Humanities Division Poetry and Poetics

Annan Award Reading

15 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Rosenwald 405
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4:30 – 7:30pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
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Event Description: The winners of the 2011 Annan Award in Creative Writing will read from their summer projects.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: creativewriting.uchicago.edu

History and Forms of Lyric: Roundtable on Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity

16 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

Social Sciences Tea Room
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
Presenter: Mark Payne, Alison James, David Wellbery, Dustin Simpson
Lecture Title: Roundtable on Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity, by Francoise Meltzer
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire’s writing during a time of political and social upheaval.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

TO BE RESCHEDULED: Emerging Writers, Nonfiction: Joshuah Bearman

22 Feb 2012 22:30:00 GMT

RESCHEDULED
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

A writer and editor at LA Weekly, Joshuah Bearman has contributed to The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, Wired, The Believer, McSweeney’s, as well as This American Life.

Building/Room: Homeroom, I-House
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: RESCHEDULED.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: creativewriting.uchicago.edu

Frolic Architecture: David Grubbs and Susan Howe

27 Feb 2012 01:00:00 GMT

The Renaissance Society
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 7 – 8pm

Building/Room: The Renaissance Society
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Poem Present, Committee on Creative Writing
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Grubbs and Howe return for a performance of their third and most recent release Frolic Architecture. Frolic drops the listener into a soundworld that germinates wildly from this most multiple and heterogeneous of Howe's celebrated collage poems. For long stretches, it is impossible to separate Howe's real-time performance of her fragment-strewn text from Grubbs's further deformations, scatterings, and layerings. These aberrant vocalizations are placed in a landscape in which individual pitches pulse autonomously within thick chords: gravel and cicadas duet. This concert is co-sponsored with Poem Present and the University of Chicago Department of English, Committee on Creative Writing. This concert will take place in Bond Chapel.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

History and Forms of Lyric: Mutlu Blasing

29 Feb 2012 20:00:00 GMT

TBD
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2 – 4pm

Building/Room: TBS
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Other Sponsor(s): History and Forms of Lyric
Presenter: Mutlu Blasing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This lecture is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.