9.2 Lisa Jarnot: "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise"

Welcome to the second episode of Season Nine of the Bagley Wright Lecture Series on Poetry podcast.

Season Nine is comprised of lectures written and delivered by Lisa Jarnot during her tenure as a Bagley Wright Lecturer.

Lisa Jarnot’s autobiographical lectures are an intimate, uncompromising, and generous glimpse into a remarkable life in poetry. Throughout these talks, Jarnot explores what it means to be a woman in a male-centered experimental tradition, to have white privilege, and to write poetry. She examines the prophetic tradition in American poetry as inflected through counter-cultural spirituality, investigates the generative tensions at the intersections of formal and informal, traditional and experimental; develops relationships between ‘deep gossip’ and ecstatic connectedness; and asks, finally, what does it mean for the poet to act as prophet in envisioning a new heaven and a new earth.

Today we'll hear "Abandon the Creeping Meatball: an Anarcho-Spiritual Treatise,” given February 18, 2021, in partnership with the University of Buffalo, via Zoom.

Click here to view the Bruce Kurland paintings discussed in this talk.

Lisa Jarnot’s book based on her BWLS lectures, Four Lectures, is forthcoming from Wave Books, and is available here.

Visit us at our website, www.bagleywrightlectures.org, for more information about Bagley Wright lecturers, as well as links to supplementary materials on each lecturer’s archive page, including selected writings.

Music: "I Recall" by Blue Dot Sessions

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