Archambeau World Tour, Spring 2010

During the months I was carting myself around in a wheelchair after my little car-vs.-bike accident last year, I turned down just about every speaking engagement I was offered. I'm still taking it pretty easy, even though I'm more or less back to walking (albeit with what I hope is a rakish cane). But there's one engagement I didn't turn down, though, since it will let me return to my alma mater and see some old friends. So I'm firing up the motorcade, the tour busses, and the police escort, and making my way in stately procession to South Bend, Indiana this March, to give a poetry reading on a bill with Joyelle McSweeney and Cornelius Eady. It's part of a gathering of poets affiliated with Notre Dame. I'm hoping to be able to stick around to be on some follow-up panel as well. But those with a serious wish to either strew rose-petals in my path or hurl rotten fruit in my general direction are advised to look for me on the evening of Monday, March 29. Here's the schedule:


Monday, March 29

3 p.m. Reading: Jenny Boully, Beth Ann Fennelly, and Kimberly Blaeser.

(All readings followed by Q & A.)

4:30 p.m. Reception at McKenna Hall. Informal conversation open to all.

5 p.m. MFA and PhD students present papers and give readings from The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008.

8 p.m. Reading: Joyelle McSweeney, Robert Archambeau, and Cornelius Eady.


Tuesday, March 30

3 p.m. Reading: Francisco Aragón, Jacque Brogan, and John Wilkinson.

4:30 p.m. MFA and PhD students present papers and give readings from The Open Light: Poets from Notre Dame, 1991-2008.

8 p.m. Reading: Henry Weinfield, Orlando Ricardo Menes, and Mary Hawley.


Wednesday, March 31

10:30 a.m. Panel on poetry and poetics.

1:30 p.m. Panel on the poetic vocation and the poet’s education.

All events are in McKenna Hall, Seminar Room 100-104.


Many thanks for Colleen Hoover and Orlando Ricardo Menes for putting all this together.