Rob Halpern, George Oppen Memorial Lecture

Rob Halpern has written several books of poetry, including Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2004), Imaginary Politics (Tap Root Editions 2008), and Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009). Music for Porn is forthcoming, from Nightboat Books. With Taylor Brady, he also co-authored the book length poem Snow Sensitive Skin Currently, he is co-editing the poems of the late Frances Jaffer, together with Kathleen Fraser, and translating the early essays of Georges Perec, the second of which, "Commitment or the Crisis of Language," recently appeared in the Review of Contemporary Fiction with an essay of his own on Perec.