AROUND ZUKOFSKY
A Poetry and Poetics Event at the University of Chicago for the
Birth Centenary of Louis Zukofsky

November 11— 13, 2004

All events are free and open to the public
 No registration required

Sponsored by:
The Franke Institute for the Humanities, Robert Pippin and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University of Chicago Press, the Poetry and Poetics Program, the Humanities Division and the Departments of English, Classics, Jewish Studies, and Comparative Literature

Schedule of events
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Thursday, November 11    

7:00pm    Reading by Mark Scroggins
                    57th Street Books (1301 E. 57th Street)
                   (Introduced by Matthias Regan)


Friday, November 12

5:30pm    Reading by Susan Stewart
                    Classics 10 (1010 E. 59th Street, 1st Floor)
                    (Introduced by Alan Thomas)


Saturday, November 13
(All Saturday events, unless noted otherwise, will take place in the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Regenstein Library, 1100 E. 57th Street)

9:00-9:30     Breakfast


9:30-10:45    Marjorie Perloff:  
                     “From "A"-22 to Oulipo:  Zukofsky's French Connection”
                          response: Eirik Steinhoff


11:00-12:15    Robert Hass:    
                      “Zukofsky at the Outset”
                            response: Karen Volkman
 

12:15-1:00    Lunch


1:00-1:30    Presentation by Robert von Hallberg:      
                        The Louis Zukofsky papers in the Regenstein Library, including correspondence with Harriet Monroe from the Poetry archive.

 
1:15-2:30    Mark Scroggins:  
                   “The Labyrinth of Daedalus, the Graph of Culture”    
                        response: Lee Glidewell


2:45-4:00    Susan Stewart:
                   “The Signature and the Initial”
                        respondent: Jenny Ludwig


4:15-5:00    Roundtable discussion:
                        Dan Beachy-Quick, Oren Izenberg, Jed Rasula, Srikanth Reddy,
                        Mary Margaret Sloan, Karen Volkman


*5:30pm    Reading by Robert Hass
                    *Classics 10 (1010 E. 59th Street, 1st Floor)
                     (Introduced by Srikanth Reddy)
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO VISITOR INFORMATION

For additional information or if you require special assistance, please contact:
Julia Klein (773-834-8524 / jnklein@uchicago.edu)