Fall 2010 Workshop Schedule

Happy first week of classes, everyone, and welcome to another year with the Poetry & Poetics Workshop.

The current schedule for fall quarter sits below. Please mark these dates on your calendar! Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will take place on Mondays at 4:30 PM in Rosenwald 405.

One slot for the final meeting of the quarter has opened up, and there are still slots available for students who wish to present in winter or spring quarter. For more information or to inquire about presenting, please contact Joel Calahan at [calahan@uchicago.edu].

All papers will be available one week in advance of the workshop for download from our website,

http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/poetryandpoetics/

NOTE: due to concerns over Google indexing unpublished work by students and professors, I have password-protected all posts. You will find the password for each separate post in the announcement e-mail.

Fall 2010 Poetry & Poetics Workshop Schedule

  • October 11 | Jacob Blakesley | Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
    Edoardo Sanguineti: Translator”

  • October 25 | Dustin Simpson | Department of Comparative Literature
    “Poetry and Pleasure in T. S. Eliot”

  • November 8 | Joshua Kotin | Department of English
    “Reading Ezra Pound and J. H. Prynne in Chinese
  • November 22 | Richard Neer | Department of Art History
    TBA
  • December 7 | TBA

Winter 2010 Poetry & Poetics Workshop Schedule

Welcome back from winter break! We are pleased to announce the Winter 2010 schedule for the Poetry & Poetics Workshop.

Again, all Poetry & Poetics Workshops will take place Mondays at 4:30pm-6:00pm in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise noted.

For more information, or to be added to the Poetics listserv, please contact Joel Calahan.

Winter 2010 Poetry & Poetics Workshop Schedule

  • January 11 | Billy Junker | Department of English and the Committee on Social Thought
    on Spenser

NB: special time of 5:00 PM-6:30 PM; co-presented with the Renaissance Workshop

  • January 25 | David Simpson | Department of English, University of California-Davis
    “Poetry with Small Print: The Romantic Epic”
    Note special location: Classics 110, 4:30 PM

co-presented with the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Cultures Workshop

  • January 29 | Monika Rinck, Christian Hawkey and Uljana Wolf
    a discussion on contemporary German poetry and translation
    Note special time and location: Social Sciences Tea Room, Friday, January 29, 1:00 PM

co-sponsored by the Poetry & Poetics Workshop with Chicago Review and the Goethe-Institute Chicago

  • February 1 | Jon Geltner | Department of English
    “Genre, Geography and Visionary Poetics in the Life and Work of Kenneth White”
  • February 15 | Stephanie Anderson | Department of English
    “Typewriter and Text: Reading Materiality in Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets
  • March 1 | Keith Tuma | Department of English, Miami University of Ohio
    on Trevor Joyce and Stephen Rodefer

Fall 2009 Schedule for Poetry & Poetics

Welcome to the new blog for the Poetry & Poetics Workshop. This blog will serve as a hub for announcements as well as for pre-circulated workshop papers.

All Poetry & Poetics Workshops will take place Mondays at 4:30pm-6:00pm in Rosenwald 405 unless otherwise noted.

Papers will be posted to the blog approximately one week in advance of the workshop and should be read beforehand. Notice of posted papers will be sent to the Poetics listserv.

For more information, or to be added to the Poetics listserv, please contact Joel Calahan.

Fall 2009 Poetry & Poetics Workshop Schedule

  • October 12 | Alison James | Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
    on Jacques Roubaud

  • October 26 | Michael Hansen | Department of English
    “English Elegy and the Eighteenth-Century Sonnet Revival”

  • November 9 | Lisa Barca | Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
    chapter from dissertation titled “Divine Eclipse and the Lineaments of Poetic Modernism”
    (Dickinson, Pascoli, Rilke, Montale)
  • November 23 | Boris Maslov | Department of Comparative Literature
    “Pindaric Temporality in German and Russian Romanticism”
  • December 7 | Joshua Adams | Department of Comparative Literature
    “Dickinson and Doubt”