of the Arts and, since 1997, Ruth and David Schwab II Professor of Language and Literature at Bard College. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, New York State Foundation for the Arts, Ingram Merrill and John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur fellowships. She is a Visiting Core Critic (Sculpture and Painting) at the Yale School of Art.

Posted by Steve Evans on Tuesday, June 3 2008 in Announcements