Upcoming readings.

Some readings are coming in support of Earth Is Best and beyond.

Louisville Conference 2020

February 20, 2020, at 1:30 p.m., I will be speaking on the poetry of John Peck in relation to the Red Book of C.G. Jung, joined in a broader discussion on Peck’s work by Elizabeth T. Grey, Jr. and Joseph Donahue.

February 21, 2020, at 10 p.m., I will be join Jeanne Heuving in a poetry reading for selva oscura press at the Brown Hotel in downtown Louisville.

February 22, 2020, at 2:45 p.m., I will chair a reading by Nathaniel Tarn from his magnificent Atlantis: An autoanthropology, whose respondents will be Norman Finkelstein, Forrest Gander, and Nathaniel Mackey.

March 24, 2020, I will be reading in the evening with Alan Felsenthal at Measure Twice in Brooklyn New York.

April 30, 2020, I will be reading in the evening at Trinity College, Cambridge University.

May 1, 2020, I will deliver a lecture, “Three Apocalypses,” at Trinity College, Cambridge University. The respondent will be Rowan Williams.

Look for readings in Milwaukee and Colorado in the Fall!

Immanentizing the Eschaton.

Two upcoming appearances. Well, actually three. The first is two-for-one.

On Friday, February 23 and Saturday, February 24, 2018, I will be participating in two panels at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900.

On Friday, February 23, I'll be a respondent on a panel including the work of the great poet Márton Koppány. Here's one of Márton's poems.

And here's a photo of Márton at Lake Balaton in Hungary.

Photo by Gyöngyi Boldog

Then, on Saturday, February 24, I will be participating on a panel in honor of Nathaniel Tarn's ninetieth birthday, which is coming later this year. I'll be speaking about Messianic Time in Tarn's late poetry, which is magnificent. (The late poetry, that is. Messianic time, which I've only ever intuited, will also very likely be magnificent.)

Here is a photo of Tarn and myself, taken in Santa Fe in July 2016. Look at that beautiful Cultural Society t-shirt.

Back in Chicago, on Thursday, March 1, 2018, at 4:30 p.m. in Swift Hall at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, I will be speaking about Thick and Dazzling Darkness for the Lumen Christi Institute. Here are the details for the event. There's a full Moon opposed to the Sun conjunct Neptune, so it's bound to be mystically potent. I'll be speaking among other things on the work of Frank Samperi, Fanny Howe, Joseph Donahue, and Pam Rehm.

So, what are you waiting for? HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME.

Tarn on the Sampo.

At Lute & Drum, the cosmophanic internet potentia edited by Ken Taylor and Pete Moore, Nathaniel Tarn reflects on The Sampo, about which he says, among other things, "Basing himself on entry into one of the greatest of all human fables, O’Leary confirms that the North could hold its explosive but purely lyrical epics against anything that the South could produce and with perhaps the greatest and most solemn celebration of chivalry, albeit without ever departing from the commons, kin to the Arthurian legends, the Icelandic sagas, the medieval splendors of Middle High German."

Do you have your Sampo yet?