Lyn Hejinian Lyn Hejinian is professor of English at UC Berkeley. She is a poet and critic. She works on modernist and postmodern literature, American postwar experimental literature, Gertrude Stein, the Objectivists, Language Writing, Soviet Russian poetry, translation, small press publishing, and questions of aesthetics and ethics. Her work includes the following books of poetry: […]

Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium, April 18-19, 2013 Presented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. This symposium attends to the work that readers perform when reading and reconstructing poetry. We focus on […]

This two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students, faculty, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. Friday, January 31, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery Featuring Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand, Margaret Rhee, and Tsering Wangmo Saturday, February 1, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1, […]