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Kay Sohini Book Talk
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir
September 10, 2025 | 4:00 pm Humanities Building, Poetry Center
English Education Workshop Series
This workshop series conducted by our English Education Faculty discusses the real world issues in secondary education classrooms and brings the conversations directly to our future educators.
Eric Wertheimer, Professor, Poetry Reading
Poetry Reading of his works Regulus and mylar
April 16, 2025 | 4:00 pm Humanities Building, Poetry Center
Michael Tondre, Associate Professor Oil Book Talk
April 22, 2025 | 4:00 pm Humanities Building, Poetry Center
Black gold. Liquid sunlight. Texas tea. Oil remains the ur-commodity of our global era, having been distilled from ancient algae to turn modernity's wheels. Wars are fought over it. Some communities are displaced by its extraction, so that others may reap its benefits. But despite its heated history, few will ever see oil on the ground. Oil, in Bloombsury's Object Lessons series, reveals how hydrocarbon became today's pre-eminent power.
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Distinguished ProfessorSilver Poetry Reading
November 14, 2024 | 5:00 pm Humanities Building, Poetry Center
This is work that brings into acute focus the singular and glorious power of poetry in our complex world.
“To meet an increasingly isolating and terrifying era, Phillips retrenches in poetry, which, he claims, can be found everywhere. “The imagination hides in plain sight.” Poetry stands by us, ready, Phillips seems to say, to console us with the truth, whether or not we want to hear it.” —Craig Morgan Teicher, NPR
“A collection to ponder in wonder.” —Michael Ruzicka, Booklist
Simone Brioni, Professor Crazy Fish SingBook Talk
November 7, 2024 | 5:00 pm Humanities Building, Poetry Center
With the participation of contributor Loredana Polezzi, D’Amato Chair in Italian and Italian American Studies, Department of Languages and Cultures, and editorial assistant Peter Bruno, doctoral candidate, Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Elyse Graham, Professor Book and Dagger Book Talk
October 30, 2024 | 5:00 pm Humanities Building, Poetry Center
At the start of WWII, the U.S. found itself in desperate need of an intelligence agency. The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), a precursor to today’s CIA, was quickly formed—and, in an effort to fill its ranks with experts, the OSS turned to academia for recruits. Suddenly, literature professors, librarians, and historians were training to perform undercover operations and investigative work—and these surprising spies would go on to profoundly shape both the course of the war and our cultural institutions with their efforts.