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2018-2019 Sessions

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

Details

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

Details

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)

Details

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:

PDF icon Christina Rossetti, "In the Round Tower at Jhansi, June 8, 1857”

PDF icon Tricia Lootens, The Political Poetess

PDF icon Jerome McGann, Poetics of Sensibility

Moderators:
, Associate Professor of English and Associate Dean, Faculty Affairs, Concordia University
, 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, 4thfloor McLennan Library Building

Details

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)

Details

During this session, the spotlight falls on contemporary electronic verse and digital approaches to the study of poetry and poetics.

File Poetry Matters, So, Precis


The Ghazal in Persian, Urdu and English

Moderator: Professor Prashant Keshavmurthy
23 November 2018, 10:30AM-12:00PM
105 Wilson Hall

Details

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:

PDF icon Translations from the Sicilian

PDF icon Khamriyya: On Autumn

Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics: and

File Poetry Matters, Keshavmurthy, Precis


What's Wrong with Rhyme?

Moderator: Professor Maggie Kilgour
16November2018, 3:00PM-5:00PM
Wendy Patrick Room,Wilson Hall

Details

Poetry Matters Event Poster, November 2018
During this session, the spotlight falls on a selection of seventeenth-century English poetry.

File Poetry Matters, Kilgour, Precis


The Ghazal in Persian, Urdu and English

Moderator: Professor Prashant Keshavmurthy
18 October 2018, 3:00PM-5:00PM
105 Wilson Hall

Details

Poetry Matters Event Poster, October 2018
We will spend this afternoon tracing the journeys of the ghazal from Persian and Urdu into English, taking this as an occasion to explore issues of the politics and poetics of translation in thecontexts of18th century British Orientalism and the politics of recognition in 20th century North America; the importance of the non-European lyric in translation to new moods, new forms and new themes in Anglo-American poetic modernism; the family resemblances between the earliest poetry in an Italianate vernacular, that of 13th century Sicily, and the Arabic poetry of foregoing Umayyad and Norman Sicily. This workshop assumes no prior familiarity with the ghazal or languages and literatures other than English and will thus serve as an introduction to the ghazalto those seeking it,especially as it entered English literary consciousness.

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