Book Launch, Conversation & Reading

The Shifting Subject(s) & Position(s) of a New Erotics: A Launch and an Anti-lecture

Tue, Oct 15, 2024

6:00 PM–7:30 PM

Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, NYC.
Free and open to all. Registration required.

What are the terms of “acceptable risk” in writing the body? How do poets accommodate play, experimentation, and the erotic while negotiating expectations of conservative readers and editors, as well as generalizations of what a poem (or body) can do? How do poets write the body with/in various media frameworks? And how do these encounters point us toward new subjectivities and embodied relations? To celebrate the launch of the new book Windows 85 (Roof Books) by Chris Campanioni, the author will be joined by three poets Ronaldo V. Wilson, Sara Deniz Akant, and Wayne Koestenbaum who will read and discuss the entanglement of times/spaces/senders/receivers/mothers/tongues limned in acts of correspondence and co-presence, considering the ways in which a “new erotics” is shaped by and also reshaping the norms and forms of new media, how translation can tend a resistance to fluency and a reimagining of origin, and whether we might reorient our limits as edges.

Free and open to all. Copies of Windows 85 will be available from Roof Books for purchase at the event; click here to learn more about the book and the Segue Foundation. Please register here to attend.

This event is organized and hosted by the Center for the Humanities and Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center, and co-sponsored by the PhD Department in English, and the PhD Department in Comparative Literature , and Roof Books.