CHICAGO POETRY SYMPOSIUM 08
Featuring Michael Anania, Devin Johnston, and Michael O'Leary
Saturday, April 19, 1:00-5:00
Special Collections Research Center
The Joseph Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Contact:
David
Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern and Contemporary Poetry
pavelich [at] uchicago.edu
773.834.4338
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ABOUT
This event is free and open to the public.
The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the University of Chicago Library seeks to open a conversation on Chicago poetry, its past, present, and future.
The speakers for this first event are poet and educator Michael
Anania, whose papers have recently been acquired by the library; and Devin
Johnston and Michael O'Leary, editors and publishers of Flood Editions, whose editorial files
have also recently been added to our collection. [For speakers' biographical details, see below.]
Held in the University of
Chicago Library's Special Collections Research Center (SCRC), the event highlights the SCRC's strong archival and book holdings in the history of Chicago poetry, including the papers of Harriet Monroe and her Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Paul Carroll, Chicago Review, and others.
This event is supported in part by the
William Martin Card Trust.
Persons with disabilities who require
accommodation in order to participate in this event should contact David
Pavelich, pavelich [at] uchicago.edu, 773.834.4338 for assistance.
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SCHEDULE
> 1:00-1:30: Opening remarks and welcome, David
Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern and Contemporary Poetry, University of Chicago Library
> 1:30-2:30: "Before the Flood", Devin Johnston and
Michael O'Leary, Poets and co-directors of Flood Editions
> 2:30-3:00: Break and refreshments
> 3:00-4:00: "Poetry in/from/about Chicago", Michael Anania, Poet
and Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Illinois-Chicago
> 4:00-5:00: Display from the Special Collections
Research Center poetry manuscripts and books collections, and reception
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SPEAKERS:
Michael Anania is a poet, essayist and fiction writer. His published work includes numerous
collections of poetry, among them Selected
Poems (l994), In Natural Light (1999)
and Heat Lines (2006), as well as a novel, The Red Menace, and a collection of
essays, In Plain Sight. Anania was poetry
editor of Audit, a quarterly, founder
and co-editor of Audit/Poetry, poetry
and literary editor of The Swallow Press, poetry editor of Partisan Review and a contributing editor to Tri-Quarterly. As Chairman
of the Board and President of CCLM, the literary magazines organization, he was
involved in designing and implementing the Ford Foundation Project for
distributing literary magazines and small press books. He also served as a panelist for the NEA, the
NEH and the Illinois Arts Council.
Anania taught at
SUNY at Buffalo, Northwestern, and the University of Illinois at Chicago,
where he is Professor emeritus of English. He lives in Austin, Texas and on Lake Michigan.
Devin Johnston is the author of three
books of poetry, Sources, (Turtle Point, 2008), Aversions (Omnidawn, 2004) and
Telepathy (Paper Bark Press, 2001), as well as a number of chapbooks. The
latter include a collaboration with the artist Brian Calvin entitled Looking
Out (Lvng Supplementals, 2004). His book of criticism, Precipitations:
Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice, appeared from Wesleyan
University Press in 2002. With Michael O’Leary, he directs Flood Editions, an
independent and nonprofit press for poetry. Johnston is associate professor of English at Saint Louis University.
Having started LVNG magazine in 1990 at Kenyon College where he majored in Greek
and Latin, Michael O'Leary co-founded Flood Editions with Devin Johnston in
2000. He is currently finishing a PhD in materials engineering at UIC and works
as a structural engineer in Chicago.
David Pavelich is Reference and Instruction Librarian at the Special Collections Research Center, and Bibliographer for Modern and Contemporary Poetry, at the University of Chicago Library. He earned his MA degree from the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo and his MALIS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Recent poems, writings, and reviews appear in The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, A Sing Economy, Crayon, College & Research Libraries, and RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage.
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MAPS AND PARKING TIPS
Maps of Hyde Park and the University of Chicago Campus
Parking Information
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS IN THE SCRC
Images of Prayer, Politics and Everyday Life from the Harry and Branka Sondheim Jewish Heritage Collection
The Spirit of the Orient and Judaism: From the Ludwig Rosenberger Library of Judaica
Discover Hidden Archives Treasures
LOCAL BOOKSTORES AND RESTAURANTS
Seminary Co-Op Bookstore
57th Street Books
Powell’s Books
O’Gara and Wilson
Dining in Hyde Park
HYDE PARK MUSEUMS
Smart Museum of Art
Hyde Park Art Center
Renaissance Society
Oriental Institute
Museum of Science and Industry