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.
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Celebration with Thiahera Nurse and Andrew E. Colarusso, Tuesday, January 29th 2018
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Celebration with Thiahera Nurse and Andrew E. Colarusso. Featuring a musical performance by Tatsu Aoki’s Reduction Ensemble
A Forum on The Poetry of the Americas: From Good Neighbors to Countercultures, Thursday January 18th 2018
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
A Multi-Media Reading by Poet, Writer, and Filmmaker Heid E. Erdrich
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.
“Combahee Now” – A Reflection on the Combahee River Collective Statement with Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Patrice Douglass, & Jennifer C. Nash, Thursday October 26th 2017
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).
Bettina Judd and Safiya Sinclair: “On Black Feminist Poetics,” Thursday October 5th 2017
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.
A Reading & Conversation with Daniel Borzutzky, Thursday, February 3rd 2017
The Performance of Becoming Broke: A reading & conversation about the ways nation-states and their bureaucracies absorb and destroy communities and economies.
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize Event with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo and Matthew Shenoda, Thursday, January 11th 2017
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.
Drinking Gourd Chapbook Launch, January 19th
Join us for an evening of poetry as we celebrate the fourth Drinking Gourd Chapbook Prize. The evening will include readings from Mayda Del Valle and Jenny Xie, the winners of 2016 Drinking Gourd Prize. Mayda Del Valle is a poet and performer. A proud native of...
An Evening with TJ Dema and Mayda Del Valle, Friday, October 14th 2016
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.
Nathaniel Mackey: “Breath and Precarity,” May 12th & 13th 2016
Join us for a Graduate Workshop on May 12th in the Hagstrum Room and a Poetry Reading on May 13th in the Annie May Swift Room.
Tan Lin, April 6th-7th, 2016:
“The Workshop, The Anecdote, The Powerpoint, and the Cookbook” by Chinese-American poet, author, filmmaker, and professor Tan Lin.
Two Events Featuring Tan Lin with The NBN Trio, Wednesday, February 24th 2016
Join us at 12:00pm in University Hall 201 for The Workshop, The Anecdote, The Powerpoint, and The Cookbook and later that evening at the Poetry Foundation for Ambient Slow and Ambient Speed Reading with Tan Lin