by Avey Rips | Nov 15, 2012 | Drinking Gourd
Taking its cue from Toni Morrison’s declaration that “language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names,” Kristiana Rae Colón’s promised instruments stitches its own definitions for what is granted, what is surrendered, what is pilfered, and what...
by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2012 | Drinking Gourd
Northwestern University Press is honored to publish Ed Roberson’s Closest Pronunciation. Here is a teacher of poets studying his own assignments, questioning and seeking the generative capacity in looking at and seeing things that ends in the realization of a poem. In...
by Avey Rips | Oct 22, 2012 | Blog, Events
Please join the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium on November 1st, 2012 for a poetry reading and workshop with Cedar Sigo. The reading will take place at noon, and a light lunch will be provided. Cedar Sigo is a San Francisco poet and the author of the full-length...
by Avey Rips | Sep 22, 2012 | Events
Please join us for Poets in/on Translation, a workshop and reading with the poets, Patrizia Cavalli and Adam Zagajewski, and with translator and scholar, Clare Cavanagh (brief bios below). This will be a lunchtime event, held in the Hagstrum Room, University Hall...
by Avey Rips | May 3, 2012 | Events
Nathaniel Tarn is a distinguished poet, anthropologist, translator, and editor. Born in Paris in 1928 and raised in France, Belgium and England, he took his degree in History and English at Cambridge. After some journalism and radio work in Paris, he discovered...
