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Dedmon Writer-in-Residence: Joe Sacco

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: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago. For more info visit creativewriting.uchicago.edu.

Dedmon Writer-in-Residence: Joe Sacco

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: http://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. Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM. Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago.

Katie Crawford

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: http://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 consumm… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, February 9, 2012. TBD.

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

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: http://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 pol… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. Social Sciences Tea Room.

Annan Award Reading

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405. Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Rosenwald 405. For more info visit creativewriting.uchicago.edu.

Meltzer Roundtable

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: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, February 16, 2012, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. Social Sciences Tea Room.

Emerging Writers, Nonfiction: Joshuah Bearman

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: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM. International House, Home Room. For more info visit creativewriting.uchicago.edu.

Frolic Architecture: David Grubbs and Susan Howe

Building/Room: The Renaissance Society. Primary Sponsor: Other Sponsor(s). Other Sponsor(s): Poem Present, Committee on Creative Writing. Campus Map: http://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 autonom… Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Sunday, February 26, 2012, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM. The Renaissance Society.

History and Forms of Lyric: Mutlu Blasing

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: http://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. Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM. TBD.

History and Forms of Lyric: Sharon Cameron

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201. Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing. Presenter(s): Sharon Cameron. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu. Contact Phone: 773.834.8524. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Sharon's bio via her faculty website at Johns Hopkins: http://english.jhu.edu/bios/sharon-cameron/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Monday, April 16, 2012, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM. Social Sciences Tea Room, University of Chicago.

History and Forms of Lyric: Sharon Cameron

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201. Primary Sponsor: Creative Writing. Presenter: Sharon Cameron. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu. Contact Phone: 773.834.8524. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Tuesday, April 17, 2012, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. Social Sciences Tea Room, University of Chicago.

Poem Present: Brenda Hillman

Building/Room: Social Sciences 201. Primary Sponsor: Poem Present. Author: Brenda Hillman. Reading From: her work. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773.834.8524. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: As part of the popular Poem Present series, this event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, April 26, 2012, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. Social Sciences Tea Room (201), University of Chicago.

Poem Present: Brenda Hillman

Building/Room: RO 405. Primary Sponsor: Poem Present. Presenter: Brenda Hilman. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicago.edu. Contact Phone: 773.834.8524. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Brenda Hillman will deliver a lecture on the craft as part of the Poem Present series. This event is free and open to the public. A reception will follow. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Friday, April 27, 2012, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM. Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago.

Poem Present: Fred Moten

Building/Room: Rosenwald 405. Primary Sponsor: Poem Present. Other Sponsor(s): CSPRC. Reading From: his work. Contact Name: Kate Soto. Contact E-mail: katesoto@uchicgo.edu. Contact Phone: 773.834.8524. Campus Map: http://maps.uchicago.edu/. Event Description: Read Fred's bio from the Poetry Society of America: http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/new_american_poets/fred_moten/. Disability Clause: Please contact the event sponsor(s) if you require assistance to fully participate in this event. Thursday, May 3, 2012, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM. Rosenwald 405, University of Chicago.