Welcome to the third and final episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by

Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of

Today's talk, entitled “The 'O' of Wonder: A Syzygy,” traces a history of wonder in the western poetic tradition from Homer to Milton to Ronald Johnson. It was recorded and presented in partnership with Counterpath at the University of Denver, September 18, 2015. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit the ⁠Bagley Wright Lecture Series website⁠ or click ⁠here⁠.

Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠⁠here⁠⁠.

Visit us at our website, ⁠bagleywrightlectures.org⁠, for more

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Welcome to the second episode of Season Ten of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.  

Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Srikanth Reddy during his tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer, in 2015.

Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of questions concerning poetry and visual art, including theories of likeness, ekphrasis, and wonder.

Today, we’ll hear "Like a Very Strange Likeness and Pink," recorded at Seattle Arts and Lectures, December 1, 2015. This lecture examines the question of likeness in Emily Dickinson's similes and Gertrude Stein's portraits as a way of thinking about social identity and difference in modern American poetry. To view a gallery of works referenced in this talk, visit this page at BWLS website, here.  

Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠. 

Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠

from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠ CC BY NC

Welcome to the first episode of Season Ten of the Bagley

Season Ten is comprised of lectures written and delivered by

Srikanth Reddy’s series of lectures consider a range of

Today, we’ll hear a recording of “The Unsignificant,” given October 2, 2015 at New York University.  This lecture considers W. H. Auden's poem “Musee des Beaux Arts” in relation to Peter Brueghel's painting “The Fall of Icarus,” and references a number of artworks. To view a gallery of these works, visit the Bagley Wright Lecture Series website or click here.

Reddy’s book based on his BWLS lectures, ⁠The Unsignificant: Three Talks on Poetry and Pictures⁠, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available ⁠here⁠.

Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more

Music: "⁠I Recall⁠" by ⁠Blue Dot Sessions⁠

from the ⁠Free Music Archive⁠

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Welcome to the fourth and final episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.

Today we'll hear “Is That A Real Poem Or Did You Just Make It Up?” given December 9, 2021, in partnership with Portland Literary Arts, via Zoom.

Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures, is outMay 7 from Wave Books, and is available here.

Visit us at our website, bagleywrightlectures.org, for more

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

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Welcome to the third episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.

Today we'll hear “Epistle to the Summer Writing Program (On the Metaphysics of Deep Gossip),” given June 24, 2021, in partnership with the Naropa University, via Zoom.

Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, titled, Four Lectures,

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings. This podcast was produced by me, Ellen Welcker. Thank you to Naropa University for partnering with us on this event, and thank you for listening.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

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Welcome to the second episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege, and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.

Today we'll hear "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise,” given February 18, 2021, in partnership with the University of Buffalo, via Zoom.

Click here to view the Bruce Kurland paintings discussed in this talk.

Lisa Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures,

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

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Welcome to the first episode of Season Nine of the Bagley

Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental

Today we'll hear “White Whales, White Males, Whitehead,”

~40.18: "I was the perfect candidate to catalogue that collection."

~54:00 "'Whoever swears by the sanctuary is bound to nothing, but whoever swears by the gold of the sanctuary is bound by the oath.'"

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

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Welcome to the fifth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.

Today we'll hear "Poetry and Photography," given March 9, 2016, in partnership with Yale University. This talk includes many references to the aesthetics of photographers with whom Zucker identifies or does not identify. As accompaniment to this lecture, we offer the following list–by no means comprehensive–with links to some of these photographers' works.

book review of Robert Frank's The Americans, at Lens Culture

Walker Evans, at artnet

Henri Cartier-Bresson, at the International Center of Photography

Edward Weston, at Weston Gallery

Ansel Adams, at artnet

Roger Fenton's Valley of the Shadow of Death at Public Domain Review

The Dead of Antietam, by Mathew Brady and associates

Robert Capa, at artnet

Dorothea Lange, at MoMA

William Eggleston at Eggleston Art Foundation

Sally Mann

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

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Welcome to the fourth episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.

Today we'll hear “The Poetics of Motherhood,” given November 15, 2016, in partnership with UC Berkeley.

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

CC BY NC

Welcome to the third episode of Season Eight of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Eight is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Rachel Zucker during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Rachel Zucker’s lectures ask questions about obedience, wrongness, and decorum. Like her poetry, the lectures are borne from a long lineage of female writers and artists who ask What now? What next? and Am I allowed to do this? To break that? Rachel considers the history of Confessional poetry, the ethical consequences of representing real people in art, and the other great medium that has influenced her work—photography—exploring how it taught her to look for, but also question, truth and permission in art.

Today we'll hear “A Very Large Charge: The Ethics of 'Say Everything' Poetry,” given February 5, 2016, in partnership with New York University. 

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Rachel Zucker's book based on her BWLS lectures, The Poetics of Wrongness (Wave Books, 2023), is available here.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

from the Free Music Archive

CC BY NC