Speakers
Distinguished Lecture: Ayesha Ramachandran
Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale
Poetry Reading: Lorna Goodison
Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan
“‘...and now I am no longer there’: housing precarity in poetic form”
Assistant Professor of English, Wake Forest University
"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
University Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature, University of Toronto
Poet Laureate of Jamaica, Professor Emerita, University of Michigan
Associate Professor of English and African & African American Studies, Duke University
Associate Professor of English and Spanish, New York University
Professor of English and Asian American Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Professor of English, Rutgers University
Assistant Professor of English, Emory University
"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
Boylston Professor of Oratory and Rhetoric, Harvard University
Professor of English, University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa
Associate Professor of English, University of California, Davis
Associate Professor of Poetry, University of Virginia
"Becoming Lyric"
UCI Endowed Chair in Rhetoric, UC Irvine