Chicago Poetry Symposium 2010

Posted on Feb 05, 2010, by Special Collections Research Center

CHICAGO POETRY SYMPOSIUM 2010

Featuring Stephanie Anderson, Garin Cycholl, Al Filreis, Phil Jenks, Nancy Kuhl, and Don Share

With talks on Alice Notley, Sterling Plumpp, Henry Rago, and Margaret Anderson

When and Where:

Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 12:30 p.m. through 5:00 p.m.

Special Collections Research Center
The Joseph Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Contact:

David Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern Poetry
pavelich [at] uchicago.edu
773.834.4338

ABOUT

This event is free and open to the public.

The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the University of Chicago Library welcomes you to the third annual Chicago Poetry Symposium, a yearly conversation on the history of Chicago poetry.

Held
in the University of Chicago Library's Special Collections Research
Center (SCRC), the event highlights the SCRC's strong archival and book
holdings in the history of Chicago poetry, including the papers of Harriet Monroe and her Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Paul Carroll, Chicago Review, Flood Editions, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., Michael Anania, and others.

This event is supported in part by the William Martin Card Trust.

Persons
with disabilities who require accommodation in order to participate in
this event should contact David Pavelich, pavelich [at] uchicago.edu,
773.834.4338 for assistance.

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SCHEDULE:

12:30-12:45: Welcoming remarks

David Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern Poetry, University of Chicago Library

12:45-1:45: A Discussion on the Work of Sterling Plumpp

"It was very south": the Geography of Chicago and Mississippi in the Poetry of Sterling Plumpp
Garin Cycholl, Instructor in Creative Writing, University of Chicago, and author of several books of poetry
Phil Jenks, poet, author of My first painting will be "The accuser" (2005) and On the cave you live in (2002)

1:45-2:00: Break for refreshments

2:00-3:15: Avant-Garde Editors and their Magazines

Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson and the Little Review
Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library

Curating Location: Alice Notely and Chicago Magazine
Stephanie Anderson, Doctoral student in the English Department, University of Chicago

3:15-4:30. A Discussion on the Work and Legacy of Henry Rago

Slow Music: The Two Eras of Henry Rago
Al Filreis,
Kelly Professor of English; Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers
House; Director, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing; and
Director of PennSound; University of Pennsylvania

Henry Rago and the Wider Door
Don Share, Senior Editor, Poetry Magazine

4:30-5:00: Refreshments/reception

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SPEAKERS

Stephanie Anderson is the author of four chapbooks: In the Particular Particular (New Michigan Press), The Choral Mimeographs (Dancing Girl Press), A Spot A Scheme (forthcoming, Cinematheque Press), and The Nightyard
(forthcoming, Noemi Press). She co-edits Projective Industries and
lives in Chicago, where she is a PhD student at the University of
Chicago.

Garin Cycholl’s recent work includes the extended collaborative poem, Aquinas on the Mississippi, with Bill Allegrezza, and Hostile Witness,
a book-length poem on mold, boxing, and Illinois politics. Since 2002,
he has been a member of Chicago’s Jimmy Wynn fiction collaborative. He
teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of
Chicago.

Al Filreis
is Kelly Professor of English, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers
House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing
at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-founder and co-director,
with Charles Bernstein, of PennSound. His books include Stevens and the Actual World, Modernism from Right to Left, and Counter-Revolution of the World: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry.

Philip Jenks
was born in North Carolina and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He
got his BA from Reed College, and did graduate work at Boston
University (Creative Writing) and University of Kentucky (Political
Science). He teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Flood
Editions published his first volume of poems in 2002, On the Cave You Live In and a second volume of poems, My First Painting will be ‘The Accuser’ was published by Zephyr Press (2005). He also published two chapbooks – The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006). He collaborates with Simone Muench, publishing Little Visceral Carnival (Cinemateque Press, 2009) and with Sasha Miljevic, publishing Distance, an ekphrastic hybrid of prose and poetry (Dutch Art Institute, 2009).

Nancy Kuhl
is Curator of Poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at
the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; she
is the author of exhibition catalogs, including, Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts, and collections of poetry, including The Wife of the Left Hand.
She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher which has
published more than 20 poetry chapbooks and pamphlets since 2001.
Additional information and examples of Kuhl’s work can be found online:
www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm

David Pavelich
is bibliographer for modern poetry at the University of Chicago
Library. Recent writings are scheduled to appear in Chicago Review,
Parenthesis, MoonLit, Urban Library Journal, and College and Research
Libraries News.

Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine. His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), The Traumatophile (Scantily Clad Press), and Seneca in English (Penguin Classics); forthcoming are Basil Bunting’s Persia
(Flood Editions), and a critical edition of Bunting’s poems (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 has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review, Editor of Literary Imagination, and Curator of Poetry at Harvard University.