“Poetry, Place, Displacement”
Friday, April 1, 2022
2:00-6:00 PM
Brown College Tent
The event will bring together several renowned poets, scholars, and poet-scholars to discuss such questions as: How do poems represent place and displacement? How do they differ from other ways of mapping place? How do they attest to histories of human and environmental dislocation?
An afternoon of panel presentations and interactive dialogue will feature the following speakers—
Harris Feinsod, Northwestern University: https://english.northwestern.edu/people/faculty/feinsod-harris
Rachel Galvin, University of Chicago: https://english.uchicago.edu/people/rachel-galvin
Sonya Posmentier, New York University: https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/sonya-posmentier
Vidyan Ravinthiran, Harvard University: https://english.fas.harvard.edu/people/vidyan-ravinthiran
—after which the symposium will conclude with a reading and reflections by the Jamaican poet Kei Miller (https://poetryarchive.org/poet/kei-miller), who won the prestigious Forward Prize for the best poetry collection of 2014.
For more information, visit https://poetry and poetics.as.virginia.edu.
