Melodia Jones Chair Jean-Jacques Thomas 2016 Publication Highlights Announced

Melodia E. Jones Chair and UB Distinguished Professor Jean-Jacques Thomas has published the proceedings of the “Creeley & France” Conference held at the University at Buffalo in April 2016, on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the creation of the Poetics Program at UB.

Texts by Robert Creeley and contemporary acclaimed French poet Jean Daive appear in French or in English translated by celebrated American poet Norma Cole. Other texts or articles by Abigail Lang, Vincent Broqua, Jan Baetens, Elke de Rijcke and others complete the volume [Formes Poétiques Contemporaines: 12, London/New Orleans: Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde, 2016].