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"Poetry, Place, Displacement" Symposium Gathers Distinguished Poets and Scholars

Please join us Friday, April 1, for "Poetry, Place, Displacement," a symposium hosted by the Center for Poetry & Poetics. The event will bring together several renowned poets, scholars, and poet-scholars to discuss such questions as: How do poems represent place and displacement? How do they differ from other ways of mapping place? How do they attest to histories of human and environmental dislocation?

"What is a Poem?" Symposium Kicks Off Poetry Center

“What Is a Poem?” is the inaugural symposium of the Center for Poetry & Poetics. Is a poem more like a song or a shipping container? What was a poem in the seventeenth century, and what is it in the digital age? Why poetry, anyway? Join our world-class speakers as they explore these and other questions. The symposium will conclude with a conversation with former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove.

"WHAT IS A POEM?"

Friday, March 17, 2017

The Rotunda Dome Room

10am-5pm

Dunja Dušanić Lectures on Poetry as a Witness to Catastrophe

Join us on Thursday, March 23, at 1:00 pm in the Bryan Hall Faculty Lounge. Dunja Dušanić, associate professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Belgrade and a current Fulbright Scholar in the UVA English Department, will give a talk entitled "'What it's like to be an earthquake': Experience, Testimony, and Poetry."

 

Professor Dušanić introduces the presentation as follows:

 

"Poetry, Place, Displacement" Symposium Gathers Distinguished Poets and Scholars

Please join us Friday, April 1, for "Poetry, Place, Displacement," a symposium hosted by the Center for Poetry & Poetics. The event will bring together several renowned poets, scholars, and poet-scholars to discuss such questions as: How do poems represent place and displacement? How do they differ from other ways of mapping place? How do they attest to histories of human and environmental dislocation?

"Poetry and Race" Symposium Brings Poets, Critics to Grounds

Please join us Friday, October 5 for “Poetry and Race,” a symposium hosted by the Center for Poetry & Poetics. This event will bring to grounds a group of internationally renowned poets and scholars for a day of panel presentations and interactive discussion. It will conclude with a poetry reading and reflection by the Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Lorna Goodison.

"Poetry and Race" Symposium

 

Poetry has long been a crucial space for constructing and deconstructing racial identities. What can we learn about race from poetry, and poetry from race? How do national and transnational conversations about poetry and race intersect and diverge? Representing a variety of specializations, world-class speakers will compare insights into these and other questions.

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Virginia Jackson Lectures on "Becoming Lyric"

Please join us on Thursday, April 19 at 5pm in Minor 125 for a Distinguished Lecture in Poetry & Poetics. Virginia Jackson, UCI Endowed Chair of Rhetoric and Critical Theory in the Departments of English and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, will give a talk on “Becoming Lyric” based on her influential work in historical poetics over the past two decades. Jackson's talk will trace the increasing capaciousness of the term “lyric” over the past few centuries, inviting us to contemplate the power and limits of this omnivorous generic category.

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Dunja Dušanić Lectures on Poetry as a Witness to Catastrophe

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"Poetry, Place, Displacement" Symposium Gathers Distinguished Poets and Scholars

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"Poetry and Race" Symposium Brings Poets, Critics to Grounds

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Please join us Friday, October 5 for “Poetry and Race,” a symposium hosted by the Center for Poetry & Poetics. This event will bring to grounds a group of internationally renowned poets and... Read»

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