Fred Wah Discussion - Language of Contemporary Poetry Series

• Tue, 03/06/2012 - 5:30pm - 7:00pm

Boardroom, 2nd Floor

TISH Poets & the Utterance

English graduate students coordinate a public discussion with visiting Vancouver poet Fred Wah. The discussion will focus on the importance of the speech utterance for the 1960s poets associated with the widely-influential poetry and poetics newsletter, TISH.

Fred Wah

Poet Laureate of Canada Fred Wah, from Vancouver, BC, has authored over twenty poetry books, including, most recently, is a door, Sentenced to Light, and The False Laws of Narrative (selected poems with commentary).

Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity collects Wah’s essays on poetry and identity politics.

Wah was an editor of the influential newsletter begun in the 1960s, TISH, and holds an MA in linguistics from SUNY-Buffalo, where he studied with Henry Lee Smith, Jr.

Language of Contemporary Poetry / Discussion Series

"TISH Poets & the Utterance" is the second of four public discussions to be held in winter 2012 in the series Language of Contemporary Poetry.

The series is coordinated by graduate students in Louis Cabri's course "Colourless Green Ideas Sleep Furiously": Poetry & Linguistics and is generously supported by the Humanities Research Group and the Deparment of English.