by ssy5284 | Nov 23, 2021 | Events
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. Aditya Bahl is...
by ssy5284 | Apr 20, 2021 | Events
Please join poets Patricia Smith, Tyehimba Jess, and Benjamin Boone, producer of the poetry/jazz album, The Poets are Gathering, for an evening of poetry, music, and conversation about collaborating across art forms and how art can address issues of social justice....
by Avey Rips | Apr 28, 2020 | Drinking Gourd
Migrant Psalms prays for a way to make sense of immigration to the United States—now that we realize the American Dream was always an impossible one. Both reverent and daring, this verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written as a call to...
by Avey Rips | Mar 24, 2020 | Old
We are excited to announce that Darrel Alejandro Holnes’ manuscript Migrant Psalms is the winner of the 2020 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. We are delighted to welcome you to the Drinking Gourd family. Congratulations, Darrel!
by ssy5284 | Dec 2, 2019 | Events
The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium is delighted to announce our Fall quarter Futures of Poetics event featuring our very own Isaac Ginsberg Miller on Monday, December 2nd, 2019 @ 12:30 pm in the Hagstrum Room (201 University Hall). We will be discussing Isaac’s...
by ssy5284 | Oct 31, 2019 | Events
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 Modern environmentalism has often struggled to...
by Avey Rips | May 13, 2019 | Drinking Gourd
Blood of the Air creates a new mythology, repurposing spectacle, stereotype, and song. Inspired by the fictions and frictions of the past, each poem in this collection complicates the next. Lush lyrical moments give way to fracture, vulnerability, and reinvention. The...
by Avey Rips | Apr 2, 2019 | Blog
We are truly excited to announce that the winner of the 2019 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize is Ama Codjoe, with her manuscript Blood of the Air. We are so happy to welcome you to the Drinking Gourd family. Congratulations, Ama! ...
by Avey Rips | Jan 27, 2019 | Blog
On Tuesday, January 29th, poets Thiahera Nurse & Andrew E. Colarusso will read from their newly released chapbooks: Some Girls Survive on Their Sorcery Alone and Creance; Or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite. Tuesday, January 29th @ 7pm at the Poetry Foundation (61 W....
by Avey Rips | Nov 14, 2018 | Drinking Gourd
In Creance; or, Comest Thou Cosmic Nazarite, Andrew Colarusso hybridizes lost and unknown spaces, taking his title from a falconry term for the cord used to restrain a bird. The word derives from the late fifteenth century, from the French créance (“faith”), also...
