This new series of talks by major poets, titled in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, will explore the intersection of contemporary poetic manifesto, practice, queer theory and pedagogy. Too often today, statements on poetics and their manifesto-like style have been moralistic or prescriptive discourses. By contrast, this series will attempt a Kinsey-like survey of actual poetic practice–what writers actually do, in the writers’ own words–in the process queering the manifesto, inventing new terms for poetics discourse, and emphasizing queer writing and poetics.
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TENDENCIES: Poetics & Practice is curated by Tim Peterson (Trace).
All events are co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, CLAGS (the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies), the Graduate Center PhD Program in English and the GC Poetics Group.
