Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
The Graduate Colloquium on Contemporary Poetry brings together practicing poets and scholars from Princeton and beyond in a series of events aimed at exploring poetry in the present moment. We sponsor readings that include a question and answer session where the audience is able to engage in a dialogue with the featured poet. In past years, we have hosted poets such as Charles Bernstein, Timothy Donnelly, Ben Lerner, Jean Valentine, Tracy K. Smith, Lisa Robertson, Eduardo Corral, and Rosanna Warren. We also organize events that bring the creative and critical arts together in a necessary dialogue, including roundtable discussions by poets and scholars focusing on topics and issues in contemporary poetry. These have included a discussion of ‘Poetry and Pedagogy,’ a roundtable on the work of New York School poet James Schuyler, and an upcoming symposium on conceptualism and poetic freedom. As a colloquium, we are committed to providing a yearlong series of readings and events that celebrate the poetry community at Princeton while sustaining a dialogue about poetry in the twenty-first century.
Past Events
“A language is a dialect with an army and navy” (Weinrich). Now is certainly a time for tending to dialects that survive (barely) (and have survived) without martial armaments. This talk will think through the ways that poets contend with what June Jordan identifies as “community intelligence” encoded in dialects.
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Kamran Javadizadeh is an associate professor of English at Villanova University, where he works on the history of poetry and poetics, with a particular emphasis on the poetry of the 20th and 21st century United States. How does poetry emerge out of modern life, out of social relations, out of institutional arrangements?…
Whereas the historical trauma of the Middle Passage and enslavement has been a prominent subject of Caribbeanist scholarship, there is surprisingly little sustained consideration of how poems and other imaginative works mourn this violent past, even though melancholic grief is a crucial component of the literary response to it. Building on…
CAConrad has worked with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. Their latest book is Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return (Wave Books / UK Penguin 2024). They received the Ruth Lily Poetry Prize, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, and a Lambda Award. The Book…
- CAConradAffiliationPoet, Writer; Creative Writing Instructor, Columbia University, Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam
- AffiliationPoet, Speaker, Educator
Maureen N. McLane is a poet, scholar, and critic whose work often arises from the conjunction of romanticism and/or now. She has published seven books of poetry: Same Life (FSG, 2008); World Enough (FSG, 2010); This Blue (FSG, 2014); Mz N: the serial (FSG, 2016); Some Say …
- Affiliation
This event has been canceled.
- Mark Nowak, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, Manhattanville College
- and Julia Spicher Kasdorf, English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
This event has been canceled.
- Mark Nowak, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, Manhattanville College
- and Julia Spicher Kasdorf, English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University.
Poetry Reading
Co-sponsored with the 20th C. Colloquium, the Bain-Swiggett Lectureship in Poetry, the Fund for Canadian Studies, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the University Center for Human Values.
Thinking on the Edge of the Abyss
Co-sponsored with the 20th C. Colloquium, the Bain-Swiggett Lectureship in Poetry, the Fund for Canadian Studies, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the University Center for Human Values.
Roundtable Discussion: Documentary Poetics
Co-sponsored with the Program in Asian American Studies, the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities, and the University for Human Values.
- Mark Nowak, Department of English, Creative Writing Program, Manhattanville College
- and Julia Spicher Kasdorf, English and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
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Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
A Reading by Anne Waldman
Alice Notley Reading
Affiliated Institution:
Humanities Council
Reading and Conversation with Joshua Beckman
Poetry Reading with Dorothea Lasky
A Reading with Tom Pickard
Alchemy in African/American Poetry: Experimental Ekphrasis
Co-sponsored by the Contemporary Poetry Colloquium
Poetry Reading by Morgan Parker