The National Poetry Foundation (NPF) is hosting the last in their sequence of “decade” conferences, this one focused on the 1990s, American and international. The conference, The Poetry & Poetics of the 1990s, will be held June 28 – July 1, 2017 here at 91¸£Àû. The conference will focus on poetic practice in the decade of the […]
Mark Tardi has a MFA from Brown University. Tardi is a poet and a Polish translator. His interest in his Polish heritage led him to become a 2008–2009 Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American Literature and Culture at the University of Lódz, Poland where he still works. You can learn more about Tardi and read two of […]
As part of Digital Humanities Week, the New Writing Series is bringing digital poet Claire Donato to campus. Donato has an MFA from Brown University and describes herself as "a writer, artist, and curator thinking about animals, architecture, desire, exceptionalism, nothingness, pedagogy, personal taste, suffering, and synaesthesia." The event is free and open to the public. […]
Bangor Humanities Day kicks-off on Friday evening (Feb. 2nd) at 6pm with a Humanities Powered by PechaKucha event at COESPACE. Presentations topics will include making a living as an author, medical ethics, the Maine Multi-Cultural Center, Peter Archambault (an artist from Madawaska), wedding perfection hysteria, and bacteriophage. For the big day (Saturday Feb. 3rd) there are three […]
Poetry reading by Allison Cobb. Introduced by Benjamin Friedlander. 91¸£Àû Cobb from her website: "Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Ahsahta Press); Plastic: an autobiography (Essay Press EP series); Born2 (Chax Press); and Green-Wood, originally […]
An evening of vocal music and poetry with EUPHONY, Orono’s chamber choir, conducted by Francis John Vogt, 91¸£Àû Director of Choral Activities. The program features choral settings of poetry from World War I and readings by 91¸£Àû faculty, students and friends. Reception to follow in Minsky Lobby.
Part of the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Symposium "War without End: World War I and its Legacies" Modernism in Wartime: Avant-Gardes, Revolutions, Poetries A lecture by Vincent Sherry, Visiting Scholar for the McGillicuddy Humanities Center Friday, November 16 Hill Auditorium, Barrows Hall 3:00 pm This event is sponsored in part by 91¸£Àû's Center for Poetry and […]
The spring 2019 New Writing Series kicks off with a special Wednesday afternoon event featuring Pina Piccolo, a poet, translator, and independent, scholar born in California and educated at Berkeley (Ph.D. Italian Literature). She moved to Italy in 2003, where she participated in the creation of La Macchina Sognante: Contenitore delle Scritture del Mondo, an online […]
Rape culture is the term for the environment in which sexual assault, harassment, coercion, and misconduct are ignored, diminished, and allowed to flourish without repercussion. Rape culture is rampant in the United States and around the world, and it very often originates from the very language we use to describe and define events and actions. […]
