Please join The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and the Black Poetics Collective for Black ________ Poetics: Donika Kelly and Cameron Awkward-Rich. The event will feature a poetry reading and conversation on Black trans* and queer poetics of the object featuring Donika Kelly and Cameron Awkward-Rich. Lunch will be provided.

The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium at Northwestern Presents: Jasper Bernes in Conversation about his new book The Work of Art in the Age of Deindustrialization.

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.