What is lyric poetry? One of the world’s leading poetry scholars, Virginia Jackson traces 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.
Please join us Friday, April 6 for “Poetry and the World,” 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 British poet Daljit Nagra, whose Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize for the best first collection.
"POETRY AND THE WORLD"
Friday, April 6, 2018
Nau Hall Auditorium
10am-5pm
10am - Noon - Panel 1
Janet Neigh
“Oral Memory in Digital Territories”
Yasser Elhariry
“Strait, Sea, Poem: Emmanuel Hocquard"
Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak
“Persian Poetry in the Persianate World and Beyond”
Noon - 1:30pm - Lunch Break
Please join us on Thursday, October 26 at 5pm in Nau 101 for the inaugural Distinguished Lecture in Poetry & Poetics. Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, will give a talk on “Theory of the Lyric” based on his recent important book of the same name.
SCHEDULE:
10am - Noon - Panel 1
Roland Greene
“Apollo Barroco: What Was a Poem in the Seventeenth Century?”
Anjali Nerlekar
“The Poem and the Ocean-Encircled Earth"
Marjorie Perloff
“Reading the Verses Backward: Poetry for the Digital Age”
Noon - 1:30pm - Lunch Break
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... Read»
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... Read»
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»
