Poetry & Poetics Workshop
Spring 2015 Schedule

Monday, March 30, 2015
Patrick Morrissey, Department of English, University of Chicago
“Naive Modernism: William Carlos Williams’s Kora in Hell”
4:30-6pm, Rosenwald 405

Friday, April 17, 2015  *Please note the unusual day, time, and location.*
Daniel Tiffany, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Southern California
“Cheap Signaling: Class Conflict and Poetic Diction”
1-2:30pm, Location TBA
Co-Sponsored with History and Forms and Lyric

Monday, April 27, 2015
Jose-Luis Moctezuma, Department of English, University of Chicago
“Hand and Craft in William Morris’s Poetics of Design”
4:30-6pm, Rosenwald 405

Monday, May 11, 2015
Stephanie Anderson, Department of English, University of Chicago
“Archival Time in Mayer and/or Eigner”
4:30-6pm, Rosenwald 405

Monday, June 8, 2015
Chalcey Wilding, Department of English, University of Chicago
“Becoming ‘as’: Medusa in Fish and Stone”
(On Marianne Moore and Paul Scott Mowrer)
4:30-6pm, Rosenwald 405

These events are free and open to the public. ‪We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities. Questions or concerns should be directed to‬ Andrew Peart at apeart@uchicago.edu or Patrick Morrissey at pfmorrissey@uchicago.edu.

Monday, April 7, 2014

Mark Payne, Professor, Department of Classics and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

“Callimachus, Twombly, and the Poetics of Childhood”

4:30-6pm, Rosenwald 405

Friday, April 25, 2014  *Please note the unusual day, time, and location.*

Charles Altieri, Professor, Department of English, UC Berkeley

“Valuing in Poetry, or What Literary Theory Can Learn from Wittgenstein’s Silence About Ethics”

10-11:30am, Cobb 409

Monday, May 5, 2014

Patrick Morrissey, Department of English, University of Chicago

“Particularity and Personality in Williams’s Kora in Hell”

4:30-6pm

Monday, May 12, 2014

Patrick Durgin

Title TBA (On Hannah Weiner)

Time and Location TBA

Co-Sponsored with Disability Matters

Luba Golburt, Associate Professor, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley

Title TBA

4:30-6pm, Harper 145

Monday, June 2, 2014

Joel Calahan, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

“Lyric, Dialectology, and the Problem of Genre”

4:30-6pm, Rosenwald 405

These events are free and open to the public.  We are committed to making our workshop fully accessible to persons with disabilities.  Questions or concerns should be directed to Andrew Peart at apeart@uchicago.edu or Patrick Morrissey at pfmorrissey@uchicago.edu.