Site Lines: The Poetry of Eileen Myles and Karen Solie
Moderators: Robert Lecker and Curtis Brown
8 April 2019, 3:00PM-5:00PM
Wendy Patrick Room, Wilson Hall
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For our April session, the accent falls on contemporary Canadian and American poetry. Poster by Suvij Sudershan.
Roundtable: Caroline Levine's Forms
Panelist: Caroline Levine, Cornell University
Respondents from McGill: Sandeep Banerjee, Miranda Hickman, Prashant Keshavmurthy, Michael Nicholson
29 March 2019, 10:00AM-12:00PM
Birks 100
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We are pleased to announce a roundtable sponsored by “Poetry Matters,” Friday, March 29, 10:00-12:00. Please join us for a discussion of Caroline Levine’s Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network. We envision this event as a forum for conversation around literary, critical, and cultural forms and why they matter. Poster designed by Suvij Sudershan.
Victorian Poetry and Poetics: Media, Form, Empire
Moderators: Jason Camlot and Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Concordia University
18 March 2019, 5:00PM-7:00PM
Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount (Upper Auditorium)
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For our March session, the accent falls on Victorian poetry, media/sound studies, and the poetics of empire.
In this session, we will cover the following readings:
Christina Rossetti, "In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857”
Rudyard Kipling, "The White Man's Burden: The United States and the Philippine Islands”
Alfred Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Sound recordings made by Victorian actors and elocutionists
Tricia Lootens, The Political Poetess
Jerome McGann, Poetics of Sensibility
Moderators:
Jason Camlot, Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, Concordia University
Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of English (LTA), Concordia University
What Legacy? Louis Dudek: creative writing and Creative Writing
Moderator: Karis Shearer, UBC Okanagan
29 January 2019, 3:30PM-5:30PM
Colgate Room, Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th floor McLennan Library Building
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Karis Shearer is Associate Professor of English at UBC's Okanagan campus, where she directs the AMP (Audio-Media-Poetry) Lab and coordinates the Digital Arts & Humanities Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies Program. From a feminist perspective, her research focuses on literary production in Canada, the literary audio archive, and the modernist poet-professor in Canada. She is the editor of All These Roads: The Poetry of Louis Dudek(WLUP 2008), a co-applicant on the SpokenWeb SSHRC Partnership Grant, and with Deanna Fong, she is currently co-editing the collected works of G. Maria Hindmarch for Talonbooks.
Co-sponsored by Poetry Matters and ROAAr, McGill Library
Poetry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: Professor Richard So
5 December 2018, 5:30PM-7:30PM
Atwater Library, 1200 Atwater Avenue, Westmount (Upper Auditorium)
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During this session, the spotlight falls on contemporary electronic verse and digital approaches to the study of poetry and poetics.
The Ghazal in Persian, Urdu and English
Moderator: Professor Prashant Keshavmurthy
23 November 2018, 10:30AM-12:00PM
105 Wilson Hall
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This gathering builds upon and extends the October session, "The Ghazal in Persian, Urdu, and English," which traced the ghazal from Persian and Urdu into English across an array of cultural and historical contexts from Anglo-American modernism to the Arabic poetry of Umayyad and Norman Sicily.
In this session, we will be covering the following readings:
Translations from the Sicilian
Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics: 170 and 174
What's Wrong with Rhyme?
Moderator: Professor Maggie Kilgour
16 November 2018, 3:00PM-5:00PM
Wendy Patrick Room, Wilson Hall
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The Ghazal in Persian, Urdu and English
Moderator: Professor Prashant Keshavmurthy
18 October 2018, 3:00PM-5:00PM
105 Wilson Hall
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