All events are free and open to the public
For more information on poetry readings, contact Nicole Wilson, Assistant Programs Director, (312) 369-8819, nwilson@colum.edu
9 Sept: Don Share & Emily Warn
16 Sept: Lenelle Moise
7 Oct: Catherine Bowman
21 Oct: Karen Kukil
18 Nov: Cecily Parks & Sandra Lim
Don Share & Emily Warn
Wednesday, September 9, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert
Hall,1014 South Michigan Avenue
DON SHARE is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine
in Chicago. He
has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review,
Editor of Literary Imagination,
and Curator of Poetry at Harvard
University. His books
include Squandermania (Salt
Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), Seneca
in English (Penguin Classics), and a critical edition of Basil Bunting’s
poems (forthcoming, Faber and Faber). His translations of Miguel Hernández,
collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books) were awarded the Times
Literary Supplement Translation Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán Prize, and
the PEN/New England Discovery Award. He received his Ph.D. from the Editorial
Institute at Boston
University.
EMILY WARN is a poet, essayist,
teacher, and technologist who most recently served as founding editor of poetryfoundation.org. Born in San Francisco
and raised in Michigan,
she is the author of three books of poetry: The
Leaf Path (1982), The Novice
Insomniac (1996) and Shadow Architect
(2008). Her essays and poems appear widely, including in Poetry, BookForum, Blackbird, Parabola, The Seattle Times, and The
Writers’ Almanac. She taught
creative writing at Lynchburg College and The Bush School, and was a Stegner Fellow
at Stanford University. She currently divides her
time between Seattle and Twisp,
Washington.
Lenelle Moise One-Woman Show: “Womb-Words, Thirsting”
Wednesday, September 16, 7:00pm
Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 South
Michigan Avenue
Hailed as “a tour de force” and “a masterful performer”,
Haitian-American artist-activist Lenelle Moise brings us WOMB-WORDS,
THIRSTING, an interactive performance of patchwork poetic storytelling
delivered, slam-style, from the gut. Through a mix of womanist Vodou jazz,
queer theory hip-hop, spoken word, song and movement, Lenelle Moise
re-conceives memory, dances revolution, reclaims F-words and boldly speaks out
about growing up immigrant, working-class, politicized and queer. Presented by
the LGBTQ Office of Culture & Community in partnership with the Institute,
and co-sponsored by African American Cultural Affairs, Center for Teaching
Excellence and the English Department. A reception and Q&A will follow,
moderated by award-winning performance artist, sharon bridgforth.
Catherine Bowman
Wednesday, October 7,
5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall,1014 South Michigan Avenue
CATHERINE BOWMAN was born in El Paso, Texas.
She is the author of the poetry collections The
Plath Cabinet, Notarikon, Rock Farm, and 1-800-HOT-RIBS, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize and the
Kate Frost Tufts Prize. She is the editor of Word of Mouth: Poems Featured on NPR's All Things Considered. Her
poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, and have
been selected for six editions of The
Best American Poetry anthology. She
is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana
University in Bloomington.
Karen Kukil Lecture: “Sylvia
Plath's Women and Poetry”
Wednesday, October
21, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert
Hall,1014 South Michigan Avenue
Image: Sylvia Plath in Yorkshire (PHOTO CREDIT: Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College)
KAREN V. KUKIL is Associate
Curator of Special Collections at Smith
College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
For the past sixteen years, Ms. Kukil has supervised the scholarly use of the
Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf collections in the Mortimer Rare Book Room at Smith College,
where she has made the rare book and
manuscript collections accessible to
undergraduates through lectures and exhibitions. A popular interterm course
taught by Ms. Kukil requires students to examine and edit variant drafts of
Plath’s Ariel poems, which are also
part of the college’s extensive Sylvia Plath Collection.
Sandra Lim & Cecily Parks
Wednesday, November
18, 5:30 p.m.
Ferguson Theater, 600 South Michigan
SANDRA LIM’s first book, Loveliest Grotesque, was published in
2006 by Kore Press. Her poetry has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, and other journals. She is the
recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a Soul Mountain Fellowship, and a
2006 Pushcart Prize nomination. Lim earned her BA at Stanford University,
a PhD at UC Berkeley, and her MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She has taught
at UC Berkeley, the University of Iowa, and Saint Mary’s College of California,
and is the 2009-2010 Elma Stuckey Liberal Arts & Sciences Emerging
Poet-in-Residence at Columbia College.
CECILY PARKS’s first book of
poems, Field Folly Snow (University
of Georgia Press/VQR Poetry Series,
2008), was a finalist for the Norma Farber Prize and the Glasgow/Shenandoah
Emerging Writers Prize. Her poems and reviews have appeared in Boston Review,
Kenyon Review, Octopus, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Yale Review,
and elsewhere. She is a PhD candidate in English at CUNY
Graduate Center
in New York and teaches in the undergraduate
creative writing department at Columbia
University.
