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Symposium on Poetic Form at Southern Methodist University


Dallas, TX.

Mon. Mar. 18, 1:20-2:20pm CST - “New & Selected: Poets on Formal Innovation & Inheritance”: Roundtable discussion, Mag Gabbert, Tarfia Faizullah, and Chen Chen. All events, unless otherwise noted, will be held in Bridwell Library’s Methodist Collection Reading Room (Blue Room).

Tues. Mar. 19, 6:30pm CST - Group poetry reading: Participants will include Stephanie Burt, Maureen McLane, Evie Shockley, Mag Gabbert, Katie Condon, Samyak Shertok, Chen Chen, and Tarfia Faizullah. Deejay: Kendra Allen. Hosted by the Southwest Review in the Club Room at Ozona Grill (4615 Greenville Ave).

The SMU Symposium on Poetic Form will gather scholars and poets on the SMU campus for two full days to discuss poetic form in practice and theory. Panels will consider topics such as Renaissance, eighteenth-century, and nineteenth-century poetics, hip hop, the sonnet, “uncreative writing,” and prosody. The Historical Poetics Reading Group will conduct a discussion of Francis Barton Gummere’s The Beginnings of Poetry. Jericho Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, will give a reading and join Virginia Jackson in a conversation about poetry.

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