Upcoming Events
Ammiel Alcalay & Kate Tarlow Morgan
Walking in the Archive
Poetics Lab No. 1 from the Center for Poetics and Social Practice
5:00 p.m. • May 3, 2008 • 1301 33rd St. NW
The phrase “Poetics Lab” suggests there is a definition to be attained for "poetics" as the container for what poetry can encompass as process, perception, movement, effort, and concept. Alcalay and Morgan, whose paths have crossed over the past thirty years, will be the first to collaboratively consider the "poetics lab" as the Petri-dish for thinking about poetry/poetics in the broadest sense, as form and function of human thought, human perception, and the location of experience in time. more >
RSVP by April 30 to Ammiel Alcalay at aaka@earthlink.net.
Writers in Residence 2007
monica arac de nyeko
Caine Prize Writer in Residence, Fall 2007Winner of the 2007 Caine Prize for "Jambula Tree," Monica Arac de Nyeko was also short-listed for the prize in 2004 for "Strange Fruit." ...More>
Lannan Fellows Program
The Lannan Fellows Program, for Georgetown University undergraduates, introduces students to the exciting world of contemporary creative literature, through a year-long series of readings held on campus and at the Folger Shakespeare Library in downtown Washington, DC. Students have an opportunity to meet and speak with visiting writers, to engage them in conversation at informal seminars and receptions, and to attend readings from their literary work.
Application Deadline: Friday,
October 5, 2007
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Poetry & Seminar Series
Writers visit Georgetown for readings, seminars, symposia, and literary festivals throughout the year. All events are free and open to the public.
Friday September 14
Nuruddin Farah & Dinaw MengestuFictional Places: A Conversation
Moderated by Professor Ammiel Alacaly
4:00 PM ON 205
THURSDAY OCTOBER 18
Pierre Joris & Thomas Sayers EllisNomads: The Poetry of Movement
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC • Reading: 8:00PM Copley FL
THURSDAY October 25
Monica Arac de NyekoCelebration of the Caine Prize in African Writing, 2007
Reading: 8:00PM Copley FL (Reception and book-signing to follow)
Thursday November 15
Translations from the Archives
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC • Reading: 8:00PM Copley FL
November 29 - december 1
Danny HochTakin' Over
Performance: 8:00PM Gonda Theatre
Tuesday January 29
Ammiel AlcalayLannan Foundation Visiting Professor of Poetics
Cross-Cultural Poetics
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC • Reading: 8:00PM Copley FL
Tuesday february 19
Laura Moriarity & Elizabeth RobinsonSeries
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC • Reading: 8:00PM Copley FL
Tuesday March 11
Ilya Kaminsky & E. Ethelbert MillerAncestors
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC • Reading: 8:00PM Copley FL
April 15 - 17
Lannan Symposium & Festival 2008"Let Freedom Ring": Art and Democracy in the King Years,
1954-1968

