The Writing & Society Research Group
at the University of Western Sydney
warmly invites you to
Michael Palmer: Readings and Conversations
Wednesday May 26 from 10.30am
We are delighted to host the distinguished U.S. poet and translator Michael Palmer for a day devoted to the reading and discussion of poetry, at the UWS Bankstown campus. There will be two sessions: a morning poetry reading, and an afternoon 'in conversation' workshop for postgraduates and interested listeners. A biography and brief description of the sessions are below. You are welcome to attend both events, but RSVP is essential.

Program
10.30am: coffee, welcome
11am-12.30pm: Michael Palmer reading his poetry with Q&A
1.00-1.30pm: lunch
1.30pm-3.30pm: 'In Conversation' workshop

RSVP by Friday 21 May
to Dr Kate Fagan: k.fagan@uws.edu.au

11am reading: An extended poetry reading by Michael Palmer, with a critical introduction by Australian poet Peter Minter. The reading will be followed by a Q&A session and lunch.

1.30pm workshop: Michael Palmer will hold a conversation with postgraduate students and interested poets/readers. Areas of discussion will include relationships between syntax and the 'illimitable potential' that might be accessed in poetry, and key poetic texts that have influenced Palmer's work. It is hoped this session will take the form of a group improvisation on poetic thinking.

Michael Palmer is a Manhattan-born poet and translator who has lived in San Francisco since 1969. He has worked with the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for over thirty years and has collaborated with many visual artists and composers. His most recent poetry collections are Codes Appearing (Poems 1979-1988) and Company of Moths. A book of his selected essays and talks, Active Boundaries, was published in 2008. In 2006 he received the Wallace Stevens Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and he is a previous Guggenheim Fellow. He has taught at various universities in the United States and Europe, and his writings have been translated into more than 25 languages. Palmer's poetry is highly regarded for its engagement with lyrical, linguistic and phenomenological concerns.