Nancy Kuhl and Richard Deming Reading / December 5, 2008
Event Report
On December 5, 2008, American poets Nancy Kuhl and Richard Deming read to an audience of about 50 people in Soderberg Auditorium for the seventh and final event of the Fall 2008 schedule. Kuhl opened up the event and read from her book The Wife of the Left Hand, her chapbook The Nocturnal Factory, as well as from some new material. Deming followed and read from his manuscript “Day for Night,” and from his book Let’s Not Call it Consequence. Afterward, both Kuhl and Deming fielded questions from audience members.
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Set List
Nancy Kuhl
from The Wife of the Left Hand (Shearsman)
The Wife of the Left Hand (1)
Wedding Party
The Affair of the Fire Eaters
Apology for New Wives
The Wife of the Left Hand (2)
from The Nocturnal Factory (Ugly Duckling)
On Hearing Voices
The Nocturnal Factory
The Truth About the Dead
Catalogue and Lexicon
Charms Against the Ghost
from new material
Holograph
Fray
Ring
Archival Footage # 32 : Subjects Unidentified
Richard Deming
from “Day for Night” (ms.) and Let’s Not Call it Consequence (Shearsman 2008)
Speak at This
A Fragment of Anything You Like
Some Kinds of Love are Mistaken for Vision
You Said It
Poem Beginning with a Line From Swamp Thing
By the Time You Read This
This Rift
The Last of New England
Film Thread
Annus Mirabilis
Shall I Read From the Battle of Thermopylae
In Case of Emergency
Questions
[for Deming] With a poem about a horror film, is the point to invoke the horror? To work through the horror?
[for Deming] Why did you choose to use the prose poetry form for “Film Thread”?
[for Kuhl] Has working with old archival material in your job affected your own writing?
Do you read your poems as you hear them as you’re writing them?