Naropa at 40 Panel Discussions; CUNY Center for the Humanities, New York City

1 – 5 pm

Join us to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University with two panels on “keeping the world safe for poetry.” Poets will address, among other things, the war on memory, activism, cross-genre pedagogies, and the cultural legacies of Allen Ginsberg, Harry Smith, and Amiri Baraka at Naropa.

Panels include:

1-3pm: History, Lineage & Archive and Pedagogy
Featuring: Alan Gilbert, David Henderson, Vincent Katz, Rachel Levitsky, Eileen Myles, Jena Osman, and Anne Waldman (Moderator).

3:30-5:30pm: Performance & Outcomes in the Anthropocene
Featuring: Ammiel Alcalay (Moderator), Anselm Berrigan, Erica Hunt, Tracie Morris, Michelle Naka Pierce, and Anne Waldman.

A reading and performance will follow at 8pm at The Poetry Project.

Cosponsored by Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative; The Poetry Project; the PhD Program in English.
Read more here…

Free and open to the public.

The Center for the Humanities
The Graduate Center, The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, The Skylight Room, 9100
New York, NY 10016-4309

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