The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium
at Northwestern University
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium
at Northwestern University
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium
at Northwestern University
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
As a forum for a variety of arts initiatives, such as the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize and Poetry in the Schools, PPC is dedicated to supporting new generations of poets from both Northwestern and the greater Chicago community.
The PPC is also the home of the Northwestern Poetry and Poetics Graduate Cluster and the Futures of Poetics working group, where scholars doing cutting-edge research in the field have a venue for discussion and collaboration.
Poetry Reading with Aditi Machado, Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her second book of poems Emporium (Nightboat, 2020) received the James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s...
Reading with Toby Altman, Tuesday, March 8th 2022
The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium would like to invite you to a reading by Toby Altman on Tuesday March 8th, at 5:30pm in the Hagstrum Room.
A Poetry Reading Featuring: Aditya Bahl & Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Tuesday, November 23rd 2021
The Poetry & Poetics Cluster & Transnational Cultural History Workshop would like to invite you to a poetry reading featuring Aditya Bahl & Jose-Luis Moctezuma on Tuesday Nov. 23rd at 5:30pm in the Hagstrum Room at Northwestern University.
The Poets Are Gathering, Tuesday April 20th 2021
Please join poets Patricia Smith, Tyehimba Jess, and Benjamin Boone for an evening of poetry, music, and conversation about collaborating across art forms and how art can address issues of social justice.
Futures of Poetics Featuring Isaac Ginsberg Miller, Monday December 2nd 2019
The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium is delighted to announce our Fall quarter Futures of Poetics event featuring Isaac Ginsberg Miller. We will be discussing Isaac’s newly released chapbook Stopgap (winner of the 2018 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest), which he will read from, followed by a conversation.
Black Poetics and Environmental Memory: A Reading and Conversation featuring Ed Roberson and Tiana Clark, Wednesday October 31st 2019
The Kaplan Humanities Institute Memorializing Dialogue Series and the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium present:
Black Poetics and Environmental Memory: A Reading and Conversation featuring Ed Roberson and Tiana Clark
Spaces for Exchange: Symposium on Mandorla, Friday, October 12th 2018
Join us for talks, conversations, and readings celebrating the digital reissue of Mandorla: nueva escrita de las Américas / New Writing from the Americas (1991-2013) on Northwestern’s Open Door Archive
Black Queer Poetics: Community & Solitude, Thursday May 24th-25th 2018
The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and the Black Poetics Collective Present: A reading and conversation featuring the award-winning poets francine j. harris and Phillip B. Williams
Susan Stewart on “The Nature of Nature Poetry, Thursday May 10th 2018
Please join the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium at Northwestern for “The Nature of Nature Poetry,” a lecture by Susan Stewart.
Margaret Ronda & Sonya Posmentier, “New Work on Poetry & the Environment,” Friday April 27th 2018
On Friday, April 27th, the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium is hosting “New Work on Poetry & the Environment,” a conversation featuring Margaret Ronda (UC Davis), author of Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End (2018) and Sonya Posmentier (NYU), author of Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017).
Poets For Puerto Rico! Tuesday April 17th 2018
Isaac Ginsberg Miller is reading next week as part of a benefit event for Puerto Rico, alongside many other Chicago poets.
Frédérique Guétat-Liviani and Nathanaël in conversation, Wednesday April 11th 2018
Join us for Vis(à)vies : A Reading and Conversation with Frédérique Guétat-Liviani and Nathanaël on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.