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5:00pm, Classics 110, 1010 E. 59th Street
Tuesday, January 16 Monday, January 29 Tuesday, February 6
Cosponsored by:
Friday, April 6 co-sponsoreded by Chicago Review, Nicholson Center
To be discussed: *Both books will be available at the Seminary Coop and excerpts will be available online (see above) 5:00pm, Swift Lecture Hall, 1025 E. 58th Street
Wed, April 11 Thur, April 12 Fri, April 13
Thursday, April 12, 2007 Friday, April 13 Quang Bao was born in Can Tho, Vietnam and came to the United States in 1975 when he was six years old. He was educated at Boston University and Columbia University and is currently Executive Director of The Asian American Writers’ Workshop, based in Manhattan. He has received numerous fellowships and awards for his work and his writing has appeared recently in The Boston Globe, The Threepenny Review, The New York Times, Ploughshares and National Public Radio. He is the editor of Take Out: Queer Writing from Asian Pacific America and the forthcoming Penguin Anthology of Asian American Literature. He has just completed his first novel and is working on an art book about visual art, theater and music from Denmark. Luisa A. Igloria (previously published as Maria Luisa Aguilar-Cariño) is an Associate Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program and Department of English, Old Dominion University (Norfolk, Virginia ). Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals including Poetry, Crab Orchard Review, The Missouri Review, Poetry East, Smartish Pace, The Asian Pacific American Journal, and/ TriQuarterly. Various national and international literary awards include the 2007 James Hearst Poetry Prize (selected by former US Poet Laureate Ted Kooser for the North American Review); the 2006 National Writers Union poetry award, selected by Adrienne Rich; the 2006 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize ( Crab Orchard Review ); the 2006 Stephen Dunn Award for Poetry; Finalist for the 2005 George Bogin Memorial Award for Poetry (Poetry Society of America, selected by Joy Harjo); the 2004 Fugue Poetry Prize(selected by Ellen Bryant Voigt); Finalist in the 2003 Larry Levis Editors Prize for Poetry from The Missouri Review; Finalist in the 2003 Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press); a 2003 partial fellowship to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg; two Pushcart Prize nominations; and the 1998 George Kent Award for Poetry. Originally from Baguio City in the Philippines, Luisa is also an eleven-time recipient of the Carlos Palanca Memorial Award for Literature in three genres (poetry, nonfiction, and short fiction); the Palanca award is the Philippines' highest literary distinction. She has published nine books including ENCANTO (Anvil, 2004),IN THE GARDEN OF THE THREE ISLANDS (Moyer Bell/Asphodel, 1995), and most recently TRILL & MORDENT (WordTech Editions, fall 2005. TRILL & MORDENT was a Runner-up for the 2004 Editions Prize, the recipient of the 2005 Calatagan Award from the Philippine American Writers and Artists organizationa nominee for the 9th annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards (poetry category) in 2006, and a nominee for the 2007 Global Filipino Literary Awards (poetry category). www.luisaigloria.com Both of these events are presented by The Center on Race, Politics, and Culture co-sponsored by The Committee on Creative Writing and Poem Present Monday, April 16
POEM PRESENT:
Reading by Cole Swensen
Wednesday, May 3
Monday, May 7
Bilingual session (French and English). Copies of Racine’s relevant commentaries are available in front of Wieboldt 205, or online HERE Lunch will be provided, rsvp required by May 10 to cggilbert@uchicago.edu
2005-2006 Autumn 2005
POEM PRESENT: Reading by
Susan Wheeler FROM POETRY TO VERSE: THE MAKING OF MODERN POETRY An Exhibition in the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Chicago Library Main Gallery September 16, 2005 - February 12, 2006 The preservation of the record of modern poetry has a long tradition at the University of Chicago. Ever since the bequest of her personal papers and the editorial files of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse by Harriet Monroe in 1931, the University of Chicago has taken on a leadership role in documenting the publishing of modern poetry. Focusing on the editorial files and correspondence of poetry journals, the collections reflect the decisive role of so-called "little" magazines in discovering and providing a voice to new emerging poets. Just as Harriet Monroe set out in 1912 to create an audience for new poets and ideas, following her motto "To have great poets there must be great audiences too," subsequent editors have sought to emulate her success and to create journals that define a generation. This exhibition documents the process of bringing new poetry to the public in all its various formats. By tracing the stages of individual poems and poetry collections alike, from their first drafts to their final published versions, and by illustrating the many physical formats through which poetry is disseminated since 1912, the show attempts to capture the full spectrum of poetry publishing. Drawing upon the archives of Poetry, Chicago Review, Big Table, Verse, LVNG, and the papers of The Poetry Center of Chicago, the exhibit tracks the evolution and changing character of poetry from 1912 to the present. This includes a study of how the publishing process impacts upon the creative process and may help define the meaning of modern poetry at specific times. It will also permit an inquiry into the establishment of literary reputations. The exhibition is co-curated by Sebastian Hierl, Sandy Roscoe, and David Pavelich. Thursday, October 6 5:30pm, Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. Friday, October 7 POEM PRESENT: Lecture by Susan Wheeler Title: “Mutant Vernaculars!” 1:00pm, Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Thursday, October 20 HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Raymond Geuss, Reader in Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy,University of Cambridge "Celan's Meridian" 3:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Thursday, October 20 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Kenneth Fields 5:30pm, University of Chicago Special Collections Resource Center, 1100 East 57th Street Friday, October 21 POEM PRESENT & HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Lecture by Kenneth Fields Title: "The Darkness Sur/ Rounds us: The Power of Poetic Innuendo" 1:00pm, Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Wednesday, November 2 HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Bozena Shallcross, Associate Professor of Polish Literature "A Poet's Demise as a Holocaust Text" 5:00pm, Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Tuesday, November 8 Susan Howe and David Grubbs: THIEFTH 7:00pm, Fulton Recital Hall “Thiefth” is the first collaboration between poet Susan Howe and musician and composer David Grubbs. The two were brought together when the Fondation Cartier in Paris proposed a collaborative performance. Grubbs had been an ardent reader of Howe’s for more than a decade, and the opportunity to work with Howe’s poetry and her voice immediately intrigued. In late 2003, the two set about to create performance versions of “Thorow” and “Melville’s Marginalia,” two of Howe’s longer poems. Drawing from the journals of Sir William Johnson and Henry David Thoreau, “Thorow” both evokes the winter landscape that surrounds Lake George in upstate New York, and explores collisions and collusions of historical violence and national identity. “Thorow” is an act of second seeing in which Howe and Grubbs engage the lake’s glittering, ice surface as well as the insistent voices that haunt an unseen world underneath. "Melville's Marginalia" is an approach to an elusive and allusive mind through Herman Melville's own reading and the notations he made in some of the books he owned and loved. The collaging and mirror-imaging of words and sounds are concretions of verbal static, visual mediations on what can and cannot be said. Grubbs began his efforts by recording Howe’s reading of the poem and asking the Swedish reed player Mats Gustafsson to record variations on the flute part from the “Thoreau” movement of Charles Ives’ “Concord” piano sonata. Greek cellist Nikos Veliotis was subsequently enlisted. Thiefth, a CD comprising recordings of “Thorow” and “Melville’s Marginalia,” will be released on the Blue Chopsticks label in the fall of 2005. For this performance, Susan Howe will read, accompanied by David Grubbs at the piano and computer. This event is presented in collaboration with the School of the Art Institute, the Chicago Poetry Project, the Committee on Creative Writing and Chicago Review. Thursday, November 10 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Devin Johnston 5:30pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street This event is funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc. Friday, November 11 POEM PRESENT: Lecture by Devin Johnston Title: “Creaturely” 1:00pm, Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Tuesday, November 15 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Alan Shapiro 6:00pm, Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Thursday, November 17 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Jim Powell, Sherry Memorial Poet 5:30pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Winter 2006 Wednesday, January 11 HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Anthony C. Yu, Carl Darling Buck Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Humanities "Prosodic aspects of the Chinese Lyric" 4:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1115 E. 58th Street •Those interested should read in advance: James J. Y. Liu, The Art of Chinese Poetry. Chicago: U of C. Press, 1962. Entry on "Chinese Poetry" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, rev. ed. Thursday, January 26 POEM PRESENT: Reading and Lecture by Vincent Katz 5:30pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Wednesday, February 15 HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Anna Lisa Crone, Professor, Slavic Languages "Towards a Grammar of the Russian Elegy. Results of a Formalist Experiment." 5:00pm, Stuart 104 Thursday, February 16 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Christopher Middleton 5:30pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Friday, February 17 POEM PRESENT: Lecture by Christopher Middleton 1:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Thursday, February 23 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Nathaniel Mackey 5:30pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Friday, February 24 POEM PRESENT & HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Lecture by Nathaniel Mackey Title: "Notes on Splay Anthem" 1:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Friday, March 3 - Saturday, March 4, 2006 HOW TO READ. WHAT TO DO: THE FUTURE OF POETRY CRITICISM Is there such a thing as poetry criticism? Successive waves of theory have worn the sharp edges from most attempts to delineate the genre of lyric, to distinguish poetic from ordinary language, or to describe poetry as a special place where the structure and operation of language reveal themselves. At present, literary criticism tends to regard “poetry” less as a singular practice, and more as a name for a changeable set of desires and cultural ambitions. But despite the particularizing tendencies of our historicist criticism, there remain critics of poetry who continue to read and to write about poems as though they were part of a single tradition. How to Read. What to Do: The Future of Poetry Criticism gathers together critics to make conscious sense of our common-sense practices of reading. Working closely with poems across traditions, periods and languages, we will examine the practical intuition that “poetry is a whole” and imagine ways in which it might be considered so. Participants: Jennifer Ashton, University of Illinois at Chicago Brett Bourbon, Stanford University Steve Burt, Macalester College Jeff Dolven, Princeton University Oren Izenberg, University of Chicago Maureen McLane, Harvard University Mark Payne, University of Chicago Jennifer Scappetone, University of Chicago Gabrielle Starr, New York University Convener: Oren Izenberg, Department of
English, Program in Poetry and Poetics Electronic copies of the conference papers, to
be read in advance, can be downloaded from the following address:
http://poetics.uchicago.edu/critconf.html.
Paper copies can also be picked up from Walker 411, 1115 E. 58th
Street. All material will be
available beginning February 20. Complete conference schedule at: http://poetics.uchicago.edu/critconf.html POEM PRESENT: Reading by Robert Adamson 5:30pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Friday, March 31 POEM PRESENT: Lecture by Robert Adamson Title: “The Shadow of Doubt: Derivations in Contemporary Poetry” 1:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Thursday, April 6 HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Derek Attridge, Professor of English, University of York "Poetic Value and the Power of Criticism" 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Monday, April 10 2nd FRENCH AMERICAN WEEK OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY: Discussion on Translation International Institute 1414 E. 59th Street Coulter Lounge 2:30-4:30pm For the second year in a row, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, in partnership with several American institutions, will organize a French-American poetry week featuring readings, translation seminars, discussions and exchanges in Chicago and Los Angeles. At University of Chicago, a discussion on translation will be moderated by University of Chicago Assistant Professor Alison James. This event is co-sponsored by the FranceChicago Center, the Program in Poetry and Poetics, and the Department of Romance Languages. The relationship between French and American poetry dates back to the 19th century, when Baudelaire then Mallarmé translated the work of Edgar Allan Poe. It has enjoyed a vital dialogue ever since, from the modernism of the 1920’s to John Ashberry or Yves Bonnefoy, by way of Wallace Stevens and the French surrealists. This continuous ebb and flow of reciprocal translations, mutual influences and counterpoints, is still in effect today, and it seemed important to us to enhance this existing synergy. Thus we set out to bring together eight poets, four from each country, to form four different pairs: the objective was simple yet difficult: to ask poets of different generations and styles to translate each other’s work, which is to say to intimately experience the language of the other, deepening the profound connection that comes from the act of translation, which is a reversible knowledge in the sense that we experience our own language as well. The four pairs of poets are: Jerome Rothenberg & Yves di Manno Cole Swensen & Nicolas Pesquès Guy Bennett & Jean-Michel Espitallier Simone Forti & Sabine Macher Plus… A chapbook of the mutual translations will be issued and available during the events. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE WEEK, INCLUDING A COMPLETE SCHEDULE AND POET BIOS, CLICK HERE. Monday, April 10 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Peter Filkins 5:30pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Wednesday, April 19 POEM PRESENT & HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Lecture by C.K. Williams Title: “Odd Endings” 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Thursday, April 20 POEM PRESENT: Reading by C.K. Williams 5:30pm, Social Sciences 122 April 28, 2006 ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI: FROM A TO Z East Lounge of Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E. 59th Street 9:00 am – 6:30 pm This international conference, which is part of a three-day event dedicated to the celebration of Adam Zagajewski’s writings, consists of his guest lecture to be organized by the Committee on Social Thought on April 26; a poetry reading in the Fine Arts Institute to be organized by The Poetry Foundation, and a conference co-organized by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Program on Poetry and Poetics, the Franke Insitute for the Humanities and CEERES. The prominent contemporary Polish poet Adam Zagajewski is important in the ongoing conversation about the elevated status of the poet and his word in East/Central European cultures. He was first to disallow his grand image of a dissident and émigré poet. Leaving behind the status of émigré, he returned to his homeland. Still, he engaged in new creative activities which continually reevaluated the boundaries of the East/West divide such as the successful annual Cracow Polish-American Poetry Seminar. Conference Program Wednesday, May 3 HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Bradin Cormack, Assistant Professor of English and in the College "Law's Metaphysics: Relating to Eros in Shakespeare's Sonnets" 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Wednesday, May 10 POEM PRESENT: & HISTORY AND FORMS OF LYRIC LECTURE SERIES Lecture by Lyn Hejinian Title: "The Return of Interruption" 5:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 58th Street Thursday, May 11 POEM PRESENT: Reading by Lyn Hejinian 5:30pm, Social Sciences 122 Friday, May 12 FORMS OF FORMALISM: POETICS, PLAY AND PRESCRIPTION IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY FRENCH LITERATURE This one-day conference will focus on the ways in which French literary texts in the 20th and 21st centuries are shaped by distinctive formalist projects or by contemporary critical debates on the problem of form. The goal will be both a critical reappraisal of particular literary and theoretical explorations of form (Oulipo, the New Novel, Tel Quel, structuralism), and an evaluation of the notion of literary form itself. The term “formalism” is understood here in a general sense as referring to procedural approaches to composition as well as to tendencies in criticism. The conference topic invites reflection on the sources, nature and meaning of literature’s formal models. While offering a variety of perspectives on 20th and 21st-century French literary texts and movements, this conference will highlight a wider set of concerns relevant to literature and poetics in general. Convener: Alison James, Department of Romance Languages and Literature Event sponsored by the France Chicago Center, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the Program in Poetry and Poetics. For more info: http://home.uchicago.edu/~asj/form.html 10:00am-5:00pm, Rosenwald 405, 1101 E. 59th Street Thursday, May 25 POEM PRESENT: Local Talent Reading 5:30pm, Social Sciences 122 2004-2005 Thursday, October 7 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Forrest Gander Reading Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Friday, October 8 @ 1:00 Poem Present: Forrest Gander Lecture Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Wednesday, October 20 @ 5:00 History and Forms of Lyric Lecture Series Ralph Johnson, Professor of Classics emeritus “The Temptations of Icarus: Bravado in Tristia 2” Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Thursday, October 21 @ 4:30 History and Forms of Lyric Lecture Series Jim Powell, Poet, Translator, and Author “Ancient Greek Lyric” Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Friday, October 22 @ 1:00 Poem Present: Jim Powell and Ralph Johnson Reading Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Wednesday, October 27 @ 5:00 History and Forms of Lyric Lecture Series Clare Cavanagh, Associate Professor of Slavic and Gender Studies, Northwestern University “The Americanization of Czeslaw Milosz” Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Thursday, November 4 @ 4:00 The 2004 Divinity School John Nuveen Lecture by Mark Strand Swift Hall Thursday, November 4 @ 5:30 *** Allen Grossman (Sherry Poet) Curing Poetic Vocation: Communicative Difficulty in General and "Difficult" Poetry in Particular: The example of Hart Crane's "The Broken Tower" Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Tuesday, November 9 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Tom Pickard Reading (Chicago Review Reader) Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street November 11 @ 7:00 Mark Scroggins Reading (part of the Around Zukofsky Conference) 57th Street Books---1301 E 57th St in Hyde Park Friday, November 12 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Susan Stewart Reading (part of the Around Zukofsky Conference) Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Saturday, November 13 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Robert Hass Reading (part of the Around Zukofsky Conference) Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Thursday, November 11—Saturday, November 13 Around Zukofsky: A Poetry and Poetics Event at the University of Chicago for the Birth Centenary of Louis Zukofsky Featured Visitors: Robert Hass, Marjorie Perloff, Mark Scroggins, Susan Stewart Franke Institute for the Humanities (and other locations) Thursday, November 18 @ 5:00 Poem Present: Allen Grossman Reading (Sherry Poet) Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Winter 2005 Wednesday, January 26 @ 5:00 History and Forms of Lyric Lecture Series James Chandler, Professor of English; Director, Franke Institute “'Endless Imitation': Wordsworth's Great Ode and the Progress of Poetry” Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Monday, January 31 (6:00-8:00pm) Poetry and Poetics Workshop Matthias Regan, English Dept. Title TBA Gates-Blake 321, 5845 S. Ellis Street Thursday, February 10 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Joanna Klink Reading Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Friday, February 11 @ 1:00 Poem Present: Joanna Klink Lecture Gates-Blake 321, 5845 S. Ellis Street Monday,
February 14 (6:00-8:00pm) Wednesday,
February 16 @ 5:00 Thursday, February 24
@ 5:30 Friday, February 25 @
1:00 "Theology in Poetry: da Todi, Herbert, Hopkins, Claudel" How does poetic language contribute to theology? In what ways does a theological discourse mark poetry? The papers presented at this symposium will each, in different ways, use case studies to explore the relationship between a poet’s theological thinking and writing, on the one hand, and his or her poetry on the other. The Lumen Christi Institute is the primary sponsor for the day, with co-sponsorship from the University of Chicago's Divinity School, English Department, and Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Participants will include Armando Maggi and Richard Strier, both of the University of Chicago; Stephen Lewis, of Saint Joseph's College; and Kevin Hart of the University of Notre Dame. There will be a panel discussion after the four papers, with Sarah Beckwith of Duke University as chair. For detailed information, go to http://lumenchristi.org/ or call 773-955-5887. Swift Hall, 3rd Floor Lecture Room The University of Chicago Divinity School 1025 East 58th Street Monday, February 28 (6:00-8:00pm) Poetry and Poetics Workshop Valerie Ritter, Asst. Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations Title TBA Gates-Blake 321, 5845 S. Ellis Street Thursday, March 3 @ 5:30 Poem Present: C.D. Wright Reading Social Sciences 122, 1126 E. 59th Street Friday, March 4 @ 1:00 Gnoetry Demonstration and Discussion with co-creators Eric Elshtain and Jon Trowbridge Gnoetry is an on-going experiment in human/computer collaborative poetry composition. The Franke Institute for the Humanities Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th Street Tuesday, April 12 @ 4:30 The Jean and Harold Gossett Lecture in Memory of Holocaust Victims Martha and Paul Feivel Korngold "Beyond Witness –The Visionary, Non-Soteriological Poetics of Paul Celan: The Darkness in the Poem and the Light" Presented by Pierre Joris, Professor, SUNY-Albany Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Wednesday, April 13 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Pierre Joris Reading Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Thursday, 14 April (4:30-6:00) Poetry and Poetics Workshop Robert Zamsky, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, DePaul University "Sound Cuts the Graft": Music and Melodious Silence in the Poetry of Theodore Enslin Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Friday, April 15 — Saturday, April 16 From Me to You: The Significance of the Second-Person This conference will gather scholars and artists from diverse fields. The central topic of the conference is “you,” the second person: its ontological status (what is it to treat and be treated as a “you?); its ethical significance (how do the sorts of authority and intimacy presumed in counting and being counted as a “you” affect our status as moral, legal, and political agents?); and its epistemological significance (what is the relation between my claims to know the world and my living with and as a second-person in the world?). The event will be interdisciplinary and comparative and will include lectures, discussions, and poetry readings. It will feature speakers from disciplines including philosophy, legal theory, political science, anthropology, linguistics, divinity, poetry, and comparative literature. Complete Schedule and Description: http://secondperson.uchicago.edu/ Poster Friday, April 15 — Saturday, April 16 Queer Islands? Caribbean LGBTQ Writers & Community The University of Chicago Lesbian and Gay Studies Project is pleased to announce a two-day event exploring the art and activism of queer Caribbean writers and artists. This event-- the first academic gathering devoted entirely to same-sex loving writing from the region--is motivated by the unprecedented blossoming of queer Caribbean literature in the last decade, as LGBT literature from Jamaica, Trinidad, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and Suriname has debuted to international audiences and acclaim. We aim to bring these literary voices together to consider in their own words how art and activism bridge Caribbean, queer, and community identities. The symposium will open Friday night with a literary reading and book signing from 7:30-9:00 pm at Women and Children First, 5233 N Clark St. This event will be followed by the symposium on Saturday from 9:00 am-6:00 pm to be held in Social Sciences Room 122; (1126 E. 59th St., enter through the archway just west of University Avenue); on the University of Chicago Campus. Free parking is available on the Midway. This event is free and open to the public. For further information, see our WebSite at: http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cgs/lgsp/queer_islands.htm or contact the Lesbian and Gay Studies Project at (773)834- 4509 or lgsp@uchicago.edu. Wednesday, April 20 @ 5:00 History and Forms of Lyric Lecture Series Calvin Bedient, Professor of English, UCLA "The Predicament of Modern Poetry" Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Thursday, April 21 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Calvin Bedient Reading Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Friday, April 22 @ 1:00 Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern University Lecture: "Courting Disaster: Blok and Yeats" Presented by the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures Pick 016 Friday, April 22 @ 7:00 The Annual George C. Kent Lecture Presented by Nikki Giovanni, writer, poet and activist The Organization of Black Students' Annual George C. Kent Lecture memorializes the first Black full professor in the English Department and perpetuate his legacy of bringing monumental Black figures to campus. International House, 1414 East 59th Street Monday, April 25 (1:00-5:00) French-American Poetry week: A celebration of Contemporary Poetry Across the Atlantic Featured Participants: Cole Swensen, Nicolas Pesquès, David Saint John, & Jean-Patrice Courtois Panel Discussion (1-3), Reception (3-4), and Reading (4-5) Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street In honor of the American National Poetry Month and the French Printemps des Poètes, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Chicago are joining several Midwestern institutions (University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Guild Complex, University of Wisconsin-Madison, International Writing Program of the University of Iowa) to present a week of encounters, cross-cultural readings, lectures and translation seminars dedicated to French and American contemporary poetry with the participation of French Poets: Nicolas Pesqués, Emmanuel Laugier, Jean-Patrice Courtois, and Esther Tellermann, and American Poets Christina Pugh, Robyn Schiff, David St. John and Cole Swensen.
Friday, April 29th @ 4:00pm Lecture by Stanley Cavell, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Harvard University & 2005 Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor at UofC ''Wallace Stevens Appeals to Philosophy'' Kent 120 Wednesday, May 4 @ 5:30 Poem Present Michael Fried Reading Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Tuesday, May 10 (3:00-4:30) Poetry and Poetics Workshop William Flesch, Associate Professor of English and American Literature, Brandeis University "On Triple Rhyme" Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Wednesday, May 11 @ 5:30 History and Forms of Lyric Lecture William Flesch, Associate Professor of English and American Literature, Brandeis University "Shakespeare's Self-Quotation" Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Monday, May 16 (4:00-6:30) The Translation of Poetry: Panel and Discussion Four distinguished translators discuss poems that they have translated followed by discussion •Clare Cavanagh, Northwestern: "Birthday" from Wislawa Szymborska, View with a Grain of Sand, tr. Clare Cavanagh/Stanislaw Baranczak (Harcourt 1995) •Reg Gibbons, Northwestern: Ode to Man by Sophokles from Antigone •Richard Sieburth, NYU: Poem #17 in Emblems of Desire: Selections from the "Delie" of Maurice Sceve, ed. & tr.by Sieburth (UPenn 2002) •John Tipton: "Restraining the Madman: A Counted Translation of Sophocles' Ajax." Moderated by David Wray Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Wednesday, May 18 @ 4:30 Annual Danziger Lecture Presented by Andrew Ford, Professor of Classics, Princeton University “Aristotle's Hymn to Virtue: Genre-crossing as a Capital Offense" Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street Wednesday, May 19 @ 3:30 Combined Rhetoric and Poetics/Poetry and Poetics Workshop Andrew Ford, Professor of Classics, Princeton University "The Function of Criticism in Plato's Protagoras" Wieboldt 408, 1050 E. 59th Street Thursday, May 26 @ 5:30 Poem Present: Local Talent Reading Readers: Carrie Olivia Adams, Michael Bowie, Jenna Coughlin, Colleen Coyne, Erik Hanson, Miranda Johnson, Amy Fetzer Larakers, David Maher, Kristy Odelius, Thibault Raoult, Matthias Regan, Kathryn Tabb, Margeaux Temeltas, Angela Young Classics 10, 1010 E. 59th Street |
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