May 26th: Douglas Crase with Kyle Dacuyan, Jenni Quilter, and Elizabeth Willis
Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, Douglas Crase will be discussing his new collection On Autumn Lake with Kyle Dacuyan, Jenni Quilter, and Elizabeth Willis.
The live event will stream directly on this page on Thursday, May 26th at 7 pm ET. There is no login or rsvp required. A recording will be posted shortly afterwards.
Douglas Crase — On Autumn Lake: The Collected Essays (Published by Nightboat Books, 2022)
Douglas Crase’s prose is rich with conviction and desire, inspiring, as John Yau wrote, “the kind of attention usually reserved for poetry.” His essays, written as rhythmically as poems, take a personal rather than abstract approach, offering committed and sometimes intimate portraits of John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Lorine Niedecker, and others. With generosity of spirit, Crase shares his devotion to poetry, democracy, and landscape in this handsome volume that greatly enlarges the available body of his work and will be seen as the essential complement to his collected poems.
Douglas Crase was named a MacArthur Fellow for his poems and essays in 1987. His first book, The Revisionist, was nominated for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. His collected poems, The Revisionist and The Astropastorals, was a Book of the Year 2019 in the Times Literary Supplement and Hyperallergic. His newly collected essays, On Autumn Lake, has been awarded a starred review by Kirkus.
He lives in New York and Pennsylvania.
Kyle Dacuyan is a poet, performer, and translator. His poems have appeared in DIAGRAM, Lambda Literary, Foundry, and Best New Poets, among other places, and he is the recipient of scholarships from Poets House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. Prior to joining The Poetry Project, he served as Co-Director of National Outreach and Membership at PEN America, where he led the launch of a nationwide community engagement fund for writers. Before that, he served as Associate Director at the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America.
Jenni Quilter teaches at NYU, where she is the Executive Director of the Expository Writing Program and the Assistant Vice Dean for General Education at the College of Arts & Sciences. Her most recent book is Neon in Daylight: New York Painters and Poets, for which she was a finalist for the 2014 AICA Award for Best Criticism. She has written for the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Poetry Review, and the London Review of Books.
Elizabeth Willis is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Alive: New and Selected Poems (New York Review Books, 2015), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Recent work is available in last month’s issue of Harper’s. She teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.