Poetry at Pembroke: Laurence Rusk & Peter J. King
PAST EVENT | 21 June 2018 18:00
Please join us on 21 June at 6pm for a late addition to the Poetry at Pembroke series.
The series has been organised by Dr Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke.
To find out more please contact Peter King.
These events are free and open to the public.
Laurence Rusk’s poems and essays have appeared in Best New Poets (winning the Open Competition Prize), Hotel Amerika, The Wallace Stevens Journal, the Writer’s Chronicle and elsewhere in the U.S., and The Interpreter’s House, Fire, Long Poem Magazine, and the anthology Infinite Riches in a Little Room in the U.K. Her collections of poetry are Pictures in the Firestorm (2nd edition 2015) and What Remains to Be Seen, a new pamphlet that was short-listed for the Munster Literature Centre’s Fool for Poetry Prize. The latter contains a sequence inspired by children’s art from Theresienstadt, the WWII prison camp hear Prague. She also has a critical study, The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson (2009). Rusk has taught at Stanford University, including its programmes in Paris, Oxford, and Berlin, and at Swarthmore College, and now divides her time between Portland, Oregon, and Oxford, England. https://stanford.edu/~rusk/
Peter J. King was active on the London poetry scene in the 1970s, running Tapocketa Press and co-editing words worth magazine with Alaric Sumner. Aside from a brief return to writing and publishing in the 1980s, and translating from modern Greek poetry with Andrea Christofidou, he abandoned poetry for philosophy until 2013, since when he has been writing, performing, and publishing frenetically. His poetry, including translations from German and Greek, has been published in journals such as Acumen, Bare Fiction, The Curlew, Dream Catcher, Eye to the Telescope, The Interpreter’s House Lighthouse, New Walk, Osiris, Raum, Oxford Magazine, the Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, A Restricted View from Under the Hedge, Shoreline of Infinity, Tears in the Fence, and The Writers’ Café. His latest collections are Adding Colours to the Chameleon (2016, Wisdom’s Bottom Press) and All What Larkin (2017, Albion Beatnik Press). King is Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke College.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/
Poetry at Pembroke: Laurence Rusk & Peter J. King
PAST EVENT | 21 June 2018 18:00
Please join us on 21 June at 6pm for a late addition to the Poetry at Pembroke series.
The series has been organised by Dr Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke.
To find out more please contact Peter King.
These events are free and open to the public.
Laurence Rusk’s poems and essays have appeared in Best New Poets (winning the Open Competition Prize), Hotel Amerika, The Wallace Stevens Journal, the Writer’s Chronicle and elsewhere in the U.S., and The Interpreter’s House, Fire, Long Poem Magazine, and the anthology Infinite Riches in a Little Room in the U.K. Her collections of poetry are Pictures in the Firestorm (2nd edition 2015) and What Remains to Be Seen, a new pamphlet that was short-listed for the Munster Literature Centre’s Fool for Poetry Prize. The latter contains a sequence inspired by children’s art from Theresienstadt, the WWII prison camp hear Prague. She also has a critical study, The Life Writing of Otherness: Woolf, Baldwin, Kingston, and Winterson (2009). Rusk has taught at Stanford University, including its programmes in Paris, Oxford, and Berlin, and at Swarthmore College, and now divides her time between Portland, Oregon, and Oxford, England. https://stanford.edu/~rusk/
Peter J. King was active on the London poetry scene in the 1970s, running Tapocketa Press and co-editing words worth magazine with Alaric Sumner. Aside from a brief return to writing and publishing in the 1980s, and translating from modern Greek poetry with Andrea Christofidou, he abandoned poetry for philosophy until 2013, since when he has been writing, performing, and publishing frenetically. His poetry, including translations from German and Greek, has been published in journals such as Acumen, Bare Fiction, The Curlew, Dream Catcher, Eye to the Telescope, The Interpreter’s House Lighthouse, New Walk, Osiris, Raum, Oxford Magazine, the Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, A Restricted View from Under the Hedge, Shoreline of Infinity, Tears in the Fence, and The Writers’ Café. His latest collections are Adding Colours to the Chameleon (2016, Wisdom’s Bottom Press) and All What Larkin (2017, Albion Beatnik Press). King is Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke College.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/