Past Events

Archive 2006-2007

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5

James Scully & Lisa Robertson
Social Practice
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC . Reading: 8:00PM ICC Aud.

James Scully's books include Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice and Raging Beauty: Selected Poems. He is co-translator of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound and Quechua People's Poetry, among other titles. For many years, Lisa Robertson was a participant in the Kootenay School of Writing, an experimental utopian community based in Vancouver. She is author of Debbie: An Epic, Rousseau's Boat, and The Men: A Lyric Book.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19

Brenda Hillman & Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Gender on the Lyric Edge
Seminar: 5:30PM 462 ICC . Reading: 8:00PM ICC Aud.

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's mixed-media collaboration with artist Kiki Smith, Concordance , has been published by the Rutgers Center for Innovative Paper and Print. Her selected poems, I Love Artists , appeared in 2006. Among Brenda Hillman's recent books are Pieces of Air in the Epic and an edition of Emily Dickinson's poetry. She is active in the non-violent Code Pink Working Group in the San Francisco Bay Area.