- This evening's open mic guest at The Poetry Institute—New Haven has penned several volumes, most recently the prose poetry collection Jargon (Quale Press, 2010), following 2009’s And How to End It (Quale Press). Brian Clements is founding editor both of Firewheel Editions (small press publisher of the 2009 anthology An Introduction to the Prose Poem, which Brian co-edited with Jamey Dunham) and the journal Sentence: a journal of prose poetics, whose ninth issue, featuring contributions by Jeff Allessandrelli, Alexios Antypas, Kerry Banazek and Eric Burger, contains reviews, themed poetry, translations.
- Brian’s
writing is credited with reveling in the places where we all settle into “language’s
sly do-overs”—those cultural forms of rhetoric and narrative argument that make
the world familiar, yet tend to abandon us when we need them most, such as in times of war/economic collapse, or during more personal trials, like the onset of age, even as we persevere to emerge from the dark places to see sunlight, once more.
- A Professor of Writing, Linguistics, and Creative Process, Brian also coordinates the MFA in Creative and Professional Writing at Western Connecticut State University.
Find
out more about Brian and his work in the following interview by Cheryl Pallant at
the UK site The Argotist here. The Weekly Rader posts his expansive piece "Basketball Benediction" here.
An eclectic celebration of the form, The Poetry Institute’s Open
Mic Poetry program meets the third Thursday of each month in the warm setting
of the New Haven-based Young Men’s Institute Library reading room on the second
floor, beginning at 7:00 pm (please arrive early to sign up to read).
Refreshments are served.
For more information, contact The pi-New Haven at:
The Institute Library
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
847 Chapel Street
New Haven, CT
Email: PoetryInstitute@gmail.com
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