Upcoming Events
Winter 2025
Resource Sharing Graduate Mixer
Monday, January 27, 2025
2-3:30pm
Resource-Sharing Social Event
3222 Angell Hall
This graduate-student only event will include opportunities to share poetry and poetics resources with fellow students, consult with colleagues about the grad school experience, and collectively brainstorm solutions to common challenges that students in the field may face. Please bring one resource (a book, a conference, a website or database, etc.) to share and one piece of wisdom to pass along. All are welcome!
Workshop of Lena Grimm’s Dissertation Chapter
Monday, February 10, 2025
12:30-2pm
Workshop
3241AH
Join the Poetry & Poetics Workshop in a discussion, celebration, and workshop of Lena Grimm’s dissertation chapter. More detail to follow. Please RSVP to access the chapter, which will be circulated prior to the workshop date.
Lecture by Professor Virginia Jackson
Monday, March 24, 2025
3-4:30pm
Lecture and Conversation
3222 Angell Hall
We are excited to welcome Professor Virginia Jackson back to the University of Michigan for a lecture about her most recent book, entitled Before Modernism: Inventing American Lyric (2023).
“Reading Together”: A Round Table Reading and Celebration
Date & Location TBD
Collaborative Reading
RSVP forthcoming
We will close out the year the way we began: reading a poem together. Two faculty members and two graduate students will bring in an “artifact” that enhances our reading of a community-chosen poem, and their presentations will be followed by an open discussion of the poem.
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