Written Arts Program, Interdisciplinary Study of Religions, Jewish Life, and the Bard Sangha Presents

Dissolving Words

In this talk, poet and Zen priest Norman Fischer will speak about the relationship between silence and words: what are words, what do they mean, how much can we rely on them? Does poetry really consist of words? Do words dissolve into silence, does silence pervade (poetic) words? He'll present poems from his new serial poem Through a Window, just out from Roof Books in New York.

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Norman Fischer has been a Zen Buddhist priest for nearly 30 years, serving as abbot for the San Francisco Zen Center from 1995-2000. Founder and teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation, he is one of the most highly respected Zen teachers in America, regularly leading Zen Buddhist retreats and events. He has also been one of the leaders in the re-emergence of Jewish Meditation. Norman has published thirty books of poetry, including the anthology Selected Poems 1980-2013. As one of the most prominent voices in Zen Buddhism today, as well as a theoretically informed and accomplished poet in contemporary letters, Norman’s work offers a rich terrain for investigation into the meeting of post-post-modern and Buddhist poetics.

For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4

Location: Bard Hall

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