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
“Feral Atlas: Toward a Collaborative Environmental Humanities”
Monday, March 27, 2023, 12:00pm-1:30pm in McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)
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Professor Anna Tsing will gather us for a lunchtime…
Ecotheories Colloquium:
Kimberly Bain, University of British Columbia, Assistant Professor of English Language and Literatures. Kimberly Bain earned a Ph.D. in English and Interdisciplinary Humanistic Study from Princeton University. Bain's most pressing intellectual interests have consolidated around questions of the history, theory,…
Ecotheories Colloquium:
Ada Smailbegović, Brown University, Assistant Professor of English at Brown University. Her writing explores relations between poetics, non-human forms of materiality, and histories of description. She is a co-founder of The Organism for Poetic Research.
Registration free and open to PU faculty, staff, and…
Ecotheories Colloquium:
“Ecology/Echography: Heidegger's Hut—Three Displacements”
Cary Wolfe, Rice University, Bruce and Elizabeth Dunlevie Professor of English. He has written on a range of topics, from American poetry to bioethics. He is series editor for Minnesota Press's Posthumanities Series
Registration free and open…
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
"To 'Whistle / in the Fasces of Uniform Graphemes': Babel After Fascism"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.