Arthur S. Abramson, 1925-2017, Founding Department Head
Upcoming Events
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Mar
25
Wallace Stevens Poetry Program6:00pm
Wallace Stevens Poetry Program
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Storrs Campus Alumni Center
57th Annual Wallace Stevens Poetry Program with D. A. Powell.
March 25 at UConn Alumni Center. 6pm reception, 7pm reading.
March 26 at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, 9:30am.
Both readings are free and open to the public
Acclaimed poet D.A. Powell has been praised for both his gravity and his wit. As one critic wrote, “No accessible poet of his generation is half as original, and no poet as original is this accessible.” Powell’s early books Tea (1998), Lunch (2000), and Cocktails (2004) are often read as a trilogy on the AIDS epidemic. Powell’s fourth book, Chronic (2009), won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His latest collection, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (2012), won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry. Fellow writer Carl Phillips describes Powell’s poems as “entirely of-the-moment while at every turn [announcing] … not merely an awareness, but an actual confidence with such prosodic traditions as the heroic couplet and the pentameter line, such cultural and literary traditions as those of the Old Testament and of meaningfully comic punning…. No fear, here, of heritage nor of music nor, refreshingly, of authority. Mr. Powell recognizes in the contemporary the latest manifestations of a much older tradition: namely, what it is to be human.” Powell has taught at Harvard University and Columbia University, and is currently a Professor at the University of San Francisco. -
Mar
26
ECOM Spotlight Talk12:00pm
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May
12
Expression, Language, and Music3:00pm
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May
13
Expression, Language, and Music12:00am
