Upcoming Events

Winter 2025




Resource Sharing Graduate Mixer

Monday, January 27, 2025

2-3:30pm

Resource-Sharing Social Event

3222 Angell Hall

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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 

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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

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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

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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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