The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics is an annual lecture series hosted by Pratt Institute with a focus on critical analysis of innovative poetry, essays, plays and cross-genre work primarily by women poets. The series invites contemporary writers to present their work in the spirit exemplified by Scalapino’s own critical writing and editorial vision as publisher of O Books.
Friday, December 2, 2016; 6:00pm
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at Pratt MFA: M. NourbeSe Philip
Location: Higgins Hall, 61 Saint James Pl, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Free and open to the public.
M. NourbeSe Philip is an unembedded poet, essayist, novelist, playwright and former lawyer who lives in the space-time of the City of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Guggenheim and Rockefeller (Bellagio) Foundations and the MacDowell Colony. Among her best known published works are: She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks, Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, and Harriet’s Daughter, a young adult novel. Philip’s most recent work is Zong!, a genre-breaking poem, which engages with ideas of the law, history and memory as they relate to the transatlantic slave trade.
Friday, December 4, 2015; 6:00pm
The Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in 21st Century Poetics at Pratt MFA: Erica Hunt
Location: Higgins Hall, 61 Saint James Pl, Brooklyn, New York 11238
Free and open to the public.
Erica Hunt is a poet, essayist, and author of Local History and Arcade, as well as three chapbooks, Piece Logic, Time Flies Right Before the Eyes, and A Day and Its Approximates. She has been writer in residence in the Contemporary Poetics/Creative Writing program at the University of Pennsylvania, writer in residence at Bard College’s MFA program, Northwestern University, and Long Island University, and a repeat faculty member for Cave Canem, a workshop for Black writers from 2004 to 2015.