The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium is hosting a book discussion with Jasper Bernes, author of The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization (Stanford University Press, 2017).

Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Celebration with Thiahera Nurse and Andrew E. Colarusso. Featuring a musical performance by Tatsu Aoki's Reduction Ensemble

Please join us for the next exciting event in this quarter's Poetry & Poetics Colloquium programming: A Forum on The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures, by Harris Feinsod

We hope you can join us for a multi-media reading by poet, writer, and filmmaker Heid E. Erdrich. The reading promises to be another fantastic event in what has already been an energizing year of poetics programming at Northwestern.

The Colloquium on Ethnicity and Diaspora (CED) presents "Combahee Now" - a reflection on the Combahee River Collective Statement (1977). The event features a panel with Dr. Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman (Brandeis University), Dr. Patrice Douglass (St. Mary's College of California), and Dr. Jennifer C. Nash (Northwestern University). 

This event will feature poetry readings by two acclaimed contemporary poets, Bettina Judd and Safiya Sinclair, who will read from their debut collections. This reading will be followed by a conversation on the topics of Black feminist poetics, scientific racism, and the archive. 

The Performance of Becoming Broke: A reading & conversation about the ways nation-states and their bureaucracies absorb and destroy communities and economies.

Join us for a celebration of words and music as we award the 2017 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. Renowned poet and author Matthew Shenoda will be joined by poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, winner of the 2017 Drinking Gourd Prize, for his collection, Dulce.

At this evening event, 2016 featured poets TJ Dema from Botswana and Mayda Del Valle from Chicago will read their own work and introduce teen poets who will read poetry that has emerged from their workshops.