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Evolving from the Readings in Contemporary Poetry Series held at Dia:Chelsea from 1987–2003, the Readings in Contemporary Literature series invites writers working in a variety of literary genres to read from their recent work at Dia:Beacon and to participate in a four-day residency in the city of Beacon. As part of the residency, participants will create new work by directly responding to Dia’s collection and their experience of visiting the museum. A biannual colloquy will provide a public forum for a discussion between the writers, the public, and members of the visual art community.
Readings in Contemporary Literature are made possible through the generosity of the Dyson Foundation, the Juliet Lea Hillman Simonds Foundation, and Louise Riggio.
Tickets are $15; $10 for students and seniors; $3 for members. Tickets include museum admission. Reservations are suggested. Please call Dia:Beacon at 845 440 0100 extension 45.
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November 19, 2006
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Ann Lauterbach
Ann Lauterbach’s collections of poetry include: Hum (2005); If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (2001), On a Stair (1997), And for Example (1994), Clamor (1991), Before Recollection (1987), and Many Times, but Then (1979). Her book of essays, The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience, appeared in 2005. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation. Since 1991 she has taught at Bard College, where she is David and Ruth Schwab III Professor of Language and Literature and co-directs the Writing Division of the M.F.A. program.
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October 8, 2006
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Denis Johnson
Denis Johnson was born in 1949 in Munich, Germany, and raised in Tokyo, Manila, and Washington. His fiction includes Angels, The Stars at Noon, Jesus' Son, and The Name of the World. In 2001, a collection of his international journalism Seek: Reports from the Edges of America and Beyond appeared. His books of poems include The Man Among the Seals, Inner Weather, The Incognito Lounge and The Veil. His plays include Hellhound (on my Trail), and Shoppers Carried by Escalators into the Flames. He lives in North Idaho.
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June 11, 2006
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John Ashbery
John Ashbery is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including Chinese Whispers (2002), Your Name Here (2000), Can You Hear Birds (1995), Flow Chart (1991), Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975), which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award, and Some Trees (1956), which was selected by W.H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series. He is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and is currently the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
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May 21, 2006
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Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is the author of 6 acclaimed works of nonfiction, including River of Shadows: Eadward Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (2003); As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art (2001); the bestselling Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2000); and Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West(1994).
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November 6, 2005
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August Kleinzahler
August Kleinzahler's books of poetry include A Calendar of Airs (1978); Storm over Hackensack (1985); Earthquake Weather (1989); Red Sauce Whiskey and Snow (1995); Green Sees Things in Waves (1998); and Live from the Hong Kong Nile Club: Poems 1975-1990 (2000). The Strange Hours Travelers Keep (2003) received the 2004 Griffin International Poetry Prize.
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September 18, 2005
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Lewis Hyde
"Two Accidents: the Uses of Chance in Art"
Lewis Hyde is the author of The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property (1983) and Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art (1998). A MacArthur Fellow and former director of creative writing at Harvard, he is currently Luce Professor of Art and Politics at Kenyon College.
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June 26, 2005
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Anne Carson
"Variations on the Right to Remain Silent"
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and scholar of classics who lives in Ann Arbor, and teaches classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Her books include Men in the Off Hours (2000), Economy of the Unlost (1999), Autobiography of Red (1998), Glass, Irony, and God (1995), and Eros the Bittersweet (1986).
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