Temple University’s English Department Recognizes the 150th Year Since the Emancipation Proclamation & the 50th Year Since Dr. King’s March on Washington with a reading and reception honoring Ishmael Reed. Author of over twenty titles including the acclaimed novel Mumbo Jumbo as well as essays, plays and poetry, Ishmael Reed is the winner of the … Continue reading Reading by Ishmael Reed
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Join the Graduate English Association for a professionalization workshop on "Research Methods & Practices." Professors Dan O'Hara and Miles Orvell will give presentations, joined by Temple English graduate student Jen McKim. This workshop will be focused on the interplay between academic reading and writing. Questions we will consider together include: where does the research process begin? … Continue reading Research Methods & Practices Workshop
With spring break upon us, we will be having the first GEA happy hour of the semester this Friday, 5pm at Revolution House on 2nd and Market in Old City. Revolution House has a decent draft selection and a series of happy hour food & drink specials (and hopefully it is not too cold to check out … Continue reading GEA Happy Hour!
This month's presentation of the Penn Humanities Forum, Humanities-At-Large, features a discussion with Stephen Best, Heather Love, and Sharon Marcus on surface reading. In "New Ways of Reading: Histories of Surface Reading," Stephen Best, Heather Love, and Sharon Marcus make the case for valorizing descriptive practices in literary criticism. The presentation takes as its starting point … Continue reading Panel on Surface Reading with Stephen Best, Heather Love, & Sharon Marcus
Moonstone Arts Center & The Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple University present a reading with literary artists and activists Kadija (George) Sesay and Trapeta B. Mayson. Kadija (George) Sesay is the founder and editor of Sable LitMag. She is the editor of several anthologies of work by writers of African and Asian descent, and … Continue reading Poetry Reading: Kadija (George) Sesay & Trapeta B. Mayson
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The Temple University Graduate Creative Writing Program's Poets & Writers series presents a reading by Rae Armantrout. Rae Armantrout’s most recent book of poems, Money Shot, was published by Wesleyan University Press in 2011. Versed (Wesleyan, 2009) received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for the National Book … Continue reading Temple University Poets & Writers Series: Rae Armantrout
A Panel Discussion and Colloquium To Celebrate The Fortieth Anniversary Of Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (1973) Which First Shows How Imaginative Revisionism (Re-) Shapes The Creative Norm of Humanity The Event Will Be Attended By A Special Guest, Henry Carrigan (Assistant Director and Senior Acquisitions Editor of Northwestern University Press) And The Festivities … Continue reading Revisionary Humanities And The Sufferings Of History: Panel Discussion & Colloquium Celebrating Harold Bloom’s The Anxiety Of Influence