Friday, April 4, 2025
HQ 131 (320 York Street)

Join us for a symposium on the 50th anniversary of John Ashbery’s volume, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975). Free and open to the public.

Schedule:

11:30 Welcome
11:45 Panel 1: Richard Deming, Karin Roffman, Meghan O’Rourke, Langdon Hammer
12:50 Panel 2: Introduced by Sam Huber: Catherine Barnett, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Maggie Millner, Natalie Diaz
2:00 Coffee Break in HQ 134
2:30 Reading of John Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror”: Directed by Richard Thomas, with Lucasen Brown, Sam Huber, Monica Ong, Daniel Swain, Montana James Thomas and Richard Thomas
3:10 Panel 3: Introduced by Nancy Kuhl: Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ann Lauterbach
4:30 Reception in HQ 134

Read more at the Symposium website: https://campuspress.yale.edu/selfportraitat50/

Co-sponsored by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale Public Humanities, Whitney Humanities Center, The Yale Review, and the English Department