by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2016 | Drinking Gourd
Nowhere to Arrive takes as its subjects the whiplash of travel, the shuttling between disparate places and climes, and an unremitting sense of dislocation. These poems court the tension between the familiar and the foreign, between the self as distinct and the self as...
by Avey Rips | Nov 1, 2016 | Blog, Events
Join us for an evening of poetry as we celebrate the fourth Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. The evening will include readings from Mayda Del Valle and Jenny Xie, the winners of 2016 Drinking Gourd Prize. Mayda Del Valle is a poet and performer. A proud native of...
by Avey Rips | Sep 30, 2016 | Blog
Global and Local Poets in Conversation is a projected multi-year partnership between Northwestern’s Poetry and Poetics Colloquium, its Program in Comparative Literary Studies, The Poetry Foundation, and Youth and Opportunity United (Y.O.U.), in Evanston. Global...
by Avey Rips | Apr 6, 2016 | Blog, Events
Tan Lin, a Chinese-American artist, will be giving a workshop at Northwestern titled “The Workshop, The Anecdote, The Powerpoint, and the Cookbook,” Wednesday, April 6th, 12-2pm, at Crowe 1-140. On the following day, Tan Lin will be performing with sonic...
by Avey Rips | Jan 25, 2016 | Blog
Nathaniel Mackey will be our guest to three events. He’ll be giving a graduate workshop on May 12th, 12-1:30pm, at University Hall 201 followed by a later lecture at 5:15pm, Harris Hall L-07. On the next day, he will read his works at a Poetry Reading, 5:15pm,...
