"'What it's like to be an earthquake': Experience, Testimony, and Poetry" | Thursday, March 23, 2023 | Thursday, March 23, 2023

Dunja Dušanić

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

"Poetry, Place, Displacement" Symposium | Friday, April 1, 2022

Harris Feinsod

Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University

Rachel Galvin

Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago

Kei Miller

Professor of English, University of Miami, Winner of the 2014 Forward Prize

Sonya Posmentier

Associate Professor of English, New York University

Vidyan Ravinthiran

Associate Professor of English, Harvard University

"The Value of Poetry" | Friday, November 13, 2020

Eric Falci

Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

"Poetry & Race" Symposium | Friday, October 5, 2018

J. Edward Chamberlin

University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto

Lorna Goodison

Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan

Tsitsi Jaji

Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies, Duke University

Urayoán Noel

Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University

Josephine Nock-Hee Park

Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Evie Shockley

Professor of English, Rutgers University

Nathan Suhr-Sytsma

Assistant Professor of English, Emory University

"Medieval Lyric: A Translatable or Untranslatable Zone?" | Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Ardis Butterfield

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

"Becoming Lyric" | Thursday, April 19, 2018

Virginia Jackson

UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric, UC Irvine

"Poetry and the World" Symposium | Friday, April 6, 2018

Yasser Elhariry

Assistant Professor of French, Dartmouth College

Eric Hayot

Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University

Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak

Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland

Daljit Nagra

Winner of the 2007 Forward Poetry Prize

Janet Neigh

Associate Professor of English, Penn State University - Behrend

Juliana Spahr

Joan Danforth Professor in the Arts, Mills College

Susan Stewart

Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities, Princeton University

"Theory of the Lyric" | Thursday, October 26, 2017

Jonathan Culler

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

"What is a Poem?" Symposium | Friday, March 17, 2017

Stephanie Burt

Professor of English, Harvard University

Rita Dove

Former U.S. Poetry Laureate and Commonwealth Professor of English, University of Virginia

Roland Greene

Mark Pigott KBE Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University

Anjali Nerlekar

Associate Professor of South Asian Literature, Rutgers University

Marjorie Perloff

Sadie D. Patek Professor of Humanities Emerita, Stanford University

Don Share

Editor, Poetry Magazine

Nikki Skillman

Assistant Professor of English, Indiana University