Poetry and Politics – The Humanities Institute

Cathy Park Hong: “Stand Up: A Symposium on Race and the Avant-Garde”

UCSC’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 […]

Counteractions: A Symposium of Creative & Critical Inquiries

Featuring 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, […]

"Lasting and Passing": The Poetics of Remainders with Margaret Ronda

Poetry & 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 […]

“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference

This 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 […]

“Emergent Communities in Experimental Writing” Conference

This 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 […]

Craig Dworkin: “The Politics of the Work”

In 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 […]

Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings

The 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 […]