Poetry & Poetics
The Poetry & Poetics Working Group is a graduate discussion group and event series which focuses on poetic form across disciplinary and temporal boundaries. Though we are especially interested in twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and contemporary critical work in English, we also host and encourage interdisciplinary conversation between non-Anglophone and comparative literatures, new media, cinema studies, the sciences, and the visual and performing arts. Our group is grounded in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania, but extends into a larger community of poets, critics, and scholars engaged with contemporary poetics in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
Our coordinators from 2021-2023 were Lauren Bakst and Andrew J. Smyth. To request additional information, please contact them at: Lauren Bakst (lbakst@sas.upenn.edu) or Andrew J. Smyth (ajsmyth@sas.upenn.edu).
Upcoming Events
TBA
Past Events
Spring 2023
4/6-4/8, School for Temporary Liveness
Fall 2022
10/21, 1pm, Simone White
Spring 2022
4/12, 6:30pm, RAW Académie Fellows
4/27, 6pm, Will Rawls
Fall 2021
10/28, 7pm, R.A. Judy
Fall 2020
11/12, 4:45pm, Anahid Nersessian (w/ Res/Vic)
11/17, 6pm, Ada Smailbegovic
Spring 2020
1/14, 1pm, Julia Dasbach, job talk
2/10, 6:30pm, Joe Torra, in discussion on the poet Stephen Jonas
3/2, 6pm, Zohar Weiman-Kelman, Book talk (with Jewish Studies)
Fall 2019
10/24, 4:30pm, Welcome Back and discussion of Nealon's The Matter of Capital
11/7, 5:30pm, Christopher Nealon
Spring 2019
1/30, 5pm, Davis Knittle, WIP
2/11, 6pm, Keegan Finberg, WIP
3/20, 12:30pm, Brian Teare and Allison Cobb, a discussion of selected readings
4/2, 12pm, Brian Teare and Allison Cobb, lunch
Fall 2018
10/1, 6:30pm, Renee Gladman, a discussion of selected readings
10/16, 5pm, Alexis Pauline-Gumbs, a discussion of selected readings
10/18, 10am-5pm, New Disability Poetics Symposium
11/8, 6pm, Eric Schmaltz, poetry reading combined with a discussion of Surfaces
11/15, 12pm, Jennifer Scappettone, lunch
Spring 2017
03/14, 10am, Orchid Tierney, WIP
04/04, 6pm, Laynie Browne and Pattie McCarthy (Room 222)
04/27, 3pm, erica kaufman (with Gen/Sex)
Fall 2016 Schedule
10/26, 6:30pm, Li Zhimin and Gregory Laynor
11/16, 6:30m, Sarah Arkebauer and Andrew Dieck
12/07, 6:30pm, Trapeta B. Mayson and Andrew Brenza
Spring 2016 Schedule
03/23, 6:30pm, Raquel Salas-Rivera and Oki Sogumi
04/21, 6:30pm, Alex Smith and Levi Bentley
05/12, 1:30pm, Joshua Schuster
Fall 2015 Schedule
09/1, 6:30pm Kristen Gallagher and Ariel Resnikoff
10/13, 7pm, Paolo Javier and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
11/5, 12pm, Ashley Chang, WIP
12/11, 6:30pm, Michael Leong and Amy Catanzano
Past Events
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Ariel Goldberg Talk
February 12, 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:00pm -
Reading by Asiya Wadud and Anna Stron
December 1, 2017 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Performance by Chrysanthemum Tran and Charlotte Abotsi - CANCELED
November 10, 2017 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm -
Jess Shollenberger WIP
"Rose Rocks, or Maybe Rock Roses: Elizabeth Bishop's Passion for Accuracy"October 9, 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Reading by Saretta Morgan and Camae Ayewa
October 4, 2017 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm -
Erica Kaufman, “Queer Pedagogy.”
April 27, 2017 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm -
Pattie McCarthy and Laynie Browne
April 6, 2017 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm -
Laynie Brown and Pattie McCarthy
April 4, 2017 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm -
Orchid Tierney, WIP “The Durable and Durational Extension of Language.”
March 14, 2017 - 10:00am to 12:00pm -
Julia Bloch WIP: “'Womb as Plot': Conceptive Risk and Reproductive Time in Contemporary Poetry"
March 2, 2017 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm