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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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
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