The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium
at Northwestern University
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium
at Northwestern University
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
The Poetry & Poetics Colloquium
at Northwestern University
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
A center for poetry and interdisciplinary scholarship on poetics.
As a forum for a variety of arts initiatives, such as the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize and Poetry in the Schools, PPC is dedicated to supporting new generations of poets from both Northwestern and the greater Chicago community.
The PPC is also the home of the Northwestern Poetry and Poetics Graduate Cluster and the Futures of Poetics working group, where scholars doing cutting-edge research in the field have a venue for discussion and collaboration.
A Lecture with Julian Whitney, Thursday, May 25, 2023
Please join the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium for our last event of the academic year! Julian Whitney will be joining us to give a lecture entitled "Cugoano, Japanese Anime, and Eco-Poetics: The Radical Afterlives of Romanticism" at 5pm on Thursday 5/25 in Crowe...
A Conversation with Alicia Mountain, Thursday May 18th, 2023
Please join us for a lunch talk with Alicia Mountain on Thursday May 18th at 12:00pm in Crowe 1-132. Her talk is entitled "(Re)visiting The Highest Apple: Judy Grahn’s 1985 Essays on Sapphic Poetry."
A Reading & Conversation with Madison McCartha, Wednesday April 26th 2023
Please join the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium in welcoming Madison McCartha for a poetry reading and conversation.
A Reading and Conversation with Craig Santos Perez, Wednesday April 5th, 2023
Please join the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium along with the Workshop in Transnational Cultural History and Harris Feinsod's seminar "The Blue Humanities" for a poetry reading and conversation with Craig Santos Perez. The event will take place at 5pm on Wednesday...
Poetry Reading with Paul Tran, Thursday, February 2nd 2023
Please join the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium for a reading featuring Paul Tran on February 2nd at 5:00pm in The Hagstrum Room (University Hall, 201).
A Book Launch for A Boy in the City by S. Yarberry, Monday November 14th 2022
Please join us Monday Nov 14th at 5:00pm for a launch of S. Yarberry’s debut collection A BOY IN THE CITY (Deep Vellum, 2022).
Simone White Reading & Workshop, Monday October 31st 2022
A Reading & Workshop featuring poet SIMONE WHITE
Reading with Ghayath Almadhoun, Tuesday October 11th 2022
Please join us for an evening of poetry featuring Ghayath Almadhoun on Tuesday October 11th at 5:15pm in University Hall, Room 418, co-sponsored by the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium and the MENA cluster. Ghayath Almadhoun is a Palestinian poet born in Damascus in...
Poetry Reading with Aditi Machado, Wednesday, May 11th, 2022
Aditi Machado is a poet, translator, and essayist. Her second book of poems Emporium (Nightboat, 2020) received the James Laughlin Award. Her other works include the poetry collection Some Beheadings (Nightboat, 2017), a translation from the French of Farid Tali’s...
Reading with Toby Altman, Tuesday, March 8th 2022
The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium would like to invite you to a reading by Toby Altman on Tuesday March 8th, at 5:30pm in the Hagstrum Room.
A Poetry Reading Featuring: Aditya Bahl & Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Tuesday, November 23rd 2021
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.
The Poets Are Gathering, Tuesday April 20th 2021
Please join poets Patricia Smith, Tyehimba Jess, and Benjamin Boone for an evening of poetry, music, and conversation about collaborating across art forms and how art can address issues of social justice.