by Avey Rips | Apr 1, 2015 | Blog
Join us for the keynote reading by distinguished Puerto Rican poet Victor Hernández Cruz in conjunction with Poetry and Poetics at Northwestern’s Radical Poetics: Archives, Forms, Social Movements Symposium. Cruz will read from his works at 5:00pm, April 24th in...
by Avey Rips | Mar 1, 2015 | Blog
The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium is thrilled to announce that Chamoru poet Craig Santos Perez will be joining us for presentation entitled “Radical Pacific Islander Poetry from the 1960s and Beyond.” Join us for this event on Thursday, March 5th,...
by Avey Rips | Jan 3, 2015 | Events
The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium is proud to present a discussion led by scholar and poet Chris Nealon. Professor Nealon’s paper will be pre-circulated (see below) and the discussion will be held Thursday, January 29th, at 5:30pm in the Hagstrum Room...
by Avey Rips | Jan 2, 2015 | Blog
Join us for an evening of words and music, as we celebrate the third Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. Renowned author Chris Abani will join Willie Lin, winner of the third annual Drinking Gourd Prize. The evening will include readings from Professor Abani’s...
by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2014 | Drinking Gourd
In one of the poems in Instructions for Folding, Willie Lin writes, “it seemed you were away but not beyond language.” And accordingly, the voice in these poems is sometimes fervid, sometimes wry, moved to speech by the specific desire to speak to someone. The poems...
