Humanities Division|Poetry and Poetics

Dedmon Writer-in-Residence: Joe Sacco

2012-02-07T22:30:00Z

Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago
Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: RO 405
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Other Sponsor(s): Dedmon Writer-in-Residence Program
Author: Joe Sacco
Reading From: his work
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: creativewriting.uchicago.edu

Dedmon Writer-in-Residence: Joe Sacco

2012-02-08T18:00:00Z

Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago
Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12 – 2pm

Building/Room: RO 405
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Other Sponsor(s): Dedmon Writer-in-Residence Program
Presenter: Joe Sacco
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Please join 2011-12 Dedmon Writer-in-Residence Joe Sacco for a craft talk. This event is free and open to the public. Reception will follow.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Katie Crawford

2012-02-09T07:00:00Z

TBD
Thursday, February 9, 2012

Building/Room: TBD
Primary Sponsor: Poem Present
Presenter: Katie Crawford
Lecture Title: Love Talk and Dirty Jokes: French Erotic Poetry and Masculinity in the Renaissance
Contact Name: Gina Olson
Contact E-mail: golson@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: (773) 702-9936
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: CSGS alumni/ae lecture. Sexually explicit vulgar verse emerged in Renaissance France just as a transcendent, romantic rhetoric of love developed in poetry as well. These poetic forms, apparently at odds, nonetheless rely on a common vocabulary base and set of syntactical assumptions. French poets came to believe that Petrarch lied about the chaste quality of his love for Laura, and concerns over Petrarch’s veracity spawned a range of highly sexualized responses. French poets insisted instead that consummation was a marker of emotional and physical authenticity. Articulating sexual fulfillment was a form of masculine honesty. But within the context of the agonistic competition for patronage and to assert poetic subjectivity, anxieties about masculinity emerged. Negotiating between claims of corporeal truth and knowledge of personal inadequacy created a highly charged sexual politics around the development of subjectivity and masculinity as a function of distinctly French poetic practices.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

History and Forms of Lyric: Roundtable on Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity

2012-02-15T22:00:00Z

Social Sciences Tea Room
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4 – 6pm

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
Presenter: Mark Payne, Alison James, and others
Lecture Title: Roundtable on Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity, by Francoise Meltzer
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire’s writing during a time of political and social upheaval.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Annan Award Reading

2012-02-15T22:00:00Z

Rosenwald 405
Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4 – 7pm

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: creativewriting.uchicago.edu

Meltzer Roundtable

2012-02-16T22:30:00Z

Social Sciences Tea Room
Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Building/Room: SS 201
Primary Sponsor: Poetry & Poetics
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

Emerging Writers, Nonfiction: Joshuah Bearman

2012-02-22T22:30:00Z

International House, Home Room
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 4:30 – 5:30pm

A writer and editor at LA Weekly, Joshuah Bearman has contributed to The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Rolling Stone, Harper’s, Wired, The Believer, McSweeney’s, as well as This American Life.

Building/Room: Homeroom, I-House
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.
More info: creativewriting.uchicago.edu

Frolic Architecture: David Grubbs and Susan Howe

2012-02-27T01:00:00Z

The Renaissance Society
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 7 – 8pm

Building/Room: The Renaissance Society
Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s)
Other Sponsor(s): Poem Present, Committee on Creative Writing
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: Grubbs and Howe return for a performance of their third and most recent release Frolic Architecture. Frolic drops the listener into a soundworld that germinates wildly from this most multiple and heterogeneous of Howe's celebrated collage poems. For long stretches, it is impossible to separate Howe's real-time performance of her fragment-strewn text from Grubbs's further deformations, scatterings, and layerings. These aberrant vocalizations are placed in a landscape in which individual pitches pulse autonomously within thick chords: gravel and cicadas duet. This concert is co-sponsored with Poem Present and the University of Chicago Department of English, Committee on Creative Writing. This concert will take place in Bond Chapel.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.

History and Forms of Lyric: Mutlu Blasing

2012-02-29T20:00:00Z

TBD
Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2 – 4pm

Building/Room: TBS
Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing
Other Sponsor(s): History and Forms of Lyric
Presenter: Mutlu Blasing
Contact Name: Kate Soto
Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone: 773.834.8524
Campus Map: maps.uchicago.edu
Event Description: This lecture is free and open to the public. Reception to follow.
Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event.