Malcolm Visit Job Assignments
MONDAY: Kitchen helper: Henry Chair/set-up helper: Anna
Bouncers: Julia and Shelby
Booksellers: Glenn and Nina TUESDAY:
Booksellers: Alex Kitchen helpers: Sarah and John Clean up helper: Kenna
John Ashbery visits
"I’m getting away from your question I'm afraid…"
"Change is very important"
"They just didn't have enough telephones"
"I Never quite understood about understanding poetry"
Re: fence-sitting "I guess that is my esthetic idea"
"Don't write about those people but write about the things that
come into your head when you think about them"
"remind me to write some caviar poems"
"I didn't have anything to teach anybody, they all knew more
than I did and still do"
"I think I'm going to be taking a little napkin"
"I don't know really, I'll have to wait and see"
"I don't know if I'm answering your question or just repeating
it"
"I found it easier to write dialogue for other people than I did
writing monologues for myself"
"I suppose cousin bud will be running through the park in his
lavender suit–I have a cousin bud, do you?"
"I often feel that something else is doing the writing though
not to the extent of being sent away to the mental institution"
Re: why do you write "I don't try very hard not to do it"
"If I knew how to write music I would probably be doing that,
but im trying to write music without knowing how and this is what comes
out."
"I'm accused of not being reader friendly but thats not my
intention. I want to provide the reader with a surprise, a nice
surprise."
"I still can't get used to the idea that people read and
enjoy my poetry."
"My first poem was about a battle between the snowflakes and the bunnies. I was eight and I was so pleased with that I stopped writing."
(then later, when he told the story of his mother's friend reading it in her apartment on fifth avenue), "I knew all about Fifth Avenue and I decided that it just couldn't get any better than that"
"I tend to write about what people talk about"
""Some Trees" is my farewell to poetry as we know it"
On Pierre Martory's English: "His English was quite remarkable and has as such inspired many of my own mutilations" (hence, the napkin bit)
Quoting O'Hara: "I must play you my sonatina that lasts three seconds"
And from today: "I write my poems in order to forget them."
"My first poem was about a battle between the snowflakes and the bunnies. I was eight and I was so pleased with that I stopped writing."
(then later, when he told the story of his mother's friend reading it in her apartment on fifth avenue), "I knew all about Fifth Avenue and I decided that it just couldn't get any better than that"
"I tend to write about what people talk about"
""Some Trees" is my farewell to poetry as we know it"
On Pierre Martory's English: "His English was quite remarkable and has as such inspired many of my own mutilations" (hence, the napkin bit)
Quoting O'Hara: "I must play you my sonatina that lasts three seconds"
And from today: "I write my poems in order to forget them."
Al mentioned this again in the webcast this morning, but another highlight was John's astonishment after we recited "Some Trees." To paraphrase: had he known when he was 20 that someday, six and a half decades later, a roomful of 20-year-olds would recite from memory that he wrote, he would have written more poems like that! It must be incredible to be confronted with your own legacy in such a real way, in a way that transcends but also complements all of the books, all of the praise, and all of the prizes.
"I'm a political poet but I don't write political poetry."
"There seem to be a lot of museums of helpful objects in Philadelphia." "I guess I've encourage a lot of deviant behavior in my writing."
Ashbery visit job assignments
MONDAY:
Kitchen helpers: Kenna, Amaris
Chair/set-up helpers: Adam, Alex, Naomi
Bouncers: Julia, Anna
Booksellers: Nina, Emily
TUESDAY:
Booksellers: Nina, Emily
Kitchen helpers: John, Joe
Kitchen helpers: Kenna, Amaris
Chair/set-up helpers: Adam, Alex, Naomi
Bouncers: Julia, Anna
Booksellers: Nina, Emily
TUESDAY:
Booksellers: Nina, Emily
Kitchen helpers: John, Joe
Snack Assignments
Snack Assignments
Please bring the snack to class on your assigned day, to be eaten during our snack break at around 3:15. If you're assigned for snack on the day of a Fellows visit, be sure to follow up with Lily to coordinate further.
John Ashbery
Mon Jan 21 (MLK Day – special evening class at Osage, 6 PM, with dinner)
Janet Malcolm
Rodrigo Garcia
Please bring the snack to class on your assigned day, to be eaten during our snack break at around 3:15. If you're assigned for snack on the day of a Fellows visit, be sure to follow up with Lily to coordinate further.
John Ashbery
Mon Jan 14
--John ValadezMon Jan 21 (MLK Day – special evening class at Osage, 6 PM, with dinner)
--Anna Strong
Mon Jan 28
Mon Jan 28
--Joe Pinsker
Mon Feb 4
--Kenna O'Rourke
Mon/Tues Feb 11-12 John
Ashbery visits
--Sarah Lindstedt, Glenn Shrum
Janet Malcolm
Mon Feb 18
--Julia Schwartz
Mon Feb 25
--Erica Kimmel
--Erica Kimmel
Mon Mar 4 no class – spring break
Mon Mar 11
--Josie Elias
Mon/Tues Mar 18-19 Janet
Malcolm visits
--Becky Havivi
--Jess Bergman
--Jess Bergman
Rodrigo Garcia
Mon Mar 25 (Passover eve)
Mon April 1
--Alex Zimmer
--Alex Zimmer
Mon April 8
--Willa Granger
--Willa Granger
Mon April 15
--Nina Wolpow
--Nina Wolpow
Mon/Tues April 22-23
Rodrigo Garcia visits
--Adam Pearlson, Naomi Shavin, Emily Cutler
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