by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2017 | Drinking Gourd
Surreal and deeply imagistic, the poems in Dulce map a parallel between the landscape of the border and the landscape of sexuality. Castillo invites the reader to confront and challenge the distinctions of borders and categories, and in doing so, he obscures and...
by Avey Rips | Nov 7, 2017 | Blog
Heid E. Erdrich: Curator of Ephemera at the New Museum for Archaic Media Thursday, November 16, 2017, 12:30-2:00pm, Kresge Hall 1515 Heid E. Erdrich, a poet, writer, and filmmaker. She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Curator of Ephemera at the New...
by Avey Rips | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog
Bettina Judd and Safiya Sinclair: “On Black Feminist Poetics” Thursday, October 5th, 2017, 12:30-2:30pm, Hagstrum Room (University Hall 201) This event will feature poetry readings by two acclaimed contemporary poets, Bettina Judd and Safiya...
by Avey Rips | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog
Please join the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium for a reading titled, “The Performance of Becoming Broke” by Daniel Borzutzky, on February 3rd, 12:30pm in the Hagstrum rm, (University Hall 201). Daniel Borzutzky grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of...
by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2016 | Drinking Gourd
The University of Hip-Hop is a love letter to the city of Chicago, or, more specifically, to Chicago at a particular moment in the poet’s life. It is a meditation on movement and migration that asks what it means to leave home, how to take home with you, and how...
