December 9, Thursday, 7:00pm, The Skylight Room (9100)
Co-sponsored by CLAGS, the PhD Program in English, and the Poetics Group
This series of talks by and about contemporary poets and artists, curated by Tim Peterson (Trace) and titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, explores the relationship between queer theory, poetic manifesto, poetic practice, and pedagogy. This event will feature poets Abigail Child, Michael D. Snediker, and Timothy Liu. Abigail Child is a poet, director, producer, and writer of a number of films; her most recent book is This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film (2005). Michael D Snediker is the author of Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions (2009) and the poetry collection Nervous Pastoral (2008). Timothy Liu is the author of eight books of poems, most recently Polytheogamy and Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse (2009); he has also edited Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry (2000). Visit http://tendenciespoetics.com for commentary and sample recordings from past events, as well as news about upcoming events.
THE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
THE CUNY GRAD CENTER
365 FIFTH Ave. (btwn 34 and 35 St.)
Manhattan
