UniVerse of Poetry
UniVerse of Poetry is an online archive, interactive forum, and celebration of international poetry encouraging universal dialogue, compassion and peace. UniVerse honors courageous poets from every nation of the world, regardless of territory, also including oral traditionalists, poets writing in endangered languages and poets collaborating with music and film. Curricula is currently being developed to enable schools and universities worldwide to utilize UniVerse as a free resource. UniVerse regularly hosts public events in collaboration with partners and friends.
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Nov. 03, 2011
Award-winning Canadian poet Christian Bok reads at Northwestern's Block Museum of Art along with Russian poet and scholar Ilya Kutik. A conceptual artist and experimental sound poet, Bok is the...
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Oct. 13, 2011
Northwestern University's Graduate Program in Spanish and Portuguese and the Poetry and Poetics Colloquium and Workshop present a poetry reading by Brazilian poet Claudia Roquette-Pinto. She is...
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Sep. 26, 2011
Northwestern University's Poetry & Poetics Colloquium presents a reading by poet Raúl Zurita in Spanish translated into English by Dr. Anna Deeny. Zurita and Deeny read from the following works:...
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Jun. 02, 2011
Elizabeth Marie Young’s Aim Straight at the Fountain and Press Vaporize (Fence Books, 2009) won the 2009 Fence Motherwell Prize. Lyn Hejinian describes the collection as “an enormous achievement—the...
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May. 03, 2011
Listen in to a reading by Ed Roberson, Distinguished Artist in Residence in the Department of English at Northwestern University. Mr. Roberson, a finalist for the L.A. Times Book Award, taught from...
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Apr. 16, 2011
Chicago poets and musicians present an evening of the arts. Ari Brown, a composer, arranger, and educator who has played with Chuck Berry, B.B. King, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, provides...
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Apr. 14, 2011
David Shields reads a selection of his work as part of Northwestern University's 4th Annual Writers' Festival.
David Shields’s new book, Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, was published by Knopf in...
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Apr. 14, 2011
Invited authors of the 4th Annual Writers' Festival talk about the writing process, making a living as a writer, and other topics. This year's invited authors are Maureen McLane, Nami Mun, and David...
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