Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Chicago Poetry Symposium


April 17th
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Special Collections Research Center
The Joseph Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street

Now in its third year, the Chicago Poetry Symposium is an annual conversation on the history of Chicago poetry. The event highlights the Special Collection Research Center’s strong archival and book holdings in the history of Chicago poetry, including the papers of Harriet Monroe, founder of Poetry magazine, as well as of Paul Carroll, Ralph J. Mills Jr., and Michael Anania, and works published by the Chicago Review and Flood Editions, among others. Featured speakers include Stephanie Anderson, Garin Cycholl, Al Filreis, Phil Jenks, Nancy Kuhl, and Don Share. The symposium will discuss such figures as Alice Notley, Sterling Plumpp, Henry Rago, and Margaret Anderson.

This event is supported in part by the William Martin Card Trust