An Afternoon of Poetry with Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans

Join us for an afternoon of poetry featuring Bob Perelman and Brian Kim Stefans. Perelman will share recent poems in addition to selections from his latest book, Chatty Fossils. Stefans will also share new poems, as well as read his recent AI-assisted work, Beauty Face.

Register here to attend. Drinks and light refreshments will be served.

Bob Perelman has published numerous books of poems, including: Chatty Fossils (Roof Books, 2026), Jack and Jill in Troy (Roof, 2019); Iflife (Roof, 2006); Playing Bodies, in collaboration with painter Francie Shaw (Granary Books, 2004); and Ten to One: Selected Poems (Wesleyan University Press, 1999). His critical books are The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History (California, 1994); The Trouble With Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky (Princeton, 1996); Modernism the Morning After (Alabama, 2017). His work can be heard on Penn Sound, and a feature on his work appears in Jacket 39. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brian Kim Stefans is a poet, translator, and digital artist who teaches at UCLA. His recent books include For Trapped Things (Roof Books, 2023) and the translations Festivals of Patience: The Verse Poems of Rimbaud (Kenning Editions, 2021). His critical book Word Toys: Poetry and Technics was published by the University of Alabama Press in 2017. His digital work “The Dreamlife of Letters” (2000) is widely anthologized in electronic literature scholarship and curricula. Poems have appeared in Poetry (Chicago), Lana Turner and other venues including Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology (2013).

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