The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium is delighted to announce our Fall quarter Futures of Poetics event featuring Isaac Ginsberg Miller. We will be discussing Isaac’s newly released chapbook Stopgap (winner of the 2018 Sow’s Ear Poetry Review Chapbook Contest), which he will read from, followed by a conversation.

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

Join us for talks, conversations, and readings celebrating the digital reissue of Mandorla: nueva escrita de las Américas / New Writing from the Americas (1991-2013) on Northwestern’s Open Door Archive

The Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and the Black Poetics Collective Present: A reading and conversation featuring the award-winning poets francine j. harris and Phillip B. Williams

Please join the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium at Northwestern for “The Nature of Nature Poetry,” a lecture by Susan Stewart.

On Friday, April 27th, the Poetry & Poetics Colloquium is hosting “New Work on Poetry & the Environment,” a conversation featuring Margaret Ronda (UC Davis), author of Remainders: American Poetry at Nature’s End (2018) and Sonya Posmentier (NYU), author of Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black Literature (2017).

Isaac Ginsberg Miller is reading next week as part of a benefit event for Puerto Rico, alongside many other Chicago poets. 

Join us for Vis(à)vies : A Reading and Conversation with Frédérique Guétat-Liviani and Nathanaël on Wednesday, April 11, 2018.

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