All Poetry Readings are held at 5:30pm in Hokin Hall
on the first floor of Columbia College Chicago's 623 South Wabash building.
Events held elsewhere as indicated.
Bad Reputation: Joan Larkin Poetics Lecture, 31 January
Tony Trigilio and Richard Meier Poetry Reading, 21 February
8th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, 5 April
Michael Palmer and Lisa Fishman Poetry Reading, 11 April
Reading and Release party for Columbia Poetry Review no. 20, 26 April
English Department Art Showcase, 8 May
Joan Larkin Poetics Lecture, 31 January
BAD REPUTATION: Amy Lowell and Edna St. Vincent Millay, each popular in her own day, have long been on the list of poets we're not supposed to take very seriously. Condescension and ridicule have helped to drum them out of the canon. Why should we read their work today? This talk will take a fresh look at their poems and offer an opportunity to reconsider poets' reputations, bad and good.
JOAN LARKIN is the author of My Body: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in 2007 from Hanging Loose Press, and of Housework, A Long Sound, and Cold River. She is the editor of four anthologies of poetry and prose, the translator, with Jaime Manrique, of Sor Juana's Love Poems, and the visiting Poet in Residence at Columbia for the Spring semester.
Tony Trigilio and Richard Meier Poetry Reading, 21 February
Tony Trigilio's book of poems, The Lama's English Lessons, was published recently by Three Candles Press. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Black Clock, Bombay Gin, DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Laurel Review, New Orleans Review, La Petite Zine, and The Spoon River Poetry Review. His poems also have been anthologized in Digerati: 20 Contemporary Poets in the Virtual World and America Zen. His second book of criticism, Allen Ginsberg's Buddhist Poetics, is forthcoming in June 2007 from Southern Illinois University Press. He is the Director of Creative Writing--Poetry at Columbia College Chicago.
Richard Meier has published two books of poetry: Shelley Gave Jane a Guitar (2006) and Terrain Vague (2001), both available from Wave Books. He lives in Chicago and Orfordville, WI and teaches poetry at Columbia College and in the Chicago Public Schools through the Poetry Center's Hands on Stanza's program.
8th Annual Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival, 5 April
Join us for readings from Chicago-area undergraduate poets. The event will feature one student poet from each of 11 different Chicago-area colleges and universities.
Michael Palmer and Lisa Fishman Poetry Reading, 11 April
Born in Manhattan, poet and translator Michael Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. For over thirty years he has collaborated with many visual artists and composers and the choreographer Margaret Jenkins. His most recent collections are The Promises of Glass, Codes Appearing (Poems 1979-1988), and Company of Moths, all from New Directions. Among his awards, Palmer has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, A Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Fund Award, two National Endowment for the Arts grants in poetry, the Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America and, in the fall of 2006, the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has taught at many universities in the United States and in Europe, and his work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.
Lisa Fishman is the author of three books of poetry: The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta, 2007); Dear, Read (Ahsahta, 2002) and The Deep Heart's Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues, 1998). She has also published a chapbook, KabbaLoom (Wyrd Press, 2007). Her work is anthologized in Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000), And We the Creatures (Dream Horse Press, 2003) and Shade (Four Way Press, 2005). She has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Women's Studies Quarterly, 1913: a journal of forms, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, American Letters & Commentary, Five Fingers Review, 26: a journal of poetry and poetics, Volt and elsewhere. Her reviews, essays and interviews have appeared in Small Press Traffic, Poetry Salzburg Review, identitytheory.com, herecomeseverybody and on public radio stations in New Jersey and Columbia, Missouri. She recently joined the core faculty in the Poetry Program of Columbia College, Chicago.
Reading and Release Party for Columbia Poetry Review no. 20, 26 April
Join us for the launch of CPR 20. Featuring readings from some contributors.
English Department Art Showcase, 8 May
Held each year in the Writing Center, the English Department Art Showcase profiles strong work done by students and tutors at the Writing Center and in English classes. Please join us to see the work, meet the artists, and listen to readings. Contact Karen Osborne or Tanya Harasym for more information.
