Stephen Cope and Catherine Taylor sitting in chairs in front of a bookcase and a window talking to someone out of frame
Stephen Cope (left) and Catherine Taylor (right)

Stephen Cope and Catherine Taylor Reading / March 20, 2008

Event Report

A full Soderberg Auditorium greeted poet Stephen Cope and experimental essayist Catherine Taylor for the third event of the spring 2008 NWS on March 20, 2008. Cope read from his latest manuscript, “The Bellerophonic Letter,” including several provocative poems such as “Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Assassination of a President,” while Taylor read engaging excerpts from her latest hybrid genre essay “Duffer’s Drift.”

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Set List

Stephen Cope

All selections from “The Bellerophonic Letter”

Untitled

Version, Vertige

Version, Vertige: I am Tiger Woods

Epistemophilia

Say’s Laws

Say’s Law

Epistemophilia

Conference of the Birds

Autumn Leaves

The Way You Look Tonight

“There needn’t be…”

“A thief steals skulls…”

Subset from “Conference of the Birds” (selections—all untitled)

Past Chance

If it’s Grace it Comes Accidentally

The Gentle Ham Sandwich…

Solo

Objective Perfection

The Flowers for Catherine

Election

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Assassination of a President

Catherine Taylor

Selections from a hybrid genre essay about South Africa

“Duffer’s Drift”