Book Launch & Reading

Lost & Found Series IX Launch

Fri, May 3, 2024

6:00 PM–8:00 PM

This event will be in the Martin E. Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave, NYC. Please register below.

Join us to celebrate the launch of Lost & Found: the CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Series IX archival publications. Hear from Lost & Found editorsMegan Paslawski, Khaled al-Hilli,Christopher Green, and Ariel Francisco as they share their archival journeys and experiences researching and editing previously unpublished texts and discoveries unearthed from personal and institutional archives around the world. They will present their Series IX publications, which include correspondences between acclaimed writer Lucia Berlin and poets Edward Dorn and Jennifer Dunbar DornSargon Boulus, including a facsimile of his short-lived Bay Area poetry journal,Tigris, featuring a long poem by Boulus’ friend Etel Adnana selection of unpublished poetry and writings from the Tlingit artist Jim Schoppert alongside never before seen sketches and studies from his personal papers; and a selection of poems translated for the first ever English language collection from the Haitian-Dominican poet and revolutionary fighter Jacques Viau Renaud. Read more about the books, authors, and editors below.

Free and open to all, please REGISTER hereto attend.

The readings and presentations will be followed by a question and answer session with the audience.Copies of Lost & FoundSeries IX books will be available at the event! Doors at 6pm, come and get your copies of the books, mingle, have a snack or drink and the event will start at 6:30 PM.

Series IX includes the following publications:

Jim Schoppert: What Price This Pound of Whale? and Other Unpublished Writings (Christopher Green, editor)

Jim Schoppert poses with a wood chisel in his studio, January 16, 1984. Courtesy of Mary Randlett. University of Washington on Libraries, Special Collections, neg. no. UW41279

“Let us hear about your progress”: Letters Between Lucia Berlin, Edward Dorn, & Jennifer Dunbar Dorn
(Megan Paslawski, editor)

Photobooth picture of Jennifer Dunbar Dorn, Edward Dorn, and Lucia Berlin, c. late 1980s

Jacques Viau Renaud: Selections from “Permanence of the Cry” and Other Poems
(Ariel Francisco, editor and translator. Prologue by Sophie Maríñez)

Jacques Viau Renaud, 1963. Courtesy of Michelle Viau.

Sargon Boulus: “This Great River”—Translating the Beats into Arabic
(with a facsimile reproduction of Tigris featuring a long poem “Jebu” by Etel Adnan)
(Khaled al-Hilli, editor and translator)

Sargon Boulus and Etel Adnan. Courtesy of Samuel Shimon.

Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative Series IX is generously funded and supported by Engaging the Senses Foundation, with additional support from the Early Research Initiative and the Office of the Provost at the CUNY Graduate Center