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Poetry Reading: Lorna Goodison

  • Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan

"What is a Poem?" Symposium

  • Professor of English, Harvard University
  • Former U.S. Poetry Laureate and Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia
  • Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
  • Associate Professor of South Asian Literature, Rutgers University
  • Sadie D. Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita, Stanford University
  • Editor, Poetry Magazine
  • Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University

"Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable Zone?"

  • Marie Borroff Professor of English, Professor of French and of Music, Yale University

"Poetry & Race" Symposium

"Theory of the Lyric"

  • Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University

"'What it's like to be an earthquake': Experience, Testimony, and Poetry"

  • Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, University of Belgrade

"Poetry and the World" Symposium

  • Assistant Professor of French, Dartmouth College
  • Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University
  • Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland
  • Winner of the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize
  • Associate Professor of English, Penn State University - Behrend
  • Joan Danforth Professor in the Arts, Mills College
  • Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities, Princeton University

"The Value of Poetry"

  • Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

"Poetry, Place, Displacement" Symposium

  • Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University
  • Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago
  • Professor of English, University of Miami, Winner of the 2014 Forward Prize
  • Associate Professor of English, New York University
  • Associate Professor of English, Harvard University

"Poetry & Climate Change" Symposium

"Becoming Lyric"