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German Poetry Roundtable – January 29
Join us for a very special discussion!
On Friday, January 29, the Poetry & Poetics Workshop presents a roundtable discussion on translation and contemporary German poetry with:
Christian Hawkey, Uljana Wolf and Monika Rinck
1:00 PM | Rosenwald Hall | Room 405
The event is co-sponsored by the Dean of the Humanities, the Department of Germanic Studies and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Chicago.
Light refreshments will be provided.
DOWNLOAD>>>Poetry handout for roundtable [.pdf]
The discussion takes place on a visit co-sponsored by CHICAGO REVIEW to celebrate the publication of Issue 55:1 — “Seven Poets from Berlin.”
The visit will also include two bilingual readings by the poets in Chicago:
Thursday, January 28, 6:00 PM
Myopic Books (1564 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
Saturday, January 30, 7:00 PM
Protected: David Simpson – January 25
Billy Junker – January 11th
Join us for our first workshop of the winter quarter!
On Monday, January 11, the Poetry & Poetics Workshop and the Renaissance workshop present:
Billy Junker | Department of English and Committee on Social Thought
5:00 PM | Rosenwald Hall | Room 405
We will discuss his paper titled:
“Spenser’s Disarmed Cupid and the Experience of the 1590 Faerie Queene“
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please read the paper below in advance of the workshop.
DOWNLOAD>>>Junker Workshop [.pdf]
Winter 2010 Poetry & Poetics Workshop Schedule
Welcome back from winter break! We are pleased to announce the Winter 2010 schedule for the Poetry & Poetics Workshop.
Again, all Poetry & Poetics Workshops will take place Mondays at 4:30pm-6:00pm in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise noted.
For more information, or to be added to the Poetics listserv, please contact Joel Calahan.
Winter 2010 Poetry & Poetics Workshop Schedule
- January 11 | Billy Junker | Department of English and the Committee on Social Thought
on Spenser
NB: special time of 5:00 PM-6:30 PM; co-presented with the Renaissance Workshop
- January 25 | David Simpson | Department of English, University of California-Davis
“Poetry with Small Print: The Romantic Epic”
Note special location: Classics 110, 4:30 PM
co-presented with the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Cultures Workshop
- January 29 | Monika Rinck, Christian Hawkey and Uljana Wolf
a discussion on contemporary German poetry and translation
Note special time and location: Social Sciences Tea Room, Friday, January 29, 1:00 PM
co-sponsored by the Poetry & Poetics Workshop with Chicago Review and the Goethe-Institute Chicago
- February 1 | Jon Geltner | Department of English
“Genre, Geography and Visionary Poetics in the Life and Work of Kenneth White”
- February 15 | Stephanie Anderson | Department of English
“Typewriter and Text: Reading Materiality in Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets“
- March 1 | Keith Tuma | Department of English, Miami University of Ohio
on Trevor Joyce and Stephen Rodefer
December 7 – Joshua Adams
On Monday, December 7, please join the Poetry & Poetics Workshop for our last workshop of the Fall 2009 quarter:
Joshua Adams | Department of Comparative Literature
4:30 PM | Rosenwald Hall | Room 405
for the presentation and discussion of a paper titled:
“Emily Dickinson and the Use of Indeterminacy”
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please read the paper below in advance of the workshop.
DOWNLOAD>>>Adams Workshop [.pdf]
November 23 – Boris Maslov
On Monday, November 23, please join the Poetry & Poetics Workshop for:
Boris Maslov | Department of Comparative Literature
4:30 PM | Rosenwald Hall | Room 405
for the presentation and discussion of a paper titled:
Pindaric Temporality in German and Russian Romanticism
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please read the paper below in advance of the workshop.
DOWNLOAD>>>Maslov Workshop [.pdf]
Please also note: Boris has provided us with a copy of a poem he discusses in the paper, Pindar’s Ode for Ergoteles of Himera, which can be downloaded here:
Pindar Ode for Maslov Workshop [.pdf]
Lisa Barca – November 9
On Monday, November 9, please join the Poetry & Poetics Workshop for:
Lisa Barca | Department of Romance Languages & Literature
4:30 PM | Rosenwald Hall | Room 405
for the presentation and discussion of a paper titled:
Celestial Asterisks: Referential Openness and the Problem of Transcendence
(Pascoli, Dickinson, Rilke, Montale)
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please read the paper below in advance of the workshop.
DOWNLOAD>>>Barca Workshop [.pdf]
Please also note: Lisa has provided us with a copy of a poem she discusses in the paper, Eugenio Montale’s translation of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “There came a wind like a bugle,” which can be downloaded here:
Montale Translation for Barca Workshop [.pdf]
Michael Hansen – October 26
On Monday, October 26, please join the Poetry & Poetics Workshop for:
Michael Hansen | Department of English
4:30 PM | Rosenwald Hall | Room 405
for the presentation and discussion of a paper titled:
“English Elegy and the Eighteenth-Century Sonnet Revival”
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please read the paper below in advance of the workshop.
DOWNLOAD>>>Hansen Workshop [.pdf]
Please also note: the paper will discuss a difficult-to-find poem, “Death, A Poem,” by Charles Emily, which can be downloaded here:
Emily Poem for Hansen Workshop [.pdf]
Alison James – October 12th
Join us for our first workshop of the 2009-2010 academic year!
On Monday, October 12, the Poetry & Poetics Workshop presents:
Alison James | Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
4:30 PM | Rosenwald Hall | Room 405
We will discuss her paper titled:
“Memory and Movement in Jacques Roubaud’s La Forme d’une ville…”
Light refreshments will be provided.
Please read the paper below in advance of the workshop.
DOWNLOAD>>>James Workshop [.pdf]