All events are free and open to the public
For more information on poetry readings, contact Becca Klaver, Assistant Programs Director, (312) 344-8819, rklaver@colum.edu
Spring 2008: Chicago Poetry Readings & Lectures
6 Feb: Danielle Pafunda Lecture: “Stunt Doubles, Companion Species, and the Lyric”
11 Feb: Court Green 5: Sylvia Plath Dossier Release Party & Poetry Reading
5 Mar: Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Kate Greenstreet, & Michael Robins Poetry Reading
3 Apr: Ninth Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival
9 Apr: Elma Stuckey Memorial Reading - Alice Notley & Rachel Zucker Poetry Reading
1 May: Columbia Poetry Review Release Party & Poetry Reading
Danielle Pafunda Lecture: “Stunt Doubles, Companion Species, and the Lyric”
Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 South Michigan Avenue
DANIELLE PAFUNDA is the author of two poetry collections, My Zorba (forthcoming from Bloof Books in 2008) and Pretty Young Thing (Soft Skull Press, 2005), and the forthcoming chapbook A Primer for Cyborgs: The Corpse (Whole Coconut). She has been anthologized in the 2004, 2006, and 2007 editions of Best American Poetry, as well as in Not For Mothers Only: Contemporary Poets on Child-getting and Child-rearing (Fence Books, 2007) and Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections (University of Iowa, 2008). Poetry, reviews, and essays appear in such publications as Action Yes, Conjunctions, TriQuarterly, and the Georgia Review. Danielle received a BA from Bard College, MFA in Poetry from New School University, and is currently a doctoral candidate in the University of Georgia Creative Writing Program. She is co-editor of the longstanding online literary journal La Petite Zine, and a contributing curator at the new Delirious Hem. Her teaching and scholarly interests include 20th century American poetry, experimental poetry, gender theory, cultural and biocultural studies.
Court Green 5: Sylvia Plath Dossier Release Party & Poetry Reading
Monday, February 11, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Film Row Cinema, 1104 South Wabash Avenue, 8th Floor
Refreshments will follow
Reading and party for the fifth issue of Court Green, the English Department’s faculty-edited poetry journal, which features a dossier on Sylvia Plath. Contributors, editors, and students will read selections from the magazine, as well as their favorite Sylvia Plath poems. New York poet JEANNE MARIE BEAUMONT, author of Curious Conduct, will be a guest reader.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Kate Greenstreet, & Michael Robins Poetry Reading
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 South Michigan Avenue
KATE GREENSTREET is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006) and two chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005) and Rushes (above/ground press, 2007). Her poems have appeared in journals including Conduit, Barrow Street, Fascicle, 26, and Xantippe, and in the anthologies Diagram.2 (New Michigan Press, 2006) and The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books, 2007). Her second book, The Last 4 Things, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in 2009. Visit her online at kickingwind.com.
AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL is the author of At the Drive-In Volcano. Her previous book of poetry, Miracle Fruit (2003), won the the Tupelo Press Prize, the ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award in poetry, and the Global Filipino Award. Her poetry and essays have been widely anthologized and have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Black Warrior Review, FIELD, Mid-American Review, and Tin House. She has been a faculty member at the Kundiman retreat for Asian-American writers and has given readings and workshops from Amsterdam to San Francisco. She is associate professor of English at State University of New York-Fredonia, where she is a recipient of the campus-wide Hagan Young Scholar Award and the SUNY Chancellor's Medal for Scholarly and Creative Activities.
Born in Portland, Oregon, MICHAEL ROBINS is the author of The Next Settlement (University of North Texas Press, 2007), which was selected for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry. He holds degrees from the University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and his poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, LUNA, Third Coast and elsewhere. A contributing editor for Born Magazine, he lives in Chicago and teaches at Columbia College.
Ninth Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival
Thursday, April 3, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 South Michigan Avenue
Reception to follow
The Columbia College Chicago Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival brings together 12 poets from Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work. This year's schools include Columbia College Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago State University, DePaul University, Loyola University, National-Louis University, North Central College, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Roosevelt University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and University of Chicago. A reception follows the reading.
Elma Stuckey Memorial Reading
Alice Notley & Rachel Zucker Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Music Center Concert Hall, 1014 South Michigan Avenue
RACHEL ZUCKER is the author of three books of poetry: The Bad Wife Handbook, The Last Clear Narrative, and Eating in the Underworld. She is co-editor, along with poet Arielle Greenberg, of Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, which will be published by the University of Iowa Press in 2008. Zucker was the poet in residence at Fordham University and has taught at Yale and NYU. She is also a certified labor doula. For more information please visit www.rachelzucker.net.
ALICE NOTLEY was born in 1945 and educated at Barnard College and at The Writers Workshop, University of Iowa. During the late 60s and early 70s she lived a traveling poet’s life (San Francisco, Bolinas, London, Wivenhoe, Chicago) before settling on New York’s Lower East Side and becoming an important figure in the second-generation New York School. Notley, who has resided in Paris for the past fifteen years, is the author of more than twenty-five books of poetry including the epic poem The Descent of Alette, and Mysteries of Small Houses, one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Notley’s long poem Disobedience won the Griffin International Prize in 2002. In 2005 the University of Michigan Press published her book of essays on poetry, Coming After. Notley recently edited The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, with her sons Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan as co-editors. Her most recent books are Alma, or The Dead Women, from Granary Books, Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, from Wesleyan, and In the Pines from Penguin in 2007.
Columbia Poetry Review Release Party & Poetry Reading
Thursday, May 1, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Sherwood Conservatory Recital Hall, 1312 South Michigan Avenue
Reception to follow
Contributors to this year’s issue of Columbia Poetry Review, now in its 21st year as the English Department’s student-edited, nationally distributed poetry magazine, will read their work.
