January 19, 1995: Vol26n13: 'Wednesdays at 4 Plus' series offers lectures, films

By PATRICIA DONOVAN
News Bureau Staff
The Spring 1995 "Wednesdays at 4 Plus" literary series, to be
presented by UB from Jan. 25 through April 26, will offer a program of
lectures, readings and films, plus a scholarly conference on the
convergence of science and the humanities.
	Guest lecturers will include Booker Prize-winning novelist and
poet Michael Ondaatje ("The English Patient") and celebrated American
novelist and translator Paul Auster ("Mr. Vertigo," "Leviathon," "The
Music of Chance"). They will be joined by Marjorie Perloff of Stanford
University, one of the most influential critics of 20th-century
poetry, and poet Jorie Graham, a 1990 MacArthur fellow and widely
published writer and editor of national distinction. 
	The series also will feature readings by French poet, novelist
and critic Christian Prigent; British poets Ric Caddel and Peter
Middleton, and Jose Kozer, one of the Spanish-speaking world's most
original and prolific poets.
	Other visiting writers will include Welch Everman and Maureen
Owen, Laura Moriarity and Charles Alexander, Lydia Davis, Rae
Armantrout and Douglas Messerli, Fanny Howe and Marlene Nourbese
Philip, and British literary critic Peter Nicholls.
	Most events will take place on the North Campus, although a
concert by saxophonist Steve Lacy, a jazz songwriter who has
collaborated with many poets in his career, will take place on April
19 at the Calumet Arts Club on West Chippewa St., Buffalo. Lacy will
be joined by vocalist Irene Aebi. All events are free of charge and
open to the public.
	Jorie Graham, prizewinning poet, editor and essayist, opens
the series Wednesday Jan. 25 with a poetry reading at 4 p.m. in the
Center for the Arts Screening Room. In 1990, she was awarded a coveted
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship - popularly known as a
"MacArthur genius grant."
	Her books of poetry include "Materialism," "The Region of
Unlikeness" and "The End of Beauty," and she has published widely in
the finest magazines and journals here and abroad. Her work has been
commissioned by the University of Iowa Museum of Art, the 92nd Street
Y and National Public Radio, among others. She has received awards and
grants from the NEA, American Poetry Review, the American Academy and
Institute of Arts and Letters, and the Academy of American Poets.