Videos 2013

Lecture by Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and prose, most recently Come and See (2011), The Lyrics (2007), Radical Love (2006), On the Ground (2004), Gone (2003), and Economics (2002). Her Selected Poems was awarded the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Howe has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Arts Council, and The Village Voice, as well as fellowships from the Bunting Institute and the MacDowell Colony.

Date: 
Friday, November 22, 2013
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Poem Present

Reading by Fanny Howe

Fanny Howe is the author of more than 40 books of poetry and prose, most recently Come and See. In 2009, Howe was awarded the Ruth Lilley Poetry Prize, presented each year by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet deserving of extraordinary recognition for a lifetime of literary work. Howe read a selection of her work—including a new poem comissioned for the Reva Logan Poetry Series.

Date: 
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Presented By: 
The Reva Logan Poetry Series and the Program in Poetry and Poetics

Reading by Keston Sutherland

Keston Sutherland is the author of Stupefaction: a radical anatomy of phantoms, and most recently, The Odes to TL61P. His work first reached American audiences with the publication of the poem “Hot White Andy” in a special issue of the Chicago Review, showcasing four young British poets. A Professor of Poetics at the University of Sussex, Sutherland visited the University of Chicago while a Holloway Poetry Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Date: 
Friday, November 15, 2013
Presented By: 
The Emerging Writers Series and the Program in Poetry & Poetics

Lecture by Keston Sutherland

"Dead and Living Labor, Dead and Living Meter"

Keston Sutherland is the author of Stupefaction: a radical anatomy of phantoms, and most recently, The Odes to TL61P. His work first reached American audiences with the publication of the poem “Hot White Andy” in a special issue of the Chicago Review, showcasing four young British poets. A Professor of Poetics at the University of Sussex, Sutherland visited the University of Chicago while a Holloway Poetry Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Date: 
Friday, November 15, 2013
Presented By: 
The Program in Poetry & Poetics

Reading by Michael Robbins

Michael Robbins (MAPH’04, PhD ’11) is the author of Alien vs. Predator. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's, Boston Review, and elsewhere. His essays and reviews appear in London Review of Books, the New York Observer, the Chicago Tribune, and several other publications; his music reviews in Spin, the Village Voice, and The Daily. He is currently at work on a critical book, Equipment for Living, and his second book of poems.

Date: 
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Presented By: 
The Program in Poetry and Poetics

Lecture by Mark Strand

 

Mark Strand was the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Blizzard of One, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The former University of Chicago Professor served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1990-91. His last book of poems was Almost Invincible. 
Date: 
Friday, October 11, 2013
Presented By: 
The Committee on Social Thought, the History and Forms of Lyric Series, and the Program in Poetry and Poetics

Reading by Mark Strand

Mark Strand was the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Blizzard of One, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The former University of Chicago Professor served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1990-91. His last book of poems was Almost Invincible. 

Date: 
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Presented By: 
The Committee on Social Thought, the History and Forms of Lyric Series, and the Program in Poetry and Poetics