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...Kenneth Koch '48 arrived at Harvard on Tuesday without much fanfare. A few posters in the Yard, most of them already covered by ads for IOP functions and offers for cheap futons, publicized his lecture that afternoon at the Graduate School of Education (GSE); his evening reading at the Signet went, with the exception of a few notices sent to student email lists, almost entirely unpromoted. Somehow it did not seem to matter: his lecture at the GSE drew a large audience, perhaps a hundred people, and the small space for his reading at the Signet filled up so quickly...
...ofthe New York School poets was learned from thevisual arts, Abstract Expressionism in particular,and much of the work Koch read at the SignetTuesday evening exhibited what Robert Creeley hascalled "that lovely, usefully uncluttereddirectness of perception" shared between New Yorkpainting and New York poetry. Following a verynice introduction by Signet president ScottRothkopf '99, he took his seat at the front of alovely, ornate old room in the Signet Societybuilding, and, sipping occasionally from a glassof Coke, read for nearly an hour, following thatdirectness of perception through poems fromseveral of his recent works, including theaward-winning One Train...
Following his reading, the Signet hosted adinner for Koch, toward the end of which he wasasked what he thought about the current state ofAmerican poetry. He seemed surprised by thequestion, and blinked in thought before answering."Well," he said finally. "I suppose Americanpoetry is right where it needs to be. I thinkAmerican poetry will be just fine." What acharming optimism--and whatever is true forAmerican poetry, it seems lucky to think that Kochmight just as well have been speaking for himself.Courtesy of KnopfOLD SCHOOL: Teacher-Poet KennethKoch...
...those who thought that tea was only something that those English blokes partook of, guess again. Come join the Signet Society for Arts and Letters at their weekly tea and discover that Americans can boil water too. 5 to 7 p.m., 46 Dunster St. FREE...