Event Information:

• Mon

  23

  Feb

  2015

  John Berryman at 100: A Celebration at Columbia University

  3:00-8:30 p.m.Barnard Hall, James Room, 3009 Broadway, NYC

  Thursday, Feb 26

  New York, NY

  JOHN BERRYMAN AT 100:
  A CELEBRATION AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

  Join us for a celebration of John Berryman, in honor of the poet's centenary, marked by FSG last year with the publication of four volumes of Berryman's work, each with a new introduction:

  The Heart Is Strange:  New Selected Poems, edited and with an introduction by Daniel Swift

  The Dream Songs, edited by Daniel Swift with a new introduction by Michael Hofmann
  
  Berryman's Sonnets, edited by Daniel Swift with a new introduction by April Bernard
  
  77 Dream Songs, edited by Daniel Swift with a new introduction  by Henri Cole

  Fourteen distinguished contemporaries will commemorate the poet's life and work, in three afternoon panels, and each will read a favorite poem in that evening's reading, including April Bernard, Henri Cole,  Cornelius Eady, Rachel Hadas, Saskia Hamilton, Cathy Park Hong, A. Van Jordan, Robin Coste Lewis, Edward Mendelson, Patrick Rosal, Evie Shockley, Daniel Swift, Kevin Young, Rachel Zucker.

  Schedule of Events

  Panels
  

  3pm-3:50pm - Cornelius Eady, Rachel Hadas, Daniel Swift moderated by A. Van Jordan
  
  4pm-4:50pm - April Bernard, Henri Cole, A. Van Jordan
  moderated by Robin Coste Lewis

  5pm-5:50pm - Cathy Park Hong, Robin Coste Lewis, Kevin Young
  moderated by Rachel Zucker

  6pm-7pm - Public Reception

  7pm-8:15 - Reading

  All events are free and open to the public, including the reception.

  Co-sponsored by Barnard Forum on Poetry and Poetics; FSG; Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University; Poets House; and Writing Program, School of the Arts, Columbia University.