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:

Goethe-Institut Chicago (150 N. Michigan Ave.)
Thursday, January 28, 6:00 PM

Myopic Books (1564 N. Milwaukee Ave.)
Saturday, January 30, 7:00 PM

All events are free and open to the public.
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Christian Hawkey is the author of The Book of Funnels (Verse Press, 2005), the chapbook HourHour (Delirium Press, 2006), and Citizen Of (Wave Books, 2007); Ventrakl, a mixed-genre book written in collaboration with the poet Georg Trakl, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse.

 

Uljana Wolf is the author of kochanie ich habe brot gekauft (2005), which won the Peter-Huchel-Preis, and falsche freunde (2009, both kookbooks). Her poems have been translated into over a dozen languages, and are included in New European Poets (Graywolf, 2008), and Dichten = No. 10 (Burning Deck, 2008). She is currently translating Matthea Harvey, Cole Swenson, and Erin Moure into German.

 

Monika Rinck is the author of three books of poems, Verzückte Distanzen (Gedichte, zu Klampen!, 2004), zum fernbleiben der umarmung (kookbooks, 2007), Rincks Ding- und Tierleben / Helle Verwirrung (kookbooks, 2009); a book of essays, Ah, das Love-Ding (kookbooks, 2006); and an audiobook, Pass auf, Pony! (2009). In 2008 she received the Ernst-Meister-Preis für Lyrik.
(Photo credits: Timm Koelln & Ute Rinck)

 

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]