Events
Poetry and Politics
Cathy Park Hong: “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde”
Humanities 2, Room 259UCSC's Poetry & Politics Research Collective invites you to attend our spring event, "Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde with Cathy Park Hong." Please join us on Friday, May 13 for a symposium featuring creative and critical work by Literature faculty, lecturers, and graduate students, and a keynote reading by Cathy Park […]
Counteractions: A Symposium of Creative & Critical Inquiries
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFeaturing papers by: James Beneda, Whitney DeVos, Ariane Helou, Katie Lally, Kenan Sharpe, Eric Sneathen, & Melissa Yinger Roundtable conversations from: Christopher Chen, Kendra Dority, Johanna Isaacson, Kyle Lane-McKinley, Brian Malone, Tsering Wangmo, Tim Willcutts, & others. Symposium at UCSC 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast 10:00 a.m.: Welcome & Opening Remarks 10:15 a.m.: Panel 1 […]
"Lasting and Passing": The Poetics of Remainders with Margaret Ronda
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPoetry & Politics Presents: Margaret Ronda, featuring Whitney DeVos and Keegan Cook Finberg This talk offers an extended reading of the work of rural Midwestern modernist poet Lorine Niedecker, whose poetry attends to various forms and speeds of what she calls “human material obsolescing.” The imaginative tarrying with these “outdated remains” (in Benjamin’s phrase) offers […]
“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […]
“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis conference is organized around experimental writing and its many, varying communities including performance art collaborations, small press publishing and editorial projects, virtual and digital work, academic affiliations, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations. The goal of this conference is to embrace the productive and generative connotations of these two terms as […]
Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”
Humanities 1, Room 202In Partnership with Poetry and Politics Research Cluster and the Literature Department presents: Craig Dworkin for a Lecture on Poetics. Craig Dworkin is the author of Reading the Illegible (Northwestern UP), Signature-Effects (Ghos-Ti), Dure (Cuneiform), Strand (Roof), and Parse (Atelos), and the editor of Architectures of Poetry (Rodopi), Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (Northwestern UP), The Sound of Poetry (Chicago UP), and Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writing of Vito […]
Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry. Matt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in […]