Special Collections Research Center

Special Collections Receives 2011 Paul Cornell Award

The Special Collections Research Center has been selected to receive the 2011 Paul Cornell Award presented by the Hyde Park Historical Society. The award is being granted based on Special Collection’s “extraordinary service to the Society” and its archival collections, which are housed in Special Collections.

In 2009 the HPHS and SCRC agreed to collaborate in organizing the historical collections of the Society. Thanks to private fundraising efforts by the Society, support was acquired to organize all of the general historical collections of the Hyde Park Historical Society; the records of the Hyde Park Co-op, and the Hyde Park-Kenwood Razed Building Collection. The Award grants particular recognition to former Special Collections archivist Maija Anderson (pictured), who played the central role in reorganizing the historical materials and producing the greatly enhanced and expanded finding aid to the HPHS collection that is now available online.

 The Special Collections Research Center is deeply grateful to the
Hyde Park Historical Society for this award and its continued support.
The cooperative relationship between the Society and the Library
has produced a remarkable and unique set of historical resources for
members of the community, students, teachers, scholars, and
many other researchers.

The award will be presented at the Hyde Park Historical Society’s annual dinner, to be held on Saturday, February 26, 2011, at the Quadrangle Club.

Photos from the Chicago Poetry Symposium, April 17, 2010

Garin Cycholl speaking about Sterling Plumpp

Stephanie Anderson discusses Alice Notley

Nancy Kuhl speaking on Little Review

Al Filreis discussing Henry Rago

Don Share discussing Henry Rago

Don Share and Al Filreis field questions

Stephanie Anderson and Nancy Kuhl

See more photos from the day on our Flickr page!

Evidence of poet’s influence in Chicago part of symposium discussion Saturday

The University of Chicago News Office recently published a short piece about tomorrow's Chicago Poetry Symposium. The interviewer, Susie Allen, interviewed David Pavelich (Bibliographer for Modern Poetry) and symposium speaker Stephanie Anderson for the piece.

"While flipping through a dealer’s catalogue, Pavelich, the Joseph Regenstein Library’s Bibliographer for modern poetry, stumbled across a mimeographed magazine called Chicago [edited by poet Alice Notley]. “In looking through issues of one periodical, I would see mentions of another. And suddenly I had a kernel of five or six mimeographed magazines from 1970 to 1974, published by the same coterie of poets,” Pavelich said...."

"Ph.D. candidate Stephanie Anderson, who will be lecturing about Chicago magazine at the symposium, said the magazine reveals how important Notley became to the Chicago poetry scene. “[It shows] Notley as a young editor, aggressive and savvy, thinking about issues of mobility, community, and poetic practice—often across the lines of what we now see as specific poetic ‘movements.’ My communication with other Chicago poets of the time, most of whom were younger students, also has revealed that Notley became something of a guiding figure for them, helping to introduce them to the work of various poets around the country.”"

See the full story online:  http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1951

See full details about the symposium: http://lib.typepad.com/scrc/2010/02/chicago-poetry-symposium-2010.html

Visit the News Office page for more University of Chicago news: http://news.uchicago.edu/

Chicago Poetry Symposium 2010

[Image: Detail from the cover of Chicago, European Edition #2, 1974, edited by Alice Notley]

CHICAGO POETRY SYMPOSIUM 2010

Featuring Stephanie Anderson, Garin Cycholl, Al Filreis, Phil Jenks, Nancy Kuhl, and Don Share

With talks on Alice Notley, Sterling Plumpp, Henry Rago, and Margaret Anderson

When and Where:

Saturday, April 17, 2010 | 12:30 p.m. through 5:00 p.m.

Special Collections Research Center
The Joseph Regenstein Library
University of Chicago
1100 East 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637

Contact:

David Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern Poetry
pavelich [at] uchicago.edu
773.834.4338

ABOUT

This event is free and open to the public.

The Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) at the University of Chicago Library welcomes you to the third annual Chicago Poetry Symposium, a yearly conversation on the history of Chicago poetry.

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, Flood Editions, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., Michael Anania, 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:

12:30-12:45: Welcoming remarks

David Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern Poetry, University of Chicago Library

12:45-1:45: A Discussion on the Work of Sterling Plumpp

"It was very south":  the Geography of Chicago and Mississippi in the Poetry of Sterling Plumpp 
Garin Cycholl, Instructor in Creative Writing, University of Chicago, and author of several books of poetry
Phil Jenks, poet, author of My first painting will be "The accuser" (2005) and On the cave you live in (2002)

1:45-2:00: Break for refreshments

2:00-3:15: Avant-Garde Editors and their Magazines

Making No Compromise: Margaret Anderson and the Little Review
Nancy Kuhl, Curator of Poetry for the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Library

Curating Location: Alice Notely and Chicago Magazine
Stephanie Anderson, Doctoral student in the English Department, University of Chicago

3:15-4:30. A Discussion on the Work and Legacy of Henry Rago

Slow Music: The Two Eras of Henry Rago
Al Filreis, Kelly Professor of English; Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House; Director, the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing; and Director of PennSound; University of Pennsylvania

Henry Rago and the Wider Door
Don Share, Senior Editor, Poetry Magazine

4:30-5:00: Refreshments/reception

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SPEAKERS

Stephanie Anderson is the author of four chapbooks: In the Particular Particular (New Michigan Press), The Choral Mimeographs (Dancing Girl Press), A Spot A Scheme (forthcoming, Cinematheque Press), and The Nightyard (forthcoming, Noemi Press).  She co-edits Projective Industries and lives in Chicago, where she is a PhD student at the University of Chicago.

Garin Cycholl’s recent work includes the extended collaborative poem, Aquinas on the Mississippi, with Bill Allegrezza, and Hostile Witness, a book-length poem on mold, boxing, and Illinois politics.  Since 2002, he has been a member of Chicago’s Jimmy Wynn fiction collaborative. He teaches at the University of Illinois-Chicago and the University of Chicago.

Al Filreis is Kelly Professor of English, Faculty Director of the Kelly Writers House, and Director of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. He is co-founder and co-director, with Charles Bernstein, of PennSound. His books include Stevens and the Actual World, Modernism from Right to Left, and Counter-Revolution of the World: The Conservative Attack on Modern Poetry.

Philip Jenks was born in North Carolina and grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He got his BA from Reed College, and did graduate work at Boston University (Creative Writing) and University of Kentucky (Political Science). He teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Flood Editions published his first volume of poems in 2002, On the Cave You Live In and a second volume of poems, My First Painting will be ‘The Accuser’ was published by Zephyr Press (2005). He also published two chapbooks – The Elms Left Elm Street (Plane Bukt, 1994) and How Many of You Are You? (Dusie, 2006). He collaborates with Simone Muench, publishing Little Visceral Carnival (Cinemateque Press, 2009) and with Sasha Miljevic, publishing Distance, an ekphrastic hybrid of prose and poetry (Dutch Art Institute, 2009).

Nancy Kuhl is Curator of Poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University; she is the author of exhibition catalogs, including, Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts, and collections of poetry, including The Wife of the Left Hand.  She is co-editor of Phylum Press, a small poetry publisher which has published more than 20 poetry chapbooks and pamphlets since 2001. Additional information and examples of Kuhl’s work can be found online: www.phylumpress.com/nancykuhl.htm

David Pavelich is bibliographer for modern poetry at the University of Chicago Library. Recent writings are scheduled to appear in Chicago Review, Parenthesis, MoonLit, Urban Library Journal, and College and Research Libraries News.

Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry magazine.  His books include Squandermania (Salt Publishing), Union (Zoo Press), The Traumatophile (Scantily Clad Press), and Seneca in English (Penguin Classics); forthcoming are Basil Bunting’s Persia (Flood Editions), and a critical edition of Bunting’s poems (Faber and Faber). His translations of Miguel Hernández, collected in I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books) were awarded the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize, the Premio Valle Inclán Prize, and the PEN/New England Discovery Award.  He has been Poetry Editor of Harvard Review and Partisan Review, Editor of Literary Imagination, and Curator of Poetry at Harvard University.

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MAPS AND PARKING TIPS

Maps of Hyde Park and the University of Chicago Campus

Parking Information (Note: Parking on the street is usually available on Saturdays)

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

Chicago Poetry Symposium Photos

The second annual Chicago Poetry Symposium was held at the Special Collections Research Center on Saturday, April 18, 2009. For the full program and description of the afternoon, please see the symposium's blog page.

Joel Felix and David Pavelich discuss the life and work of Ralph J. Mills, Jr.

Chris Glomski questions Andrew Joron on his talk concerning the Chicago Surrealist Group.

Judith Goldman responds to Liesl Olson's talk on Gertrude Stein's visits to Chicago and her impact on "middle-brow" readers.

Liesl Olson shows and discusses the typescript of John Ashbery's "The Impossible," his 1957 review of Gertrude Stein's Stanzas in Meditation.

Poets Andrew Joron, Chris Glomski, Joel Felix, and Garin Cycholl.

Poet Peter O'Leary inspects Mortimer Adler's Diagrammatics.

Speakers at the post-event reception.

Judith Goldman and Andrew Joron at reception.

Chicago Poetry Symposium 09

CHICAGO POETRY SYMPOSIUM 09

Talks on Ralph J. Mills, Jr. - the Chicago Surrealist Group - Gertrude Stein in Chicago

Featuring Andrew Joron, Liesl Olson, and David Pavelich

Saturday, April 18, 2009, 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 Poetry
pavelich [at] uchicago.edu
773.834.4338

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Download the event poster! [pdf] >>> Download PoetrySymposium2009

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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 welcomes you to the second annual Chicago Poetry Symposium, a yearly conversation on the history of Chicago poetry.

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, Flood Editions, 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

1:00-2:00: Welcome and “An Introduction to the Work of Ralph J. Mills, Jr.”

David Pavelich, Bibliographer for Modern Poetry, University of Chicago Library

Respondent: Joel Felix, poet and co-editor of LVNG

 

2:00-2:45: “The Chicago Surrealist Group”

Andrew Joron, poet and author of Neo-surrealism, or, The sun at night: transformations of surrealism in American poetry, 1966-1999

Respondent: Chris Glomski, poet and instructor, University of Illinois-Chicago

 

2:45-3:15: Break with light refreshments

 

3:15-4:00: "'An invincible force… meets an immovable object':  Gertrude Stein comes to Chicago"

Liesl Olson, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago

Respondent: Judith Goldman, Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago

 

4:00-5:00:

Display from the Special Collections Research Center poetry manuscripts and books collections, and reception

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SPEAKERS

Andrew Joron has been called “the metaphysician-elect of contemporary American poetry” (Cal Bedient, Boston Review). Joron’s latest poetry collection is The Sound Mirror, published by Flood Editions. Joron’s work shows the influence of surrealism, science fiction, and German Romanticism. He attended the University of California at Berkeley, where he majored in philosophy of science. After a decade and a half spent writing science-fiction poetry, culminating in his volume Science Fiction (Pantograph Press, 1992), Joron began to elaborate other forms of lyric speculation. This work has been collected in The Removes (Hard Press, 1999) and in Fathom (Black Square Editions, 2003). The Cry at Zero, a selection of his prose poems and critical essays, was published by Counterpath Press in 2007. Joron is also the translator, from the German, of the Marxist-Utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch’s Literary Essays (Stanford University Press, 1998). He lives in Berkeley, where he works as a part-time proofreader and indexer.

Liesl Olson is the author of Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford, 2009).  She teaches at the University of Chicago where she is a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Assistant Professor in the Humanities Division.

David Pavelich is Bibliographer for Modern 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 writings appear in Crayon, JAB: Journal of Artists' Books, College & Research Libraries, and RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage. 

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Respondents

Joel Felix is a poet and co-editor of LVNG (Chicago). Recently relocated to Seattle, Felix studied with Mills at the University of Illinois at Chicago towards the end of Mills' teaching career. Felix's most recent chapbook is Regional Noir (Bronze Skull).

Chris Glomski is the author of Transparencies Lifted from Noon (MEB / Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2005), a full-length poetry collection, and two chapbooks:  IL LA (Noemi Press, 2002) and Eidolon (Answer Tag Home Press, 2008).  He lives in Chicago.

Judith Goldman is Collegiate Assistant Professor, Humanities, University of Chicago. She received her PhD from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature (2007). Goldman is the author of two books of poetry, Vocoder (Roof 2001) and DeathStar/Rico-chet (O 2006), and the co-editor, with Leslie Scalapino, of War and Peace, an annual anthology of experimental writing against the war.

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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

On Equal Terms: Educating Women at the University of Chicago

East European Jews in the German Imagination

LOCAL BOOKSTORES AND RESTAURANTS

Seminary Co-Op Bookstore

57^th 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

Chicago Poetry Symposium 08

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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Download the event poster! >>> Download ChicagoPoetrySymposium.pdf

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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

57^th 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