Please join the Organism for Poetic Research (OPR), in collaboration with the NYU Modern and Contemporary Colloquium (MACC), for our first event of the Spring semester: a lecture by Professor Daniel Katz (University of Warwick), titled "Dada Prodigies of Black: Bob Kaufman's Abomunist Manifesto and the San Francisco Renaissance." (RSVP required to attend.)
Professor Daniel Katz teaches in the English and Comparative Literary Studies programme at the University of Warwick. His edition of Jack Spicer's uncollected poetry and plays—Be Brave To Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan UP, 2021)—has recently been published, following his critical study, The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh UP, 2013). Recent and forthcoming articles and chapters include pieces on Samuel Beckett's poetry, William Carlos Williams, Ben Lerner, Peter Gizzi, Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein, and an article on "Sublimation and Symptom" for The Bloomsbury Handbook on Literature and Psychoanalysis (forthcoming). He has been an Executive Board member of the Samuel Beckett Society, and co-director of Warwick's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. Founding Editor of the book series Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics, Daniel is currently at work on a new monograph to appear with Oxford University Press: "The Big Lie of the Personal: Poetry, Politics, and the Lyric Subject," which will examine poets such as Yeats, Neruda, Aragon, Bob Kaufman, Robert Duncan, and Denise Riley—as well as others who have come to prominence in the twenty-first century.
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