Department of English
Sophie Kerr Lecture Series: Josh Weiner
Listen to Weiner read two poems from the reading:
"Cricket" and "Kennedy Center"
Josh Weiner is the author of two books, The World's Room and From the Book of Giants. He has won the Whiting Award and the Rome Prize. His poems appear in The New York Review of Books, Poetry, Slate, Threepenny Review and elsewhere. The poetry editor of Tikkun, Weiner is an associate professor at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Read and listen to Josh Weiner read "Trampoline" at Slate.
Read "Nursery Rhyme" at AGNI.
Sophie Kerr Room, Wednesday, November 15, 4:30 p.m.
Joshua Weiner looks up from signing books after the reading.
Joshua Weiner signs a book for the beamish Julie Converse '08.
Joshua Weiner and WC's Professor Peter Campion pose for the camera.
Joshua Weiner, signing books.
Bobbby Bangert '08 looks on while Joshua Weiner signs his book.
Praise for Josh Weiner:
Joshua Weiner "possesses a sure knowledge of how to find the poem's nerve. His poems delight in experience--the world is a fact for him, not a linguistic hypothesis. The pleasure a reader takes in his many-vectored engagement with his materials is for me one of the sure signs of his talent's oddball originality. That he doesn't quite fit anywhere is as much an aesthetic credo as it is a stance toward experience."
From "Emerging Poet: On Joshua Weiner" by Tom Sleigh, published at Poetry.org
"If his is a poetry of self-discovery, the self-discovery arises in the company of others who for good or ill compel us to imagine how we could be otherwise than as we are."
From The Boston Review's "Poet's Sampler: Joshua Weiner" by Alan Shapiro.
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