Poetry & Poetics
The Poetry & Poetics Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
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 coordinated and funded by 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 are Timmy Straw, Julieta Vittore Dutto, and Lauren Bakst. To request additional information, please contact them at: Timmy Straw (timstraw@sas.upenn.edu), Julieta Vittore Dutto (julietav@sas.upenn.edu), or Lauren Bakst (lbakst@sas.upenn.edu).
Upcoming Events
Poets Who Translate
A Reading Series
Fatemeh Shams & Matvei Yankelevich
Sunday February 4, 7:30pm
Upstairs at Abyssinia
229 S. 45th Street
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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Kristen Gallagher and Ariel Resnikoff
September 1, 2015 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm -
Lucas de Lima. Michelle Taransky Kleiman
November 25, 2014 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm -
Caroline Bergvall. Ana Božičević.
November 3, 2014 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm -
Josef Kaplan. Joey Yearous-Algozin. Holly Melgard.
October 21, 2014 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm -
Marie Buck. Aaron Winslow.
September 24, 2014 - 7:30pm to 8:30pm -
"Lowell, Ginsberg, and the Face of the Midcentury Poet"
Kamran Javadizadeh (Villanova University)February 25, 2014 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm