Symposium on Poetic Form
The first SMU Symposium on Poetic Form gathered scholars and poets on the SMU campus for two full days in March of 2024 to discuss poetic form in practice and theory. Panels considered topics such as Renaissance, eighteenth-century, and nineteenth-century poetics, the sonnet, “uncreative writing,” and prosody. Jericho Brown, 2020 Pulitzer Prize winner, gave a keynote address and a poetry reading; Jonathan Culler delivered a keynote address on “Lyric Form in Contemporary Poetry;” and other keynote panels featured Stephanie Burt, Virginia Jackson, Maureen McLane, Jahan Ramazani, Anthony Reed, and Evie Shockley. The two-day event culminated in a group reading featuring more than fifteen poets. SMU Project Poëtica will continue to organize a biennial symposium that features poetry scholars, poets, and editors.
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2024 Keynote Speakers
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