Please join us this Wednesday at 5.15 in M20 for our first guest speaker of the semester. This promises to be a terrific paper, and we look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there. Details below:

Kevin Nolan (University of Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China)
'The two camps of elegy: Frank O'Hara's "In Memory of my Feelings" and Charles Olson's "As the Dead Prey upon us"'

Kevin Nolan is the author of five books of poetry, including Alar (1998) and, most recently, Loving Little Orlick (2008). A new text of prose poems, Hey Filament, is forthcoming. He has written extensively on late-twentieth-century American poetry, has curated the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, and has written groundbreaking pieces on the Cambridge poet J H Prynne. He is currently working on two book- length critical studies: A Byzantine Place: Frank O'Hara and American Transcendentalism and Living with Odradek (on Kafka).

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