English Department Events
Spring 2004
Anselm Berrigan and Karen Weiser Poetry Reading
Clayton Eshleman Poetry Reading
Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival Poetry Reading
Nick Carbó and Denise Duhamel Poetry Reading
English Department Art Showcase
Columbia Poetry Review Release Reading
Maxine Kumin Poetry Reading
Anselm
Berrigan and Karen Weiser
Poetry Reading
Thursday,
February 26, 5:30 p.m.
Ferguson Theater
600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st floor
Anselm Berrigan is the author of Zero Star Hotel and Integrity & Dramatic Life. He also is the author of several chapbooks, including They Beat Me Over the Head with a Sack, Strangers in the Nest, and In the Dream Hole, with Edmund Berrigan. A CD of poetry titled Pictures for Private Devotion recently was released by Narrow House Recordings. He lives in New York City, where he is the Artistic Director of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery. Read an excerpt from Zero Star Hotel here. Read other poems here.
Karen Weiser is the author of the chapbook Eight Positive Trees, and co-author of the chapbook Underneath the Bright Discus. Her work also is forthcoming in Van Gogh's Ear, 6x6, and Lungfull! Magazine. Read some of her poems at theeastvillage.com . You can also read poems online from other journals and anthologies: "Evening Uncomposed" here, "Forged" here, and "Out the Body There are Planned Things" here.
Clayton
Eshleman
Two Events; 5:30 p.m.
Thurs. March 11 and Thurs. March 18
Ferguson Theater,
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Clayton
Eshleman's most recent book is Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic
Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld. He is the
author of Fracture, The Name Encanyoned River: Selected Poems
1960-1985, Under World Arrest, From Scratch, and many other books
of poetry as well as three collections of prose. He has published
many translations of other poets, and is the main American translator/co-translator
of César Vallejo and Aimé Césaire. Founder and
editor of the literary magazines Caterpillar and Sulfur,
he received the National Book Award in 1979. He is a Visiting Poet-in-Residence
at Columbia College Chicago during Spring 2004.
On Thursday, March 11, Eshleman reads from Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction of the Underworld, the result of a 25-year investigation of Ice Age image-making. Working from Juniper Fuse, and using slides of images from Ice Age caves, Eshleman investigates the origins of image-making and the roots of poetry.
On Thursday, March 18, Eshleman reads and discusses his co-translation of one of the foundational poetic works of the 20th century, Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land. Written at the end of World War II, this 50-page poem is a masterpiece of cultural, racial, and ethnic significance and beauty. Read an excerpt here.
Fifth
Annual Columbia College Citywide
Undergraduate Poetry Festival
Thursday, April 8, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Concert Hall
1014 South Michigan Avenue
The Columbia College Chicago
Citywide Undergraduate Poetry Festival brings together 11 poets from
Chicago-area colleges and universities to read their work. This year's
schools include Columbia College Chicago, The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago State University, DePaul University, Loyola University,
National-Louis University, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern
University, Roosevelt University, University of Illinois-Chicago, and
University of Chicago. A reception follows the reading.
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Nick
Carbó and Denise Duhamel
Poetry Reading
Monday, April 19, 5:30 p.m.
Columbia College Concert Hall
1014 S. Michigan Avenue
Nick Carbó is the author of El Grupo McDonald's and Secret Asian Man, which won the Fourth Annual Asian American Literary Award. He has edited three anthologies of Philippine Literature: Pinoy Poetics; Babaylan; and Returning a Borrowed Tongue. He also has co-edited Sweet Jesus: Poems About the Ultimate Icon with Denise Duhamel. Among his other awards are fellowships in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He is a Visiting Poet-in-Residence during Spring 2004 at Columbia College Chicago.
Denise Duhamel's recent poetry collection is Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems. Her other titles include The Star-Spangled Banner, Kinky, and Oyl (a collaboration with Maureen Seaton). Her work has been anthologized in more than 50 volumes, including four editions of The Best American Poetry.
English
Department Art Showcase
Thursday, May 20, 4:00-7:00 p.m.
Writing Center, 33 E. Congress, 1st floor
Columbia
Poetry Review Poetry Reading
and Publication Release Party
Thursday, May 20, 5:30 p.m.
Ferguson Theater
600 S. Michigan Avenue
Contributors to this year's Columbia Poetry Review, now in its 17th year as the English Department's student-edited, nationally distributed poetry magazine, will read their work. The winners of the 2004 Eileen Lannan Poetry Prize sponsored by the Academy of American Poets also will be announced.
Maxine
Kumin
Poetry
Reading
Thursday, May 27, 5:30 p.m.
Ferguson Theater
600 S. Michigan Ave., 1st floor
Maxine Kumin is the author of 14 books of poems, most recently Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988 and The Long Marriage. Her recent work also includes a memoir titled Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery and Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry. Her awards include the Ruth E. Lilly Poetry Prize and the Pulitzer Prize. She served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1980-81 before that post was renamed Poet Laureate of the United States, and as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire from 1989-1994.
All readings are free and open to the public. Call (312) 344-8100
or 312-344-8101
for more information.
Please also check the college events calendar for up-to-date details on times and locations.
